Graduate Student Research and Programming
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Programming:
Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference : No! Subjectivity and Agency in Muslim Rights/Rites of NegationFebruary 27-28
Duke University
Keynote Speaker: Kecia Ali, Boston University
Download the conference schedule/program
Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference Schedule (252 KB)
Visit the conference website for more information http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/disc/graduate/conference2010/ or contact Ali Mian at alimian@gmail.com.
Call for Papers:
7th Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, April 16-17 2010The Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the seventh annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference, to be held at the university on April 16th and 17th 2010.
We welcome contributions from graduate students of South Asia in the humanities and social sciences. The aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary venue for students to present original research. There is no overarching theme, but participants will be placed in panels organized thematically.
The following list, though not exhaustive, indicates fields in which we seek to form panels: material and textual approaches to the study of ancient and medieval India; religious discourses and communities; early-modern and colonial political cultures; the formation of modern literary sensibilities and writing practices; the practice of democracy in South Asia; histories of law and bureaucracy; medicine and healing practices; gender; and theatrical and cinematic traditions.
We are pleased to announce that the keynote address will be delivered by David Hardiman, Professor of History at the University of Warwick. The conference will also feature a lecture by Antoinette Burton, Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
We invite abstracts from graduate students at any stage of their career. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and should be emailed to chicagosouthasiaconference2010@gmail.com by January 15th 2010. We will inform students whether their papers have been selected by January 22nd and require that complete papers be submitted by participants for pre-circulation by March 15th. Participants will be given 20 minutes in which to present their papers. We will not consider proposals for panels.
For announcements, please visit the conference website, http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/sagsc-vii/. We will help find accommodation for participants who require it, and may be able to reimburse some expenses.
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Margins and Marginality: Pakistani State and Societies
7-9th May 2010, Rook Howe, the Lake District, ENGLAND
For more information email: PakistanWorkshop@gmail.com
The state and the margins are mutually imbricated. Recent scholarship has examined the margins of society as ‘the unruly subjects’, ‘the places where you find people who are insufficiently socialised into law’, ‘the spaces, forms and practices through which the state is undone and experienced through the illegibility of its own documents, words and practices’ (Das and Poole 2004:10); the concept of marginality helping to capture the local manifestations of the state in everyday life, in the form of law or bureaucracy to be submitted to or evaded. For 2010, the Pakistan Workshop warmly invites scholars of Pakistan, the Pakistani diaspora and Muslims of South Asia to submit abstracts for papers on the broad theme of marginality, providing an analytical focus on both the oppressive quality of exclusion, and also the generative, self-assertive potential of challenging the social categories that peripheralise people. We would particularly welcome papers examining marginalised regions of Pakistan as well as ethno-nationalist movements within Pakistan. The theme is intended as a guide to help participants select aspects of their research for presentation, but is not intended to exclude people whose interest does not coincide with the theme.
The Pakistan Workshop was founded to bring together anthropologists and sociologists whose research involved Pakistan, the Pakistani diaspora and South Asian Islam. However, this workshop has also attracted scholars and researchers from a broad range of disciplines including historians, political scientists, economists and applied social scientists. The Workshop is a joint platform for established and new scholars, providing an opportunity to get acquainted with each other to inspire people working in common fields of interest. We particularly welcome postgraduates from UK and abroad who are working in relevant areas and wish to receive friendly feedback from our group of academics.
This workshop is therefore normally kept small and intimate with a group of 25 or less people. The venue, Rook How, is one of the oldest Quaker Meeting Houses in Britain and is an important location in the Quaker world. The Rook How offers dormitory style sleeping arrangements which are comfortable and affordable. For those who prefer B&B accommodation, there are several nice places around the area which can only be accessed if they have their own car. The total cost of the Workshop will be £65-70 approximately for those staying at the Rook How (which includes Workshop registration, reception, breakfasts, lunches, teas and coffees).
The deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2010, after which the conference 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 of the participants.
In order to register please send a cheque for £30 payable to ‘Pakistan Workshop’ to the address below and send an email indicating whether you prefer to stay at the Rook How or to arrange separate accommodation. Alternatively, particularly for those travelling from abroad, you may register by making arrangements to pay on site at the workshop with the organizers (pakistanworkshop@gmail.com) and making clear your preference for accommodation.
Mwenza Blell
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building,
South Road,
Durham,
DH1 3LE