Mythopolitics in South Asia

The Lifetimes of Powerful Stories

Events

Gender and the Margins: A Webinar with Lila Abu-Lughod

Zoom Webinar

In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss a forthcoming work by Lila Abu-Lughod. More details to be announced later. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she […]

Mahmood Mamdani: “Neither Settler nor Native”

Zoom Webinar

DATE: 13 April 2021. TIME: TBA In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the […]

Asianet 2021: Authoritarianism, populism and new forms of nationalism in Asia

MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society Gydas vei 4, Oslo, Norway

The annual Asianet conference 2021 is hosted by MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, in collaboration with the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies. "The recent decade has witnessed a turn to authoritarianism in many countries in Asia. We […]

Theory from the Margins: Religion, Politics, Aesthetics. MF CASR Lunch with Moumita Sen

MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society Gydas vei 4, Oslo, Norway

The separation of the religious and the political is posing new problems in Europe, while religious populisms emerge in cahoots with neoliberal capitalism and other novel configurations in the global South. Scholars working on religious politics in various regions of […]

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