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Saturday, February 17, 2024

CFP: 4th International Conference of the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) on #Subalterns in South Asia, 21-22 June, 2024




We are accepting abstracts for the Indian Association for South Asian Studies (IASAS) International Conference, which will take place at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha from June 21-22, 2024. Researchers and scholars from across the disciplines will participate in this two-day conference that will be concentrating on South Asian studies. The central theme for the above is ‘Subalterns in South Asia:.

The term "subaltern," popularized by Antonio Gramsci, conceptualized subaltern groups as those excluded from hegemonic power, encompassing peasants, workers, and other marginalized factions. However, in Subaltern Studies led by Ranajit Guha, the term broadens to denote the quality of being subordinate in South Asian society, irrespective of its manifestation in class, caste, age, gender, or office.

The collective, initially comprising scholars such as Shahid Amin, David Arnold, Partha Chatterjee, David Hardiman, Gyanendra Pandey etc., aimed to give voice to the historically marginalized. Subaltern Studies encompassed diverse subjects, including history, politics, economics, and sociology of subalternity, along with associated perspectives, ideologies, and belief systems. The initiative aimed to counter elitist historiography by allowing subaltern voices to emerge within its pages, representing and amplifying the voices of the oppressed.

The theory posited that the elite in India did not merely have a hegemonic role but played a dominant one, enabling the subaltern to be seen as independent historical actors. This perspective countered the notion that the subaltern were passive recipients of elite guidance, emphasizing their independent agency within the political system. 

In line with the subaltern understanding, this conference extends a warm invitation to panels and paper submissions that specifically emphasize non-elite discourses. The conference aims to spotlight and explore narratives, perspectives, and voices that have traditionally been marginalized or overlooked in favour of dominant, elite perspectives. Connecting historical studies to disciplines like gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, economics, demographics, politics, psychology, and others are also welcome. By prioritizing non-elite discourses, we aspire to create a space for critical discussions and insights that challenge established norms and contribute to a richer understanding of the diverse, often unheard, voices in South Asian societies. 

The conference hopes to be able to encourage more research by generating new perspectives by exploring new as well as alternative and evolving research ideas and methods.

IASAS 2024 conference welcomes panels and papers in English or in Hindi on any theme of South Asian Studies employing interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives inspired from History, Philosophy, Political Science, Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, Psychology etc. Hence, the conference aim is to bring historians and social scientists into conversation with each other. We encourage submissions from research students, early career scholars, faculty members, and independent social scientists whose research falls under the spectrum of South Asian Studies. The conference hopes to generate new perspectives by exploring new as well as alternative and evolving research ideas and methods. 


There would be at least four presenters in each panel session. Presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each.
1. Abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted on or before 15 April, 2024.
2. Acceptance letters for proposals will be e-mailed by 30 April, 2024. All abstracts will be peer-reviewed.

 

In the Subject window of your e-mails, please type the following words: IASAS Bhubaneswar 2024.

Email: iasasconference@gmail.com

Delegates fees:

For paper presenters:

  1. Faculty Members: 6000 INR (with hostel room accommodation single occupancy for two days) 
  2. Faculty Members :5000 INR (without accommodation) 
  3. Research Students:5000 INR (with hostel room accommodation single occupancy for two days)
  4. Research Students : 4000 INR (without accommodation)
  5. Guests and Listeners: 2500 INR

Note:

  • The organizing committee is not in a position to provide participants with financial support.
  • All participants are advised to seek funding through their respective institutions or other sources.
  • The venue of the conference is Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Contact Information

Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences, New Delhi

Indian Association for South Asian Studies, New Delhi

 

Email: iasasconference@gmail.com

Contact Email
iasasconference@gmail.com

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Saturday, December 23, 2023

CFP: Virtual International Interdisciplinary Conference on "MEMORY, FORGETTING AND CREATING" 18-19 January 2024








 

ABOUT CONFERENCE: 


In our increasingly fast-paced societies, where information is abundant and its reception is superficial, human memory appears to be an endangered phenomenon. This is why we would like to take a closer look at the complex processes of memory. These include forgetting, neglecting, negation, and detachment, along with creating, recollecting, remembering, regaining memories, and reconstructing one’s relationship with the past. We are deeply interested in examples and consequences of altered memories: invention, fabrication, deception, indoctrination or propaganda. We invite reflection on mutual relations between memory and imagination, fantasising and manipulating, forgetting and creating.
We would like all these problems to be contextualised as broadly as possible, with reference to historical, social, religious, cultural, psychological, artistic and other factors. Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and comparative analyses.
The conference is intended as an interdisciplinary event. Hence, we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, neurophysiology, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, memory studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, animal studies, medical sciences, psychiatry, social policy, cognitive sciences and others.
We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers, as well as doctoral and graduate students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation. We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of memory in the past and in the present-day world.
Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:

1. Lost Memory:

- forgotten history
- forgotten nations
- forgotten heroes
- forgotten legacy
- forgotten times
- forgotten revolutions
- forgotten identity
- forgotten authors
- forgotten texts
- forgotten languages

2. Memory Loss:
- amnesia
- Alzheimer’s disease
- dementia
- sclerosis
- selective memory
- repression
- psychopathology of everyday life

3. Stolen Memory:
- denationalisation
- eradication
- expulsion
- disinheritance
- exclusion
- manipulation
- propaganda
- indoctrination
- Holocaust (and other genocide) denial
-“historical politics”
-“cultural revolution”

4. Abandoned Memory:
- non-action
- negligence
- indifference
- insouciance
- decline of attachment
- emotional atrophy
- disownment
- betrayal

5. Memory as a Trap:
- the terror of memory
- trauma
- post-memory
- memory and mourning
- nostalgia
- fixation
- the return of the repressed
- “primal scenes”
- compulsions
- stereotypes

6. Memory Regained:
- recollection
- anamnesis
- insight
- epiphany
- “time regained”

7. Dubious Memory:
- déjà vu
- confabulation
- fabrication
- rumour
- apocryph
- parallel histories

8. Memory and Imagination:
- facts and phantasms
- political phantasms
- historiography and fantasizing
- the realness of memories
- national mythologies
- reconstructions and narrations
- memory and representation
- memory and fiction
- non-fiction
- autobiography
- para-documentary film
- imagination in mnemonics
- collective memory and collective imagination

9. Memory and Art:
- literature, art, film, theatre as memory “media”
- socially engaged art: artists in defense of memory
- Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness
- Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time
- Thomas Mann and The Magic Mountain
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Tadeusz Kantor and the “cliches of memory”

10. Memory and Science
- mirror Neurons
- diseases and syndromes of memory
- “creating memory” in the lab
- memory of matter (inorganic memory)
- memory processing in technology

Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, by 31 December 2023 to: conferencememory@gmail.com  or by REGISTRATION FORM
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 3 January 2024.

The conference language is English.

Note:
As our online conference will be international, we will consider the different time zones of our Participants.
The conference will be held virtually via Zoom. Different forms of presentations (also posters) are available


REGISTRATION :
In order to participate in the conference (as a speaker or an audience member) you need to pay a REGISTRATION FEE via bank transfer or PayPal:

PRESENTERS: EUR 35 or USD 40 or GBP 35 or PLN 120 - by 11 January 2024
AUDIENCE MEMBERS: EUR 25 or USD 30 or GBP 25 or PLN 70 - by 17 January 2024

NOTE: We offer a discount for our returning Participants.

THE FEE COVERS:
- LIVE access via individual link to all conference sessions (without installing any additional applications)
- the conference programme in PDF
- certificate of attendance  for Presenters and Audience Members (sent by email or/and by post)
- online community gathering
- easy access on any device (phone, tablet and computer) with the possibility to join or leave the conference at any time


Banking details:
Beneficiary name: InMind Support Beneficiary Address: Jelitkowski Dwor 4
Beneficiary Bank name: SANTANDER   
The SANTANDER Swift code is:  WBKPPLPP
Beneficiary Bank account numbers (IBAN):
Payment in PLN:           
95 1090 2590 0000 0001 4259 8763   
Payment in EUR:           
PL58 1090 2590 0000 0001 4259 8847     
Payment in USD: via PayPal - please ask for a special link     

In the description field, please quote your first and last name and a note " memory conference".
All banking charges are to be covered by the Sender.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
NOTE: PAYPAL PAYMENTS (USD, GBP or EUR) ARE ALSO ACCEPTED (on request) - Please ask for a  link.
 
CANCELLATION FEES:
3 months before the conference and more - 50%
from 3 months to 1 month - 75%             
1 month before the conference and less - 100%                 
 

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of GdaÅ„sk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology