The MA/PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY

invites applications for the annual Graduate Conference to be held on

Friday November 15th, 2024

At the CUNY Graduate Center

365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 

Call for Papers

“Interdisciplinary Asia: Bridges to New Opportunities”

52nd Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference

November 2nd-3rd, 2024

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is little known in national public memory (Angus Reid Institute 2023). Institutional narratives and failings have framed the Air India bombing as a “non-Canadian tragedy involving non-Canadian citizens” (Seshia 2017), leaving the victims’ families suffering and ignored in the wake of such loss.