CSASA-L -- Canadian South Asian Studies Association Listserv
About CSASA-L	English (USA)
CSASA-L is the professional academic listserv of CSASA-ACESA, the Canadian South Asian Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études sud-asiatiques, an affiliate of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Science. CSASA-ACESA and CSASA-L are intended to further the academic study of South Asia-Canada and to enhance national awareness of South Asia-related events and resources at Canadian universities and colleges. To request a subscription, please read the eligibility criteria below; subscriptions are not open to the general Internet public. Save the Date! CSASA-ACESA Fourth Annual Meeting at Congress 2025 (June 3-5, 2025) The Canadian South Asian Studies Association/Association canadienne d’études sud-asiatiques (CSASA-ACESA) is a scholarly association affiliated with the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. CSASA-ACESA will host its fourth Annual meeting on June 3-5, 2025, at the Federation’s Annual Congress, Canada’s largest academic gathering (May 30 to June 6, 2025) at George Brown College, Toronto. The format will be primarily in-person, with a limited number of online / hybrid sessions to accommodate colleagues based internationally. Echoing the 2025 Congress theme “Reframing Togetherness”, CSASA-ACESA invites submissions that consider this idea in South Asian settings, including transnational and diasporic communities. We are particularly interested in emerging scholarship that is interdisciplinary, and engages with discourses on coloniality, indigeneity, and hierarchy in South Asia; decolonisation of South Asian Studies, and scholarly interventions that decentre whiteness, patriarchy, and casteism. In this vein, we solicit proposals concerned with post-colonial and decolonial topics, and scholarship that centres the voices and narratives of those who have been historically excluded from knowledge production. CSASA-ACESA especially welcomes submissions dealing with these topics in relation to premodern South Asian histories, languages, and material cultures, and invites colleagues to highlight analytical tools that their scholarship on South Asian Studies can offer to wider scholarly discourse. Proposal Format and Length: Individual Papers: Paper abstracts should be a maximum of 250 words; accepted proposals will be matched with other thematically-related submissions. Panels: Full panel submissions must be comprised of three or four presenters, a moderator, and a respondent. Panel proposals must include a title and a thematic abstract (150 words), and individual presentation proposals (250 words each) for each participant. Roundtable: Full roundtable submissions must be comprised of at least three speakers (and no more than five), and a moderator. Roundtable proposals must include a title and a thematic abstract (250 words), accompanied by a list of all participants with an outline of their proposed contributions (100 words each and a 100 word speaker bio). Submissions and Deadline: CSASA-ACESA will be introducing a new submission portal, to be made available from January 15 (details to follow). Submissions must be uploaded to the new portal by February 15, 2025, 23:59 EST. Acceptances will be released by March 1, 2025. Early bird registration prices for Congress and CSASA-ACESA are valid until March 20, 2025. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the CSASA-L Archives. (The current archive is only available to the list members.)
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