cfp: ‘Punjab: Past, Present, Future’ Punjab Research Group Conference, October 29, 2022 (Oxford*)
The Punjab Research Group has been hosting conferences at least twice a year since 1984 and was established as an inclusive and all-embracing forum to provide a platform for discussion and debate on issues pertaining to East and West Punjab as well as the Punjabi diaspora. During the past 37 years, the PRG has provided space for academics to interact with each other regardless of territorial or disciplinary boundaries. This is especially important given the often-strained relationship between India and Pakistan, which has prevented discussion and dialogue between scholars of East and West Punjab.
Our second conference for 2022 will be held as a one-day event in Oxford*. We welcome submissions from scholars, academics, young researchers, journalists, artists, and activists for an inter-disciplinary discussion focusing on the theme of ‘Punjab: Past, Present and Future’.
Speakers are invited to give paper-presentations/performances that can cover a broad range of content, including, but not limited to: history, philosophy, politics, gender, religion, environmental studies, economics, diaspora issues, linguistics, literature, poetry, arts, music, and culture.
We particularly welcome proposals exploring the genesis of Punjab, intersections between the ‘3 Punjabs’, going beyond the 1947 borders: to deepen our perspective on the ‘connected histories’, and to envision interrelated futures, of the region.
Please submit an abstract in word document (200 words) and a brief CV to Raj (RS Mann) at punjabresearchgroup@gmail.com by 27th June 2022. Please put ‘ABSTRACT’ in your email subject line. In your word document state your study/abstract title, word count, give details of your name, email address and institutional affiliation (departmental and university/organisation). For any queries contact punjabresearchgroup@gmail.com.
Submissions from grad/postgraduate students are encouraged. Best Presenter Award will be presented to a doctoral student whose presentation is judged to be the best from amongst all the full-time doctoral student presentations. The Award includes cash and a certificate.
If you would like to register as a guestfor this event, please book a ticket using our online form at (https://tinyurl.com/2xshrdzp). The registration fee is £10 per person.
We look forward to seeing you in Oxford* soon!
* The organisers reserve the right to change the venue without giving any reason/s.
cfp: International Sikh Research Conference (ISRC)
We are pleased to announce the call for papers (C4p) and registrations for the second International Sikh Research Conference (ISRC). The conference will take place at the prestigious University of Warwick on the 28 June 2015.
The second conference draws on the unprecedented success of the first ISRC, 2014 by bringing together academics, scholars and researchers and to encourage a spirit of collaboration within international Sikh studies academia.
Scholars, researchers and academics are encouraged to submit a paper which highlights research on any of the following themes: Musicology, History, Philosophy, Scripture, Diaspora, Identity, and Politics.
The call for papers for the second Sikh Research Conference is now live at http://www.sikhconference.co.uk.
See attachment for further details: Call for Papers
Regards
Gurinder Singh Mann
http://www.sikhscholar.co.uk
2nd International Conference of History, GCU, Lahore 17-18 November 2014
2nd International Conference of History On “Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab”
17th -18th November 2014
Department of History, GC University, Lahore
Venue: Bukhari Auditorium
Please find attached the full programme for the 2-day conference:Conference programme final
International Conference “Pakistan: Opportunity in Crisis”
Venue: St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Dates: 10-11 May 2014
Entry: Student (£9) & Non-Student (£15) for registrations until 30/04/2014
More Details & Registration: http://www.knowledge.org.pk/
Description:
Pakistan has experienced political turbulences in the past, and its current security and economic challenges are indeed formidable. Yet the country continues to show remarkable national resilience in the face of these challenges. This is contrary to its doomsday portrayal in mainstream media and literature—which remains largely impervious to the myriad complexities of Pakistan’s internal realities, especially some viable social, political and economic transformations the country has undergone in recent years. Occurring amid critical circumstances, these transformations entail rare opportunities for reshaping Pakistan’s domestic politics and foreign policy, which need in-depth analysis and fresh insight. Hence this conference, which brings together prominent scholars and writers on Pakistan from UK and the rest of the world to critically debate the historical, political, social, economic and regional contexts underpinning such transformations, and thus rationally assess their potential outcomes for internal politics and external relations.
‘In one hand a pen in the other a gun’: Punjabi language radicalism in Punjab, Pakistan by Kalra & Butt
‘In one hand a pen in the other a gun’: Punjabi language radicalism in Punjab, Pakistan by Virinder S. Kalra & Waqas M. Butt
Published in South Asian History and Culture, 2013
Abstract
The relationship between language and politics in South Asia has provided a rich vein for academic analysis as it is tied up with issues related to nationalism and political mobilization. However, much of this analysis has been based on the Indian reorganization of states along linguistic lines or the role of language in the Bangladeshi liberation movement. This article discusses the role of language in the mobilization of the Left in Pakistan, specifically the way in which Punjabi was utilized by the Mazdoor Kisan Party at the theoretical and practical levels, in its mobilizing in the early 1970s. The role that language played in the site of student politics is illustrated through a case study of Sahiwal College. Overall, the role that Punjabi played as a mobilizing tool for the Left in Pakistan demonstrates a practice where culture and politics are inseparable and in this sense the article contributes to the wider debates on language and politics in South Asia.
Full article: Punjabi Language Radicalism
Autar Dhesi – Some Writings in England
A Southall man who came to Britain in 1958 with a BSc in Natural Science from Punjab University, was awarded his Ph.D. in national economic planning from the University of Birmingham, on Friday.
He is Mr. Autar Singh Dhesi of 176 Regina Road, Southall.
Mr. Dhesi won a post-graduate diploma in Development Administration at Leeds in 1966. Two years later, he was awarded an M.Sc. in International Economics at Surrey University. In 1971 he qualified for a M.Soc.Sc. degree at Birmingham University, where he won a Research Council Scholarship in Social Sciences. In between he taught at Coventry University.
Mr. Dhesi was secretary of Southall Indian Worker’s Association for many years, and joint secretary of the National India Defence Fund Committee. He was a founder member of the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination.
In 1963, he was the first Indian from Southall to be invited to the Queen’s Garden party.
(Published in Middlesex County Times (London), July 19, 1974)
Below are some of the author’s writings kindly received at the PRG from the Punjab University.
Student Graffiti by A. Dhesi
The Sikh Turban: Exploring An Icon Of A Migratory Peoples’ Identity
Research Consultation: Anthropological Collection on Sikh Turbans
The Horniman Museum, London
Kind assistance is requested with researching a collection displaying the dastar as part of Sikhs’ global migration. The collection has three aspirations; to firstly display the pagh’s physical variation as geographically dichotomous and freighting a regionally intrinsic identity trope for instance Makhan Singh as a kalasingha wearing a Kenyan kilemba. Secondly to consider the pagh and its contentious role in Sikh identity within the milieu of other head-coverings e.g. Mitres in Europe during The Middle Ages. Thirdly to reflect on the pagh in Sikh-Britain relationships e.g. Winterhalter’s 1854 portrait of Duleep Singh or turbaned Sikhs as stock British Armed Forces’ media images. Thoughts on the collection mode and process are especially welcomed. The Horniman Museum Collections can be explored at www.horniman.ac.uk, whilst the researchers can be reached on gorby.jandu@gmail.com and JZetterstrom-Sharp@horniman.ac.uk. The collection is due to gain exhibition in 2014 with displays finalised by end 2013.
Book Review: The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia edited by Ishtiaq Ahmed
Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed, a renowned scholar of Pakistani origin, is presently a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Stockholm in Sweden. However, this book The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia was conceived after a symposium in March 2009, when he was a visiting research professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. The purpose of the seminar was to investigate the role of religion in the countries of South and South East Asia. Dr Ahmed, as editor, has given an overview of the politics of religion in this region, followed by articles on the two areas separately: on South Asia by Ali Riaz and South East Asia by Bilveer Singh. These are followed by research studies in the form of chapters on Pakistan (Ishtiaq Ahmed and Tahmina Rashid), India (Tridivesh Singh Maini, Ishtiaq Ahmed and Rajesh Rai), Bangladesh (Taj Hashmi), Malaysia (Maznah Mohamad), Indonesia (Noorhaidi Hasan), the Philippines (Raymond Jose G. Quilop) and Singapore (Eugene K. B. Tan).
Read the full review by Tariq Rahman in Newsline: http://www.newslinemagazine.com/2012/02/book-review-the-politics-of-religion-in-south-and-southeast-asia/
Political Theology, special issue ‘Ten Years After 9/11’
The editors of Political Theology are pleased to announce that the latest issue is now available on the web. PT 12.5 (2011) is a special issue entitled ‘Ten Years After 9/11’, in which twenty-two contributors from across the religious spectrum take stock of the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. Perspectives are offered from theologians, specialists in the study of religion, historians, philosophers, ethicists, anthropologists and political scientists. A number of the contributors are active in the area of interreligious dialogue and interfaith relations. Some are grassroots activists.
To continue reading this introduction, please visit: http://www.politicaltheology.com/blog/?p=526
Political Theology Vol 12, No 5 (2011): Ten Years After 9/11
Table of Contents
http://www.politicaltheology.com/PT/issue/view/PT-v12_5
Guest Editorial
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Editorial: An Alternative Vision (641-644)
Colleen Kelly
Articles
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Political Theology Ten Years After 9/11 (645-659)
Julie Clague
“Do Not Despair of God’s Mercy”: Reflections on the Divine Mercy in
Times of Tragedy (660-665)
Abdulaziz Sachedina
September 11: Meaning in Fragments (666-671)
W. Clark Gilpin
Fragments: Reflections in a Shattered Screen (672-677)
Tina Beattie
9/11 – 100 Years On (678-684)
Hugh Goddard
The War on Terror: Secular or Sacred? (685-690)
William T. Cavanaugh
The World As We Know It (691-695)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
In the Decade After 9/11 (696-698)
Amir Hussain
American by Force, Muslim by Choice (699-705)
Amina Wadud
Keeping Shari’a and Reclaiming Jihad (706-712)
Irfan A. Omar
Osama bin Laden as a Multi-Vocal Symbol (713-721)
Richard Gauvain
The Problem of Religious Violence (722-726)
Alan Mittleman
September 11, 2001: Remember Forgetting (727-736)
Asma Barlas
The Legacy of 9/11: A Decade of Denial and Destruction (737-743)
Reza Pankhurst
Tragedy and Triumphalism (744-751)
Lenn E. Goodman
The Emerging Phenomena of Post-9/11 (752-761)
Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashid
Fighting Terrorism through Generosity: The Spiritual Approach to
Homeland Security (762-769)
Rabbi Michael Lerner
The Line Dividing Good and Evil (770-777)
Marina Cantacuzino
After 9/11: Religion and Politics (778-782)
David Novak
Collapsing Horizons (783-791)
Marius Timmann Mjaaland
Mourning 9/11: Walter Benjamin, Gillian Rose, and the Dual Register of
Mourning (792-800)
Ted A. Smith
Political Theology
www.politicaltheology.com
Lecturer in Indian History or Politics, Australian National University
Australian National University, School of Culture, History and Language
Lecturer in Indian History or Politics
Institution Type: College / University
Location: Australia
Position: Lecturer
The School of Culture, History and Language (CHL) is one of four
Schools within the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. Unique in the
world, the school is focused on deep, cutting-edge research and
teaching about the people, languages and land of Asia and the Pacific.
The South Asia Program in the the School of Culture, History and
Language, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, will appoint a Lecturer
in Indian History or Politics (equivalent to Assistant Professor,
tenure track) to coordinate and contribute to the teaching of Indian
History or Politics at undergraduate level. The successful candidate
will have a PhD along with demonstrated potential for high-level
research. Fluency in a modern language is expected and ideally the
successful candidate will commence the position in mind-2012.
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Contact: Dr McComas Taylor
Telephone: +61 2 6125 3179
Email: mccomas.taylor@anu.edu.au
To make an application, please go to
http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=2418
Website: http://chl.anu.edu.au/
Primary Category: Cultural History / Studies
Secondary Categories: South Asian History / Studies
Posting Date: 11/22/2011
Closing Date 01/16/2012
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