CFP: CSAS 31st Annual Spring Symposium - "Brave New South Asia: Science, Technology and Society"
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Center for South Asian Studies at the University of
Hawai'i <http://www.hawaii.edu/csas/>invites
paper and panel proposals for its 31th Annual Spring
Symposium
Brave New South Asia: Science, Technology and Society
DATE CHANGE: April 15-17, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawai'i
Note that the new dates of the symposium are April 15-17.
2014. Since April
18 is Good Friday, observed in Hawaii as a state holiday,
we are holding the symposium April 15-17 instead of the previously announced
April 16-18.
Deadline to submit proposals: January 24 (Friday), 2014
Inventions and innovations have a long history in South
Asia. During the last three decades of globalization and neoliberalism,
however, practices and discourse have both amplified the attention to
developments in science and technology in South Asia while intensifying debates
over their promise and dangers. This symposium invites critical reflections on
science and technology as they transform the relationship between humans and
their environments and reshape our conceptions of the human and natural in the
context of South Asia and the diaspora. We are interested in a conversation
across the sciences, social sciences and humanities that examines the interface
between science and technology and the varied social, political and cultural
ecologies as they have developed over time to bring us to our current moment --
when South Asia figures as an incubator of innovations and as a striking
example of their utopic and dystopic manifestations.
Please send 200-word abstracts for individual papers by
email to csas@hawaii.edu. If proposing an
entire panel, please also include a paragraph-length rationale and a proposed
title for the panel along with paper titles and abstracts. Please contact csas@hawaii.edu, if you have questions.
A limited amount of free lodging will be available to
participants.
For more information, visit the Center for South Asian
Studies website
at:
Our panels will be anchored by keynotes delivered by:
Abha Sur, Women's & Gender Studies, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
Dr. Sur is a scientist, who looks at the history of
science and production of scientific knowledge. She is the author of Dispersed
Radiance: Caste, Gender, and Modern Science in India (Navayana, 2011) Stacy
Leigh Pigg, Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University.
Dr.
Pigg has done extensive research on the medicalization of
sexuality in Nepal and has published numerous articles that link science
studies to analyses of culture, language and power. She co-edited Sex in
Development:
Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective
with Vincanne Adams (Duke University Press, 2005).
Shafqat Hussain, Anthropology, Trinity College. Trained
in political and social ecology, Dr. Hussain’s research in Pakistan focuses on
the co-constitution of human societies and the environment. He is completing
his book, From Savages to Environmentalists: A History of Production of
Remoteness in the Western Himalayas (Yale University Press, Forthcoming).
The topics for paper submissions can include:
- Technologies
in agriculture
- Resource
management
-
Environmentalism
- Genetic
modification/transgenesis
- Medicine and
pharmaceuticals
- Reproductive
technologies
- Management of
sexualities
- Tissue and
biological exchange
- Biometrics
- Nuclear
energy, disarmament and peace
- Information
technologies
- Biopolitics
- Bioethics
- The human and
post-human
-
Governmentality
- Futurity
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Rohini Acharya
Coordinator
Center for South Asian Studies
MFA Candidate in Dance
(808) 956-5652
--
Peter H. Hoffenberg
Associate Professor of History
Editor, *Bulletin of the Pacific Circle*
Sakamaki Hall
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
USA
Phone: (808) 956-8497
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