Dear Indology list members,

Apologies for cross-posting.

Please find below our call for papers for the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions 2021.

Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions

Call for papers: 2021 Symposium

We invite proposals for papers for the 46th Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, which will be held online, on 23-25 April 2021. Our purview includes both religions of South Asian origin wherever in the world they are being practised, and those of non- South Asian origin present within South Asia. We welcome papers based upon all research methods, including textual, historical, ethnographic, sociological and philosophical.

Presenters are allocated forty minutes for their paper and twenty minutes for discussion. There is no conference fee, but all presenters and attendees must register. Registration details will be released in the new year. We also welcome proposals from doctoral students, who will be allocated twenty minutes for their paper and ten minutes for discussion.

We are delighted to announce our keynote speakers:

Dr Jacqueline Suthren Hirst, who recently retired from Manchester University, UK
Prof. Oliver Freiberger of the University of Texas at Austin, USA

If you would like to give a presentation, please send a title and abstract (maximum 500 words) to the Spalding Symposium committee: spaldingsymposium1@gmail.com, by 22 January 2021.

Further information about the Symposium can be found on our website, https://spaldingsymposium.org, where you can also sign up to receive details of the programme and booking information when available.

For further enquiries please feel free to contact any of us directly or on the Spalding Symposium email address listed above.

Best wishes,

Kush on behalf of the organising committee

The Spalding Symposium organising committee

Dr Avni Chag (a.chag@soas.ac.uk), Dr Karen O'Brien-Kop (Karen.OBrien-Kop@roehampton.ac.uk), Dr Brian Black (b.black@lancaster.ac.uk), and Kush Depala (kush.depala@stud.uni-heidelberg.de).