{"id":144,"date":"2018-10-08T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/?page_id=144"},"modified":"2023-10-02T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T09:11:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Queen Mary South Asia Forum (SAF) was initiated in 2018 by a group of scholars in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and is designed to pursue three primary aims:<\/p>\n

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  1. To provide a forum for South Asia scholars working\u00a0within\u00a0<\/em>QMUL to meet and interact with potential interlocutors and collaborators in other Schools across the institution;<\/li>\n
  2. To promote QMUL as a centre for South Asian studies, showcasing the innovative nature and interdisciplinary focus of research and teaching in this field within the institution;<\/li>\n
  3. To facilitate collaborations between QMUL staff and external scholars, research organisations and international universities, whether in the form of conferences, seminars, scholarly exchanges, guest fellowships or joint research.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    SAF understands the category of ‘South Asia’ in an expansive sense and not simply as a defined geographical area. Its programme of research, debate and critical scholarship is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/a>, but SAF and its affiliates connect broadly to other Faculties in the University<\/a> as well as the activities of the QM International Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    SAF Co-Directors for 2023-24<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    Amitabh Rai<\/a>, Chris Moffat<\/a> and Layli Uddin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    SAF Advisory Board:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Ananya Mishra<\/a>, Ashvin Devasundaram<\/a>, Philippa Williams<\/a>, Shital Pravinchandra<\/a><\/p>\n

    SAF Postgrad Reps:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Srikrupa Vedal<\/a>, Tanroop Sandhu <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Queen Mary South Asia Forum (SAF) was initiated in 2018 by a group of scholars in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and is designed to pursue three primary aims: To provide a forum for South Asia scholars working\u00a0within\u00a0QMUL to meet and interact with potential interlocutors and collaborators in other Schools across the […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/144\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}