History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference

John Douglas Taylor Conference, April 29-30, 2016

Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton

Organizers: Chandrima Chakraborty, Nisha Eswaran, Sharifa Patel and Sarah Wahab

 329 people, mostly Indo-Canadians, died in the June 23rd 1985 bombing of…[Read more]

Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia 

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

The editors of a forthcoming special issue of Postcolonial Text—to be dedicated to the memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam—would like to remind scholars that papers are gratefully accepted until June 15, 2015.

To date, we have recei…[Read more]

We invite proposals for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Anglophone South Asian Women’s Writing, edited by Deepika  Bahri and Filippo Menozzi.

This volume seeks meaningful responses to the following questions: What do we teach when we teach South Asian Women’s Writing? How do we teach it in a variety of cont…[Read more]

Special Issue for Postcolonial Text

CFP: Translated Worlds: History, Diaspora, South Asia

(In Honour and Memory of Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam)

In honour of a dear mentor, teacher, and scholar–Professor Chelva Kanaganayakam–who recently passed away, we (former students of Prof. Kanaganayakam’s) will be editing and compiling a fo…[Read more]

Please see cfps for 2 panels, and consider submitting an abstract. Thanks!

Transnational Memories: 9/11 and South Asians (Guaranteed panel)

Papers that engage with racial injury, anger, trauma, and grief of South Asians in post-9/11 US, Canada, and Britain; representations of 9/11 in fiction, cinema, memoirs, etc. produced in South Asia and in…[Read more]

Please join us for our MLA Panel tomorrow:
678. Politics of Difference and Poetics of Reconciliation
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, VCC East

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on South Asian Languages and Literatures

Presiding: Masood Raja, Univ. of North Texas

1. “Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adilzada’s Baazigar,” Masood R…[Read more]

We held our annual Executive committee meeting yesterday and will soon share the news about new members for the next five year term.

Meanwhile, please do post your comments and suggestions to this forum so that we can make this into a viable place to generate ideas and to increase the visibility of our group.

Salmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to expand under…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,
As some of you may know, John Hawley and I are putting together a volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Amitav Ghosh. We have received a number of excellent proposals but are interested in a contribution from someone who teaches Ghosh’s works in a creative writing workshop. If you or anyone you know does so, I would be m…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

Cities are sites of profound paradoxes, and this is currently nowhere more apparent than in South Asia where they simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. We argue that South Asian cities operate as what Rashmi Verma in her analysis of…[Read more]

How do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will hold its general meeting today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G.  Please join us if you can.