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The Cluster supported the Ancient World Cluster’s workshop Artefact imaging:<br />
aims, methods, and access on 23 May <strong>2017</strong>, and is in the process of arranging an<br />
initial meeting with other clusters to explore ways in which digital technologies<br />
can facilitate and enhance their work. We shall also be exploring ways of engaging<br />
students more in our activities, including alternatives to the 5.00 p.m. workshop<br />
model that we have mostly followed.<br />
Donna Kurtz, who first conceived the Cluster, established it in 2010 and has directed<br />
it since, has now handed over as Director to David De Roure, Professor of e-Research,<br />
the outgoing Director of the OeRC and a leading national and international figure in<br />
the e-Research World. David Robey will continue to act in a support role.<br />
South Asia Research Cluster<br />
The Cluster continues to aim at stimulating three kinds of people: scholars of South<br />
Asia, scholars from South Asia, and others in the Oxford community interested<br />
in the subcontinent. We are by definition internationalist; our activity crosses<br />
generations and involves senior and junior members of the <strong>College</strong>. We hold<br />
conferences, workshops, public lectures, Work in Progress seminars, book launches,<br />
film screenings, and organize exchange programmes. This year we have reached<br />
out to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), to other universities in the<br />
UK, the EU (Denmark and Poland) and South Asia (Pakistan, the Lahore School of<br />
Economics).<br />
Let me report – selectively because of space – on the relations between SARC and<br />
disciplines, for the ideal of ‘inter-disciplinarity’ is held in high public esteem but<br />
often faces obstacles. Events grounded in disciplines included William Dalrymple’s<br />
history of the Koh-i-Noor diamond. Intra-disciplinary sub-fields featured Owen<br />
Bennett-Jones on military politics in Pakistan. Then Jan Breman integrated history<br />
and social policy in his inter-disciplinary lecture on the ‘social question’. Crossdisciplinary<br />
research – X from the perspective of Y – was exemplified by lectures<br />
on migration from the perspective of feminist anthropology (Attiya Ahmad) and on<br />
gender from the perspective of judicial politics (Pakistan MP and Wolfson alumna<br />
Nafisa Shah). Additive multidisciplinary scholarship was showcased in the Wolfson-<br />
FCO’s South Asia Day by Matthew McCartney (Economics), George Kunnath<br />
(Anthropology), Indrajit Roy (Politics) and Kate Sullivan de Estrada (International
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