13th Humanities & Social Sciences Conference: Critical Interventions: Mapping Emerging Scholarship On South Asia
13th Humanities & Social Sciences Conference: Critical Interventions: Mapping Emerging Scholarship On South Asia
13th Humanities & Social Sciences Conference: Critical Interventions: Mapping Emerging Scholarship On South Asia
By showcasing emerging scholarship on the region, this conference will work to challenge,
resituate, and rename existing categories that essentialize South Asia given that “category
creation itself is an act of power” (Cornwall and Lindisfame 2011). The conference will also
enable scholars to generate newer critical paradigms to think through the “more complex and
controversial…transformations of contemporary South Asia” (Bose 2003). In doing so, the
conference will aim to dismantle reductive conceptions about South Asia, generate
multidisciplinary knowledge(s) about the region, and enable academics to form transnational
epistemic networks.
To this end, we invite paper and panel proposals based on research on India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and the South Asian Diaspora.
Papers and panels may engage with the following themes, but need not be limited to them:
- War, conflict and regional (in)stability
- Arts, literature, film and cultural construction
- History, coloniality and hierarchy
- City, neoliberal modernity and citizenship
- Challenging dominant governance paradigms
- Ethnicity, class and social stratification
- Continuity and contestations of gender
- Environment, natural resource management and precarity
- Religion, secularity and ideology
- States and revolutions
- Education, autonomy and reform
- Narratives of nationhood and subject formation
- Indigenous resistance and strategies of survival
We welcome both individual paper and panel submissions. Individual paper submissions must
include a 300 word abstract, paper title, and a two-page resume.
Panel proposal submissions must include a 300 word panel abstract. In addition, please provide
paper titles, abstracts (300 words), names, affiliations, and contact information for each
participant of the panel.
There will be limited funding available for accommodation and travel expenses, so we encourage
participants to seek funding from their home institutions. If you have any questions, please write
to us at hssconf2019@lums.edu.pk