This year’s installment of the long-running SACPAN conference is themed “Works in Progress” and involves presentations of current research on South Asia by scholars and graduate students at a number of institutions across the Pacific Northwest.
We are pleased to announce that SACPAN 2015 will feature three longer lectures by leading scholars in the field:
Sumit Guha (University of Texas, Austin), “The Political Ecology of the Horse in India During the Second Millennium CE”
Andrea Pinkney (McGill University), ” “Driving to the Gods: Roads, Infrastructure and Accessibility in Uttarakhand Pilgrims’ Literature (Māhātmyas)”
Mukesh Eswaran (UBC), “A Gender-Based Theory of the Origin of the Caste System of India”
We are also thrilled to include a special evening plenary session with the acclaimed novelist Shauna Singh Baldwin, who will give a talk titled, “Mind-Dancing with Language,” on Friday, March 6, 6PM, Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall.
For the complete program of events, please see the attached PDF, or visit here.
Please join us in Vancouver this March for what promises to be a fruitful and stimulating conference!
All events are free and open to the general public. Please RSVP to adheesh.sathaye@ubc.ca if you plan to attend the Friday reception.
Presented by the Centre for India and South Asia Research and Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in collaboration with the South Asia Center at the University of Washington and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Oregon.
Sponsor: Centre for India and South Asia Research and the Department of Asian Studies
Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall, Vancouver BC
Type: Conference
Dates: Friday, Mar 06, 2015 to Saturday, Mar 07, 2015
Time: 9:00- 5:00pm
