South Asian History / Studies

Over the past several decades, scholarship has challenged the traditional association between monarchies and pre-modern politics. Works by Takashi Fujitani and Maurizio Peleggi, for example, have explored some of the ways in which Asian monarchies responded to global changes and refashioned imperial authority for the modern era. This panel intends to build on these foundational works to explore the relationship between monarchies, imperial authority, and the development of modern nation-states in Asia.

Scholarship code: 2018-126

About the Project

Are you interested in studying rapidly changing Indian cities? Would you like to explore the lives of migrant workers who build and maintain cities and their relationships to the urban environment? How do urban planning and real estate developments reshape migrant lives? Do they redefine relationships with essential resources like water and air?

The ever-growing distribution of Bollywood films worldwide, and in Europe, brings into focus the translational practices of dubbing and subtitling as crucial elements that affect the reception of this cinema abroad, as well as the role they play as cultural filters of one culture to another.

In partnership with the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce the 11th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age:

IIluminations: Manuscript, Medium, Message

November 15–17, 2018

Any interested members are encouraged to apply to this seminar for the American Comparative Litreature Association's annual meeting. 

To apply to this panel, please submit your abstract at the following URL: https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper?destination=/destiny-and-decolonizat...

The deadline for submission is 9 a.m., EST, September 19th.

Seminar Title: Destiny and Decolonization: Literature in the Time of Nehru

DGA Conference on Contemporary Asia

Asia: Global Challenges, Regional Conflicts, and National Logics

Würzburg, April 3-5, 2019

The Executive Committee of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be presented at the 2019 Asian Studies Conference Japan. The conference will be held on June 29th and 30th, at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University. All presentations are to be delivered in English.

Proposals may be submitted online beginning on September 15, 2018. The deadline for proposals is October 15. Results will be announced by late December.

Cfp: Panel on Museums and heritage politics in Contemporary South Asia

for DGA Conference on Contemporary Asia, Wurzburg, Germany, 3-5 April 2019

Panel organised by: Kanika Singh, Ashoka University

Paper submission@ http://dga-conference.de/call-for-papers/029sa/

Delhi Council on Historical Research (DCHR) (New Delhi) is delighted to announce the occasion of a one day National seminar on Indian History, dated on 27th October, 2018. DCHR is a body under Centre for Study and Research (CSR), and the latter is operated by a trust based in Hyderabad.

ROUNDTABLE PROPOSAL The Bay of Bengal – Perspectives across the Disciplines