<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"> Forwarded From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Walter Hakala</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walterha@buffalo.edu">walterha@buffalo.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 4:49 PM<br><br> CONF April 18 Articulating Ethnicity: Language and the Boundaries of the Himalayas, University at Buffalo<br><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><img src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/FFmVkrt0X8Xik89aLZnks9b270EA03IVyS0A9Ea0k3HDce85O77G51PJIwZRroDMV3N6ljga5WNJEcSauIupFJB29dIEEzMJqyNBue4Zdee6J68Yq234MS1uzWdhUEImQ2km1Xg" alt="HimalayaImage2.png" style="border:none;margin-right:0px" height="331" width="544"></span></p><div dir="ltr"><div><div></div></div></div><p></p><p style="line-height:1.38;font-size:14px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="font-size:36px">Articulating Ethnicity</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;font-size:14px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(248,247,242)"><span style="font-size:26px">Language and the Boundaries of the Himalayas</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Saturday, April 18, 2015, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">280 Park Hall, University at Buffalo, North Campus</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Free and open to the public </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(</span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>registration required</b></span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="http://j.mp/HimalayaConf" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://j.mp/HimalayaConf</span></a><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-indent:36pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Situated at the peripheries of the world’s two most populous nation-states—India and China—the Himalayan region represents an exceptional site for the study of the intersection of language, <span>ethnic</span> and national politics. As the Himalayas are home to both contested ethno-nationalisms and disputed and shifting borders, language often finds itself not only at the forefront of the region’s cultural politics, but also its geopolitics. Fredrik Barth’s </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span>Ethnic</span> Groups and Boundaries</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (1969) signified a major shift in the approach to the study of <span>ethnic</span> groups. Barth argued that, if we focus on boundaries, we can see that the forms <span>ethnicity</span> takes are relational—it is the boundary, in fact, which makes salient the cultural content of <span>ethnic</span> groups. This conference engages with and utilizes Barth’s early insights to investigate the role of language in boundary maintenance among Himalayan peoples. We seek to emphasize <span>ethnicity</span>, culture, and nationalism as products of this on-going boundary maintenance. Thus, in this conference, we ask: What roles do languages play in the production of Himalayan <span>ethnicities</span> and nationalisms? </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This workshop-style conference is not only for those who are interested in the Himalayan or South Asian regions, but those who have a theoretical interest in language politics, the role of languages in the making of <span>ethnic</span> groups and national polities, and the study of borders and boundaries.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Presented by the </span><a href="http://asianstudies.buffalo.edu/SouthAsiaAtUB/FSAS.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Foundations of South Asian Studies HI Research Workshop</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-sponsored by the UB Humanities Institute, Department of English, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, Asian Studies Program, and the James H. McNulty Chair in English.</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:32px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Program</span><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span></h2><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">To view paper abstracts, visit </span><a href="http://j.mp/himabstract" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://j.mp/himabstract</span></a></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:24px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Saturday, April 18, 2015</span></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">8:30 am - 9:00 am</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Coffee and Light Breakfast</span></h3><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">9:00 am - 11:00 am</span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Panel 1: Language</span></h3></div></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><h3 style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:19px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;font-weight:normal;background-color:transparent">Chair: Elizabeth Mazzolini (Virginia Tech)</span></h3></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“Situating Language, Recognising Multilingualism: Linguistic Identities and Mother Tongue Attachments in the Himalayas,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Mark Turin, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Chair, First Nations Languages Program, University of British Columbia</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“From Monolingual to Multilingual, Twice Over: The Rise of English Alternatives in Cosmopolitan Nepal,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Heather Hindman, Associate Professor, Asian Studies, The University of Texas at Austin</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“Practicing <span>Ethnic</span> Identity through Mother Tongue Educational Programming: The Case of Anipaan in Eastern Nepal,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Ingrid Hakala, PhD in Education, University of Virginia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">11:00 am - 11:15 am</span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Coffee Break</span></p><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">11:15 am - 12:45 pm </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-weight:normal;font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Panel 2: Abroad </span></h3></div></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><h3 style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:8pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:19px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1.2;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Chair: Vasiliki Neofotistos (University at Buffalo)</span></h3></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“The Blurry Boundaries of “Nepaliness” in New York,” <i>Susan Hangen, Professor, Anthropology and International Studies, Ramapo College</i></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“Producing the ‘Omkar Family’: Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees’ Dynamic <span>Ethnicities</span>,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Joseph Stadler, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University at Buffalo</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">12:45 pm to 2:00 pm</span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Lunch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><br></span></p></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">2:00 pm - 4:00 pm</span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:'Trebuchet MS';color:rgb(102,102,102);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Panel 3: Land </span></p></div></div><blockquote style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:19px;line-height:1.2;text-indent:72pt;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Chair: TBA (University at Buffalo)</span></p></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“Administrative and Affective Boundaries: The Properties of Territory in Nepal’s State of Transformation,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sara Shneiderman, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia (UBC)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“<span>Ethnicity</span> and Land in a Time of Urbanization: The Newar Jyāpu of Kirtipur and the Case of Plot #7,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Andrew Nelson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of North Texas</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">“Politics of Difference and Claiming of Territorial Boundaries: A Case Study of the Limbuwan's Identity Politics in the Eastern Himalaya,” </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Dambar Chemjong, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Cornell University</span></p></div></div></div></div>
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