[INDOLOGY] extended deadline, 2nd Biennial University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference on South Asian Religions
christoph.emmrich at utoronto.ca
christoph.emmrich at utoronto.ca
Thu Aug 29 18:37:02 UTC 2013
Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the organizers Arun Brahmbhatt and Eric Steinschneider, I
would like to draw your attention to the extended deadline of
September 15, 2013 for paper proposals to participate in the 2nd
Biennial University of Toronto Graduate Student Conference on South
Asian Religions.
Please distribute this call widely. Apologies for cross-posting.
Warm regards,
Christoph Emmrich
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2nd Biennial University of Toronto Graduate Student
Conference on South Asian Religions:
The Methods of Memory
November 1-2, 2013
We extend a cordial call to graduate students for papers exploring the
nature, scope, and practice of memory in South Asian religious
traditions.
While memory is often popularly conceived as the act of recollection
or as a mental storage space, recent theorizations encourage a much
more diverse and dynamic understanding of memory and its role in
cultural phenomena. Scholars of South Asia in particular, including
Christian Lee Novetzke, Prachi Deshpande and Ramya Sreenivasan, have
highlighted memory?s role in the formation of public spheres, the
emergence of regional identities, and the authorizing of particular
discourses about the past. This conference seeks to continue and
expand this ongoing conversation on memory with respect to a wide
range of South Asian religious phenomena including, but not limited
to, the engagement with sacred texts, the creation and veneration of
sacred figures and places, the design and performance of rituals, and
the projection and transmission of visualized and embodied aesthetic
forms.
In doing so, we hope to raise questions such as the following:
What is memory, or rather, when is memory, and how and at which
temporal junctures is it evoked in South Asian religious traditions?
How are memories transmitted and enacted, performed and deployed,
encouraged and suppressed? How reliable are these archives?
What role does remembering ? or forgetting ? play in the construction
of identities and in the negotiation of sacred time and space?
How is the past imagined and realized through memory, and what part
does memory play in the envisioning of competing futures?
What is the role of memory in historiography and what are the
opportunities memory offers for an alternative understanding of history?
How useful is memory as an analytic category in the study of South
Asian religious traditions?
Proposals broadly addressing themes such as these are welcomed from
graduate students engaged in original research in any field related to
the study of South Asian religious traditions (e.g. Religion,
Philosophy, Anthropology, History, Art History, Sociology, South Asian
Studies, Diaspora and Transnational Studies, Women and Gender Studies,
Linguistics, etc.). This conference will offer a congenial platform
for graduate students to present, discuss, and receive feedback on
their work from both their peers and faculty in related disciplines.
It gives us great pleasure to announce that Vasudha Dalmia, Chandrika
and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Hindu Studies at Yale University, will
be delivering the conference?s keynote address.
Proposals of no more than 300 words, a list of five keywords, and a CV
should be sent to TorontoCSAR at gmail.com by September 15, 2013. For
further enquiries, please contact arun.brahmbhatt at mail.utoronto.ca or
eric.steinschneider at mail.utoronto.ca.
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Christoph Emmrich
Associate Professor, Buddhist Studies
Chair, Numata Program UofT/McMaster
University of Toronto, UTM
http://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/faculty/christoph-emmrich/
Department of Historical Studies
University of Toronto, Mississauga
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