Fw: H-ASIA: CFP: European Association of South Asian Studies, July, 2012. Panel on "Of Saints, Converts, and Heroes: Hagiographies and Conversion Auto/biographies across Religions", Lisbon

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP: European Association of South Asian Studies, July,
2012. Panel on "Of Saints, Converts, and Heroes: Hagiographies and
Conversion Auto/biographies across Religions", Lisbon

> H-ASIA
> Nov. 16, 2012
>
> CFP: European Association of South Asian Studies, July, 2012. Panel on
> "Of Saints, Converts, and Heroes: Hagiographies and Conversion
> Auto/biographies across Religions", Lisbon
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>
> CFP: European Association of South Asian Studies, July, 2012. Panel on
> "Of Saints, Converts, and Heroes: Hagiographies and Conversion
> Auto/biographies across Religions"
>
> Location: Portugal
> Conference Date: 2011-12-15 (in 29 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-11-12
> Announcement ID: 189700
>
> This panel will focus specifically on hagiographies and conversion
> auto/biographies across the religions in South Asia. Writing biographies
> and/or autobiographies is a political act. In the South Asian context of
> religious plurality, auto/biographies dominated by the identity of
> religion offer significant revelations on how both faiths and societies
> are envisioned, and on how cultural discourses are shaped. The panel will
> explore these writings as political acts of self- construction engaging
> with issues in and beyond the sacred, where the individual subject of
> these narratives is redefined in relation to caste, gender, linguistic,
> regional or national identities.
>
> Sipra Mukherjee, Associate Professor
> Department of English,
> West Bengal State University
> India
> Tel: +919830030881.
>
> Hephzibah Israel, Lecturer in Translation Studies
> Translation Studies Graduate Programme
> David Hume Tower 10.08
> University of Edinburgh
> Edinburgh EH8 9JX
> Tel: 0131 650 4467
> Email: sipra mukherjee , hephzibah israel
> Visit the website at http://ecsas2012.iscte.pt/
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