II National Students’ Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies

Centre for Comparative Literature

School of Humanities

University of Hyderabad

RAW.CON 2012

Researchers at Work Conference

II National Students’ Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies

25^th – 27^th September, 2012

RAW.CON or Researchers at Work Conference 2012 symbolizes a student initiative. We, the postgraduate and research students from the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, believe that a student conference would create a platform for the researching student community. Such spaces are valuable and would contribute a lot through discussions, exchange and sharing of ideas, interrogations and interventions on interdisciplinary studies from universities around the country. RAW.CON 2012 -- a three-day national students’ conference planned and organized by students and for students, with the support of the Centre and the University, is happening for the second consecutive year.

The focus is on Interdisciplinarity, urged by the need to transcend frontiers.  RAW.CON hopes to provide an ‘ideal’ legroom for researchers to think beyond disciplines, explore and test paradigms, yet be rigorous and mindful of the demands of quality research. We hope RAW.CON would provide a dynamic space/platform for upcoming scholars.

RAW.CON invites students and researchers from all over India for this fun-filled, three day conference. We invite papers on the following thrust areas:

De-Constructing Caste                                           Nations and Sub-nationalisms
Religion and Representation                                    Gendering Language
Centering Margins                                                 New Trends in Cinema
Re-reading Histories                                              Comparing Literatures

The Popular and The Academic                                Identities and Beyond

Translating Literatures and Cultures                         Media, Representation and Violence

                                        

Research papers in related areas are also welcome! In addition, we invite panels on issues of contemporary literary and cultural relevance.    

500 word abstracts (Maximum time for a single presentation is 20 mins) may be emailed to raw.con2012@gmail.com or snail-mailed to RAW.CON 2012, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad – 500046.

Last date for submission of abstracts:      5^th August, 2012

Intimation of selection:                           25^th August, 2012

Submission of full papers:                       15^th September, 2012

International Conference on English Literary Studies

Thassim Beevi Abdul Kader College for Women, Kilakarai, Tamil Nadu, in collaboration with English Language Teachers' Association of India (ELTAI) Literature SIG is organising an International Conference on the theme English Literary Studies: Current Trends and Concurrent Challenges from 21-23 September 2012.

Last date for Submission of full papers: 31 July 2012.

ELTAI Literature SIG Cash Awards, instituted by Dr S Rajagopalan, will be presented to two Best Paper Presenters.

For further particulars contact: zoowasif AT gmail.com

For details regarding registration, list of sub-themes, paper presentation, accommodation, etc., please follow this link:http://www.eltai.org/Events.html

UGC-Sponsored National Seminar on Resistance Studies

23 -24 August 2011

Theme: Speaking of the Subaltern: Exploring the Past; Anticipating the future

Organized by The Department of English, Pallagatti Adavappa First Grade College, Tiptur, Karnataka

Venue: Kalpataru Vidya Samsthe  Campus Tiptur, Karnataka, 572202

e-mail: pacseminar2011 AT gmail.com

About the Seminar: A group of Indian scholars brought this term into much popularity and made it focal point of research, investigation, critical scholarship and publication through their Subaltern Studies. The Subaltern studies published nine volumes on South Asian history and society, particularly from "subaltern perspective" during 1982-1996. From then onwards this term attracts the attention of many researchers and scholars especially of social scientists and theologians. The geopolitical, economic, historical, political and social maps of the highly backward Indians of the rural and urban regions guided by their 'subaltern consciousness' make us alert to recurring famine, drought, starvation, malnutrition, disease, superstitious belief, bonded slavery, sexual exploitation and humiliation as the by-product of elite society.

Papers are invited for presentation from researchers and teachers on the following areas and related topics (but not limited to):

·          Discrimination by Caste/ Class/Gender

·          Historiography of India

·          Comparative subaltern movements and cults across the globe

·          Distribution of Power and Wealth

·          Role of physical coercion of the state

·          Ideology of nationalism and class

·          Double colonization of women

Abstract

The abstract in softcopy not exceeding 250 words, with title and author's name as it should appear in certificate, typed in Times New Roman on A4 size, in MS-Word Format, double line spacing should be submitted as an attachment only through  e-mail on or before 10^th April 2011, to:

pacseminar2011 AT gmail.com

For more details, please contact Dr UdayaRavi at udayaravi.shastry AT gmail.com

UGC sponsored National Seminar on “Vision and Performance: Commonwealth plays in English”

UGC Sponsored National Seminar on 

"Vision and Performance: Commonwealth plays in English"

28 & 29 July  2011

Contact:

Dr. G. Baskaran

Associate Professor, Research Center in English

VHNSN College
Virudhunagar - 626 001 INDIA
Email:rgbaskaran AT gmail.com

Mobile: 09842964661

    

Conference on Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements

Cultural Transformations: Development Initiatives and Social Movements

The bi-annual conference of the Inter Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) will be held in Dhaka on 17^th and 18^th December, 2011. This year’s conference will bring in South Asia more centrally within IACSS and also makes efforts to draw in scholars from West Asia. 

Envisioning a new picture of Asia – an other Asia – this conference invites paper and panel proposals on issues such as

• Social movements and struggles
• Development initiatives and cultural change
• Asian feminisms and social change
• The Post-colonial, the national and the pan-Asian in the formation of new cultural identities
• Changes and developments in popular cultural practices, including music, dance, film and popular literature
• Other topics in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies are also welcome

Panels should comprise of 3-5 papers. Proposals for papers and panels will be submitted by the 31^st of May 2011. Acceptance of panels will be announced by the 20^th of June 2011.

The conference is being hosted by BRAC University in Dhaka, Bangladesh and is organized by the Department of English and Humanities and BRAC Development Institute.

More information will be available on http://www.bracu.ac.bd/event/culturaltransformations  as we plan further.

National Conference on New Media and National Development

The Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Communication, Bangalore University is inviting abstracts for the UGC Sponsored National Conference on New Media and National Development to held at the Jnana Jyothi Auditorium, Central College Campus, Bangalore University, Bangalore-560001 on March 18th and 19th 2011.

For details please visit the website : http://www.sites.google.com/site/ict4india

National Seminar on Glimpses of Land and Landscape in Indian Literature

National Seminar on "Glimpses of Land and Landscape in Indian Literature"

Date: 7-9 March 2011

Organized by 

Department of Modern Indian languages and literary Studies, 

University of Delhi

Abstracts on the theme of the seminar or any of the following topics are welcome from scholars:

1. Representation of Land and landscape in ancient texts/Indian epics/medieval Indian literature/modern Indian literature
2. Politicization of land and landscape in Indian literature
3. Land and the cultural identity
4. Geography and Indian Literature : interrelationship
5. Representation of rural, urban and Rurban spaces in Indian literature
6. Eco-criticism and Indian literature
7. Land, landscape and its arrangement in Indian literature
8. Position of land and landscape in Indian literature
9. Terrain and topography in Indian literature
10. Land and community in Indian literature

Registration: No registration fee will be charged to any participant.

Travel expenses and accommodation: It will not be possible for us to provide travel expenses to all the outstation participants. However, accommodation and local hospitality will be provided to all the outstation participants

Last date of the submission of the abstract: 25/02/2011
Last date of the submission of the full paper: 28/02/2011

For more details, please contact the seminar coordinator, Dr Rajendra Mehta
Email: darvesh18 AT yahoo.com, Mobile: 09868218928

Two-day Conference on Indian Cinema and the City

Two-day Conference on Indian Cinema and the City 

3
–
4
November
2011


Organized 
By 
Chao
 Center
 for
 Asian
 Studies,
 Rice
 University


Cinema Space
 proposes
 to
 bring
 together
 scholars
 working
 on
 Indian
 cinema
 in
 an
 attempt
 to
 refocus structuring
 of
 the
 cinematic
 city
 will
 be
 the
 organizing
 thread
 of
 the
 conference.
 The
 city
 here
 is
 understood
 as
 a
 place holder
 for
 bringing
 together
 and
 delineating
 concerns
 of
 aesthetics,
 technology,
 modernity
and
development.



In
 the
 last
 decade,
 with
 the
 emergence
 of
 a
 globalized
 cultural
 industry
 that
 has
 been
 termed
 Bollywood’, 
a 
segment
 of 
Indian 
cinema 
has 
been
 receiving 
much 
attention
 in
Western
 academia 
both
 in such
 as
 song‐dance
 sequences
 and
 complex
 plot
 lines
 that
 were
 seen
 as
 hindrances
 to
 the
 appeal
 of
 Indian focus
 on
 this
 cultural
 value
 of
 ‘Bollywood’
 and
 its
 critique
 based
 on
 the
 argument
 of
 multiplicity
 of
 cinemas
 in
 India
 (or
 regional
 cinemas
 as
 they
 are
 called)
 continues
 to
 read
 aesthetics
 as
 cultural
 difference.
This
 takes 
attention 
away 
from 
cinema’s 
specificity 
as 
a
 techno‐aesthetic,
 which 
has
 salience
 across 
regional/national
 particularities.
 This 
move 
away 
from
particularities
 cannot 
be
‘post‐’
or
‘pre‐’,
 but
 is 
grounded 
on 
the
 national
 itself,
 hence 
the 
focus 
in 
this
conference
 on 
one 
national 
cinema.



 The
 conference
 attempts
 to
 initiate
 new
 conversations
 between
 papers
 that
 address
 the
 aesthetics 
and 
narrative 
forms 
of
 Indian
 cinema
 from 
different 
standpoints.
The
 different 
axes 
around
 which
 city 
space 
is 
organized
 in 
India n
cinema 
within,
without 
and
 at 
the
edges of 
the 
diegetic 
frame
 will
 be
 of
 interest.
 It
 proposes
 to
 think
 through
 the
 production
 of
 space
 in
 Indian
 cinema
 as
 linked
 to
 cinematic
 and
 other 
art 
practices
 in
 other
 parts 
of 
the 
world 
with
 which 
it 
ha s
been 
in
constant 
contact.


These from 
its 
inception.
The 
imagining
 of 
the 
cinematic 
city 
is 
a
significant 
thematic
 that
 will 
allow 
us
 to
 think
 through
 the
 structuring
 of
 space
 in
 Indian
 cinema
 outside
 culturalist
 assumptions,
 and
 to
 help
 us
 understand
 its
 aesthetic
 practice
 as
 historical
 and
 internationalist
 at
 the
 same
 time.
 For
 analytic
 purposes,
 the
 conference
 would
 propose
 to
 bracket
 off
 the
 understanding
 of
 cinema
 as
 a
 space
 of
 representation
 to
 focus
 on
 the
 aesthetic
 concerns
 governing
 it.
 Rather
 than
 cinema
 being
 a
 space
 through
 which
 one
 finds
 traces
 of
 real
 cities,
 the
 conference
 attempts
 to
 think
 of
 space
 of
 the
 city
 in
 cinema
 as 
a
frame 
of 
intelligibility.



The 
questions 
that 
the 
conference 
will 
address
 include,
 but
 are 
not
 limited
 to:


The 
aesthetic 
of 
cinematic
 city


City, 
modernity 
and 
the 
film 
frame


Internationalisms
 and
 the
 cinematic
 city


Realism,
 melodrama 
and 
the city


Trajectories
 of
 film
 aesthetics
 beyond
 the 
nation



Film 

State 
formations, 
film
 policy



Prof.
Moinak
 Biswas ,
Department
 of
 Film 
Studies, 
Jadhavpur 
University,
 Kolkata
 (India)
 will 
give 
the


Abstracts
 of
 not
 more
 than
 500
 words
 along
 with
 a
 short
 bio‐note
 should
 be
 sent
 to
 Ratheesh
 Radhakrishnan
 at
 rr16 AT rice DOT edu
 latest
 by
 April
 10,
 2011.
 Emails
 should
 have
 “film
 conference”
 as
 its
 subject
line. 
Acceptance 
notifications 
will 
be 
sent 
by
 April 
25,
 2011.
The 
Chao 
Center 
will 
be 
happy 
to
 host
 the
 selected
 scholars
 in
 Houston
 for
 the
 duration
 of
 the
 conference,
 but
 will
 be
 unable
 to
 cover


Selected 
workshop 
proceedings 
will 
be 
submitted 
for
 publication
 consideration 
as 
a 
special 
journal
 issue

Inclusion
 in
 the
 proposed
 special
 number
is
 subject
 to
 a
 provisional
 review
 process;
 acceptance
 and
publication

For 
future
 updates 
on 
the 
conference:
http://chaocenter.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=650


Ratheesh 
Radhakrishnan


Post doctoral 
Fellow



Rice

Houston,
TX
77005
USA


rr16@rice.edu


http://asia.rice.edu