CFP:Two-Day National Seminar on Revisiting Mahatma Jyotiba Phule’s Vision - Its Contemporary Relevance: 15th & 16th Feb, 2024, Osmania University, Hyderabad.

About the Seminar

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule (JyotiraoGovindrao Phule) pioneered the oppressed-caste movement as a leader and most influential thinker, social reformer, revolutionary activist and practitioner of human rights and popularly known as first “Mahatma' (Great Soul) of India, occupies a unique position among all social reformers in the 19th century. Due to his contributions to Indian Society, he had been acclaimed as the “father of the Indian Social Revolution”. Undoubtedly, Phule was first person to launch a movement for liberation of oppressed-castes and women of all castes during his times. His emphasis on liberation movements resulted into national movement and social revolution apart from each other in colonial

India.Phule's ideology andhisclear vision towards movements of liberation, individual freedom and self fulfillment, equality and social unity, made him unique from many other 'reformist' thinkers of his times. His uncompromising attack on the injustice prevailed in the society earned him as revolutionary. He stressed up on participatory development, which is clearly pertinent to the economic development of peasants, shudras, atishudras and women.

Phule was the first teacher of oppressed-caste communities, he was a strong critic of orthodoxy in the social system next to Buddha. He courageously envisaged alternative socio-religious reforms in the

nineteenth century, which was not an ordinary event. He meticulously presented a socio-cultural analysis that was deeply critical on caste-varna domination, which is the root cause of exploitation of oppressed - castes. He strongly believes that if both Women and sudra -athisudhra community not prone to education, they would have not been able to emancipate themselves. So he started a massive mission of imparting education by launching various schools in and around Poona. Apart from this, he presented a

treatise, to Hunter Commission, on how the Hindu orthodox system ouster majority people of society away from education.

Phule found new grounds, which throw unconventional theoretical insights into contemporary social realities and facilitate in understanding society and politics. Phule has been remembered for his contribution to various fields like education, caste inequality, agricultural reforms, economics, issues of women and widow rights, human rights,social inequality, upliftment, eradication of untouchability etc.

It is worth to realize that the persona of Phule had been influenced many personalities one among them was, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar who claimed Phule as his one of the gurus due to his noble work and

immense contributions in the socio-economic fields of India. In this context the proposed two dayNational Seminar has been looking forward to Phule's contemporary relevance and its praxis. The Seminar has beem structured into Keynote speaker, Lead Speakers, Presentations from delegates (oral /Poster) and Panel discussions.

Major Themes of the seminar:

MJP's Contemporary Relevance on

•  Education / Women Education.
• Agrarian Sector - Implications
• Caste System – contemporary relevance
• Social Justice ; Social Change – need of the hour
• Nationalist Ideology – its relevance
• Cultural Revolutionary Stance – alternative to orthodoxy participatory development
• Social reformers' views on Phule

Last date for submission - 15-01-2024

Intimation of acceptance - 20-01-2024

Full paper submission - 30-01-2024

No TA/ DA will be provided for participants, We will provide local hospitality with prior requests.

Location: Osmania University.

Registration Fee

Students/ Research Scholars 300

Research Scholars with Fellowship 500

Faculty / Post-Doc. Fellows 1000

NGOs / INGOs/Fellow on Research Centre’s 1500

Submission Guidelines

All are invited to submit abstracts of their papers.

All submissions must contain an abstract of up to

200 words (Times new roman 12pt, 1.5space) with 5 minimum Keywords as per the given Template. 

The abstract should be sent to GoogleForm

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiyXYSZaxXNv0y7J6qbGsm7LhyqT9t1qom8QwmrHvkNsP

3ZQ/viewform OR

the following email Id : mjprcou@osmania.ac.in

with the subject “ Abstract Submission: (Your Name)- National Seminar15th&16th, February 2024”. 

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CFP: International Conference on Storytelling for Environmental Futures, University of Stavanger, Norway, 7-9 August 2024

The Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling (ANEST) Network and the Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invite proposals for the conference “Storytelling for Environmental Futures” to be held 7-9 August 2024 in Stavanger, Norway.

Storytelling is how humans make sense of the world. Storytelling binds together communities, and can tear them apart. Stories are not just linear tellings in time and space, but can also spiral, cycle, and create patterns. Stories can be told in words, visuals, and embodied experience. One of the main goals of storytelling is to recount an obstacle and how it can be overcome. Facing environmental challenges like climate change, extinction, pollution, and extractivism needs to take advantage of that kind of storytelling—and it is precisely the type of analysis that environmental humanities scholars can provide.

“Storytelling for Environmental Futures” wants to interrogate how storytelling about the future and in service of the future works. What are these environmental stories? Who is making these stories? Who is reading/hearing/encountering the stories? Why is this story being told? Who is carrying the stories?

This conference invites presentations that grapple with storytelling for environmental futures in all its forms, including ecocritical analysis of literature or film, environmental historical analysis of events or ideas, ecolinguistic analysis of discourse and text, new possibilities and theories for environmental storytelling, and ecocritical analysis of art works, among others. Proposals for whole sessions (paper panels as well as workshops) and individual papers are welcome.

This conference will offer opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration, networking and professional development with a variety of sessions and events over three days. The conference will be free to attend, with lunches and the conference dinner on 9 August provided.  

Deadline to apply is 15 January 2024. Notice of acceptance will be made by the end of January. Submit proposals at https://forms.gle/mFCvdyLMJumWn7yAA

Contact: Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities administrator, Greenhouse@uis.no

Organizers:

Asia-Norway Environmental Storytelling (ANEST) Network, a network of environmental humanities researchers in Norway, China, Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong funded by the Research Council of Norway INTPART Program

Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities, a university-level center at the University of Stavanger with a strong portfolio of externally-funded projects in the environmental humanities

Contact Email: Greenhouse@uis.no

URLhttps://nordic-envhum.org/anest/cfp-storytelling-for-environmental-futures/

CFP: Virtual International Interdisciplinary Conference on "MEMORY, FORGETTING AND CREATING" 18-19 January 2024

 

ABOUT CONFERENCE: 

In our increasingly fast-paced societies, where information is abundant and its reception is superficial, human memory appears to be an endangered phenomenon. This is why we would like to take a closer look at the complex processes of memory. These include forgetting, neglecting, negation, and detachment, along with creating, recollecting, remembering, regaining memories, and reconstructing one’s relationship with the past. We are deeply interested in examples and consequences of altered memories: invention, fabrication, deception, indoctrination or propaganda. We invite reflection on mutual relations between memory and imagination, fantasising and manipulating, forgetting and creating.

We would like all these problems to be contextualised as broadly as possible, with reference to historical, social, religious, cultural, psychological, artistic and other factors. Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and comparative analyses.

The conference is intended as an interdisciplinary event. Hence, we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: anthropology, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, psychoanalysis, neurophysiology, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, memory studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, animal studies, medical sciences, psychiatry, social policy, cognitive sciences and others.

We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers, as well as doctoral and graduate students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners, without giving a presentation. We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of memory in the past and in the present-day world.

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Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:

1. Lost Memory:

- forgotten history

- forgotten nations

- forgotten heroes

- forgotten legacy

- forgotten times

- forgotten revolutions

- forgotten identity

- forgotten authors

- forgotten texts

- forgotten languages

2. Memory Loss:

- amnesia

- Alzheimer’s disease

- dementia

- sclerosis

- selective memory

- repression

- psychopathology of everyday life

3. Stolen Memory:

- denationalisation

- eradication

- expulsion

- disinheritance

- exclusion

- manipulation

- propaganda

- indoctrination

- Holocaust (and other genocide) denial

-“historical politics”

-“cultural revolution”

4. Abandoned Memory:

- non-action

- negligence

- indifference

- insouciance

- decline of attachment

- emotional atrophy

- disownment

- betrayal

5. Memory as a Trap:

- the terror of memory

- trauma

- post-memory

- memory and mourning

- nostalgia

- fixation

- the return of the repressed

- “primal scenes”

- compulsions

- stereotypes

6. Memory Regained:

- recollection

- anamnesis

- insight

- epiphany

- “time regained”

7. Dubious Memory:

- déjà vu

- confabulation

- fabrication

- rumour

- apocryph

- parallel histories

8. Memory and Imagination:

- facts and phantasms

- political phantasms

- historiography and fantasizing

- the realness of memories

- national mythologies

- reconstructions and narrations

- memory and representation

- memory and fiction

- non-fiction

- autobiography

- para-documentary film

- imagination in mnemonics

- collective memory and collective imagination

9. Memory and Art:

- literature, art, film, theatre as memory “media”

- socially engaged art: artists in defense of memory

- Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness

- Marcel Proust and In Search of Lost Time

- Thomas Mann and The Magic Mountain

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude

- Tadeusz Kantor and the “cliches of memory”

10. Memory and Science

- mirror Neurons

- diseases and syndromes of memory

- “creating memory” in the lab

- memory of matter (inorganic memory)

- memory processing in technology

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Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations, together with a short biographical note, by 31 December 2023 to: conferencememory@gmail.com  or by REGISTRATION FORM

Notification of acceptance will be sent by 3 January 2024.

The conference language is English.

Note:

As our online conference will be international, we will consider the different time zones of our Participants.

The conference will be held virtually via Zoom. Different forms of presentations (also posters) are available

REGISTRATION :

In order to participate in the conference (as a speaker or an audience member) you need to pay a REGISTRATION FEE via bank transfer or PayPal:

PRESENTERS: EUR 35 or USD 40 or GBP 35 or PLN 120 - by 11 January 2024

AUDIENCE MEMBERS: EUR 25 or USD 30 or GBP 25 or PLN 70 - by 17 January 2024

NOTE: We offer a discount for our returning Participants.

THE FEE COVERS:

- LIVE access via individual link to all conference sessions (without installing any additional applications)

- the conference programme in PDF

- certificate of attendance  for Presenters and Audience Members (sent by email or/and by post)

- online community gathering

- easy access on any device (phone, tablet and computer) with the possibility to join or leave the conference at any time

Banking details:

Beneficiary name: InMind Support Beneficiary Address: Jelitkowski Dwor 4

Beneficiary Bank name: SANTANDER   

The SANTANDER Swift code is:  WBKPPLPP

Beneficiary Bank account numbers (IBAN):

Payment in PLN:           

95 1090 2590 0000 0001 4259 8763   

Payment in EUR:           

PL58 1090 2590 0000 0001 4259 8847     

Payment in USD: via PayPal - please ask for a special link     

In the description field, please quote your first and last name and a note " memory conference".

All banking charges are to be covered by the Sender.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

NOTE: PAYPAL PAYMENTS (USD, GBP or EUR) ARE ALSO ACCEPTED (on request) - Please ask for a  link.

 

CANCELLATION FEES:

3 months before the conference and more - 50%

from 3 months to 1 month - 75%             

1 month before the conference and less - 100%                 

 

Our email: conferencememory@gmail.com

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

ICSSR SPONSORED TEN DAYS #RESEARCH #METHODOLOGY COURSE FOR #M.PHIL./#PH.D./#PDF #SCHOLARS IN #SOCIAL #SCIENCES

About University

Annamalai University, accredited with 'A+' Grade by NAAC in2022,is one of India's largest public residential universities with a sprawling campus of nearly 1000 acres is one of the largest residential Universities in Southern Asia comprising of 10 Faculties and 49 department's of study located at Chidambaram; The Adobe of the Cosmic Dancer Lord Nataraja . Founded in the early 1920s by Rajah Sir S.R. M. Annamalai Chennai  with the aim of promoting Tamil Literature and serving the downtrodden ,the institution evolved over rime. Jn 1929, it transitioned into Annamalai University, as per the Annamalai University Act 19:i8 (Tamil Nadu Act J of 1929).Since then, it has consistently played a pivotal role in shaping lives locally and globally. In 2013, the Annamalai University Act, 2013 (Tamil Nadu Act 20 of 201;), came into effect. This prestigious institution offers a diverse range of disciplines and departments, along with state of the art facilities such as sports pavilions, gymnasiums, libraries, and yoga/meditation balls. Annamalai University is not just a place of earning but a holistic ecosystem that fosters education, research, innovation, and community service, making it a true "university" in every sense.

About the Organizing Departments

The Department of Library and Information Science at Annamalai University , established in 1979, is a pioneering institution in India, providing modern education and practical training in Library Science. They offer various programs, including M.Lib.J.Sc., Ph.D., and more, aiming to prepare individuals for careers as librarians, information professionals , and knowledge managers. Additionally, the department offers programs such as M .Lib.Sc. (5 Year Integrated) and PGDLAN under the Directorate of Distance Education .On the other hand, the Department of Political Science & Public Administration, founded in 1981, focuses on producing well-informed citizens and offers a range of programs, including

M.A.Political Science (Integrated & CBCS) and Ph.D.programs. lt encourages curiosity about politics, global affairs. and fosters logical inquiry into the discipline, all with the aim of creating moral and model citizens of the world .

About the ICSSR

The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSRJ was established in 1969 by the Government of India with the primary objective of promoting and facilitating research in the field of social sciences within the country. It plays a pivotal role in supporting research endeavors by offering grants for various projects, facilitating fellowships for scholars. encouraging international collaborations, enhancing research capacity, conducting surveys, and promoting publications.

About the Programme

The Research Methodology course for M.Phil./Ph.D./PDF Scholars in Social Sciences comprises various essential objectives. It instructs st1adents in formulating research designs, conducting literature reviews, identifying research gaps, and defining research objectives, questions, and hypotheses. The course emphasizes conceptualizing research concepts and developing research proposals, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative research methods. It also provides practical exposure to statistical software for data analysis and covers reference management, publication processes, journal selection , database usage, manuscript handling, and citation formats. Overall, this course equips aspiring social science researchers with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in their research endeavors, both in academic and professional contexts.

Eligibility  for Participants

A Scholar doing M.Phil I Ph.D./PDF in any branch of social sciences in a UGC-recognized university/deemed university/colleges/institutes of national importance and ICSSR Research Institutes is eligible to apply in the prescribed format given and their application should be duly forwarded by the affiliating institution. Selected candidates will be informed through e-mail. The number of seats is limited to 30 from social science disciplines, out of which ten (10) are from hosting institution, ten (10) from within the state, and ten (10) from outside the state.

How to Apply 

Interested research scholars can apply for the ten-day Research Methodology Course sponsored by ICSSR by submitting a duly filled Registration Form (See Last Page) to the Course Director on or before December 31, 2023. The scanned copy of the registration form (the original registration form should be produced on the first day of the Course), along with the following documents, should be emailed to aurmcicssr2024@gmail.com

1.M.Phil./ Ph.D./PDF registration certificates.

2..Coursework completion certificate (if applicable).

3.Caste certificate (if applicable).

4.Write a brief statement (up to 300 words) explaining your reasons for wanting to participate in the course.

There is no Registration Fee for participation in this course.

Accommodation and Travel Allowance

Accommodation will be provided only to outstation participants in University Guest House Hotels on sharing basis from 21st January, 2024 (Evening) to ist February, 2024 (Morning). Travel allowance by shortest distance (Train Fare/ Bus Fare - Sleeper Class only) will be reimbursed to the outstation participants after submitting original tickets. Food will be provided to all Participants at free of Cost.

Important Dates

 

Last date of receipt of the complete application form-  

                                                                    -31 December,2023

Intimation to selected candidates -                                       

                                                                     - 5 January, 2024

Confirmation of participation by the applicants -               

                                                                      - 10 January,2024

Contact

For any information/clarification please contact:

Course Director :

Dr.M.Sadik Batcha Professor 8r Head

Department of Library and Information Science

Annamalai University Mobile:+ 9194436 65624

Email:msbau@rediffmail .com

Course Co-Director:

Dr. C.Subramanian Professor,

Department of Political Science 8r Public Administration

Annamalai University

Mobile:+ 9194433 39194 / 7010356616

Email:drcsubramaniann@yahoo .com

Scholarly #Conference: Call for Proposals #Foucault: Art, Histories, and Visuality in the 21st Century OCAD (Ontario College of Art and Design) University, Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada May 29 & 30, 2024

The French philosopher Michel Foucault’s (1926–84) work has had a major effect on scholars of art and visuality since Les Mots et les choses (1966) appeared in English in 1970 as The Order of Things. His radical ideas galvanized artists and art writers into many different directions: to insert ruptures and incoherence into history; to reimagine the subject, subjectivity, and identity; to politicize the realms of vision, visuality, and visibility; to formulate critical approaches to technology and media; and to scrutinize the inner workings of art institutions, including museums, schools, and archives. The versatility of Foucault’s thought greatly contributed to major shifts across disciplines, including the interventions of the “new art history” in the 1970s, multiculturalism and identity politics in the 1980s, visual and cultural studies in the 1990s, the questions of contemporaneity and globalization in this century. Owing to the posthumous publications of his lectures and the papers deposited at archives internationally, Foucault’s oeuvre continues to shape current discussions on methodological, political, and ethical assumptions regarding visualities and art histories forty years after his death. 

Drawing from four decades of research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, this two-day symposium proposes a critical assessment of the ways that Foucault’s influence intersects with current inquiries into art, visual culture, and their technologies. The organizers invite thirty-minute paper proposals that historicize and challenge the established patterns of Foucault’s reception in art history, archaeology, museology, visual anthropology, philosophy of art, aesthetics, film and media studies, visual culture, art education, and research-creation. We hope to form an eclectic lineup of speakers who have been engaging with the French thinker’s legacies from critical perspectives informed by the urgent issues of today, such as global inequity, decolonization, Indigenous sovereignty, race and ethnicity, post-truth, artificial intelligence, gender identities, environmental crisis, immigration, and diaspora. We will ask: How has Foucault’s thinking—ultimately concerned with human existence in a time of crisis—emerged from and contributed to the visual arts and material culture in the twenty-first century?

The symposium is part of the World Congress “Foucault: 40 Years After,” a global series of events commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the philosopher’s death (https://foucault40.info). In efforts to reduce environmental impact and to prevent duplication with other events, we solicit proposals from researchers and artists based in North America. We welcome proposals that are international in the scope of research as well as those anchored in specific regional contexts, including Canada, for example. Please send a one-page, single-spaced proposal and a short biography to foucault2024@gmail.com by January 22, 2024. The organizers are working on securing funding, which, if successful, would allow financial support for participants. We thank the peoples of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Haudenosaunee, the Anishinaabe, and the Huron-Wendat, on whose unceded lands the event will be held.

Organizers:

Anton Lee. Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Philosophy, NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) University

Catherine M. Soussloff. Professor Emerita of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia, and History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz

Collaborator/Local Host:

Charles Reeve. Professor of Visual and Critical Studies, Associate Dean of Arts and Science, OCAD University

Confirmed Speakers:

Andrew Gayed. Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, OCAD University

Amelia Jones. Robert A. Day Professor of Art and Design, Vice Dean of Faculty and Research, Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California

Louis Kaplan. Professor of History and Theory of Photography and New Media, Graduate Department of Art History, University of Toronto

Tavia Nyong’o. Professor and Chair of Theater and Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies, Professor of African American Studies, Yale University

John Rajchman. Adjunct Professor in Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University

T’ai Smith. Associate Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, University of British Columbia

Kyla Wazana Tompkins. Professor and Chair of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo

Contact Information

Anton Lee. Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Philosophy, NSCAD University

Contact Email

alee@nscad.ca

URL https://foucault40.info/toronto/

Attachments Call for Proposal PDF