Initial Call for Papers

 

We invite papers that pertain to the following themes on the Indian Diaspora:

  • Indentured Labour: Sources, Scholarship and Research
  • The Early Years in Trinidad: Indenture, the Estates and Beyond
  • From Indian to Trinbagonian: Trial, Tribulation and Triumph.
  • Indian Religions in Trinidad and Tobago: Preservation, Conversion and Hybridisation
  • Identities and Ethnicities in the Indian Diaspora
  • Multiculturalism in the Indian Diaspora
  • Sexuality and Gender Perspectives
  • Religion and Spirituality: Ideas and Practice in the Indian Diaspora
  • Imaging and Imagining: Varied Conceptions of the Indian Diaspora
  • Cross Cultural Exchanges
  • Indians in the Caribbean: Colonial and Postcolonial Regimes
  • Politics, Nationalism and The State
  • Economics, Science and Technology
  • Diaspora and Ecological Space
  • Psycho-Sociological Dimensions of Diaspora
  • A Secondary Diaspora: Indo-Trinidadians in North America and Europe

Contributors are requested to submit an abstract of not more than 250 words to the email address below.

Participants are also required to submit their name, university/institution of affiliation (if applicable), mailing address, email address and phone number(s).

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 28 February 2015.

Deadline for submission of full papers: 10 April 2015.

There is a strict “No (full) paper, no presentation policy.

Proceedings of the conference will be published.

Abstracts and/or enquiries can be sent to ttindiandiasporaconference@sta.uwi.edu