I collaborate with a range of units within the University of Victoria as well as institutions across the globe to explore the history and politics of globalization, decolonization, and culture and politics in the contemporary age.
Between 2015 and 2025, I held the Tier II Canada Research Chair in global and comparative history at the University of Victoria. As part of this initiative, I convened the Global South Colloquium, a seminar series about the histories and politics in the Global South. This initiative featured collaboration with a number of centres and institutes at the University of Victoria on topics of decolonization, post/de-colonial studies, critical indigenous studies, and histories of empire and nation, including the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, the Centre for Global Studies, and the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. Based on workshops held by the Global South Colloquium, I have edited India after World History: Literature, Comparison, and Approaches to Globalization (Leiden, 2022) and South Asian Migrations in Global History: Labor, Law, and Wayward Lives (London, 2020).
University of Victoria, in conjunction with the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
2021-22
Aanchal Malhotra, “Remnants of a Partition: Migration Histories,” February 16, 2021
Anneeth Kaur-Hundle, “Imperial and Postcolonial Diasporas: New Directions in Sikh Studies,” March 3, 2021
Natasha Behl, “Farmer Protests: Updates and Approaches”
2018-19
Meenal Shrivastava, Centre Chair and Professor, Political Economy and Global Studies, Athabasca University, Book Launch, Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir, with Sikata Banerjee, January 10, 2019
Dhir Sarangi, Professor, Centre for French and Francophone Studies, JNU, Lansdowne Lecturer, Francophone Studies, March 6, 2019
Rinku Lamba, Assistant Professor, Centre for Political Studies, JNU, Lansdowne Lecturer, Religious Studies, “The Meaning (s) of Religion in India,” Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Lecture Series, March 14, 2019
Religions and its Others: Power and Sovereignty in Indian Religions Past and Present
March 15, 2019, 1 day workshop
Ramesh Bairy, Harold Coward Visiting Fellow in Indian Religions,”Thinking Religion Regionally: Hindu Institutions in Contemporary South India,” Centre for Studies in Religion and Society Lecture Series, April 4, 2019
2017-18
Sikata Banerjee, Gender, Nation, and Popular Film in India, Oct. 2, 2017
Gaiutra Bahadur, Conjure Women and Coolie Women, Oct. 26, 2017
Between Indigenous and Immigrant: A Workshop on South Asian Migrations in Global History, Oct. 26-27, 2017
2016-17
Niraja Jayal, Academic Freedom and its Discontents in India, Feb. 28, 2017
nbose@uvic.ca