SAGSC: South Asia Graduate Student Conference

The South Asia Graduate Student Conference began its storied tenure in 2004. The first conference was organized by Sharmistha Gooptu. In 2005, the conference moved to the two day format – Sharmistha Gooptu organized the first day; Manan Ahmed, Jesse Knutson and Guriqbal Sahota organized the second day entitled Reorientations: The Study of the non-West after the Saidian Critique. In 2006, Rajeev Kinra organized Imagining Empire: Visions of a Unified Polity in South Asia from Antiquity to the Present. In 2007, Bulbul Tiwari organized Inside/Outside: Between Text and the World. In 2008, Dwaipayan Sen organized New Perspectives in South Asian Research. In 2009, Ananya Chakravarti organized Foundations for the Study of South Asia. The SAGSC, as it is called around the water-cooler, is entirely run by graduate students studying South Asia in various disciplines at the University of Chicago. It is a highly competitive program, culled together from submissions from around the world. We like to think of it as the premier graduate student conference in the field of South Asia.