Winter Term 2026

FACT & FICTION

PAKISTAN: Writing Histories

Monday | 2 February 2026 | 4pm UK | 9pm Pakistan

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History, old and new, has long been understood as a textual archival practice. This event will discuss Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan: (In)audible Voices, Forgotten Pasts (2023), a novel multi-disciplinary collection of "peoples'" histories — those that do not find place, nor get recorded, in standard historical archives.

SPEAKERS: Asad Ali is an independent scholar based in the United Kingdom, and co-editor of Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan: (In)audible Voices, Forgotten Pasts (2023); Kamran Asdar Ali is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, and co-editor of Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan: (In)audible Voices, Forgotten Pasts (2023); Fatima Zahid Ali (@FatimaZahidAli) is Doctorand at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and author of 'Gender Dysphoria and Transphobia in Pakistan's Digital Sphere' (2022); Amar Farooqui retired as Professor of History from University of Delhi, and is author of The Establishment of British Rule: 1757-1813 (A People's History of India #23, 2016); Naveeda Khan is Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, and author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan (2012).

DISCUSSANT: Dr Chris Moffat is Senior Lecturer in South Asian History at Queen Mary University of London, and co-editor of Lahore in Motion: Infrastructure, History and Belonging in Urban Pakistan (2025).    

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE). 

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This event is in collaboration with South Asia Forum, Queen Mary University of London, and is part of the UK-South Asia Network. 

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GEOPOLITICS BEYOND BORDERS #10

SOUTH ASIA: India, China and the World

Monday | 26 January 2026 | 3pm UK | 8.30pm India

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As US policies continue to alter global geopolitics, India has found itself walking a tightrope & facing punitive tariffs. China, continues to complicate this picture, being an important political player in South Asia, and the wider world. This panel will discuss this animated regional and global dynamic.   

SPEAKERS: Dr Filippo Boni (@FilippoBoni1) is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, and co-editor most recently of China, Pakistan and the Belt Road Initiative: The Experience of an Early Adopter State (2024); Sir Vince Cable (@vincecable) is Visiting Professor of Practice in Public Policy at LSE, and author of Eclipsing the West: China, India and the forging of a new world (2025); Dr Daniel Markey (@MarkeyDaniel) is Senior Fellow in the China & South Asia Programs at the Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington DC, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, and author of China's Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia (2020); Dr Ágnes Szunomár is Associate Professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, and co-author most recently of 'The European Union's Investment Screening Framework & China — A Complicated Picture' (2025).

CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE). 

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Please click here to watch a recording of the event.