Call for Papers

The First International Conference on Critical South Asian Death Studies, 18th-20th of April 2024 | University of Münster, calls for interdisciplinary presentations and performances by scholars in all stages of their careers, artists, practitioners, professionals, and activists whose research, poetry, prose, short films, or original performances reflexively engage with regimes of power as manifested in death, dying, mourning and end-of-life care.

In acknowledgement of differential capacities for movement and to ensure accessibility, the conference shall be held in a hybrid format.

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Abstracts/proposals (approximately 300 words) may be sent to: csads@uni-muenster.de by 15 October 2023 (11:59 PM CEST).

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On 23 May 2023, the Study India Day took place with the focus on "The Indian Ocean as Memory Space: Perspectives from Law and Literature".
On 22 November 2022, the Study India Day took place: "India at 75 from a Law and Literature Perspective".
From 24-26 August 2022, the MMIAS-ICSSR international interdisciplinary (hybrid) conference on "India 75: Reflections On and From the Indian Diaspora" took place.
On Friday, 27 May 2022, Commodore Srikant B. Kesnur, VSM, PhD, Director, Maritime Warfare Centre, Mumbai and OIC Naval History Project, held an online talk on “Indian Navy’s Maritime Diplomacy in the Indian Ocean Region.”
On Thursday, 16 December 2021, Prof. Dr. Axel Michaels (Heidelberg) gave a talk about “Esoterik und Pseudowissenschaft in Indien.” The talk was part of the lecture series “Asia and Europe: Universities – Students – Scholars.”
On 23 November 2021, the "Study India Day" took place - A meeting of the continents: India-Africa-Europe.
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