Friday, September 18, 2015

Fwd: ACLA 2016: One more week to submit a paper!


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From: American Comparative Literature Association <info@acla.org>
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:29 PM
Subject: ACLA 2016: One more week to submit a paper!
To: Abu <abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in>


Paper proposals for ACLA 2016 are due by midnight Pacific Time, Sept. 23.
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Dear Friend of the ACLA,
  We're off to a great start for ACLA 2016 (to be held on the Harvard campus, March 17-20, 2016). With over four hundred proposed seminars to choose from, we look forward to welcoming a record number of participants.
  There's only one more week left to submit paper proposals, though, so now would be a good time to start getting your proposal ready. Proposals must be directed to a specific seminar, and must include an abstract of no more than 1500 characters, including spaces.
Keep in mind that all paper proposals must be submitted through the online system. This includes papers to be presented by seminar organizers, and papers solicited by seminar organizers.
Also, no person may submit more than one paper proposal, and no seminar organizer may submit a paper proposal to another seminar. Multiple submissions will be blocked by the system. We encourage you to contact seminar organizers before submitting a paper proposal. If you need to delete a paper proposal, contact info@acla.org.
If you already have an account on the acla.org website (NOT necessarily a membership in the organization), then login and go to the page for the seminar of your choice to submit a paper proposal. The master list of seminars can be found here: http://www.acla.org/seminars.
If you do not yet have an account on our website, then please register for an account at http://www.acla.org/user/register before proposing a paper. Keep in mind that our membership website and paper proposal website have different logins, so having purchased a membership doesn't mean you have an account on our paper proposal website.
Thanks for your attention! We look forward to welcoming many of you to Cambridge in March. Please contact info@acla.org if you have any further questions about the process.

Take care,
Alexander Beecroft
Secretary-Treasurer, ACLA
Associate Professor, Comparative Literature
University of South Carolina
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Fwd: 3rd AINET International Conference, Nagpur, 8-9 January 2016

Dear Friend,

Apologies for cross-posting!!

We are happy to announce the 3rd AINET International Conference to be held at Nagpur on 8-9 January 2016. The conference is supported by the British Council and RELO, American Embassy, India.

Please find attached the detailed Conference Announcement and Call for Presentations. 

To download the delegate registration form and the presentation proposal form go to the "Announcements" page on the AINET websitewww.theainet.net OR click the following links:

DELEGATE REGISTRATION FORM

PRESENTER PROPOSAL FORM

Mail your completed forms to theainet@gmail.com. Submissions Deadline: 31 October 2015

Important Dates 
Last date for proposals submission –             31 October 2015
Final submission with revisions, if any –        30 November 2015
Deadline for presenters to register –             15 December 2015

Delegate Fees
Up to 28 December 2015 – Rs. 1000     (USD 40 for overseas participants)
After 28 December 2015 (and spot registration) – Rs. 2000    (USD 80 for overseas participants)

For queries and more information: theainet@gmail.com

We look forward to your participation in the conference. 

The AINET Team

IWL 2016 at Harvard

Dear All,

The sixth IWL will be at Harvard. For more please visit: http://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/news/iwl-returns-harvard-2016

Please share and inform others.

Thanks





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Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

CCL Fortnightly Seminar – 13

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad

 

CCL Fortnightly Seminar – 13

 

 

 

Video Talk and Documentary Screening followed by Discussion

 

 

 

"We should all be Feminists" by Chimamanda Adichie delivered at TEDX Euston

 

 

Shirmi A Marathi Documentary with English Subtitle by Anil Kumar Salve 

 

 

Will be responded by

 

 

Prof. Tutun Mukherjee, University of Hyderabad

&

Prof. Ipshita Chanda, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

 

on

 

 

Friday, 18th September, 2.30 pm

 

 

at

 

 

Lecture Hall, School of Humanities, UoH

 

All are Invited


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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Comparative Literature and Culture: Starting Points of National Literature and Culture, Baku, 27-28 November 2015

CALL FOR PAPERS: Comparative Literature and Culture: Starting points of national literature and culture, Baku, 27-28 November 2015


Submission Deadline: September 15


Notification of acceptance: September 25


Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association and Azerbaijani Literature Department of Baku Slavic University welcome papers, panel and roundtable proposals from scholars and doctoral students for interdisciplinary conference to be held on November 27-28, 2015.


The conference will cover a wide spectrum of issues, which could be considered criteria for the "nationality" of literary production and national culture. It is hard to know how to share national literature and culture without knowing how national literature begins, when and what the starting point is for the cultural heritage and literature of the contemporary nation. The related and seemingly settled terms nation (and national identity), national (or ethnic) culture and national literature are more questionable than they at first appear. The starting points and borders of national literatures and frontiers of any contemporary nation, new collapsed or established states do not coincide. The Ottoman Empire, the Mongol-Tatar Golden Horde, the Mughal dynasty, the Russian Empire, the Arabian caliphates, the Soviet Union – this is only part of the list of former states and collapsed frontiers. Both territory and cultural heritage should be shared among successor states. The definition of nation and identity has been repeatedly reconsidered in the last two decades of the post-socialist transition, and ancient history is mostly not on the agenda.


Another related issue is exile literature, dissident literature and émigré literature. How can they be considered "national"?


We invite scholars from various fields, backgrounds and approaches to explore these and other related questions:


· What are the starting points of national literature and cultures? The state? Folklore? Epic? Classical literature? Alphabet?


· What is starting point for literature itself? And what is literary text? Religious book, chronicle, any orally transferred text?


· What are the criteria to define the beginning of literary or cultural nationality? The language of the text? Religion? The ethnicity of the author or their country of residence?


· How does the concept of national literature and culture change through the changing components of identities? The state-ideology principle: what we share with others, as in the case of divided nations; the role of language in the "nationality" of literature and parallels between the role of Latin and Greek in Christian Europe, Arabic and Persian in Moslem Asia and the changing status of native language. As René Wellek and Austin Warren noted, the "problems of 'nationality' become especially complicated if we have to decide that literatures in the same language are distinct national literatures, as American and modern Irish assuredly are. Such a question as why Goldsmith, Sterne, and Sheridan do not belong to Irish literature, while Yeats and Joyce do, needs an answer" (Theory of Literature: A seminal study of the nature and function of literature in all its contexts. London: Penguin Books, 1985, p. 52).


· How did religion as a component of identity influence literature and culture in the late ancient and medieval period? How did Soviet ideology shape the common features of different nations and ethnicities?


Confirmed keynote speakers include:


Gregory Nagy – Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University. Lecture: "Lives of Homer"


Olga Davidson – Professor Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston University. Lecture: "Lives of Ferdowsi"


Stefania Sini – Professor Comparative Literature Università del Piemonte Orientale (Italy); editor-in-chief of the journal Theory of Literature Enthymema


( http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema (Italy). Lecture: Italian classic and folk epic: language, plot, style, between the divine and comedy


A special panel on Nizami Ganjavi and Shota Rustaveli epics will be organized by the Theory of Literature Department of Literary Institute of ANAS (Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences) and GCLA (Georgian Comparative Literature Association).


A special roundtable on the alphabet and language of national literature will be held with a talk by Prof. Irakli Kenchoshvili (Georgia) on the text of Azerbaijani songs in the Georgian alphabet n XVIII century.


Please send your abstracts (100-200 words max) along with a brief CV to rahilya_g@hotmail.com by 15th September 2015. The programme will be announced at the end of October.


On behalf of Organizing Committee


Prof. Dr. Rahilya Geybullayeva

Founding Head of Azerbaijani Comparative Literature Association

Head of the Azerbaijani Literature Department

Baku Slavic University

S. Roustam str., 25

Baku, Az-1014, Azerbaijan

Tel.: + 99 412 597 04 19

www.bsu-az.org

www.azcla.org

 


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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Monday, September 14, 2015

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From: Dr. Rajendrasinh Jadeja <projects.sae@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:35 PM
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To: 


Dear Academic Colleague,


Greetings and good wishes from The Global Association of English Studies!

We first need to extend to you our sincere gratitude for being a part of The Global Association of English Studies. We deeply appreciate and sincerely acknowledge your encouragement to our academic endeavours.

This academic year, The Global Association of English Studies is organising its First Global Conference on Contemporary Research in English Studies : Global Perspectives, to be held at Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, India, during February 04 – 06, 2016. I believe that it is quite relevant to your academic interest, so allow me to extend you the invitation to the Call for Proposals.

Following are some of the important features of the Conference :

1.      The Association is pleased to announce its first Global Academic Award for the year 2016 -The Global Award for Academic Excellence - to be awarded to a truly global intellect whose life-long commitment and research contribution has highly substantiated the Discipline of English Studies.

2.       An expected number of participants is between 800 to 1000.

3.       Featured/Specialized Sessions by the representatives of International Organizations/Societies and Universities.

4.       An assured Conference Proceeding (ALL THE PRESENTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED WITH ISBN/ISSN).

5.       All the important sessions – Keynotes, Plenary Sessions, Workshops, Panel Discussions – will be recorded and published in the form of a set of DVDs.

6.       Video-Recording facility for the Presenters (ALL THE RECORDED PRESENTATIONS WILL BE PUBLISHED AS A SET OF DVDs WITH AN ISSN)

7.       Opportunity to network with the Global Academic Fraternity involved in English Studies around the World.

8.       Opportunity to collaborate in International Projects with The Global Association of English Studies.

9.       A Five-Day Book Exhibition by various International Publishers.

10.   A Five-Day Painting Exhibition by Nationally renowned Artists. 

11.   A Five-Day Photography Exhibition by Internationally renowned Artists.

These are some of the features of the First Global Conference. I would like to invite you and encourage you to participate in the Conference. Please visit www.thegaes.org for more information about the Association's first Global Event.


For the information regarding the Tracks for Discussion/Themes of the Conference, please visit http://www.thegaes.org/tracks-for-discussion


Please submit your Abstract at http://www.thegaes.org/abstract-submission


For Conference Registration, please visit http://www.thegaes.org/registration


We thank you for being with us and supporting our academic vision. Could we take this opportunity to request you to inform all your academic associates, colleagues, research students, fellow research scholars, students and friends about the Association and encourage them to contribute to our academic efforts? We will highly appreciate your help.


For those, who may not be able to travel to India for the Global Conference, we have an option for VIRTUAL PRESENTATION/PRESENTATION IN ABSENTIA. You may like to contact me on either 0091 9824975768 or m.trivedi@thegaes.org for any further details. You may also visit http://www.thegaes.org/presentation-categories for information regarding the various categories of presentation. Please do not hesitate to communicate with me for any query.


Please let us know if we, as an Association, can help you or your organization/institute in any academically productive way.

If there is any query or information required, please do not hesitate to communicate with me.

With all good wishes and regards,

Dr. Mitul Trivedi

President
The Global Association of English Studies
www.thegaes.org
m.trivedi@thegaes.org
Cell No. : +91 9824975768


Thursday, September 10, 2015

"Colour of Trans 2.0" On the Occasion of RAW.CON 2015

YOU ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED FOR

 

A play by Panmai, Chennai

Colour of Trans 2.0

A play conceived, designed and performed entirely by a team of three transgender artists.

 

On the Occasion of  RAW.CON 2015

Thursday, 10th September, 2015

DST Auditorium, University of Hyderabad

7 PM - 8 PM

 

This performance is organized by Center for Comparative Literature in collaboration with PEHEL, Center for Ambedkar Studies, Center for Women's Studies, Dept. of Theater Arts and UGC-DRS1 on Visual Culture, S.N. School, University of Hyderabad.

 

Colour of Trans 2.0 is an evocative performance by trans activists Living Smile Vidya, Angel Glady and Gee Imaan Semmalar.  It traces the experiences of the actors themselves through seven episodes.  The performance mixes the forms of cabaret, monologues, clown theatre, commedia del arte, pathos, realism, film and theatre of the absurd. Colour of Trans 2.0 is for anyone interested in questions of self-representation, trans activism, caste and new interventions in theatre.

About the actors:

 

Living Smile Vidya is a dalit transwoman, theatre actor, writer, poet and artist from Trichy, Tamil Nadu.  She holds a Masters degree in Linguistics.  Smiley received the Charles Wallace Award in 2013 for her excellence in Theatre.  She has staged more than 100 shows of 20 plays with 9 eminent theatre directors.  She is the author of I am Vidya which is the first transgender autobiography to be published in India.  It has been translated into over 6 other indian languages and is part of the syllabus of B.A. English in Stella Maris College, Chennai, India.  Her essays and poems are published in magazines in many commercial magazines, literary magazines and online magazines.  As a self-taught artist, she started drawing since 2010.  She has done five exhibitions in Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi. She also has experience in Tamil cinema industry and has been Assistant Director, Associate Director and actor in Tamil and Malayalam films. 

 

Angel Glady is a Bahujan trans woman from Tamil Nadu.  She has studied M.A. mass communication in University of Madras.  She is a theatre actor and has worked with french clowns from "clowns without border" and a South Korean theatre group called "TUIDA".  She feels art is the best tool to make a revolution and is co-founder of a trans theatre group called Panmai theatre in Chennai.

 

Gee Imaan Semmalar is a savarna trans activist from Kerala. He holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from Lady Shri Ram College and an MA in Arts and Aesthetics from Jawaharlal Nehru University.  He has written, directed and acted in a multilingual, docu-fiction film on transmen titled 'Kalvettukal' which has been screened in Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Madurai, Kerala and Sweden.  He has been writing about trans issues for several leading newspapers in India including DNABombay and New Indian Express, Chennai.  He lives in Bangalore and was a radio host for a show on 'Q radio', an online LGBT radio channel.  He has worked on building alliances with several movements over the years and believes that anti-caste gender activism is crucial for actualising any revolutionary social change.


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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Call for Papers SALA-32, University of Lisbon (April 27-29, 2016)

Dear Colleagues,

Please be reminded that you may still submit your abstracts to SALA-32 until September 20th. 

From now on, you can follow the developments of the Conference on our webpage:

sala-32.wix.com/home

Looking forward to welcoming you to Lisbon next year,

The organisers

http://www.clul.ul.pt/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=590

http://linguistlist.org/confservices/EasyAbs/customabssub.cfm?emeetingid=5802JA4458BE905A40A050441




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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

RAW.CON 2015

Centre for Comparative Literature

School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad

RAW.CON 2015


The Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad organizes the annual researchers' meet called RAW.CON (Researchers at Work Conference) which attracts research scholars of humanities and other related fields across the nation. After successfully organizing the programme in the past years, it is the 5th year of this widespread and prestigious conference. This too is going to be a congregation of scholars from all the premier institutions of the country. The conference is taking place from 9th September, 2015 to 11th September, 2015 at the Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad.


The title of this year's meet is "History, Literature, Translation: Bhasha Culture and its Pervasive Networks". Eminent scholar and the chairperson of People's Linguistic Survey of India, Prof. Ganesh N Devy is going to honour the conference by delivering the keynote address. Another two distinguished plenary speakers of this year are Dr. Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and the noted Tamil author, Dr. Perumal Murugan. Apart from that, there will around 60 researchers from more than 50 institutes of the country.


This conference serves as a platform for the young researchers to exchange ideas and get acquainted with the best minds of India. More than sixty academic papers, documentary film screenings are part of this conference this time. Cultural programmes like "Colour of Trans" by Panamai Theatre, Chennai and "O Womaniya", a street theatre performance by Progressive Theatre Group, UoH will be followed by the sessions. The venue of this conference spanned over three days is the different halls of School of Humanities Building at the University of Hyderabad campus.


Please join us and for any further details please feel free to contact the coordinators: Nandi: 9642081239, Sayantan: 9493460628, Intaj: 8330944254

 

Thanks and Regards

 

Documentation & Publicity Team

Raw.Con 2015, CCL, UoH


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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Friday, September 4, 2015

International Conference on “Configuring the Common Man: Trends and Perspectives in Contemporary Indian Literature” held on 6th and 7th January 2016 at Amrita University, Coimbatore


CONCEPT NOTE


India as a fast progressing nation is undergoing massive changes in social, economic and political arenas. And in these times of transition, we find a paradigm shift in the literary scene, where it appears that we have lost the soul and spirit of a common man. In contemporary India, writing in English shows more affinity towards either the affluent and the elite or the downtrodden and the vulgar, keeping in the tradition of considering India as a nation of extreme polarities. The huge crux of normal average middle class Indians and their lives are largely ignored. A question arises as to why this is so? Is it because the average common man cannot be imagined as a hero or an antihero? Is it because there are no intrigues in the life of a common man or writing about him/ her does not conform to the fashion of the times? Why is it that only 'the rich, bold and beautiful' on the one hand and 'slum dogs' on the other considered fit for portrayal? Is the 'common man' conceived by R.K Narayan and so clearly and humanely depicted by R.K Laxaman still alive in the pages of Indian writing or has 'he' already become a myth?


The general avoidance and apathy surrounding this issue calls for serious deliberations. In a solemn brainstorming session in the department of English, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, it was strongly felt that since literary studies affect societies and is a magnanimous tool that can bring about tremendous change and transformation, literary experts must convene on a common platform and discuss on the fading out and gradual disappearance of common man in Indian Writing in English. In this context it is relevant to assess Raymond William's view of "culture as a productive process" as is explicit in his deliberations on cultural materialism. We must also analyze whether our writing in English today carries the scent of the Indian soil as it did in 'Malgudi' and 'Kanthapura'. Is writing in English language truly pan-Indian? Why is it that the common man's mind is shaped by the idee-fixes? Can the common man bridge the cross-cultural divide? Are the vain glorious 'Babus' and vulnerable 'Subhas' of Tagore still living?  Why has the simple rustic Indian landscape vanished? Is it because they don't exist anymore or have we weaned ourselves from an agricultural nation altogether? Do we only have 'skyscraper- scapes' and 'slum- scapes'?  It is evident that post colonial discourses do involve discussions on certain aspects like colonial legacy and native ideologies which could provide hints and cues to the questions posted. The scope of study can also include depictions of common man in contemporary films.


The questions are important for our future generations because we need to find out why the average Indian of yesteryears, who was naïve and innocent, has become full of deceit and guile? Why is it that we still hold our stakes of comparison vis-à-vis the west? The colonial legacy of fascination for the foren still wields its fancy.   Is it perhaps the reason that the diaspora writers are more prominently seen in our literary landscape?


The spate of questions that haunts us demands the academicians and scholars to study this largely overlooked area and arrive at a meaningful discourse. A two day International Conference is planned to be conducted between 6th and 7th January 2016 in our Coimbatore campus. This debate will open up a new arena of thinking where the scholars can adopt different perspectives on the theme and mould their thinking on various lines. One such lead would be an attempt to unearth the subtle undercurrents of humor evident in the lives of common man.


We invite abstracts and full papers on the above topic including the following sub themes:


i.                    Celebrating 'Indianness'

ii.                  The urban- rural divide in contemporary Indian writing

iii.                Common man in cyber space

iv.                Homelands and Hinterlands in Indian writing

v.                  ' The Indian' in foreign authors

vi.                India in 'Bhasha' literatures

vii.              Indian and the Diaspora

viii.            The incredible imbroglio of Indian idée-fixes

ix.                The eclectic Indian

x.                  Common man in Indian films

 

Note:

  • Submissions are to be in English with primary source in any of the following areas: Indian writing in English, Indian Diaspora writing and English translations from bhasha literatures etc.
  • The papers must be in English and should cover literature from 1980s to the present.

 

Other details:

Important Dates

Dates of Conference: 6 &7 January, 2016

Abstract & full paper submission: 31 October, 2015

Announcement of Acceptance: 21 November, 2015

 Registration: 1 December, 2015

On the Spot Registrations (only participation): 7 January, 2016

 

Registration

Regular registration fee: Indian delegates: Rs. 2300/- (Including 14% service tax)

For Research Scholars and students: Rs. 1150/- (Including 14% service tax)

Delegates outside India    : USD150 (incl. S.T)

Registration fee is non-refundable.

Interested participants should register by sending the filled in registration form along with the prescribed fee in the form of demand draft drawn in favor of "Amrita Consultancy" payable at Kollam.

The registration fee covers Conference kit, Certificate, and Proceedings. It also includes refreshments and Lunch on both days.

 

Accommodation will be provided on request in any one of the following places:

(i)                 Guest House (with AC facility) – subject to availability

(ii)                Men and Women PG Hostel (NON AC, Single or twin sharing)

 Participants have to pay separately for food and accommodation in their respective place of stay.

 

Guidelines for submission and presentation

Abstract: Around 300 words with maximum five key words.

Full paper: Not exceeding 3000-4000 words. MLA Seventh edition style should be followed.

Email id: The papers should be sent in MS Word format to the following email id:

amritaenglishconf@gmail.com

 

Publication: Proceedings will be published and the select works will be included in a book, to be published later.

Note: The authors whose papers are selected to be published as chapters in a book shall pay an amount separately at a later date.

 

Contact Details

Akhil V.P. –  09445248338    vp_akhil@cb.amrita.edu

Sandhya V – 09042724647    v_sandhya@cb.amrita.edu

Ambika P –  09447057261      p_ambika@cb.amrita.edu 


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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh
PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45