Fwd: Reminder - Call for Papers: Representations of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice

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From: Tasveer Ghar <tasveerghar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:59 PM
Subject: Reminder - Call for Papers: Representations of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice
To:

Manly Matters: Representations of Maleness in South Asian Popular Visual Practice

Call for Papers

Tasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture (www.tasveerghar.net) is proud to launch our new project titled "Manly Matters: Iconographies of the Masculine in South Asian Visual Culture."

We invite proposals from scholars and researchers who wish to write a 5000-word "image essay" on a topic connected with this theme.  Our own vision statement about this project is available at the link given at the bottom, but we are also open to other ideas and topics. Preference will be given in the selection of the final essays to those that pertain especially to the under-represented regions of South Asia in the study of visual culture (Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), and to early career scholars and researchers.  These image essays will be featured on the website for Tasveer Ghar, and our in-house designer Yousuf Saeed will work with each author to create the final product.
 
The deadline for submission of a 250-word abstract is January 15, 2017.  We also request a sample portfolio of 5-10 images, and a timeline for submission.  Authors of successful proposals will receive an honorarium of USD $250 (to be paid on the submission of the completed image essay), and access to Tasveerghar's database of digitized images from the Priya Paul Collection, New Delhi. The proposals can be sent by email to manlymatters@tasveergharindia.net

The project will be carried out under the joint leadership of Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy, and Yousuf Saeed, the co-founders and coordinators of Tasveer Ghar.  It is funded by the Anneliese Maier Research Award granted in 2016 to Sumathi Ramaswamy by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.

For our vision statement, please visit http://tasveerghar.net/cmsdesk/essay/133/

We look forward to receiving an exciting proposal from you. Please forward this message to others who might be interested.

With many thanks,

Christiane Brosius, Sumathi Ramaswamy and Yousuf Saeed

tasveerghar@gmail.com

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Fwd: 7th A.K. Ramanujan Annual National Paper Reading Contest - 2017

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7^th A.K.RAMANUJAN ANNUAL NATIONAL PAPER READING CONTEST-2017
Call for Papers from M.A. Students to Participate in A.K.Ramanujan Annual National Paper Reading Contest-2017

Attipat Krishnaswami Ramanujan (1929-1993) is one of the foremost Indian poets, linguists, critics and translators. Amongst his well-known works are the Collected Poems (1995), an English translation of U.R. Ananthmurthy's Samskara (1976) and The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry which he co-edited with Vinay Dharwadkar.  

In 1962, A.K.Ramanujan became an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, where he was affiliated throughout the rest of his career.  In 1976, the government of India awarded him the title "Padma Shri," and in 1983, he was given the MacArthur Prize Fellowship. Before leaving for the United States in 1959, he had worked in many Indian Universities, including the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.

Department of English, the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, has been organizing A.K. Ramanujan Annual National Paper Reading Contest, to commemorate one of its most illustrious faculty members, under the aegis of the UGC SAP DRS for six years and has gained popularity and success with participation from across the country.

This contest is organized particularly for the students pursuing Master of Arts in Literature / Comparative Literature / Cultural Studies / Film Studies from various Indian University Departments.

The objectives of this contest are:

−        to provide an opportunity to post-graduate students to develop their research aptitude and academic skills,

−        to provide an intellectual space to interact with students of other institutions,

−        to promote an environment of research and

−        to encourage students to hone presentation skills.

This year the theme of the contest is Parallel Cinema in India and it is scheduled during 10 - 11 February 2017. 

 As opposed to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema, represented especially by popular Hindi cinema (aka Bollywood), Parallel Cinema is known for its serious content, experimentation in terms of technique and narration, rejection of clichéd and stereotyped plots and characters of popular cinemas, and an awareness of social and political issues. The films were made on limited budget and aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

 

The movement emerged in Bangla during the same time as the French New Wave and Japanese New Wave, led by internationally acclaimed filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, among others. It gained prominence in the other film industries of India in the nineteen fifties through the sixties and the seventies. Other major film makers like Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Girish Kasaravalli emerged later. Recent film makers like Rituparna Ghosh (Shob Choritro Kalponik), Nagraj Manjule ( Fandry and Sairat),  Chaitanya Tamnhe (Court) continue the legacy of this movement in contemporary times.  This contest will explore a range of aspects of Parallel Cinema movement in India.

 

 

The topics of the contest can fall under broader categories such as:

 

−        Region and Nation in Parallel Cinema in India

−        Indian and International Parallel Cinema (Connections and Influences)

−        Parallel Cinema in India as a Movement

−        Literary Adaptations and Parallel Cinema in India

−        Contemporary Socio-political Issues in Parallel Cinema in India

−        Representation of marginal Identity through Parallel Cinema

−        Social Movements and Parallel Cinema in India

−        Ideology and Parallel Cinema in India

−        Artists/ Directors/ Institutions of Parallel Cinema in India

−        Cinematic Techniques/Innovations/Languages in Parallel Cinema in India

−        Parallel Cinema in Regional Languages

−        Historical Context of Parallel Cinema in India

−        Parallel Cinema in India Today

−        Songs in Parallel Cinema and Mainstream Cinema in India

−        Ecological Concerns in Parallel Cinema in India.

−        Train and River as Metaphors in Parallel Cinema

−        Representation of Gender in Parallel Cinema in India

−        Politics of awards /international recognition and Parallel Cinema in India

−        Parallel Cinema in India and activism

 

Prizes and Rewards

v  The contest would be in two categories:

Team (of 02 students from same department) and individual (01 student) 

v  The first team prize will be Rs. 2000/- and a trophy.

v  The second team prize will be Rs. 1000/- and a trophy.

v  The first individual prize will be a gold plated medal.

v  The second individual prize will be a silver plated medal.

v  All the participants will receive a participation certificate.

 

·         The abstracts of papers (word limit: 300 words) should be sent to akr.apr.drs@gmail.com on or before          15 January 2017.

·         The presentation time for each paper presenter will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion.

·         Interested departments may depute two participants to constitute a team from the department.

·         Those submitting their abstracts may, in consultation with the home departments, book their tickets to avoid last minute booking.

·         The home/students' department must ensure that the students are Masters' students. The organizers will require scanned copies of I-cards bearing their student status in the current year.

·         The organizers do not, however, take the responsibility or liability of any cancellation. The cancellation fee (if any) will have to be borne by the department/the participant.

·         Only if the abstracts are approved will the paper presenters be invited to present their papers in the contest.

·         Invites for the contest, Registration forms along with the rules of the contest will be sent by e-mail on acceptance of the abstract.

 

 

Warm regards

Conveners                                                       Coordinator                                        Head

AKR APR 2017                                              UGC SAP DRS II                               Department of English

 

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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: SALA-33, Deadline extension

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From: Katedra Orientalistyki <sala33@amu.edu.pl>
Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:55 AM
Subject: SALA-33, Deadline extension

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to inform you that we decided to extend the abstract deadline for SALA-33 till 30 December. We do hope that this later date will allow everyone who can and wishes to join us in Poznan in May 2015 to submit an abstract. Thanks to all of you who have already done so. 

The 33rd South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-33) will take place at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, on May 15th-17th 2017.

We invite submission of abstracts for individual presentations, posters as well as workshop proposals.

We welcome submissions concerning research on one or more of the languages of South Asia which may include but do not have to be limited to topics such as:

Descriptive studies;

Comparative and typological studies;

Cognitive and psycholinguistic studies;

Language contact;

Pragmatics and discourse analysis;

Sociolinguistics;

Historical linguistics and language change;

Philology;

Translation studies;

Computational linguistics;

Corpus and quantitative linguistic studies;

Language endangerment, preservation and documentation;

Language learning, acquisition, and teaching;

Language policies;

Minority languages.

Paper presentations will consist of a 20 minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Paper abstracts should be no longer than 800 words, excluding reference list.

We encourage submission of abstracts from early-career researchers, including postgraduate research students and postdoctoral researchers.

All abstracts must be submitted via Easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sala33

Any questions may be addressed to the organisers by email to: sala33@amu.edu.pl

Further information is available at:

http://sala33.home.amu.edu.pl/

We look forward to seeing you in Poznań

Krzysztof Stroński

Sven Sellmer

Monika Browarczyk

Joanna Tokaj

http://linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?ConfID=260876

 

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School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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COREL Conference 2017 @ UoH

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Greetings,

On behalf of the Coordinator and Research Scholars Forum at the Centre for English Language Studies, University of Hyderabad, I invite you to the 1st annual COREL -2017 (30-31st March 2017). COREL (Conference for Researchers of English Language) is an annual research scholars' conference organised by the Research Scholars' Forum, Centre for English Language Studies, University of Hyderabad. It is an academic endeavour to bring together research scholars across the nation working in the field of English Language and allied disciplines. 

The theme of COREL-2017 is "English Language Studies in contemporary Indian context: Issues and Challenges". I have attached the conference notification, poster and the website link. We need your support to make this event a success. We would be grateful if you can circulate information about the conference and the call for abstracts widely. We wish that this conference can become a platform for early career teachers, researchers and scholars to engage in discussion related to aspects of English language studies at the conference. AMore information about registration and sub-themes is on the website of COREL 2017: http://celscorel.in/

 The important dates of the conference are as follows.

Deadline for submission of abstracts	05-01-2017
Confirmation of selection of abstracts	01-02-2017
Closure of early-bird registrations	15-02-2017
Closure of all registrations	05-03-2017
Deadline for submission of full paper	05-03-2017

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Thanks & Regards:

Abu Saleh

PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL)

School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India.
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Mail: abusaleh@uohyd.ac.in Or abusalehenglish@gmail.com

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