<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>Call for Expressions of Interest</b></span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>POSTGRADUATE WORKSHOP with Prof. Gyanendra Pandey (Emory University, Atlanta, US)</b></span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Dear Postgraduate Students,</div><div><br></div><div><b><i>The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network</i></b> invites you to participate in a workshop with <b>Prof. Gyanendra Pandey</b>, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History, South Asian and postcolonial history; violence, citizenship and marginality; memory and history.</div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>DATE: Thursday, 26th November</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>TIME: 10.30 am - 12.30 pm</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><b>WHERE: UTS Bldg. 3, Level 4, Room 4.02</b></span></font></div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Gyanendra Pandey, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History (D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1975), South Asian and postcolonial history; violence, citizenship and marginality; memory and history. He is the author of Routine Violence: Nations, Fragments, Histories (2006); The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (rev. ed. 2006); The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (rev. ed. 2002); Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India (2001); and numerous other single authored and collaborative works and articles. The Gyanendra Pandey Omnibus, consisting of three of his books, has been published by Oxford University Press in 2008; and a major edited anthology, Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA, is to be published by Routledge in summer 2009. He is now working towards two books: a history of subaltern middle class groups, tentatively entitled Genealogies of Prejudice: Notes on the African American and Dalit middle classes; and a study of the autobiographical writings of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker and Viola Andrews.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div><br></div><div>Over the last three years, he has also been working to develop a dialogue between historians and social scientists working on the North and the South. Two international, interdisciplinary workshops on the theme of ‘Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and the USA’, held at Emory in October 2006 and December 2007, a specially edited guest issue of the postcolonial studies journal, Interventions, that was published in November 2008, and the Routledge anthology mentioned above, are among the first results of this effort.</div><div><br></div><div>Gyanendra Pandey was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1970-73). He is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies project, and editor of the new Routledge book series, Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. Before coming to Emory he taught at the University of Delhi and at Johns Hopkins.</div></span></div><div><br></div><div><b>Workshop Participation Format:</b></div><div>To participate in the workshop, please prepare a brief document (1-2 pages) outlining how your research relates to that of Prof. Pandey. Please also prepare a research question you wish to ask Prof. Pandey. </div><div>We will hand all participants' documents to Prof. Pandey for prior viewing, but be prepared to read out your summary at the workshop as well. </div><div><br></div><div>Register your interest quickly as there are only 5 places! </div><div><br></div><div><b>Submission deadline is <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Monday 23rd November!</span></font></span> Please send your outline to: </b><a href="mailto:Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au">Cornelia.Betzler@uts.edu.au</a></div><div><br></div><div>Should you have any questions or require further information, please contact IOSARN on this email address.</div><div><br></div><div><i>We are looking forward to hearing from you.</i></div><div><br></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#800000">More IOSARN Dates with Prof. Pandey for your Diary: </font></b></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "><b>Tue, 24th November, 6 - 8 pm</b>, UTS, Room 4.11, Level 4, Building 2, Annual Lecture by Gyanendra Pandey:</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">The politics of difference: Reflections on the Dalit and African American </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">struggles.</span></div><div><a href="http://iosarn.com/events/annual-lecture/gyan-pandey-annual-lecture-abstract/"><b>Click here</b></a><b> to read the lecture abstract.</b></div><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div>Cornelia Betzler</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Administration and Communications Officer I Transforming Cultures Research Centre</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Project Officer I Indian Ocean & South Asia Research Network</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">University of Technology, Sydney | PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 | Australia</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ph.: +61 2 9514 2768</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.tfc.uts.edu.au/">www.tfc.uts.edu.au</a> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.tfc.uts.edu.au/">www.iosarn.com</a> </div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></blockquote></div><br>
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