Abstracts are invited to the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference to be held at Lancaster University from 10 to 12 September 2025.

The conference will showcase pioneering scholarship on South Asia from the Subcontinent and across the world. This will be an interdisciplinary conference, bringing together expertise from across the arts, humanities and social sciences.

We particularly encourage contributions from scholars working on regions from the subcontinent outside India. We are also keen to promote scholarship on the pre-modern study of histories, languages and cultures of South Asia.

We are happy to accept submissions for thematic, inter-disciplinary panels (of a maximum of four papers) and individual submissions.

Abstracts should be of no more than 300 words. Panel submissions should include a brief (100 words max) overview of the panel’s theme. Abstracts must include: contributor(s) name(s) and affiliation(s), paper title(s) and contact email address(es). Submit abstracts and panel proposals to: southasiacollective@lancaster.ac.uk

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 April 2025.

Please note that the 2025 BASAS Annual Conference is a members-only event. If you are not currently a BASAS member, you can join BASAS now.

A limited number of bursaries will be available and will be advertised here in due course.