Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Sites of Modernity, Grad conf. Columbia Univ. Mar 1-2, 2012

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Sites of Modernity, Grad conf. Columbia Univ. Mar 1-2,
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> H-ASIA
> December 23, 2011
>
> Call for papers: "Sites of Modernity", Graduate conference, Columbia
> University, March 1-2, 2012
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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> "Sites of Modernity" Location: New York, United States
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-01-15 (in 23 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-12-15
> Announcement ID: 190546
>
> Graduate Student Conference
> Sites of Modernity
> March 1st-2nd, 2012
> CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED
> Deadline: January 15, 2012
>
> Keynote Speaker: Gyan Prakash
> Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University
>
> The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at
> Columbia University invites submissions for its third annual graduate
> student conference, entitled "Sites of Modernity," to be held March 1-2,
> 2012.
>
> The concept of modernity, thematized or not, lies at the root of most of
> the human sciences, even and especially those that constitute their
> objects as premodern. Traditional thinking about modernity as a
> specifically Western phenomenon has been challenged in recent years, and
> students in (current and erstwhile) area studies are particularly
> well-placed to reflect on the local or translocal nature of modernity:
> what are the sites of modernity? Of what specific places---whether we
> conceive of these as geocultural or geopolitical, or as translocal
> institutions or practices---can we justifiably apply the predicate modern?
> What logics organize the sites of modernity? And what insights into this
> contested concept can students of the Middle East, South Asia, Central
> Asia, and Africa in particular provide?
>
> Themes that papers or panels might explore include (but are not limited
> to):
> the spread or polygenesis of modern institutions;
> comparative modernities or pre-modernities;
> provincializing Western modernity;
> ownership of modernity and its narratives;
> colonial and post-colonial modernities;
> urban spaces and modernity;
> modernity and development;
> language practices (including standardization);
> institutions of learning;
> intellectual and literary cultures;
> printing and print capitalism;
> religious traditions and institutions;
> the nation and internationalism;
> transregional trade and finance;
> forms of social organization;
> political mobilization.
>
> Students who are interested in presenting a 20-minute paper should submit
> a 300-word abstract, with your name and institutional affiliation, to
> submit@mesaasgradconference.org by January 15, 2012.
>
> Participants will be notified of their acceptance by January 31. A limited
> amount of funds may be available to defray accommodation costs; further
> information will be available to participants at the end of January.
>
> Information will be posted on the conference website:
> http://www.mesaasgradconference.org. For any other inquiry please contact
> us via: info@mesaasgradconference.org
>
> Please circulate widely.
>
>
> Columbia University in the City of New York
> Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
>
> Email: http://www.mesaasgradconference.org
>
>
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