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

National Conference on ELT: Language and Culture’

English Language Teaching Institute of Symbiosis (ELTIS) is organizing a National Conference in collaboration with English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI) on February 11 & 12, 2011. The theme of the conference is ‘ELT: Language and Culture’.


For further details click here
(Information sent by Shardool Thakur, Pune)

National Workshop on Contemporary Indian Drama by Mahesh Dattani

Department of English, St Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore, Karnataka is organizing a two-day National Workshop on Contemporary Indian Drama on 7 & 8 January 2011. Mahesh Dattani, the noted playwright, is the resource person.

For more information please email to sacenglishworkshop@gmail.com, or swamysac at yahoo.com Website:http://sacenglishworkshop.hpage.com
Mobile- +919448744522

UGC Sponsored National Seminar on Linguistic and Literary Terrain of Translation Salesian College, Sonada - A Report

Seminar dates : 30-31 July 2010

The Seminar had scholars from different kinds of institutions and from different parts of the country. There were two scholars from Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, a Philosopher from Assam University, from Bangalore, and many part of West Bengal.

Since the organisers had tried this diversity and had insisted on the full papers being sent before the seminar, the seminar proved to be a productive one with very serious discussion shaping up during the course of deliberations. The outcome of the deliberations made the seminar very special to me.

What I also liked was the careful scheduling of the papers. There were only six papers each for the day. That is, three in the forenoon session and three in the afternoon. This structure gave sufficient time for scholars to present their views and later engage in a serious discussion, something which is sacrificed in many seminars.

The seminar was clearly not held with the primary focus on building records for NAAC or other such purposes but for creating platform to build research and academics.

Were there new insights? May be. For me the only new insight from the deliberations was the role of typographies in determining the relationship between the translator and writer of the ‘source’ text, which emerged in a discussion I initiated after the presentation of Prof Dipankar Sen. I had not seriously considered this so far in the context of translation studies. Other ‘carry home’ from the seminar were, the distinction being made between Nepali literature in Nepal and Nepali literature in India, the canonical literature

in English vs theory divide as it came across from the interaction with Jamia scholars, introduction to a lot of new sources, new texts and newer kinds of engagement with translations.

I also presented a paper entitled “Reading More Intimately: An Interrogation of Translation Studies through Self-translation” You may find the abstract at the end or the report.

One other part I must appreciate of the seminar was the presence of Nepali writers and translators that was created in each session. After the deliberations of each session, established Nepali translators were asked to respond to the deliberation from Non-Nepali scholars. This was an important step in terms of creating a dialogue between scholarship in translation studies and practice of translation in Nepali. This gesture made the seminar locate itself clearly in the local milieu.

A journey to the place I visited confirmed that Darjeeling clearly remains a neglected territory by governments of West Bengal and India. Hardly any infrastructural needs have been attended to since the time of the British Raj.

Abstract of my Paper

While the poststructural turn has made the study of translation more self-reflexive, it has not made translation studies scholars rethink the fundamental assumptions of translation process, which poststructuralism should have. As a result, many practices in the nature of ‘translation’ have not only got marginalised but have got relegated to absence, within translation studies. One such practice is self-translation. This paper tries to read the process of self-translation closely and thereby raise critical questions on the fundamental assumptions about translation. The paper will conclude by positing self-translation as an important domain for scholarly engagement by drawing attention to its potential to make translation studies more nuanced.