Call for Papers: Special issue on Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi Diaspora
A Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora will be published in 2014 on: ‘Imagining Punjab and the Punjabi Diaspora’
Guest Editor: Anjali Gera Roy
South Asian Diaspora invites contributions to this Special Issue that will foreground the region within diaspora studies through focusing on Punjab, a land-locked region divided between India and Pakistan in 1947. The special issue will explore the importance of the home village/town/city, language and culture rather than the nation for many Punjabis living in the diasporas as well as for those displaced by the 1947 Partition, and will contribute to broader debates on transnationalism, postnationalism, micronationalism, and
new identity narratives emerging in the twenty first century. Papers will focus on Punjab as an ethno-spatial complex, a social form and a type of consciousness, and will address the ways in which multiple imaginings of Punjab as a site of diasporic nostalgia and longing produce inclusive as well as exclusionary narratives of self, home and community. Drawing on historical and post-colonial understandings of the region across a wide range of locations and disciplines, the papers will explore the importance of Punjab, Punjabi language and Punjabi culture in diasporic imagination, memory, identity, and everyday practices. By investigating the meanings of Punjab and Punjabiyat in the past and the present, the special issue will contribute to understandings of postnational formations within a South Asian context.
All invited and contributed manuscripts to this special issue will be peer reviewed. For guidelines of how to prepare the manuscript, please visit the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsad
Manuscripts for the Special Issue should be submitted no later than 31 March 2013. Submission of manuscripts through electronic mail (preferably as MS Word attachment) to Anjali Gera Roy (anjali@hss.iitkgp.ernet.in) is especially encouraged. Alternatively,
please submit three printed copies and an electronic version (MS Word format on a floppydisk or a CD) of the manuscript to:
Professor Anjali Gera Roy
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur – 721 302
INDIA
Phone : +91 3222 283616 (O); +91 3222 283617 (R)
Fax : +91 3222 282270 (O)
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rsadcfp.pdf
Contemporary South Asia: Call for papers
Call for papers for a special issue of Contemporary South Asia: Gendered and social consequences of innovations in South Asia
Gender relations in South Asia are considered as a major developmental challenge of the area. Technological, social and organizational innovations have potential for improving living conditions and supporting people’s active participation but they may as well work against the better interests of the disadvantaged.
Here, we are interested in technical, social and organizational innovations that have a particular developmental role in South Asia, such as mobile phones, use of ultrasound for sex detection, micro credit, or social business strategies. Here, we will look at innovations as social phenomena: they are never merely commercial or technical ventures or products. They are necessarily socio-cultural projects, put into practice and created by socially-situated individuals and groups. Thus the interest lies more on the process than on the end result of innovation.
The idea of an innovation entails a taken-for-granted positive and useful goal – improving wellbeing by adopting something new or doing something differently than before. We would like to forward a call for papers examining whether the implementation or creation of an innovation actually manages to transform social structures of inequality, particularly gender relations, in South Asia. Or do innovations socially reinforce existing inequalities while benefitting only some particular actors?
This special issue seeks contributions that do not see innovations merely as economic or technological ventures but also as socio-cultural projects that have important gender-specific and cultural frames and consequences. In order to strengthen our understanding on how social and other innovations work in starkly hierarchical societies of South Asia, positioned, contextualized and culture-specific micro-level analyses are needed.
Guest editors: Minna Säävälä (Population Research Institute, Helsinki) & Sirpa Tenhunen (University of Helsinki)
Article manuscripts analysing primary data are sought. Please send a synopsis of maximum 500 words to the guest editors minna.saavala@vaestoliitto.fi and sirpa.tenhunen@helsinki.fi by 31th Jan 2012. The special issue is scheduled to be published in 2014.
Full Professorship in State and Democracy in Modern India
The Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) at the Georg-August-University Gottingen /Germany invites applications for the position of a Full Professorship (salary scale W3) in State and Democracy in Modern India
The position is available for immediate appointment.
Applications are invited from internationally recognized candidates working in any field of political science or political sociology who have a demonstrated regional specialization in India or South Asia. This includes particularly candidates working on state formation, democratization and the political system in India in comparative perspective, with a view to broader questions of modern constitutional theory and reality. Candidates must have an interest in, and strong commitment to, inter-disciplinary research cooperation with the other departments of the newly created Centre for Modern Indian Studies (www.uni-goettingen.de/cemis).
Applications, including pertinent documentation (CV, list of publications, teaching and research track records etc.) are requested by 18 March 2010 and should be sent to the Dekanin der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultt der Georg-August-Universitet Gottingen, Platz der Gttinger Sieben 3, D-37073 Gttingen, Germany), email: dekanat@sowi.uni-goettingen.de. For further information, please contact Prof. Matthias Koenig at mkoenig@gwdg.de.
Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/cemis
SOAS Digital Archives and Special Collections
The Library, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK
Self-description:
“SOAS is a leader in the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and our library with its Archives & Special Collections is the HEFCE-designated National Research Library for these regions of the world. We are in the process of putting our collections of rare manuscripts, books, photographs, audio and film material on-line, to be freely available for everyone. The first collection to be made available is the photographic archive of Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf (1909-1995). This collection is widely recognised as the world’s most comprehensive visual documentation of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas. [...] This Web site is under continual development, so please check back frequently for new features.”
CFP: South Asia and the West: Entwined, Entangled and Engaged
Los Angeles, CA, April 10-11, 2010
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the two shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth.
The popular mind tends to focus on the differences between South Asia and the West, yet throughout history there has been constant interchange, with each side learning from and impacting the other. In 2010 SASA wishes to examine the intertwined nature of East and West, beginning with Alexander the Great’s conquests in Northwest India and continuing through the first use of a decimal zero in the Lokavibhâga, Columbus’ search for a sea route to the Indies, Thoreau’s impact on Gandhi/Gandhi’s on M.L. King, and concluding with today’s bidirectional globalization and the explosive South Asian diaspora.
We particularly invite papers which explore cultural and religious interchanges, entertainment cross-fertilization, economic globalization, and the diaspora experience. Regardless of the theme, however, we welcome papers from all academic disciplines and all periods of time that address the rich tapestry that is South Asia’s past, present and future.
Further details: http://www.sasia2.org/index.html
Assistant Professorship – University of Delaware
History of South Asia/India. University of Delaware – Department of History
The Department of History at the University of Delaware (USA) invites applications for a full-time assistant professor, tenure track, in the history of South Asia, with a preference for the history of India.
The appointment will begin on September 1, 2010; the Ph.D. is required. The appointee’s courses will include courses in the field of specialization and a survey in world history.
Please send a letter of application, c.v., and three letters of recommendation, postmarked by December 15, 2009, to Professor Rudi Matthee, Chair, Search Committee, Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. All materials will be shared with department faculty.
Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities: Issues for Policy and Practice
Edited by Ravi K Thiara and Aisha K Gill, Foreword by Professor Liz Kelly CBE
‘This book is powerful, challenging and inspirational, and is an important contribution to debates on the complex intersections between ethnicity, gender and inequality, as well as on human rights and violence against women. Thiara and Gill and the contributors to this text skillfully unpick the flawed thinking and policy initiatives directed at gender-based violence over the past 30 years and especially in the post 9/11 period community cohesion and anti-terrorism initiatives.’
- Dr Lorraine Radford, Head of Research, NSPCC
‘This is a stimulating and provocative collection which explores the difficult concepts of ‘multiculturalism’, ‘ethnic identity’ and ‘secularisation’ in relation to gendered violence. The authors challenge myths and stereotypes about the ‘Asian’ experience in relation to interpersonal violence without oversimplifying or homogenising black and minority ethnic (BME) women’s experiences. Despite cataloguing the ongoing struggles against racism and misogyny, and the intersection of both, the editors conclude the text with optimism; an additional reason to recommend this text to all policy makers, practitioners, academics and students, as well as those interested in the provenance of BME anti-violence organisations and current UK policy.’
- Dr Melanie McCarry, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol
Assistant Professor, South Asian Anthropology, Yale University
Department of Anthropology anticipates making a tenure-track appointment in South Asian anthropology at the starting assistant professor level, beginning on July 1, 2010. We seek applicants with demonstrated commitment to field research whose interests will complement existing Departmental strengths. This appointment is sponsored by the Council on South Asian Studies of the MacMillan Center, and the successful candidate will be expected to maintain teaching offerings and research interests that contribute to the Council’s programs. Applications should include a curriculum vitae and statement of research and teaching interests. Please do not send letters of references or copies of publications at this stage. Review of applications will begin on September 1, 2009.
Please send applications to:
The Chair, South Asia Search Committee
Department of Anthropology, Yale University
P. O. Box 208277
New Haven, CT 06520-8277
Yale University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer. Applications from women and members of underrepresented minority groups are especially encouraged.
Further details: http://www.yale.edu/anthropology/
South Asian Experiences of the World Wars: New Evidence and New Approaches
International Workshop, London, 26 May 2009
Venue: German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square
Please see attached pdf for details: workshop-programme-09-05-26
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DARBAR INTERNATIONAL SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL APRIL 2009
The largest festival of Indian classical music outside of India comes to London – which Songlines magazine has described as ‘Britain’s best festival of south Asian music’.
Over three packed days, world-renowned artists present an intoxicating mixture of serenely meditative and stunning improvisations from the worlds of Hindustani and Carnatic music in morning, afternoon and evening concerts.
The line-up of 40 maestros includes Rahul Sharma on santoor, Tejendra Majumdar on sarod, vocalist Ashwini Bhide and the prestigious Kumar Bose on tabla from northern Indian tradition. Rare instruments include the Rabaab from Afganisatan and Jori percussion from Punjab.
From the Carnatic south, there is vocalist Aruna Sairam, Ganesh and Kumeresh on violin and Shashank on flute. UK talents include Sukhwinder Singh (Pinky) and Jessie Bannister on saxophone with Indo-Jazz fusion.
There is an exhibition of photographs by internationally acclaimed photographer, Arnhel De Serra in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer and several free events throughout the day.
For further information: http://www.darbar.org.uk/
or attached brochure: darbar-festival
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South Asian Diaspora invites contributions to this Special Issue
SPECIAL ISSUE – CALL FOR PAPERS
A Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora will be published in 2010 on:
“The Pakistani Diaspora in Britain: continuity and change”
Guest Editor: Tahir Abbas, University of Birmingham
See attached for full details: special-issue-call-for-papers
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