UCL Anthropology
Autumn Events
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Thursdays 11.00 – 13.00
2 October
Paul Brass (Washington University, Seattle)
Comparing criminal politics across Uttar Pradesh, North India
9 October
Anastasia Piliavsky (Cambridge University)
Elective aristocracy or representative democracy the Indian way
Discussant: Professor James Manor (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
23 October
Sucha Singh Gill (Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development – CRRID,
Chandigarh)
Elections, economy in Punjab, North India
30 October
Alexander Kupatadze (St Andrews University)
Organized crime and the state in post-Soviet Eurasia
13 November
S.V. Srinivas (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore)
Spectatorship as political action in a functioning democracy: evidence from film
and television
20 November
Katy Gardner (London School of Economics)
Traffic! On the everyday politics of blockages, stoppages and jams in Bangladesh
27 November
Talk 1: Naeem Shakir (Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan)
Democratic culture, crime and justice in Pakistan
Talk 2: Nida Kirmani (LUMS, Lahore)
‘They have made us terrified': The gendered negotiation of multiple fears in Lyari,
Karachi
4 December
Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
Organized crime and democracy
10 December
Wolfson College, Oxford - Time: 16.00 – 18.30
Key note lecture 1: Avinash Mishra (JNU, Delhi)
The battle for land in Bihar
Key note lecture 2: Prem Shankar Jha (Managing Ed. Financial World)
The criminalisation of Indian Politics
Chair: Barbara Harriss-White (University of Oxford)
Organizer: Lucia Michelutti (l.michelutti@ucl.ac.uk)