[INDOLOGY] British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025: Call for Abstracts

[Bihani Sarkar]

Please note a correction:

*For conference-related queries, please email lancasterBASAS2025 at gmail.com
<southasiacollective at lancaster.ac.uk>*

On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 8:54 AM Bihani Sarkar <bihanisarkar at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> As organizers of the 2025 British Association of South Asian Studies
> (BASAS) Annual Conference, Prof. Deborah Sutton and I are pleased to
> announce that abstracts are invited to this year's conference to be held at *Lancaster
> University, UK,* from 10 to 12 September 2025.
>
> The conference will showcase pioneering scholarship on South Asia from the
> Subcontinent and across the world. This will be an interdisciplinary
> conference, bringing together expertise from across the arts, humanities
> and social sciences.
>
> We particularly encourage contributions from scholars working on regions
> from the subcontinent outside India. We are also keen to promote
> scholarship on the pre-modern study of histories, languages and cultures of
> South Asia.
>
> We are happy to accept submissions for thematic, inter-disciplinary panels
> (of a maximum of four papers) and individual submissions.
>
> Abstracts should be of no more than 300 words. Panel submissions should
> include a brief (100 words max) overview of the panel’s theme. Abstracts
> must include: contributor(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), paper title(s) and
> contact email address(es). *Submit abstracts and panel proposals via this
> form
> <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-Gscp3KgDgidlwhJ4IfBPK-KTVt7lTfsSUR7VGhkFgA/viewform?pli=1&pli=1&edit_requested=true>.*
>
> The deadline for submission of abstracts is *15 April 2025.*
>
> *Please note that the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference is a members-only event*.
> If you are not currently a BASAS member, you can join BASAS now
> <https://www.basas.org.uk/become-a-member/>.
>
> A limited number of bursaries will be available and will be advertised on
> the *conference website * (*here:
> https://www.basas.org.uk/news-events/basas-conference-2025/
> <https://www.basas.org.uk/news-events/basas-conference-2025/>*) in due
> course.
>
> For conference-related queries, please email
> *southasiacollective at lancaster.ac.uk <southasiacollective at lancaster.ac.uk>*
>
>
> With best wishe
>
> Bihani Sarkar MA M.Phil D.Phil (Oxon.) FRHistS, FHEA,
>
> Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Non-Western Thought,
>
> Programme Director: *Global Religions*
>
> Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion,
>
> Lancaster University.
>
> For a full list of publications see: *Bihani Sarkar - Lancaster
> University <https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/ppr/people/bihani-sarkar>*
>
>
> *Books:*
> *Heroic Shaktism: the Cult of Durga in Ancient Indian Kingship (OUP 2017):
> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fbritish-academy-scholarship-online%2Fbook%2F35815&data=05%7C02%7Cb.sarkar1%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca73198f9f5be490679e708dc8acbb83c%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C638537854775951041%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=%2FZ7Ek8ww3Etn2FYh15M5SfjKyqhLSNMsA84xNRn0nSk%3D&reserved=0>*
> *Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: the Concept of Pathos and Suffering in
> Medieval India
> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloomsbury.com%2Fuk%2Fclassical-sanskrit-tragedy-9781788311113%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cb.sarkar1%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca73198f9f5be490679e708dc8acbb83c%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C638537854775959159%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=a78JbxRi0L31ITAN8V8VrXg%2BI1txgFeODMixUQOWDjY%3D&reserved=0> (Bloomsbury
> Academic, 2021)*
>
> *Latest Journal Article (peer-reviewed): The Politics of Memory:
> Tradition, Decolonization and Challenging Hindutva, a Reflective Essay
> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F2077-1444%2F15%2F5%2F564&data=05%7C02%7Cb.sarkar1%40lancaster.ac.uk%7Ca73198f9f5be490679e708dc8acbb83c%7C9c9bcd11977a4e9ca9a0bc734090164a%7C0%7C0%7C638537854775965607%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=EZTvKJlwSPH5hwjHCsn32ks8hYGZi3E1vMqE0q7iYGE%3D&reserved=0> (*
> *Religions* *2024**, **15**(5), 564)*
>
>
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