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Tuesday, June 26, 2018

CFP: Funded National Level ‘YOUNG RESEARCH’ Workshop 2018 On New Directions in New Humanities Research: Theories, Modalities and Praxis 21-22 July, 2018, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.
























Call For Papers:
The Department of English Literature, EFLU, Hyderabad is organizing a two-day workshop  on New Directions in New Humanities Research on 21st & 22nd July, 2018. The workshop,

intended for researchers working in new and emergent areas of humanities research, aims to 

a) provide them with an opportunity to present their topic areas to a scholarly audience
b) receive feedback from experts who have worked on/ are conversant with these and allied areas, and
 c) create special interest groups that will contribute to the creation of new knowledge, and application of the theoretical insights in the analysis of new and emerging socio-cultural phenomena.
















We invite abstracts from research scholars registered with an Indian university for their MPhil and PhD programmes in the area of English Studies. Preference will be given to MPhil scholars who are close to submitting their dissertations, and PhD scholars in their second and third years of research. Research papers in newer approaches to theory, praxis, themes, methods and orientations will be given priority. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts on rubrics including, but not limited to, the following:

o Fantasy, Myth and Folklore in a Post-Truth World
o Posthumanisms
o Narrative Philosophies
o Populism and Neo-Cultural Nationalism
o New Directions in Gender Studies
o New Materialisms and Embodied Subjectivities
o Oral, Visual and Performative Cultures from a Post-Theory Perspective
o Digital Discourses: Then and Now
o Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism
o Interdisciplinarity in Today’s Academy
o Minority Studies Today
o Reading Science and Ecology
o Re-visiting Culture and Identity Politics
o Studies on Vulnerability, Affect and Emotions
o Comics, Caricatures, Videogames and other Graphic Narratives
o Enacting Everydayness: Newspapers, Letters, and Blogs

















Abstract details: Kindly email a 250 words abstract, with a title, your name, institutional affiliation, email ID and phone number. The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 30, 2018 and you will be intimated about the selection by 3 July, 2018. Full papers should be reach us by July 13, 2018


Dates will not be extended any further, so make sure to submit on time.

Email your abstracts to: slseflu@gmail.com

Please follow the format given below:
Name:
Institutional Affiliation:
Research Programme details:
Email address:
Phone number:
Title of the paper:
Abstract with keywords:















Participation details: Travel allowance and local hospitality will be provided to out-station participants (paper presenters only). This includes sleeper-class return railway fare and board and lodging at the EFL U Hostel/Guest House.

Workshop Schedule: Each day of the workshop will consist of four sessions with a lunch, and two tea breaks. Each session will have three paper presentations of 15 minutes each followed by the feedback of the subject expert, and a brief discussion.




We look forward to your participation. 


For further details, contact Workshop Co-ordinators

Prof. Samson Thomas and Dr Aparna Lonjewar

Department of English Literature

















Monday, June 25, 2018

CFP: International Seminar on Partition Revisited - Looking Back at the Political, Historical, Socio-cultural and Economic Circumstances of the Great Divide-19- 20th Sep 2018 Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India
















Concept Note – Partition Revisited

The Partition of India was one of the most cataclysmic events of the 20th century, engendering a veritable civil war in a country that was itself on the verge of claiming its hard fought independence. It involved a series of catastrophic circumstances that split the subcontinent along the lines of community and culture, tearing apart centuries’ old shared social fabric and homeland, splitting families and dispossessing millions of ordinary people, with a stroke of a pen on the map of undivided India.
The upheaval caused by the Partition of the subcontinent impacted every aspect of the life of entire populations that had to cross the newly drawn borders overnight, not knowing if they would even make it to the other side alive. It was a bloodsoaked freedom that dawned upon the new nations of India and Pakistan, with massacres, rapes, abductions, riots and the agony of exile clouding the joy of independence from colonial rule. Immediately, the cold reality of dislocation from ancestral homes and livelihoods became the only concern for people who had migrated en masse seeking refuge across these borders, devastated by total loss and traumatized by the frenzy of violence and killing that had ripped through every neighbourhood, town, city and village.
Seventy one years have gone by since the Partition, yet its tremors and aftershocks continue to be felt by all South Asians even today. The circumstances of the Partition have served to define and shape an innately troubled and hostile Indo-Pakistan relationship, and hold little promise for trust and peace between the two nations and thus in South Asia. Its legacy lives on in deeply embedded attitudes, political ideologies and cultural orientations within the subcontinent. There are some who argue that the birth of Pakistan via a division of India was a historical inevitability; yet others strongly believe that social and political conditions of 20th_century colonial India precipitated an uncontrollable roller-coaster journey in the direction of this great divide. Still others are of the view that the Partition was the outcome of clashing political ambitions and vested interests at the cost of the common people, in the bargain, unleashing a tragedy of immeasurable proportions.
The purpose of this seminar is to rewind to this fatal landscape, re-exploring through history and politics, sociology and economics, memory and literature, the Great Partition of 1947. It is only by revisiting our past that we will be able to come to terms with, and confront, our present.
 














   
SUB THEMES


1. Leaders as Malefactors: Examining the role of Jinnah, Nehru and Gandhi in the Partition drama.

2. Culpability and Betrayal: The colonial hand in partitioning the subcontinent.
3. Alienation and conflict: The roots of communalism in undivided India.
4. Silent screams: Women during the Partition.
5. Displacement, Relocation and Rehabilitation: The migrants’ burden.
6. Fractured economy: The impact of Partition on the economies of India and Pakistan.











Important Dates:


Last date for Submission of Abstract: July 1, 2018

(200-250 words, 12 pt. Times New Roman, Double Space)



Full Paper Submission: August 10, 2018



Seminar Dates: September 19-20, 2018.


Registration Fee 

Participants are requested to send their duly filled registration form along with the prescribed fee by Demand Draft drawn in favour of the Principal, St. Bede’s College Category



1. Research Scholars                                       Rs. 2000/-

2. Faculty from Colleges/ Universities   Rs. 3000/-

3. College/University Students:                Rs. 600/-

4. Non Paper Presenters                              Rs. 250/-



















Address for Correspondence
Prof. Madhu Parmar, Department of Political Science
Mobile: +919816041370
Asst. Prof. Punam  Chauhan Verma, Department of History
Mobile: +91 82787 18917
http://stbedescollege.in/Bedes4/seminar.php

CFP:International Conference on Modern Approaches to English Language, Literature & Feminism Studies-July 20-21, 2018,Chandigarh INDIA.



















Call for Papers : 
International Conference on Modern Approaches to English Language, Literature & Feminism Studies 2018 is designed to impart and institute pioneering trends in the fields of Social Sciences addressing the Innovative Teaching and Research Techniques in English Language, Literature & Feminism Studies and including their manifold applications 


Proceedings of the Conference would be treated by its Special Research Talks, Research Contributions in the form of Technical Paper Presentation Sessions and Poster Presentations devoted to English Language, Literature & Feminism Studies.























Original research papers from Post Graduate Students, Research Scholars, Faculty, Scientists etc.,in the fields of English Language, Literature & Feminism Studies are invited for presentation at the Conference. 



Track 1 : English Language 


Track 2 : English Literature 


Track 3 : Translation Studies 

Track 4 : Feminism Studies 

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Submission of Papers 

Participants intending to present papers before the Conference are requested to submit soft copy of the abstract (neatly typed in MS word format with 1.5 line spacing 12 point Times New Roman font on A-4 size paper) incorporating the motivation, method of solution and important findings of their investigation to icefs2018@gmail.com


















Important Dates 

* Publication is not Mandatory, Publication is only a complimentary from conference. 

** Delegates not intrested in Journal Publication may submit only abstarcts. 

​Abstracts /Full Papers Submission deadline 30 June 2018 (Extended) 

Notification of Acceptance (After review ) Will be served in 2 to 3 working days after the receipt of your Abstract/Paper. 

Reg Fee Submission deadline 10 July 2018 

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** Listener Participants may kindly write for Registration Form on icefs2018@gmail.com

Keynote Speakers 
Eminent Speakers from Overseas & Premier Institutions of Inida will deliver pleanary talks and details will be shortly updated on website.




















For all details on submission of papers and registration etc., contact 

Dr.Ratnakar D Bala 
Conference Chairman, ICBCGS 2018 
Mobile : +91 9618777011, 9533421234
http://icefs2018.wixsite.com/conference

Sunday, June 24, 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference Indian Diaspora and Trans-nationalism: Global Perspectives,-4 - 5 October 2018-University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad


CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference
Indian Diaspora and Transnationalism: Global Perspectives
Organized by
UGC-Centre for Study of Indian Diaspora (CSID), University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
&
Organization for Diaspora Initiatives (ODI), New Delhi
Venue
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
4 - 5 October 2018











The major themes of the international conference ‘Indian diaspora and
Transnationalism’ are as follows:
Transnationalism, diaspora and development
Transnationalism and religion/religious communities
Social media and transnational networks
Transnational social/familial obligations
Transnational political mobilization
Transnational return visits
Comparative transnational studies













Submission Dates
Abstract Submission: 30 June 2018
Full Paper Submission: 20 September 2018
Send your abstracts & paper to Dr. Ajaya Sahoo: aksss@uohyd.ernet.in


Saturday, June 23, 2018

CFP: National Seminar on The Evolution of Composite Culture in Medieval India - Sept 14-15,2018. BHU, VaranasI














Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (U.P.)- 221005.



Call For Papers:

Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi is organizing a two-day National Seminar on “The Evolution of Composite Culture in Medieval India” on 14th and 15th of September, 2018.

The concept of cultural pluralism implies religious tolerance and respect to all religions. The historian of Sultanate period Ziauddin Barani keeping such a thing in mind made distinctions between a state based on din dari which proved impossible in India, and Jahandari (dunyadari), which is based on moderate Islam emphasising coexistence with other communities, which was actually the principle followed during the Sultanate period.










The famous historian Amir Khusrau considered India his watan and glorified in its flora, fauna, climate, science and learning. The rise of new sections of society like artisans, traders, and middle administrative elements are also reflected in the emergence of Bhakti movement which headed by Kabir, Raidas, Nanak, Tulsidas and others. These saints stood for human equality, opposed caste based hierarchical society and emphasised the findamental unity of all religions, especially Hinduism and Islam.

Themes
Sources
Sufi and Bhakti Movements
Art and Architecture
Society
Medieval Indian Economy
Medieval Indian Culture
Literature
Food and Amusement












All interested candidates may send a 500-word abstract on the themes mentioned below to tabirkalam@gmail.com on or before 30th July.
Kindly stay tuned for further updates.















In case of any query, please contact

Tabir Kalam, Associate Professor, Deptt of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
Phone: +91-9415644571.