NCSAS Postgraduate Workshop: 6th Honours & Postgraduate Residential Workshop on South Asia 2000
6-8 July 2000, International House, Melbourne University
Fifty postgraduate and honours students from a wide range of disciplines from Australian institutions were presented with a rare and invaluable opportunity to meet and discuss their research work on South Asia.
Each participant made a fifteen-minute oral presentation on their topic of research thus providing a more in-depth discussion of their research topic as outlined in their abstracts . Each presentation was followed by questions then formation of small groups, lead by an academic facilitator, for further discussions of issues relation to the overall theme of the session.
The workshop was also supported by eminent South Asian Studies scholars who presented the following addresses:
The need for looking at research agendas in a global context.
Professor Andre Gunder Frank, Miami
Professor Andre Gunder Frank, winner of the World History Book Association Prize in 1998 for "Reorient", provided the opening address.
Field work in India - Sources, Libraries etc; an insiders perspective.
Professor Lakshmi Subramanian, University of Calcutta.
Professor Subramanian provided the keynote address for the workshop.
The current status of South Asian Studies - what should be done.
Professor Frank Conlon, Washington University, Seattle.
Prof. Conlon spoke on the current strong growth of South Asian Studies in the United States.
The work of the Pondicherry Institute of Indian Studies.
Professor Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Pondicherry Institute of Indian Studies.
The benefits of students having a better understanding of Modern Pakistan.
Professor Imran Ali, Lahore University of Management Studies, Lahore, Pakistan.
Professor Peter Reeves, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore.
Film feature
A film with significant international impact since it's launch, "The Terrorist" by Santosh Sivan, was viewed and the issues raised in the film were discussed within the South Asian social, economic and political context.