CFP: International Conference on Women Studies, Language, Culture and Social Sciences-28th to 29th December 2018 Goa, India

Call For Papers

The International Conference on Women Studies, Language, Culture and Social Sciences 2018 (ICWES 2018 ) to be organized by IMRF in collaboration with Carmel College for Women and other International Bodies shall be one of the significant conferences in Women Studies, Education & Social Sciences Community held in conjunction with the IMRF International Journals .

The Conference is designed with Special Invited Research Lectures, Paper Presentations and Poster Presentations. International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 2018 is honored by bringing Peer Reviewed Arts & Education International Research Journal Vol-5 Issue 1 with 2349– 1353, Peer reviewed Social Sciences International Research Journal Vol-4 Spl Issue with ISSN 2395 – 0544, with all papers accepted for publication. The main intention is to reflect the pioneering state of research in Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 

Some non-technical talks connected with promotion of research in Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences will also be convened. 

Themes

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Original research papers in the following disciplines but not confined, related to  Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences  from Post Graduate Students, Research Scholars, Faculty, Scientists   are invited for presentation.​

Women Studies 

Feminist method |Gender studies |Gender mainstreaming |Gynocentrism |Kyriarchy |Matriarchy |Women's studies | Patriarchy |Écriture féminine | Leadership etc., and allied subjects

Education
Primary education |Secondary education |Higher education |Vocational education |Adult education
Alternative education |Madrasa education |Woman education |Dance education |Distance education | International studies | Journalism education |Special education |Vocational education

Social Sciences 

Anthropology |Archaeology |Criminology |Demography |Economics |Geography (human) |History International relations |Jurisprudence |Linguistics |Pedagogy |Political science |Psychology |Science education |Sociology | Public Administration |Journalism etc.,  and allied subjects.

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English Studies Linguistics |Sociolinguistics |Discourse analysis |Language learning and teaching | Literature American literature – including African American literature |Jewish American literature Southern literature | Australian literature |British literature |Canadian literature | Irish literature New Zealand literature |Scottish literature |Welsh literature |South African literature  | Translations

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Submission of Papers

 
Participants intending to present papers in conference are requested to submit soft copy of the abstract incorporating the motivation, method of solution and important findings of their investigation to  icwlcs2018@gmail.com. 

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​Important Dates

Participation is for limited number. 

To reserve your participation with the notified fee and with out any late charges  register the earliest

Last date to submit Abstract :                                                                                                                          20/10/2018

Last date to Register :                                                                                                                                        10/11/2018

Optional

Last date to submit Full Paper if interested in Publication :                              20/10/2018

Submission of Papers

 
Participants intending to present papers in conference are requested to submit soft copy of the abstract incorporating the motivation, method of solution and important findings of their investigation to  icwlcs2018@gmail.com.

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Contact Us

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Tel: +91 9533421234, +91 9618777011

Email : icwlcs2018@gmail.com

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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