Location
Westminster Forum, Fifth Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW
The event will take place in person. If you have any questions email the seminar convener, Dr Matthew Fluck ([email protected]).
About the centre
The Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD), established in 1989, is based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster. At the Centre, academics working in politics and international relations undertake socially engaged, methodologically diverse and often interdisciplinary research that aims to address a range of critical political challenges in relation to democracy worldwide.
CSD has a longstanding international reputation for research excellence through a programme of publications, events and collaborations with academics, practitioners, policymakers, and activists. Research in Politics and International Studies at CSD was ranked 4th highest in the UK for impact in the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
The Centre has established numerous collaborations with scholars and universities around the world and has hosted encounters with public intellectuals including Luc Boltanski, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Bruno Latour, Richard Rorty, Quentin Skinner, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Charles Taylor, James Tully, and Michael Walzer. The CR Parekh lecture, instituted by Lord Bhikhu Parekh, has included lectures by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Arundhati Roy, and Ashis Nandy.
CSD recognises that responding to contemporary social and political challenges requires engagement beyond the academy, so actively welcomes dialogue and collaboration with researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and activists around the world. The Centre is directed by Professor Nitasha Kaul.
About the speaker
Edward Anderson
Dr Edward Anderson is an Assistant Professor in History at Northumbria University. From 2025 to 2027 he is also a Senior Fellow at SOAS, University of London. From 2015 to 2019, he was the Smuts Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge. He has also been a Teaching Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Postdoctoral Affiliate at Trinity College. Dr Anderson’s research relates to Indian politics and contemporary history, diasporas and migration, transnational networks, multiculturalism, and the politics of the Indian diaspora. In 2023/24 he published Hindu Nationalism in the Indian Diaspora: Transnational Politics and British Multiculturalism (Penguin/Hurst/Oxford University Press).
