Secretary: - Michael Gillan (University of Western Australia)
Hon Treasurer: - Tikky Wattanapenpaiboon (Monash University)
Administrative Officer: - Vivien Seyler (Monash University)
Executive Committee: Greg Bailey, Sekhar Bandyopadhyay. Richard Barz, Mark Briskey, Kate Brittlebank, Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Douglas Hill, Kama Maclean, Andrew
McGarrity, Jim Masselos, Peter Mayer, Bob Pokrant, Nayantara Pothen, Kalpana Ram, Tim Scrase and Auriol Weigold
The
18th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia
(ASAA), will be held at the University of Adelaide as a collaboration
between the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.
A Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora will be published in 2011 on:
"Religion and Caste in the South Asian Diaspora "
Guest Editors: Rajesh Rai and Chitra Sankaran
This Special Issue of South Asian Diaspora invites interdisciplinary
contributions in the humanities and social sciences that critically
examine the negotiation of religious and caste-based identities in the
South Asian diaspora.
Religious and caste-based identities constitute key elements in the
formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic
communities. Given their salience, the special issue seeks to understand
the role of these identities in the formation of social and political
organizations in the diaspora. We will explore the factors that underlie
the modification of ritual practice in the process of resettlement, and
consider how multicultural policies in the adopted state,
trans-generational changes and the proliferation of transnational media
has impacted the development of these identities in the diaspora. Also
crucial are questions that deal with the gender dimension in terms of
how religion and caste affect women's position and roles in the South
Asian diaspora.
All invited and contributed manuscripts to this special issue will be
peer reviewed. For guidelines of how to prepare the manuscript, please
visit the journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/19438192.asp
Manuscripts for the Special Issue should be submitted no later than 31
July 2010. Submission of manuscripts through electronic mail (preferably
as MS Word attachment) to Rajesh Rai (sasrr@nus.edu.sg) and Chitra
Sankaran (ellcs@nus.edu.sg) is especially encouraged. Alternatively,
please submit three printed copies and an electronic version (MS Word
format on a floppydisk or a CD) of the manuscript to:
Dr Rajesh Rai
South Asian Studies Programme
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
National University of Singapore
AS7 #04-08, 5 Arts Link
Singapore 117570
