CFP: Sikhi(sm), Literature and Film
Sikh Studies Conference. Department of Religion, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Fall 2012, October 19-21st
Sponsored by the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies
Sikhi(sm), Literature and Film
Hofstra University and the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies are excited to announce a conference on the literary and visual cultures within, or pertaining to, Sikh traditions both in Panjabi and Diasporic contexts. The conference is designed to be explorative and is therefore open to any and all submissions within these two fields. This conference aims to chart new territory by exploring the aesthetic and expressive traditions within Sikh(ism).
Literary Cultures
Proposals are welcomed within the area of literature broadly defined, including: romance (kissaa), ballad (of war/strife, vaar), lyric (revelation), hagiography and biography (Janamsaakhiis), didactic and devotional (revelation, commentarial), revival and reform (political, nationalist, moral/didactic tracts), fiction and short story, poetry and new poetry, prose, drama and play.
Visual Cultures
Proposals are welcomed within the area of film or visual culture broadly defined including: Cinema/Film (Bollywood, Hollywood, Lollywood and Independent productions, Internet websites, YouTube, Vimeo, Music video-Rap, Bhangra), TV (terrestrial and satellite stations), Comic (Amar Chitra Katha, Sikhtoons), Fine Arts (miniature paintings, court paintings, modern art, photography, contemporary art), Commerical Art (calendar art, lithographs), Fashion and Advertising (e.g. Sonny Caberwal ,Vikram Chatwal, Waris Ahluwalia), Museum Exhibitions (V&A, Rubin Museum, Smithsonian etc), Architecture (monumental, temple and residential).
Deadlines
Paper proposals May 1st, 2012 300 words
Final Papers September 1st, 2012 5-8,000 words
Please send proposals to: balbinder.bhogal@hofstra.edu
Punjabi Subaltern Summit – 2012
Sunday, January 15, 2012, 11:00 AM to 05:00 PM
ICSSR Seminar Hall, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Agenda
The Punjabi Subaltern Summit is a one-of-its-kind conclave where politicians, thinkers, change agents, writers, artists, academicians and media professionals will try to find a common ground on the pressing problems that plague our state. An attempt to break free from the parochial structures that have suppressed the social narrative on lesser-known issues like caste, religion, representation and federalism. By harnessing the spirit and dialect of new media, it strives to infuse the intellectual mainstream with a sense of purpose and direction, bringing back the long-lost ebullience into its ethos. This non-partisan forum is a bold attempt reclaim the mantle of Punjabiyat.
One of its immediate aims is to influence the pre-poll debate in Punjab. We plan to organize this event every year in a bigger and better format, expecting that it will become a fixture or an annual pilgrimage for the regional intelligentsia.
For detailed information on the agenda and issues to be discussed, please visit: www.subaltern.in.
Call For Papers: Cultures of Decolonisation, c. 1945-1970 Symposium
Date: Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Venue: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Senate House
Keynote Speaker: Dr Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary, University of London
Call for Papers: This symposium will bring together scholars with an interest in the cultural practices, performances and material cultures of decolonisation, c.1945-1970.
While the problems of ‘empire’ and ‘the postcolonial’ have come under increasing scrutiny in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, and debate about the political and economic processes of decolonisation is well established, the cultural sites, spaces and social practices of this process in the middle years of the twentieth century have often been overlooked.
Yet new scholarship is beginning to point to the attention that the literary, visual and built environment paid to political, economic and social change in this period. In addition, the roles of individuals and institutions in cultural practices and performances of decolonisation are now drawing critical attention from a variety of fields. This symposium will bring together scholars from history, art and design history, cultural geography, literature, museum studies, architecture and other cultural fields to further explore these topics with regard to decolonisation between 1945 and 1970.
We invite contributions which examine aspects of cultural engagements with decolonisation. Papers may consider the peoples, sites, materials and practices of emerging and newly independent nations, as well as the processes of decolonisation as enacted in Europe. This event will lend new insights into debates about the contested nature of decolonisation, and into the impact of cultural practices on socio-political processes.
Papers might focus on:
. Cultural institutions and their reactions to and engagements with decolonisation
. Amateurs, professionals and enthusiasts in decolonisation
. Imperial knowledges, materials and collections, and their place in a decolonising world
. Specific media as arenas for political exchange
. Cultural sites of independence and decolonisation
. Visual and performance cultures of decolonisation
. Decolonising lives
. Networks of decolonisation
Please send abstracts of 250 words or expressions of interest to Dr Ruth Craggs, St Mary’s University College (craggsr@smuc.ac.uk) and Dr Claire Wintle, University of Brighton (c.wintle@brighton.ac.uk) by 30 January 2012.
Symposium Website:
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/research-conferences/cultures-of-decolonisation-1945-1970
Supported by the Institute for Commonwealth Studies, University of London; School of Humanities, University of Brighton, and St Mary’s University College.
Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalising World’ at JNU, Delhi, April 3-6th 2012
The call for papers for the interdisciplinary conference ‘Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalising World’ at JNU, In Delhi from April 3-6th 2012 is now open.
The deadline is December 7th, and the list of panels is available at http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2012/panels.php5?View=Panels .
Further details http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa12/
Workshop on Asian Migration to Scandinavia, 12-14 December 2011
Date: 12-14 December 2011
Venue: NORASIA IV Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Call for Papers: People from Asia have migrated to Scandinaviafor several decades and have increasingly made their presence felt in the region. Labour migration from e.g. South Asia gathered momentum during the 1960s and 1970s, accompanied by refugees and asylum seekers from many countries in Asia. More recently, as the various national laws governing migration to Scandinavia were modified and made stricter, casual migration has given way to family reunification and new forms of labour migration comprised inter alia by educational migrants, care workers and highly skilled engineers, doctors and nurses. In this workshop we aim to explore the vast field of Asian migration to Scandinavia by engaging in an exploratory and ambitious comparative exercise. What can we learn by comparing vastly different patterns of migration originating in Asia, and passing through or terminating in Scandinavia? Which cultural, national and regional differences make a difference, and how do changing legislative frameworks enable or constrain migrant practices? We particularly invite MA and PhD students with recent field experience to present their work. Topics covered under this broad umbrella include, but is not limited to:
- Histories of migration and community formation in the diaspora
- Homeland concerns, religious revivalism and diaspora politics
- Labour, cross-border remittances and global economic flows
- International terrorism, crime, trafficking and drugs
- Legislative processes and changing legal frameworks
- Majority – minority relations
Kindly send your abstract to the organisers no later than 15 November:
Karina Dalgas, Univ.of Copenhagen, arina.Dalgas@anthro.ku.dk
Kenneth Bo Nielsen, SUM, Univ.of Oslo, K.B.Nielsen@sum.uio.no
Symposium: Digitial Religion, Abo June 13-15 2012
Date: 13-15 June 2012
Venue: The Donner Institute, Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland
Programme: The Donner institute will arrange a Symposium 13-15 June 2012 in Åbo/Turku, Finland
The theme we have chosen for the Donner Institute 23rd Symposium is Digital Religion.
The conference “Digital Religion” aims to explore the complex relationship between religion and digital technologies of communication.
Digital religion encompasses a myriad of connections between religionand digital technologies of communication and the goal of the conference is to approach the subject from multiple perspectives.
Keynote speakers:
Ass. Prof. Heidi Campbell, Texas A & M University, Texas
Prof. Mia Lövheim, Uppsala University, Sweden
Prof. Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburg, UK
Dr. Marcus Moberg, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Dr. Alexander Ornella, University of Hull, UK
Prof. Michael Pye, Phillips-Universität Marburg, Germany
Dr. Sofia Sjö, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Call for Papers: Please send your application to give a paper, with a short abstract included, to the Donner Institute no later than February 15 2012.
Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues, 5th Global Conference, 29th June-1st July 2012
Date: Friday 29th June 2012 – Sunday 1st July 2012
Venue: Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Call for Papers: This inter- and multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the contemporary experience of Diasporas – communities who conceive of themselves as a national, ethnic, linguistic or other form of cultural and political construction of collective membership living outside of their ‘home lands.’ Diaspora is a concept which is far from being definitional. Despite problems and limitations in terminology, this notion may be defined with issues attached to it for a more complete understanding. Such a term which may have its roots in Greek, is used customarily to apply to a historical phenomenon that has now passed to a period that usually supposes that Diasporas are those who are settled forever in a country other from where they were born and thus this term has lost its dimension of irreversibility and of exile.
In order to increase our understanding of Diasporas and their impact on both the receiving countries and their respective homes left behind, key issues will be addressed related to Diaspora cultural expression and interests. In addition, the conference will address the questions: Do Diasporas continue to exist? Is the global economy, media and policies sending different messages about diaspora to future generations?
Papers, workshops, presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on any of the following themes:
1. Movies and Diasporas
The presence and impact of displaced / globalized populations of audiences, spectators and producers of new mainstream /Hollywood/ Bollywood cinema are crucial to the emergence of this post-diasporic cinema, as these narratives from texts to screen constitute a fundamental challenge for the negotiation of complex diasporic issues.
2. Motivational Factors for Research into Diaspora
Factors are numerous including most prominently, artistic and musical creations, intellectual outputs, and specific religious practices and which have made a significant international impact.
3. Myths and Symbols: how to meet, and get to know each other through the use of creative lenses
Diasporas group, re-group and their group myths and symbols change accordingly. Or Diasporas remain dominated, their myths and symbols mirror (or rebel) their domination. This manifestation could take in linguistic, artistic and other creative forms right down to graffiti to propaganda. The effects of Diaspora through a creative lens, as often this is where the true effects of migration and cultural adjustment expose themselves in a personal and celebratory way. These could include:
* Creative Expression as a result of shifting and integrating cultures. Cross cultural and cross disciplinary practices / cross cultural collaboration / representing the self and the nation / connecting history to the future / third space practice
* Shifting Art Practices and how traditional folk based art forms (art / music / literature / dance) can accommodate and represent modern diasporic communities in flux
* New Languages that represent broken boundaries such as graffiti / rap/ interactive & web based art forms / global design aesthetics/ symbolism / sound & vision / poetry and text / Esperanto
4. Public, Private and Virtual Spaces of Diaspora
The controversial meaning of private/public spaces remain fundamental arenas in the re/construction of gendered identities in an in-between space as a Diaspora context nurtures challenges to traditional socio-cultural behaviors. Virtual Diasporas – This questions a range of pre conceived notions about physicality, actuality and place (which in turn open up the discussions around ownership, representation and nation). Virtual diasporas are not limited to the arts of course but the shifts toward new technologies within art and design production are highlighting such issues through various forms of creativity and the critique that surrounds it.
We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to those working/researching in philosophy, education, ethics, cinematic/ literature, politics, sociology, history, architecture, photography, geography, globalization, international relations, refugee studies, migration studies, urban studies and cultural studies.
5. Novel ways to think about Diaspora due to globalization
In the new global world in which cultures act simultaneously how should we be thinking about Diaspora?
Some pertinent questions in this area that the conference is interested in addressing are: What are some of the ways to identity and define the subject in changing political boundaries where cultural interactions are amplified? What are the processes of social formation and reformation of? Diasporas that is unique to a global age? How do an intensified migration age that is coupled with broader and more flexible terrains of social structures can give Diaspora communities a window of opportunity to redefine their social position in both the country of origin and the host country? How does immigration in an age where the media and the internet are highly accessible, bring individuals to deal with multiple levels of traditions and cultures? What new cross-’ethnoscapes’ and cross-’ideoscapes’ are emerging in? In what new methods can we capture the web of forces that influences Diasporas at the same time?
Other aspects of Diaspora that we are interested in having discussions about are:
* Economics of diaspora
* Gendered diasporas
* Queer diasporas ‘flexible citizenship’
* Contested diasporic identities
* Invisible diasporas
* Emerging and changing patterns – is there an ‘American diaspora’ in
China? In Dubai? Etc.
* Stateless or homeless diasporas – diasporas of no return
* Guest workers as diasporans?
* Diasporas created by shifting state boundaries
* Internal (intranational diasporas) – for example, First Nations or
Indigenous/Native migration into urban areas
* Diasporans by adoption or ‘diasporans-in-law’ (partners of diasporans
adopted into diasporic communities, extended diasporas through family
relations, etc.)
* Overlapping diasporas, entanglement
* Competing claims or multiple claims on diasporans Inter-diasporan or
multi-diasporan realities
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 13th January 2012. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 11th May 2012. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs;abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: DIAS5 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Dr S. Ram Vemuri
School of Law and Business
Faculty of Law, Business and Arts
Charles Darwin University
Darwin NT0909
Australia
Email: Ram.Vemuri@cdu.edu.au
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Freeland, Oxfordshire,
United Kingdom
Email: dias5@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the ‘Diversity and Recognition’ series of research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of ID.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into 20-25 page chapters for publication in a themed dialogic ISBN hard copy volume.
For further details of the project, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/diasporas/call-for-papers/
Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we
are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or
subsistence.
ESF-LiU Conference on Historiography of Religion, 10-14 September 2012
Programme: The conference will focus on the question: How, under which conditions and with which consequences are religions historicized? The conference aims at furthering the study of religion as of historiography by analysing how religious groups (or their adversaries) employ historical narratives in the construction of their identities or how such groups are invented by later historiography (comparative historiography). Thus the biases and elisions of current analytical and descriptive frames have to be analysed, too (history of research). Combing disciplinary competences of Religious Studies and History of Religion, Confessional Theologies, History, History of Science, and Literary Studies, the participants will help to initiate a comparative historiography of religion by applying literary comparison and historical contextualization to those texts that have been used as central documents for histories of individual religions and analyze their historiographic character, tools and strategies. Furthermore they will stimulate the history of historical research on religion; that is, identifying key steps in the early modern and modern history of research. The comparative approach will address Circum-Mediterranean and European as well as Asian religious traditions from the first millennium BCE to present.
Date: 10-14 September 2012
Venue: Scandic Linköping Vast, Sweden
Format: - Lectures by invited high level speakers
- Poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
- Forward look panel discussion about future developments10-14 September 2012
Chaired by: Jörg Rüpke, Max-Weber-Centre, University of Erfurt, DE
Co-Chaired by: Susanne Rau, Department of History, University of Erfurt, DE
Call for Applications: click HERE
To learn more about the conference, click HERE
Conference flyer – Please circulate this announcement among your colleagues and contacts!
Pakistan Workshop, 11-13th May 2012. Secularity, Globalisation and Power
Both secularity and globalisation are understood to be phenomena that are intrinsically connected to rise of the post Enlightenment modern world. However, in order to understand the relationship between secularity, globalisation and power it is necessary for these themes to be contextualised in order to give them and the links between them, analytical meaning. In the case of Pakistan, a few of the “sub” concerns that emerge from this theme and need to be foregrounded to help frame contemporary Pakistan include:
1. The rise, spread – and perception – of international terrorism.
2. The increasingly interlinked and expansive information and communication systems. These are one of the hallmarks of the ostensibly globalised world and are an essential tool for the propagation of ideas. What does the recent increase in the regulation of the internet tell us about the Pakistani state? Do mobile phone texts and messages on blogs have the capacity to contribute to meaningful social change?
3. The rapid spread of the media in Pakistan. This is linked to debates on religious extremism and power not only because of what the media focuses on but because of the increased “craving” for news that arose in Pakistan post September 11th (Naqvi, 2010). What kind of popular “cravings” does the media respond to? Is it a force for progressive change in Pakistan or simply an inflammatory medium?
4. Changing demographics including an increase of women in the workplace
5. The growth of an urban middle class and consumer society
6. An evolving industrial base and the significant expansion in recent years of the service economy
7. The impact of the 3 Ts – low cost travel, telephone calls and satellite TV – on engagement with the Pakistani (professional) diaspora especially in Europe and North America
8. The internationalisation of Pakistani companies and the overseas interest in Pakistan as an emerging market
The deadline for abstracts is 10th February 2012, after which the organisers will make a selection and inform the participants of their decision. The finished papers would be required two weeks before the workshop, so they can be pre circulated to all participants.
For further information, contact pakistanworkshop@gmail.com or become a fan of the facebook group “Pakistan Workshop”. Further information is also available on the Pakistan Workshop website:
http://www.pakistanworkshop.org
Anushay Malik and Arif Zaman. Pakistan Workshop 2012 Organisers
Full details attached: Pakistan Workshop 2012-1
Call for Panels – 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon 25-28 – July 2012
Call for Panels – 22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Lisbon 25-28
July 2012
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From: Cláudia Pereira <claudiapereir@gmail.com>
The 22nd European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, ECMSAS, will be
organized by ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute on 25-28 July 2012.
For the last decades, the ECMSAS has been an important platform for debate and
illustration of contemporary trends in South Asian studies worldwide.
The ECMSAS conferences are held biannually under the auspices of the European
Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS), a professional, non-profit
organization of scholars engaged in research and teaching concerning South Asia
with regard to all periods and fields of study.
Scholars and students from any field of research related to the South Asian
region are invited to participate in the 22nd European Conference on Modern
South Asian Studies (ECMSAS) in Lisbon (Portugal).
The conference convener is Professor Rosa Maria Perez, anthropologist,
Department of Anthropology, ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and researcher of
CRIA-IUL. The co-convener is Professor Diogo Ramada Curto, Historian, Faculdade
De Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
The closing date for panel suggestions will be 15 April 2011.
The steering committee will meet in May to decide on the panels to be accepted,
and the selected panels will be listed on both the EASAS and the ECSAS
conference web-sites soon after the decisions have been made, most probably
towards the end of May 2011.
If you would like to convene a panel at this conference, please send your panel
title, together with a short description of the panel (100 words maximum) and a
tentative list of participants in a doc- or rtf-format to the following
email-address:
The file should be structured as follows:
1. Panel name (tentative)
2. Panel description (100 words maximum)
3. Your name, postal and email address
4. Your professional affiliation
5. List of participants (tentative)
Please use (as subject line): “ECSAS panel suggestion”.
Ph. D. Antropologia
Investigadora do Observatório da
Emigração<http://www.observatorioemigracao.secomunidades.pt/>
Investigadora do ISCTE -Instituto Universitário de Lisboa,
CIES-IUL<http://www.cies.iscte.pt/investigadores/ficha.jsp?pkid=343&a=-1563480902
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