RAW.CON 2011, Researchers At Work Conference

Centre for Comparative Literature

School of Humanities

University of Hyderabad

Email : raw.con2011@gmail.com Phone: 040-23133350

www.rawcon2011.wordpress.com

RAW.CON 2011

Researchers At Work Conference

National Students’ Conference on Literary and Cultural Studies

20th- 22nd September, 2011

RAW.CON or Researchers at Work Conference 2011 represents a student initiative.

We, the postgraduate and research students from the Centre for Comparative Literature,

University of Hyderabad, believe that a students’ conference would be a great idea to create

an interspace for the student community. Such interspaces are valuable and would

contribute a lot in terms of discussions, exchange and sharing of ideas, interrogations and

interventions on subjects being studied and researched by scholars from universities around

the country. RAW.CON 2011 -- a three-day national students’ conference planned and

organized by students and for students with the support of the Centre and the University, is

envisioned as an annual event, starting this year.

The focus is Interdisciplinarity, urged by the need to transcend borders. RAW.CON hopes to

provide the ‘ideal’ interspace for researchers to think beyond disciplines, explore and test

paradigms, yet be rigorous and mindful of the demands of quality research. We expect that

the dynamic space/platform for emerging scholars would encourage fresh perspectives

across disciplines in India.

RAW.CON invites students and researchers from all over India for this fun-filled, three day

conference. We invite papers in the following thrust areas:

Re-cast(e)ing Literature Nations and Sub-nationalisms

Religion and Representation Gendering Language

Centering Margins New Trends in Cinema

Recollecting Histories English in Comparative Literature

Popular Culture and the Academia Identities and Beyond

Indigenous Literatures and Cultures Media, Representation and Violence

Research papers in related areas are also welcome! In addition, we invite panels on issues

of contemporary literary and cultural relevance.

Abstracts (Maximum time for a single presentation is 20 mins) may be emailed to

raw.con2011@gmail.com or snail-mailed to RAW.CON 2011, Centre for Comparative

Literature, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad – 500046.

Last date for submission of abstracts: 15th July, 2011

Intimation of selection: 30th July, 2011

Submission of full papers: 30th August 2011