Det här seminariet är på engelska. Mer info nedan.

Join us for this SASNET lunch seminar with Ole Birk Laursen, the author of the recently published biography Anarchy or Chaos: M.P.T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom – available throughout Europe, the United States, and India.  

In this seminar, Birk Laursen will tell the story of M.P.T. Acharya, today regarded India’s most well-known anti-colonial anarchist of the early 20th century. It is a journey through the tumultuous political landscape of India during the fight for freedom and a time period marked by significant global events, including World War I, the Russian Revolution, the rise of Nazi power, the emergence of fascism, and Indian independence.

Anarchy or Chaos is not only an attempt to tell the intriguing life story about M.P.T. Acharya, but also to broaden the understanding of anarchism among fellow researchers of anti-colonialism and history of anarchism, adding to theories that still often are European-centered.  

More information about this event will be published later.

The seminar is held at the Department of Political Science, Lund University. If you are not able to attend in-person, there is however an option to attend via Zoom. Please send an email to matilda [dot] skoglow [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se (matilda[dot]skoglow[at]svet[dot]lu[dot]se) to register your Zoom attendance.