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Monday, January 29, 2024

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.

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:
Organising Committee, XVII Biennial International Conference.
clai2024@admin.du.ac.in

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

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 

 

Submission guidelines:

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

Friday, November 3, 2023

Call for Papers: #Folklore and Popular Culture Area -March 2024








The Folklore Area of the Popular Culture Association is currently inviting proposals for the 2024 Popular Culture Association Conference. They are interested in organizing sessions, special panels, and individual papers centered around Folklore Studies. These sessions usually have a duration of 1½ hours and typically feature four papers. Each presentation should be limited to 15 minutes.

The call for proposals is open to various topics related to folklore studies, and they encourage a broad range of ideas. Some possible themes include Folklore in Popular Culture, Folklore and its presence in digital media, the impact of folklore on different cultural forms such as literature, film, and music, as well as exploring the connections between folklore and areas like religion, material culture, gender, children, memory studies, and global, regional, or local influences.

They also welcome proposals discussing the relationship between folklore and other academic fields like fairy tale studies, literary studies, and anthropology.

Themes:
  • Folklore in Popular Culture/Folklore as Popular Culture
  • Folklore and digital media
  • Influence of folklore on other forms of culture (literature, film, music, etc.)
  • Folklore and Religion
  • Folklore and Material Culture
  • The difference between oral and literary sources of tradition
  • Folklore and Gender
  • Folklore and children
  • Uses of folklore
  • Folklore and Globalism/Regionalism/Localism
  • Illustrators/Illustrations of and in folklore
  • Folklore and memory/memory studies
  • Symbolism in folklore
  • The relationship between folklore and fairy tale studies/literary studies/anthropology



It's important to note that the Folklore Area does not accept proposals from undergraduate students.

To submit an individual paper, you should provide a title and a 100-word abstract. Please make sure to adhere to the submission guidelines provided by the PCA, which can be found at this link: https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines.

The conference itself is scheduled for March 27-30, 2024, and it will take place in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile.

For any inquiries or questions, you can reach out to Kathryn Edney, who serves as the Associate Provost at Regis College, via email at kathryn.edney@regiscollege.edu.

Contact Email
kathryn.edney@regiscollege.edu