ASPS Biennial Convention
Call for Panels and Individual Abstracts
We are pleased to announce the ASPS Fourth Biennial Convention, which will take place from February 27-March 1, 2009 in Lahore, Pakistan.
New Extended Deadline: October 31, 2008.
Please send all ideas for panels and individual abstracts to:
Lahore is the cultural center of Pakistan and the Mughal ruler Jahangir's capital in the 17th century. The city boasts some of the wonders of Islamic architecture, in-cluding Shahi Qila (the Lahore Fort), Badshahi Mosque, Shalimar Gardens, and the buildings of the old, walled city. Not far away from Lahore is the prehistoric site of Harappa, the ancient city of the Indus Valley Civilization.
We look forward to an exciting fourth convention.
Tentative Program
Thursday, Feb 26:
Registration: 9:00- 16:00
Presidential Address: 16:30-18:00
Reception: 18:00- 20:00
Friday- Sunday, Feb 27- March 1:
24 Regular Sessions at 2-hour intervals, beginning at 9:00AM, with coffee and lunch breaks, two concurrent sessions in each two-hour period.
Sunday, March 1: Banquet
Monday,
March 2: Excursions (Optional)
All submissions in humanities and social sciences related to Persianate Societies are welcome. We encourage pre-organized panels, but also welcome individual papers. Submissions for pre-organized panels must include a panel abstract of no more than 300 words plus individual abstracts of no more than 300 words for each of five panelists. Panels must be limited to a minimum of three panelists and a maximum of five. Panels and individual abstracts must contain a clearly stated thesis. Paper and panel proposals should be sent to: Dr. Shahzad Bashir. In addition, proposals from Iran should be sent to Dr. Habib Borjian.
Our first biennial convention took place in Dushanbe, Tajiki-stan, in September 2002, with the cooperation of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Rudaki Institute of Language and Literature, and the National Commission of UNESCO, Tajikistan. The Dushanbe Conference brought together over 80 scholars from thirteen countries. ASPS’s second biennial conven-tion, on "Society, History and Culture in the Persianate World," in Yerevan, Armenia in 2004, brought together 90 scholars from 18 countries. During the third conference in Tblisi, Georgia in June 2007 at the lv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and the Tsereteli Institute of Orien-tal Studies, the ASPS opened its new branch office at the Institute of Oriental Studies. The conferences have provided a rare and valued opportunity for scholars from West, Central and South Asia, Europe and North America to participate in an interdisci-plinary dialogue. The interchange of ideas has also found its place in our publication, Journal of Persianate Studies.
Past Conferences
Download the proceedings of the Third Biennial Convention of the ASPS held in Tbilisi, Georgia, 8-10 June 2007, here in English, or here in Persian.