Centre for Global and Transnational Politics

The second issue of the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies is now available. It is a special issue on ‘Transnational Militancy in the 21st Century’.

The journal is available online http://www.criticalglobalisation.com/index.html

Research Network South Asia presents:

'Pakistan: business as usual?' – Thursday 25 Feb, Win 0-02, 17:00.

A round table event with David Taylor, Umar Khan, Ali Usman Qasmi, Daniel Haines, Sarah Ansari, Humayun Ansari, Markus Daechsel

 Instead of reflecting on the over-used question of whether Pakistan can 'survive' the present crisis, we will be posing a slightly more relaxed and historically informed question: what is really new about the present crisis, and to what extent are we dealing only with a variation on problems that have had a long established place in Pakistani history? What can we - as historians or historically informed political scientists - say about long-term trends in Pakistan's history?

Research Network South Asia presents

'Fugitive Mullas and Outlawed Fanatics: Indian Muslim subjects in 19th century trans-Asiatic politics'

Professor Seema Alavi, University of Delhi

Thursday 4^th February, 5pm WIN 02/3

All welcome

Seema Alavi is a professor of history at Jamia Millia Islamia in New Delhi, India. She specializes in medieval and early modern South Asia, with an interest in the transformation of the region’s legacy from Indo-Persian to one heavily affected by British colonial rule. She has written books on the military and medical cultures of the region from medieval to modern times. Her most recent book is Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

By mapping the migration of Arabic men of learning from India to West and Southeast Asia, Alavi is currently exploring the making of an Arabic imperium that existed alongside British colonialism in nineteenth-century South Asia. She will study the impact of such diasporic networks on the politics and culture of colonial India.

Alavi earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge in England. She has twice been a Fulbright Scholar and a Smuts Visiting Fellow at Cambridge and was a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She wrote Sepoys and the Company: Tradition and Transition in Northern India, 1770–1830 (Oxford University Press, 1995) and translated, with Muzzafar Alam, A European Experience of the Mughal Orient: The I‘jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters 1773–1779) of Antoine-Louis Henri Polier (Oxford University Press, 2001). She edited The Eighteenth Century in India (Oxford University Press, 2002) and serves on the editorial board of several journals, including Modern Asian Studies.

Research Network South Asia

20 January 2010, 5pm, Founders West 101

Film screening: Ramchand Pakistani (dir. Mehreen Jabbar 2008).

See http://cgtp.rhul.ac.uk/rhsan/ for further details

Staff-student seminar

27 January 5.00 – 6.30, PIR Common Room

John Sloboda (Visiting Professor, CGTP) and Michael Spagat (Economics, RHUL)

Lifting the lid on conflict mortality data: beyond the politics of numbers