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This academic and literary workshop will bring together writers and scholars to consider Punjabi literature as a North American and world literature. The event will consist of a one-day workshop that will feature academic papers in English on literature in Punjabi (with a special but not exclusive focus on Diaspora literature), held in conjunction with a series of readings in Punjabi by local poets and fiction writers. This call for papers is directed towards scholars working on Punjabi literature, to invite proposals for participation in the one-day academic workshop.
This workshop will be relatively small, and may not accommodate all who contact us. However, while we may not be able to invite a large number of scholars at this time, it is our hope that this call for papers will provide us with a sense of the state of the field of Punjabi literary studies, particularly in North America, so that we can build on this event in the future with a major conference. We thus welcome contact by scholars in this field for future reference and program development.
Submission Deadline: December 31, 2007
Responses will be sent by February 29, 2008.
The conference will take place April 26-27 at the University of British Columbia, and is sponsored by the Centre for India and South Asia Research and the Department of Asian Studies. Conference Organizers: Anne Murphy and Sadhu Binning.
Please send 250-500 word paper proposals to:
punjabi@interchange.ubc.ca
If institutional support is available to support your visit to UBC, please let us know, so that we can allocate funds to support as many participants as possible.
Sponsored by:
The Centre for India and South Asia Research
C.K. Choi Building, 251 - 1855 West Mall
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
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The Department of Asian Studies
University of British Columbia
UBC Asian Centre
1871 West Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z2
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