South Asian Diaspora International Researchers Network (SADIRN)

South Asian Diaspora International Researchers Network (SADIRN)

This network unites academics and writers from around the world whose work focuses on the South Asian Diaspora. It nurtures joint research, teaching and public discussion by providing a platform for educational collaborations with the aim of mutually beneficial growth around and by the South Asian diaspora.

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The ambition of this network is to unite academics and writers from around the world whose work focuses on the South Asian Diaspora.

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News

Monash University news

Creative Lives interviews in new publication

SADIRN is pleased to announce that its 'Creative Lives' interview series will be published in book form in 2021 by Ibidem Verlag/Columbia University Press.

News for SADIRN Members: New Book on the Tamil Diaspora in Australia

Monash University news

"A Sense of Viidu: The (Re)creation of home by the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in Australia"
Edited by Niro Kandasamy, Nirukshi Perera and Charishma Ratnam

Call for Papers: International Communication Association 2020 Digital South Asia Preconference: “Digital Cultures of South Asia: Inequalities, Infrastructures, Informatization”

The preconference aims to bring together ICA participants as well as scholars from around the world who are interested in digital culture in the Global South, with a particular focus on South Asia. Presentations and conversations at the preconference will be geared to achieve the following broad goals: build theory sensitive to the nuances of the region, strengthen analytical frameworks.

Upcoming in the SADIRN Creative Voices Interview Series in 2020: Maryam Mirza interviews Sehba Sarwar

Dr. Maryam Mirza, Assistant Professor in World Literatures in English at Durham University, UK, will interview the Pakistani-American writer Sehba Sarwar for the Creative Lives Series (June 2020).
Monash University news

South Asia Summer Language Institute at The University of Madison-Wisconsin: A Report from Niru Perera (Monash University)

Niru Perera of Monash University has been spending two months of 2019 at the University of Madison-Wisconsin in the US, attending their annual South Asia Summer Language Institute.
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