CFP: II Annual International Conference of Caesurae Collective Society on Translation Across Borders: Genres and Geographies 9-11 October 2018, Department of English, MANU University, Hyderabad.

Call For Papers:

Etymologically translation means carrying across, and commonsensically, we assume that the carrying happens across language. But, the boundaries of a language are often coterminous with the boundaries of nation, state, culture, and community (whether imagined or real). What happens when a text crosses these boundaries is an interesting phenomenon to explore in Translation Studies and allied fields. The questions that such boundary-crossing raises are many: What happens to the text? What happens to the nation, state, culture, community into which it is translated? What happens to the language, nation, state, culture, community which allows its texts to go across? What happens to the translator, when texts are moved across borders? How do translators move?These questions have been addressed to some extent and fascinating answers are before us. Still, there are many facets of this phenomenon of moving across borders which need to be investigated and conceptualized.

In recent times, we find texts moving not only across languages, but also across mediums, genres, literary traditions both within and across languages. Novels and short stories becoming plays; plays turning into short stories; films/videos reincarnating as remakes, dubbed versions or with subtitles; multi-lingual texts and multi-medial texts are all around us today. In the last decade or so, we have also witnessed a shift in interest from time (History) towards space (Geography) and interesting work has been published in the area of Translation and Cities. We are hoping that this conference will bring together scholars working in these areas to further our knowledge of the field.

Following is an indicative list of rubrics under which abstracts are invited:

Ø  Translation and Space

Ø  Translation and Cities

Ø  Translation and Borders

Ø  Translation and Places

Ø  Dubbing

Ø  Subtitling

Ø  Remakes

Ø  Translation as Crossing Genres

Ø  Audio-video Texts in Translation

Ø  Authors in Translation

Ø  Genres in Translation

Ø  Function of Translation in Source and / or Target Culture

Ø  Translational Spaces

Ø  Translational Relations Between Languages, Cultures, Texts

v  Conference dates: 9-11 Oct 2018.

v  Conference venue: Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU), Hyderabad.

v  Last date for receiving Abstracts: 8 Sep 2018.

v  Email for sending Abstracts: <culturaltranslationconf@gmail.com>

v  Date of intimation of acceptance of Abstracts: 15 Sep 2018.

v  Publication: Selected papers from the Conference will be considered for publication in future editions of our UGC-approved multi-media e-Journal Caesurae: Poetics of Cultural Translation.

v  Workshops, Exhibitions and Cultural programmes

Along with the academic sessions of the Conference, a host of cultural events, including Art and Music Workshops by leading artists and musicians, Exhibitions and Cultural programmes will be held. (Updates at: <www.caesurae.org>)

v  Registration fees

o   With accommodation: Rs. 3500 for Indian / 200 $ for overseas participants

(Registration fees will cover accommodation on twin-sharing basis at MANUU Guest House; breakfast, lunch, refreshments on Conference days; Conference kit; and access to Exhibitions and Cultural programmes)

o   Without accommodation: Rs. 1500 for Indian / 150 $ for overseas participants

(Registration fees will cover working lunch and refreshments on Conference days, Conference kit, and access to Exhibitions and Cultural programmes).

o   Separate fees (to be notified later) will be charged for the Art and Music Workshops

(Participants who wish to attend only the Workshops without attending the Conference can pay the fees for the Workshop/s, along with the Caesurae membership fees [see below], and have access also to the Exhibitions and Cultural programmes).

v  Membership fees

      All those who wish to participate in the II Annual International Conference of Caesurae Collective Society are required to pay the membership fees of Caesurae Collective Society

o   Life Membership: Rs 5000

o   Annual Membership: Rs 500 (renewable on 1 April every year)

v  How to pay Registration fee and Membership fee: Please email <culturaltranslationconf@gmail.com> for details.

About Caesurae Collective Society

Caesurae Collective Society is a registered non-profit organization devoted to academic and cultural activities. We organize academic seminars, creative writing, music, dance, film, graphic arts, photography, and art workshops and events. Our organization prides itself on members who come from different disciplines. We have academicians who are creatively inclined, and we have professionals from different cultural streams. Caesurae Collective Society intends to bring together creative arts with academic discursiveness on culture and cultural translation. If you have the creative and/or academic zeal in you, and wish to become one of “us”, you just have to write to mail@caesurae.org with your interests and a brief note about yourself. Our multi-media E-Journal (International, peer reviewed, UGC-approved journal) Caesurae: Poetics of Cultural Translation, is free for readers and contributors. However, one is required to become a member to participate in our conferences and workshops.

International Seminar on the topic "Marx Today" on 02 -03 September 2018.Dept. of English, St Berchmans College, Changanacherry, Kerala

Call for Papers

The Post-Graduate and Research Department of English, S B College,Changanacherry is organizing a two-day International Seminar on 3rd and 4th of September 2018 on the Topic: “Marx Today”. The conference on Marx is organised around the life and works of Karl Marx in the context of the two hundredth year of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Das Kapital. Political thought and philosophy are incomplete without a Marxian dimension. Marx’s 1859 Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy posits a notion of politics that sets subjective agency in relation to its objective determinants. Marx here contends that human society “inevitably sets itself only such tasks as it is able to solve, since closer examination will always show that the problem itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution are already present or at least in the course of formation.” The problem of politics, in other words, is how to correlate specific sites of struggle to the deeper structures that condition them. However, the enduring relevance of Marxist intellectual thought remains a point of spirited debate in the ideological history of the late twentieth century. With the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union, the emergent currency of postmodern concepts, and the rise of new social protest movements in the spheres of race, gender, and sexual orientation, Marxism came to appear the ‘signifier par excellence of theoretical hubris, redundancy and error’ (Pendakis and Szeman 2014).

In the twenty-first century however, propelled by the succession of economic and ecological crisis scenarios, Marxist criticism has experienced a critical resurgence. Fredric Jameson, David Harvey, and Alex Callinicos have provided new formal readings of Marx’s seemingly ‘inexhaustible’ text (Jameson 2011). Accompanying the apparent epistemological exhaustion of post-structuralist approaches, what palpably remains are the visible signs of an underlying crisis – secular stagnation, intensification of racism, sexism and xenophobia, militarised state repression, ecological collapse, deepening inequality and general human suffering for vast segments of the population. In the face of what some have argued is capital’s terminal crisis, our political world seems singularly unable to tackle the problems it has created and desperately needs to solve.But times of crisis are also times of possibility and the conference seeks to posit both questions and answers that address the matter of “The relevance of Marxism Today”. 

Proposals on all topics of relevance to Marxist theory and practice are welcome, including but not limited to:

• Subalterninty
• Postcoloniality
• Economic Thought
• Cultural studies
• Marxian Literary Criticism
• Political Thought
• Marxism and aesthetics
• Protests, Political Movements, Manifestos
• Literature as praxis and theory
• Marxism, ecology, and the Anthropocene

Papers from teachers, research scholars and students of Universities and Colleges in India are invited.

Dates to Remember

1. Deadline for the submission of Abstracts : 14/08/2018

2. Intimation of the acceptance of the Abstract : 16/08/2018

3. Deadline for the submission of full papers : 31/08/2018

4. Seminar at SB : 03, 04/ 09/2018

About the Abstract

The abstract should be in 300 words and should be sent to any of the email addresses given

below. The abstracts will be assessed by a peer review committee and the acceptance will be

intimated. The abstract should include the following

1. Name of the Presenter

2. Designation

3. Address of the Institution

4. Email and Mobile Number

5. Topic/ Title of the paper

About the Full Paper

1. Papers should be between 3000-5000 words in length.

2. The MLA 8th edition format should be followed

3. The text must be in Times New Roman, size 12, and double spaced.

We solicit your papers and participation in the seminar. Other details of the seminar will be conveyed to the participants through email and seminar brochure. Thank You,

Yours Sincerely

Dr Sabu Joseph                             Mr Thomas P J 

   

(Head of the Department)             (Co-ordinator)

Please Note

1. The Seminar Participation and Duty Certificates will be issued to the participants, provided they attend the seminar on both the days from 10am - 4pm.

2. Send your abstracts to : nithinvettu23@gmail.com or vimalmohanjohn@yahoo.co.in

3. For inquiries please contact: Mr Thomas P J - +91 9447806302

Mr Anish K Joseph - +91 9846702410

Mr Nithin Varghese - +91 9497669286

Mr Amal Toms - +91 8089678867

Mr Jerin B Sebastian - +91 9496379293 

CFP:Region/Nation/Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface January 31-Feb 2, 2019 BITS Pilani, Goa

Call for Papers 

This conference traces the various modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, without limiting itself to the age-old domain of adaptation. It tries to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation. These three locations work as contact zones where the literature-cinema interface manifests in various forms. With the emergence of transnationalism and comparative film studies as methods in cinema studies, multiple modes of literature-cinema negotiation are becoming increasingly evident with cinema studies borrowing concepts such as ‘world literature’ and ‘comparative morphology’. In the Indian/South Asian context, these locations are entangled with issues such as the language question, regional nationalisms, the crumbling idea of a federal republic with an increasingly stronger unitary governance, linguistic identity politics as manifested in popular cinemas and literatures, translational politics and the formation/development of certain national centres for the production of various modes of translation, India’s cultural/literary/cinematic negotiations with the trans-nation before and after globalization/economic liberalization etc. 

With contemporary India as its primary site of inquiry, the conference moves towards inter-continental geopolitical engagements without considering Indian regional/national and literary/cinematic questions in isolation. Apart from thematic and ideological associations with the trans-nation, it involves participants beyond the borders of the Indian nation (from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh), transforming itself into a discursive space where the conceptual apparatus meets with the narratives that inform and shape the former. Narratives from the margins will also significantly feature in the conference, with panels and plenaries on and from the Indian North-East. Moreover, a panel and a plenary will be devoted to Goa and its distinctive history of colonial and postcolonial politico-cultural engagements as manifested in indigenous literature and art.

Possible topics for presentation might be, but are not limited to, the following:

• Transnationalism as Method
• Comparative Cinema Studies and the transnational question
• South Asia’s Cultural Engagement with the ‘West’
• Cultural/Literary/Cinematic Migration within South Asia 
• Idea of India and the Language Question
• Linguistic Identity Politics in South and North-East India
• North-East India and the Politics of Translation
• South Korea’s Cultural Penetration into the Indian North-East
• Goa’s legacy as an erstwhile Portuguese colony
• Goa’s engagement with other Portuguese colonies (Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique)
• Goa as a contact zone of culture
• Histories of colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial cultural negotiations in Goa
• The Un-Indian Space/Region: Goa’s challenge to the Hindu Nation 
• National and Transnational Cultures in South Indian Cinemas 
• Regional Militancy in National (Popular) Cinema
• Trans-Nation and Indian Modernity
• Trans-Nation/Translation
• Subtitling/Fan-Subbing/Dubbing/Remake as Cultural Translation
• Internet Sharing in the Age of Post-Cinema
• Formative Years of Film Industries and the Cultural and Literary Translation(s)
• From Adaptation to Cultural Translation and Beyond
• State and Non-State Actors in translation

Select conference proceedings will be published as a co-edited volume for the publication of which Oxford University Press (OUP) will be approached. 

We would like to invite abstracts for individual presentations and/or panels from Comparative and English literary studies/Cinema and Media studies/New Media studies/South Asian studies scholars. Interested speakers/presenters may mail a 250 word abstract along with a brief bio-note to lci2019@goa.bits-pilani.ac.in. 

Registration and other Details

A registration fee of INR 3500 (for outstation participants) or INR 2500 (for local scholars) must be paid. This fee includes registration, conference kit, working lunch, tea and snacks for three days and participation certificate, but does not cover accommodation in Goa. Participants are supposed to find their own accommodation; conference committee can help with suggestions regarding places nearby though. We cannot offer bursary/travel grants as we expect the participants to be supported by their respective home institutions. 

Participants who are willing to attend the conference dinner hosted on the penultimate night need to pay INR 1000 additionally. 

Deadlines

Submission of abstracts: September 30, 2018

Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2018

Completion of Registration: November 15, 2018 

Submission of full paper: November 30, 2018 

Plenary Speakers

Mariano Mestman (Universidad de Buenos Aires & CONICET, Argentina- TBC)

FakrulAlam (East West University, Bangladesh) 

KanchukaDharmasiri (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)

Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University)

M. Asaduddin (Jamia Millia Islamia- TBC) 

Ravi S. Vasudevan (CSDS, New Delhi) 

Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University)

Kaushik Bhaumik (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 

GJV Prasad (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 

Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri (Gauhati University)   

Contact Details
Amitendu BhattacharyaAssistant Professor in English
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani
K. K. Birla Goa Campus
NH 17 B, ZuarinagarGoa, India. 403 726
Telephone: +91-832-2580296
Mobile: +91-8378841351
http://universe.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/amitendub/profile

CFP: International Conference on Ecology & Culture, 15-17 Dec 2018 Amrita Vishva Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus, Kollam, Kerala

Concept Note:

Has man drifted away from an Eco-centric to an anthropocentric world, thereby distorting the Dharma of existence? This International Conference, “Ecological and Cultural Cognizance: A Boulevard of Sustainable Amiability,” is an attempt to review, reconstruct and re-harmonise the equation of Nature, Man and Culture — to help chart out a strong path for an organic and sustainable future for man on this planet. When we speak of ‘ecological cognizance’ what is inevitable is the consciousness of our indigenous traditions: the spiritual, religious and cultural. This can help drive towards a future where science, technology and development go hand in hand for ecological sustainability. In academics, ‘eco-criticism’ still has an impression of an entrant, but as a literary movement, its development has been gradual and imperceptible. However, this movement has picked up a rapid pace in the United States, resulting in organisations like Association for the Study of Literature & Environment (ASLE), in 1992.

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus & FSLE - India are happy to come together to explore Ecological Cognizance across various fields of study in this International Conference on Ecology & Culture (ICEC). The study of indigenous cultures and oral traditions, as well as reclaiming and preserving these cultures and traditions, provide a starting point towards a possible solution to the ecological crisis of the day. Ecological consciousness could not have been better encapsulated than in the Sanskrit mantra Tat Tvam Asi, which proclaims the age-old awareness of the unity of all things. A verse which reads, 

“Dasha-kūpa-samā-vāpī, Dasha vāpī-samo hrada,

Dasha hrada-samah putra, Dasha putra-samo drumah”

(meaning, “a pond equals ten wells; a reservoir, ten ponds. A progeny equals ten reservoirs, and a tree equals ten progenies.), underlines the ecological philosophy in ancient traditions. Nothing in creation is less important, is what every element of myth and landscape, be it the Oriental or the Occidental, the Colonial or any other, cry out. In recent times association of Nature with woman has taken us to various constructs of ‘Deep Ecology’. The Eco-critics too rise to expose the “fissures of Race, Gender and Class” in Environmentalism. The way the world of man is decapitated today, necessitates a paradigm shift in thought process across all individuals, organisations, governments, institutions and nations – all those who are in a position of power to tilt the windmills. Environmental crises of gigantic proportions have been triggered by man. And unless some radical approach is envisaged, it is a matter of time that this blue/green planet gets hurled towards a sure-footed man-made disaster.

Can there be a collective search for paradigms and pathways towards a world that is sustainable, equitable and just? How can such frameworks and visions build on an existing heritage of ideas and world-views and cultures, anchored on practices past or new? How can they be fundamentally different from today’s dominant economic and political systems, which have brought us to the brink of a catastrophic collapse in terms of socio-economic inequalities and despair?

At the crossroads today, we have to decide unerringly on the direction to take if we must have a future on Planet Earth. The leading scientists of our day concede that the key to man’s progress, science and technology, are now a near threat to life on earth itself — some even fear that man is now confronted by a dead-end situation. 

The questions arising in the minds of thinking individuals in this context, to list a few, look like:

• Have the Homo Sapiens a future on this planet?
• Is dearth of values the cause of this crisis?
• Is ‘something’ wrong in the methodology and culture of ‘modernity’?
• Have our traditional beliefs taken us astray?
• Will what we condemn as ‘orthodoxy’ has the last laugh?
• What holistic approach and/or philosophical basis can save mankind?

Dear colleagues and friends! Let us find an answer to the crisis that stares us on the face.‘Amrita’ welcomes every one of you with FSLE-India to Her Amritapuri Campus. Your views, conference papers and presence, enlightening presentations, discussions and life-saving solutions can save posterity, and ascertain for them a healthy, happy and meaningful living.Your papers should be largely related but not exclusively limited to the following themes:

Thrust Area

• Literature & Environment

• Pastoral & Wilderness

• Eco-Spirituality

• Orientalism & Nature

• Deep Ecology

• Myth & Landscape

• Oral Traditions

• Sustainable Environmental Models

• Environmental Philosophy

• Environmental Justice

• Literature of the Wild - Representing the Other - Animals in Literature

Abstracts: 

Abstracts of not more than 500 words with five key words must be mailed to: conf.fsleindia@gmail.com

➢ The full paper must be within 4000-6000 words. Use the latest MLA style of referencing.

➢ Please use 12 point Times New Roman and avoid footnotes.

➢ Selected Papers will be published in an edited volume with ISBN no. (Not in the form of Conference proceedings instead a complete edited book after the conference).

➢ Authors are requested to attach their bio-note (in third person, not exceeding 100 words) separately.

Deadlines:

Abstract Submission: August 15, 2018

Acceptance Notification: August 25, 2018

Full Paper Submission: October 30, 2018

Final Draft (Considered for the publication-Only for those whose full papers selected): January 10, 2019 

Registration details will be provided after the acceptance of Abstracts only to the selected candidates.

Last date of Registration is September 01, 2018

For Further details Contact:

Rishikesh Kumar Singh (Convener)

Email: rishisengar2011@gmail.com

Dr. Beena S. Nair(Convener) 

Email: beenasnair@am.amrita.edu

Website:

http://www.fsleindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ICEC-2018.pdf