CFP: First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies (CGIS 2024)

 The First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies is now accepting proposal submissions until June 15th, 2024! Visit the Call for Proposals page on our website to learn more. 

Conference description: Throughout the world, ethnic minorities and Indigenous people have strived to protect their rich heritages and linguistic characteristics against colonial powers, expanding nation-states, as well as the homogenizing forces of globalization. It is increasingly being recognized, exemplified by UNITED NATIONS' “Indigenous Languages Decade” (2022-2032) (https://en.unesco.org/idil2022-2032), that Indigenous languages and the epistemologies embedded in them are fundamental for the perseverance of biological and cultural diversities. The protection and promotion of linguistic diversity help to improve the human potential, agency, and local governance of native speakers of endangered languages, which is especially critical in the face of climate change and environmental degradation. 

The First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies (CGIS 2024) is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary event that will bring together national and international scholars, educators, practitioners, students, policy makers, activists, academic institutions, Indigenous organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations. The participants in this conference will be involved in a local and global dialogue and exchange of ideas, research, and experiences on the themes of the event.

Contact Email :  hlsindig@iu.edu

URL : https://indigenous.indiana.edu/conference/

Attachments: CGIS 2024 Call for Proposals PDF

CFP: A Two-Day National Seminar on History of #Translation of #Tribal #Literature in India March 21-22, 2024-Department of #Comparative #Indian #Language and Literature, #University of Calcutta

Concept Note

Indian literature as a site is multi-ethnic and therefore a curious space for comparison. The literary studies in India is mostly dominated with a limited number of selected texts repeated from similar sets of languages and cultures. The understanding of margin in literary practices inside the discipline is also repetitive. Therefore, Indian academia needs continuous expansion of literary horizons by reading, translating and discussing new literary texts from various languages. Universities and literary disciplines need to talk about literature beyond their narrow linguistic responsibility towards a single language and imposed borders among literary areas. More and more collective initiatives of public funded translation workshops, writing workshops and seminars are needed to create interactive spaces among various literatures produced in different languages.

Literature represents the very pulse of a nation by resonating its social, political and economic history, its ethnographic identity as well as its ecological realities and therefore presenting a wholesome view of life and beyond. In the context of India, the representation of Indian life/literature would be incomplete if we do not include Tribal literature along with ‘mainstream’ literature because Tribal life/literature constitutes the soul of India’s plurilingual-pluricultural existence. A large corpus of Tribal literature (mostly existing in oral forms) remain unrecorded and those recorded/documented/written mostly remain unexplored and inaccessible due to lack of propagation. In such a circumstance, translation of this body of Tribal literature becomes not only the most inevitable way of dissemination but also an effective means of proclamation of tribal life, assertion of self-identity and testimony of resistance because translation, besides being a mode of lingual proliferation, has always emerged as an instrument of claiming rights and questioning discriminations.

This seminar, therefore, primarily focuses on the history of translation of Tribal literatures in India (into English or other Bhashas or vice-versa), enquiring into the politics/nature of translation, the necessities, quantitative and qualitative analysis of such translations and instigating further discussions on other relevant aspects. We invite papers on translation of any Tribal/Adivasi literature from any part of India and the languages are not limited only to the scheduled languages but we encourage papers on the literature of non-scheduled Tribal languages as well.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts within 300 words along with a title, 3/4 keywords, contact details and affiliation are invited from interested faculty members/scholars/students latest by 18th February 2024. Abstracts (in Bengali/ English) are to be submitted to this following Google Form link.

https://forms.gle/yWwCNWSUyVcMnSwUA

The papers may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

Themes/ Sub-themes:

History of Translation between Tribal languages

History of translation between Tribal and Non-Tribal languages

Politics of translation of marginal literatures

English and Translation of Tribal literature

Publishing houses and Tribal literature

Little magazine and Tribal literature

Tribal literature as Comparative Literature

Cultural Activism and Tribal Literature and Translation

Multilingualism, Education and Tribal literature

Process, Problem and Possibilities of Translation of Tribal literature

Oral/ Performative text to written text and translation

Note: 

Intimation of Acceptance of paper by 20th February 2024

Registration fees: Faculty Members-1000/-; Research Scholars-500/-; Students-300/-

No provision of TA/DA/Accommodation for paper presenters/participants.

A post seminar volume may be published either in a book form or as a journal special issue (UGC-CARE/SCOPUS Indexed Journal).

Convenors: Dr. Mrinmoy Pramanick, Head & Assistant Professor, Dept. of CILL, C.U.

Dr. Dipanwita Mondal, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CILL, C.U.

For queries related to seminar:

Shreya Datta (PhD Scholar,CILL)--+919836984536

Avijit Halder (PhD Scholar,CILL)--+919875368108

Nilanjan Mishra (PhD Scholar,CILL)--+917003804524

Contact Information

Dr. Mrinmoy Pramanick, Head & Assistant Professor, Dept. of CILL, C.U.

Dr. Dipanwita Mondal, Assistant Professor, Dept. of CILL, C.U.

https://www.caluniv.ac.in/seminar/seminar.html

Contact Email

cill.cu2005@gmail.com

URL

https://forms.gle/yWwCNWSUyVcMnSwUA

Call for Papers - Indian #Folklife Journal - ‘#Translating #Texts, Translating #Cultures’-#Indian #Folklife a Quarterly quasi-research #Journal-June 2024

 “Translation is the performative nature of cultural communication” (Homi Bhabha )

The process of translation and the interpretation of any given text are intimately intertwined with the notion of culture. In the past two to three decades, translation has undergone a notable transformation, emerging as a more creative and noticeably active discipline. Translations go beyond mere translation of words and sentence structures; they encapsulate ideologies, values, and ways of life specific to a particular culture. In traditional discussions on translation, the challenges, often labeled as "culture-specific," centre around crucial elements that pose intricate difficulties in conveying them with precision.

Literary translation stands out as a primary means of communication across cultures. It is imperative to acknowledge that literary texts are essentially cultural constructs, where language functions as the medium for cultural expression. Literary texts as such exhibit numerous linguistic nuances, along with reflections of social and cultural aspects of our lives. The translation of a literary text is thus no longer a mere exchange between two languages but a nuanced negotiation between two distinct cultures. The ability of culture to engage in translation is therefore a crucial aspect to be considered at this point. Cultural dynamics predominantly operate through translational activities as the incorporation of new texts is essential for cultural innovation and the recognition of its distinctiveness.  

Translation is a process for folklore ethnographic research as well. The translation of folk literature necessitates an exploration into the thought processes of the narrator, the translator, and the reader. More so in the native contexts. Clearly, these considerations merit discussion within the context of translating both texts and cultures. There appears to be an imminent need to safeguard and reserve a modest space for the translations of folk literature and folklore ethnography in this postcolonial-postmodernist era, where constant innovation arises through the lens of cultural translation. In the new century, there exists an increased understanding of the cultural significance of translated texts, especially on folk literature and folklore ethnography, in relation to their influence on the identity of the receiving culture.

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Indian Folklife a Quarterly quasi-research Journal [https://indianfolklore.org/index.php/if] invites original, unpublished research/reflective papers for the forthcoming issue (June 2024). The theme for the papers is on ‘Translating Text, Translating culture’ within the context of folklife in general. The word limit for the papers is 1500-2000. 

Contributions in English should be submitted in MSWord (.docx or.doc) to 

jocicausa@gmail.com [Dr JP Rajendran- Special Editor] 

and 

muthu@indianfolklore.org 

[CC to Dr MD Muthukumaraswamy - Director, NFSC] on or before 31st March 2024. Indian Folklife follows the latest MLA Stylesheet. For article submissions, please follow the guidelines in the website. https://indianfolklore.org/index.php/if/about/submissions 

Contact Information

National Folklore Support Centre (NFSC), having its address at #508, Fifth Floor, Kaveri complex, 96, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai- 600034 Tamilnadu India. NFSC is a non governmental, non-profit organisation, registered in Chennai, dedicated to the promotion of Indian Folklore, research, education, training, networking and publications.

Contact Email

jocicausa@gmail.com

URL

https://indianfolklore.org/index.php/if/about

Attachments

Call for papers - Indian Folklife

CFP: International Conference on #Postcolonial Studies: "#Trajectories and #Transitions of (Post)#colonialism" London CIR-Aug 2024

The conference will explore the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies and it will focus on the impact colonialism had on political, social, economic and cultural domains. It will examine various forms of colonial domination and control as well as theories and practices of resistance.

Recognising the important role of postcolonial thought and scholarship, the conference will consider colonial discourses prevalent in different parts of the world. It will look at the complexities of colonial and postcolonial subjects and identities and analyse ideologies of racial, cultural, class and gender difference. Colonial trauma and psychosocial effects of colonial domination will be discussed, as well as the concepts of authenticity, ambivalence and hybridity.

The conference sessions will also address the questions of human rights, environment, neocolonialism and techno-capitalism, to name just a few.

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₹4,042.00

Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

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Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

History and ideologies of colonialism

Capitalism and imperialism

Colonial and anticolonial discourses

Anti-colonial movements and theories of resistance

Nation and nationalism

(Post)colonialism and race

(Post)colonialism and language

(Post)colonialism and gender

(Post)colonialism and education

(Post)colonialism and religion

Globalisation and postcolonialism

Postcolonial subjects and identities

Colonial trauma

Postmodernism and postcolonialism

Diaspora, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism

Postcolonialism and culinary studies

Postcolonialism and human rights

Indigenous studies

Postcolonial spatialities, memory and remembrance

(Post)colonialism and the environment

(Neo)colonialism and techno-capitalism

Decolonisation of knowledge

Pandemic and Postcolonialism

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we invite speakers who work in literary studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, sociology, law, economics, IT and other disciplines.

Submissions may propose various formats, including:

Individually submitted papers (organised into panels by the committee)

Panels (3-4 individual papers)

Roundtable discussions (led by one of the presenters)

Posters

Proposals (up to 250 words) accompanied by a brief bio note should be sent to: postcolonialism@lcir.co.uk.

https://postcolonialism.lcir.co.uk

postcolonialism@lcir.co.uk

Dr. Anna Hamling

Call for Proposals :Radical Histories of Decolonization

 A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review

Issue number 153

Abstract Deadline: January 8, 2024

Co-Edited by Manan Ahmed, Marissa Moorman, Jecca Namakkal, Golnar Nikpour

Radical History Review seeks contributions for a special issue entitled “Radical Histories of Decolonization.”

Historians have tended to treat decolonization as an event that began in the 1940s and ended by the late 1970s, primarily confined to large areas of Asia and Africa, though scholars of global Indigenous histories offer a deeper and unfinished timeline. Many activists today use the term to discuss a still-present need to end colonial institutions, from settler colonial occupation in places as widespread as Turtle Island (North America), Hawai’i, Puerto Rico, Palestine, and Aotearoa (New Zealand), to the hegemony of Western thought in university curricula, to the possession of art and artifacts expropriated from the colonies and displayed in museums in major cities such as New York, London, and Paris. The term “decolonization” has come to mean many things, some limited, and others expansive.

This issue of the Radical History Review seeks to explore the genealogy of decolonization as a category of analysis and how people have dreamed and enacted decolonization in past and present. We are interested in work that reconsiders how decolonization has occurred—as both success and  failure—throughout history, including in geographic areas that fall outside of the twentieth-century paradigm including Haiti and many parts of Latin America that press into the twenty-first century. We are interested in questions of how the colonized in overseas colonies, settler colonies, and informal colonies understood decolonization across different times and spaces. While the works of individual thinkers (Fanon, Cabral, Césaire, Nehru, Ho Chi Minh) tend to dominate histories of decolonization, we ask how people on the ground who are often left out of the story—including but not limited to women, soldiers, and ethnic and linguistic minorities—challenged colonial power and the dominant parties fighting for sovereignty. This issue aims to center the work of scholars, activists, and archives that lay outside of Western institutions.

Potential topics include (but are not limited to):

• While the etymology of decolonization begins in the nineteenth century, how is it useful for historians of the ancient or medieval worlds to work with this concept?
• What happens when anti-colonial movements have interacted with and taken up imperial imaginaries of an idealized pre-colonial past?
• How have people across the political spectrum interpreted (and perhaps instrumentalized) decolonization differently?
• Where does the concept of Indigeneity fit into histories of decolonization?
• Is decolonization a concept that can be understood universally? Or does it always need to be rooted in local struggles?
• What does history tell us about the relationship between decolonization and sovereignty?
• How do we understand the rise of religious, social, and political movements in the context of decolonization?
• How does the framework of decolonization work (or not work) in contexts of informal colonial or “semi-colonial” relations?
• Does decolonization mean the end of empire and/or has decolonization meant the end of empire? Historically, how have colonized subjects imagined and attempted to enact an end to empires?
• How does decolonization work as a language outside of the context of Western European imperialism (i.e. Japanese empire, Russian empire)?

The RHR publishes material in a variety of forms. Potential contributors are encouraged to look at recent issues for examples of both conventional and non-conventional forms of scholarship. We are especially interested in submissions that use images as well as texts and encourage materials with strong visual content. In addition to monographic articles based on archival research, we encourage submissions to our various departments, including:

• Historians at Work (reflective essays by practitioners in academic and non-academic settings that engage with questions of professional practice)
• Teaching Radical History (syllabi and commentary on teaching)
• Public History (essays on historical commemoration and the politics of the past)
• Interviews (proposals for interviews with scholars, activists, and others)
• (Re)Views (review essays on history in all media—print, film, and digital)
• Reflections (Short critical commentaries)
• Forums (debates and discussions)

Procedures for submission of articles:

By January 8, 2024, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing the article you wish to submit to our online journal management system, ScholarOne. To begin with ScholarOne, sign in or create an account at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-rhr. Next, sign in, select “Author” from the menu up top, and click “Begin Submission” or “Start New Submission.” Upload a Word or PDF document, including any images within the document. After uploading your file, select “Proposal” as the submission type and follow the on-screen instructions. Please write to contactrhr@gmail.com if you encounter any technical difficulties.

By February 29, 2024, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article for peer review. The due date for completed articles will be in June, 2024. Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 153 of the Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in October, 2025.

Abstract Deadline: January 8, 2024

Contact: contactrhr@gmail.com

Contact Information

contactrhr@gmail.com

Contact Email

contactrhr@gmail.com

URL

https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/radical-histories-of-decolonization-due-ja…

Whither #postcolonialism? New directions in #postcolonialstudies -- International Online Conference, 1-2 December 2023

 Postcolonial studies as a way of reclaiming history from the perspective of the colonised continues to uncover the myriad fraught legacies of colonialism. The emergence of newer interdisciplinary areas of inquiry, such as climate change, has further revealed tangled legacies of colonialism that continue to persist. The burgeoning field of postcolonial print culture studies, in turn, has been bringing to the fore a fascinating terrain of production, circulation and consumption of print in colonial contexts that is particularly enriching our knowledge of anticolonial resistance in various ways.  This conference aims to bring together academic work in some of the newer sub-fields of postcolonial inquiry with attention to continuities. Research papers are welcome from across disciplines on, but not restricted to, the following themes:

• Climate change, caste and gender
• Climate change and endangerment of languages
• Climate change and changing cultural practices, and literature
• Climate change and marginalized sexualities
• Ecology and literature
• Environmental humanities and postcolonial studies
• Local knowledge and climate change
• Postcolonial autobiography
• Postcolonial print culture
• Translation and postcolonial studies

Keynote speaker: Professor Robert JC Young, Julius Silver Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University, USA

Timeline:

• Abstracts within 250 words, upto 5 keywords, and a bio-note within 100 words due by 12 November 2023.
• Link to submit abstracts:   https://forms.gle/iJvL5XdDSKLFo4Wp9  
• Selection of abstracts and details of online registration will be notified by email by 19 November 2023.
• Registration deadline for presenters: 23 November 2023
• Full papers for presentation not exceeding 2000 words, following MLA style (9^th edition), are to be submitted by email to english.conference.sjm@gmail.com by 28 November 2023.
• Conference dates: 1-2 December 2023

Publication: Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by experts in respective areas and published in an edited volume by a reputed national academic publisher.

Conference registration fees:

Paper presentation: Rs 350.00 (Co-authored papers require individual registration)

Contact Information

Dr Durba Basu

Assistant Professor and Head

Department of English

Swarnamoyee Jogendranath Mahavidyalaya

Amdabad, Purba Medinipur

West Bengal 721650

India

 

Contact Email

english.conference.sjm@gmail.com

URL

https://www.sjmahavidyalaya.in/

CFP: Reading Primary Sources in Asian Philosophies -Bloomsbury Academic Publishing

 

Do you have a favorite Asian philosophical text to teach, one that you’re excited about and want to see taught in other classrooms? Bloomsbury Academic is soliciting contributions to a collection of entries for an electronic resource, Reading Primary Sources in Asian Philosophies. Each entry will be a succinct, lively introduction and guide to an important Asian philosophical text. The collection will include Asian texts from any time period or geographical region: for instance, China, India, Japan, Korea, or Southeast Asia, texts which may be ancient, classical, or modern (colonial, post-colonial, etc.). Entries may be relevant to any philosophical subdiscipline, so long as they are grounded in a specific text.

The purpose of this collection is to confront one of the challenges in expanding coverage of the philosophical canon: engaging with primary texts. Instructors may not have as much experience in teaching broadly “non-Western” texts as they do others, and introductory material is sometimes scholarly, presenting a challenge for those new to a field of study. In contrast, these entries are intended to be engaging, accessible introductions that assist readers with understanding the context of a text as well as how to read it philosophically.

Submission details:

• Length: Submitted entries should be between 2,000 and 3,000 words.
• Topic: Each guide should focus on a single primary text, introducing the reader to the text’s author (where relevant), situating it in its historical context, and then discussing a particular section, theme, or argument in detail.
• Style: These entries are aimed at the undergraduate classroom, and so should be accessible, not scholarly, in tone, so that instructors could assign them as supplements to reading the primary text. These entries might also act as background material for instructors unfamiliar with the text and philosophical tradition.
• Translations: Where primary texts are untranslated or translated in languages or styles the audience may be unfamiliar with, authors may include a short translation, in which case the length of the entry in total (including the translation) may surpass 3,000 words.
• Sample entry structure:
  • Title should include a general description of the content, followed by reference to the author and text’s title in translation and the original language. Example: “Speaking Literally and Metaphorically: Mukula Bhaṭṭa’s Fundamentals of the Communicative Function (Abhidhāvṛttamātṛkā)”
  • Historical context (250 words). Introduce the author, their corpus, biographical details, the text’s genre and position within the relevant tradition(s).
  • Conceptual background (500 words). Explain what is at stake in the text’s thesis and main lines of argumentation, introducing relevant interlocutors.
  • Discussion of central theme, argument, or textual excerpt (1,500 to 2,000 words). Unpack specific portions of the text, quote some key passages, and illustrate how to read the work, so that instructors and students can engage with the rest of the work independently.
  • For further reading (100 words). Conclude with a brief summary (one to two sentences) of where the reader can learn more about the text. This should not be an annotated bibliography but a mention of the most important secondary material that would help with the reading.
  • Keywords: 5 to 10 keywords that categorize the entry

Questions to consider when writing an entry:

1. What makes this text an important and interesting primary source philosophically?
2. What are the background assumptions and existing debates that readers should know in order to engage with the text?
3. What considerations of genre, style, source language, etc., are important for readers to understand the text? Are there interpretive challenges to be aware of?
4. Are there connections to other philosophical traditions that readers might wish to pursue? This could include within Asia but also more broadly (any time period or geographical region). Entries are not primarily cross-cultural in nature, but authors should feel free to make connections to other traditions.

Deadline: December 31, 2023

Send questions and submissions to the General Editor, Malcolm Keating, at cmalcolmkeating@gmail.com. (Please send a Word document and a PDF to ensure that diacritical marks are preserved.)

Contact Information

Malcolm Keating
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Yale-NUS College

Contact Email

cmalcolmkeating@gmail.com

URL

https://philevents.org/event/show/114010

Call for Publications: Special Issue on #Indian #Aesthetics

 

The Aesthetix Journal of Indian Studies (http://www.indianstudies.net) is seeking scholarly articles for its themed issue on Indian Aesthetics. The themed issue aims to discuss Indian Aesthetics from different perspectives. Authors from any discipline can submit papers. We will publish papers that are interdisciplinary in nature engaging in discussion relevant to humanities and social sciences.

The issue will cover the following suggestive but not exclusive areas:

• History of Indian Aesthetics
• Aestheticism in Indian Art and Architecture
• Indian Aesthetics and Cosmic Reality
• Religion and Aestheticism in India
• Impact of Indian Aesthetics on the West
• Comparative study between the Indian Aestheticism and Non-Indian Aestheticism
• The unknown aesthetes of India
• Study of Indian art: from the past to the present
• Indian Aesthetics of the Ugly
• Body and Soul in Indian Aesthetics
• Rasa in Indian Aesthetics
• Aesthetics of Indian Narratology
• Colonialism and Indian Aestheticism
• Aesthetics of the Marginalized Indians
• The mathematics of Indian aesthetics
• Indian Aesthetics and Orality
• Indian Aesthetics and Literature
• Science and Technology and Indian Aestheticism

Time Line

CFP opens: October 20, 2023
Submission closes: December 31, 2023

The publication will start in January 2024 in Continuous Mode.

Submission Guidelines, Terms and Conditions, and Publication Policies

Contact Information

 Mail ID: editor@indianstudies.net

For any query, please text us to our WhatsApp No: +91- 7047598085

Contact Email : editor@indianstudies.net

URL  http://www.indianstudies.net/call-for-papers/

Call for Papers: #Women's & #Gender #History #Symposium(Hybrid) 2024

The 22nd annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks graduate student paper presentations of 15-20 minutes that foreground the social, cultural, and political implications of space and place in histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness. Alternative presentations (e.g. film, poetry, art) are welcome so long as they fit within the symposium’s format.

Over the course of history, gender and place have been mutually constitutive. Spatial, material, and environmental conditions shape and are shaped by gendered social practices. This symposium invites interdisciplinary research which interrogates the spatial and social situatedness of gender, including (but not limited to) topics of:

• migration, mobility, and borders

• environmental studies

• places of war, protest, and activism

• domesticity and the myth of the public/private divide

• architecture and urban planning

• digital spaces

• critical geography and GIS

Submissions need not be confined to the discipline of history or its methods. First-time presenters and MA students are warmly welcomed.

This year’s keynote speakers are Dr. Jessica Zychowicz (Director, U.S. Fulbright Program in Ukraine and IIE: Institute of International Education Kyiv) and Dr. Rosalyn LaPier (History, UIUC). Dr. Zychowicz’s work on Ukrainian feminist art, protest, and places of freedom brings timely and critical discussion to the conference. Dr. LaPier researches Indigenous knowledge, environmental feminism, and sacred landscapes.

A reception will open the symposium on the evening of Thursday, February 29. Panels will take place the afternoon of Friday, March 1st, and the morning and afternoon of Saturday, March 2nd, 2024. While the keynote speakers will present in-person at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the symposium will offer a hybrid format via Zoom for panelists who wish to participate and attend remotely.

 Submissions and Contact: 2024 WGHS Organizing Committee, wghs.uiuc@gmail.com

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023 at 5pm CST

Please submit proposals (200-300 words in length) together with a CV to wghs.uiuc@gmail.com by November 30, 2023 at 5pm CST.

Contact Information

Tabitha Cochran, on behalf of the 2024 Women's and Gender History Organizing Committee

Contact Email

wghs.uiuc@gmail.com

URL

https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/

Call for Papers for the Special Issue on Annihilation of Caste

CFP Special Issue on Annihilation of Caste

B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste (AoC) has been described by Anand Teltumbde as the Communist Manifesto of “caste India.” Unfortunately, however, there is a dearth of critical readings on this text. The upcoming special issue of All About Ambedkar: A Journal on Theory and Praxis aims to address this lacuna. The objective is to inspire renewed engagements with Ambedkar’s classic. The special issue will be co-edited by Dr Sanjiv Kondekar and Dr Mahitosh Mandal and is scheduled to be published in December 2023.

The potential contributors to the special issue are required to write original research papers on ANY aspect of Annihilation of Caste. We are mainly looking for synchronic analyses (focused solely on the text of Annihilation of Caste); however, as and where necessary, diachronic intertextual readings too are welcome. 

Topics for study include but are NOT limited to the following.Critiquing Ambedkar’s overall strategy of “annihilation” of caste

Publication history of AoC

Epistolary elements in AoC

Oratorical style in AoC

Ambedkar’s views on social, political and economic reforms

Ambedkar’s analysis of the caste system

Ambedkar’s critique of Chaturvarnya

Ambedkar’s conception of an ideal society

Ambedkar’s critique of the Hindu religion, the Shashtras and Brahmanical literature

The Ambedkar-Gandhi debate as included in AoC

Key information for prospective authors:Abstract (with a title & four keywords): 150-200 words

Word limit of full papers (including citations): 5000-7000 words

Style of citation: MLA 8th edition (Sample citation instructions are available at Purdue Online Writing Lab.)

All submissions have to be drafted as per the Formatting Rules of AAA.

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