Forthcoming Events
Staff from the Institute are involved in numerous events, including conferences and workshops, outside of King's. Details of these engagements will be posted on this webpage as they become available.
If you are interested in attending any of these events or want further details, please contact the Instiute at email: india-institute@kcl.ac.uk
India @ King's Weekly Seminar Series
All seminars will be held on Wednesdays* in the Small Committee Room (K0.31), King's College London, Ground Floor, Strand Campus, 1630-1830 hrs.
The events are open to all, and everyone is welcome. There is no need to reserve a place or RSVP for the weekly seminars, but if you have any queries, please write to india-institute@kcl.ac.uk
23 May
Kath Weston (Cambridge/Virginia) 'Imagining the Offshore as Incarceration: A View from the Andaman Islands, 1862'
30 May
Radhika Singha (JNU, Delhi) 'Punished by Surveillance: Policing "Dangerousness" in Colonial India, 1872-1919'
Convenor: Dr Kriti Kapila
'Thou Shalt Not Offend: The Genealogy of Censorship in India'
6 June 2012, 1800 hrs, Small Committee Room, Ground Floor, King's College, Strand Campus
Speaker: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and Visiting Fellow, King's India Institute
Chair: Sunil Khilnani, King's India Institute
All welcome. Please ask at the Reception for directions to the Committee Room.
'India, Human Rights, and the Search for Global Government'
7 June 2012, 1000 hrs, Liddell Hart Seminar Room (Room S3.05), 3rd Floor, Strand Building, King's College London, Strand Campus
Speaker: Manu Bhagavan, Hunter College & The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and Visiting Fellow, King's India Institute
Discussants: Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi) & Ambassador Shyam Saran (FICCI-India Institute Visiting Fellow)
Chair: Sunil Khilnani, King's india Institute
All welcome. Please ask at the Reception for directions to the Seminar Room.
'Emerging Economies in Global Governance: An Indian Perspective'
7 June 2012, 1800 hrs, The JKTL Nash Lecture Theatre (Room K2.31), 2nd Floor, King's Building, King's College London, Strand Campus
Speaker: Ambassador Shyam Saran, FICCI-India Institute Visiting Fellow
Discussants: Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi) & Manu Bhagavan (Hunter College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Chair: Sunil Khilnani, King's India Institute
All welcome. Please ask at the Reception for directions to the Lecture Theatre.
India & South Africa: Comparisons, Confluences, Contrasts
5-6 October 2012, King's College London, Strand Campus
The conference will develop themes and practices of cross-regional comparisons in the global South by focusing on India and South Africa, and engage with the role of comparative methodologies in the intellectual histories of academic dsiciplines as they relate to Southern Africa and India in the colonial and postcolonial periods. it will draw especially on the commonalities between Indian Ocean Studies and Comparative Literature, particularly their transnational readings of literature and history, and their re-thinking of the category of 'Area Studies'. Themes and issues to be covered include biopolitics of caste and race; writing of the Constitutions; histories and varieties of English; role of classics in imperial pedagogy, and its legacies; and the linguistic mapping of the nations.
Speakers include
Kriti Kapila (King's India Institute, King's College London)
Isobel Hofmeyer (University of Witwatersrand)
Stewart Motha (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Rohit De (University of Cambridge)
Rajend Mesthrie (University of Cape Town)
Francesca Orsini (School of Oriental & African Studies, London)
Phiroze Vasunia (University of Reading)
John Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Javed Majeed (King's College London)
Eric Worby (University of Witwatersrand)
Sessions will be chaired by Dilip Menon, Sunil Khilnani, Rachel Gilmour, Ruvani Ranasinha and Edith Hall.
The conference is organised in association with the Department of English and the Department of Comparative Literature, King's College London, and the Centre for Indian Studies, University of Witwatersrand.
For more information, please write to Professor Javed Majeed at javed.majeed@kcl.ac.uk
Liberal Multiplicities
A workshop will be held on 30 November 2012 to discuss the implications arising from Christopher A. Bayly's recently-published book Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Cambridge, 2011) for our more general understanding of liberalism.
Participants include
Rochana Bajpai (SOAS, London)
Christopher A Bayly (Cambridge)
John Dunn (King's College, Cambridge)
Ramachandra Guha (LSE)
Sudipta Kaviraj (Columbia)
Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary London)
Interested participants should e-mail india-institute@kcl.ac.uk
Other events on India
Please use the links below to find out about other conferences, seminars and lectures related to India.