Funded South Asia Graduate Student Conference XV The University of Chicago March 1st-2nd 2018

Call For Abstracts:

Humanistic inquiry has played an important role in shaping South Asia, and South Asia has played an important role in shaping humanistic inquiry. But how far back into the past and how far into the future does this hold true? The fifteenth annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago invites papers that address the limits—whether temporal, institutional or conceptual—of humanistic inquiry. The question we pose is a simple one: Why should scholarship on South Asia lead academic discussions that invest new agency in the environment and other non-human entities? 

Often unacknowledged in discussions of humanistic practices, South Asia has been the site of disciplinary regimes where distinctions of the human and non-human were instituted for the first time or at an unprecedented scale. The conference hopes to foreground South Asia as the site of a double exclusion: certain practices of knowledge were excluded from scholarly inquiry at the same time as animals, mountains, rivers and other non-human agents were written out of humanistic concerns. By bringing this double exclusion into view, we can see how the limiting of inquiry and the limitations of inquiry are distinct, yet related phenomena.

Practices such as philological close-reading, the collection of big data, and ethnographic fieldwork have determined the scales and working objects of scholarship in subtle, yet powerful ways, and we solicit papers that explore the limits of such practices. How might we learn from different epistemologies of precolonial South Asia and how they divide the phenomena of the world? What can we gain by returning to moments when current divisions were not presumed to be inevitable or obvious? How have institutional changes in South Asia—whether enacted by political interests or techno-developmentalist visions—enforced disciplinary divisions and values?

These questions are urgent as South Asia today also serves as a reminder that we can no longer afford to leave the agency of nonhumans out from our analyses. Catastrophes that have been put off by massive investments in engineering projects in the Global North have a much more immediate presence in South Asia. 

Deadlines:

We invite contributions that are at the intersection of but not limited to literature, media studies, ecocriticism, history, religious studies, science studies, philosophy, anthropology, sound and visual studies. Please send 200 word abstracts to http://tiny.cc/SAGSC by December 31st, 2017.

The conference will assist with travel and lodging for all graduate student participants. If you have any questions please write to us at sagsc2018@gmail.com

Organizing Committee:

Anna Lee White, Divinity School

Eric Gurevitch, South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Joya John, South Asian Languages and Civilizations

Faculty Advisor: Constantine V. Nakassis, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

South Asia and the Limits of Humanistic Inquiry

The University of Chicago 

National Conference on "Empires Writing Back: Aboriginal and Regional Literatures across Continents and Cultures"23rd January, 2018 Kristu Jayanti College (Autonomous), Bengaluru

Conference Concept:

CALIBAN: You taught me language, and my profit on 't

Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you

For learning me your language! (The Tempest Act I, Sc. 2.)

The response of Caliban to Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest is an epitome of the colonised lashing back to their colonisers. This wave of writing back resulted from the questioning of the indigenous people regarding their (mis)-representations or exclusions from all sorts of narratives written by the colonisers and also for being rendered as the “Other” in one’s homeland. Writing has inevitably been regarded as a mark of superiority and to re-view and re-write one’s position in history, indigenous/ aboriginal people want to tell their version of the stories, in their own way with a purpose of their own. In the light of colonization the spotlight would also fall on the colonization that can arise between human relationships and the hegemonic repercussions it can have on individuals and their concept of self, paving the way for a particular niche in subaltern literature. This conference seeks to look into those native writings across continents and cultures full of richness and diversity. We welcome original, unpublished research papers related to aboriginal and regional literatures across continents and cultures. 

The conference directorate invites papers related to the broad theme “Empires Writing Back: Aboriginal and Regional Literatures across Continents and Cultures” and the following sub-themes:

ϖ Aboriginal autobiographies

ϖ Literary landscapes as portrayed in aboriginal or regional literature

ϖ Aboriginal and regional literatures in comparison

ϖ Race, Gender, Ethnicity

ϖ Languages and cultural heritage

ϖ Folk literature / Tribal literature

ϖ Cultural identity

ϖ Gothic tradition in aboriginal writings

ϖ Diasporic Literature

ϖ Multiculturalism

ϖ Regional writing in India / Aboriginal writing in Africa, Australia

Guidelines for paper submissions

 Standard A4 size paper with 1.5 margins on all sides

Double spacing throughout

Scripts should be in MS Word (2003-2007) – Times New Roman,  Font size 12

Title page: full name of the author(s), designation, affiliation and title of the paper, e-mail id, contact number

All submissions should follow the latest edition of MLA stylesheet for documentation (8th edition)

Abstracts must not exceed 300 words

Full papers must be within 2,500 - 4,000 words

Soft copy of the abstract and full paper may be sent as an e-mail attachment to: englishpg@kristujayanti.com

Selected papers will be peer reviewed and published in an UGC Indexed journal as conference proceeding.

Important dates:

Submission of abstracts: 15th November, 2017

Notification of Acceptance: 25th November, 2017

Submission of full papers: 15th December, 2017

For any other queries please mail to: englishpg@kristujayanti.com

International Fellowship Program at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Call For Applications:

Launched in 2009, the International Fellowship Program (ISP) offers the opportunity to international researchers, especially early career scholars, to conduct research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

The program supports projects that are directly related with the diverse institutions and the rich collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The fellowships, which can be held to up to three months, allow researchers to work on their individual projects and to establish professional contacts at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The program aims to strengthen the position of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in the international research network and therefore specifically addresses scholars who do not reside in Germany. The fellows will also gain the opportunity to participate in the academic and cultural life at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

The applicants must hold at least a first university degree (M.A. or equivalent degree) by the time of the application.

Guidelines and Application form you can finde here:

Other institutions, which are part of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Geheime Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz, the Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung, and the Ibero-American Institute), offer similar fellowship opportunities. For more information, click here.

Please submit your application in one PDF file by 31.12. 2017 to forschung@smb.spk-berlin.de

For queries on the program please consult our website

or contact

forschung@smb.spk-berlin.de

Contact Email: forschung@smb.spk-berlin.de

URL: http://www.smb.museum/en/research/scholarship-programmes/international-scholarship-programme.html

Three-day International Conference on “Transnationalism, Culture and Diaspora in the Era of Globalisation” - February 21-23,2018, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar .

Call For Abstracts: 

The conference will address the mutual relations and converging contours of Diaspora, Trans-nationalism and Culture against the unfolding process of Globalisation. Some of the key concepts that are central to the discipline of Diaspora such as nation, nation-state, ethnicity, locality, identity etc. have undergone massive changes in the wake of  globalisation. AtoQuayson and Girish Daswani rightly point out that “a diaspora, of whatever character, must not be perceived as a discrete entity but rather as being formed out of a series of contradictory convergences of peoples, ideas, and even cultural orientations.” The shifting nature of the immigrants’/emigrants’relations to places, both remembered and inhabited, and cultures, both inherited and acquired, across borders, both real and imagined, complicate their everyday perceptions and necessitate constant negotiations between their locations and origins. This is as much a cultural process as political or social.Literature of the Diaspora is replete with long journeys across both space in search of one’s  Individual or collective self. The conference will examine these relations in terms of conceptual categories like ethnicity, nostalgia, identity, nation, nation-state etc.

About the Conference

The conference has been divided into the following themes and subthemes. However, these themes and subthemes are not absolute.

Themes and Subthemes:

• Diaspora and Development
• Diaspora and Conflict (Resolution): Peace
• Makers or Wreckers
• Diaspora andYouth
• Diaspora Philanthropy
• Diaspora and Civil Society Organisations
• DiasporicAssociations or Organisations
• Diaspora and Entrepreneurship
• Gender and Diaspora
• Technology and Diaspora
• Diaspora as Economic, Social, Cultural and Political Capital
• Methodological Issues of Migration and Diaspora
• International Migration and Human Rights
• Illegal Migration
• Migration and Identity
• Theoretical Perspectives of Diaspora
• Global Diasporas
• Indian Diaspora across the Globe
• Diaspora, Media and Trans-nationalism
• Diasporic Literature (pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial period)
• Refugee Literatures, Exile Literatures and Travel Writings
• Refugees, Exiles and Travelers
• Diaspora Engagement Policies
• Diaspora and Soft Power
• Diaspora and Citizenship
• Diaspora and International Relations
• Effect of International Migration on Origin and Destination Regions
• Migration and Globalisation
• International Migration and Human Trafficking 

Important Dates

Last date for receiving abstract (Tentatively) 02 Dec 2017

Communication about selection (Tentatively) 10 Dec 2017

Last date for receiving full paper (Tentatively) 15 Jan 2018

Date of Conference (Tentatively) 21-23 Feb 2018

Venue of Conference (Tentatively) Central University of Gujarat

Registration Fees

Academician / Professional / Faculty Member : 1,000 INR

Research Scholar/Student: 500 INR

For More Details:

Please send your abstracts in about 200-250 words to the

e-mail id. : cugdiasporaconf2018@gmail.com

For any further information or query please contact Dr. Atanu Mohapatra at

Tel : 079-23977436, Mob. : 93748 31813 

http://www.cug.ac.in/sem_conf/pdf/CSD_CUG_%20Conference_Brochure.pdf

National Conference On “Routing the Rootless: exploRing the liteRatuRes of indigenous CultuRes” 1-2 December 2017 Organized by Department of English Government Degree College Udhampur, J&K

CONFERENCE BACKGROUND

The term ‘Fourth World’, albeit being in its early formative stage, is designated to mean one third of the world’s population whose descendants are forcefully incorporated into states yet maintain a distinct political culture that predates and continues to resist encroachment of the recognized states and are ceaselessly engaged in a struggle to gain a fair amount of sovereignty over their national homelands. On account of persistent global patterns of ethnocide and ecocide perpetrated against these ancient but internationally unrecognized nations, the Fourth World has received some fresh attention. As an inevitable by-product of post World War II upheavals, the core of the world power system split into two large geopolitical blocs of associated interests. A Euro American bloc of the states with political and economic ties came to be called the First World to which Japan joined the bandwagon later. The Second World, the other geopolitical bloc comprised the communist socialist states including the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, North Vietnam and until recently, Eastern Europe. However, few newly decolonized states that were characterized by economic dependency and debt burden, preferred to sit on a fence by not aligning with either bloc of the geopolitical power were christened the "Third World.” The people of ancient nations that lived beyond modern industrial norm and abounded in hunter gatherers, nomadic, pastoral and farmers constitute the Fourth World. The inhabitants of the Fourth World reside both in urban and rural areas but they are structurally irrelevant in the society as they neither produce nor consume what is considered important in  a globalised and technologically connected world. The Fourth World includes a whole range of the tribal and peasant societies that share a number of attributes, including a low level of political and economic integration in the state system, an inferior political status, and an underprivileged economic position. We welcome contributions on the following themes:

➢ Dynamics of Social Exclusion - Issues, Trends and Prospects

➢ Identity Politics, Stereotypes and Platitudes in Literature

➢ Art and Aesthetics of Aboriginal Art, Craft and Culture

➢ Discourse of Nativism

➢ Cultural Studies

➢ Re-Writing, Re-Visiting and Critiquing History

➢ Literature of Social Protest

➢ Regionalization and Literature

➢ Rural Literature

➢ Localization and Literature

➢ Ethnocentrism in Literature

➢ Post-Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism

➢ Role of Class, Caste, Race and Gender in Literature and Culture

➢ Dalit, Tribal, Nomadic and Black Literature

➢ Subaltern Discourse

➢ Children’s Narratives

➢ Ecological Concern in Literature

➢ Issues and Challenges in Translating Minority and Subaltern Text

➢ Any other topic(s) relevant to the theme of the Conference

You are requested to send your abstracts on or before 13 November 2017 at gdcudhampurconference2017@gmail.com 








Registration Details:

1. For Outstation Participants: Rs. 3000/- (Faculty) & Rs. 2500/- (Students and Scholars),

exclusive of boarding and lodging and Rs. 4000/- (Faculty) & Rs. 3500/- (Students and

Scholars), inclusive of boarding and lodging.

2. For Local Participants: Rs. 1500/- (Faculty) & Rs. 1200/- (Students and Scholars).

Bank Details for NEFT / Online Transfer:

Beneficiary Name : PRINCIPAL GOVT. DEGREE COLLEGE, UDHAMPUR

Bank Name : JK BANK

Bank Address : JK BANK MAIN BRANCH, UDHAMPUR

Account No. : 0028040500000676

Account Type : Saving

IFSC Code : JAKAOUDMPUR

Chairperson: Prof. S.S. Balwal

Organizing Committee: Deptt. Of English

For any Queries Contact:

Prof. Kamaldeep Kaur: 09419962957

Dr. Shubhra Jamwal: 09419130321

Dr. Rippy Bawa: 094191609 

International Conference on Communication and Dialogue: Integrating Global Communities by IAICS- July 5– 8, 2018 Chicago,USA

Call for Papers:

There are two opposing perspectives that have resulted from today’s globalized world: One that promotes diversity, interconnectedness, and interdependence through open borders and intercultural collaboration as the antidote to the global problems of inequality, terrorism, and climate change. But not all subscribe to this notion, as another, more harmful view is characterized by ethnocentrism, prejudice, xenophobia, and implicit biases, which cause fear, exclusion, alienation, divisiveness, and violence. As intercultural communication scholars, it is our ethical responsibility to identify, analyze, and provide strategies and solutions to these problems and to create inclusive and integrated global 

communities through engaging intercultural and international dialogues.

Integration of communities requires humanity to come together through compassion, empathy, shared values, common interests, and full participation of all people while acknowledging and respecting cultural differences. By sharing research from diverse interdisciplinary perspectives on intercultural and international issues, we can generate new ideas, new ways of thinking, and collective wisdom toward a brighter future. 

Conference Time: July 5-8, 2018

Conference Venue: DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

Conference Goals:

• To provide scholars, educators and practitioners from different cultural communities with opportunities to interact, network and benefit from each other’s research and expertise related to intercultural and international issues;

• To synthesize research perspectives and foster interdisciplinary scholarly dialogues for developing integrated approaches to complex problems of communication in global contexts;

• To advance modes of inquiry for intercultural communication research and disseminate practical findings to facilitate understanding among cultures;

• To foster global intercultural sensitivity and integration in discussing and addressing challenging issues facing humanity.

Topics: 

Topics are broadly defined, but not limited to the following 

areas:

• Studies on globalization 
• Culture and community building
• Cosmopolitanism in culture
• Language and culture
• Discourse analysis and global implications
• Nonverbal communication in intercultural contexts
• Cultural identity
• International conflict
• Comparative literature and poetics
• Cultural hybridity
• Language teaching in intercultural communication
• Media and film studies across cultures
• Journalism and globalization
• Global communication and technology
• Public relations and advertising in global contexts 
• Intercultural communication competency
• Intercultural and public policy
• Cultural studies
• Environmental studies
• Rhetorical studies
• Translation studies

Guidelines for Submission:

Abstract, 100-150 words in English, including positions, affiliations, email addresses and mailing addresses for all authors. Times New Roman 12pt font size, single-spaced.

The conference working language is English.

Deadlines

Submit abstracts and panel proposals by November 1, 2017. 

Notification letters will be sent out by February 15, 2018.

Send Submissions to: Xing Lu, Ph.D., Conference Chair, DePaul University, IAICS2018@depaul.edu

Conference Host:  The College of Communication, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

Conference Web Site:  go.depaul.edu/iaics; find information on fees, registration, and accommodations.

IAICS Website: http://web.uri.edu/iaics/; learn more about IAICS, including goals and membership information.