9th Annual South Asia Conference 2026
Turbulence, Transformation, and Resilience: South Asia in a Changing Global Order
South Asia Conference 2025 - All Hallows Campus, Dublin City University
Call for Papers - DCU Ireland India Institute, Dublin City University, April 13-15, 2026
The Ireland India Institute is pleased to announce that its ninth Annual South Asia Conference will take place in-person at Dublin City University, 13-15 April 2026.
Doctoral researchers and early-career researchers are encouraged to apply. We also encourage papers from underrepresented groups including from Dalit, Queer and other subaltern perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts is 15th December 2025. Successful applicants will be informed by 13th January 2026. Full papers should be submitted by 31st March 2026 for circulation. All enquiries should be sent to southasiaconference@dcu.ie
Please note a registration fee of €30 applies to students and €50 to faculty and independent researchers. A limited number of needs-based bursaries will be available to successful applicants who require financial assistance to attend the conference. This will take the form of 3 nights accommodation on the DCU campus covered by the conference organisers.
We invite abstracts that fall within the following themes:
- Political Turbulence and International Realignments: Domestic politics, populism, and foreign relations in the context of great power competition.
- Economic Transformations: Crises, Inequality, and Pathways to Sustainability.
- The Arts of Witness: Media, Literature, and the Performance of Turbulence.
- Temporal Politics: Non-European, Multispecies and Other Alternative Temporalities Emerging from the Global South.
- Genres of Disrupture: Magical Realism and other Non-traditional Forms of Resistance.
- The Everyday as Crisis: Work, Routines, and the Ordinary as Narratives of Resilience in the Face of Turbulence.
- Ecofeminism and Climate Justice in Times of Disruption.
- Mobility, Displacement, and Trauma: The Human Face of Global Turbulence.
- Culture, Religion, and the Negotiation of Transformation: South Asian lived experiences and belief systems in change.
- Revisiting History: Memory, Contestation, and the Past in a Polarised Present.
- Digital Transformation: Technology, AI, and the Future of Governance and Society.
- Other Innovative Methodologies focussing on but not limited to visual, sensory, and performative studies.