This year’s installment of the long-runnin g SACPAN conference is themed “Works in Progress” and invo lves presentations of current research on South Asia by scholars and gradua te students at a number of institutions across the Pacific Northwest.
We are pleased to announce that SACPAN 2015 will feature three longer lect ures by leading scholars in the field:
Sumit Guha (U
niversity of Texas\, Austin)\, "The Political Ecology of the Horse in India
During the Second Millennium CE"
Andrea Pinkney (McG
ill University)\, " "Driving to the Gods: Roads\, Infrastructure and Access
ibility in Uttarakhand Pilgrims’ Literature (Māhātmyas)"
Mukes
h Eswaran (UBC)\, "A Gender-Based Theory of the Origin of the Cast
e 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 Fr iday\, 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 Marc
h for what promises to be a fruitful and stimulating conference!
All e
vents 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 Sout h Asia Research and Department of Asian Studies at the University of Britis h Columbia\, Vancouver\, in collaboration with the South Asia Center at the University of Washington and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at t he University of Oregon.
Sponsor: Centre for In
dia and South Asia Research and the Department of Asian Studies
Type: Conference
Dates: Fr
iday\, Mar 06\, 2015 to Saturday\, Mar 07\, 2015
Time: 9:00- 5:00pm
