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sphere can exist in non-democratic societies, new media and the public sphere, torture and resistance in the public sphere, as well as many other relevant issues. In the front of this issue, you will find the opening keynote address by Talal Asad. Look for more material from the conference in the next Items and Issues.
South Asia
The South Asia program held its third South Asia Regional Fellowship Program (SARFP) fellows’ workshop in Raichak, West Bengal, India from December 13-15, 2004. This year’s workshop offered an opportunity for fellowship awardees to meet each other, discuss their work in small group sessions and present their projects to the whole group. The activities of the workshop were guided by Lawrence Cohen, Malathi de Alwis, Sanjay Srivastava, M.S.S. Pandian and Willem van Schendel, who served as “resource people.” Small group discussions, each involving two resource persons and four fellows, focused on proposal themes and research methodology. This year’s SARFP fellows are all engaged in projects that address the topic of “Boundaries of Bodies, States and Societies,” which seeks to understand and link conceptions of the body and other corporeal territorialities as these might be understood at different levels of the state and society. More information about this year’s fellows and theme can be found online at http://sarn.ssrc. org/sarfp/. The SARFP fellows’ workshop was followed by a meeting of the South Asia Regional Advisory Panel (RAP) in Kolkata, India on December 21-22, 2004. The Regional Advisory Panel meets annually to guide the intellectual direction of the South Asia program for the upcoming year. This year’s discussion centered on the SARFP fellowship program and this year’s upcoming round of competition. The theme for the next fellowship cycle will be “The Long 1950’s.” This year’s theme seeks to examine the “originary” moments of post-colonial South Asia, or in other words, the starting point for the making of post-colonial South Asia, a moment when a radically new set of political, economic and socio-cultural transformations and institutions were being set in place. By extension, this year’s theme also seeks to inaugurate a new dialogue between modern historians and the rest of the social sciences. Applications for the 2006 fellowship competition are available on February 10, 2005.
Words in Motion
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