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CISAR Newsletter: November 25, 2019
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Time: 5
:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: C.K. Choi 120
Presenter: Mona Bhan
Co-sponsored by: Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster, UBC Himalaya Program, Science and Technology Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and CISAR.
Dr. Mona Bhan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, will analyze the relationship between dam building, border wars, and India's settler colonial politics in Kashmir, particularly in the aftermath of the removal of Articles 370 and 35A that maintained Kashmir's semi-autonomous status in the Indian union. Dr. Bhan will discuss how controlling vital Himalayan rivers fortifies Hindu reimaginings of Kashmiri territory while forcibly integrating the region into India's extractive economy.
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Time: 5
:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: C.K. Choi 120
Presenter: Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies and CISAR
We celebrate the 550th anniversary of Guru Nanak's birth by remembering his joyous aesthetics, with Professor Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh of Colby College, renowned scholar of Sikhism, feminist approaches to the study of Sikh tradition, and Punjabi literature. Join us!
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Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute is pleased to announce following programmes for the second round of the year 2019-20. The programmes seeking applications in this round are:
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Date:
November 21, 2019
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (PST)
Location: Online
Presenters: Charlotte Giles and Jonathan Loar
This webinar will be an introduction to the Library of Congress' South Asian Collection available through the Asian Reading Room. South Asian Librarians Charlotte Giles and Jonathan Loar will delve into South Asian materials in the Asian Division's General Collections, Rare Book Collection, Web Archiving Collections, Electronic Database Collections, and much more. This will also be an opportunity to share often overlooked, new, and newly digitized items that may be of use or interest to researchers on the region. We will follow up this webinar with a Q&A through the chat interface.
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Call for Papers: Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Symposium Date: March 26-27, 2020
Due Date: November 30, 2019
The organizing committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium welcomes abstract submissions to their tenth annual symposium.
Our aim is to provide an opportunity for graduate students based in various parts of the world and approaching the study of Islamicate thought and life across time and space through a multiplicity of disciplinary and methodological approaches to share their work with the Institute's faculty and students in an atmosphere of constructive and supportive criticism. We are pleased to invite graduate students at all stages of research and dissertation-writing related to Islam and Islamicate communities anywhere in the world (East Asia, South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East) to submit proposals for individual paper presentations.
Reflecting our department's primary research areas, the symposium's themes include but are not limited to:
- history, political science, and anthropology
- theology, philosophy, mysticism, and jurisprudence
- Urdu, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature
An abstract of 250-500 words and a one-page résumé should be sent electronically to [email protected] by November 30, 2019. Please include a tentative title for your paper and two or three keywords describing its regional and disciplinary focus, as well as your name, programme of study (MA, MPhil, or PhD), and departmental and institutional affiliation. Applicants will be notified of a decision by December 30, 2019. It may be possible to offer a limited number of grants (of not more than 200 CAD) to contribute towards participants' travel expenses. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any other queries.
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Due Date: January 31, 2020 at 12:00 AM
Applications are now being accepted for the Asian Division's 2020 Florence Tan Moeson fellowship, open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty at all levels, librarians, and independent scholars and researchers, to support a minimum of five business days of research in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.).
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Join the Canadian South Asian Studies Association (CSASA)
South Asianists from across Canada gathered last June at UBC, and decided together to establish a national scholarly association for faculty actively researching and teaching on South Asia-Canada and graduate students enrolled in related Canadian M.A. and Ph.D. programmes, to be known as the Canadian South Asian Studies Association (CSASA) as a non-profit member affiliated with the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ideally, we hope to have some kind of CSASA presence at the next
Congress (2020), at Western University.
As a first step, all graduate students, faculty members, and researchers with research interests in South Asia are invited to join CSASA-L, a newly created listserv hosted at Athabasca University, where subscribers can share professionally relevant information related to teaching, research, resources, and events on South Asia-Canada. If you would like to join, please read the
listserv rules and enter your
subscription details.
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Student Directed Seminar
*Register for this Term 2 Class*
Facilitators: Suyesha Dutta and Morgan Khan
Supervisor: Dr. Anne Murphy
Course Title: ASIA 476Z 001 and HIST 390A
When: Term 2
Days: Tuesday/Thursday
Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm
Room: IKB 191
Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies have been important in critiquing the nation and its citizens. These have also helped critique the nationalist project that drives the Indian state. In this course, we will critically read and compare approaches based on the changing nature of subaltern studies, socio-economic and socio-cultural identity formation, and the way dissent manifests itself in India. While there are a number of classes dealing with the history of pre-independence India, there is a marked absence of classes dealing with the history of India post-partition. Abandoning the narrative at this time of deep divide needs to be rectified, and thus allowing students to explore the history and politics that resulted from the scars rendered by the Partition. It also enables students to engage with, and garner a deeper understanding, of the long reaching effects of colonialism, as they play out in the modern history of a post-colonial geography. We hope that this class will fill the gap speaking to the modern history of the Indian subcontinent.
Readings will draw on historiography, social theory, political economy, colonial and postcolonial studies, ethnography, and governance. Course material will be largely key secondary material although this will be supplemented with some primary material. The course is organised thematically rather than strictly chronologically, so that students will find it an advantage to have some awareness of the general history of colonial and post-colonial India. Evaluation will be based on class participation, a presentation of weekly readings (done once or twice through the semester), a final research project proposal (peer-graded), and its presentation thereafter.
This course does not require a prerequisite, but requires a submission of an expression of interest. Please send a statement of interest in about 500 words to
[email protected], briefly expressing your interest in the course and how you would be able to contribute to this seminar. The course is appropriate for students across every region and/or discipline.
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We've compiled a list of courses for Winter 2019/2020 with South Asia content. You can checkout the list
here.
If you're a UBC faculty member teaching a course with content pertaining to South Asia, feel free to contact us to list it on the CISAR website.
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Our 2018-2019 Annual Report is ready! Take a look at last year's events and activities, with special new highlights on South Asia-related programs across UBC -- and learn more about CISAR's work.
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