Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, Columbia University, April 15-17, 2010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, Columbia University, April 15-17, 2010
April 15-17, 2010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa
Location: New York, United States
Conference Date: 2010-04-15
Date Submitted: 2010-02-22
Announcement ID: 174327
The discipline that was once called Oriental Studies has been divided up in various ways in todays university. Post-colonial literature has a foothold in the English department, history departments have by and large stopped confusing European history with world history, and of course the area studies departments with venerable names like Near Eastern Studies or South Asian Languages and Civilizations have taken up an array of new methodologies from other departments. Several universities have begun expanding their African and South Asian studies offerings under the umbrella of Global Studies. This conference for graduate students is concerned not with the death of the discipline as so many others have been, but rather with the diversity of the disciplines when it comes to studying the non-Western World.
Join us for student papers, two faculty discussion panels, and a keynote address by Professor Aamir Mufti of UCLA. Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served at each event. Full details, including a schedule, presentation abstracts and directions to the conference venues, available at the conference website.
Arthur Dudney
Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University
Email: cugradconf@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.columbia.edu/~add2115/gradconf
April 15-17, 2010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa
Location: New York, United States
Conference Date: 2010-04-15
Date Submitted: 2010-02-22
Announcement ID: 174327
The discipline that was once called Oriental Studies has been divided up in various ways in todays university. Post-colonial literature has a foothold in the English department, history departments have by and large stopped confusing European history with world history, and of course the area studies departments with venerable names like Near Eastern Studies or South Asian Languages and Civilizations have taken up an array of new methodologies from other departments. Several universities have begun expanding their African and South Asian studies offerings under the umbrella of Global Studies. This conference for graduate students is concerned not with the death of the discipline as so many others have been, but rather with the diversity of the disciplines when it comes to studying the non-Western World.
Join us for student papers, two faculty discussion panels, and a keynote address by Professor Aamir Mufti of UCLA. Coffee, tea and light refreshments will be served at each event. Full details, including a schedule, presentation abstracts and directions to the conference venues, available at the conference website.
Arthur Dudney
Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University
Email: cugradconf@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.columbia.edu/~add2115/gradconf