24th
January 2013
9.00 am to 10.00 am Inaugural Session
·
Welcome
Address – Prof. GJV Prasad
·
Opening
Remarks and Vote of Thanks – Lakshmi Menon & Samana Madhuri, SAP Fellows
10.00
am to 11.00 am Session
I: Englishing the World: Queries, Methods and Subversions
Respondent:
Prof. Makarand Paranjape
·
Adiba Faiyaz
- Discursifying English: The Hegemonic
Messiah of India
·
Ankur Konar
- Language of
Global Cities: Fabrication of Communication and Inclusiveness in Pijush Jha’s Mumbaistan
11.00
am to 11.15 am Morning
Tea Break
11.15
am to 12.45 pm Session
II: Through the Looking Glass: Revisiting Canon
Respondent:
Prof. GJV Prasad, CES, JNU
·
Arup K
Chatterjee - A Twice-Born Canon and its Reifiction: The
Indian Hill Writings of EmilyEden, Fanny Parkes, John Lang, Andrew Wilson, et
al.
·
Jyotsna Phanija
- Reversing
history in reconstructed literature: Ophelia Revisited
·
Sakshi Chanana
- Disnarrated as a narrative technique: A Study of Paulo
Coelho’s The Alchemist and Eleven Minutes
12.45
pm to 1.45 pm Lunch
Break
1.45
pm to 3.15 pm Session
III: India in Literature, Indian Literatures
Respondent:
Dr. Hemachandran, CSDS
·
Somjyoti
Mridha - Violence as a
Trope: Representing Kashmir Conflict in contemporary Indian English Texts.
·
Arindam Ghosh
- Language in the
Novels of Amitav Ghosh: Socio-lingual Explorations Combining Demographic
Concerns, Cultural Resistance and Environmentalism
·
Dhritiman
Chakraborty, Anindya Shekhar, Sanchayita Paul - Calibanising English: The Master Signifier Lending Hands to the
Peripheral Voice
3.15 pm to 4.45 pm Session IV: Around the World in Eighty
Literatures
Respondent – Dr Angelie Multani
·
Arunabha
Ghosh - Re-mapping
America for ‘Being Together’: The Poetics of Change in Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island
·
Pritika Nehra
- Reflexive
Thinking and Politics-The case of Hannah Arendt and Franz Kafka
4.45
pm Evening
Tea
7.30 pm to 9 pm Cultural
Evening Followed by Dinner at the University Cafeteria
25th January 2013
10 am to 11.30 am Session V: Mapping the Popular Post
9/11
Respondent: Dr. Brinda Bose, Delhi
University
·
Ved Prakash
- Hip Hop Vip Hop
HayeRabba: Music of Sense and Sensibility?
·
Violina
Borah - Phantasmic
Phoenix: A Study of Post 9/11 American Superhero Movies
·
Ritu
Mohan Singh - The Impact of
Post-9/11 lucidities on Diaspora Literature and Film Adaptations: A Case Study of Bride and Prejudice and The
Namesake
11.30 am to 11.45 am Morning
Tea
11.45 am to 1.15 pm Session VI: Revisiting the Canon: New
Centres, New Margins
Respondent: Dr.Saumyabrata Chaudury,
CSDS
·
Murlidhar
Sharma - En-visioning
the ‘New’: Dance Writings of Ranjabati Sircar
·
Varada Nikalje
- Autobiography
of Imagination : The Talk-Story as a new genre
·
Daiarisa
Rumnong - Memoir:
Transgressing Boundaries
1.15 pm to 2 pm Lunch
2 pm to 3.30 pm Session VII: The Final Frontier? Boldly
Going Through Cyberspace
Respondent – Dr. Simi Malhotra
·
Lakshmi
Menon - “The Wand Chooses the Wizard”
(and his boyfriend): Online Slash Fan-fiction, fan-art and the rewriting of the
Canon
·
Rijuta Komal
Das - The Center And
The Virtual: Re-Imaginings Of English In The Digital Space
·
Sapna Dudeja
- Studying
Alternative Protest in Cyber Space: Through the Prism of the Pink Chaddi
Campaign
3.30 pm to 3.45 pm Evening
Tea
3.45 pm to 5.15 pm Session VIII: Battling Babel:
Literatures in Translation
Respondent: Prof. Asaddudin, Jamia Millia
Islamia
·
Divya
Nair – Translating and Transnationalising the “Sub-Altern”:
Reading the “regional” “marginal “and the “oppressed” in the discourse of the
English translations of the Contemporary Malayalam Dalit Poetry
·
Tenzin
Norbu - Translation
& Nation Building: A Study of Like
Gold That Fears No Fire
·
Jharana
Rani - Translating the
Untranslatable: The Politics of Language in the English Translation of Yajnaseni
5.15 pm Valedictory
Session
