SWEDISH SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES NETWORK

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Association of Asian Studies (AAS) invites
active particiation by SASNET researchers

Appeal on June, 11, 2009

I am writing at the suggestion of Shivi Sivaramakrishnan of Yale University and Vice President of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), and Ramya Sreenivasan of the University of Buffalo and Chair of the South Asia Council of the AAS, to invite panel proposals for the next two meetings of the AAS from the Swedish South Asian Studies Network. We also seek to encourage more participation from individual members of SASNET.

Shivi Sivaramakrishnan is Vice President of the AAS, and will deliver the Presidential Address at the Honolulu meeting in 2011. Shivi, Ramya, and I are coordinating efforts to boost South Asianist participation at the AAS, since South Asian Studies and scholars from South Asia have often been under-represented at the AAS annual meeting. I should add that Europeans have also been under-represented! We welcome more participation from Europe.

While we cannot guarantee that round tables or panels proposed will be accepted by the Program Committee, the Committee is looking for strong panels from South Asia, especially ones that bring in presenters from the region, that represent the social sciences, and/or that bring in voices from beyond the academy (meaning policy makers, journalists, public intellectuals, etc.)

The next AAS annual meeting will take place in Philadelphia, March 25-28, 2010. The deadline for panel/round table proposals is August 7th, 2009. Here is a link to the ‘Call for Papers’ page on the AAS website, which offers more specific information:
http://www.asian-studies.org/annual-meeting/2010-Call-for-Papers.htm

The 2011 AAS annual meeting, when Shivi will be the President, will be held in Honolulu, March 31-April 4, 2011. It will be held in cooperation with the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) based in the Netherlands.

We very much hope that you will consider participating, and encourage colleagues to submit panel proposals as well. 

Yours sincerely,

Bob Snow

Robert T. Snow, Ph.D.
Director for Development and Strategic Planning
Association for Asian Studies/Cambridge, MA
Tel. 617-780-5076