Call for Papers

The Centre for Australian Studies, Bankura University invites Papers for their 1st International Conference on Re-positioning India and Australia in the Emergent Geo-Politics: Identities, Entanglements, Cultural Diplomacy.

Important dates:

• Abstracts due: 14 Feb 2023
• Submission of Papers: 01 Mar 2023

Papers should be of around 2500-3000 words focussing on any of the various possibilities of Indo-Australian conversations and interconnections, national identities, translations and the role of cultural diplomacy through cultivating Australian Studies in India and India in Australia, from a comparative, interdisciplinary or translational perspective.

The conference will address, though not strictly limited to, the following theme(s):

• Histories and literary histories of Indo-Australian connections
• Re-positioning India and Australia: the cultural studies angle
• Cross-cultural encounters and cultural diplomacy
• Transcultural Exchange and the Role of justice
• Australian and Indian Poetry and Fiction: the Interdisciplinary Dynamics
• Diaspora Studies and the Australian Indian Diaspora
• Eco-literatures, environmental visions and the Indo-Pacific
• Environment and Ethics
• Environment and Security
• Trans-nation and the nationing project in Australia and/or India
• Australia’s India, India’s Australia: narratives/readings dominant and elusive
• The empire and beyond in Indo-Australian entanglements
• Mapping the Indo-Australian bilateral: through prisms of law, security, strategy, policy and the pandemic
• Economic Paradigms in Bilateral Relations
• Value, Ethics, Culture and Justice
• Law and Socio-cultural Dynamics
• Governance, Power and the Rule of Law
• Judicial Activism
• Re-positioning India and Australia: the comparative perch
• India and Australia in Translation
• Reading/Teaching Asia and/or India in Australia
• Reading/Teaching Australian Studies in India

For more information, see the attached document.

For queries, email: centre_australianstudies@bankurauniv.ac.in