Graduate Student Research and Programming
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Programming:
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The Center for India and South Asia announces the 2010 Call for SubmissionsThe UCLA Center for India and South Asia announces the Sardar Patel
Award for the best dissertation submitted at any American university
on the subject of modern India between September 1, 2009-August 31,
2010. The amount of the award is $10,000. Submission materials must
be postmarked no later than October 15, 2010.
For detailed information about the Sardar Patel award, please see
the attachment or
http://www.international.ucla.edu/southasia/patel/
Additionally, if you have any questions regarding the award, please
feel free to contact me at 310-267-4602 or
jespinosa@international.ucla.edu.
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Call for Papers: South Asia Center at UPenn and the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
Call for Papers
Self, Other, and the Social Good in a Cross-Cultural Context:
A Conference on Personal Identity and Moral Obligation in Contemporary Indian and Western Thought
8-9 October, 2010
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
150 word abstract due by September 2nd, 2010
Notification of acceptance of abstract within one week of submission
Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
Possible subtopics: Social Good, The Moral Self, Ethics of Alterity, Aretaic Ethics, Deontology, Situational Ethics, CARE Ethics, Passion and Compassion, Method in Comparative Ethics, Identity and Continuity, Self as Process, Substantival Self, Endurance and Perdurance, Selfless Ego, Orientalism, India and Greece, Gender and Development in South Asia, India’s Growth, Globalization and Institutional Development, Post-colonialism and Subaltern Studies, Empirical and Transcendental Consciousness, Pre-reflective Consciousness and Pure Experience.
Proposal will be accepted if it fits the main theme of the conference.
Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion).
Contact:
Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Dean of International Programs
Director of the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness
Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia 26241,USA
Phone: 304-637-1293
E-mail: Chandanachak@gmail.com
Mailing Address: PO Box 743
Elkins, West Virginia 26241 USA
___Self, Other, and the Social Good in a Cross-Cultural Context:
A Conference on Personal Identity and Moral Obligation in Contemporary Indian and Western Thought
8-9 October, 2010
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
150 word abstract due by September 2nd, 2010
Notification of acceptance of abstract within one week of submission
Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania and the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
Possible subtopics: Social Good, The Moral Self, Ethics of Alterity, Aretaic Ethics, Deontology, Situational Ethics, CARE Ethics, Passion and Compassion, Method in Comparative Ethics, Identity and Continuity, Self as Process, Substantival Self, Endurance and Perdurance, Selfless Ego, Orientalism, India and Greece, Gender and Development in South Asia, India’s Growth, Globalization and Institutional Development, Post-colonialism and Subaltern Studies, Empirical and Transcendental Consciousness, Pre-reflective Consciousness and Pure Experience.
Proposal will be accepted if it fits the main theme of the conference.
Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion).
Contact:
Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Dean of International Programs
Director of the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness
Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia 26241,USA
Phone: 304-637-1293
E-mail: Chandanachak@gmail.com
Mailing Address: PO Box 743
Elkins, West Virginia 26241 USA
3rd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies Oct 8-9 2010
Marginalization and Othering: Asian centers, peripheries, and interstices
Asian societies are often perceived as being more focused on social harmony and cohesion in contrast to the Euro-American societies which are perceived as being focused on individual freedom and realization. Nevertheless, marginalization is a well-known social phenomenon in Asia, as those that do not conform to the perceived standard are excluded from a conceptual center group and relegated to the margins of society.
Among the many forms of marginalization that are present in Asia, we may find not only social marginalization from within Asian societies but also global marginalization brought about by European colonization, localized hegemonic systems (such as Sinitic cultural hegemony in East Asia), and marginalization by dominant modes of knowledge creation. How can those who have been marginalized speak or write about their marginal experience, as marginal experience itself includes lack of these and other skills considered important by the dominant groups? If the academy succeeds in appreciating the knowledge sytems of the marginalized then it will have access to different modes of knowledge creation and aesthetics which have been previously excluded, and which certainly contribute to the philosophical goal of academia: the dissemination and creation of knowledge for the benefit of human civilization.
The 3rd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies seeks to address and confront all problems of marginalization in and of Asia, including but not limited to the above discussed modes of marginalization as well as such theoretical constructs as “knowledge societies”, those societies on the peripheries which have their own ways of life that integrate unique knowledge systems and cognitive modes. Interested graduate students currently enrolled in Masters or Doctoral programs are welcome to submit proposals. Submissions from places, societies, and groups which have traditionally received little attention in academia are welcomed, as are novel approaches, methodologies, and theoretical standpoints.
A proposal should consist of a 250 word abstract, institutional affiliation, and the full name of the presenter, and should be emailed to the organizing committee of the 3rd Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies at asianstudiesconference@gmail.com .