Welcome to the Institute of Diaspora Studies.

The Institute of Diaspora Studies (IDS) is a non-profit interdisciplinary research organization established in the summer of 2000. The IDS mission is to promote academic discourse about religious and ethnic diasporas around the world in general and in the US in particular.

The IDS organized two international conferences in 2000 and 2002. While the first conference explored diverse religious communities, the second focused on the role of sages, shrines, and festivals in constructing diasporic identity. The theme of the forthcoming conference is on mapping the future of religious and ethnic diasporas.

The Institute has also begun to develop its publication program. We solicit and consider manuscripts of any length for the Occasional Series or the Journal of Diaspora Studies (JDS). The first issue of the JDS will be inaugurated in 2004.

Institute of Diaspora Studies (IDS)
P.O. Box 22828
San Diego, CA 92192

e-mail: diaspora1999@yahoo.com