CFP: Two-Day International Seminar on Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation 3rd & 4th October 2024 ~ Pondicherry University

The Department of English at Pondicherry University has been an important educational destination for research scholars and students, ever since it commenced functioning in 1986. Over the years, the department has produced innumerable PhD and M. Phil scholars, in addition to a large number of postgraduate students. The faculty of the department with their different specializations and academic interests are at the forefront of innovative teaching and advanced research varying from contemporary literary, cultural and language studies to theoretical explorations. The department also runs a Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication in English, an add-on program, in much demand among students and employees.

Furthermore, the department has also sought to enhance the language and communication skills of students from across the University through Functional

English and other communication-oriented courses. Another hallmark of the department is the Research and Cultural Forum (RCF) which acts as an avenue for scholars and students to showcase their research work and creative abilities. The department has also been at the forefront of organizing seminars, workshops and faculty development programs.

 

 

 

 

About Research and Cultural Forum (RCF):

Conceived thirty-five years ago as Research and Journal Alert Forum (RJAF) at the Department of English, Pondicherry University, RCF is a platform for research scholars and students of the department to discuss their research findings in various areas related to literature and culture and also present their creative talents. Run exclusively by the research scholars of the department, under the guidance of the faculty members and the support of MA students the forum hosts invited talks, workshops and interactive sessions by experts of national and international repute in the emerging areas of English Studies. The forum was recently renamed Research and Cultural Forum to integrate the department's research and cultural outputs. Now, it proudly undertakes the mission of bringing together and highlighting the role of literature in social transformation through this two-day International Seminar.

 

About the Seminar:

 A Two-Day International Seminar has been planned by the Department of English on the 3rd & 4th of October 2024, with the focus area “Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation”.

 Theme:

 Literature has been able to predict, analyze, and critique social, economic and political change for a long time. This, in turn, has contributed to understanding social and political transformation through a medium that has been conventionally seen to be largely imaginative and fictional. While Orwell’s cautionary tale, 1984 predicted the effects of totalitarian regimes and surveillance, Harriet Beecher’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin “helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War” (Kaufman, 2006: 18). If Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath brought into full view the travails of America during the Great Depression, Munshi Premchand’s Godaan brutally exposed poverty and the evils of the zamindari system in India. Literature has thus been constantly in sync with the changing silhouettes of society.

 The conference aims to explore how literature has closely interacted with and mirrored the intricate matrix of the social and political milieu. This interaction has resulted in innumerable texts that have reflected these significant changes and helped us understand an ever-changing world. The wide gamut of social, political, economic, cultural, sociological and anthropological change has prompted the writer to ask questions, show up the mirror and sometimes even offer prescriptions for ills, thus making literature a vehicle for social transformation.  The conference aims to investigate and explore the significant role that literature has played in reflecting these changes, therefore acting as truth-seeker, sentinel, chronicler, and critic, all rolled into one.   

 The conference aims to explore the interchange between literature and social transformation across varied arenas and can include, but is not restricted, to the following areas:

•           Political upheaval and social movements

•           Caste, class and hierarchy

•           Reigns, regimes and democracy

•           Marxism and literature

•           Changing dimensions of gender

•           Queer narratives

•           Geographies, borders and migration

•           Indigenous literatures

•           Anthropocene, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism 

•           Dalit literature and social justice

•           Technology and literature

•           Popular culture and subcultures

•           Medical imperialism and illness narratives

  Registration Fee:

 Faculty Members:      Rs. 2000

Research Scholars:     Rs. 1000

PG Students:               Rs. 500

Co-authors are required to pay individually.

 UG students (participation only): Rs 200

 Abstracts:

 Abstracts can be uploaded through the Google form link

below on or before 30th August 2024.

 Registration Link: https://forms.gle/CA78DHY86yfQtzhW9

 Your queries may be addressed to rcfseminar2024@gmail.com

 Important Dates:

 Last date for sending abstracts: 30th August 2024

Confirmation of acceptance will be communicated by: 2nd September 2024

Complete papers are to be sent by: 27th September 2024 

 Address for Communication:

 Drishya K.

Steward  C.        

Research Scholars                                                     

Department of English                                              

Pondicherry University                                             

Puducherry-605014                                                   

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CFP: International Conference "Literary transitions / Transitional literatures"

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Faculty of Arts, UPV/EHU,  Spain ,January 15-17, 2025

The concept of transition – characterized as a historical moment with a beginning and an end, encompassing a defined and significant period – awaits systematic reflection, according to Cristina Moreiras-Menor (2011). Although Richard (2001) points out that transition, as a proper noun, represents a temporal rationale, this term is generally understood as the shift between two times, a before and an after, presented linearly and laden with transformations. A transition is an evanescent stage that precedes another that emerges with remarkable power. This evanescent stage feels like an abyss that represents the ruin of a past and the emergence of an unwritten future.

We focus on the historical collapse that the transition entails, the landscape of change from one historical moment to another, and how that change is mirrored in literary and cultural documents. We specifically examine literary documents that contemplate the end of an era and explore the transition towards a new phase that accompanies this end. This transition is often portrayed as either innovative or as the dismantling of the preceding period. This time of transition – of change, uncertainty, and contradiction – is a time to confront the inherited legacy and transform it into something different, into a promise that implies several future directions. As Derrida (1995) suggests, a legacy is never univocal and natural; instead, it challenges interpretation by presenting itself as a secret to unveil. Thus, we are particularly interested in interpreting, deciphering, and reinterpreting that legacy on its emotional, subjective, political and ideological levels.

We understand transitions as a time of change in the historical trajectory – this trajectory can be collective and individual, vital, or literary – and as a stage in which new knowledge, new epistemologies, and new ways of understanding life and society are formulated. This separation between the past and the future opens a space for emerging discourses, new imaginaries, new expressions of experience and new individual and social identities. Besides, it affects all traditions. Precisely for these reasons, the members of the research group “IdeoLit: Literature as a historical document” have organized this conference, which is aimed at all those researchers who study the concept of transition in literature from the classical times to the present day.

1. Personal/Individual Transitions:
   • Growth, coming of age or Bildungsroman
   • Gender transition (trans realities)
   • Childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age, relationship with death (our own or someone else's death and its effect on the individual
   • Change/awareness
2. Collective transitions:
   • Political transition: regime changes and their implications in different fields
   • Social transition: revolutions, social movements, and other social transitions.
   • Changes in the emotional, family and community sphere
   • Ecology: structural changes to face climate disaster, collapse, degrowth or energy transition, among other aspects.
   • Transitional process of societies going through collective trauma
   • Technological transition: AI, posthumanism
3. Literary transitions:
   • Generic or formal transition: exhaustion or appearance of literary genres, in new forms
   • Aesthetic transition: changes in aesthetic currents, ruptures
   • Thematic transition: in relation to the historical context, the appearance of new themes that represent that moment of transition
   • Comparatist transition: opening of new lines, new perspectives that break with the past

Bibliography:

Derrida, Jacques (1995): Espectros de Marx: el Estado de la deuda, el trabajo del duelo y la nueva internacional, Madrid: Trotta.

Jameson, Fredric (2000): Las semillas del tiempo, Madrid: Trotta.

Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (2011): La estela del tiempo. Imagen e historicidad en el cine español contemporáneo, Madrid-Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana-Vervuert.

Rancière, Jacques (2006): Política, policía, democracia, Santiago de Chile: LOM.

Resina, Joan Ramon (ed.) (2000): Disremembering the Dictatorship: The Politics of Memory in the Spanish Transition to Democracy, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Richard, Nelly y Alberto Moreiras (eds.) (2001): Pensar en la posdictadura, Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio.

Ricoeur, Paul (1980): “Narrative Time”, Critical Inquiry 7, 1 (On Narrative), autumn, pp. 169-190.

Subirats, Eduardo (2002): Intransiciones. Crítica de la cultura española, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.

Vilarós, Teresa M. (1998): El mono del desencanto. Una crítica cultural de la transición española (1975-1993), Madrid: Siglo XXI.

 

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Proposals must include the following information for ALL authors: name and surname, organization or institution, email, the title of the proposal, a 15-20 line abstract, and biographical information (maximum: 10 lines).

Proposals can be sent to the following email address in Word (or compatible) format until May 31: congresotransicion.ideolit@ehu.es

The organizing committee's decision will be notified by July 15.

Proposals will be accepted in Spanish, Basque, English, French or German. Each speaker will have 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by a brief Q&A session. All presentations must be made in person.

 

Contact Information

 

Main Organizers:

• M. Carmen Encinas Reguero (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)
• Garbiñe Iztueta Goizueta (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)
• Natalia Vara Ferrero (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)

Contact Email

congresotransicion.ideolit@ehu.es

URL

https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/ideolit-literatura-documento-historico/call-for-pape…

CALL FOR A CHAPTER FOR THE BOOK SPACE, IDENTITY AND LITERATURE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from academicians and writers for publication in an edited volume. The volume will be published with an ISBN (International Standard Book Number) by a reputed National publisher. Authors are requested to strictly follow the submission guidelines mentioned herewith in their papers. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication. The proposed title of the volume is SPACE, IDENTITY AND LITERATURE: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

Concept note-

In the realm of literature Space is a very vast area as it covers various spaces like cultural space, mental space, ideological space, political space, gender space, psychological space etc. Space is obviously a multidimensional concept. Space here is meant not in literal way but it encompasses various dimensions. When we will try to define space in literal way it is found that Homi K Bhabha in his The Location of Culture used the term third space while describing the hybridity in postcolonial literature. According to Bhabha the third space is a mode articulation, a way of describing a productive and not merely reflective space that engenders new possibility. It is an interruptive, interrogative and enunciative (Bhabha). After that Henri Lefebvre talks about space taking it to another level. He categorizes space in three ways- perceived space, conceived space and lived space (Lefebvre). After that comes Edward Soja who draws on Lefebvre to develop his theories on space but he extends the understanding of spatiality in several ways that have proved valuable in this study, especially to our understanding of lived space. He spells out the importance of positions that are simultaneously centred and marginalised. Under the heading of third space, he incorporates some of the feminist and post-colonial criticisms of postmodern geographies (Soja) by embracing issues articulated in the works of bell hooks and Gillian Rose, among others.

At the same time through the politics of Identity will encompass the way in which characters are presented, depicted in these selected novels as well as how one has to lose his or her identity, what are the reasons behind this loss of identity and what types of crises they have to face after losing the identity. After losing identity one has again to rebuild the identity in new land, new background and in new way. This remaking of identity with the change of space is something very difficult to cope with, to manage and to adjust with. Naturally in this process what happens is that one’s settled, established life turn to be unsettled.

Sub Topics:

Colonial Legacy and Postcolonial Identity

Urbanization and Globalization

Partition and Displacement

Gender and Identity

Diasporic Identities

Language and Identity

Intersectionality of space and identity

Any other related to space, identity and literature

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Files must be in Microsoft Word format following MLA 8th or 9th Edition, carrying a self-declaration that it is an original work and has not been published/ sent for publication anywhere else.

Font and Size: Times New Roman 12, Title must be in 14 point size, bold.

Word Limit: Minimum 2500 and maximum 4500 words including abstract and keywords.

Works cited should be included in the manuscript and not in separate document.

A brief bio-note of 150 words of the respective authors should be attached towards the end of full paper.

Authors are requested to submit their manuscript to

cfpforspaceandidentity@gmail.com on or before 15th April 2024.Ø

A fee of Rs. 1000 will be chargeable after the selection of paper against which each contributor will get a complimentary copy.

The book will be published from Authors Press Publisher or Orient Longman Publisher

For any other information do mail to cfpforspaceidenity@gmail.com or call 8617405478(WA)/ 9476142868

Editor

Bhaskar Ch Sarkar

Assistant Professor of English

S.R. Fatepuria College

Beldanga

Murshidabad

Call For Applications: Funded Ambedkar Summer School 2024-Indian Institute of Dalit Studies- May 19-24, 2024

Ambedkar Summer School, a week-long residential programme, organised by IIDS and RLS, aims to develop the capacity of youths from marginalised social groups by strengthening the knowledge discourse and critical understanding of issues related to public policy in practice through reading/writing, dialogue, debates, discussions and critical questioning using lived experiences.

Young research scholars and activists who are working on inter-group inequality, marginalization and social exclusion in public policy in India can apply.

The applicants need to send extended abstract (around 1000 words) along with annotated bibliography on the Public Policy and Marginalized Social Groups. 

The applicants also need to send their detailed CV along with the application.

The organisers will bear the cost of travel (train AC three tier), boarding and lodging during the course of the programme.

Applications should be sent by email to the programme convener  at 

ambedkarschooliidsrls@gmail.com.

Last date of application: March 25, 2024

Notification to the selected participants: April 5, 2024

Ambedkar Summer School 2024: May 19-24, 2024

For  more details: https://dalitstudies.org.in/ambedkar-summer-school/

or 

https://www.facebook.com/rosaluxsouthasia

Call For Research Articles on Film Studies in Southeast Asia, China, East Asia, and India's Northeast-Rising Asia Journal

 Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Please send your articles to our Editorial Board Member Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu as well as to our Editor-in-Chief Dr. Harish C. Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.caRising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Film Studies in the geographical areas of Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies. Authors may use any thematic or theoretical discourse such as gender, race, colonialism and post-colonialism, and others.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Deadline for submissions:  June 1, 2024

full name / name of organization:  Rising Asia Journal

contact email:  tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu

Please send your articles to our Editorial Board Member Professor Tuan Hoang at tuan.hoang@pepperdine.edu as well as to our Editor-in-Chief Dr. Harish C. Mehta at hmehta76@yahoo.ca

Call for essays for special issue of Journal of Global #Postcolonial Studies on contemporary African novelists in America

 Call for Papers for forthcoming special issue on Contemporary African Novelists in America 

Guest editor Simon Lewis is seeking manuscript submissions for a special issue on contemporary African writers who have come to prominence in the United States over the last two decades. 

When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the North American publishing scene in 2003, the publication of her brilliant debut novel Purple Hibiscus didn’t just signal the start of a single author’s brilliant career. It also forged a path for a whole new generation of African novelists who had come to America as immigrants or students and who have been mining that experience in their writing. Writers born in Africa who studied at American universities – Teju Cole, Taiye Selasie, Yaa Gyasi, Uzodinma Iweala, NoViolet Bulawayo and Akwaeke Emezi, to name just a few – have followed in Adichie’s footsteps. Purple Hibiscus has been to these writers what Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) was to aspiring Latin American writers during the Latin American literary boom of the 1960s and 1970s, and what Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) was to the proliferation of Indian writers in English from the 1980s on. 

In addition to articles analyzing individual authors and/or their work, we warmly invite essays on any of the following themes:

 Immigration;

 Racism;

 Diaspora; 

 Gender; 

 Sexuality; 

 History;

 Regionalism; 

 Education; 

 Publishing.

Submission Instructions: Manuscripts of c. 5,000 words and following MLA guidelines for formatting should be submitted by September 1, 2024 according to the Journal’s guidelines at https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps 

Preliminary ideas and/or complete articles can be submitted to the guest editor at: Simon Lewis, English Department, College of Charleston, LewisS@cofc.edu

Contact Information

Simon Lewis, Department of English, College of Charleston

Contact Email

lewiss@cofc.edu

URL

https://journals.upress.ufl.edu/jgps/cfp

Attachments

Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies

Call for Papers on #South #Asian #Crime #Fiction since the 1950s -#FilmStudies #Cinema #Regionalcinema, #Vernacular -June 2024

Crime Fiction has been one of the popular genres for the South Asian reading public since colonial times. The simultaneous emergence of murder mysteries, detective fiction, thrillers in the metropolis as well as the colonies has been richly documented by the brilliant work done in Urdu, Hindi and Bangla by Naim (2023), Brueck and Orsini (2022), Roy (2020, 2017), Oesterheld (2009), Daeschel (2003) and others. Moving beyond arguments of imitative models into debates on the postcolonial in crime fiction, world crime fiction, gender in twentieth century crime writings, espionage narratives during the Cold War and more, this edited volume proposes to launch into broader yet interconnected themes of crime fiction in the regional languages and cartographies in South Asia. We broadly define the region as that of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The proposed volume will shift the focus away from anglocentric studies of crime fiction to explore the production, reception, and scholarship of crime fiction in the indigenous languages of South Asia since the 1950s. We seek chapters that address the following themes but are not necessarily restricted to them:  

 

1. Vernacular crime fiction in the shadow of the Cold War
2. Crime fiction published in the early days of the young nations of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka  
3. Women as actors, writers, and publishers in South Asian crime fiction
4. Configurations of gender: women criminals, vamps, molls, and women detectives
5. Urban crime or the city as the centre of crime and detection. How does the character of a metropolis interact with the mechanics of crime fiction?
6. Migration and crime fiction in the late twentieth century 
7. Film and crime fiction (our primary interest is fiction)
8. Translations, adaptations, and imitations 
9. Vernacular print cultures such as magazines and newspapers and crime fiction
10. Readership and vernacular crime fiction
11. Pulp fiction/Lowbrow fiction and crime fiction in regional languages
12. Gothic and crime fiction in South Asia 

 

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Please send your abstracts (500 words) and a short bio-note (50 words) by March 15th to southasiancriminality@gmail.com. We will get back to you with our responses promptly by 1st April. If selected, full chapters (4,000 - 6,000 words) are to be submitted no later than 30th June, 2024. In case of any query do not hesitate to contact us on the email address provided. 

 Editors:

 Shweta Sachdeva Jha (Associate Professor, Department of English, Miranda House, University of Delhi), 

Garima Yadav (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi)

 

Contact Email

southasiancriminality@gmail.com

CFP: Deadline Extended-Two-Day International Conference on New Media and its Publics in India- SRM University AP- (Travel allowance and Accommodation will be provided) April 2024

 Call for Papers

As the thriving conduit of contemporary socialities, ‘New media’ has etched itself firmly as a potent and mesmerizing force. Almost as if it were a sorcerer, new media has also called into being its very own publics – publics that exist virtually in constant response to the unbound mediatic stimulus, but yet remain materially embedded in the larger structural categories and power hierarchies that shape social dynamics. While the term ‘new media’ continues to invite commentary and dialogue, its reality and purchase cannot be denied. In Postcolonial (and neoliberal) countries like India, the place, and effects of media, both new and ‘old’ become even more distinct. Does new media deepen democracy? Does it offer space to challenge and even overcome the barriers of caste? Are new visibilities emergent on the precarities faced by India’s marginalized communities – women, tribal groups, religious minorities, Dalits, migrant and informal sector workers? How inclusive is the horizon of new media? In what ways does it re-inscribe inequality and social prejudice? On the other hand, how has new media offered emancipatory avenues for self-expression and networking?We also need to ask whether new media, particularly social media, can or should function as an alternative or supplement to the larger, structural form of “old” media. One of the important features of the new media is its capacity to remove the demarcation between the producer and the consumer. Does the absence of gatekeepers situate new media as a significant tool of the public sphere for the emancipation of the marginalized, oppressed, ignored or invisibilized or does it make the new media just another unregulated tool for wielding power? Perhaps another debate around new media or Web 2.0A could be concerning its biological interventionist nature. The overwhelming provocation rising before us today is the need/inclination/lack of tools to separate the virtual from the physical. In the middle of political fantasies of total digitalization in developing economies to converting these available technological resources into propagandist and surveillance machines, we are continuously in the throes of ever-evolving algorithms devising, designing, dictating a future for us. Is the paranoid desire to elude digital policing infrastructures the new definition of human beings? Will there be a widespread digital dystopia before we arrive at the Sixth Mass Extinction? How do we find ways to dissociate ourselves from the concreteness of these digitally charged symbiotic relationships? The conference offers a platform for exploring, debating and reflecting on the social challenges thrown up by the digital and technological prowess of new media. We invite proposals that engage these questions and offer stimulating readings of our present from diverse vantage points. 

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>Topics include, but are not limited to:   

• New and ‘Old’ Media: Negotiations and Mediations
• Representation and New Media.
• Press and New Media.
• Censorship and New Media
• Digital Activism and New Media
• Democracy, Expression and New Media
• Games, Simulation Design and New Media
• Political Campaigns and New Media
• Posthumanism and New Media
• Gender and New Media
• Ontologies of New Media
• Public Health and New Media
• Entrepreneurship and New Media
• Ethics, Morality and New Media

  Guidelines for abstract and paper submission  • Abstracts within 500 words and a brief bio-note should be sent to newmediapublic24@gmail.com by February 5th, 2024.

Selected papers will be published in an edited volume of a reputed publishing house.   Registration Fee Details:

• Faculty Members: INR 1000
• Research Scholars: INR 750
• UG/PG Students: INR 500

 

Travel allowance and accommodation will be provided by the organizers

  Important Dates: 

• Deadline for abstract submission: February 12, 2024
• Intimation of Acceptance: February 20, 2024
• Last date for Payment of the Registration Fee for Selected Abstracts: March 5, 2024.

Full name / name of organization: 

Department of Liberal Arts SRM University-AP

Contact email: 

asijit.d@srmap.edu.in

 

Convenor:
Dr. Asijit Datta

Co-convenors:
Dr. Sapna Mishra
Dr. Partha Bhattacharjee

CFP: International Conference on Belonging/Unbelonging: #Religion, #Gender and ‘Everyday’ #Politics in South Asia- Feb 2024- Mahatma Gandhi University

The intersection of religion, individuation and belongingness is a complex and multidimensional issue that has spawned many interesting academic debates recently. These debates, in general, have centred or problematised the continuous relevance and political force of religion in the face of modernity and rationality and the post-secular reformulation of their basic presumptions. The issue is more expressive and pertinent in the current attempts of scrutinising the intimate connections and contradictions in presupposing Submission and Agency, Sacred and Profane, Private and Public. Recent scholarship has focused on interactions between religion and political institutions, the vast repertoire of religious traditions and practices, and the distinctiveness of sacred belongings from other forms of belonging. There is also an emerging emphasis on the ‘everyday’ and religion and its reflection on articulations of believing, behaving, and belonging. Especially with a phenomenological turn in the study of religion, the religious texts, symbols and practices, therefore, are not understood independently of their social extensions. This development is crucial to studying the interface between the region and gender. The continuous acknowledgement of patriarchy in feminist scholarship has given rise to a gender perspective that has a nuanced understanding of belonging and un-belonging. Another site where gender meets religion is protests of various sorts by women’s movements in South Asia for claiming citizenry rights and social and political spaces (Sabarimala Issue, Nuns fight against sexual harassment, multiple debates and contexts around Hijab in Iran, France and Karnataka, women’s gathering in Shaheen Bagh against CAA etc.). It is in this context the School of Gender Studies, Mahatma Gandhi University, in collaboration with the Centre for Cross-national Communication in South Asia, Mahatma Gandhi University is organising a two-day national seminar with a particular focus on the theme Belonging/Unbelonging: Religion, Gender and Everyday Politics in South Asia.

Major Sub Themes-1

SUB THEMES:

• Everyday Politics and Embodied Religiosity 
• Religious Diversity and Pluralism 
• Religion, State, and Governance Faith, Youth and Change
• Religion and Visuality in South Asia 
• Religion and Ecology in South Asia 
• Religion, Speech and Expression 
• Marketing of the Sacred and Spiritual 
• Migration, Religion, and Reformation 

Major Sub Themes-2

SUB THEMES 

• Religious Texts and Gender
• Religion, Gender and Activism
• Religion, Gender and Family 
• Religion, Body and Social Space 
• Gendered Mobilities and Immobilities in Religion 
• Belonging in Religion 
• Protesting Unbelongings 
• Religion, Gender and Disability Religion,
• Gender and New Media Religion, 
• Gender and Performance 
• Religious Polarization and Gender

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NVF Nylon Messenger Bag | USB Charging Port Waterproof Crossbody Sling Bag | Travel Chest Bags Casual Daypack | new men's multi-functional chest bag | fashion casual shoulder m enger bag

₹1,189.00

85%

RAJESHWAR FASHION WITH RF Sarees For Women Embroidery Work Fancy Georgette Sari With Sadi Girls Unstitched Blouse Piece (Blue)

₹2,999.00

81%

Skudgear 2 Layers Boot Inserts Height Increasing Shoes Insoles Men Women - 1Pair | Shoe Lift | Height Sole Shoes | Height Increase Heel | Shoe Elevator | Hidden Heel Insole | High Heel Insole

₹1,999.00

73%

mtuggar Real Leather Sling Bag Unisex. Brown (SLB-8002-BRN) (Black) (Brown)

₹2,999.00

31%

VRITRAZ Indoor Slipper, Comfort Slip On Closed Toe Warm Fur House Clog (Beige, UK-7) For Womens

₹799.00

61%

Amayra Women's Cotton Straight Kurti (TCK185-XL_White_X-Large)

₹999.00

80%

RAJESHWAR FASHION WITH RF Women's Plain Dyed Solid Moss Silk Saree For Women Digital Printed Satin Silk Lace Border Piece(A43 BLACK_Multicolored_Free Size 6.30 Mtr)

₹2,999.00

35%

Kraasa Long Range Running Shoes for Men Grey UK 8

₹999.00

57%

Pistaa's Combo of Women's Cotton Color Readymade Inskirt Saree Petticoats(Levender, Cream, Royal Blue, Mango and Mustard,Free Size)

₹2,099.00

52%

SILK LAND Wome's Mulberry Silk Thread Saree with Unstitched Blouse Piece(Pink)

₹1,967.00

Important Dates:

 Abstract submission deadline: 26 JANUARY  

Acceptance notification FEBRUARY 1

Registration date FEBRUARY 1- 10 

Full paper submission FEBRUARY  15  

Conference date : FEBRUARY 28, 29

Submission link: https: //forms.gle/wzZfCp8QGP2yrJ4P8

Contact: conference2024onreligion@gmail.com