ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#5 | January 30, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036
UGC National Seminar in Indore, India: ‘Voicing The Silence: Redefining English Literary Studies’
February 17-18, 2012
MATA JIJABAI GOVERNMENT GIRLS P.G. COLLEGEMOTI TABELA INDORE (M.P.)
About the event:
This conference means to address all areas of literature written in English including classical to Victorian, Edwardian, Modernist and contemporary Literature in English differently as the locus of impersonality and emotion, of autonomy and commitment, and also analyzing it in the light of ethics and responsibility and would addresse fundamental questions about ethics and literature To work on ethics is quite a challenge since various definitions of the term have been given from Aristotle, Spinoza and Kant to Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Deleuze, Nussbaum, Badiou, Bouveresse or Attridge. Such approaches as an “ethics of truths” or as morals or even as equity, words “the ethical turn” of the post-structuralist era but which are nevertheless useful in re-thinking modernity. Within the framework of an ethics of alterity, a form of confrontation which can take the shape of a simple encounter, a dialogue or even some sort of conflict. An ethical relation to the other implies some form of responsibility, towards the past, History or the story etc, a responsibility that can be connected with memory or repression, repetition or censorship and erasure. In fiction, responsibility can be represented through excess or reticence and can thus be connected with a baroque aesthetic or an aesthetic of decadence, or, on the contrary, with silence, more specific to Modernism than aestheticism or post-modernism. Responsibility is also predicated on values falsifying manipulating or appropriating data, the past, texts of the past and that in ethical and aesthetic considerations, all connected with the notion of responsibility. English literary studies the methodology used needs to be redefined; with the emergence of various theories including those applied by Practical Criticism and New Criticism, and even Structuralism.
About the College & the Department
Established in July 1952 and spread over an area of 586523 sq ft., and affiliated to Devi Ahilya University, Mata JijaBai Govt Girls PG College, Motitabela Indore is one of the premier postgraduate institutions for girls in the state with an autonomous status and a lead College in the district of Indore that provides education in the faculty of Arts, science, Commerce and Homescience offering 19 Courses at graduation levels and 15 courses at the postgraduate levels.
Department of English is a leading Department and a research centre of English Studies with the highly qualified faculty members. There are eight professors and six of them possess Doctoral Degree(PhD) in English and two possess M.Phil . The Department is well equipped with updated PG Library and audio-visual facilities with a computer, overhead projector and other equipments and offers good research facilities. Two professors are registered Research Supervisors and a UGC Major Research project is also being carried out. Faculty members take active participation in national and international conferences and present papers and their research papers have been published in various research journals.
Objectives of the Seminar
- To provide a special forum to present and discuss research on the theme of the seminar and discuss all its relevant key issues that are of great concern.
- To facilitate sharing research based knowledge among academicians, teachers , scholars and students to promote colloborative research.
- To provide exposure and interaction with the creative writers in the field and academicians and researchers through based on the plenary session, key-note speeches, paper presentation by the participants, panel discussions, and open sessions.
- To work out an exhaustive report that will be prepared, and the research papers of quality refereed by the subject experts to be identified and recommended for publication.
- To review and utilise the final outcomes of the various sessions opinions of subject experts.
Introduction to the Theme & Concept
This conference means to address all areas of literature written in English including classical to Victorian, Edwardian, Modernist and contemporary Literature in English differently as the locus of impersonality and emotion, of autonomy and commitment, and also analyzing it in the light of ethics and responsibility and would addresse fundamental questions about ethics and literature To work on ethics is quite a challenge since various definitions of the term have been given from Aristotle, Spinoza and Kant to Levinas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Deleuze, Nussbaum, Badiou, Bouveresse or Attridge. Such approaches as an “ethics of truths” or as morals or even as equity, words “the ethical turn” of the post-structuralist era but which are nevertheless useful in re-thinking modernity. Within the framework of an ethics of alterity, a form of confrontation which can take the shape of a simple encounter, a dialogue or even some sort of conflict. An ethical relation to the other implies some form of responsibility, towards the past, History or the story etc, a responsibility that can be connected with memory or repression, repetition or censorship and erasure. In fiction, responsibility can be represented through excess or reticence and can thus be connected with a baroque aesthetic or an aesthetic of decadence, or, on the contrary, with silence, more specific to Modernism than aestheticism or post-modernism. Responsibility is also predicated on values falsifying manipulating or appropriating data, the past, texts of the past and that in ethical and aesthetic considerations, all connected with the notion of responsibility. English literary studies the methodology used needs to be redefined; with the emergence of various theories including those applied by Practical Criticism and New Criticism, and even Structuralism.
Teachers professors, Resource Persons and Researchers and those who are keen on observing English literary studies are invited to share their experiences and insights about English studies and the Conference also aims and ensures at their wider participation and would encourage abstracts which incorporate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary explorations of the subject. The number of participations to be around two hundred and we do expect to obtain valuable inputs from this seminar to develop English literary studies.
SUB THEMES & Details of Sessions
The National Conference will comprise of key note speeches, plenary sessions from eminent academicians and scholars and will have various parallel technical sessions on Poetry, Prose, Drama, Fiction, Indian Writing in English etc chaired by various Subject Experts/ Resource and participation from all over India. The Seminar may discuss and raise the following key issues/ sub-themes:
- Redefining the notion of Canon, the notion of ‘English’ in ‘English Literary Studies’, Incorporating pop literature in English Literary Studies, Methodology in English Literary Studies ,Teaching English Literature to student in India, English Literary Studies and nation building. The Making of Modern Cannons, Genesis and Crisis of Ideas.
- Emergence of New Set of Values, Linguistic and Social Transformation through Literature.
- Language and Literature as a Tool of Voicing the Silence, Literature and cultural expression. The manipulation of language for cultural/political purposes Race, language and culture; Art, language and culture Literature and cultural expression, Language as cultural resistance/subversion. Pedagogical applications of language and culture, The limits of language, especially for cultural expression.
- Concepts of Mimesis, Ethics of Representation, Mimesis, Knowledge and Cognition Mimesis as Style (Intertextuality, Parody, Pastiche),Reality Effect and Concepts of Literary Realism, Mimesis and Allegory.
- Futuristic View of the Third world through Literature
- Recent Trends in Contemporary Literature in English
- South East Asian Women Writers
- The themes of Diaspora and Nostalgia and Immigrants’ experience
- Family Strife and Estranged Relationship
- Existentialism and the Subjectivity , Identity and Alienation
- Colonial and Post-Colonial Issues
- A Postmodern Approach to Understanding of Literature
- Psychological Aspects in Literature
- Philosophical Concerns and Aspects in Literature
- Feminist Framework , Strategies and Methodologies
- Women Empowerment
- Oral traditions (storytelling, folktales, street poetry) as cultural expressions.
- Self-writing (travel writing, journals, diaries, and memoirs) as cultural expressions Translation/interpretation/adaptation of language.
- Multilingualism/multiculturalism.
- Music as a language of cultural expression. Music and Literature.
DATES & DEADLINES
LAST DATE FOR REGISTRATION & SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS 31 Jan 2012
LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF FULL LENGTH PAPER 7 Feb 2012
LATE FEE REGISTRATION 10 Feb 2012
REGISTRATION FEE :
REGISTRATION BY 31 JAN 2012 Rs 600
LATE FEE REGISTRATION by10 Feb 2012 Rs 800
SPOT REGISTRATION RS.1000
The abstarct should in 150-200 words and The full length papers should be written in MLA Sylesheet 7th Edition.
DD Demand draft should be made in favour Principal, mata jija Bai Govt Girls PG College , MotiTable Indore payable atindore. You are required to email the transaction Number , date and other details to Contacts:
Conference Email: englishdeptgdc@yahoo.com
For more details contact: Dr. Ashok Sachdeva 9926083522 ashoksachdeva@rediffmail.com
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