Fw: H-ASIA: CFP 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conf, New York City, March 25-26, 2011

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From: "Frank Conlon" <conlon@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conf, New York City,
March 25-26, 2011

> H-ASIA
> January 25, 2011
>
> Call for papers: "Sri Lanka: Remaking Society?" 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate
> Student Conference, New York City, March 25-26, 2011
> DEADLINE FEBRUARY 14, 2011
> (courtesy Charles Hallisey)
> ************************************************************************
> From: Charles Hallisey <cshallisey@gmail.com>
>
> Graduate students working on any academic approach to the study of
> religion
> in Sri Lanka are invited to the second Sri Lanka Graduate Student
> Conference
> to be sponsored by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and
> described below. For more information about the American Institute for
> Sri
> Lankan Studies, including fellowship programs and other resources for
> graduate students, see:
>
> http://www.aisls.org/
>
> "Sri Lanka: Remaking Society"
>
> 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference
>
> The 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be on March 25th and 26th at
> the India-China Institute, the New School for Social Research, New York
> and funded by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies. As with the
> highly successful first Graduate Conference in April 2010, this workshop
> will bring together graduate students both in the final writing up stage
> and pre-research/planning stages from a variety of disciplines and
> institutions.
>
> In 2011 we will look at Sri Lanka's (contemporary and historical)
> variegated social formations and their processes, flux, renewals, and
> aphasias. We particularly welcome panel proposals focusing on the
> following broad themes:
> family, marriage, and kinship; civil society actors and institutions;
> notions of the civic and/or the public in Sri Lanka; intersections of
> gender, caste, class; aesthetics and aesthetic production; ecology and
> environment; displacement, resettlement and return; citizenship and/or
> transnational communities; reconciliation; youth, generation, and youth
> cultures; education, law, religion (or intersections between).
>
> The workshop aims to enhance intellectual exchange on Sri Lanka, emphasize
> the production of empirical and non sectarian knowledge, focus attention
> on
> recent potential transformation of key concepts, and strengthen and build
> a
> new cohort of researchers (and research) across disciplines and
> institutions
> as well as strengthen relationships between American graduate students and
> local intellectual circles in Sri Lanka. The workshop takes place over 2
> days. The first day will be open to the public and comprise of three
> student
> panels. The second day will be two private sessions, a small closed
> pre-dissertation development seminar for selected participants (see below
> for details), and a roundtable discussion for all participants. The
> pre-dissertation development seminar is to assist graduate students in
> developing their research projects. This will be a closed session for 6
> participants. Students in Masters and PhD programs across the humanities
> and
> social sciences are encouraged to apply. You can find this information
> also
> at https://sites.google.com/site/srilankagraduateconference/home
> We would like to invite paper presenters as well as graduate students who
> wish to participate without giving a paper. Please send emails with "Sri
> Lanka Graduate Student Workshop" in the subject line. *Panel proposals and
> single papers proposals are due on February 14th.*
>
> Those interested in the Pre-dissertation Development Seminar should email
> a 300 word explanation of your interests and why you would like to
> participate for the same dates. Please send all emails to Sharika
> Thiranagama (thiranas@newschool.edu), Mark Balmforth
> (markusiusgotm@hotmail.com) and Mariyahl Hoole (mmh2192@columbia.edu )
> cc'ing everyone in your emails. Those who wish to *participate in the
> conference without presenting* must send expressions of their interest by
> *February 21st.
>
> *We have some limited funding for travel from outside the New York area,
> please let us know if you are unable to access departmental funding by
> *February 14th*. Places are limited so please apply soon.
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