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Saturday, August 5, 2017

Funded International Workshop on "Diasporas and Homeland Governance" at FU Berlin, 3./4. November, 2017







Deadline for abstract submission: 7. August, 2017

Contrary to an increasingly popular policy discourse, the transnational mobilization of diaspora communities and individuals contributing to the governance of their homelands (in the form of, for example, remittances, development initiatives or human rights promotion) has not always been unequivocally welcomed, and has led to conflict between diaspora actors, international stakeholders, sending states and local populations. This echoes the wider research on governance provision by external actors to areas of limited statehood (ALS), which has found that governance by actors considered external to the state, such as International Organisations, Regional Organisations, INGOs, MNCs and third countries, is often met with significant contestation. This contestation takes various forms, from the questioning of representation and local ownership, all the way to accusations of neo-imperialism and violence. In turn, it can lead to unintended changes, ineffectiveness and even the failure of the intervention in question. From a social science-perspective, a central concern in this field has thus been to assess the conditions for legitimate and effective governance provision by external actors to ALS.






Research on governance starts from the premise that, contrary to popular modernist theorising, the majority of the world’s population lives in areas where the state is not the sole setter of rules, or provider of common goods and services. While, both from an historical and regional perspective such limited statehood can be considered the norm rather than the exception, globalisation has further accelerated the diversification of actors who partake in such governance. Governance is thus conceptualized as the setting of collectively binding rules and provision of goods and services to domestic populations. While governance research has attempted to shift its focus away from the state, the analytical distinction between actors that are either external or internal to the state is still built in to the research paradigm. And it is along this spatial boundary that explanations for governance effectiveness and legitimacy are most often sought. Through this analytical lens diasporas do engage in homeland governance. However, they do so in complex and contested ways. They may provide common goods and services to domestic populations from abroad, thus qualifying as external actors, but they also often retain citizenship or a connection to the homeland that would qualify them as internal. Meanwhile, states themselves increasingly harness their own diaspora populations, thus extending conceptualizations of citizenship and governance beyond traditional spatial boundaries. Ultimately, existing state-centric research categories do not capture this (spatial) ambiguity of diaspora governance.





About Workshop

This workshop seeks to address these issues by cross-pollinating research on the transnational mobilization of diaspora communities towards their homelands with research on global governance and external governance provision to ALS (for further information please see www.sfb-governance.de). We welcome contributions that address the following questions:

Areas and Modes of Diaspora Governance: What kind of governance do diasporas engage in in their homelands, and with what intentions? Where does this governance take place and how does it unfold? What kind of governance constellations do diasporas enter into and how do they interact with and relate to the state and other governance actors? What kind of meta-governance strategies exist to coordinate diaspora governance?

What value does the internal/external distinction hold in relation to the state? And what alternative categories might we come up with to think about diaspora governance?

Effectiveness and Legitimacy of Diaspora Governance: Under what conditions do diasporas provide effective and legitimate governance to their homelands? How do diaspora-state relations impact on the legitimacy and effectiveness of diaspora governance? What are the sources of legitimacy that diasporas draw upon when they engage in governance? Is there a trade-off between local and international legitimacy?






How do we capture the effectiveness and legitimacy of diaspora governance if spaces of governance are no longer equivalent to the state?

Implications of Diaspora Governance: What conflicts arise when diasporas provide governance to areas of limited statehood, both at the local and the global level? What kind of institutions and norms form around diaspora governance? What alternative geographies arise through diaspora governance? How does diaspora mobilization challenge the binaries of external and internal governance provision?

How can we decenter the state as an analytical category to make sense of transnational spaces and actors of governance?





Please send abstracts (max. 300 words) to catherine.craven@fu-berlin.de.

Deadline for abstract submission: 7. August, 2017





The workshop will be held at the Free University of Berlin on 3./4. November, 2017. Expenses for travel and accommodation will be covered. Selected contributors will be notified by mid-August 2017 and full papers will be due in mid October.


Contact Info:
Catherine Craven
Free University of Berlin
SFB 700 "Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood"
Ihnestraße 22
14195 Berlin
Tel.: +49 (30) 838 63729
catherine.craven@fu-berlin.de
Contact Email:
catherine.craven@fu-berlin.de
URL:
http://www.sfb-governance.de/teilprojekte/projektbereich_b/b2/Call-for-Papers-FU-Berlin-Diaspora-Workshop.pdf





International Conference on Shakespeare, Traffics, Tropics Asian Shakespeare Association Conference Manila, May 28-30, 2018








About the Conference 
Shakespeare, Traffics, Tropics is the 3rd biennial conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association jointly hosted by the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines Diliman. It features leading Shakespearean scholars and theatre practitioners from around the globe with a keen interest in Shakespeare as produced in and by Asia and a mini-festival of Shakespearean performances from Japan and the Philippines.





The conference is scheduled on May 28-30, 2018 at the Arete, the new creative and innovation hub of the Ateneo de Manila University and at the College of Arts and Letters of UP Diliman. Prof. Peter Holland, Chairman of the International Shakespeare Association, will deliver the keynote address. A second keynote speaker is also under consideration. The conference will include plenary, panel, and seminar sessions on several aspects of Shakespearean pedagogy, publication, translation, adaptation, and theatrical histories in various Asian locations.

Performances to be staged include:
· The Tempest by the Yamanote Jijoshe company of Tokyo directed by Masahiro Yasuda
· Taming of the Shrew by an Ateneo theater group to be directed by Prof. Ian McClennan (Thornloe University, Canada),
· Rdu3, a contemporary Philippine take on Shakespeare’s Richard III to be co-directed by Anton Juan (University of Notre Dame, USA) and Ricardo Abad (Ateneo de Manila)









Spread out over 7, 641 tropical islands speaking 78 languages, the Philippines has a rich history combining Asian, European, and American influences. It is no stranger to traffic, in various forms, and negotiating this vibrant, colorful, and sometimes chaotic mix, often entails giving in to an easygoing way of life and enjoying oneself along the way. Quezon City, the conference site, is the most populous city of Metropolitan Manila that acts as the country’s political, social, economic, cultural, and educational center. The adjacent university campuses of the Ateneo and UP are sprawling green spaces that offer a respite from the flurry of life in one of the world’s largest cities.







CALL FOR PAPER AND SEMINAR PROPOSALS

Traffic is both a product of robust movements but can also refer to points of entanglements, both flows and disruptions that arise from global exchanges in goods, people, and even, Shakespeare. The Conference welcomes papers that use the idea of traffic whether construed as mobility, immobility, trade, enterprise, translation, exchange –- licit or illicit -- as a key concept to contemporize Shakespeare and his place in today’s world. It seeks to explore Shakespeare as both purveyor and product, as either agent or victim of commodification, as subject and object of a wide array of linguistic, theatrical, economic, political, and social transactions. Papers may also take off from the prologue in Romeo and Juliet—“the two-hours traffic of the stage” – and revolve around performance and intercultural movements implied in Asian Shakespearean performances. A secondary theme, Shakespearean Tropics, is not only a nod to the conference location but also seeks to explore tropical Asian Shakespeare as a potentially distinct body of work with unique connections to tropical worlds elsewhere.

Topics may include but are not limited to —

  1. The Shakespearean Trade
  2. Shakespearean Entrepreneurs Shakespeare and Cultural Exchange
  3. Shakespeare and the Global Popular
  4. Shakespeare and/as Commodity Transactional Shakespeare
  5. Archives and Inventories
  6. Shakespearean stocks in global markets
  7. Shakespeare and Exploitation
  8. Theatrical Trades, Human Trafficking, and Migration
  9. Materialist Approaches to Shakespeare
  10. Shakespearean Performance Economies in Asia
  11. Shakespeare and the Book Trade
  12. The Travelling Theatre
  13. Shakespeare in the Tropics
  14. Hot Shakespeare
Selected papers from the conference will be published as a special issue of Kritika Kultura, a Thomson-Reuters-indexed and Scopus-listed internationally refereed online journal on literary, language and cultural studies published by the Ateneo de Manila University.









Submission Guidelines
The conference includes both paper sessions and seminars. Graduate students are welcome.
(1) Paper: please submit a 250-word abstract, plus a short, 100-word bio.
(2) Seminar: please submit a 250-word description of the seminar, plus a short bio including a summary of your previous seminar experience.
(3) Deadline: Deadline for submission is 15 September 2017. Results will be announced in October 2017. A second call for seminar papers will also be released.







Contact
Submissions and queries should be sent to asa2018@ateneo.edu or  admin@AsianShakespeare.org.
For conference updates, please visit AsianShakespeare.org or the conference website at asianshakespeare2018.com

Friday, August 4, 2017

CALL OF APPLICATIONS FOR ICSSR DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP, POST DOCTORAL (PDF) & NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR 2017-18






Call For Applications:



Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) has released notification for Call of Applications for Doctoral Fellowships; Post-Doctoral Fellowships, and National Fellowships for 2017-18 from Indian social scientists. The proposals should be in the field of social science disciplines or may be interdisciplinary in nature.ICSSR promotes research in the field of social sciences. ICSSR has delayed to notify various programmes and fellowship schemes for the year 2017-18 as it releases notification each year in May-June. Now wait for aspirants who are in the research field on the domain of social sciences is over.





The broad disciplines of study within the domain of social sciences are:

(i) Sociology and Social Anthropology;
(ii) Political Science / Public Administration;
(iii) Economics;
(iv) International Studies;
(v) Social Geography and Population Studies;
(vi) Commerce and Management;
(vii) Social Psychology;
(viii)Education;
(ix) Social Linguistics / Socio-Cultural Studies;
(x) Law / International Law;
(xi) National Security & Strategic Studies; and

(xii) Other allied Social Science disciplines (Library Science, Social Work, Media Studies, Modern Social History, Health Studies, Gender Studies, Environmental Studies, Diaspora Studies, Area Studies, Sanskrit-Society & Culture etc.) to promote interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research










Details about eligibility, terms and conditions, etc. can be accessed as under:


DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS



POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS



NATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS




Application in hard copy in prescribed format and duly forwarded by the affiliating institution must be sent to the concerned Division In-charge, Indian Council of Social Science Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110067 on or before 08 September 2017 (Friday). An advance copy of the application can also be sent through email to :

1. Doctoral Fellowship: rfdicssr1718@gmail.com ; 

2. Post-Doctoral Fellowship: pdf2017.icssr@gmail.com

3.National Fellowships: sf2017.icssr@gmail.com






The last date for receipt of applications is 08 September 2017 (Friday). 

NOTE: The scholars who have applied prior to this advertisement, are required to submit their applications afresh in accordance with new guidelines and application format. The old applications received prior to this advertisement will not be considered









For More Details: 
http://icssr.org/adv/adv%20doctoral%20fell%20and%20post%20doctoral%20201718.htm

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Call for Applications: Winter School in Oral History 2017, Bangalore.







Call For Applications:



The Centre for Public History, Bangalore announces the third Winter School on 'The Inner Life of Interviews: Oral history and Inter-subjectivity' to be held from November 1 to 10, 2017 in Bangalore. The Winter School, the first of its kind in India, began in 2013 with a focus on the role played by oral history in documenting social change. The last two editions of Winter School in Oral History were very successful.










This year's Winter School will explore the modes of meaning making within a life story interview, delving deeper into the positions of interviewer and interviewee and the relationships formed between them. The life story interview and the role of the interviewer have defined the field of oral history in significant ways and we seek to further examine the subjectivities that inform the practice. Some of the questions we seek to address are:



How is an oral history interview different from other forms of interviewing?

What shapes the dynamic between interviewer and interviewee? What are the ethical implications of engaging in such a practice? Have technological advancements blurred the boundaries between interviewer and interviewee?





This course will address these issues in a global context with examples from India and other South Asian countries, United States, and Italy.






The facilitators include eminent oral historians and practitioners like Alessandro Portelli (Italy), Martha Norkunas (USA), Anne Valk (USA), Indira Chowdhury (India), Nina Sabnani (India), and Deepa Dhanraj (India) among others who will present the latest research approaches through examples from their own work. The Winter School aims to have 20-25 participants who will have the opportunity to discuss their projects with the faculty.












The last date for the submission of applications is September 30, 2017.




To apply, fill in the Registration Form and email it to cph@srishti.ac.in.






Contact Info:



Center for Public History

Address: Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology (N5 campus), CA Site No. 21, 5th Phase, KHB Colony, Yelahanka New Town, Bangalore - 560064, India.
Phone: +91 80 49000836
Contact Email: cph@srishti.ac.in

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Call for Applications: Visiting Fellowships 2018, Topic area “Performing Knowledge: The Politics and Economics of European Studies”(Funded)






Call For Applications:

The Europainstitut (Institute for European Global Studies) of the University of Basel, Switzerland, welcomes applications for three Visiting Fellowships (three months in 2018, starting in spring or in autumn) in the field of European Global Studies, with special focus on the topic area “Performing Knowledge: The Politics and Economics of European Studies”.

The Institute for European Global Studies is an interdisciplinary research institute at Switzerland’s oldest university, the University of Basel. It develops new interdisciplinary concepts and methodologies designed to critically examine European integration as well as the relations that have shaped Europe in connection with other continents. We welcome applications from researchers who are interested in investigating actors and agencies in global contexts and who enjoy adopting a conceptual approach beyond the nation-state.





Applications should be in line with the Institute’s general research perspective on Europe in its global contexts and engage with a project from the topic area of “Performing Knowledge: The Politics and Economics of European Studies”. During the last decade, calls to put the academic study of Europe on a new theoretical footing have become more frequent, as established patterns of interpretation have lost analytic purchase in the face of fundamental economic, social and political crises. Various relational approaches to Europe have surfaced in academic debates on the nature and research focus of European Studies. Since the academic study of Europe is not entirely independent of economic and political interests, there is a need to advance empirical and theoretical work on European Studies. We therefore welcome proposals which focus on European Studies as object of research, understood as a global phenomenon, and its linkages to the worlds of economy and politics. This may include, but is not limited to, approaches from within anthropology, sociology, political science, history, law, or economics. 

Applications on “Performing Knowledge” should be related to one of the following fields:


  • research on European Studies outside of Europe,
  • global knowledge production and area studies,
  • the European Union as an economic and political actor in the political economy of European (Union) Studies,
  • theoretical work on a relational approach towards Europe in its global context. 







Prospective Visiting Fellows will benefit from the excellent academic conditions and exchange with international colleagues. They need to have completed their PhD and have an established track record in the research field of Europe in its global contexts. In addition, they should have cultivated the ability to think beyond the boundaries of academic disciplines. A Fellow’s project should provide a fresh contribution for his/her field of expertise, also in terms of methodological input. Visiting Fellows should be keen to share and discuss their research. The Institute for European Global Studies strongly encourages women scholars to apply. The Fellowship includes funding.






Please use the standard proposal form for your project proposal and your CV. Incoming applications without the standard form cannot be considered. Please submit your application to: fellowship-eib@unibas.ch. The application deadline is Friday, September 1, 2017.









Contact Info:


Europainstitut / Institute for European Global Studies
University of Basel
Gellertstrasse 27, P.O. Box
CH-4020 Basel
Contact Email: fellowship-eib@unibas.ch

Call for Applications for Shastri Scholar Travel Subsidy Grants (SSTSG) 2017-18






Call For Applications

Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute is pleased to announce a Call for Applications for Shastri Scholar Travel Subsidy Grants (SSTSG) 2017-18 from SICI’s Canadian and Indian Member Institutions in good standing. SSTSG assists faculty members, doctoral or post-doctoral students, with travel subsidies to participate in conferences, workshops, seminars and academic meetings in partner countries (India or Canada) that are intended to establish institutional and scholarly linkages.





Please note the following points:
• The minimum number of grants and minimum funds available for each grant, as specified below, is guaranteed. 
• Although minimum grant amount is specified as CAD$1000, the award amount may reach up to CAD$1,500, if extra funds become available for this program. Therefore you may request SICI grant up to a maximum of CAD$1,500, while keeping in mind that you may receive only CAD$1,000. 
• Besides, SICI may consider awarding more number of grants as well, subject to availability of additional funds after due process of approval.
• Institutions may receive only one SSTSG award, and receipt of the award is subject to the institution being a SICI member in good standing with fully paid-up membership for the current year (2017-18).
• An individual who was awarded a SSTSG may not receive another Travel Subsidy Grant until at least one (1) year has passed. For example, an individual receiving a grant in 2016-17 will be eligible to apply for a second SSTSG grant in 2018-19.
• The selected awardees will have 2 weeks to confirm their acceptance of the SICI grant (subject to their institution’s eligibility).
• Any declined project grant or availability of surplus funds may result in award of grants among any of the wait-listed applications, subject to application of other rules of SICI which allows benefits to be more broadly distributed among its members.



Value:


  • CAD$1,000 (to support the scholar’s international economy class airfare).
  • Associated costs related to visas, meals, per diem and accommodation are not eligible under this grant.

Number of Awards:10 (ten)






Eligibility:

  • Applicant must be a full time faculty member/researcher/student (doctoral and post-doctoral) of SICI’s Canadian or Indian Members Council Institution (in good standing in 2017-18). For a current list of member institutions please click here: (http://www.sici.org/about/members/).
  • Grants to be used for Canadian scholar’s travel to India or Indian scholar’s travel to Canada.
  • For institutional visits applicant must have been invited by an academic institution (which may or may not be a SICI member institution) in Canada or in India.
  • For other visits related to the participation in conferences/workshops/seminars, the applicant’s paper must have been accepted for presentation by the organizing committee of the conference or the host institution.
  • Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of India or Canada.



Application Requirements:


1. Please submit your APPLICATION PACKAGE to http:// http://shastriinstitute.org/gms/ on or before 18th September 2017 by 1100pm (MST).
2. Mention: “Application for Shastri Scholar Travel Subsidy Grant (SSTSG) 2017-18” in the subject line. 
3. A COMPLETE APPLICATION PACKAGE should be a single pdf file with the following documents:
i. A completed electronic SSTSG 2017-18 Application Form (duly completed);
ii. A summary description of one pager describing the presentation/discussion topic containing: title, abstract or purpose, co-authors or counter parts, scholarly presence, etc.
iii. Curriculum Vitae of the applicant-not more than 3 pages. All additional pages after 3rd page will be removed and/or ignored during evaluation. 
iv. Curriculum Vitae (not more than 3 pages) of the counterpart/inviter at the host institution (for academic visit). All additional pages after 3rd page will be removed and/or ignored during evaluation. 
v. Letter of invitation from the host institution (for academic visit)
vi. Proof of acceptance of the Paper/Presentation from the organizer/host institution (for conference, seminar, workshop, etc. 
vii. Copy of Passports/PR Card (applicant)





Evaluation Criteria:

An adjudicating committee will make the final decision concerning successful applicants based upon the following criteria and marking system:
1 Institution/Event (4 points)
  • Does the proposed meeting/event carry a significant weight in terms of scholarly inputs/outputs, rankings (i.e., type of the meeting/event, intended contributions/accomplishments, scholarly presence, participants attending, etc.)?

2 Contribution to faculty/student development and potential institutional linkages (4 points)
  • How far the proposed event has likelihood to contribute to applicant’s own development (scholarly and other)?
  • How far the proposed event has likelihood to contribute to any potential institutional linkages between the applicant’s host and visiting institutions?

3 Professional Background (2 points)
  • Does the applicant have necessary academic and or research background related to the topic of the event that he/she proposing to attend?

4 Contribution to promoting/building academic linkages between India-Canada (4 points)
  • How the proposed event will contribute to promoting/building academic linkages between India-Canada?





Disbursement of Funds:

  • Subject to availability of funding, selected SSTSG awardees will be reimbursed with approved travel grant to use for scholarly travel w.e.f. 15 November 2016 to 30 September 2017.
  • However, the SSTSG fund will be released to the scholar only upon receipt and acceptance of the final report by the Institute, following completion of the scholar’s proposed visit.



Application Deadline:

18 September 2017 (11:00pm MST)

Application Form:






Please note:
• Any travel that starts and finishes within the period of 1 September 2017 – 31 May 2018 will be eligible under this grant. Travel initiated or completed prior to the above mentioned timeline will not be eligible under this grant.
SSTSG fund will be released to the recipient’s institution upon receipt of his/her final report. 
• Late and incomplete applications will not be considered.
• All application materials must be submitted through the Grant Management System online. Any material that is sent by other means (courier, post, fax or electronic) to our offices will not be entered in the competition.
• Please email Mahmuda Aldeen (maldeen@ucalgary.ca) instantly if you do not receive an ‘application receipt’ email from SICI by 25 September 2017.
• Names of the successful applicants will be uploaded on SICI website (http://www.sici.org/home/).

Report Form:





Contact:



For more information, please contact Mahmuda at the Canada Office.
Mahmuda Aldeen
Program and Member Relations Officer
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute
1418 Education Tower
2500 University Dr NW
Calgary AB T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-3220 (direct)

Sunday, July 30, 2017

National Conference on THE ENGLISH TEXT IN A NORTH EAST CLASSROOM: PEDAGOGY, POLITICS AND SOCIOLOGY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE TEACHING November 2-3, 2017 Dept. of English, Tripura University





Call For Papers

The Department of English, Tripura University has decided to organize a 2 –day National Conference on “The English Text in a North East Classroom” during 2-3 November 2017.The Conference will be organized around Plenary Sessions, Paper Presentations and
Panel Discussions. Proposals for presentation at the Conference are welcome from academicians, scholars and teachers engaged in teaching of English Literature in the North East.

Concept Note
India’s North East is the language historian’s minefield, not only by virtue of its multiethnic and hence multilingual polyphony, but also its hospitality to English, the colonial master’s left over share of cake, which when distributed, soaked up a variety of distinctive flavors of the region. Under the watchful eyes of William Carey and the Serampore missionary project, English gradually became the second language of the household and the first language of school education in many parts of India’s North East, ranging from Assam, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Manipur and certain regions of Tripura. 




The North Eastern region in the erstwhile Empire era was known as the North Eastern Frontier Agency(NEFA) with its capital at Shillong. Shillong, the Scotland of the East, naturally imbibed the fruits of Anglicisation to the hilt, leaving the rest of the region at the mercy of local kingships, politics and ethnicity. With Independence, the region was subsequently divided into eight federal states, but each state had its own unique socio-cultural and political exigencies to attend to The missionary influence had been a powerful proselytising force since early nineteenth century on many a tribes, gradually anglicising and alienating them from their indigenous traditions. In such states, English had been made the state language, while in others, it became the second language. Notwithstanding local politics, English language and literature over ages acquired an enviable position in the region as a tool of social mobility and marker of social status.But in spite of decades of the language learning and training, the state of English education in the region, leaving apart a few select cities, is not at all a happy one. Lack of good study materials and properly trained teachers, fear of the Text and the language, cultural distanciation between the two contexts, exam-centric Teaching and Learning, lack of research to investigate classroom apathy and encourage Textual Teaching etc. are some of the several factors inhibiting Teaching of English Literature in most of the Northeastern states. A student in an Indian University is traditionally encouraged to approach English literature from an Anglocentric, universalist perspective and not in relation to his/her own socio-cultural context, consequently alienating the student from his/her immediate cultural context, while putting high stakes on imitation and imbibing Westernised cultural values. 

A good majority of students in an English class in the North East hesitate to take part in teacher-student interactions; coming from a rural agrarian background, they feel intimidated and often suffer from an inferiority complex vis a vis their urbanized counterparts. Not surprisingly, often English teachers themselves are to be blamed for drilling this sense of inferiority in those rural students. Though it has been observed that with a gradual loosening of Anglophonic rigour inside the classroom, such small town students tend to be at ease and develop confidence over time. With seven decades into postcoloniality, it is time we asked ourselves, as English teachers in the North East, what should be our role? How should we teach English texts in the class rooms? Do we want our children to be Westernised educated apes and cultural “others”? Should we neglect some students just because they lack an anglicized sophistication? Or should we teach them to interpret their own literary and cultural traditions in the light of the western ratiocinative texts and thought? 




This Conference will attempt to address these questions and related issues in the field of Teaching of the English Literary Text in an urban/suburban Classroom in the North East and try to theorize the different approaches to Textuality, and evolve a student-centric teaching methodology for facilitating creative and meaningful reception of the English Text. 

Broad Themes
Possible themes on which submissions are sought, but are not limited to,include:
  • Crisis in the Classroom
  • Pedagogy and the Curriculum
  • Politics of the Canonical Text
  • Sociology of English Literature Teaching
  • Teaching the Translated Texts
  • Ethnicity, Identity and the English Text
  • Partition and the English Text
  • Morality and English Literature
  • Missionary impact and the Study of English Literature




Abstract Submission Guidelines
Abstract template:
The English Text in a Northeast Classroom
F. Author * and S. Author ^
*Department of English,
^Department of Linguistics, Tripura University
*Email: F. Author @gmail.com
Kindly copy and use the MS Word template above for your abstract preparation and submission.
Use the Times New Roman font everywhere.
The title (preferably of not more than 10 words) should be in 12pt bold; the name(s) of
author(s) should be in 11pt bold; the affiliation(s) should be in 11pt italic.
In case of there being two authors, the corresponding author should be indicated by a “*” and the email address should be given (please remove the hyperlink). Until here the document should be centred.
Leave a line between the title and the author affiliation, and another before the abstract.
The abstract body (one paragraph, 12pt, left and right aligned) should be of 300 words or less.
The abstract must be followed by 4-5 keywords.
Biographical information of the author(s) in the third person must be included at the end. The maximum number of words is 60.
Font: Times New Roman; Font size: 10; Spacing: Single space; Alignment: left and right aligned
Sample: Dr. Smith is a professor of Language Acquisition Research at the University of Hawaii.
He holds a PhD in Swahili. He is the author of Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Swahili and previously taught at the University of California. 




The last date for submission of abstract is August 31st, 2017.
Kindly send in your abstract as an email attachment to tuengcon@gmail.com mentioning in the subject line “Abstract Submission”. Acceptance of your paper and details regarding the process of registration will be communicated to you by email (after August 31st, 2017). Only one submission per presenter is allowed. A maximum of two presenters per submission is allowed.

The date of submission of full paper is November 2nd 2017. Submission of full paper before presentation is mandatory. All submissions (abstract and full paper), and presentation are to be in
English.
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Registration Guidelines:
All participants (including paper presenters) will have to register for the seminar by submitting online a filled-in Registration Form (which will be sent to them along with the letter of acceptance of
their proposal wherever applicable) after August 31st , 2017, along with a non-refundable Registration Fee as per the details given below.There will be no on-site Registration for paper presenters.
Registration Fee for: 
Participants with Presentations (other than Students and Research Scholars): Rs. 1500/-
Participants with Presentations (Research Scholars and Students): Rs. 1000/-
Participants without Presentations: Rs 300/-
The mode of payment of the Registration Fee will be communicated to all participants by the organizers in due course of time. Paper presenters whose proposals, in the form of abstracts, are accepted for presentation will be issued additional letters of intimation regarding the acceptance of their proposals.
The Registration Fee includes lunch and refreshments for the days of the seminar, seminar kit and the certificate of participation.
The participants will have to bear their own travel expenses. Limited Free Accommodations for selected paper presenters will be arranged by the Organizers on first come first serve basis.




Important Dates:
Conference dates: November 2-3, 2017
Last date for submission of Abstracts: August 31, 2017
Last date of Registration: October 10, 2017
Last date of submission of full paper: November 2, 2017




Organising Secretary:
Somdev Banik, 
Faculty, Department of English, Tripura University
(Mobile: 9436531090, email: somdev@tripurauniv.in)

Joint Secretary
Parthasarathi Gupta, 
Department of English, Tripura University
(Mobile:8575024944, email: parthsarathi@tripurauniv.in)