CFP Colonialism and its Narratives: Rethinking the Colonial Archive in Australia conference 10-11 December 2018

Call for papers

This conference aims to bring together new approaches to colonial Australia across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Colonialism puts a range of practices and discourses into play: violent encounters, dispossession, trauma, 'development', 'civilisation', governance, trade, and so on. It produces endless narratives about what it is, what it does and the lives it radically changes. It is both immensely destructive and energetically productive: recording its various practices and discourses through a rapidly growing range of media and visual technologies.

The narratives of colonialism worked to reinvent Australia in colonialism's image, leaving us with legacies and frameworks that continue to shape who we are and how we identify to the world around us. Sometimes we try to 'forget' colonialism, but it constantly claims us and returns to us; we continue to live in its aftermath.

This conference welcomes papers on the following topics:

• Militant colonialism and frontier violence
• Indigenous dispossession and resistance
• Colonial racism, its histories and legacies
• Colonialism and the anthropological turn
• Language and the exchange of knowledge
• Money, capitalism and trade
• Settler and Indigenous governance
• Colonial modernity and the 'global south'
• Metropolitan identities
• Bush, desert and coastal narratives
• The convict archive
• Gold rush narratives
• Colonial transnationalisms
• Immigrant narratives
• Print culture and colonial literature: prose fiction, poetry, theatre
• Gender and sexuality
• Colonialism and the law
• Institutions and their networks
• Collectors, archivists and the colonial GLAM sector
• Colonialism and the visual arts
• Environment, species and the natural sciences
• Colonialism and everyday life
• The colonies and the nation: north, south, east and west
• Colonialism today

Paper submissions

Please submit an abstract of no more than 200 words by Friday 6 July, 2018.

Papers should be no more than 20 mins. Suggestions for panel discussions are welcome.

All submissions to Ken Gelder: kdgelder@unimelb.edu.au

 Weblink:http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/e/colonialism-and-its-narratives

CFP: Young Scholars International Conference Margins and Connections-: 7-8 February, 2019 - North East India Studies Programme School of Social Sciences JNU, New Delhi

Concept Note:

Margins are not mere physical outlying areas, or geographies at the edges of state, capital and socio-cultural worlds. They are products of various complex processes in colonial and postcolonial times and have been produced in various moments of contestations, fragmentations and negotiations. As such, margins are not inert spaces; they are active sites in which creative practices and connections have taken place. Such practices and connections include cultures, politics, histories, societies, and economies that inhabit either the border of a state or a “geo-body.” In this regard, various studies focusing on “margins” have enabled us to look at forms of state-making, subject formations, role of capital, circuits and networks, contestations and subversions, including various cultural and political practices across societies and boundaries.

Historically, “margins” such as North East India had connections with societies in the “margins” of neighbouring areas such as Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, etc. As such, these geographical spaces throw up comparable and significant insights in studying the making of such complex spaces. For instance, these geographies are sites and spaces of various forms of material and non-material transactions and connectivities, including resources, rituals and commodities.

Such transactions and connectivities continue to mark these spaces even in the contemporary times. People continue to have wider social, cultural and (in) formal economic networks, marked by routes and infrastructures that support various forms of mobility. These “margins” have also been sites and spaces where forms of state/non-state violence, contestations, projects of nation-building and developmental interventions of both state and global financial institutions simultaneously have coexisted. This has also included representing these “margins” as the “gateways” and “corridors” of capital, trade and services under the neoliberal economy. Nevertheless, these areas have also been marked by various forms of social and political movements, that resists and negotiates violence and developmental interventions.

Some of the broad concerns and issues that emerge from the above are, what are margins? In what context are margins produced and reproduced? How are margins connected to the wider processes of state, capital and cultural flows? What are the different ways through which societies respond to the shifting dynamics of margin making?






Themes

This two-day interdisciplinary international conference seeks to explore some of these issues and concerns, especially focusing on North East India and its neighboring areas such Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, etc. This conference focuses on the following themes, but are not limited to:

• Making state, making margins
• Circuits, networks and infrastructures
• Capital, resource regimes and economy
• Margins and everyday life
• Violence, resistance and margins
• Knowledge, power and practices
• Margins and governance
• Movement and mobility
• Development, ecology and margins
• Memory and narratives
• Margins and gender
• Material culture

Interested research scholars, post-doctoral scholars and early career academics are invited to submit an abstract of about 200-300 words, including a brief CV at neispyoungscholarsconference@gmail.com

Participants from outside India are requested to seek funding from their institutions for travel costs. Partial funding to cover travel costs may be available for selected participants from within India based on availability of funds. Accommodation and local conveyance will be provided for selected participants.

Important dates:

Last date for abstract submission: 21 July, 2018

Intimation of abstract acceptance: 17 August, 2018

Submission of working papers from selected participants: 7 January, 2019

Organizing Team:

G. Amarjit Sharma is Assistant Professor at North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Bhumika R, Thingminao Horam, Tammoy  Das and Robert Lunkhopao Haokip are Research Scholars at North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 

Contact Info: 

G. Amarjit Sharma is Assistant Professor at North East India Studies Programme, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Contact Email: neispyoungscholarsconference@gmail.com

Workshop on The Future of Humanities in the 21st Century,March 24, - 25, 2018 AURO University, Gujarat

Call For Applications:

Major civilizations of the world – Indian and Greek – based their models of education on inter-relatedness of various disciplines. However, with the focus on specialization and technology, liberal arts suffered at the expense of science and technology. But recently the discipline of Liberal arts and Human sciences has attained an unprecedented popularity in various Universities all over the world. The present world of the 21st century is strongly underpinned by rapid developments in the field of science and technology and accompanied by the ever-spreading roots of a global economy. The question then arises as to what role liberal education can play in the world mired in technological innovations spawned by globalization. In this fiercely contested competitive world, it would be naïve to think of an education system without linking it to a particular profession, but concurrently, employability should never be the sole aim of education. It is here that liberal arts and human sciences can play vital role by providing a unique opportunity to young minds to explore the space unleashed by this new blend of educational disciplines. Even a cursory look at the syllabi of major Indian universities like Nalanda University reveals their interdisciplinary approach to educational transactions. This contra-disciplinarity of education has its origin in the trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the quadrium (music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy or astrology) education system of the ancient Greek period, which provides a comparative model of study in order to see the relation between things, and to reduce the opposition between science and humanities, and in so doing, it allows enough space to curious minds to sharpen their thinking, reasoning and speaking skills for a broader and deeper understanding of the problems of human society. The discipline of Liberal arts and human sciences lays emphasis on the value of individual autonomy through imbibing integral growth. It allows one to regain his/her cultural heritage, develop civilizational understandings, while also being flexible enough to acquire a new skill set to meet the demands and circumstances of the Western world. In brief, liberal arts and science and technology along with other disciplines of knowledge complement each other, as sciences take care of provision and liberal arts of vision.

The Two day Seminar cum Workshop aims at bringing together a cross section of teachers, thinkers, social entrepreneurs, and leaders of industry to deliberate dialogically upon the importance of liberal arts and human sciences education in the 21st century. It will try to seek new yet cogent models of education that can act as a bridge to cover the demands of the rapidly changing world. Focus will be on sharing the learning skills required for teaching of interdisciplinary courses.

The two day Seminar cum Workshop is primarily meant for teachers and will be used as a dialogic platform to discuss:

• Challenges to Humanities
• Curriculum design for future Humanities
• Major learning problems in the field
• Teaching strategies to overcome existing problems
• Experiential Learning
• Evaluation techniques
• Internships for learning outside the classrooms

Many international and national scholars, faculty members and thinkers of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences have agreed to participate in the Seminar cum Workshop.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

AURO University is established in 2009 under the Gujarat Private Universities Act, for value based education. Its mission of providing integral and transformational education to the students focused on providing to students an environment for self-development; based on their aptitudes and interests; provide a platform to be mentors and guides who shape the country’s future leaders by imparting knowledge and skills; opportunities for research on emerging trends and industry practices; intellectual competence, reality-based knowledge, personal integrity; students who strive for excellence and aspire to become socially responsible future leaders.

IMPORTANT DATES

Last date of Paper Submission: 15th March 2018

Acceptance Date: 18th March 2018

Last date of Registration: 20th March 2018

Dates of the Seminar cum Workshop: 24th-25th March 2018

REGISTRATION FEE

Faculty/Professionals: 1500/-

Research Scholars: 1000/-

The Registration fee has to be submitted only through online mode (RTGS / NEFT) to:

State Bank of India   

Account Holder: Auro University

Account No.: 31703674530  

IFSC: SBIN0002636

Bhatha Branch                         

Surat, Gujarat

Contact Info: 

Contact Email: om.dwivedi@aurouniversity.edu.in

URL: http://istfh2018.aurouniversity.ac.in/ 

International Conference On Performing the Political, Politicizing the Performance-27th to 30th March 2018, Bangalore University

Concept Note:

Theatre has always been political in nature. The birth of theatre, as stated in Natyashastra, when analysed sounds highly political in nature today. Similarly the secular arguments about birth of theatre that it is rituals/religion which are responsible for emergence of performance based theatrical genres, would also become political in the light of what the socialist thinker Rammanohar Lohia says "politics is short-term religion and religion is long-term politics". Thus the theatre has always been political in nature, though we would like to call it as a means of entertainment. Even the seemingly apolitical entertainment oriented theatre would be political in the sense that they would be peddling the dominant political discourse of the day. Overtly political theatre, which claims that theatre has to respond to the present political system to build a better political future, is also found all over the world. The world has also witnessed from wielding of censorship weapon on theatre, banning the theatre altogether to killing or incarcerating theatre personalities.   Anyone who has witnessed the theatre culture from close quarters would also vouch for the fact that it is highly political in nature.

This conference aims to put-together research around the issues of politics and theatre, politics of theatre, political theatre, ideology and theatre, theatre of politics, politics in theatre, questions of representation in theatre, politics of performance, performing politics etc.

Sub themes:

1. Street theatre

2. Translating politically

3. Politics of Individual plays

4. Politics of a Dramatist

5. Role of a theatre group in political transformations

6. Suppression of Theatre

7. Censoring theatre

8. Attack on artists, performance, and screening

9. Ideologies of theatre

10. Theatre movements and Political movements

11. Politics of entertainment

12. Political issues on stage

13. Performing the Political

14. Politicizing the performance

Program:

27^th March 2018                        Inauguration and Staging of plays

28^th March 2018                   Plenary Session and staging of a play

29^th March 2018            Technical Sessions and staging of a play

30^th March 2018                          Staging of plays and Valedictory

Important Dates and other details

Abstract and full papers shall be sent to buconference@gmail.com on or before 15^th March 2018.

Registration fee- General Conference          : Rs. 2000/-

Foreigners delegates                                                  : $ 75

Research Scholars                                          : Rs. 1000/-

DD shall be drawn in favour of Prof. Nagesh Bettakote, Conference Coordinator, Department of Performing Arts, Bangalore University, Bengaluru – 560056.

For details please contact:

Dr. Pavithra 9738450401

Mr.Jagadish 9845172822

CFP: Convergence and Divergence: Indian Writing in a Global Context- March 15, 2018 to March 16, 2018 Pondicherry University

Focus of the Conference:

The focus of this seminar is to examine how the aesthetic and cultural parameters of Indian literature both writing in English and writing in translation are represented in a global context. The other investigation that the seminar would like to focus on is the reception and consumption of these literatures in India and academic departments devoted to Indian/South Asian writing in the West and other regions. We are interested in queries such as the role of academics and scholars in promoting Indian literatures and processing it in the global context; the nature of canon formations; the pedagogy of courses devoted to these areas nationally and internationally, the cross cultural interactions that follow and so on

Thrust Areas:

Paper Presentations related to the following possible areas of interest may include, but are not limited to:

Region and Nation; Gender and Sexuality; Translations

Indigenous/Aboriginal/Subaltern narratives; Pedagogical Methods; Canon Formations

Students are encouraged to present panel sessions on the following possible themes but are free to explore within the overall broad area of the conference:

The Role of Translation; The Relevance of Canons; The Process of Canon Formations;

The Importance of Bhasa/Regional Literature; The Inclusion/Exclusion of Other Literatures

Registration Fee:

Faculty Members (international): Rs. 7500; Research Scholars (International): Rs. 5000

Faculty Members (National and SAARC Countries): Rs. 5000

M.Phil & Research Scholars (National and SAARC Countries): Rs 3000

Students (National and International): Rs 1000

University faculty & scholars: Rs 500; Students of the Department: Rs 300

Abstracts: Word Limit for Paper presentations and Panels: 250 words. Note panel sessions should include names of all participants.

Dates to be noted:

• Last date for Abstracts: March 3, 2018
• Confirmation of Abstracts: March 6, 2018

Time Limit for Presentation: 10 minutes

Kindly note that TA/DA/ cannot be provided due to financial constraint. 

Contact Info: 

Dr.H. Kalpana

Associate Profesor

Department of English

Pondicherry University

PUDUCHERY 605014

Contact Email: 

indianwritingsseminar@gmail.com