Upcoming Conferences
Spring 2012
April 5-6, 2012
Ninth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference
The Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference @ The University of Chicago
Thursday & Friday, April 5-6, 2012
Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Panels on Day 1 and 2: Swift Commons (First Floor)
Keynote Address on Day 1 and 2: Swift Lecture Hall (Third Floor)** Please note Swift Lecture Hall is the large room with double doors directly to the right of the 3rd floor elevators.
Free and open to the public.
FOR MORE INFORMATION » http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/sagsc-2012/
CONFERENCE PROGRAM » http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/
*** The Committee on Southern Asian Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce The Ninth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference.
The South Asia Graduate Student Conference held annually at the University of Chicago has grown to become a much anticipated event in the academic circles of not only the Universities in the United States but also from other continents like Europe and Asia. Read more here.
Sponsored by the University of Chicago's Committee on Southern Asian Studies and the Center for International Studies.
For questions about this event, please contact Arvind Elangovan at arvi29@uchicago.edu. Persons that may need special assistance should contact the Committee on Southern Asian Studies in advance at (773) 702-8637.
April 27-28, 2012
The 3rd Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature
Featuring Bangla Author Raghab Bandyopadhyay and Playwright Saymon Zakaria
Friday & Saturday, April 27-28, 2012
Foster Hall, Room 103
1130 East 59th Street
Free and open to the public.
FOR MORE INFORMATION » http://cosal.uchicago.edu/index.shtml
*** The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the Second Biennial Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL), featuring noted Bengali novelist RAGHAB BANDYOPADHYAY and playwright SAYMON ZAKARIA.
RAGHAB BANDYOPADHYAY will discuss some of his works and talk about the creative usage of Bangla prose.
SAYMON ZAKARIA will introduce us to his plays and talk about the continuum between traditional performances and contemporary theater in Bangladesh.
The underlying theme of the conference is "Dui Bangla" or Bangla as the language of the state of West Bengal and as the national language of Bangladesh. Struggles around the Bangla language--its origins, lexicon, texts, grammar, and pronunciation--played a critical role in the struggles that culminated in the creation of East Pakistan in 1947 and Bangladesh in 1971. Despite contestations, Bangla and the linguistic identity that grew out of sharing the same language plays a complex but understudied role in the imagination of Bengali people in India and Bangladesh. Bangla remains a central issue in the definition of the cultural, political and religious identities of the people living on both sides of the border. This conference is an exploration of this bicephalous literary culture: two heads that never stopped speaking to each other. The event brings together scholars who will discuss the various aspects of Bangla language and literature in India and Bangladesh and, more generally, the multifarious forms of Bangla language that reflects the complexity and heterogeneity of the cultural landscape of Bengal.
The keynote will be given by CLINTON B. SEELY, Professor Emeritus, department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (SALC), the University of Chicago.
FULL PARTICIPANT PANEL » http://cosal.uchicago.edu/2012/participants.shtml
DETAILS & PROGRAM » http://cosal.uchicago.edu/2012/program.shtml
Cosponsored by the University of Chicago's Committee on Southern Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Norman Wait Harris Memorial Fund.
For questions about this event, please contact Thibaut d'Hubert at dhubert@uchicago.edu. Persons with disabilities that may need assistance should contact the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations in advance at (773) 702-8373.