Asian Religions Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Asian Religions Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), Department of Religious Studies, announces a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the area of Asian religions, specialization and region open. In addition to demonstrating a strong scholarly profile and a dedication to undergraduate teaching, candidates should be willing to engage with Asian diasporic communities in Indianapolis, in keeping with IUPUI’s mission of civic engagement as an urban research university.
Candidates should have completed the Ph.D. by the time of the Fall 2010 appointment. The normal teaching load in the IU School of Liberal Arts is five courses per year for faculty maintaining a solid research agenda.
Salary and fringe benefits are competitive. Final position offer is contingent on the continued availability of funding. Start date: August 1, 2010.
Deadline for applications: December 15, 2009
Applicants should send a letter of application, a c.v., and three letters of recommendation to:
PROF. DAVID M. CRAIG, CHAIR OF THE SEARCH COMMITTEE, DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES, IUPUI, 425 UNIVERSITY BLVD., CA 335 INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46202-5140
IUPUI is strongly committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and is an EEO/AA Employer, M/F/D.
CFP: Migrations, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations: Punjabis in a Transnational World
Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Trivandrum, Kerala in collaboration with Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development International Conference on Migrations, Mobility and Multiple Affiliations: Punjabis in a Transnational World 25-26 February 2010 at Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development (CRRID), Chandigarh
We invite senior and young scholars working on Punjabi migration to the conference and welcome scholars across a range of disciplines. Interested scholars may please send abstracts of their papers (to a maximum of 800 words) before 30th October 2009 to the coordinators of the conference. Selected scholars will have to submit the full paper by 15 January 2010. CDS will bear the expenses for travel and local hospitality of the selected participants.
Full details: Punjab-seminar
Coordinators:
Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan (rajan@cds.ac.in)
Prof. Aswini Kumar Nanda (akn_aswini@yahoo.co.in)
Dr. V.J. Varghese (vjvarghese@cds.ac.in, vjebee@gmail.com)
Walls of Film: the memory of public spheres
Inside/Out Festival event on Wed 21 Oct (1-5pm)
Birkbeck Cinema, Gordon Square.
http://www.lcace.org.uk/events/index.php?event=117
Walls of Film: the memory of public spheres
Date: Wednesday 21st October 2009
Time: 1.00pm – 5.00pm
Location: Birkbeck Cinema, Gordon Square view map
Organised by The Methods Lab, Sociology Dept, Goldsmiths, University of London.http://www.gold.ac.uk/methods-lab/
Screenings and Presentations from - Prof. Avtar Brah (Birkbeck), Jasbir Panesar (UEL), Alia Syed (Film maker & Research Fellow, Southampton Solent), George Shire (Cultural Critic), Gil Toffell (Leverhulme Research Fellow, Queen Mary College) and Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmiths).
Working on different and historically located diasporic locations with film, this panel will address the space(s) of film viewing, as well as the space of working with film as academics, researchers, archivists, film makers and collaborators. The event will examine the ways in which film both opens up and constrains their abilities to make visible memories and journeys that are otherwise absent from the public domain.
Sikh Diaspora – Call for Contributors
I was recently approached by one of the editors of Brill’s History of Religions Series about the possibility of producing an edited volume on Sikh diaspora. As many of your know, the Brill series is a well-established and prestigious one. Nevertheless, a volume on Sikhism is notably absent from its long series list. A book on Sikh diaspora would begin to fill this gap.
I am issuing a call for contributors for such a volume. I am seeking papers with not only substantive content, but those that offer some theoretical or methodological reflections (broadly construed). I welcome contributions from a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives – from history to urban planning, from gender studies to performance studies, from comparative religion to the psychology religion, or from ethnomusicology to ethnographic studies. Papers of a theoretical nature dealing with the conceptual categories such as “diaspora” or “trans-nationalism” as they relate to Sikh diaspora are also welcome.
If you have a paper you are looking to publish, or have a conference paper you plan to develop for publication, please consider contributing to this project.
If this is something to which you would like to contribute, please let me know the general subject matter of the proposed paper. I would like to get a sense of the level of interest and participation in this project before proceeding further.
Dr. Michael Hawley, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Religious Studies, Mount Royal University, Email: mhawley@mtroyal.ca
CFP: Postcolonialism and Islam
The Northern Association for Postcolonial Studies (NAPS) and The Sunderland-Nizwa Centre for Anglo-Arab and Muslim Writing are inviting abstracts and expressions of interest for a conference to be held at the University of Sunderland, UK, 16-17 April 2010.
Postcolonialism and Islam are two terms that frequently appear in tandem, however, the relationship between the two and the question of their compatibility has not been extensively investigated. The speed and intensity of the changes characteristic of late modernity under the pressures of cultural and economic globalisation has traumatised Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Hybrid identity formations, very often provisional, are generated in the articulations of difference marked by imaginary relations to faith, nation, class, gender, sexuality and language. Postcolonialism might seem to provide a framework for approaching the experiences of not only formerly colonized subjects but émigrés, exiles and expatriates and their host societies. However, Muslim writers and intellectuals have both adopted and rejected postcolonial theory as an effective tool for analysing and accounting for the experience of Muslims in the modern world.
This multidisciplinary conference will be relevant to specialists in postcolonial theory, and cultural, historical, political, sociological, literary, and religious studies who seek to problematise both the terms themselves and their juxtaposition. It will mainly focus on these six main themes:
* Muslim identity and its connection to race, cultural politics, integration;
* The experience of Muslim communities in Britain and elsewhere in the West particularly as representative site(s) of settlement, networking and diasporic mobility;
* Terms such as multiculturalism, citizenship, secularism, ethnicity;
* The way in which Muslim culture(s) become(s) embedded in and thematised by Muslim and non-Muslim writers in English and other literatures in translation;
* The connection between Muslim women and the activities of western orientalism;
* The conditions and possibility of ‘Islamic’ feminism; its response to the way in which Muslim women have often been represented and theorised according to western, Christian and white feminist versions of female experience;
Other related topics will also be considered. The intention is to publish an edited volume based on the theme of the conference to which a selection of participants will be invited to contribute.
Confirmed Keynote speakers so far include:
- Dr. Tahir Abbas, FRSA, currently principal analyst at Deen International
- Prof. Ceri Peach, Emeritus Professor at the Oxford School of Geography and Professor at the Insitute for Social Change, Manchester University
- Prof. Patrick Williams, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, Nottingham Trent
If you wish to attend please submit a proposal (maximum 300 words) to one of the following by October 30th, 2009:
Dr. Geoffrey Nash (geoff.nash@sunderland.ac.uk), or Dr. Sarah Hackett (sarah.hackett-1@sunderland.ac.uk)
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CFP:Bharat Britain South Asians Making Britain, 1870–1950
13/14 September 2010, British Library Conference Centre, London
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Dr Florian Stadtler on f.c.stadtler@open.ac.uk, with ‘MB conference’ in the subject line, by 30 September 2009.
In what ways did South Asians impact on Britain’s cultural and political life between 1870 and 1950? To what extent did South Asian intellectuals and activists interact and exchange ideas with their British counterparts? What are the legacies of this early diasporic community?
This conference will explore the manifold ways in which the presence of South Asians in Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries impacted on Britain and influenced the shaping of the nation. It will map out the various networks and affiliations South Asians and Britons formed across boundaries of ‘race’, ‘nation’ and ‘class’. These can be traced in different areas of cultural and political life, from the elitist literary and artistic circles of Bloomsbury where friendships were forged between poets and painters; to the anticolonial organisations which brought South Asian and British activists together in the lead up to Independence; to the battlefields of the two world wars where Indian sepoys and volunteers fought alongside Britain’s youth. Yet these interactions were also, at times, marked by hierarchies and dissent, with South Asians facing barriers in this chapter of their journey to negotiate the peripheries of Britain as well as its ‘centre’. Whether through riot, strike or petition, they struggled for their rights as imperial citizens, shifting ideas of ‘Britishness’ in the process.
Held in partnership with the British Library, the conference will address the ways in which South Asians – whether writers, politicians, students or lascars – positioned themselves in Britain during this period, and, in turn, how they were depicted by the British public and in British culture. Further, it will examine the significance of their activities and their influence on the cultural-political make-up of Britain, the ways in which their interventions challenged the national imaginary, and how debates about citizenship and Britishness during the period continue to resonate with contemporary preoccupations regarding Britain’s multi-ethnic identity.
Invited plenary speakers include: Humayun Ansari, Antoinette Burton, Chandani Lokugé, Nayantara Sahgal, Amartya Sen, A. Martin Wainwright, Rozina Visram, with more to be announced.
This conference arises out of the 3-year AHRC-funded project ‘Making Britain: South Asian Visions of Home and Abroad, 1870–1950’. Please see the project website for further details: http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/south-asians-making-britain/
Britain’s Sikhs continue to plague Punjab By Rahul Bedi
Around India young women are becoming victims of a crime that is robbing them of their virtues and their wealth.
Every year parents from Britain take their ‘looser sons’ to India and allow them to destroy the lives of innocent girls who crave for a life in Britain – or so they think
Many of these culprits are Sikhs, they have plagued the Punjab, with thousands of girls who have become bride and signed their lives to misery and pain, as they allow themselves to be robbed of the ‘virginity’ become objects that give these bachelors a ‘whore’ on command whilst they are on holiday, with never a thought to these women once they return to Britain.
Full article: http://www.emgonline.co.uk/news.php?news=6764
DIASPORA CITIES: URBAN MOBILITY AND DWELLING
The Diaspora Cities research team at QMUL (funded by The Leverhulme Trust) is organizing a one-day conference on Wednesday 16 September at QMUL on ‘Diaspora Cities: Urban Mobility and Dwelling.’
Please submit abstracts by 10 July to Shompa Lahiri (S.Lahiri@qmul.ac.uk). Registration is free but places are limited.
Please email Shompa by 15 August to reserve a place.
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AHRC PHD Studentships in Historical or Cultural Geography at Royal Holloway
The Department of Geography has been awarded an AHRC studentship in Historical or Cultural Geography and is seeking suitably qualified candidates to commence PhD research in the academic year 2009-10. The studentship pays all fees and a full maintenance award ( £14 940 for 2008-9, subject to review) for a three year period of research.
The topic areas for applicants are open within those broad disciplinary orientations to the arts and humanities. We would welcome applications from masters students working on questions of diaspora, multiculturalism, transnationality, ethnicity. We would also very much welcome applications from non-Geographers who feel that cultural or historical geography would be a conducive disciplinary home for their work.
Applications from those in related disciplines with an interest in working in Geography are encouraged. Potential applicants are strongly recommended to discuss their ideas with Professor Tim Cresswell, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor David Gilbert, Director of the Social and Cultural Geography research group, or another member of staff with related interests before making a formal application.
Applications must be made by June 15th 2009. http://www.rhul.ac.uk/registry/admissions/applyonline.html
For more details of the Department and forms see: http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/
The Punjab and its Diaspora: Representations and Identities
Attention to Punjab has tended to be bifurcated along the lines created by Partition, with scholars of India and Pakistan focusing on their own part of the region. However, this book breaks down such divisions to consider the area on both sides of the border. In doing this, the contributing scholars (who include the poets Amarjit Chandan and Daljit Nagra, historian Grainne Goodwin, religious studies scholar Jasjit Singh, and literary critic Nukhbah T. Langah) draw upon the two Punjabs’ shared but differentiated legacies of British colonialism, traumatic experiences of partition, relative economic vitality, dominance in their regions, and centrality to (re)inventions and imaginings of the postcolonial Indian and Pakistani nation-states. Given many of the contributors’ location in Britain and elsewhere, non-resident Punjabis are another key area of concern.
In an effort to enhance understandings of Punjabi literature, history, and anthropology, the volume discusses representations of the Punjab and its diaspora in research from different disciplines. It examines the protean nature of Punjabi identities and the cultural, religious and linguistic diversity of the region/s. The collection represents a genuinely interdisciplinary attempt to theorize the Punjab and many of the major languages and dialects spoken there are represented (including Punjabi, Siraiki, and English).
Possible paper topics may include but are not limited to:
- Partition and its legacies
- Rural, urban, and suburban Punjab
- The politics of language in the Punjab (interventions into Potohari and Hindko are particularly welcome)
- Punjabi Islam and Sufism
- Punjabi cultural identities and practices
- Political flashpoints in the region
- Artistic, filmic, literary, and musical representations
- Political relations between the two Punjabs
- The Punjabi diaspora
Please send an abstracts of not more than 200 words and a few sentences of biodata (via Word attachment) to Claire Chambers: c.chambers@leedsmet.ac.uk by the deadline of 21 April 2009. The volume’s emphasis is on representations and identities, and your abstract needs to address one or both of these issues.
Beyond Boundaries: Media, Culture and Identity in Europe
2-3 October 2009, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey
What is Europe according to its others? An essence, an origin, a center? Or is it nothingness, a void or chiasm? Where is Europe? In diasporic or migrant spaces? How is Europe different from the West? Can an identity be made European? Could it be Eurocentric or Euro-chiasmic? Can one leave one’s cultural frame to take on another? Can one transnationalize and/or regionalize a national identity or vice versa? Can the European Union create a single entity or a grand signifier of Europe out of multiple differences? What is the role of communication, media, and culture in such exchanges, transformations, processes and practices? Can we account for the similarities, proximities, and relations or should we focus on the differences, cleavages, and tensions?
This conference aims to explore the questions above and how such questions surface in media and cultural texts, ranging from everyday practices to media representations. The papers may deal with various meanings of Europe and its relation to non-European cultures, and how these are experienced or altered at the level of media, culture, and identity. Possible paper topics are:
Eurocentrism and its alternatives
Transnationalism and nationalisms
Global, regional, and local media and culture
Diasporic and migrant culture and identities
Gender equality and cultural diversity
Tactics and strategies of dialogue between cultures
Symbolic representations of Europe in various cultural practices
Theories of European cinema, media and culture
Challenges for European cinema, media, and cultural studies
European communication studies and strategies
The EU policies on media, communication, and culture
Please send a 300-word abstract with the name and institutional affiliation of the speaker (mailing address & email address) to emcs@bahcesehir.edu.tr
Deadline for abstracts: June 15, 2009.
For further details about the conference please visit: http://www.emcs.bahcesehir.edu.tr/conference.html
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Fashioning Diasporas Friday 15-Saturday 16 May 2009
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre
In association with Royal Holloway, University of London and the AHRC
This major international conference brings together some of the most exciting thinkers on fashion, culture and identity to explore the relationship of diaspora communities, objects and spaces to the processes of clothing production and consumption in historical and contemporary world cultures. The first day considers the ways in which fashion has been used as a basis for establishing new identities and connecting with old ones by diaspora communities. The second day discusses objects such as the sari, the cheongsam, and denim, and their design and reception. The conference is part of the AHRC funded Fashioning Diaspora Space project.
Friday May 15
10.30 – Welcome and Introduction to the conference Professor Philip Crang (Royal Holloway University of London)
10.45 Refashioning the Islamic: British Islamic fashion designers and the search for culturally relevant dress for Muslims in the West – Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths, University of London)
11.30 – Fashioning Ethnicities: Ghulam Sakina and the commercial spaces of multiculture – Claire Dwyer (University College London)
12.15 – Style- Fashion-Dress: From ‘Black’ to ‘Post-Black’ – Carol Tulloch (Victoria & Albert Museum)
Lunch and an opportunity to visit Moving Patterns at the Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
2.30 – Changing Alliances in Changing Diasporas: California garment workers in the 1930s and Now – Susan Kaiser/Lesley Rabine
3.15 – The Long March West: The Conquest of London’s fashion industry by East End Jews – Andrew Godley (University of Reading)
4.30 – Filaments of History: Lace, Movement, and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Culture – Lara Kriegel (Florida International University)
5.15 – Patterns, Place and Heritage – Susan Roberts (Bridging Arts)
6.00 – Wine Reception
Saturday May 16
10.30 – Global Threads: Textile Exchange and Material Culture in the Early Modern World – Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
11.15 – Denim Jeans and Diaspora: Adapting to living in North London – Sophie Woodward (Nottingham Trent University)
12.00 – Territorial Tartan: Locating Conjugation – Jonathan Faiers (Central St Martin’s, University of the Arts)
1.45 – Chinese Gowns in Western Interiors: Transitionality and Transformation – Sarah Cheang (London College of Fashion)
2.30 – ‘Indiennes’ in England? Tracking textile migration in Britain, 1850-1900 – Sonia Ashmore (Victoria and Albert Museum)
3.45 – Diasporas and Diffusions: A Contrast in Clothes – Robert Ross (Leiden University)
4.30 – Response – Suzanne Kuechler (University College London)
BOOKING INFORMATION
£25 one day, £20 concessions, £5 students
£50 two days, £40 concessions, £10 students
To book call +44 (0)20 7942 2211
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