The three keynote speakers will be Faisal Devji, University of Oxford, UK; Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago, USA; and Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics, UK. SASNET now invites papers for the eight panels being accepted:
Panel 1. Religion and Modernity in South Asia (chaired by Clemens Cavalin);
Panel 2. Mapping Subaltern Modernities in Neoliberal India (chaired by Alf Gunvald Nilsen & Kenneth Bo Nielsen);
Panel 3. Beyond the Desirable: Critical Perspectives on Media-Modernity (chaired by Britta Ohm, Per Ståhlberg, and Vibodh Parthasarathi);
Panel 4. Staging Marriage and Modernity among the Middle classes in South Asia (chaired by Ajay Bailey, and Anindita Datta);
Panel 5. The Transformation of Caste (chaired by Winnie Bothe and Staffan Lindberg);
Panel 6. Youthful modernities: negotiating with the past, the present and the future (chaired by Ravinder Kaur, Sanolde Desai, and Rajni Palriwala);
Panel 7. Women and Gender in South Asian Modernity: Vulnerabilities and Violence (chaired by Ulrika Andersson); and
Panel 8. Open panel – for papers that do not fit any of the other panels but make an orginal contribution to understandings of modernity in South Asia.
Abstracts should be between 200-300 words and include a short biography including institutional affiliation not exceeding 100 words. Paper submissions should be received no later than Saturday 30 April 2016 at conference [at] sasnet [dot] lu [dot] se. Information about limited travel grants for exceptional contributions will be announced shortly. Full information about the conference, themes and fees.