About this event
LearningJoin the Centre for South Asian Studies to welcome historian Manan Ahmed Asif. Asif workshops an early draft of his new book on the rise and unravelling of area studies in the U.S., blending memoir, archival history, and reflection on the relationship between war and knowledge, at a moment when federal support for the field is collapsing. Registered participants will receive the manuscript in advance of the workshop. Manan Ahmed, Professor, is a historian of South Asia and the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. His areas of specialization include intellectual history in South and Southeast Asia; critical philosophy of history, colonial and anti-colonial thought. He is interested in how historical narratives create understandings of places, communities, and intellectual genealogies for their readers. His 2020 book The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India was shortlisted for Cundill History Prize 2021 and his 2024 book Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore was longlisted for Cundill History Prize 2025.
Venue details: 208N at 1 Devonshire Place.