CFP: Two-Day National Conference on the theme INDIAN ETHOS IN ENGLISH WRITINGS 24th and 25th October 2024(Hybrid Mode)-SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR

Is Organising a Two-Day National Conference

on the theme

INDIAN ETHOS IN ENGLISH WRITINGS

24th and 25th October 2024

(Online and Offline Mode)

About Central University of Kashmir

The Central University of Jammu & Kashmir was stablished alongside 15 other Central Universities in the year 2009 by an Act of Parliament. Later the university was bifurcated into two Universities: the Central  University of Kashmir (CUK) and the Central University of Jammu (CUJ). Currently, the University has Nine (09) schools with 21 constituent Teaching Departments offering over 45 PG, UG, diploma, research, and Vocational programmes.

About the Department of English

The Department of English is the first department established in the School of Languages (SOL), Central University of Kashmir. The Department provides an intellectually nourishing and conducive atmosphere to the students aspiring to undertake an in-depth study of English Literature as it offers a variety of courses covering all the major genres of English literature and the fundamentals of English language teaching. 

About the Conference

The Two-Day National Conference on Indian Ethos in English Writings aims to embark on an exploratory journey to uncover the nuances of Indian culture and identity as represented in English literature. The event will bring together scholars, writers, and researchers to discuss, debate, and share insights on the intersection of Indian culture and English literature. This confluence of scholars, writers, and researchers will delve into the complexities of Indian English writings, examining how the country's rich heritage and traditions are portrayed in various genres and periods. Through keynote addresses, paper presentations, and interactive sessions, the conference seeks to foster a deeper understanding of India's cultural landscape and literary terrain. By providing a platform for discussion, debate, and creative expression, the event endeavours to unravel the intricacies of Indian ethos in English writings, ultimately contributing to a richer understanding of the nation's cultural identity. Join us in this intellectual sojourn and uncover the essence of India's cultural soul.

Sub-themes / Tracks

1. Indian identity in English literature

2. Cultural nuances in Indian English writing

3. Representation of Indian ethos in English literature

4. Intersection of tradition and modernity in Indian

English writings

5. Indianness in English Language

6. Indian Knowledge System Vis-à-vis English Writings

Target Audience

1. Scholars and researchers in English literature, language and cultural studies

2. Writers and authors of Indian English literature

3. Scholars/students pursuing higher studies in English literature

4. Cultural enthusiasts and literature lovers

Call for Papers and participation

Abstract: 300 words with author/s details (affiliation, email id & mobile number) by or before 27th Sep. 2024

Full Paper: 3000 words by or before 15th Oct.2024

Email Id: ieew2024cukashmir@gmail.com

Category-wise Registration Fee in INR

Early bird registration - Before 2nd Oct.2024

Paper Presentation Only Participation

                Online     Offline Online   Offline

Faculty    1200         2500     900     2000

Scholars    900         2000     600     1800

Regular Registration - After 2nd Oct. 2024

Paper Presentation Only Participation

                    Online    Offline     Online     Offline

Faculty         1500     3000         1200         2500

Scholars        1000     2500         800         2000

Chief Patron

Prof.A.Ravinder Nath

Hon’ble Vice-chancellor, Central University of Kashmir

Chairperson

Prof.Sandhya Tiwari

Head, Department of English; Dean, School of Languages

Coordinators

Dr.E.Krishna Chaitanya, Assoc.Prof., Department of English

Dr.Ihsan-ur- Rahim Malik, Asst. Prof., Department of English

Dr.Ishrat Bashir, Asst. Prof., Department of English

Mr.Sunil Kumar Mannil, Asst. Prof., Department of English

Organising Team

Scholars, students & staff of the Dept. of English RSVP

Dr.E.Krishna Chaitanya -9550916069

Sudeb Mondal – 7074062363

Shahid Nabi – 9682506446

CFP: Three-Day International Conference on “Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths And Challenges” -August 28 - 30, 2024. The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad,

Concept Note

Post-Technological Rationalist thought on natural and social phenomenon is marked by two major emphases: a. The move away from discipline-specific knowledge-systems, towards the construction of a transdisciplinary knowledge base/knowledge regime (Sverker Sorlin 2018), through the configuration of a knowledge-infrastructure to regulate the flow of ideas across established, as well as new/emergent knowledge-sites, and b. The recognition of the slippages across the traditional impact/value binary, with impact increasingly being seen as the first step in the direction of value creation. The emergent knowledge ecosystem suggests the tasks cut out for humanities, factoring in the seamless connection across natural, cultural, and technological phenomena that marks the planetary-scale crises confronting humanity. Offering a socially usable critique of established processes of knowledge production and building cultural structures of preparedness for the unforeseen (Helge Jordheim and Tore Rem 2014) are these crucial tasks. The ‘crisis’ in humanities can now be seen as the proactive response to these crucial, challenging tasks, justly viewed as opportunities. The favorable climate for inter and cross- disciplinary approaches in traditional humanities, and the emergence of bio-, techno-, medical-, geo-, digital-, public- humanities, lend credence to this belief.

The Three-day International Conference on Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges offers a forum for scholars interested in understanding and disseminating the new role that humanities has come to assume, by deliberating on ways in which humanities can contribute to the socio-economic, cultural, and environmental challenges facing the world today.

Themes and Sub-Themes (List is not Exhaustive)

Post-Truth and Post-human Knowledge

• The Adventures of Philosophy in the Post-Truth Era

• Rethinking Critical Posthumanities

• Moves beyond Anthropocentrism

• New Academic Posthumanities

Situating the Posthuman Subject

• Apprehending Human and Non-Human Rationality

• Dealing with a Nonconscious Future: Agendas and Strategies

• Reclaiming Agency: Putative Action-Plans for the Cyborg Self

Public Humanities

• Humanities of the Street: Challenges and Responses

• Public Creation and the Discipline: Dealing with Ephemerality and Fluidity

• Knowledge Cocreation Ecosystem: Power, Trust and other Issues

• Citizen Humanities: Emerging Participatory Modes in Natural and Cultural Heritage

Varieties of New Materialism

• Revisiting Ethico-Onto-Epistemology

• Chronicling Acts of Diffractive Reading

• Agential Realism: Re-Configuration and Impact Evaluation

• The Academic Fortunes of New Materialist Vitalism

• Negative New Materialism: A Negative Moment or Constructive Aspect?

• Performative New Materialism: Critical Assessments

Innovative Medicine on the Moral/Ethical Plane

• The Research-Practice Continuum: Ethical Conundrums

• Assisted Reproductive Techniques: Unanswered Ethical Dilemmas

• Neuroethics: Plotting the Field

Technology, Embodiment and Gender

• Ubiquitous Technologies, Embodied Cognition and Interaction

• Technology and Embodiment in Learning Spaces

• Technology and Gender Equality in the Global South

Globalization of the Body

• The Unstable “We”: Vaccine Nationalism and Viral Sovereignty

• Re-configuring the Biomedical Technoscape

• Engaging with Ontological Wholeness and other Myths

• The Political-Economy of the Body: Globalization and Precarity

• Troublesome Discursive Formations: Eugenic Utopias

Alternative Schemes of Thought, Knowledge, and Self-Representation

• Comparative Relativisms: Way out of the Maze or Mission Impossible?

• Critical Constructivism: The Return of the Prodigal `Essence`?

• Epistemological Anarchism: Method’s Radical Other or its Uncanny Double?

• Forms of Self-Representation: Diachronic/Narrative or Episodic/Non-Narrative?

New Perspectives on the Anthropocene

• Deep Ecology: Tracing the Metabolic Connections with other Disciplines

• Varieties of Eco-Feminism: Sustainable Theory?

• Disenchantment and New Animism: Progressive or Atavistic?

• Social Ecology and Bioregionalism: Theorizing Eco-Justice

Understanding the Technological Sublime

• Artificial General Intelligence and the Technological Sublime

• Biotechnological Sublime: Views from the Intersection of Nature, Technology, Art

• Environment Narratives and/on Next Nature

Visuali0ty1and Image Studies

• Images, Circulation and Practices

• Visuality and the New Media

• Everyday Imaging, and Critical Thinking

Minority Discourses: New Approaches

• NewFrontiers in Dalit Literary Studies

• Film Studies

• Graphic Narratives: The Politics of Reception

• Globalization and Diaspora Literary Studies

• Alternative Literature Studies

Literatures of the Global South

• South Asian Literature

• Indian Art and Aesthetics

• Postcolonial Diaspora Art

• Refugee Literature

• Literature and Migration

• Identity: Representation, Culture and Politics

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Narrative Traditions

• Theorising Orality

• The Ritual Revisited

• Issues in Performance Ethnography

• Performance and Public Spaces

• Folkloristics and Modern Narratives

• Retelling Myths: Critique, Ideology, Aesthetics

• Mythicizing Worldviews

Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Disciplinarity and Gender Studies

• Feminist Praxis

• Women’s Studies

• Masculinity Studies

• Queer Studies

• Gender Responsive Pedagogy: Issues in

• Ideology and Methodology

Original, Unpublished papers on the above themes are invited from members of university and college faculty and other institutions, independent researchers, research scholars registered with universities and research institutions.

Send your abstract, in about 250 words, with a title, your name, institutional affiliation, email Id and mobile number.

Email your abstract to: ihceflu2024@gmail.com

● Last date of Submission of Abstracts: July 5, 2024

● Communication regarding Acceptance of Abstracts: July 15, 2024

● Registration: July 30, 2024

● Submission of Full Papers: August 10, 2024

Send your abstract, in about 250 words, with a title, your name, institutional affiliation, email Id and mobile number.

Email your abstract to: ihceflu2024@gmail.com

Call For Papers: Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for Papers for Vol. 3,

 Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

By placing creative expressions at the center of a wide range of contemporary and historical intercultural relationships, the journal explores forms of belonging and spaces of difference and dissidence that challenge both universalist and exclusionary paradigms.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is hosted by Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and is co-supported by the “Plurielles” Research Group, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. Its founders and editors-in-chief are Prof. Didier Coste (Bordeaux Montaigne U.), Dr. Christina Kkona (Bordeaux Montaigne U.), and Prof. Nicoletta Pireddu (Georgetown U.).

Each journal issue includes 5-7 scholarly articles (6000-8000 words each) and several book reviews (1000 words each) and/or review essays (3000 words each).  

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism invites submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2025)

It welcomes original and theoretically insightful contributions to cultural cosmopolitanism in connection with the following disciplinary domains and methodological approaches (but not exclusively):

Anthropology; Border studies; Cultural historiography; Cultural sociology; Ecocriticism and environmental studies; Exile, migration, and diaspora studies; Feminism, gender, sexuality, queer and transgender studies; Film and media studies; Global South studies; Mediterranean studies; Nativism and indigeneity; Oceanic and island studies; Performance studies; Philosophy; Poetics and aesthetics; Politics and cosmopolitics; Race and ethnic studies; Transatlantic studies; Translation studies; Transnational and global studies; Visual arts; World literature.

Prospective authors wishing to discuss proposals for articles, book reviews, or review articles can contact the Editors-in-chief at migratingminds@georgetown.edu by October 31, 2024.

Full-text articles and reviews should be submitted by February 28, 2025 through the designated online form.

Migrating Minds only accepts unpublished manuscripts that are not under consideration elsewhere. Books proposed for reviews should have been published no earlier than 2023.

Migrating Minds also welcomes articles on a rolling basis and proposals for special issues or sections. Please contact the Editors-in-chief for further discussion.

Migrating Minds articles are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Google Scholar, and WorldCat.

 

 

 

 

Contact Information

Nicoletta Pireddu, Didier Coste, Christina Kkona, co-Founders and co-Editors in Chief

Contact Email

migratingminds@georgetown.edu

URL

https://migratingminds.georgetown.edu

Attachments

migrating-minds-call-papers-vol3-issue-2-fall-2025.docx

CFP: International #Conference: #Comparative #Literature as #Alternative #Humanities #Ethics, #Affect and the Everyday Social-#Delhi #University- September, 2024

In the last few decades, scholars in the Humanities have found it necessary to examine the fundamental underpinnings upon which their disciplines are built. One of the primary questions that animated this re-examination has been regarding the very terms of our engagement with countries and communities that inhabit radically different social and moral life-worlds, living as they do outside the orbit of European Enlightenment values that still regulate both organisation and practice within and outside the academy, across the world. Instead of accepting difference as a defining feature of the human condition, the grand narratives of the Enlightenment were used as colonial and imperial tools to homogenize the diversity of experience, emotion and expression as the high tide of colonial modernity swept the world. The consequent otherness and alienation that characterised human society have deeply impacted literary and cultural production. We witness a disjunction between the objective, scientific discourse with its claim to truth and the everyday social experience of the human subject which Humanities seek to understand. These asymmetries compel us to rethink the Humanities from alternative positions and perspectives to embody and address the plural orders of reality and the differences between them. How can the collection of disciplines we call the Humanities recover the capacity of self-reflection and self-criticism? Much has been written about how stereotypes invade our imagination to contaminate our experience and knowledge.

Comparative Literature’s commitment to alterity and plurality gives it a foundational interest in

the non-stereotypical, non-canonized, un-heard narratives of “others” that constitute a radical sense of the literary. Such articulations can only emerge from the confluence of different locations, experiences and identities, demonstrating how our vision of “others” projects our own versions of ourselves onto the outside world.

An alternative view of the Humanities will have to come to terms with the ideas of relationality, plurality and cultural mobility as the defining features of all epochs including that of the pre-modern. Texts, ideas, images, metaphors, themes, modes, genres, tales are all human endeavours and like humans themselves these have the capacity to travel across constructed, eternally given or pre-fixed borders, thereby defying the exclusivist, essentialist ideas of culture and literature. The prevailing inclination towards connected sociologies and connected histories, while a step in the right direction, often reflects the dominant discourses which impose homogeneity and hierarchy, evincing a lack of empathy for the precarious endeavour of encountering alterity and a lack of understanding of the transient and the contingent.

Thus, we propose plurality as a conceptual framework to address this eco-system of interconnectedness and relationality in terms of their manifestations in the languages and literatures of all nations, regions and communities, regardless of their location in the hierarchy of political and economic regimes, or of their internal stratifications. We would like to recover the mutuality of interconnections and interdependence between literatures and cultures across the world. The assertion that we live in a post-human world prompts us, as humans to consider our experience in terms of relationality and plurality. These emerge as conceptual tools for recasting our relations with the other - be it humans, animals or the non- living.

Texts are actualised through their immersion in the shared ideological and affective worlds that constitute the everyday world. From orality to print to the visual media, modes of intersubjective engagement are implicated in structures of power relations within society and our response to them. The very practice of Comparative Literature is an acknowledgement of plurality and a willingness to engage with difference. The discipline emphasises upon relationality, heterogeneity, multivocal perspectives, and direct engagement with alterity that translation offers as a process and a product. Built into the discipline is the interaction between literatures in multiple languages both within the nation and in other countries of the world. Furthermore, it takes orality and performance in its ambit. It reaches out to all other disciplines by asking the existential question : can we open ourselves to the location of the other and view the world from the vantage point of difference that we encounter outside ourselves? Can we frame a dialogic mode of interaction that reading teaches us to our relations with the world, to expand our view of the world outside our own limited subjectivity ? Hence, we propose Comparative Literature as an alternate paradigm - and invite reflections upon the possibilities inherent in the conceptual frame structured by the reciprocal, the relational and the plural. It is our hope that it will help to grasp and address the nature of the crisis that afflicts the Humanities today both in intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.

Sub-themes

Some of the sub-themes in the context of the main theme that can be taken up for discussion are as follows:

Interrogating categorial binaries (tradition/modernity, nature/culture, regional/national, east/west etc.)/ Literature after theory/ Shifting paradigms between Literary Studies and Social Sciences/ The Post-human as a paradigm in literary studies.

Worlding literature / Historicising canons/ Global and local as contexts of reading. The idea of the classic in modernity: circulation or creativity ?

Translation and the encounter with difference. Translating “dialects”/ The oral texts/ Archaic texts.

The plural nation: stratification and resistance/ Literary historiography and geopolitics/ Intertextuality and chronotopes.

Polyphony/ Polysemy in literature/ Poetry and cosmopolitanism.

Interrogating “Minor” literature as category/ Identity theories as critiques of the Humanities / Life-writing from the margins.

The performativity of literature/ Screenplay as literature/ Intermediality in literature. South Asian literatures and cultures: relations, reciprocity and ruptures/ Population movements and literature.

Papers are invited from scholars of Comparative Literature,

Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Theatre Studies, Gender Studies, Black Studies, Dalit Studies etc. or on any aspect of literature and culture that will help us understand and practice the Humanities in accordance with the ethical perspectives outlined above.

Abstracts of about 250 words along with a short bio-note of about 100 words may be submitted to clai2024@admin.du.ac.in

Upon acceptance, participants will be provided with registration details through email. The Registration Fee will include workshop kit, certificate, lunch, and refreshments during the three days of the conference. Participants would need to become members of CLAI on receiving their acceptance letters in order to present papers, if they are not already members of CLAI.

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Important Dates:

Last date of abstract submission: 30th April, 2024

Selected participants will be notified by: 30th May, 2024

Last date of registration: 15th July, 2024

Registration Fee:

Faculty members: Rs.3500/-

Research scholars/students: Rs.2000/-

International participants: US$ 200

For further information please visit: https://www.clai.in/upcoming-event/

clai2024@admin.du.ac.in

Organising Committee, XVII Biennial International Conference

Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2024

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics is now accepting submissions for its forthcoming regular issue, Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2024.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (ISSN: 0252-8169) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, India, since 1977. The Institute was founded by Prof. Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020) on 22 August 1977, coinciding with the birth centenary of renowned philosopher, aesthetician, and historian of Indian art Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) to promote interdisciplinary studies and research in comparative literature, literary theory and criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, art history, criticism of the arts, and history of ideas. (Vishvanatha Kaviraja, most widely known for his masterpiece in aesthetics, Sahityadarpana, or the “Mirror of Composition,” was a prolific 14th-century Indian poet, scholar, aesthetician, and rhetorician.)

The Journal is committed to comparative and cross-cultural issues in literary understanding and interpretation, aesthetic theories, and conceptual analysis of art. It publishes current research papers, review essays, and special issues of critical interest and contemporary relevance.

JCLA is indexed and abstracted in the MLA International Bibliography, Master List of Periodicals (USA), Ulrich’s Directory of Periodicals, ERIH PLUS, The Philosopher’s Index (Philosopher’s Information Center), EBSCO, ProQuest (Arts Premium Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Collection, Arts & Humanities Database, Literature Online – Full Text Journals, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Central Essentials), Abstracts of English Studies, WorldCat Directory, ACLA, India Database, Gale (Cengage Learning), International Directory of Philosophy (PDC), Bibliography History of Art (BHA), ArtBibliographies Modern (ABM), Literature Online (LION), Academic Resource Index, Book Review Index Plus, OCLC, Periodicals Index Online (PIO), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, CNKI, PhilPapers, Google Scholar, Expanded Academic ASAP, Indian Documentation Service, Publication Forum (JuFo), Summon, J-Gate, MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas), United States Library of Congress, New York Public Library, BL on Demand and the British Library. The journal is also indexed in numerous university (central) libraries, state, and public libraries, and scholarly organizations/ learned societies databases.

The Journal has published the finest of essays by authors of global renown like René Wellek, Harold Osborne, John Hospers, John Fisher, Murray Krieger, Martin Bocco, Remo Ceserani, J.B. Vickery, Menachem Brinker, Milton Snoeyenbos, Mary Wiseman, Ronald Roblin, T.R. Martland, S.C. Sengupta, K.R.S. Iyengar, Charles Altieri, Martin Jay, Jonathan Culler, Richard Shusterman, Robert Kraut, Terry Diffey, T.R. Quigley, R.B. Palmer, Keith Keating, and many others. Celebrated scholars of the time like René Wellek, Harold Osborne, Mircea Eliade, Monroe Beardsley, John Hospers, John Fisher, Meyer Abrams, John Boulton, and many renowned foreign and Indian scholars were Members of the Editorial Board of the journal.

Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–8,000 words) following the MLA style should be sent to editor@jcla.in by 31 May 2024.

Founding Editor: Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020), Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, India

Email: jclaindia@gmail.com

Website: jcla.in

CFP: Listening in Many Tongues: Multilingual Interpretive Communities and Acts of Translation in Early Modern South Asia -Oct-2024

 Recent scholarship on South Asia has exemplified the importance of drawing on multilingual sources as well as multi-disciplinary approaches - reading, listening, and visualising the vernacular and the cosmopolitan in conversation, rather than through hierarchical relationships. The overlapping and multidirectional networks of patronage and production have led not only to the creation of new genres of text and performance but also to the articulation of pre-existing traditions within new intellectual milieux and expanding communities of contact and exchange. What has emerged, following the scholarship of Francesca Orsini, Aditya Behl, and Barry Flood, amongst others, is the understanding of translation as a process of transformation and constant reinterpretation, a “dynamic form of production” (Flood 2007, 107) which translates and reinterprets aesthetic categories of, for instance, music and literature in new and constantly shifting contexts.

Undoubtedly, and building upon the pioneering work of Sheldon Pollock, a focus on ideas and modes of translation across “cosmopolitan” and “vernacular” language models has proliferated scholarship on early modern South Asia. In particular, Francesca Orsini’s scholarly intervention has encouraged us to investigate the ‘multilingual locals’ implied in areas of such contact and exchange. While using this emphasis on translation as a jumping-off point, this conference invites papers on the multivalent methods of translation in medieval and early modern South Asia - methods by which various interpretive communities sought equivalences, reinterpretations, and transcreations between and across literary and performative genres.

This conference will seek to place scholars working across fields, languages, and geographies on ideas of translation in conversation, such as those concentrating on Ismaili and Sufi studies in Persian and South Asian vernaculars, or Jain and Apabhramsa texts in translation, or across Arabic, Malayalam, and sites in South India. Given the scholarly remit of the South Asian Studies Unit here at the IIS, we particularly invite papers focusing on Ismaili and other Shi'i-related contexts in South Asia.

We invite abstracts of 250-300 words by the 19th of April, 2024, emailed to SASconference@iis.ac.uk along with a short (ca. 100 words) bio. Speakers will also be invited to contribute to a subsequent edited volume, to be published with the IIS South Asia Studies Series.

Contributions are invited on topics including (but not limited to):

·     Processes of vernacularisation, translation, and reinterpretation

·     Multilingual literary communities

·     Cross-cultural encounters

·     Music, poetry, and devotion in South Asian Islam

·     Isma’ili, Shi’i, and Quranic studies in South Asia

·     Vernacular devotional expression within mystical communities in South Asia

·     Networks of literary circulation

·     Poetic translation and reinterpretation

·     Hindu-Muslim philosophical encounters

A small number of stipends are available for scholars with limited access to institutional funding.

 

Conference convenors:

Dr William Hofmann, Research Associate in South Asian Studies (IIS), 

Ayesha Sheth (University of Pennsylvania), and 

Hussain Jasani, Head - South Asian Studies Unit (IIS)

Venue: Hybrid (The Aga Khan Centre, London + Online)

Dates: October 21-22, 2024

Contact Information

William Rees Hofmann (Institute of Ismaili Studies)

Ayesha Sheth (Upenn)

Hussain Jasani (Institute of Ismaili Studies)

SASconference@iis.ac.uk

Contact Email

SASconference@iis.ac.uk

URL

https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/2024/march/listening-in-many-tongues-call-for-papers/

Call for papers: Disability in World Cinema: Translating Subjectivity (NOV-2024)

This panel aims to address the question of the representation of disability in world cinema (fiction and documentary), while moving away from a purely historical approach that would primarily focus on the evolution of representation of disability to consider how Disability Studies have enabled us to reconsider the cinematic representations of disability. This panel hinges on the assumption that Disability Studies have given rise to a series of critical and theoretical tools, as well as to a renewed perception of disability that no longer sees it as a hindrance, but rather as a driving force for creation.

One of the objectives of this panel will thus be to observe how a certain number of artists working today are seizing on the question of disability to provide subjective and non-hegemonic representations that are often overlooked in more mainstream productions. Our approach for this panel is rooted in what constitutes the heart of Disability Studies, namely the possibility that the latter have offered to bring forth new modes of representation that value the lived experience of disabled people.

We welcome presentations that choose to explore the ways in which the theoretical tools developed by Disability Studies have fostered the creative process of artists who no longer perceive disability as the sole defining feature of an individual, but instead seek to translate the subjectivity of the disabled person through the affective power of the audiovisual medium. We are particularly interested in presentations that focus on works whose primary goal is to avoid the essentialization of disability.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

-The possibilities offered by the audiovisual medium to convey a more subjective and affective representation of disability (i.e. haptic images);

-How these modes of representation have redefined spectatorship and the way we approach images;

-How disabled artists are using the audiovisual medium to translate their own experience of disability.

Submission Deadline : April 30-2024

For More details: Visit https://www.pamla.org/

roc104@usask.ca

CFP: Two-Day International Conference TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRANSITIONS: EMERGING TRENDS IN LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES -KL University-11-12th March, 2024

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

The Department of English is holding a vibrant and joyful two-day event to share the pleasure and power of language and literature on 11th, &12th of March 2024 in a glorious scenic and invigorating atmosphere at KL University campus. We are delighted to place on record that this International Conference shall be an exciting mix of research discourse and debates. This is a programme of educational and inspiring events in our esteemed university involving students, scholars, expertise professors and critics. In short, this International conference is deliberately planned to mark stimulating dialogue and discourse to provide a rare opportunity to the academics to meet and interact with eminent personalities.

ABOUT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

The Department of English is headed by Dr. K. V. Divya, Associate Professor. The Department has 42 faculty members out of which 39 are Doctorates and 3 are pursuing P.hD. The sister Department, Communication and Soft skills has 6 Soft skills trainers who are vital to the University in achieving 100% campus placements in Campus drives. Two-year Post graduate course in English has been in progress since 2018. In 2023 it is restructured as M.A. in Digital Humanities and Language Studies. Research guidance to Ph.D scholars is actively in progress with 85 scholars and 35 scholars are awarded till date. The Department has published more than 500 publications in various reputed Scopus, WoS, International & National journals with high impact factor. The Department has also organized many workshops, seminars, National & International conferences including Literary Festival.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY

KL(Deemed to be)University is situated in a sprawling 100-acre campus on the banks of Buckingham canal of the river Krishna, 8 kms from Vijayawada city. Built within a rural setting of lush green fields, the University is a virtual paradise of pristine nature and idyllic beauty. The campus has been aptly named ‘Green Fields’ and the splendid avenue of trees and gardens bear testimony to the importance of ecology and environment. The campus ambience is most befitting for scholastic pursuits. The mission and vision of the University is to be in line with international universities in imparting quality-based

education with moral excellence. The University takes pride in achieving a rich bounty of Awards for Educational

CALL FOR PAPERS

Well-researched and unpublished articles are invited on the theme of the conference. The following are some of the sub-themes

Anthropocene and Literature

Petro fiction

Blue humanities and Nautical fiction

Energy humanities

Pandemic Literature

Digital age: Cyber Literature and Digital Media

Digital Pedagogy & Digital technologies

Research creation in Digital Humanities

Graphic and Twitter Fiction

Revisiting Indian poetics

Gender studies in the Era of technology

Gender and Queer Studies

Biopolitics

Pain Studies and Trauma Studies

Intersectionality: gender, class, race and LGBT+ representation

Marginality in Cultural Texts Feminist /Postfeminist voices

Feminist histories: memory and trauma

Women empowerment: Breaking stereotypes

Masculinity Studies

Urban and Suburban Studies

Comparative literature

Translation and Diasporic literature

Kitchen literature

Multiculturalism and Diasporic perspectives

Revisiting the Mythologies

Dalit Narratives

Ecofeminism & Ecocriticism and Green Cinema

Climate Fiction

Animal Studies, Zoo criticism and Phyto criticism

Posthuman Studies

Crip Theory and Disability Studies

Green ELT

Renewable English

Latest trends in English Language Teaching

Digital Language Teaching

Flipped/blended class rooms

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Task-based Learning

Trends in Teaching ESL

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

Abstract Submission: 25th February, 2024

Abstract Acceptance: 29th February, 2024

Registration:5th March, 2024

Conference Dates:  11th - 12th March, 2024

PUBLICATION

Selected Papers presented at the Conference will be published as book chapters with ISBN. Full-length articles received by 29th February 2024 will only be considered for publication.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

An abstract of 100-150 words should be submitted along with the information in this order: a) author b) affiliation c) email address d) title of the abstract, and e) the abstract. Send the

abstract to: kluenglishconference@gmail.com

ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance will be sent by the Convener & Registrations Committee, within a week from the receipt of the abstract.

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation will be provided in the Guest House and Students' hostels of the University. Vijayawada /Guntur is moderately warm during the month of March. The temperature is expected to range from 30 to 32 degrees Centigrade during the conference days

Registration link

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For More Information Contact

Dr. K. V. Divya, 9866839934 | Dr. K. K. Sunalini, 9849942819

Dr. M. Suresh, 8500219841 | Dr. K. B. Glory, 9849592241

KONERU LAKSHMAIAH EDUCATION FOUNDATION

(Deemed to be University, Estd. u/s 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)

Green Fields, Vaddeswaram, Guntur Dist., A.P., India, 522 302

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CFA: XVII Biennial International Conference on Comparative Literature as Alternative Humanities Ethics, Affect and the Everyday Social organized by Comparative Literature Association of India and University of Delhi-10th-12th September, 2024

Comparative Literature as Alternative Humanities Ethics, Affect and the Everyday Social

In the last few decades, scholars in the Humanities have found it necessary to examine the fundamental underpinnings upon which their disciplines are built. One of the primary questions that animated this re-examination has been regarding the very terms of our engagement with countries and communities that inhabit radically different social and moral life-worlds, living as they do outside the orbit of European Enlightenment values that still regulate both organisation and practice within and outside the academy, across the world. Instead of accepting difference as a defining feature of the human condition, the grand narratives of the Enlightenment were used as colonial and imperial tools to homogenize the diversity of experience, emotion and expression as the high tide of colonial modernity swept the world. The consequent otherness and alienation that characterised human society have deeply impacted literary and cultural production. We witness a disjunction between the objective, scientific discourse with its claim to truth and the everyday social experience of the human subject which Humanities seek to understand. These asymmetries compel us to rethink the Humanities from alternative positions and perspectives to embody and address the plural orders of reality and the differences between them. How can the collection of disciplines we call the Humanities recover the capacity of self-reflection and self-criticism? Much has been written about how stereotypes invade our imagination to contaminate our experience and knowledge.

Comparative Literature’s commitment to alterity and plurality gives it a foundational interest in the non-stereotypical, non-canonized, un-heard narratives of “others” that constitute a radical sense of the literary. Such articulations can only emerge from the confluence of different locations, experiences and identities, demonstrating how our vision of “others” projects our own versions of ourselves onto the outside world.

An alternative view of the Humanities will have to come to terms with the ideas of relationality, plurality and cultural mobility as the defining features of all epochs including that of the pre-modern. Texts, ideas, images, metaphors, themes, modes, genres, tales are all human endeavours and like humans themselves these have the capacity to travel across constructed, eternally given or pre-fixed borders, thereby defying the exclusivist, essentialist ideas of culture and literature. The prevailing inclination towards connected sociologies and connected histories, while a step in the right direction, often reflects the dominant discourses which impose homogeneity and hierarchy, evincing a lack of empathy for the precarious endeavour of encountering alterity and a lack of understanding of the transient and the contingent.

Thus, we propose plurality as a conceptual framework to address this eco-system of interconnectedness and relationality in terms of their manifestations in the languages and literatures of all nations, regions and communities, regardless of their location in the hierarchy of political and economic regimes, or of their internal stratifications. We would like to recover the mutuality of interconnections and interdependence between literatures and cultures across the world. The assertion that we live in a post-human world prompts us, as humans to consider our experience in terms of relationality and plurality. These emerge as conceptual tools for recasting our relations with the other - be it humans, animals or the non- living.

Texts are actualised through their immersion in the shared ideological and affective worlds that constitute the everyday world. From orality to print to the visual media, modes of intersubjective engagement are implicated in structures of power relations within society and our response to them. The very practice of Comparative Literature is an acknowledgement of plurality and a willingness to engage with difference. The discipline emphasises upon relationality, heterogeneity, multivocal perspectives, and direct engagement with alterity that translation offers as a process and a product. Built into the discipline is the interaction between literatures in multiple languages both within the nation and in other countries of the world. Furthermore, it takes orality and performance in its ambit. It reaches out to all other disciplines by asking the existential question : can we open ourselves to the location of the other and view the world from the vantage point of difference that we encounter outside ourselves? Can we frame a dialogic mode of interaction that reading teaches us to our relations with the world, to expand our view of the world outside our own limited subjectivity ? Hence, we propose Comparative Literature as an alternate paradigm - and invite reflections upon the possibilities inherent in the conceptual frame structured by the reciprocal, the relational and the plural. It is our hope that it will help to grasp and address the nature of the crisis that afflicts the Humanities today both in intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.

13%

Comparative Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

₹799.00

3%

Glimpses Of Comparative Literature

₹595.00

15%

MEG-15: Comparative Literature: Theory and Practice (IGNOU Study Guide Book)

₹350.00

24%

Comparative English Literature

₹595.00

16%

Studies In Comparative Literature

₹695.00

14%

Comparative literature

₹3,592.00

Comparative Perspectives on Indian Literature

Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction

30%

NEERAJ MEG-15 Comparative Literature : Theory And Practice- English Medium for MA- IGNOU - Chapter Wise Help Book / Guide including Many Solved Sample Papers and Important Exam Notes– Published by Neeraj Publications

₹320.00

20%

Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturism (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

₹3,800.00

Sub-themes

Some of the sub-themes in the context of the main theme that can be taken up for discussion are as follows:

• Interrogating categorial binaries (tradition/modernity, nature/culture, regional/national,
• east/west etc.)/ Literature after theory/ Shifting paradigms between Literary Studies and Social Sciences/ The Post-human as a paradigm in literary studies.
• Worlding literature / Historicising canons/ Global and local as contexts of reading. The idea of the classic in modernity: circulation or creativity ?
• Translation and the encounter with difference. Translating “dialects”/ The oral texts/ Archaic texts.
• The plural nation: stratification and resistance/ Literary historiography and geopolitics/ Intertextuality and chronotopes.
• Polyphony/ Polysemy in literature/ Poetry and cosmopolitanism.
• Interrogating “Minor” literature as category/ Identity theories as critiques of the Humanities / Life-writing from the margins.
• The performativity of literature/ Screenplay as literature/ Intermediality in literature. South Asian literatures and cultures: relations, reciprocity and ruptures/ Population movements and literature.

Papers are invited from scholars of #Comparative #Literature,

#Translation Studies, #Cultural Studies, #Theatre Studies, #Gender Studies, #Black Studies, #Dalit Studies etc. or on any aspect of literature and culture that will help us understand and practice the Humanities in accordance with the ethical perspectives outlined above.

Abstracts of about 250 words along with a short bio-note of

about 100 words may be submitted to clai2024@admin.du.ac.in

Upon acceptance, participants will be provided with registration details through email. 

The Registration Fee will include workshop kit, certificate, lunch, and refreshments during the three days of the conference. Participants would need to become members of CLAI on receiving their acceptance letters in order to present papers, if they are not already members of CLAI.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Last date of abstract submission: 30th April, 2024 

Selected participants will be notified by: 30th May, 2024 

Last date of registration: 15th July, 2024

REGISTRATION FEE:

Faculty members: Rs.3500/-

Research scholars/students: Rs.2000/- 

International participants: US$ 200

For further information please visit:

  https://www.clai.in/upcoming-event/

Organising Committee, XVII Biennial International Conference.

clai2024@admin.du.ac.in