SALA 2015
Borders, Boundaries, and Margins
The 15th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference
6 -7 JANUARY 2015
Listel Hotel, 1300 Robson St. Vancouver, Canada
Conference Schedule
MONDAY, 5 JANUARY
5:00-7:00pm MEETING: Executive Committee
Sculpture Gallery
DAY 1: TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY
8: 00 a.m. onward REGISTRATION
Lobby
9:00-9:30 a.m. CONFERENCE WELCOME: Moumin Quazi, SALA President
Impressionist Gallery OPENING: Prabhjot Parmar & Sharanpal Ruprai, Conference Co-Chairs
9:45-11:00 a.m. SESSION 1 (PANELS 1A, IB, & 1C)
Panel 1A AMITAV GHOSH: SEAS, RIVERS, GIRMITIYAS
Sculpture Gallery W Panel Chair: John Hawley, Santa Clara University
1. Seas and Rivers as Borders/Boundaries: Shaping Identities of the South
Asian Indians
Jayshree Singh, Bhopal Noble Post Graduate College
2. Can the Sublime Be Postcolonial: Aesthetics, Politics and Ethics in
Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
Jana M. Giles, University of Louisiana
3. “Words Do Not Stop at Borders”: The Chrestomathy and Global
Literature in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy
Jim Hannan, Moyne College2
Panel 1B DIASPORIC BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
Impressionist Gallery Panel Chair: Bonnie Zare, University of Wyoming
The 15th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference
6 -7 JANUARY 2015
Listel Hotel, 1300 Robson St. Vancouver, Canada
Conference Schedule
MONDAY, 5 JANUARY
5:00-7:00pm MEETING: Executive Committee
Sculpture Gallery
DAY 1: TUESDAY, 6 JANUARY
8: 00 a.m. onward REGISTRATION
Lobby
9:00-9:30 a.m. CONFERENCE WELCOME: Moumin Quazi, SALA President
Impressionist Gallery OPENING: Prabhjot Parmar & Sharanpal Ruprai, Conference Co-Chairs
9:45-11:00 a.m. SESSION 1 (PANELS 1A, IB, & 1C)
Panel 1A AMITAV GHOSH: SEAS, RIVERS, GIRMITIYAS
Sculpture Gallery W Panel Chair: John Hawley, Santa Clara University
1. Seas and Rivers as Borders/Boundaries: Shaping Identities of the South
Asian Indians
2. Can the Sublime Be Postcolonial: Aesthetics, Politics and Ethics in
Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
Jana M. Giles, University of Louisiana
3. “Words Do Not Stop at Borders”: The Chrestomathy and Global
Literature in Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy
Jim Hannan, Moyne College2
Panel 1B DIASPORIC BORDERS AND BOUNDARIES
Impressionist Gallery Panel Chair: Bonnie Zare, University of Wyoming
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