The central theme of the conference is “Himalayan Futures”. The conference will attend to everyday lives, memories and future imaginaries in the Anthropocene across wide ranging themes, from ethnic politics and insurgencies, to literature, arts and religion. We strive, in particular, to foreground how Indigenous, Dalit and other historically marginalized communities bear witness, sustain hope and take action in the present. Envisioning alternative understandings and trajectories of environmental, social and political change, the conference will engage multidisciplinary perspectives of struggle and solidarity in the making of shared Himalayan futures.
We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Mona Bhan, Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University, and Karine Gagné, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.
A pdf of the preliminary conference program is now available here.