National Association of Geographers India (NAGI)
Patna University, Patna, BIHAR, November 2-4, 2012 | Deadline: September 15, 2012
Hosted by Department of Geography,聽34th Indian Geography Congress.聽Focal Theme: "Hazards, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development"聽[Please see聽 for full conference description and subthemes]
On each sub-theme of the Congress, papers will be invited. One聽invited paper will be presented as keynote address. The keynote聽address will be followed by papers contributed by the participants.聽Members are requested to fill up the enclosed registration form聽and send the same along with the abstract and the registration fee by聽15th September, 2012. Full papers must reach the Convener by October聽20, 2012. Abstract without full Registration Fee will not be printed聽in the Book of Abstracts. Manuscript of the full paper should be聽typed on quarto size and double spaced. Bibliographic reference should聽be minimized and given at the end of the paper. Geographers are聽requested to preferably submit only one abstract of paper to the聽Congress.
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Narrating Memory and History in South Asian Literature
Tufts University, Massachusetts, March 21 - 24, 2013 | Deadline: September 30, 2012
Although Georg Lukcs and Edward Said discussed the interrelationship聽between literature and history, this connection has not been fully聽investigated in South Asian literatures. How do South Asian authors聽narrate the past? What are the socio-political factors that shape聽their narratives? What is the significance of ghosts, memorization,聽and amnesia in those narratives? What is the connection between聽history and nation building; religion and national memory; and聽inheritance and genealogy. 300-350 word abstracts:(kudsieh@gmail.com).
Please include with your abstract:聽Name and Affiliation,聽Email address,聽Postal address,聽Telephone number,聽A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration).
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of聽sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location.聽The 44th annual event will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts,聽a city known for its national and maritime history, academic聽facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food scenes, and聽blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston聽Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include聽keynote and guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours聽and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA聽session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or聽seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and聽also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.聽
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Literary Depictions of the Indian Mutiny and Rebellion (1857)
Tufts University, Massachusetts, March 21 - 24, 2013 | Deadline: September 30, 2012
The panel examines works that depict the Indian Rebellion and Mutiny聽written in Anglophone, South Asian languages and European languages.聽What were the images and motifs used to describe the rebellion? How聽did South Asians writing in their mother tongues describe the mutiny,聽and how did their depictions differ from those written in English? How聽have Irish and Scottish authors depicted the events of 1857? How have聽Australian, Canadian and South African authors depicted the mutiny?聽300-350 word proposals to:聽kudsieh@gmail.com Areas: British and Anglophone; Transnational Literatures
Please include with your abstract: Name聽and Affiliation,聽Email address,聽Postal address,聽Telephone number,聽A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration).
The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of聽sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location.聽The 44th annual event will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts,聽a city known for its national and maritime history, academic聽facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food scenes, and聽blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston聽Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include聽keynote and guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours聽and workshops.
Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA聽session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or聽seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and聽also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.聽
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Yale Modern South Asia Workshop 2013
New Haven, Connecticut, March 30 - 31, 2013 | Deadline: October 1, 2012
Abstracts are invited for the 2013 Yale Modern South Asia Workshop to be held on 30-31 March 2013 in New Haven, Connecticut.聽This two-day workshop will bring together the ongoing work of advanced graduate students and recent PhDs working on topics of current interest in modern South Asian Studies. We invite submissions of paper proposals from all disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences, particularly those that will foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and exchange of ideas from across the diverse regions of South Asia. Past papers have tackled issues ranging from film and ethnomusicology to state formation and elections and have presented new theoretical and methodological alternatives in the study of South Asia.聽A complete submission will include paper title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, complete contact information, academic affiliation, discipline, year in graduate program and a brief one page CV. Submissions must be sent via email to southasia.workshop@yale.edu.
Applications which do not meet the above submission guidelines will NOT be considered. Successful candidates will be informed by November 1, 2012. Final papers of 7000 words must be submitted by January 1, 2013. Complete papers will be placed on a secure website to facilitate discussion amongst the entire group. Accommodation and meals will be provided to all selected candidates, and travel costs of up to $500 will be reimbursed on submission of original receipts.
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2012 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference: "Sri Lanka: Intersection"
Stanford University, Palo Alto, November 8 - 9, 2012 | Deadline: October 8, 2012
The 2012 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be on November 8th and November 9th at the Center for South Asia, Stanford University, Palo Alto and will be co-funded by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Center for South Asia, Stanford (). As with the two previous graduate conferences, this workshop will bring together graduate students both in the final writing up stage and pre-research/planning stages from a variety of disciplines and institutions. In 2012, we have switched from the East Coast to the West Coast and we hope to encourage fruitful intellectual as well as geographical crossings. The graduate conference aims to enhance intellectual exchange on Sri Lanka, emphasize the production of empirical and non sectarian knowledge, focus attention on recent potential transformation of key concepts, and strengthen and build a new cohort of researchers (and research) across disciplines and institutions as well as strengthen relationships between American graduate students and local intellectual circles in Sri Lanka.
Accordingly, in 2012 our theme is 鈥淚ntersections鈥�. To intersect is both to cut across and also to create new meeting points. As with previous conferences, our focus is thus wide-ranging and we welcome panel and paper proposals on Sri Lanka that cross disciplines and bring new or old themes and concepts together in unusual ways.
The workshop takes place over 2 days. On November the 8th, the first session will be a small closed pre-dissertation development seminar for selected participants (see below for details). In the afternoon, the Sri Lanka Graduate Conference and the Center for South Asia will present a jointly hosted public event on literature and war with new young South Asian novelists. On November 9th, we will host three student panels.
We would like to invite three sets of participants. Firstly, paper and panel proposals for the three student panels. Panel proposals and single papers proposals are due on October 8th. Secondly, we invite participants to apply for the pre-dissertation development seminar. This seminar is to assist graduate students in developing their research projects and will be a closed session for 4-5 participants. 乐播传媒 in Masters and PhD programs across the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply. Those interested in the Pre-dissertation Development Seminar should email a 300-word explanation of your interests and why you would like to participate for October 8th. Those who wish to participate in the conference without presenting must send expressions of their interest by October 12th. We have limited funding for travel for those outside the Bay area, please let us know if you are unable to access departmental funding by October 12th. Places are limited so please apply soon.聽You can find this information also at from Sep 15th onwards.
Please send emails with 鈥淪ri Lanka Graduate Student Workshop鈥� in the subject line. Please send all emails to Sharika Thiranagama (sharikat@stanford.edu).
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Eastern Resonances 2: India and the Far East (16th-18th centuries)
University of Paris Diderot, Paris 7,聽December 5 - 7, 2013 |聽Deadline: October 31, 2012
Contrary to the echo or the trace, which both imply an enduring, but聽fading prolongation of a presence, resonance suggests not only a聽continuation, but a reinforcement of a sound or image, provoked by a聽reflection on another surface. Taking from Stephen Greenblatt's聽definition of resonance as the power of the object displayed to reach聽out beyond its formal boundaries to a larger world, to evoke in the聽viewer the complex, dynamic cultural forces from which it has emerged (Resonance and Wonder, in Learning to Curse, p. 170), this conference聽aims at studying the moves, shifts, transformations and translations聽through which the idea of the East resonated in Europe in general, and聽Britain in particular, from the early modern period to the romantic聽age.
Calling into question the adversarial nature of Orientalism as defined聽by Edward Said, our conference will address the deterritorializations聽and reterritorializations (to borrow the concepts developed by Deleuze聽and Guattari in Anti-Oedipus) through which the East reshaped itself in聽the West through its many reflections and reverberations. Our focus聽will not just be on what was lost and what was gained along the routes聽of such recuperations, but we also wish to chart in greater detail the聽routes themselves, the people who crossed them and the motivations聽underpinning these attempts at reaching, understanding and picturing聽the East.
The first of our series of two conferences on Eastern Resonances, to聽be held at the University of Montpellier 3 (30 May-1 June 2013), will聽focus on the Ottoman Empire and Persia. We are聽now welcoming proposals for the second conference, on India and the聽Far East, to be held at the University of Paris Diderot Paris 7 (5-7聽Dec. 2013).
For Eastern Resonances 2: India and the Far East, short proposals in聽English (250 words) and a brief biographical statement are to be sent聽by October 31, 2012 to the conference organisers:聽Dr Claire Gallien, University of Montpellier 3聽claire.gallien@univ-montp3.fr,聽Pr Jean-Marie Fournier, University of Paris 7聽jean-marie.fournier@univ-paris-diderot.fr,聽Pr Ladan Niayesh, University of Paris 7 niayesh@univ-paris-diderot.fr
Papers should be 30 minutes in length and may be presented either in聽French or in English. We intend to publish a selected number of papers聽from the two conferences in a volume of essays on the topic of Eastern聽Resonances.
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Negotiating Ethnicity: Politics and Display of Cultural Identities in聽Northeast India
Vienna, July 4 - 6, 2013 | Deadline: October 31, 2012
Collective identities and ethnicity are subject to changes in many聽parts of the world today as several scholars have highlighted. Through聽this conference, we wish to examine those changes, particularly the聽new forms and meaning given to ethnic identities, belonging, etc. in聽various parts of Northeast India, as well as look at practices related聽to ethnicity and cultural identities. Northeast India is the political聽unit defined by the Indian Government as the North Eastern Council,聽which now includes Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya,聽Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim.
We intend the conference to promote an interdisciplinary forum and聽invite proposals from scholars working in a variety of disciplines,聽including, but not limited to, history, sociology, economics,聽anthropology and cultural studies, to submit research paper proposals.聽We invite cross-theoretical examinations of the recent transformations聽of cultural identities and ethnicity in relation to inter-ethnic and聽inter-state relations, borders, politics, agency, migration and聽diasporas, globalization, and tourism, etc. For more information, email: identity-neindia@oeaw.ac.at
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Orders and Itineraries: Buddhist, Islamic, and Christian Networks in聽Southern Asia, c. 900-1900
Singapore, February 21-22, 2013 | Deadline: January 31, 2013
The presence and importance of orders, as corporate structures of聽ritual and interpretive religious specialists, has long been noted in聽the history of South and Southeast Asia. Most often, however, these聽discussions have been compartmentalized within fields of study focused聽on a single religious tradition. This workshop seeks to open new lines聽of conversation by bringing together scholars working on Buddhist聽monastic lineages, Sufi tariqas, and Christian orders in Southern聽Asia, to bring their own specialized research into conversation with聽recent developments in the broader field of trans-regional history.聽The workshop seeks to understand better the motivations for extending聽religious communities geographically in the southern Asian region, as聽well as conceptions of affiliation that have shaped the movement and聽localization of religious specialists. The workshop will also explore聽the ways in which the presence of religious orders shaped processes of聽recognition and competition within and across the expansionary聽religious traditions of Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.
Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (250 words聽maximum) and a brief personal biography of 150 words using the Paper聽Proposal Submission Form. Please send your form to Ms Valerie Yeo at聽valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg by 15 July 2012. Successful applicants will be聽notified by mid August 2012 and will be required to send in a聽completed draft paper (5,000 - 8,000 words) by January 31 2013.