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In this seminar, Narayan Adhikari from Accountability Lab discusses how the struggle for an open, resilient society can be taken forward in Nepal.

This seminar examines the Supreme Court of India’s recent decision in Property Owners’ Association v. State of Maharashtra and its implications for the constitutional relationship between property rights, democracy, and economic development.

In this seminar, Lisa Björkman discusses her new book on the performative arts of political communication and representation in the Indian metropolis Mumbai.

Master Subhadeep Chowdhury at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History will defend his dissertation Made in Imperialism: A Cultural History of the Law for Registering Trade Marks in British India 1877–1947 for the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD).

How do people inhabit authoritarian images and how do they use them? And how do these dynamics transform in the digital age, when people have the power to download and disseminate propaganda with their phones always at hand?

This event consists of two parts: a book talk on women’s labour and the war in Myanmar with Associate Professor Jenny Hedstrøm, followed by a conversation beyween Kim Aris and Audun Aagre on the situation in Myanmar.

Master Deva Nandan Harikrishna at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies will defend his dissertation Vernacularising Hindutva: Popular Hinduism and Ritual Change at the Kodungallur Bharani Festival for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD)

In this seminar, Satendra Kumar analyses the emergence of the Hindu monk Yogi Adityanath as the most influential politician in north India.

Why does land dispossession persist and why is it so controversial?

Why does climate action so often take socially regressive and ecologically destructive forms?

Why are the extreme levels of air pollution in India’s major cities so rarely met with drastic action?

Masters in Development Studies Ankita Barthwal will be defending her dissertation at the Department of Political Science:

Partisanship in Unlikely Places: Causes and Consequences of Partisan Attachment in Developing Democracies

In this seminar, Abdul Matin discusses how rural lower-caste Muslims in West Bengal articulate their democratic rights, aspirations and everyday concerns in and through a new political party called the Indian Secular Front (ISF).

Why do some political families flourish, and others decline quickly?

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