Call for Papers &#8211; The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances and Histories

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Friday, November 18, 2016

Fwd: Inviting Entries of Student Projects for GYTI (Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award) 2017

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From: Prof. Anil K Gupta <anilg@sristi.org>
Date: Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 4:32 PM
Subject: Inviting Entries of Student Projects for GYTI (Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award) 2017
To: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in

Dear Abu Saleh,

Greetings from SRISTI, Techpedia

I hope you agree that to promote originality and inattentiveness, it is very useful to make database of student projects at one place. It will not only give greater global visibility to the ideas that you have developed but also may help in greater collaboration among young scholars. In addition, it may help some of you get Gandhian Youngtechnological Innovation (GYTI) award at Rashtrapatibhavan during Festival of innovation hosted by the Office of the President assisted by National Innovation Foundation.

We have already gathered over 2, 00,000 projects across the country. BIRAC and SRISTI have joined hands to supplement Gandhian Youngtechnological Innovation (GYTI) Awards. These awards are given in all fields of engineering and technology including biotechnology and medical devices to outstanding theses submitted by the students. There are 15 awards worth Rs. 15 Lakh each for medical/life sciences related innovations and 100 awards worth Rs. 1 Lakh each for grassroots innovations.

If you have already been awarded Ph. D.,you are welcome to share soft copy of abstract or even full text of your thesis which will be of immense value to your juniors. We would like to request you to send your nomination for GYTI Award if it is a recent thesis (Say, submitted within the last two years i.e. between 2014-2016).

We would also request you to promote GYTI and Techpedia among your friends, faculty members, other departments and institutions nearby. You may also like to share the attachment via social network like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Whatsapp as well. In fact, we will encourage you and will appreciate if you would promote the Competition through social media, in your network.

For any queries, please connect with our team Techpedia at +91 9099258492, gyti.techpedia@sristi.org.

Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award 2017

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Thanking you and with best wishes,

Prof. Anil K. Gupta

Coordinator, SRISTI

Founder, Honey Bee Network

Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

P.S. GYTI 2017 Award function will be held at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

Imaging the Differently Abled: Reading and Translating the Indian Short Story

Imaging the Differently Abled: Reading and Translating the Indian Short Story

Centre of Advanced Study, Department of English

Jadavpur University

18-20 January 2017

Representations of disability have been ubiquitous in Western literature and popular culture as theme, metaphor or lived experience. In India disability studies is still an emergent area of scholarship. There is a lot of debate regarding the use of the term 'disabled', hence the title with the use of 'differently abled'. This conference proposes to explore the representation and translation of the differently abled in the Indian short story. The intention is to locate short stories, canonical or otherwise, in the regional languages, especially in the languages from the Eastern and North-eastern states of India (although not limited to these) that deal with the representation of the differently abled and also to engage in the translation of such stories.

Disability Studies grew in the United States in the 1990s. Disability scholars such as Lennard J. Davis and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, for example choose to transcend the biological determinant of the phenomenon (the 'medical' model of disability which traces its roots to the nineteenth century) and prefer to define it in social, cultural, and political terms (the 'social' model). According to them, a disabled person's so-called incapacity to perform normative life functions is to be attributed not to a clinically diagnosed physical or mental condition, but rather to a disability-hostile socio-cultural environment that prevents disabled people from realizing the fullness of their potential. They further interpret disability within a multicultural context as a manifestation of the diversity of the human condition and not as an undesired biological ailment to be cured and corrected through medical intervention. Disability is thus now understood as a culturally constructed phenomenon rather than a biological one.

Since the host university is situated in the Eastern part of India, the conference will focus on the regional languages in this part of the country. Nonetheless interesting papers from all over the country, dealing with representation and translation of disability in any of the languages in India would be most welcome. The stories chosen for discussion do not necessarily have to be authored by the differently abled. The paper for presentations at the conference will be in two broad sections – on disability studies in general including the representation of the differently abled in short stories, folktales or folklore and also children's literature, from regional Indian languages and on the hermeneutical problems that emerge in the process of translating such stories from the regional languages into English.

The conference intends to be a mix of academic presentations, panel discussions, and performances by the differently abled. Papers could be on any of the themes given below or on any related subject:

· Theories of disability

· Cultural representations of the differently abled in the short story, folktales and local folklore and its theoretical connotations

· Disability and gender, class, sexual or ethnic identity

· Disability and narrative structure

· Problematics of translating a text of disability

· How cultural markers determine the representation of the differently abled in the regional short story

· Representation of disability in folktales and folklore

· Disability in literature for children

· The subtexts that emerge through the process of translation of such texts

Please send abstracts of not more than 500 words and a short bio-note to the conference coordinators at rtda17@gmail.com by 15^th December, 2016. Kindly note that reimbursement of travel for outstation participants will not be possible; however if funds permit, accommodation to outstation participants may be provided.

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Fwd: [iaclals] CFP- FORTELL July 2017 issue No. 35- SPECIAL ISSUE on ASSESSMENT: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

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ANNOUNCEMENT

Call for papers

for

FORTELL, Issue 35 (July 2017)

ISSN No: Print 2229 – 6557, Online 2394-9244

SPECIAL ISSUE

ASSESSMENT: ISSUES AND CHALLENGES

The 21^st century has brought the realization to educators and State education boards worldwide that the proficiency of students cannot be captured through mere summative tests and stressed the need to evaluate and assess student performance continually and systematically in a variety of ways resulting in valid ability related inferences. Mere testing has given way to assessing students through assignments, term papers, projects and the like. The mandate of a Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) has given the term 'evaluation' a different hue and shape. It is not by chance that the last letter of that acronym, CCE, is not A, for assessment, or T for testing but 'E' and that too, E for evaluation and not examination. It is true that globally, substantive research is being carried out in the domains of assessment for and as learning. Attempts are being made to document the varied shapes, sizes and forms of CCE. However, there is little documented evidence in the Indian context of such research and there is a long road ahead. This special issue on Assessment: Issues and Challenges is an attempt to fill this gap. We invite teachers and research scholars to share their research and views that deal with varied aspects of formative assessment, classroom evaluation or testing at all primary, middle and tertiary levels. Contributions that showcase innovative research, critical thinking and creative approaches would be given special preference. Along with articles on the above-mentioned theme, general articles are invited as well.

FORTELL, a peer-reviewed journal of the Forum for Teachers of English Language and Literature, is published bi-annually in January and July by FORTELL, New Delhi. Copyright for the individual contribution rests with the author. However, FORTELL Journal should be acknowledged as the original source of publication in a subsequent publication. FORTELL retains the right to republish any of the contributions in its future publications or to make it available in electronic form for the benefit of its members.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

Soft copies of articles/research papers (2000-2200 words), reports (500 words), book reviews, (500-600 words), language games/activities (300-400 words) and letters to the editor (100-150 words) should be sent along with a photograph and a brief bio note of about 25-30 words to the Co-ordinating Editor at amrit.l.khanna@gmail.com and fortell.journal@gmail.com.

The contributors should clearly indicate their name, email ID and phone number. Contributions should conform to the sixth edition of the APA style sheet in format, citations and bibliography. Contributors should give a declaration that the paper is original and does not violate the copyright law and it has not been published in any form elsewhere before. Please look up the website http://www.fortell.org/ regarding guidelines for submission of the manuscript.

Guest Editors: Geetha Durairajan & Prem Kumari Srivastava

Geetha Durairajan is Professor, Department of Materials Development, Testing and Evaluation, EFL University, Hyderabad.

Prem Kumari Srivastava is Associate Professor, Department of English, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, New Delhi

Last date for submission: April 30, 2017

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

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Fwd: [iaclals] Call for Papers: International Conference The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances and Histories

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Call for Papers – The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances and Histories

November 11, 2016

Call for Papers: International Conference

The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances and Histories

The long history of the Mahabharata and its cultural assimilations is spread across not only South East Asia but across Asian regions and is a living reminder of a shared consciousness and is reflective of a syncretic Asian culture. As a travelling text it circulated, since ancient times, through maritime links across monsoon Asia. It is a strong reminder of an Asia that was interconnected through trade, religion, manuscript, art, architecture, performance, and not the least, through people to people contact. Before the coinage of terms such as cosmopolitanism, universalism, and globalisation, this master text and its epical narrative spoke across the gap of ethnicity, race, religion and culture. In fact, such is its deep embedment across several Asian regions that even the deep historical rupture created by European colonialism, a timewhen colonised Asian regions became fragmented and inward looking, did not erase the legacy of the Mahabharatawhich lay like a rich seam and kept alive the connections between a pre and postcolonial Asia.

This international conference seeks to bring together

Litterateurs
Linguists
Art historians
Archaeologists
Philosophers
Historians
Performers
Filmmakers
Sociologists
Religious studies experts
Researchers

Willing to comment, interrogate, dialogue and discuss the emergent field of Asian studies and the complex dynamics of cross cultural exchanges through a singular text.

Dates of the conference: 6, 7, & 8^th April, 2017

Abstracts containing not more than 500 words on topics pertinent to the theme are invited for submission by 10^th December 2016. The selected presenters will by intimated by 10^th January, 2017, and will be expected to submit working drafts of their full papers by 28^thFebruary, 2017. The abstracts can be mailed to asharma99@gmail.com

No TA/DA will be paid to the outstation participants. Accommodation at the University Guest Houses can be arranged on request at a nominal cost.

Convenors

Professor Christel R Devadwason

Dr. Anjana Sharma

Dr. Haris Qadeer

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

South Asia Graduate Students Conference at the University of Chicago

Call for papers: South Asia Graduate Students Conference at the University of Chicago

23^rd-24^th February 2017

The South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago is known for bringing together graduate students working on the Indian Subcontinent across disciplines, time periods and regions of interest from campuses within and outside the United States. The conference offers a unique opportunity for graduate students working on southern Asia to engage with the research of their peers.

Over the last decade, scholarship that traverses disciplinary boundaries has animated the field of South Asian Studies. Building from diverse disciplinary lenses – historical, sociological, anthropological, literary, linguistic and performative – scholars of the Subcontinent have developed unique academic tools suited specifically for the study of this region, potentially reconfiguring disciplinary boundaries in productive ways. This year's conference, entitled Materials in focus: Working across media and methods in South Asia, invites participants to reflect on how the materials they engage with defines their scholarship.

How can a more rigorous intellectual engagement with materials open up how we conceptualise cultural constructs and emergent political formations? What are affordances and resistance of the materials we engage with to study South Asia? How do we mobilize these beyond their functional purpose as 'sources', grappling instead with the very processes of their fabrication, preservation (or destruction) and place in the historical record? The diverse range of materials – archival, epigraphic, archaeological, art historical, performative, ethnographic among others shape our methodological choices and the media in which we make and circulate our work.

Questions of method emerge out of, and determine, the materials we work with. How do we think about method when the object of research is a geographical and cultural area? How can research situated in the Subcontinent contribute to rethinking traditional research methods innovatively?

We invite methodologically self-reflexive papers that foreground questions of materials and materiality in South Asian studies. Possible themes include but are not limited to: material culture, archives and 'museification', oral narratives and histories, the making and circulation of art, performance and theatre, film and new media. Presentations may take several forms, including seminar papers, collaborative projects and performances.

Please send a title and abstract (250-300 words) to sagsc2017.uchicago@gmail.com by 5 pm on 20^th December 2016.

Abstracts should include name, e-mail address and institutional affiliation.

Selected participants will be informed by 5^th January 2017.

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

Monday, November 14, 2016

Conference on "Of Conflicts and Landscapes: The Rhetoric of Performance and Visual Art in Canada" at JU, Kolkata

CENTRE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on Canadian Studies

7-9 March, 2017

Of Conflicts and Landscapes: The Rhetoric of Performance and Visual Art in Canada

No one ever asked Picasso if he was influenced by Canadian art, and yet look at his masks: Who's to say Picasso hadn't seen any of our work?

- Daphne Odjig (Odawa and Potawatomi)

Since the beginning of time, memory has nurtured the arts and challenged histories of conflict. The ubiquitous presence of memory has been inscribed in the hermeneutic mappings and traversing of the urban space, in the seeming solidity of historical monuments and in transient human bodies. This Conference seeks to locate and narrate memory through the mutable structures of performance and visual arts in the world of Canadian letters. Further, the Conference would highlight the dynamics of forgetting and remembering as articulated in diverse media through complex processes of transformation, regeneration and reconstruction. In Canada, Indigenous communities have been engaged in a constant struggle to visit and preserve their identities, combating cultural extinction and conserving local knowledge.

As early as in the 1890s, Canada witnessed the skills of one of her foremost performers, the poet E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), whose work divulged a dynamic interface between the oral Mohawk inheritance and the English literary heritage with subtle inroads being made by Ojibwe performative traditions of the 1820s and 1830s. Repercussions of identity and transformation have also been reflected in the often incompatible realities of the Canadian diaspora through representations of landscape in different visual idiom. Jin – me Yoon, the South Korean – Canadian activist produced "Souvenirs of the Self" in 1991 – a work that unraveled the notion of the self in juxtaposition to prominent aspects of the Canadian landscape. Performance and visual arts offer alternative modes of remembrance, drawing upon affective and experiential registers. Richard Biernacki wrote of the cultural turn, "these three emerging visions – culture as the corporeal knowhow of practice, as the organizing ethos of practice, and as the experienced import of practice – can easily overlap in any particular study."[1] In the process, they reshape collective memory, thereby resisting official hegemonic narratives.

The Conference would like to invite papers that explore the role of performance and visual arts in narratives of power speculation, resistant imagery, commemorative landscape within the Canadian subcontinent. Papers engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue within Canadian Studies on the following themes are invited:

- Creativity and Sovereignty

- Belonging and Performance

- Ritual, theatre and the everyday

- Nationhood/Citizenship and Performance

- Performance: Pedagogy and Practice

- Visual Art and Communication

- Hermeneutics of Visual Art

- Censorship and the Arts

- Film and Identity.

- Landscape and Homeland

- Technology and Mediation

Abstracts (500 words) to be sent to canadacentreju@gmail.com by 16^th December, 2017.

Acceptance will be intimated by 7^th January, 2017. Please note that while local hospitality may be offered to a select number of applicants, travels costs will not be reimbursed.

From 2017, the Centre for Canadian Studies, Jadavpur University would award two student prizes (till the MPhil level) for the best paper presented at a regular session at the Conference as follows:

1. "Victor Ramraj Memorial Prize" for the best paper in Canadian Diaspora Studies

2. "Renate Eigenbrod Memorial Prize" for the best paper in Indigenous Canadian Studies

A student may apply for only one of the above mentioned prizes and should indicate the same during abstract submission. Joint authors would not be eligible to participate.

In order to be considered for the prize and upon acceptance of the abstract, completed papers should be mailed by 31^st January, 2017. The Prize(s) would be awarded only if the Screening Committee believes in the originality and academic excellence of the submission. The decision of the Screening Committee would be final.

Conference Coordinators

Suchorita Chattopadhyay

Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies

Jadavpur University, Kolkata – 700 032

Debashree Dattaray

Deputy Coordinator, Centre for Canadian Studies

Jadavpur University

Kolkata – 700 032

[1] Richard Biernacki, "Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History," in Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt, eds., Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 77.

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry at IIIT Hyderabad

IIIT Distinguished Lecture 2nd November 3:30 PM 105 Himalaya Building (audi)

Distinguished Lecture
on
NAVIGATING SPACES
The role of theatre in society

on

02nd November, 2016 (Wednesday, 3:30 PM)
at 105 Himalaya Building (Auditorium), IIIT Hyderabad

Speaker: Padmashri Dr. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry

Program Schedule:

3.15 PM Registration and Welcome
3.30 PM Distinguished Lecture by Padmashri Dr. Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry
5.00 PM

Tea & Snacks

About the Speaker: Dr Neelam Mansingh Chowdhry is a Chandigarh based theatre artist. She was awarded the 2003 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. She is also the recipient of the 2011 Padma Shri Award and the 2004 Shiromani Bhasha Vibhag Award of Govt. of Punjab. She has taught at Panjab University, Chandigarh and worked at Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal. With her theatre group called 'The Company' she has produced many plays and staged them in many cities of the world including London, Perth, Los Angeles, etc. Her most recent work has been with the artist of the National School of Drama, Delhi.

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

Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com