Abu Saleh: 2017

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Friday, September 8, 2017

Invitation: PCML 2017 @ The Department of English, RPMC

Dear Sir/Ma'am/Colleagues/Friends,

We are happy to inform you about the Parasor Chatterjee Memorial Lecture 2017.

Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta will be Speaking on "Indians Writing in English: Triumphs and Transformations".

Please do come if around.

Thank you so much.

Thanks & Regards:

Dr. Abu Saleh

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Profile: http://portal.rpmcollege.org/author/abu-saleh

Mail: abusalehenglish@gmail.com or asaleh.eng@rpmcollege.org

https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-damrosch

Thursday, September 7, 2017

"Debating World Literature"; Prof. David Damrosch @ University of Hyderabad

https://iwl.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-damrosch

Thanks & Regards:

Dr. Abu Saleh

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Profile: http://portal.rpmcollege.org/author/abu-saleh

Mail: abusalehenglish@gmail.com or asaleh.eng@rpmcollege.org

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

RBU Distance M. A. Programmes @ RPMC

Dear Sir/Ma'am,

We are offering few M. A. programmes including M. A. in English under RBU Distance Education.

To know about this, please visit: http://www.rpmcollege.org/college_notice.php

Please find the Prospectus attached.

To apply please log in to: http://www.rbudde.in/

Please do share with others.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks & Regards:

Dr. Abu Saleh

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Profile: http://portal.rpmcollege.org/author/abu-saleh

Mail: abusalehenglish@gmail.com or asaleh.eng@rpmcollege.org

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

NATIONAL YOUNG RESEARCHERS’ CONFERENCE ON VICTORIANA @ THE UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN

NATIONAL YOUNG RESEARCHERS' CONFERENCE

VICTORIANA

ORGANIZED BY

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND CULTURE STUDIES (UGC SAP-DRS PHASE II),

THE UNIVERSITY OF BURDWAN

14-15 SEPTEMBER 2017

The Department of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan is going to organize its annual Young Researchers' Conference on 14-15 September, 2017 on the focal area of Victoriana.

Queen Victoria's regime in Britain, unlike any other preceding it, stood for paradigm shifts in what constituted Englishness within and without, in the world at large. With imperial Britain ruling the waves, scientific-technological innovations abounding, and exponential industrial growth rate, Britain became something it had never been before and after this moment — a politico-economic superpower and the cultural capital of the world.

The cultural capital generated by long narrative poems, novels, polemical essays, children's fiction, crime narratives, life writings, women's writing, writings reproducing alternate sexualities, workers' narratives, mutiny novels, spiritual narratives, pornography, anthropological writings, juridical writings went hand in hand with extraordinary developments in material cultures. These ranged from printing, publishing, archiving, painting, photography and restoration of art to postal reforms and development of postal material such as pens, writing pads, desks, police reforms, development of technology to detect the criminal, and use of technology to map worlds beyond logic.

The reverberations of these changes were felt around the world that Britain had colonized and had not colonized. We are all, in a certain sense, post-Victorian.

The Conference uses the term 'Victoriana' in its broadest possible sense, inviting papers from areas not only from that period but also from our times that consciously recycle and recast Victorian tropes, looking back and beyond at the same time.

Some of the focal areas could be:

· Queen Victoria: Myth and Reality

· Condition of England Question novel

· Christian Socialism and the Victorian novel

· Representations in Art, Restoration and Victoriana

· Crime, Criminology, the Rise of Detective Fiction.

· Uncanny, the Rise of Spiritualism, Ghost Clubs, Spirit Societies, Parapsychology, Spiritual Narratives

· Narrative Poetry, Browning, Tennyson and so forth

· The Narrativized Play, Shaw, Galsworthy, etc

· Print Victoriana

· Neo-Victorianism

· Photography and Victoriana

· Victoriana and Translation

· Victoriana and Pedagogy

· Victoriana and Pornography

· Victoriana and India

· Victoriana and Food

· Victoriana and dress/sartorial specificities

· The Mutiny Novel

· Victoriana and Travel Narrative.

· Children's Writing

· Women in Victoriana

· Alternative Sexuality and Victoriana

· Postal Reforms and Victoriana

· Colonial Modernity

We welcome young researchers (students, research scholars and young teachers) from different universities and institutions to the conference. They should send their abstracts (not more than 250 words) to the organizers, and, if selected, they will get 15 minutes for their presentations and 5 minutes for questions on their papers. Last date for receipt of abstracts is 24 July 2017. The abstracts will pass through a rigorous peer review process. Acceptance will be conveyed by 15 August 2017. Abstracts should be sent to the following email id:yrcenglishbu@gmail.com. The names, contact numbers, email ids, and affiliations of those sending abstracts should be clearly mentioned in the abstracts.

There will be no registration fee.

Venue: The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, East Burdwan – 713104. West Bengal.

Special attraction:

The participants may be taken to the Museum and Art Gallery in the premises of Rajbati, the palace of the Burdwan Raj donated to the University of Burdwan in 1960. The Victorian art objects, sculptures, architecture, and other such cultural documents related to the Burdwan Raj, whose history dates back to the 17^th century, would be of interest to the researchers in the field of Victorian Studies and also those interested in exploring India's colonial modernity. To know more about the Museum and Art Gallery, please visit the website:http://www.buruniv.ac.in/campus/museum

Conference Conveners:

Dr Arnab Kumar Sinha Dr Anway Mukhopadhyay

Assistant Professor Assistant Professor

Department of English Department of English

and Culture Studies and Culture Studies

The University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan

Thanks & Regards:

Dr. Abu Saleh

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Mail: abusalehenglish@gmail.com

Friday, June 9, 2017

RPMC Admission Notification 2017

Notice: http://www.rpmcollege.org/notice/2017_05/admission_notice.jpg

Course Details: http://www.rpmcollege.org/admission/2017/05/Under_Graduate_Courses_2017.pdf

Online Form: http://www.rpmcollegeadmission.org/

College Website: http://www.rpmcollege.org/

Thanks. 

Thanks & Regards:

Dr. Abu Saleh

PhD from University of Hyderabad, India.

Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

Mail: abusalehenglish@gmail.com

Monday, April 24, 2017

My PhD Viva: If Around Please Do Attend

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

Thursday, February 23, 2017

We cordially invite you to join us in BHASHA 2017

Respected Madam/Sir,

On the Occasion of International Mother Language Day, UoH Bengali Samsad recalls the sacrifices of the martyrs of Ekushey. On 21^st February, 1952, Dhaka, four students - Abdus Salam, Rafiq, Barkat and Abdul Jabbar were gunned down by state security personnels for the 'crime' of agitating for recognition of their mother language. This incident triggered off a mass movement for collective self-recognition of the Bengali people and their language.

Bhasha is an annual event of UoH Bangali Samsad. Bengali language has its unique place in our culture for being the rallying call against historically rooted structures of oppression. United Nations has acknowledged this and declared 21^st February as International Mother Language Day. In our remembrance we uphold people's history of struggles, rooted in our own cultural legacy but aware of the broader vibrations that 'ekushey' signify. Apart from various cultural performances in Bengali, we invite other language and social groups in the campus to join us and participate in this celebration.

In that regard, if people with native language other than Bengali also want to participate and perform in BHASHA 2017 in their cultural medium, we would consider this attempt of ours to talk across cultures in solidarity to be worthwhile.

We cordially invite you to join us in BHASHA 2017.

Yours Sincerely,

UoH Bangali Samsad

Date of the Programme: 26^th February, 2017

Venue: DST Auditorium; Time: 6 pm onwards

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, February 22, 2017

UoH Bengali Samsad cordially invites you in BHASHA 2017

Dear All,

Bhasha is an annual event of UoH Bengali Samsad. Bengali language has its unique place in our culture for being the rallying call against all historically rooted structures of oppression. Every year, we honour the martyrdom of the students and workers who were gunned down on 21st February 1952, while peacefully protesting for self-respect of their matribhasha. United Nations has acknowledged their struggle and declared 21st February as International Mother Language Day. In our remembrance we uphold people's history of struggles, rooted in our own cultural legacy but aware of the broader vibrations that 'ekushey' signify.

Apart from various cultural performances in Bengali, we invite other language and social groups in the campus to join us and participate in this celebration. In that regard, if people with native language other than Bengali also want to participate and perform in BHASHA, 2017 in their preferred cultural medium, we would consider this attempt of ours to talk across cultures, to be successful.

Sunday, 26th February, 2017, 6.00 PM - 10.00 PM

@ DST Auditorium, University of Hyderabad

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1748380288808283/

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, February 15, 2017

COMPARATIVE HUMANITIES: RE-CONFIGURING HUMANITIES ACROSS CULTURES

Department of Comparative Literature and India Studies

English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad

Is pleased to organize a

Three-day National Conference on

COMPARATIVE HUMANITIES: RE-CONFIGURING HUMANITIES ACROSS CULTURES

April 5-7, 2017

The history of humanities has always been a history of the expressions of knowledge derived from the European mind. Since the Hellenistic age to the contemporary times, the 'disciplines' that study human expressions concerning language, arts, music, theatre, history, logic, rhetoric and poetics have been governed and regulated by the European thought. What is termed as 'humanities' corresponds to the German geisteswissenschaften ['sciences of the spirit'], the Italian scienze umanistiche ['humanisitic sciences'], and the Dutch alfawetenschappen ['alpha sciences'] – all these terms refer to the knowledge and thoughts generated in Europe. Enlightenment and modernity stratified the studies under humanistic disciplines by rationalizing their content as applicable to all human kind. The modern European intellectual adventure established the different expressions of the European mind as constellations of knowledge to be pursued. Colonization played a very significant role in universalizing the disciplinary grid for the European thought. With the advent of Universities, and the departments of Humanities, the knowledge of the European mind started getting imparted as disciplines in the universities of the colonized and non-colonized countries.

Thus, the object of inquiry under humanities has suffered an 'a priori delimitation' that confines any investigation to the knowledge generated by the Greeks, the Romans, the French, the English, the Dutch or the Germans – in the name of Europe. Due to the Eurocentric thrust and the epistemic dominance of the occidental knowledge, the disciplines of humanities are taught in the universities with a lopsided and disproportional emphasis. This centrism comes for a scathing attack under some of the contemporary theorists. Derrida, calls for the emergence of "New Humanities" and "transformed Humanities" in his deconstructive essay titled "The Future of the Profession or the University without Condition". Derrida asserts his "faith" in a university where Humanities is taught without pre-conditions or pre-conceived notions about "that which is proper to man". Levinas too, in his philosophical explorations, has deliberated upon the epiphanic moment of "facing the other". For Levinas, cultures [just as self] should engage in the task of "Other-facing". As he writes, "[T]he Other faces me, puts me in a question, and obliges me". The significant lack with regard to the Western culture, Levinas highlights, is its inability to engage with its Other, intellectually and otherwise. In a similar vein, Bakhtin foregrounds the necessity of comparative dialogics that puts forth the idea of dialogue across cultures in terms of comprehending the humanistic insights derived from "utterances". In Bakhtin's view, dialogic utterances concerning languages, literature or arts always invite reciprocation. According to Bakhtin, "In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of her/his creative understanding, in time, in space, in culture". Extended to the context of humanities, it is possible to locate the monologicity of the western humanities that have created a singular and unitary identity, thereby homogenizing the discourse by eliminating its dialogic potentialities.

The conference engages with this 'problematic of singularity' in the humanities with regard to teaching and research. It seeks to draw the attention of the intellectual community to this crisis of humanities in the non-European cultures. The state of humanities in Asia [India, in particular] will serve to demonstrate the lack of a comparative paradigm in terms of comprehending humanistic insights. Not only is Asian humanities not taught in the universities of the globe, but also Asian thinkers are, more often than not, classified as contributing to the orientalist paradigm generated by the west. Asian epistemology needs to be exhumed from the debris of colonial destructions and should be re-established in terms of a dialogic reciprocal relationship with the western humanistic paradigms. It is imperative for an Asian academic in the present intellectual scenario to evolve a comparative science of humanities by foregrounding the perspectives of the so-called 'Orient'. Another crucial concern would be to explore the possibility of a South-South dialogue of the human sciences.

The conference sets out to ask a few pertinent questions: what are the possible ways in which the humanities teaching and research can be re-configured in the Asian context today? Can the humanities in general be unraveled from particular locations of culture? What opportunities and modes can one draw on or bring forth for a transformative reception of epistemic singularities in rethinking the humanities today? Given that the primary task of the humanities is to unravel the modes of constituting the human (by engaging with the heterogeneous singular human reflections and their material articulations), what are the effective ways in which one can draw on cultural singularities to configure the question of being human today? Can the humanities teaching and research be experimental, and non-constative in orientation? What are the ways and means through which one can re-orient the university from its received politico-philosophical legacy of Europe? Also, one should hasten to add, can this reorientation be worked out without alibi, without yielding to the presumed sovereignty of any singular culture? Can the university receive unconditional thinking in the humanities – a thinking that is not devoted to gaining sovereign mastery through knowledge production?

The conference seeks to invite theoretical inquires on the following topics:

· Conceptualizing Asian epistemology

· Human Sciences of the East

· The Eastern reception and reciprocation

· The crisis of humanities

· Unconditional thinking and university pedagogy

· Comparative science of humanities

· Challenging colonial amnesia

· Comparative thought: what the west knows from the east

· Translating Humanities

· Conceptualizing Asian Art history and Musicology

· Conceptions of the human in Asian cultures

Important dates:

Last date for sending in the abstract: 3^rd March, 2017

Selected paper-presenters will be notified by 8^th March, 2017

Conference dates: 5-7April, 2017.

Kindly send in a 500 word abstract to: eflucomplit2017@gmail.com

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