Dear Colleagues and Past Participants,

We are happy to announce that the 41st Annual Conference on South Asia will be held on October 11-14, 2012 at the Madison Concourse Hotel, 1 West Dayton St., Madison, WI 53703. The Conference is hosted by the Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Annual Conference on South Asia attracts over 650 scholars and other interested parties annually, who travel from countries all over the world and much of the United States. The conference features nearly 100 academic panels and roundtables, as well as association meetings and special events ranging from performances to film screenings. Several pre-conferences are held in conjunction with the Annual Conference on the Thursday prior to the event and are open to all attendees. Another important component of the conference is our exhibit space which allows University presses and independent publishers to provide conference participants with high quality resources and the best publications on South Asian topics.
This year a plenary session will be organized around the theme of "Corruption and Culture." We especially welcome panels that similarly address questions of corruption and its cultural manifestations and understandings from a variety of disciplinary and evidentiary perspectives. For individuals interested in forming a panel, the conference staff is able to solicit calls for papers on the conference listserv and website.

Please visit the conference website http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/ for registration and lodging information. Online submissions are being accepted for: Preconference, Panel, Roundtable, and Single Paper sessions.

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, April 1, 2012 (by midnight).

We welcome requests to hold meetings during our conference from coordinators for Association Meetings.

Request forms are available online to purchase Exhibit Space at the conference venue and/or Advertising Space in the program book.

If you have any questions please visit http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/FAQ.html or contact us at conference@southasia.wisc.edu.

We look forward to welcoming you to Madison in October!

Sincerely,

Donald R. Davis, Conference Chair, 41st Annual Conference on South Asia
Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia

and

J. Mark Kenoyer, Director, Center for South Asia
Professor, Department of Anthropology

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Annual Conference on South Asia

Center for South Asia
University of Wisconsin-Madison
203 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 - USA

phone: (608) 262-9224
http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/