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Thursday, July 27, 2017

National Conference- Thoreau and the Transcendentalists: Their Philosophy and Related Concerns March 15-17, 2018, Delhi.

Department of English, Bharati College 


and
India International Centre
mark the bi-centenary of the birth of
Henry David Thoreau









Call For Abstracts:


The year 2017 marks the bi-centenary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817) whose writings -- especially his essay on civil disobedience -- changed the course of history through its powerful advocacy of passive resistance, a form of nonviolent protest later adopted in India by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, in the USA by Martin Luther King, and in South Africa by Nelson Mandela, among other national leaders. Gandhi declared that he never spent a night in jail without opening his trunk and re-reading the essay. Further, as an economist promulgating in the opening chapter of 'Walden' the doctrine of a radically different value system. Thoreau laid stress on a life of simplicity. This provided a blueprint for Gandhi's famous image of himself in a khadi (home spun) loin cloth at his charkha (spinning wheel) that broke the backbone of England's economy. Thus, quite apart from Thoreau's international reputation as a writer, India is indebted to him for his profound influence on Gandhi, resulting in the freedom movement led by him.





The three day conference is a salute to Thoreau for this, as well as for his awareness expressed of the close links between the current of his thought and the philosophy of India, as may be seen in the satisfaction he felt in the symbolic (as well as literal) confluence of "the pure Walden water" "with the sacred water of the Ganges" in the form of ice exported to "Madras and Bombay and Calcutta," affording relief to the "sweltering inhabitants" of these cities ('Walden', "The Pond in Winter").





A defender of individual liberty, an ecologist and environmentalist who saw the steam locomotive as a "devilish Iron Horse," a naturalist, a professional land surveyor, a maker of pencils that equaled the best imported from England, a philosopher, thinker, an explorer of the New England area, and, above all, an outstanding writer, Thoreau's life and work as well as the Transcendental movement that he, Emerson, Channing, and Margaret Fuller, among others, pioneered, needs our critical scrutiny, more so today than ever before when political, social, cultural and ideological pressures are becoming increasingly importunate. Not that such pressures were unknown to Thoreau: strongly opposed as he was to the institution of slavery and to the execution of John Brown the abolitionist, Thoreau described him as "a man of rare common sense and directness of speech and of action" ("A Plea for Captain John Brown"). When Thoreau was jailed for refusing to pay the tax for the Mexican War, Emerson asked him, "Henry, why are you here?". Thoreau replied, "Waldo, why are you NOT here?"







Research Papers are invited, largely upon, but not limited to the following sub themes:
Thoreau and Gandhi 
Thoreau the Revolutionary 
Forever Changed by Thoreau 
Thoreau the Transcendentalist 
Influences on Thoreau 
Thoreau, social justice and environmental justice 
Individualism, Idealism and Thoreau 
Thoreau and Solitude 
Relevance of Thoreau in the Anthropocene 
Thoreau and Walden 
Thoreau the Intellectual 
Reading Thoreau 





Research papers should not exceed 5000 words in length. They should be in 12 point size, font- Times New Roman, with 1.5 line spacing.




Research paper submission dates extend from September 16, 2017 to October 31, 2017. 

Acceptance of papers shall be notified on November 15, 2017.
The papers will be circulated in advance among all the paper readers, whose actual participation in the conference will be limited to a 15-minute summary of his/her paper, followed by a panel discussion.
Certificates for paper presentation/participation would be handed over in the valedictory function of the conference. The selected and peer-reviewed complete papers will be published as an edited volume with an ISBN number.


Papers should be sent at: englishdept@bharati.du.ac.in






Conference Director
Dr Mukti Sanyal
Officiating Principal,
Bharati College(University of Delhi),
New Delhi 110058,
India



Conference Convenor 

Dr Naila Anjum
Department of English,
Bharati College (University of Delhi),
New Delhi 110058,
India.







Contact Info: 


Bharati College, University of Delhi, C-4 Vidya Marg Janakputi New Delhi - 110058, India
Contact Email: englishdept@bharati.du.ac.in

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

International conference Dalit studies: Human Dignity, Equality and Democracy,22-24 January 2018 CSDS Delhi





Call For Abstracts: 
The rise of Dalit studies has provided the necessary platform for a new set of scholarly enquiries in the social sciences and humanities. The Dalit Studies International conference (2008) was an attempt to bring together academics and intellectuals for a productive conversation on new research agendas. This initiative resulted in the publication of an edited volume Dalit Studies (2016). We plan to continue to explore caste inequality, human dignity, democracy and similar concerns to further reflect on the possibilities and challenges of Dalit Studies in the proposed conference.




Dalit Studies may be thought of as a new academic practice rooted in resistance to the dominant epistemologies. It has enabled academia to engage with the grounded knowledge creation by the Dalit communities. Innovative approaches have been devised to read the colonial and missionary archives and to analyse social memories, oral narratives, and cultural practices of the Dalit communities. Such novel research initiatives have resulted in a new set of studies that foreground Dalit subjects as active agents of social change and action. As a location for the study of marginality, Dalit Studies has enabled a sustained critical attention to the anti-caste social movements, religious traditions, literary and performative cultures and the everyday lives and practices of Dalit communities. Another important aspect of Dalit studies is that it opened up the possibility of a global conversation on caste, race, and similar forms of inequality.




The last two decades have witnessed a serious engagement with Dalit struggles, experiences and perspectives. New histories of caste subalterns such as the new histories of Chamars in northern India or the slave castes of southern India particularly Kerala began to be explored. These studies have tried to develop substantial research questions that were either absent or only marginally dealt with in social science research in India. These studies offered new ways of reading slavery and untouchability by re-interpreting colonial and missionary archives. Given the limited historical records left by the Dalit people, the colonial and missionary records have proved valuable sources to recover the lives of the untouchables as human beings with a sense of their body and self. In contemporary India, the Dalit literary and cultural thought is constituted by a number of anthologies as well as analytical studies.




The powerful Dalit narratives represented the subjective experience of caste oppression and everyday life. For example, the recent studies on Dalit literatures in Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Hindi languages have engaged with Dalit experience and aesthetics to demonstrate its valuable role in shaping a distinct Dalit identity. The explorations into the print and literary cultures have further revealed the gendered forms of caste and class domination. Caste is studied as sites of hegemony and power than simply reading it as an objective and homogeneous cultural system. Another set of studies documented and analyzed the significance of Dalit mobilizations, counter narratives of Dalit feminism, caste discrimination in labour market, inter-social group inequalities, subaltern religious movements and electoral success of Dalit parties. To sum up, questions of human dignity, citizenship, gender and caste inequalities, cultural identity, internal hierarchy of the lower castes, welfare, social justice, minority rights, political power and democratization are freshly posed and investigated in the field of Dalit Studies.




We propose to hold a three day international conference (22-24 January 2018) that would serve as a platform for intense and productive debates on the prospects of Dalit Studies. Given that the objective of this conference is to promote Dalit Studies and stimulate a constructive dialogue among scholars, we are keen to disseminate the new research through publications. We intend to publish the conference proceedings.


We invite proposals from independent scholars, research students, and those working within and outside of formal academic institutions on any theme which would broadly fall under the rubric of Dalit Studies. A committee will select the abstracts and its decision is final.




The Conference organizers will provide economy class airfare and local hospitality to all participants from within India, and local hospitality to participants from abroad.









Coordinators:
K. Satyanarayana, P. Sanal Mohan (Dalit Studies Collective)
Aditya Nigam, Prathama Banerjee (CSDS)








Deadline for paper proposals: September 15, 2017
Applications should include: (1) a two-page description of the research to be presented at the conference and its place within your larger work and goals (2) a two-page C.V.
Deadline for full papers: December 10, 2017


Please email your proposals to dalitstudies2018@gmail.com

http://www.dalitcamera.com/call-papers-dalit-studies-human-dignity-equality-democracy/

Monday, July 24, 2017

International Conference on "Sustainable Futures for the Caribbean: Critical Interventions and the 2030 Agenda" April 25-27, 2018, Jamaica.








Call For Papers: 

In celebrating the UWI’s 70th Anniversary, the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies is pleased to issue this call for papers for its 19th Annual Conference with the theme:
Sustainable Futures for the Caribbean: Critical Interventions and the 2030 Agenda


In a global environment characterized by significant political, social, economic, technological and environmental turbulence, the Caribbean region which forms the backbone of American Archipelagic space, faces revolutionary times. Thus, as our global geopolitical environment is subject to pressures of dissolution, fragmentation and transformation in the post-Brexit and Trump era, regional and island economies are faced with radical new opportunities to either sink separately or swim together. Yet the current choice to “sink or swim” represents simultaneously a déjá vu moment given the prescience of the 1947 conference for the Closer Association of the British West Indian Colonies that was held in Montego Bay, Jamaica. The conference was attended by country and colonial representatives. One of the most important activities of the conference was the establishment of a committee to examine the political and economic need for closer association of the Caribbean territories and to make recommendations in the form of draft resolutions which were later approved by the conference. Are these historical concerns still salient in a shift to a global 2030 sustainable development agenda? 







As history has taught us, attempts at political federation failed in large measure and were replaced by a push for functional and economic cooperation by independent and somewhat insular nation states. The 19th Annual SALISES Conference seeks then to re-examine the questions raised at that historic conference in Montego Bay, in the light of our current moment, and to revisit some of the issues (e.g. Caribbean fiscal problems, labour rights and structural inequality) discussed in that conference. Scholars, practitioners, policy makers and students alongside the general public, will also
Sustainable Futures for the Caribbean International Conference April 25-27, 2018 Holiday Inn Resort MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA


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seek to provide analyses of the multiple political challenges and prospects for sustainable social and economic growth by 2030 and beyond. 
Papers are invited on the following sub-themes/topics:

1. Caribbean Regional Inequality, Structural Adjustment and a new Growth Agenda 

2. Latin America and Caribbean integration: Strategies for Sustainable Development 

3. Constitutional Reform and Local Governance for Democracy and Development 

4. Gender, Sexuality, Class, Racial Power and the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion 

5. Caribbean Ecosystems: Social Growth, Environment and Financing for Development 

6. Reparatory Justice, Criminal Justice, Labour Justice and Sustainable Development 

7. Migration, Diaspora, Cultural Investment and Development 

8. Global Governance and Public Policy for Sustainable Trade, Investment and Growth. 

9. Educational Philosophy- Training, Teaching and Learning 

10. Community and Social Enterprise Development as sustainable new growth models 

11. The 4th Industrial Revolution- The Future of Work and Competitiveness 

12. The Medical Cannabis Industry, Health and Development 

13. Sustainable Cities, Tourism and the Green Economy 

14. Poverty, Social Exclusion, Marginalization and the crises of Modern Power 

15. Sport, Development and the ‘spirit’ of Caribbean people’s ‘to di world’ agenda 

16. Climate Change, SIDS and Sustainable Rural Futures for Health and Wealth 

17. Child Development ,Youth Futures and Ageing Populations 

18. Measuring the Sustainable Development goals, risks and well-being in the region 

19. Language, Livity, The Arts, Creative Lives and the Future of Cultural Industries 

20. The Internet of Things (IoT) for global problems – Climate Change, Education, Poverty & Terrorism 

21. Globalization, Violence, Debt and Development







Deadline for submission of abstracts: December 15, 2017 
Date for Notification of acceptance of abstract: January 19, 2018 Deadline for submission of full conference papers in WORD format: March 26, 2018 Deadline for submission of paper for consideration for publication is August 30, 2018

Registration Fees: Early Bird (up to February 28, 2018)

THREE DAY REGISTRATION ONLY *Overseas Participants: US$250 *Local Participants: US$200 *Students: US$75






Contact Info: 


Rachel Folkes (876) 927 1020 or 927 1234 or rachel.folkes02@uwimona.edu.jm

Patricia Northover, Programme Chair: patricia.northover@uwimona.edu.jm
Contact Email: 
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Saturday, July 22, 2017

International Research Fellowships 2018-19 at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany








Call for Applications


The International Research Center "Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History" at Humboldt University in Berlin, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) invites scholars to apply for international research fellowships (senior scholars and postdoctoral candidates) for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Eight to twelve fellowships will be awarded. Applications are due in Berlin on 10 September 2017.







Candidates:

We welcome candidates from various disciplines including history, anthropology, law, sociology, political sciences, geography, economics, and area studies. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level or senior scholars. We would like the proposed projects to employ a historical and transregional perspective. Applications should ideally focus on work / labour in relation to changing patterns of life course. Possible topic areas are, among others, the household, loss of work, the relationship between work and non-work, work and gender, free and unfree labour. We welcome proposals about all regions of the world and especially those that look at comparisons, conflicts, relations between different regions. A global history perspective is not required; keeping an open mind to such ideas, however, is highly desirable.

The fellowships will begin on 1 October 2018 and end on 31 July 2019.

Shorter fellowship terms will be possible.

Fellows will receive a monthly stipend to be determined. This is a residential fellowship. Fellows are obliged to work at the research center in Berlin. A fully equipped office will be provided as well as organizational help for visa, housing, etc. During the fellowship, we also encourage fellows to introduce their work to wider audiences within Berlin’s scientific community.

Application procedure:Please use the electronic form on our website (https://rework.hu-berlin.de/de/call-for-appl.html). 






You will be asked to provide information regarding your biography, the research project you intend to work on during your fellowship as well as details on your current research. Applicants should provide the names of two referees in addition to that.

Please note that we can only accept electronically submitted applications!

Application deadline: 10 September 2017

For further information, please contact: 
Dr. Felicitas Hentschke

T: +49 (0)30 / 2093-70206; F: -70210








Contact Info: 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin IGK Arbeit und Lebenslauf in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive 
Dr. Felicitas Hentschke Unter den Linden, D - 10099 Berlin
 Phone +49 30 2093 702 06 
Fax +49 30 2093 702 10  
felicitas.hentschke@asa.hu-berlin.de
 http://rework.hu-berlin.de/ 







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Saturday, July 15, 2017

International Conference on Endangered & Lesser Known Languages, 21 – 23 February 2018 CIIL, Manasagangotri, Mysuru,





CALL FOR PAPERS

About SPPEL

The Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL) was instituted by Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India in 2013. The primary objectives of this Scheme are to document and archive the endangered languages of India. The scheme is monitored by Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL). The CIIL has collaborated with several academic institutions across the country for accomplishing this mission. Initially SPPEL has identified 117 languages to document and archive.






ELKL Conference Series 
The Endangered and Lesser Known Languages conference was begun to serve as a platform for academicians, researchers and members of speech communities to deliberate issues relevant to
language endangerment and share their latest findings. This annual conference aims to create interest and awareness in lesser known languages and train young scholars in documenting endangered
languages. The first ELKL conference took place at the University of Lucknow in 2012. The Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages, CIIL, Mysore is happy to announce that the sixth ELKL conference will take place at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore from 21-23 February 2018.






The Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL), CIIL and several other like-minded institutions across the globe are also working towards the sustenance of "angerment and language revitalization:policies, planning and practices”minor and lesser known languages. Scholars, policy makers and community members have often expressed anguish for the dwindling future of the endangered languages. Arguably and unfortunately the issue of language revitalization has not attracted the attention it deserves from the researchers and policy makers. Efforts towards language revitalization are inevitable for numerous languages that are on the verge of extinction. Therefore, the theme of the 6th ELKL-2018 is “Language Endangerment and Language Revitalization: Policies, Planning and Practices”. Abstracts are invited for oral and poster presentations on original, unpublished and substantial research relevant to the theme of the conference.





Sub-Themes
We invite submissions on the following and related sub-themes:
  • Documentation of endangered and lesser-known languages
  • Language ecology
  • Language endangerment scenario
  • Language policy and language planning
  • Language revitalization
  • Community’s participation in language revitalization process
  • Development of script and orthography
  • Mother tongue based multilingual education
  • Technologies for documenting endangered and lesser-known languages
  • Field ethics and case studies
  • Language archiving
  • Language contact, maintenance and shift
  • Linguistic human rights





Abstract Submission guidelines:
Abstracts of 750-1000 words (excluding references and data) in PDF format is to be uploaded by 15th September, 2017 using the EasyChair system at:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl6

Abstracts should be completely anonymous for consideration.
Note: One author can submit a maximum of one single-authored and one co-authored abstract.
Please send your queries if any to: elkl6.2018@gmail.com

Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline : 15 September 2017 (Friday)
Notification of acceptance : 1 November 2017 (Wednesday)
Submission of full paper : 15 January 2018 (Monday)







Publication
An edited volume of the papers, key note address and plenary sessions of the conference will be published by CIIL. The concerned authors will have to modify their papers by incorporating the feedback, observations, comments and suggestions that come out during the presentation.







Travel & accommodation
Travel allowances may be provided for out-station and invited speakers from India. Participants from other countries and those located within the city of Mysore may kindly arrange travel on their own. TAto eligible outstation participants will be considered as per CIIL guidelines and is subject to the availability of funds. Modest accommodation will be arranged in the CIIL premises, only for outstation participants.
For further information on the conference, please visit www.sppel.org







Contact Info:
Sujoy Sarkar
SPPEL Coordinator
Phone Number: 091 - 9717225610
Email: elkl6.2018@gmail.com