- Call for Papers5th Annual Debrupa Bal Memorial Students’ SeminarOrganized By: Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur UniversityDate: 24th and 25th January, 2012Text, Stage and History‘Text’ in itself is a problematic term especially when placed alongside ‘Stage’, another (if not more) multi-stranded conceptual unit. The intricacies of the problematic get heightened when an attempt at conceptually threading these two ends of the spectrum is made given that even if it is possible to think of the former in abstraction the later denies any such possibilities. The initial question that has baffled theorists and practitioners of the stage time and again and which this seminar aims at asking anew is whether the term ‘text’ and the concept of the ‘stage’ inhabit a continuous space at all. Whatever the answer might be (if there be any), it cannot be absolute and one-dimensional. Not only across space and time but within a specific spatial and temporal zone also several contending conceptualizations of both these categories exist. In India, the interventional experiments of Badal Sircar, responsible for revolutionizing Indian theatre in general and Bangla theatre in particular, bear testimony to the continuation of the old debate. The sad demise of Sircar earlier this year, implying the end of an epoch in Indian theatre, prompts us to rethink the relation between the ‘stage’ and ‘text’, especially in an Indian situation where parallel and sometimes mutually-interactive theatrical traditions have existed in both the ‘classical’ and the bhasha languages. This seminar aims at looking at the complex patterns informing the construction of the ‘text’ and how those patterns take on newer forms when an effort to connect the ‘text’ with the ‘stage’ is made. These issues have been dealt with extensively in the past, albeit in different ways at different historical conjunctures. Diachronic studies of how people in different times and places have reflected over the problematic linkage between the ‘text’ and the ‘stage’ are equally encouraged.Contributions are invited but not limited to the following topics:Text, Stage and their connectionsDifferent dimensions of the concept of ‘stage’ across various literary-performative cultures around the worldThe Indian situation, before and after printComparative Literary methodology, Intermediality and the concept of ‘text’Historical analysis of the problematic in generalAbstracts clearly mentioning the title of the paper, name and designation of the author(s) and not exceeding 300 words are to be submitted by 10th January, 2012 to debashreedattaray@gmail.com. Acceptance of the abstract would be notified by 15th January, 2012.
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Raja Peary Mohan College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata,India.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
5th Annual Debrupa Bal Memorial Students’ Seminar...
Monday, December 26, 2011
UGC NET December 2011, English Literature Paper II...
UGC NET December 2011, English Literature Paper II...
1)
The Spectator - Joseph Addison.
2)
Pope’s works - Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, Essay on Man.
3) Chronology or something - Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda.
6) Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis does not include - James Joyce.
11) Key characteristic of Wife of Bath - Experience.
16) Radical feminist- Monica Wittig.
3) Chronology or something - Adam Bede, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda.
4) Othello killed Desdemona but she did not commit infidelity.
5) Dickens' novels are called 'Newgate Novels' and
the reason given was also correct.
6) Great Tradition by F. R. Leavis does not include - James Joyce.
7) The University Wits - Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, John Lyly (can't remember the fourth option which was the correct
answer because the above three are the University Wits.
8) Novel which set a new trend in the contemporary
fiction- Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne.
9) There was an RTC by John Donne from "The Sum Rising".
10) Egotistical Sublime - Keats.
11) Key characteristic of Wife of Bath - Experience.
12) Waiting for Godot- Two Acts.
13) Epic feature in work of Christopher Marlowe -
Tumberlaine.
14) Curtail sonnet - 11 lines.
15) Margaret Atwood's work- The Edible Woman.
16) Radical feminist- Monica Wittig.
17) Dinah Morris is a character in - Adam Bede.
18) Oft gay and honour'd robes those tortures try,
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry from The White Devil - RTC by
Flamineo.
19. Poems Descriptive of Rural Life & System: John Clare.
20. Farewel to Arms - 5 Books.
21. Practical Criticism - I. A. Richards.
26. Isaac Singer - American Jew.
31. Caleb Williams - Things as They Are.
36. Match the following.
41. Swift as 'Misanthrope' bt Reason was False.
20. Farewel to Arms - 5 Books.
21. Practical Criticism - I. A. Richards.
22. Vistor Shklovsky:
23. "All great literature is ..... ": Mathew Arnold.
24. Heroic Couplet.
25. Murderous Innocence - Oxymoron.
26. Isaac Singer - American Jew.
27. Henry Green - Not Jew.
28. Only Connect - E. M Forster.
29. Knocking at the Gate of Mackbeth - Thomas de Quincey.
30. Shakespeare's 'sister's plight' - Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own).
31. Caleb Williams - Things as They Are.
32. Dreaming House: Oximoron
33. Sir Fopling - Man of Mode.
34. Not a Jacobean dramatist.
35. Noble Laureate.
36. Match the following.
37. Keats used Spenserian Stanza: The Eve of St. Agnes.
38. "A House for Mr. Biswas" - Not Apocalyptic.
39. Milton's elegy: Lycidas.
40. Ikemefuna- Things Fall Apart
41. Swift as 'Misanthrope' bt Reason was False.
42. "Unfortunate Traveller" - Thomas Nashe.
43. "Nation and Narration" - Homi K. Bhaba.
46. Trochee.
43. "Nation and Narration" - Homi K. Bhaba.
44. "Ponopticism" - Foucault.
45. Enlightenment - Age of Reason.
46. Trochee.
47. Humour and Comedy - P. G. Woodhouse.
48. It was the month of April and clocks were striking 13 - 1984.
48. It was the month of April and clocks were striking 13 - 1984.
49. "Exiles" by James Joyce - Play.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE -- IN HIS TIME AND OURS...
CENTRE FOR
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
SCHOOL OF
HUMANITIES
UNIVERSITY OF
HYDERABAD
National Seminar
on
RABINDRANATH TAGORE -- IN HIS TIME AND
OURS
27-29 February 2012
As part as part of the Rabindranath Tagore 150th
Birth Centenary Celebrations begun last year with Basanta Utsav: Roop-Raag at the University of Hyderabad, Centre for
Comparative Literature has planned a National Seminar to review Tagore’s
immense legacy for the benefit of young scholars. The Seminar proposes to emphasize the
contextual significance of Tagore’s work in his own time and the continuing relevance of his ideas for India and
the world in the present time of cultural crises and transformations. The
Seminar urges a looking back at Tagore’s contribution to the discourses of “his
time” to understand that the past is not inconsequential for us today since they gave birth to and indicated the direction of the
discourses of ‘our time.’
The Seminar will be inter- and multi-disciplinary
in its scope to encourage engagement with the multifaceted nature of Tagore’
work.
The
thrust areas for discussion comprise [but not limited to]:
Tagore
and Time/Memory Tagore
and Nationalism
Tagore
and Narrative Tagore and Globalism
Tagore
and Poetry Tagore and the
Child
Tagore
and Drama Tagore and Education
Tagore
and the Arts Tagore and Science
Tagore
and Popular Culture Tagore and
Gender
Abstracts of 250 words may be emailed
to: nandinibhattacharya60@gmail.com; tutunmukherjee@gmail.com
Last date for the submission of
abstracts: 15th January, 2012
Intimation of selection: 20th
January, 2012
Monday, December 5, 2011
People without History; India’s Muslim Ghettos by Jeremy Seabrook and Imran Ahmad Siddiqui...
Mein Kis Kay Hath Pay Apna
Lahoo Talaash Karoon?
Tamam Shehar Ne Pahney Huay
Hain Dastaney.
Oh, finally,
at last I finished reading the book People
without History; India’s Muslim Ghettos by Jeremy Seabrook and Imran Ahmad
Siddiqui. I am ashamed to share that it took me more than three months to
finish it. Actually I started it on 26th August 2011 then got busy
in some other things and completed it now on 04th December 2011. Well
I was doing my course work, assignments, proposals, working bibliography and so
on. Thus I had to leave it in between and finished it by reading one or two
pages daily. Anyway the book is a nice one and worthy to read. It is by Pluto
Books, London and Navayana for Asian Countries. Seabrook has done a great job
like his other ones while surely Imran has played the backbone as a
journalist and a local of Kolkata.
The book is
a live, burning document on the slums of Kolkata mainly populated by its poor Muslim
settlements. It talks of situations which you probably have seen in Q&A/Slamdog where Jamal, Kamal or
Irshad only lives! It’s a world of rag pickers, maidservants, labourers, rickshaw
pullers and so on. People with less importance, notice and deprived of so many
things. It shows the deep reality of the modern India and the inner places of
the so called metro cities. So, if you have fascination of Kolkata; the city of
joy! As most people have, I know, most of I met, please read it. See the
unchanged world of these poor and subordinate people. Yes, please don’t get
surprised if you get the real example of Aftab Alam Ansari or Rizwanur Rahaman.
Structurally
the book has been divided place wise and discussed. Beginning with Topsia then
Beniapukur then Tiljala then Tangra; all Muslim slums of Kolkata. It says about
the daily life in the Muslim communities in these places. Though the book is
open ended it is little critical about the last CPI (M) government. It asks several
social and crucial questions. Well it is up to the readers for any conclusion. Please
go for it.
Humko Halaat Ki Sooli Pe
Chadhanay Walo
Humnay Har Haal Mein Jeenay
Ki Kasam Khayee Hai.
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Workshop on Nanotechnology Applications Organized by Shah-Schulman Center at D.D. University, Nadiad, Gujarat...
We are pleased to send you the attached program for a two day workshop on Nanotechnology Applications organized by Shah-Schulman Center at D.D. University, Nadiad, Gujarat. The main speaker is Professor Robert Prudhomme from Chemical Engineering Department of Princeton University, NJ, USA.
The space is limited to 75 persons due to size of seminar hall and our desire to promote greater interactions between speakers and participants. This is the first such workshop which covers the Nanotechnology applications to Pharmaceutical, Pesticide, Imaging and Personal Care products. We suggest that registration should be done as soon as possible. A list of local hotels and the room charges will be provided upon request. The program of the workshop should be of great interests to R & D staff of industry and academic researchers working in the area of surface science and nanotechnology applications.
We thank Dept of Mines and Industry of Gujarat Government for supporting in part this workshop to enhance the progress of industry and academic institutions.
We look forward to meeting you during the workshop on December 19-20, 2011.
With best wishes and warmest regards,
Sincerely yours,
Dinesh O. Shah
Founding Director
Sajid I Mughal
Inspired Fellow
Shah-Schulman Center for Surface Science and Nanotechnology
D D University, Nadiad-387001
D D University, Nadiad-387001
+919510020030
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