War, Disability, and Embodiment

NACBS 2017

November 3-5 2017 Denver, Colorado

Cultures of Violence in South Asia EditorialSpecial Issue of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium (Vol.2, Issue 1, 2017) While the Indian Subcontinent lays claim to a rich legacy of anti-colonialism borne out of Gandhian ideals of non-violence, it is fraught with periodic flare-ups of violence between the state, insurgency groups, religious organizations, among a wide spectrum of other actors. It could even be argued that the violence has been congenital to the nation-state formation in the Indian Subcontinent, as exemplified in the rich literary tradition of the Partition narratives by SaadatManto, Ahmed Ali, Khushwant Singh, and Bapsi Sidhwa.

Splintered Boundaries: Encounters/Challenges/Disruption
April 8, 2017
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Submission Deadline Extended : February 10, 2017
Email: umassegoconference@gmail.com
Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Wingard (University of Houston)

Margins 2017 4/12-14 at Clemson University

Margins is now accepting proposals that explore the interplay between applications of digital method and humanistic inquiry. The goal is to create a space wherein concepts that seem to linger at the edge of the digital humanities like race, gender, power, and disability may be explored in light of the new methods and perspectives that the application of digital tools furnish. Potential paper topics may include but are not limited to: