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Princeton South Asia Conference - Call for Abstracts

The Sixth Annual Princeton South Asia Conference 'Space and Sovereignty in South Asia' will be held on April 21-22, 2017 at Princeton University, NJ. Interested candidates should submit proposals at https://goo.gl/1YZ25H by January 5, 2016.

This conference aims to bring together early career scholars (advanced graduate students and junior faculty) across disciplines that engage with South  Asia. In keeping with the theme of the conference, the conference invites papers that engage with South Asia in a broad sense, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Nepal, the Maldives, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar or Burma, India, and transnational and diasporic spaces.

Papers might address these and other themes:
● migration and diaspora
● questions of “home” and “belonging”
● international governance and organizations
● the commons
● law, state, and space
● the “borderland” and the frontier
● practices of cartography
● the ocean as non-state space
● corporations, capital, and development

The event will be held on April 21-22, 2017 in Princeton, NJ. For more details please visit https://southasiaworkshop.wordpress.com/. Questions can be directed to: princeton.sas2017@gmail.com.

Princeton University will provide participants with accommodation for two nights and will contribute toward travel expenses. Participants are encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions as well.

Proposals should include a title, a 250-word abstract, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Please submit proposals at https://goo.gl/1YZ25Hby January 5, 2017.

 

Submitted by Aastha Ranabhat on Tue, 11/22/2016 - 1:03pm
Link: 
https://southasiaworkshop.wordpress.com/
Date: 
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 - 1:00pm to Thursday, January 5, 2017 - 5:00pm
Attachments: 
PDF icon CFP - Princeton South Asia Conference.pdf