03 Sep 2007

20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), Jul 2008
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Self-description: "[T]he 20th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS), [is] to be held in Manchester from 8-11 July 2008. The ECMSAS is the largest gathering of South Asia oriented researchers in Europe, covering all fields from the humanities and social sciences to technology, natural sciences and medicine. The conference is held biannually under the aegis of the European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS) [www.easas.org], a professional, non-profit organisation of scholars engaged in research and teaching concerning South Asia with regard to all periods and fields of study. The objectives of EASAS are to support and promote South Asian Studies in all countries of Europe."
Site contents: Panel # 01: Visual Cultures in South Asia; # 02: Art History after Independence: South Asian Reconfigurations; # 03: Colonised Antiquity: Archaeology and South Asia's Material Past; # 04: Slavery and the Raj: Representing unfree labour in colonial South Asia; # 05: Gender and Performance in Princely India: New Perspectives; # 06: Indian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges; # 07: The Political Economy of Bangladesh; # 08: National parks & Landscapes of Resistance in South Asia; # 09: Bengal Studies; # 10: Gender and Party Politics in South Asia; # 11: Disease, possession and healing in South Asia; # 12: Hagiographies: Topics, Canonization and Interculturality; # 13: History and the South Asian Novel written in English; # 14: Darbar, daftar, khanqah, math; # 15: Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World; # 16: Religion, Literature and Film in South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora; # 17: Censorship, Subjectivity, and Subversion: Cultural Regulation in India from the Colonial Era to the Present; # 18: Writing The Social: Popular Literary Traditions in South Asia; # 19: The concept of continuity and its relevance for Indian literary culture; # 20: Medialised Realities in South Asia; # 21: Sri Lanka; # 22: Karnataka Studies: Fragmented Polity, Its Formation, Legitimization and Upward Mobility of Backward Classes in South India -- A Special Reference Karnataka (1650-- 1761); # 23: Crime and Punishment in South Asia; # 24: Migration in South Asia: Causes, Patterns and Consequences; # 25: Legal pluralism and tribal politics in South Asia; # 26: The Kerala Model: Trajectories in Transition; # 27: Routes and Roots of Democracy in the Himalayas; # 28: Social exclusion, social legislation and religious freedom: the relevance of Ambedkar in India, then and now; # 29: Political Economy of Federalism in India: state, society and local elites; # 30: Religion and Governance in India; # 31: Citizenship and education in South Asia; # 32: Vegetarianisms: the communicative power of meat in South Asia; # 33: The Public Representation of a religion called Hinduism: Temple Building and Public Worship; # 34: Re-use: The Art and Politics of Integration and Anxiety; # 35: Lived Islam in Contemporary South Asia; # 36: Christians, Cultural Interactions, and South Asia's Religious Traditions; # 37: South Asian Transnational Families and Negotiated Relationships; # 38: Management of Development Projects in South Asian Countries; # 38: Writing the Cities of the South Asian Diaspora; # 40: Does Decentralisation Necessarily Imply Pro-poor Service Delivery: Issues in The Context of Developing Economies.
URL http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/ecmsas/
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