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The South Asia Council (SAC) is one of four regional councils operating within the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Created in 1970, these councils represent the interests of scholars working in their respective geographical areas.
Collectively, the four area councils and the Council of Conferences serve as the major policy body for the Association of Asian Studies, providing liaison between the Board of Directors and the members at large.
The South Asia Council administers the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, which honors the author of the best English-language work in South Asian studies and the A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize for Translation, which recognizes and encourages translations from South Asian languages into English.
NEW: SAC will oversee a new book prize for first books on South Asia (the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize)
ATTN STUDENTS: The South Asia Council administers a prize for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the AAS Annual Conference.
Chair: Wendy Singer, Kenyon College, singerw@kenyon.edu
Vinayak Chaturvedi, University of California, Irvine, vinayak@uci.edu
Anupama Rao, Barnard College, arao@barnard.edu
Meena Khandelwal, University of Iowa, Meena-khandelwal@uiowa.edu
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University, manring@indiana.edu
Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, samira.sheikh@vanderbilt.edu
Farina Mir, University of Michigan, fmir@umich.edu
Christian Lee Novetzke, University of Washington, novetzke@u.washington.edu
John D. Rogers, American Institute of Sri Lankan Studies, rogersjohnd@aol.com
Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation (CONSALD)
American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (AISLS)
American Institute for Bangladesh Studies (AIBS)
American Insititue of Indian Studies (AIIS)
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS)
Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS)
Independent Scholars of South Asia (ISOSA)
Maharashtra Studies Group
Rajasthan Studies Group
South Asia Language Resource Center (SALRC)
South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI)
The South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (SAC) announces the 2012 competition for the best paper on a South Asia topic presented by a graduate student at the AAS Conference in Toronto.
The prize will recognize emerging scholarship in the field and foster intellectual exchange among junior and senior scholars. The award of $100.00 and a certificate will be presented at the 2013 AAS Conference in San Diego. The South Asia Council of the AAS will also provide a sum of $300.00 to the winner of the prize, to partially cover the cost of his or her travel to the San Diego Conference, where the winner will be recognized at the AAS Graduate Student reception.
The Council encourages graduate students who present papers at the March 2012 conference in Toronto to submit their papers for consideration. Papers on any aspect and region of South Asia will be considered. Students must be registered in a doctoral program in order to be considered for the Prize. Submitted papers should be no longer than 3,000 words, excluding footnotes.
Please submit your 2012 conference paper, proof of current doctoral program registration, and panel abstract in PDF format by March 18, 2012 to Prof. Christian Novetzke: novetzke@u.washington.edu. Papers received after March 18, 2012 will not be considered.
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