In September 2021, the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) and Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS – EHESS, Paris) will be hosting a young researchers’ conference on the topic “(un)Making the Nations: Religious (un) orthodoxies, Secular (un)certainties and Minorities” In this digital conference, we intend to investigate the contentious and evolving nature of religion and secularism through the figure of the minority as it has come to be classified within the South Asian national imagination. In a discursive paradigm shaped by religion and secularism, the conference intends to raise the question: does the nation determine its minority or do minorities determine the nation?
Full details are available here: https://www.csh-delhi.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CFP-unmakingthenation-updated-1.pdf
Interested scholars may email their 300 word abstracts to unmakethenation@gmail.com. All queries may be directed to the same email.
Important Dates:
Submission of abstracts: 15th June, 2021
Date of notification of selected abstracts: 30th June, 2021
Submission of papers: 20th August, 2021
Conference date (tentative): September, 2021