South Asia Global Forum
Established in 2016, CAPI’s South Asia Global Forum promotes academic research, teaching and public engagement with South Asia and multi-faceted South Asian diasporic populations as a link to globally-situated questions and conversations.
The forum sponsors a regular lecture series and other events of academic interest, such as book launches, film screenings and roundtable discussions about issues of historical and contemporary concern. Additionally, the forum serves as an informational clearinghouse for faculty, students and UVic community members interested in South Asia and related topics in Victoria and beyond.
Associated faculty include scholars who centre South Asia and/or South Asian diasporas within their research questions and agendas. Spread across many units of the university, the forum is led by a committee of about a dozen faculty members who specialize in art history and visual culture, business, gender studies, history, law, and political science.
Associated UVic Faculty
- Sikata Banerjee, Gender Studies
- Melia Belli Bose, Art History
- Neilesh Bose, History
- , Gustavson School of Business
- Rita Dhamoon, Political Science
- Aditi Gupta, Engineering & Science Librarian
- Rishi Gupta, Engineering
- Sudhir Nair, Gustavson School of Business
- Sada Niang, French
- Pooja Parmar, Law
- Victor V. Ramraj, CAPI and Law
- Supriya Routh, Law
- Reeta Tremblay, Political Science
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
The forum also serves as the institutional hub for UVic’s membership in the , an organization that sponsors academic activities bridging India and Canada. South Asia Global Forum member and UVic History professor Neilesh Bose currently serves as our liaison with the Shastri Institute.
Visiting Scholars
Tiasa Basu Roy |
- Home institution:
MPhil in History, - Duration of visit at UVic:
June to August 2019 - Additional sponsor(s) / host(s):
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Ramesh Bairy T.S. |
- Home institution:
Associate Professor of sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India - Duration of visit at UVic:
2019 - Additional sponsor(s) / host(s):
UVic's Centre for Global Studies and Centre for Studies in Religion and Society
Yashomati Ghosh |
- Home institution:
Associate Professor at the - Duration of visit at UVic:
September to October 2017 - Additional sponsor(s) / host(s):
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
Past South Asia Global Forum Events
4 November 2019
Sikata Banerjee (UVic Gender Studies) and Jyoti Ahlawat (Post Doc, UVic Gender Studies)
10 October 2019
Rita Dhamoon (UVic Political Science) and Davina Bhandar (Athabasca University)
18 April 2019
Ramesh Bairy (Indian Institute of Technology)
10 January 2019
Meenal Shrivastava (Athabasca University)
in conversation with Sikata Banerjee (UVic Gender Studies)
South Asia Global Forum reception
20 September 2018
with a presentation by Supriya Routh (UVic Law)
Between Indigenous and Immigrant: A Workshop on South Asian Migrations in Global History
26-28 October 2017
番茄社区
12 October 2017
Yashomati Ghosh (National Law School of India University)
Welcome reception and book launch for Gender, Nation, and Popular Film in India
2 October 2017
Sikata Banerjee (UVic Gender Studies)
Academic Freedom and its Discontents in India
28 February 2017
Niraja Gopal Jayal (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Invisibility of Women and Failure of Social Policy
21 February 2017
Meenal Shrivastava (Athabasaca University)
Related CAPI events
12 November 2020
Inderpal Grewal (Yale, Emerita)
29 October 2020
Zehra Abrar (UVic Law grad student) and Namitha George (UVic Political Science PhD student)
Regulating Globalisation in Asia: Public Law, Legal Orders & Governance - Part II
Online conference
25-28 June 2020
23 January 2020
Radhika Govindrajan (University of Washington)
9 January 2020
Chandar Sundaram (historian and author)
3 October 2019
Reeta Tremblay (UVic Political Science) and Zhera Abrar (UVic Law)
29 March 2019
Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University); respondents: Jutta Gutberlet (UVic Geography), and William Carrol (UVic Sociology)
28 March 2019
Prabhat Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
6 March 2019
Dhir Sarangi (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Inhabitations of Violence: The Local and the Global Political Economy of Urban Delhi
4 July 2018
Sushmita Pati (Azim Premji University)
Green Consumption: The role of Life Events and Communities of Trust
4 July 2018
Sunayana Ganguly (Azim Premji University)
Forest and Wildfire Management in Nepal
14 March 2017
Ivan G. Somlai (Director, Ethnobureaucratica)
Related Publications
edited by Neilesh Bose (UVic History)
Bloomsbury, 2020
Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir
co-edited by Reeta Tremblay (UVic Political Science)
Routledge, 2020
Amartya Sen and Law
co-edited by Victor V. Ramraj (CAPI / UVic Law) and Supriya Routh (UVic Law)
Routledge, 2019
co-edited by Rita Dhamoon (UVic Political Science) et al.
UBC Press, 2019
by Sikata Banerjee (UVic Gender Studies)
Routledge, 2017
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