Autumn Term 2025

FACT & FICTION

DIASPORAS OF DALITALITY: Fighting the World

Wednesday, 29 October | 6pm | LSE Main Building

Vera Anstey Suite | OLD Building

For centuries, Indians have travelled overseas, by force or by free will. Today, they form one of the largest diaspora community across the world. This event will focus on the recently published Caste: A Global Story (2025), a unique exploration of caste oppression and resistance around the world, with the author, panelists and the audience. 

SPEAKERS: Ritu Kochar is Doctorand in Social Policy at LSE, and is working on aspirations and experiences of international education among Dalit youth; Sat Pal Muman is Secretary, Ambedkar International Mission in London, and Co-Founder and Chairman of Caste Watch UK; Dr Suraj Milind Yengde is Assistant Professor in History and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Caste: A Global Story (2025).  

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre. 

This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series.

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RECYCLED FUTURES: E-Waste in South Asia

Wednesday, 22 October | 3pm UK | 7pm Pakistan 7.30pm India

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E-waste is a growing environmental issue across the globe. In South Asia, a lot of it goes through unofficial recycling, being re-sold to a domestic consumer market. This panel will discuss e-waste, recycling and the associated labour and consumer economy in South Asia.

SPEAKERS: Dr Waqas Butt is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and author of Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan (2023); Dr Julia Corwin (@JulesCorwin) is Assistant Professor of Environmental Geography at LSE, and author of Analog Labor in a Digital World: E-Waste in India and the Politics of Repair (forthcoming); Dr Somjita Laha is Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi, and author of 'Governing the Network: trust in E-Waste Informality in India' (2022) with research interests include political economy of waste, informal labour, global value chains, environmental governance and gender in development; Josh Lepawsky is Professor of Geography at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and author of Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste (2018).   

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

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Image © Hugo Clément, 2023, Unsplash. 

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FACT & FICTION

CALIBRATED ENGAGEMENT: Local Politics in Myanmar

Wednesday, 8 October | 12 noon | Marshall Building, LSE | Room 2.06 

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A conversation with the author on the transformation of rural politics in the drylands of central Myanmar prior to the military takeover in 2021, and how the calibrated engagement amongst citizens helps us to understand the widespread anti-military resistance that has emerged in the drylands since the coup in February 2021. 

SPEAKER: Dr Stéphen Huard is an anthropologist with research interests in violence, land conflicts and the the transformation of rural areas in Myanmar. He is currently based at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement in Paris, and is author of Calibrated Engagement: Chronicles of Local Politics in the Heartland of Myanmar (2024).

CHAIR: John Sidel is Director, LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, and Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International And Comparative Politics at LSE.

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This event was in collaboration with LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre.

This event was not recorded.