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SUMMARY:Troubling Times: South Asia and the Postcolonial
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DESCRIPTION:\n\n  From the CFP:This year’s annual Princeton South Asia G
 raduate Conference questions the scholarly paradigm of postcoloniality for
  representing South Asia. We invite participants to trouble the semantic v
 alue of “post-” and “postcolonialism” as epistemological frames th
 at for nearly half a century have overdetermined definitions of the region
  in cultural\, social and political terms. This year’s theme asks: what 
 kind of historical timeline does the postcolonial construct? Further\, how
  do the historical junctures implied by these two terms contend with schol
 arship that increasingly looks towards the decolonial? Is the postcolonial
  simply another interregnum on a linear timeline including the “pre-colo
 nial” and “colonial” periods and soon to be followed by a post-postc
 olonial one? Indeed\, if the problems of periodization have been discussed
  extensively\, a remnant post-ality continues to predetermine the historic
 al timeline—if not chronology—of South Asia\, obscuring the continuiti
 es\, repetitions\, inversions and other temporal disjunctures that define 
 everyday experience in South Asia. In addition to these temporal question
 s\, does the “postcolonial” deserve its scholarly centrality\, or has 
 its legacy of ideological resistance to and critique of colonial power str
 uctures been diluted? Are its tools sufficient for conceptualizing our pre
 sent moment? The omnipresence of the prefix\, “post-” is\, perhaps\, o
 ut of joint with the aesthetic and conceptual problems presented by neolib
 eral globalization today\; while the postcolonial paradigm has been fruitf
 ul in many ways\, the region demands other tools of representation\, recog
 nition and meaning-making. What then\, are these tools? What other figura
 tive devices\, analytic concepts\, scholarly methodologies\, historical na
 rratives\, and temporal terminologies might describe South Asia? How has t
 he concept of post-coloniality contributed to the hegemonic influence of s
 cholarship on India and Pakistan in South Asian studies? What kinds of kno
 wledges does it produce and restrict about South Asia’s relationship and
  relevance to other areas defined in post-colonial terms? In what ways wer
 e decolonial and anti-colonial imaginaries already present before the lega
 l-juridical process of decolonization were completed? How can we reconcile
  a “post-colonial” history of South Asia with the neo-colonial practic
 es in the region today? How have South Asia’s pre-colonial histories bee
 n mined for ideological and cultural forms in the present? [Note: Especia
 lly relevant to those interested in digital tools is the 2 pm panel on Oct
 ober 7\, which includes Aditi Rao’s paper\, “‘The Indians Counted 15
 3 Kings’: Iterations Towards (the Dream of) India’s De-Fragmented Clas
 sical Corpus.” The “paper intervenes a novel reconstructive tool\, the
  GPT-3\, an artificial intelligence-based language prediction model\, to 
 ‘complete’ perhaps the most recognizable history concerning Indian ant
 iquity\, Megasthenes’ Indica.” (read the abstract)]Co-sponsored by the
  CDH\n\n\nhttps://cdh.princeton.edu/events/2022/10/troubling-times-south-a
 sia-and-the-postcolonial/
LOCATION:Louis A. Simpson\, A71
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