Second International Conference on Global Diaspora

Second International Conference on Global Diaspora

 

January 10-11, 2015

To be held at

Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Organized in cooperation with

World Association of Global Diaspora Studies (WADIS),

The Research Center for Overseas Korean Business and Culture,

State University of New York at Binghamton,

Nirma University

 

Persons interested to attend this meeting are requested to contact:

 

Manas Chatterji, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton NY, USA

Phone: +1 (607) 777-2475, Fax: +1 (607) 777-4422

Email: mchatter@binghamton.edu

 

Some of the topics to be discussed are:

1. Definition of Diaspora

2. Diaspora and Homeland Development FDI and remittances etc.

3. Migration and Diaspora

4. Brain Drain or Brain Circulation

5. Diaspora and International Relations-Theory and Cases

6. Migration and Political Mobilization

7. Diasporas and Political Aspirations

8. Globalization and Labor Migration

9. Diasporas and their Impacts on homeland technological and economic Development

10. Ethnic Composition of U.S. Diaspora investors

11. Quantitative and Mathematical Approaches to Diaspora Studies.

12. Diaspora and International Security

13. Diaspora, Culture, Literature and Religion

14. Disaster Management

 

*Registration Form

Registration and Fees: International Participants: $100; Indian Participants: RS. 500

Name: __________________________________________________________________

Address:____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Telephone: ______________________________ Fax: ______________________________

E-mail: ___________________________________________________________________

Abstract Enclosed:___________________________________________________________________

Title of the paper: __________________________________________________________________

* Please send this form to one of the above email addresses. Deadline: November 28, 2014

*Some of the papers presented in this meeting will be considered for publication in the referred e-journal of World Association of Global Diaspora Studies (WADIS)

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PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)

School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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Fwd: [New announcement] CALL FOR PAPERS: Trans- and Trance (Western University Graduate Student Conference; London, Ontario, Canada)

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Subject: [New announcement] CALL FOR PAPERS: Trans- and Trance (Western University Graduate Student Conference; London, Ontario, Canada)
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Keynotes by Dr. David S. Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder) & Dr. Joel Faflak (Western University)

Trans- and trance are ways of life: from transcendentalist impulses in the Epic of Gilgamesh, to Freud's discussion of the phenomenon of transference, to the rise of transnationalism in modern times, the conceptual import of "trans-" has always lied in its ability to denote mobility against and across frontiers, positionality along multiple axes, and shifting modes of territoriality within agonistic horizons. Trance almost always followed.

"Trans-" as a concept has steadily grown in importance as a way to inform critical thought and study in many intellectual fields and disciplines. In her 2014 report on "trans-" as one of the American Comparative Literature Association's "ideas of the decade," Jessica Berman notes how "'trans-' is not a substantive but rather an 'orientation' of critical approaches, attitudes, and habits of reading or experiencing".

The Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, & Theory and Criticism programs at Western University invite you to the 17th Annual Grad Student Conference to be held from March 5-7, 2015 in London, Ontario, Canada. We invite papers that engage critical notions of transit, change, and tumult in multidisciplinary contexts, especially those that highlight "trans-" as a paradigm of dynamic subjectivity negotiating potentially violent domains. As trance culture seeks to reach the elusive state that lies Beyond, the organizers hope that the conference will provide insight into possible conciliatory modes to the disruptions that the "trans-" phenomenon precipitates.

We encourage interdisciplinary submissions, including but not limited to literature, critical theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, linguistics, film studies, visual arts, music, popular culture, architecture, history, and philosophy. Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, the ff.:

1. Transformation: metamorphosis, posthumanism, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, rhetoric, semiotics of architecture, performativity

2. Trance and the Transcendent: the sublime, the oneiric, the orphic, aesthetics of trance, "the music of the Spheres", euphoria, consciousness studies, hypnotext and literary mesmerism

3. Transgression in its various forms: proletarian literature, resistance and subversion literature, agitprop, the artist as Revolutionary, experimental literature, the Avant-Garde, the Gothic, queer theory

4. Transit and Transitions: immigrant literature, displacement, exile, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, urban culture, travel literature, border poetics, intersectionality, fluidity

5. Transsectional figures: the diasporic writer, the queer, the new feminist, the post- and transhuman, the academic as public intellectual, the digital humanist

6. Transference: creativity and trauma, psychoanalysis, ecocriticism, literature and epistemology, catharsis

7. Transfusion: language acquisition and development, digital humanities, normcore culture, cultural transmission, medical humanities, new media, pop culture Transtemporal: post-war, post 9/11, nostalgia, memory, ephemerality, interruptions, waves, pop-ups

8. Transculturalism and Transnationalism: hybridity, identity, appropriation, selfhood, folk culture, memes

9. Transactions: economies of exchange, reader response theory, reception, encounters with the Other, linguistic exchange

10. Translating the trance of the original: translation, transmedial art, photography, Benjamin, Barthes

Those interested in delivering 15 to 20-minute presentations must submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to https://www.tfaforms.com/348456 by 10 December 2014. You can also email your abstract, name, paper keywords, institutional affiliation, tech requirements, & a 50-word biography to transtrance17@gmail.com. Abstracts and presentations in both English and Spanish are welcome.

Groups Announcement in Inquire: Journal of Comparative Literature CALL FOR PAPERS: Trans- and Trance (Western University Graduate Student Conference; London, Ontario, Canada) Christian Ylagan PHD Student / Teaching Assistant at Western University Keynotes by Dr. David S. Ferris (University of Colorado at Boulder) & Dr. Joel Faflak (Western University) Trans- and trance are ways of life: from transcendentalist impulses in the Epic of Gilgamesh, to Freud's discussion of the phenomenon of transference, to the rise of transnationalism in modern times, the conceptual import of "trans-" has always lied in its ability to denote mobility against and across frontiers, positionality along multiple axes, and shifting modes of territoriality within agonistic horizons. Trance almost always followed. "Trans-" as a concept has steadily grown in importance as a way to inform critical thought and study in many intellectual fields and disciplines. In her 2014 report on "trans-" as one of the American Comparative Literature Association's "ideas of the decade," Jessica Berman notes how "'trans-' is not a substantive but rather an 'orientation' of critical approaches, attitudes, and habits of reading or experiencing". The Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, & Theory and Criticism programs at Western University invite you to the 17th Annual Grad Student Conference to be held from March 5-7, 2015 in London, Ontario, Canada. We invite papers that engage critical notions of transit, change, and tumult in multidisciplinary contexts, especially those that highlight "trans-" as a paradigm of dynamic subjectivity negotiating potentially violent domains. As trance culture seeks to reach the elusive state that lies Beyond, the organizers hope that the conference will provide insight into possible conciliatory modes to the disruptions that the "trans-" phenomenon precipitates. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions, including but not limited to literature, critical theory, cultural studies, digital humanities, linguistics, film studies, visual arts, music, popular culture, architecture, history, and philosophy. Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, the ff.: 1. Transformation: metamorphosis, posthumanism, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, rhetoric, semiotics of architecture, performativity 2. Trance and the Transcendent: the sublime, the oneiric, the orphic, aesthetics of trance, "the music of the Spheres", euphoria, consciousness studies, hypnotext and literary mesmerism 3. Transgression in its various forms: proletarian literature, resistance and subversion literature, agitprop, the artist as Revolutionary, experimental literature, the Avant-Garde, the Gothic, queer theory 4. Transit and Transitions: immigrant literature, displacement, exile, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, urban culture, travel literature, border poetics, intersectionality, fluidity 5. Transsectional figures: the diasporic writer, the queer, the new feminist, the post- and transhuman, the academic as public intellectual, the digital humanist 6. Transference: creativity and trauma, psychoanalysis, ecocriticism, literature and epistemology, catharsis 7. Transfusion: language acquisition and development, digital humanities, normcore culture, cultural transmission, medical humanities, new media, pop culture Transtemporal: post-war, post 9/11, nostalgia, memory, ephemerality, interruptions, waves, pop-ups 8. Transculturalism and Transnationalism: hybridity, identity, appropriation, selfhood, folk culture, memes 9. Transactions: economies of exchange, reader response theory, reception, encounters with the Other, linguistic exchange 10. Translating the trance of the original: translation, transmedial art, photography, Benjamin, Barthes Those interested in delivering 15 to 20-minute presentations must submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to https://www.tfaforms.com/348456 by 10 December 2014. You can also email your abstract, name, paper keywords, institutional affiliation, tech requirements, & a 50-word biography to transtrance17@gmail.com. Abstracts and presentations in both English and Spanish are welcome. Respond Now View   Don't want to hear from the manager? Unsubscribe here This email was intended for Abu Saleh (PhD Research Scholar at University of Hyderabad). Learn why we included this. If you need assistance or have questions, please contact LinkedIn Customer Service. © 2014 LinkedIn Ireland, Gardner House, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

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School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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Fwd: Crossroads Studies Conference NEXT WEEK: Invitation

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Subject: Crossroads Studies Conference NEXT WEEK: Invitation
To: Anna-Katharina Hornidge <hornidge@uni-bonn.de>

Dear Colleagues interested in rethinking Area Studies,

 

I would like to once more point you (and invite you) to our upcoming Crossroads Asia conference next week (see details below). We have internationally renowned researchers at the verge between Area Studies and Social Sciences coming from all over the world (many countries in Asia, Australia, USA, UK, Germany…). Also the german sociologist Gudrun Lachenmann is giving a presentation.

 

I am looking forward to seeing you there.

 

With kind regards,

 

Anna-K. Hornidge

 

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues,

 

In the name of Crossroads Asia and the Conference Organizing Team, I cordially invite you to our upcoming Crossroads conference:

 

"Crossroads Studies: Mobilities, Immobilities and the Issue of Positionality for Rethinking Area Studies"

 

November 27-28, 2014 in Bonn.

 

For the conference program, please go to http://crossroads-asia.de/fileadmin/user_upload/news/Flyer_International_Conference_ZEF_27-28.11.2014.pdf.

 

If you want to join, please register with crossroads@uni-bonn.de by November 24, 2014.

 

Furthermore I would be grateful, if you could circulate this announcement to other potentially interested members of your networks.

 

We are very much looking forward to welcoming you!

 

With kind regards from Bonn,

 

Anna-Katharina Hornidge, on behalf of the Conference Organizing Team

 

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Dr. habil. Anna-Katharina Hornidge

Director and Professor, Department of Political and Cultural Change

 

Center for Development Research

Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF)

University of Bonn

Walter-Flex-Str. 1-3, Room 1.020

53113 Bonn, Germany

  

Selected Projects:

 

Crossroads Asia – http://www.crossroads-asia.de/

 

Epistemic Cultures and Innovation Diffusion in post-soviet Southern Caucasus and Central Asia – http://www.zef.de/1847.html

 

Latest Publications:

 

Hornidge, A.-K. 2014. Wissensdiskurse: Normativ, Faktisch, Hegemonial, Soziale Welt, 65: 7-24.

Hornidge, A.-K., Oberkircher, L., Kudryavtseva, A. 2013. Boundary Management and the Discursive Sphere – Negotiating 'Realities' in Khorezm, Uzbekistan, Geoforum, 45, 266-274.

 

Hornidge, A.-K., Antweiler, Ch. (Hrsg.) 2012. Environmental Uncertainty and Local Knowledge. Southeast Asia as a Laboratory of Global Change. Bielefeld: Transcript. – http://www.transcript-verlag.de/ts1959/ts1959.php

 

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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

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

Profile: http://profiles.uohyd.ac.in/abusaleh/

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Fwd: Call for Papers-Last Date 30-11-2014

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Subject: Call for Papers-Last Date 30-11-2014
To: ". 

NO CONTRIBUTION FEE

NO PAPER PROCESSING FEE

NO HIDDEN FEE

Call for Papers

Dear Contributors

I am glad to inform you that I am going to edit a book of research papers on the title mentioned below. Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from scholars/ lecturers/ faculty/ researchers/ writers/ professors from all over the world.

 

Indian English Literature

A Memento of Feminist Minds

Papers should be focused on the works of Indian Women Fiction 

1.      Anitha Desai

2.      Kiran Desai

3.      Nayantara Sahgal

4.      Shobha De

5.      Shashi Deshpande

6.      Kamala Markandaya

7.      Githa Hariharan

8.      Jhumpa Lahiri

9.      Manju Kapur

10.  Gita Mehta

11.  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

12.  Arundati Roy

 

Sub themes:

Sexual violence

Exploitation of women by men

Women exploitation by another woman

Problems of Dalit women and lower caste women

Gender bais

Quest for freedom, rights and women identity

Male domination and lack of equal opportunity .......in the novels of given writers

 

 

Editing requirements:

Ø  Paper size: A4, Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: Single line, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides.

Ø  Title of the paper: bold, title case (Capitalize each word), centered.

Ø  Text of the paper: justified.

Ø  Works Cited: Please follow MLA style strictly. Don't use Foot Notes.

Ø  Titles of articles from books and journals:

 

Eg: Kapur, Manju. Difficult Daughters. London: Faber and Faber, 1999. Print.

 

Chandra, Subhash. "Manju Kapur's A Married Woman." Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context. 14 (2006): 2-8. Print.

 

Ø  Papers should be submitted as MS Word 2003-2007 attachments only.

Ø  The length of the paper: 2000-4000 words (6-8 pages), including Works Cited.

 

Each paper must be accompanied by

 

Ø  A declaration that it is an original work and has not been published anywhere else or sent for publication (Declaration form is attached)  

 

Ø  A short bio-note of the contributor(s) indicating name, institutional affiliation, postal address, mobile number and e-mail, in a single attachment. Please don't send more attachments.

 

Ø  The papers submitted should show serious academic work contributing new knowledge or innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.

 

Ø  Each contributor will get a complimentary copy of the issue with free of charge. (with ISBN)

 

Ø  Rejected papers will not be sent back to the contributor.

 

No papers would be accepted after the deadline.

Last Date of Submission of Paper: 30^th November, 2014

The soft copy of the paper to be sent to adirameshan@gmail.com

 

The hard copy of declaration form to be sent to

The Editor

Dr Adi Ramesh Babu

Asst. Professor of English

Government Degree College

Jammikunta -505122

Dist Karimnagar

Telangana State, India

Feel free to contact: +91 9959026160.

 

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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

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

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Reading for the Graphic: A Workshop

Dept. of English

School of Humanities

The University of Hyderabad

Reading for the Graphic: A Workshop

Coordinators: Anna Kurian & Pramod K Nayar

Date: Early Feb. 2015 [TBC]

 

Abstracts Invited

 

This one-day workshop is directed at students across the University, and neighbouring institutions. The aim is to demonstrate modes of reading the graphic narrative - a medium that, since the last decades of the 20th century and the work of Frank Miller, Art Spiegelman, Joe Sacco, Marjane Satrapi, Appupen and others, is arguably one of the most popular in terms of readership and diverse in its thematic and formal features (not to mention its politics).

 

8-10 students will be selected based on their abstract. Each student will be expected to make a 20 minute presentation on 1 text, with accompanying visual materials on a PPT slide. 10-15 minutes will be allocated for discussion after every paper. Respondents will then give their feedback to the papers at the end of the session/s.

 

Students are invited to send in their Abstracts (not exceeding 250 words) with a clear mention of the text to be examined and the focus of their presentation (theme, form, politics) by 1 Jan. 2015 to the undersigned/email IDs. Acceptance will be intimated by 7^th Jan. 2015 so that they have sufficient time to work on their presentations. No late submissions please.

 

Anna Kurian kurianna@gmail.com

and

Pramod K. Nayar pramodknayar@gmail.com

Fwd: Update from Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

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Update from Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

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Special Issue on Digital Humanities, 2015 Posted: 16 Nov 2014 05:43 AM PST The Rupkatha Journal (www.rupkatha.com) is inviting papers for its Special Issue on Digital Humanities. Papers can be submitted on any topic relating to the intersections of digital technology and the humanities: access, scholarly communications, digital preservation, computer games, electronic literature, digital art, online social media, virtual worlds, programming languages, theories of DH etc. For more details please visit www.rupkatha.com

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Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45

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

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Fwd: tiNai Ecofilm Festival at Chennai

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From: Tinai Eco Film Festival <info@teff.in>
Date: Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 2:21 PM
Subject: tiNai Ecofilm Festival at Chennai
To:

Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD)

Sriperumbudur, Chennai – 602 105

Organizes

tiNai Ecofilm Festival (TEFF)
(www.teff.in; https://www.facebook.com/teff2014?fref=ts)

in collaboration with

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Birla Institute of
Technology and Science Pilani

 K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa,

at 

Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development

Chennai

on 06 & 07 February 2015

 

Major Events:

Screening of Ecodocumentaries

Ecofilm Competition (Documentary and Fiction)

Panel Discussion on Ecology and Development

Workshop, Poster Exhibition

&

Meeting the Director

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ALL THE ECODOCUMENTARIES ENTERED FOR THE TEFF-RGNIYD COMPETITION WILL BE ENTERED FOR TEFF-2015 WHICH WILL BE HELD ON 09, 10 OCTOBER 2015 AT BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE PILANI, K K BIRLA GOA CAMPUS, GOA
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Register for the festival here:
http://www.rgniyd.gov.in/content/tinai-ecofilm-festival

Send your films to:

Dr. Rayson K. Alex

TEFF Co-Director and Founder

Chamber No. A 305

Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani

K K Birla Goa Campus

Zuarinagar, Goa - 403 726

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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

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

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