South Asia Graduate Student Conference @University of Chicago, USA [March 8-9]: Submit by Jan 4

28 Nov 2018

Categories: Call for Papers International Opportunities

The organizing committee of the South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago is delighted to announce the sixteenth annual conference to be held on March 8-9, 2019 on the theme, “South Asia: The Political, the Public, the Popular.”. Papers are invited from students at all levels to explore these categories in contemporary and historical South Asia.

This year’s conference will take place a month before the general election in India and the wake of major elections in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, posing the timely question of how democratic processes engage in and shape political life, the public sphere and popular culture.

Call for papers

Papers are invited on topics such as:

Institutions, elections, and political representation
Politics of public sphere in everyday life
Censorship and regulation of popular culture
Mass communication and political mobilization
Religion and the politics of populism
Mass culture and art forms in the public sphere
Cinema, politics, and movie-going publics
Gender, caste, minorities and subaltern counterpublics
Environmentalism in popular culture
South Asia and the global public sphere
Theorizations of “the political” in South Asia
Graduate students at any level and any stage of research are encouraged to apply. Past conferences have accepted papers from diverse fields such as cinema and media studies, history, political science, literature, environmental studies, religious studies, art history, sciences studies, philosophy, anthropology, and sound and visual studies, but we welcome all disciplinary approaches and methodologies.