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Fw: H-ASIA: CFP: 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference (25-26 March)

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP: 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference (25-26
March)


H-ASIA
Jan 25 2011

CFP: 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference (25-26 March)
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From: John Rogers <rogersjohnd@aol.com>

From John Rogers (American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies)

Please note the Call for Papers for the next Sri Lanka Graduate
Student Workshop to which all are welcome to attend with prior
notification (students and faculty). There is no registration fee.

"Sri Lanka: Remaking Society"
2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Student Conference
The 2011 Sri Lanka Graduate Conference will be onMarch 25th and 26th
at the India- China Institute, the New School for Social Research, New
York and funded by the American Institutefor 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 SriLanka,
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 placeover 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), MarkBalmforth
(markusiusgotm@hotmail.com
) and Mariyahl Hoole(mmh2192@columbia.edu ) cc'ing everyone in your
emails. Thosewho wish to participate in theconference without
presenting must send expressions of their interest by February 21st.
We have somelimited 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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