𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (Offline) 2025
Update regarding Registrations for the IACLALS Annual Conference 2025
Registration link for the IACLALS- BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Conference 2025 will be shared with the participants via email after 20th November 2024.
In the meanwhile, all participants are required to make sure that they have a current membership of IACLALS. Membership procedure can be found here: https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html
Registration link for the IACLALS- BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Conference 2025 will be shared with the participants via email after 20th November 2024.
In the meanwhile, all participants are required to make sure that they have a current membership of IACLALS. Membership procedure can be found here: https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html
Update regarding CDN Prize Submissions:
Dear participants of the IACLALS 2025 conference,
In response to requests from CDN PRIZE competition participants, the last date of submission of full papers has been extended up to the midnight of November 23, 2024.
Best wishes,
asad
--
Prof. M. Asaduddin
Chair*, Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies in India (IACLALS)
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Urdu Academy
Dear participants of the IACLALS 2025 conference,
In response to requests from CDN PRIZE competition participants, the last date of submission of full papers has been extended up to the midnight of November 23, 2024.
Best wishes,
asad
--
Prof. M. Asaduddin
Chair*, Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies in India (IACLALS)
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Urdu Academy
Update regarding Acceptance Emails:
Dear applicants of the IACLALS 2025 conference,
In view of the unusually large number of abstracts received for the 2025 conference in Hyderabad it is taking more time to evaluate and process them.
We will be able to send letter of acceptance of abstract from November 8.
Please bear with us.
Warm regards,
asad
--
Prof. M. Asaduddin
Chair*, Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies in India (IACLALS)
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Urdu Academy
Dear applicants of the IACLALS 2025 conference,
In view of the unusually large number of abstracts received for the 2025 conference in Hyderabad it is taking more time to evaluate and process them.
We will be able to send letter of acceptance of abstract from November 8.
Please bear with us.
Warm regards,
asad
--
Prof. M. Asaduddin
Chair*, Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies in India (IACLALS)
Awardee: Crossword Book, Sahitya Akademi, Urdu Academy
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: Midnight, 19th October, 2024.
IACLALS
(Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India)
Annual Conference 2025
on
"Trauma, Resilience and Healing: Representations in South Asian Literature and
Culture"
hosted at
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
20-22 February 2025
Globally, all cataclysmic events have resulted in corresponding archives of expressive
resources, including oral narratives, writings, and performing and visual arts, which
memorialize responses of those who have experienced, or, are experiencing ordeals laterally,
or at first-hand. The South Asian region, owing to its history of commonwealth belonging
and decolonization, and its global south categorization, has witnessed, over the years,
historical and political crises, economic and ecological disruptions, cultural and sociological
disturbances, that present grand patterns of trauma. These have shaped or reshaped histories
of belonging, hybridized, or recreated identities or brought them under contestation, and led
to conditions wherein people find themselves in perpetual flux. Significantly, this region has
also witnessed instances of peoples’ resilience, the coming into play of forces of healing, at
times in most unexpected ways, from unanticipated quarters. The history of the South-Asian
region, in other words, constitutes histories of peoples’ struggles, and their dealing with
crises, whether as resistance or protest, as forgetting and moving on, as continually learning
and resiliently adapting to them, or as coping and healing, in spite of them.
Trauma, a key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, has garnered
significant interest, with broad applicability to individuals, cultures, and nations. All aspects
of traumatic experiences, in their individual and collective dimensions, emphasize the role of
peoples’ resilience, overcoming crises, and moving on. Furthermore, memory plays a
significant role in both falling into trauma and overcoming it. Both trauma and memory are,
by nature, in their multifarious manifestations, psychological, social, historical, cultural,
philosophical, religious, economic, and political. Artistic representations and memorialisation
of trauma constitute acts of resistance, that despite recalling the scarring memories of violence and hurt, highlight the need for healing and rejuvenate the collective consciousness
of a community, thereby emphasizing efforts toward resilience. Memory also acts as a
safeguard against attempts to silence voices of transgression, and dissidence and is, in turn,
often implicated in that silencing.
It is important to locate and understand the manifold ways in which traumatic
memories of violence and resistance have led to resilience; how their narrativization and
depiction in literature, film, theatre, art, and other cultural forms transforms the experiences
into aestheticized expressions, thereby accruing layers of meaning and significance.
Examining the intricate interplay that exists between these realms and/or in the interstices
between them, reveals how literary and cultural media not only preserve and reshape personal
and collective memory but also serve as powerful acts of resistance and the silencing of
traumatic histories and/or experiences.
What do these multimodal representations tell us about peoples’ experiences and
struggles? How does artistic self-expression relate to trauma, survival, resilience, and
healing? How do they affect audiences? How do minor artistic expressions of trauma and
resilience compare with dominant narratives? This conference seeks to address the above and
related issues through readings of oral narratives, literature, performance, art, and sculpture.
It seeks to highlight ways in which archives may reflect or resist personal and/or collective
memory and identity and the larger politics of preservation and documentation. It seeks to
contribute to the fields of trauma, culture, and memory studies by fostering a rich,
interdisciplinary dialogue that will challenge and expand perceptions of the past, present, and
future.
Original, unpublished papers centring South Asia are invited for presentation on the
following sub-themes:
1. Theorizing narratives, methodologies and representations: sources, sites, retelling,
censorship, and contestation
2. Representations/ways of healing, therapeutics, caregiving and/or catharsis
3. Pandemic and post-pandemic illness and everyday trauma
4. Memorializing trauma: Individual and collective memories; Counter-memories and
counter-narratives
5. Representations of resistance, agitation, and collaboration
6. Bearing witness: perpetrators, collaborators, spies, survivors and bystanders
7. Aphasia, amnesia, and trauma: memories of territorial occupation
8. War, atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing
9. Digitizing trauma, resilience, and memory
10. Trauma and its relation to precarity
11. Navigating legacies of colonialism, displacement, cultural erasure, and resistance
12. Memory activism and politics of remembrance and forgetting
13. Resilience, neuro-plasticity, and coping
14. Trans-cultural/ trans-national/ trans-generational expressions of casteist, sexist, racist
and ableist trauma
15. Archives and narratives of migrant trauma
16. Ecological disasters and trauma
17. Role of language and translation in expressing and memorializing trauma, resilience,
memory and healing
Submission Guidelines
● Abstracts of 250-300 words with a bio-note of no more than 50 words may be
submitted using the submission link at the latest by 15 October 2024- extended to 19th October 2024. Acceptances will be conveyed by 31 October 2024.
●Abstracts submission link: https://shorturl.at/T0NLQ
CDN Prize 2025:
If you wish to participate in the “C. D. Narasimhaiah Prize” for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, kindly type “Submission for CDN Prize” in the subject line of the email, when you send in the full paper to [email protected]
The last date for the submission of complete papers: 15 November 2024.
For details of the CDN Prize, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
MMM Prize 2025:
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the “Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize” for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the previous block of two years (2023 & 2024). IACLALS Members can submit their published paper for consideration using the Google Form https://shorturl.at/bSPLX.
The last date for submission: 15 October 2024.
The author(s) should have been a member of IACLALS at the time of publication of the paper.
For MMM Prize submission guidelines, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
The conference is open only to members of IACLALS. Participants are encouraged to become members before sending abstracts for the conference. Membership at the time of participating in the conference is essential.
IACLALS Membership options:
● 3-year Membership: Rs 1500
● Life Membership: Rs 5000
● Students/Research Scholars may also avail of an Annual Membership for Rs 1000.
NB: IACLALS Membership is not available for students below Postgraduate level.
Mode of Payment (Only for Membership of IACLALS)
Name: IACLALS
Bank: State Bank of India
SB A/C: 10851525016
JNU New Campus Branch
Branch Code: 10441
IFSC CODE: SBIN0010441
MICR: 11000242
Please send a copy of the transfer document/receipt along with your details, including name, affiliation, address, email ID, and contact number to the IACLALS Treasurer only on the official id:
<[email protected]>
Registration Fee for the Conference
(Includes Lunch, Dinner, Refreshments on conference days, and Conference Kit)
● Faculty (with twin-sharing, non-AC accommodation)*
Rs. 4500 + 18% GST = Rs 5310
● Faculty (without accommodation): Rs 3000 + 18% GST = Rs 3540
● Research Scholars (with twin-sharing, non-AC accommodation)*
Rs 2500 + 18% GST = Rs 2950
● Research Scholars (without accommodation): Rs 1500 + 18% GST = Rs 1770
Foreign delegates: USD 250 (without accommodation)
Mode of Payment (for payment of Conference Registration Fee): To be announced
* Weather in Hyderabad during February is generally pleasant with the average day temperature around 28°C and the average night temperature around 17°C. For those who wish to stay on their own, accommodation near the campus is available at
● Aalankrita Resort and Convention: https://aalankrita.com/
● Celebrity Resorts: https://www.celebrityhospitality.com/
● Leonia Holistic Destination: https://leonia.in/
About Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani (est. 1964) is a deemed
university recognized by the government of India as an Institution of Eminence. It offers First
Degree, Higher Degree, and Doctoral Degree programmes in Engineering, Science,
Management, and Humanities across its five campuses in Pilani, Dubai, Goa, Hyderabad, and
Mumbai.
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
(BPHC; est. 2008), has faculty members specialising in a range of research areas from
various disciplines. The department is committed to promoting value-oriented learning,
respect for diversity, critical thinking, development of social-political values and cognitive
capacities required for examining the world around, and cultural and aesthetic appreciation of
various art forms and literary genres.
How to reach BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus:
● From Rajiv Gandhi International Airport: The fastest route is via the Nehru Outer
Ring Road. (BITS is at Exit 7, Shamirpet). Distance: 75 kms (approx.), Travel time:
90 mins (approx.), Cab fare: Rs 1500-1800 (approx.)
● From Secunderabad Railway Station: Distance: 25 kms (approx.), Travel time: 45-60
mins (approx.), Cab fare: Rs 600-800 (approx.)
Important Dates and Deadlines for the Conference:
● Submission of Abstracts: 15 Oct. 2024. Extended to 19th Oct. 2024.
● Submission of entries for the MMM Prize 2025: 15 Oct. 2024
● Submission of entries for the CDN Prize 2025: 15 Nov. 2024
● Confirmation and Acceptance of Abstracts: 31 Oct. 2024
● Receipt of Complete Papers: 31 Dec. 2024
Registration: Open from 15 Nov. to 15 Dec. 2024
(Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India)
Annual Conference 2025
on
"Trauma, Resilience and Healing: Representations in South Asian Literature and
Culture"
hosted at
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
20-22 February 2025
Globally, all cataclysmic events have resulted in corresponding archives of expressive
resources, including oral narratives, writings, and performing and visual arts, which
memorialize responses of those who have experienced, or, are experiencing ordeals laterally,
or at first-hand. The South Asian region, owing to its history of commonwealth belonging
and decolonization, and its global south categorization, has witnessed, over the years,
historical and political crises, economic and ecological disruptions, cultural and sociological
disturbances, that present grand patterns of trauma. These have shaped or reshaped histories
of belonging, hybridized, or recreated identities or brought them under contestation, and led
to conditions wherein people find themselves in perpetual flux. Significantly, this region has
also witnessed instances of peoples’ resilience, the coming into play of forces of healing, at
times in most unexpected ways, from unanticipated quarters. The history of the South-Asian
region, in other words, constitutes histories of peoples’ struggles, and their dealing with
crises, whether as resistance or protest, as forgetting and moving on, as continually learning
and resiliently adapting to them, or as coping and healing, in spite of them.
Trauma, a key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, has garnered
significant interest, with broad applicability to individuals, cultures, and nations. All aspects
of traumatic experiences, in their individual and collective dimensions, emphasize the role of
peoples’ resilience, overcoming crises, and moving on. Furthermore, memory plays a
significant role in both falling into trauma and overcoming it. Both trauma and memory are,
by nature, in their multifarious manifestations, psychological, social, historical, cultural,
philosophical, religious, economic, and political. Artistic representations and memorialisation
of trauma constitute acts of resistance, that despite recalling the scarring memories of violence and hurt, highlight the need for healing and rejuvenate the collective consciousness
of a community, thereby emphasizing efforts toward resilience. Memory also acts as a
safeguard against attempts to silence voices of transgression, and dissidence and is, in turn,
often implicated in that silencing.
It is important to locate and understand the manifold ways in which traumatic
memories of violence and resistance have led to resilience; how their narrativization and
depiction in literature, film, theatre, art, and other cultural forms transforms the experiences
into aestheticized expressions, thereby accruing layers of meaning and significance.
Examining the intricate interplay that exists between these realms and/or in the interstices
between them, reveals how literary and cultural media not only preserve and reshape personal
and collective memory but also serve as powerful acts of resistance and the silencing of
traumatic histories and/or experiences.
What do these multimodal representations tell us about peoples’ experiences and
struggles? How does artistic self-expression relate to trauma, survival, resilience, and
healing? How do they affect audiences? How do minor artistic expressions of trauma and
resilience compare with dominant narratives? This conference seeks to address the above and
related issues through readings of oral narratives, literature, performance, art, and sculpture.
It seeks to highlight ways in which archives may reflect or resist personal and/or collective
memory and identity and the larger politics of preservation and documentation. It seeks to
contribute to the fields of trauma, culture, and memory studies by fostering a rich,
interdisciplinary dialogue that will challenge and expand perceptions of the past, present, and
future.
Original, unpublished papers centring South Asia are invited for presentation on the
following sub-themes:
1. Theorizing narratives, methodologies and representations: sources, sites, retelling,
censorship, and contestation
2. Representations/ways of healing, therapeutics, caregiving and/or catharsis
3. Pandemic and post-pandemic illness and everyday trauma
4. Memorializing trauma: Individual and collective memories; Counter-memories and
counter-narratives
5. Representations of resistance, agitation, and collaboration
6. Bearing witness: perpetrators, collaborators, spies, survivors and bystanders
7. Aphasia, amnesia, and trauma: memories of territorial occupation
8. War, atrocities, genocide, ethnic cleansing
9. Digitizing trauma, resilience, and memory
10. Trauma and its relation to precarity
11. Navigating legacies of colonialism, displacement, cultural erasure, and resistance
12. Memory activism and politics of remembrance and forgetting
13. Resilience, neuro-plasticity, and coping
14. Trans-cultural/ trans-national/ trans-generational expressions of casteist, sexist, racist
and ableist trauma
15. Archives and narratives of migrant trauma
16. Ecological disasters and trauma
17. Role of language and translation in expressing and memorializing trauma, resilience,
memory and healing
Submission Guidelines
● Abstracts of 250-300 words with a bio-note of no more than 50 words may be
submitted using the submission link at the latest by 15 October 2024- extended to 19th October 2024. Acceptances will be conveyed by 31 October 2024.
●Abstracts submission link: https://shorturl.at/T0NLQ
CDN Prize 2025:
If you wish to participate in the “C. D. Narasimhaiah Prize” for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, kindly type “Submission for CDN Prize” in the subject line of the email, when you send in the full paper to [email protected]
The last date for the submission of complete papers: 15 November 2024.
For details of the CDN Prize, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
MMM Prize 2025:
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the “Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize” for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the previous block of two years (2023 & 2024). IACLALS Members can submit their published paper for consideration using the Google Form https://shorturl.at/bSPLX.
The last date for submission: 15 October 2024.
The author(s) should have been a member of IACLALS at the time of publication of the paper.
For MMM Prize submission guidelines, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
The conference is open only to members of IACLALS. Participants are encouraged to become members before sending abstracts for the conference. Membership at the time of participating in the conference is essential.
IACLALS Membership options:
● 3-year Membership: Rs 1500
● Life Membership: Rs 5000
● Students/Research Scholars may also avail of an Annual Membership for Rs 1000.
NB: IACLALS Membership is not available for students below Postgraduate level.
Mode of Payment (Only for Membership of IACLALS)
Name: IACLALS
Bank: State Bank of India
SB A/C: 10851525016
JNU New Campus Branch
Branch Code: 10441
IFSC CODE: SBIN0010441
MICR: 11000242
Please send a copy of the transfer document/receipt along with your details, including name, affiliation, address, email ID, and contact number to the IACLALS Treasurer only on the official id:
<[email protected]>
Registration Fee for the Conference
(Includes Lunch, Dinner, Refreshments on conference days, and Conference Kit)
● Faculty (with twin-sharing, non-AC accommodation)*
Rs. 4500 + 18% GST = Rs 5310
● Faculty (without accommodation): Rs 3000 + 18% GST = Rs 3540
● Research Scholars (with twin-sharing, non-AC accommodation)*
Rs 2500 + 18% GST = Rs 2950
● Research Scholars (without accommodation): Rs 1500 + 18% GST = Rs 1770
Foreign delegates: USD 250 (without accommodation)
Mode of Payment (for payment of Conference Registration Fee): To be announced
* Weather in Hyderabad during February is generally pleasant with the average day temperature around 28°C and the average night temperature around 17°C. For those who wish to stay on their own, accommodation near the campus is available at
● Aalankrita Resort and Convention: https://aalankrita.com/
● Celebrity Resorts: https://www.celebrityhospitality.com/
● Leonia Holistic Destination: https://leonia.in/
About Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani (est. 1964) is a deemed
university recognized by the government of India as an Institution of Eminence. It offers First
Degree, Higher Degree, and Doctoral Degree programmes in Engineering, Science,
Management, and Humanities across its five campuses in Pilani, Dubai, Goa, Hyderabad, and
Mumbai.
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
(BPHC; est. 2008), has faculty members specialising in a range of research areas from
various disciplines. The department is committed to promoting value-oriented learning,
respect for diversity, critical thinking, development of social-political values and cognitive
capacities required for examining the world around, and cultural and aesthetic appreciation of
various art forms and literary genres.
How to reach BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus:
● From Rajiv Gandhi International Airport: The fastest route is via the Nehru Outer
Ring Road. (BITS is at Exit 7, Shamirpet). Distance: 75 kms (approx.), Travel time:
90 mins (approx.), Cab fare: Rs 1500-1800 (approx.)
● From Secunderabad Railway Station: Distance: 25 kms (approx.), Travel time: 45-60
mins (approx.), Cab fare: Rs 600-800 (approx.)
Important Dates and Deadlines for the Conference:
● Submission of Abstracts: 15 Oct. 2024. Extended to 19th Oct. 2024.
● Submission of entries for the MMM Prize 2025: 15 Oct. 2024
● Submission of entries for the CDN Prize 2025: 15 Nov. 2024
● Confirmation and Acceptance of Abstracts: 31 Oct. 2024
● Receipt of Complete Papers: 31 Dec. 2024
Registration: Open from 15 Nov. to 15 Dec. 2024
Wit, Humour, and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance
15-16-17 February 2024
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
FINAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: conference_programme.pdf
15-16-17 February 2024
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
FINAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE: conference_programme.pdf
CFP: 𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (Off𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲) 2024
IACLALS
(Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India)
Annual International Conference 2024
co-hosted by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
on
Wit, Humour, and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance
15-17 February, 2024
Wit, humour and the carnivalesque cover a wide spectrum of literary expressions and have remained integral elements of World Literature, from the classical to the modern age. From providing pure delight and entertainment and social criticism to drawing attention to the fundamental incongruities and iniquities of life, writers have deployed wit and humour to great effects. From Aristophanes, Cervantes, Rabelais, Mark Twain to P.G. Woodhouse, from Sukumar Roy, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer to Harishankar Parsai, to take some random examples from literature alone, we will see the extraordinary range and scope of the comic imagination these writers possessed and to what effects they used them. It is extraordinary to witness how wit and humour have seamlessly been incorporated as elements of narrative, characterisation, amplification and subversion, within the accepted conventions of various literary genres. Literature and performance can be analysed to explore the role of humour and wit in bringing about positive changes in the society, and also how oral and body-centric dimensions of the carnivalesque get reflected in ritual-based performances. By means of seemingly innocuous subjects and styles of presentation, they actually end up challenging oppressive social hierarchy and empower marginal voices, leading towards the concept of a more egalitarian, equitable and just society. Humour can be both resistance and liberation. It is also an extraordinary tool of coping mechanism in different situations of life where immediate redress is unavailable. The liberating potential of wit and humour and the carnivalesque, particularly in the Indian context, has remained understudied. We have a rich treasure-trove of literature in the comic vein in different Indian languages but relatively few critical studies on it/them. The IACLALS Conference 2024 is intended to explore this relatively less-studied field of literature and performance in the Indian and the global contexts in these times.
If we trace the history of classical Greek and Latin comedies, we find that they dramatized contemporary history and the quotidian. The protagonists were citizens of Rome and Athens from across classes, be they the nobility or slaves or criminals or householders. Humour was topical and relatable while satire/lampoon was critical and brutal. It was feared for good reason as it could be savage and unsparing. It was a means to expose the follies of people and hold a mirror to the audience about the contemporary society. The plays of Shakespeare (more specifically, Shakespearean comedies) or Strindberg perform the same function. Some of the most powerful examples of satire in English are Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal and John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe. It will also be interesting to explore how wit and humour interfaces with the art of rhetoric. In the light of the literary works of Rabelais and Dostoevsky, it is also pertinent to understand in what way rhetorical devices make selective application of the transformative/subversive power of the carnivalesque to sound persuasive.
Modern day comedy often chooses to enter our lives through political caricature. The British Punch magazine (and its multiple Indian avatars) is of course one of the best examples to show how various subjects could be ridiculed through caricature , drawing laughter as well as providing political commentary. In English writing in India, one sees political caricature happening in newspapers and magazines where political cartoons were carried in some of the earliest ones. However, it is also claimed that the Vidusaka or the comic figure in Sanskrit drama, was the predecessor to the political cartoonist and that such drama in the Indian satirical tradition commented on the nature as well as purpose of wit and humour in drama. Indeed, wit and humour in their myriad forms are intrinsic to folk forms, literary works, theatre, performance, television, cinema, stand-up, comics and cartoons. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity to explore continuities and ruptures in both local and global literary traditions.Finally, the notion of the carnivalesque has close associations with the idea of the “place”— how certain sites around the world like Goa and Rio are associated with the subjective possibilities of relaxation and withdrawal of order.We intend to explore how the concept of the "carnivalesque" can be invested with therapeutic/recuperative significance.
Papers are invited on the following sub-themes:
GUIDELINES
The conference is open 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝑰𝑨𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑳𝑺. All participants are encouraged to avail of membership before sending abstracts for the conference.
(Please visit https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html to know how to become a member.)
Abstracts of 300 words with a bio-note of no more than 50 words may be submitted to [email protected] by October 20, 2023.
CDN PRIZE 2024:
If you wish to participate in the C. D. Narasimhaiah Prize for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, kindly indicate “Submission for CDN Prize” in the subject line of the email, when you send in your full papers to [email protected] (the last date for submission of complete papers is November 30, 2023). For more details about the CDN Prize, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
MMM PRIZE 2024:
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the previous block of two years, 2022& 2023. In accordance with the detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines available on the website page listed below, IACLALS Members can submit their published paper for consideration to [email protected] latest by October 15, 2023. The Author(s) should have been a member of IACLALS at the time of publication of the paper. Please be sure to indicate “Submission for MMM Prize 2024” in the subject line of the email. For detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines, do visit: https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
Registration Fee and Mode of Payment (for Registration as well as Membership)
Sent to selected participants individually.
Accommodation
Participants will make arrangements for their own stay. The conference organizers will suggest a list of nearby hotels/guest houses/ home stays at a later date.
About Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, established in the year 1964, is an all-India Institute for Higher Education deemed to be a university by the Government of India. BITS offers admission in three tiers: First Degree, Higher Degree and Doctoral Degree. Programmes are offered in various disciplines such as Engineering, Science, Management and Humanities. BITS has always been ranked as one of the top few educational institutions of its kind. The university has five campuses in Pilani (Rajasthan), Goa, Hyderabad (Telangana), Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Dubai (UAE).
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus offers various courses in the areas of English language and Literature, Professional Communication, Mass Media, Philosophy, Political Science, Ecocriticism, Sociology and Developmental Studies. The department aims at enriching the knowledge and awareness of students in various areas of humanistic and social studies and enhancing the life-quality of all living beings.
For more details about the department, please check:
https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/HumanitiesandSocialSciences/HumanitiesandSocialSciences
(Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies in India)
Annual International Conference 2024
co-hosted by
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus
on
Wit, Humour, and the Carnivalesque in Literature and Performance
15-17 February, 2024
Wit, humour and the carnivalesque cover a wide spectrum of literary expressions and have remained integral elements of World Literature, from the classical to the modern age. From providing pure delight and entertainment and social criticism to drawing attention to the fundamental incongruities and iniquities of life, writers have deployed wit and humour to great effects. From Aristophanes, Cervantes, Rabelais, Mark Twain to P.G. Woodhouse, from Sukumar Roy, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer to Harishankar Parsai, to take some random examples from literature alone, we will see the extraordinary range and scope of the comic imagination these writers possessed and to what effects they used them. It is extraordinary to witness how wit and humour have seamlessly been incorporated as elements of narrative, characterisation, amplification and subversion, within the accepted conventions of various literary genres. Literature and performance can be analysed to explore the role of humour and wit in bringing about positive changes in the society, and also how oral and body-centric dimensions of the carnivalesque get reflected in ritual-based performances. By means of seemingly innocuous subjects and styles of presentation, they actually end up challenging oppressive social hierarchy and empower marginal voices, leading towards the concept of a more egalitarian, equitable and just society. Humour can be both resistance and liberation. It is also an extraordinary tool of coping mechanism in different situations of life where immediate redress is unavailable. The liberating potential of wit and humour and the carnivalesque, particularly in the Indian context, has remained understudied. We have a rich treasure-trove of literature in the comic vein in different Indian languages but relatively few critical studies on it/them. The IACLALS Conference 2024 is intended to explore this relatively less-studied field of literature and performance in the Indian and the global contexts in these times.
If we trace the history of classical Greek and Latin comedies, we find that they dramatized contemporary history and the quotidian. The protagonists were citizens of Rome and Athens from across classes, be they the nobility or slaves or criminals or householders. Humour was topical and relatable while satire/lampoon was critical and brutal. It was feared for good reason as it could be savage and unsparing. It was a means to expose the follies of people and hold a mirror to the audience about the contemporary society. The plays of Shakespeare (more specifically, Shakespearean comedies) or Strindberg perform the same function. Some of the most powerful examples of satire in English are Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal and John Dryden’s Mac Flecknoe. It will also be interesting to explore how wit and humour interfaces with the art of rhetoric. In the light of the literary works of Rabelais and Dostoevsky, it is also pertinent to understand in what way rhetorical devices make selective application of the transformative/subversive power of the carnivalesque to sound persuasive.
Modern day comedy often chooses to enter our lives through political caricature. The British Punch magazine (and its multiple Indian avatars) is of course one of the best examples to show how various subjects could be ridiculed through caricature , drawing laughter as well as providing political commentary. In English writing in India, one sees political caricature happening in newspapers and magazines where political cartoons were carried in some of the earliest ones. However, it is also claimed that the Vidusaka or the comic figure in Sanskrit drama, was the predecessor to the political cartoonist and that such drama in the Indian satirical tradition commented on the nature as well as purpose of wit and humour in drama. Indeed, wit and humour in their myriad forms are intrinsic to folk forms, literary works, theatre, performance, television, cinema, stand-up, comics and cartoons. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity to explore continuities and ruptures in both local and global literary traditions.Finally, the notion of the carnivalesque has close associations with the idea of the “place”— how certain sites around the world like Goa and Rio are associated with the subjective possibilities of relaxation and withdrawal of order.We intend to explore how the concept of the "carnivalesque" can be invested with therapeutic/recuperative significance.
Papers are invited on the following sub-themes:
- Wit and humour in classical comedy
- Wit and humour and the carnivalesque
- Wit and humour and Resistance
- Wit and humour as Parody/Pastiche
- Wit and humour and stand-up comedy
- Black humour
- The comic imagination and literatures for children and young adults
- The comic imagination and graphic novels
- Wit and humour in Sanskrit Poetics
- Wit and humour in Sangam Literature
- Wit and humour in Indigenous literature(s)
- Wit and humour and Folklore
- Wit and humour in visual arts
- Wit and humour and caricature
- Parody and satire, pathos and bathos
- Wit and humour and gender
- Wit and humour and catharsis
- Wit and humour and ethnicity and race
GUIDELINES
The conference is open 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇𝑰𝑨𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑳𝑺. All participants are encouraged to avail of membership before sending abstracts for the conference.
(Please visit https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html to know how to become a member.)
Abstracts of 300 words with a bio-note of no more than 50 words may be submitted to [email protected] by October 20, 2023.
CDN PRIZE 2024:
If you wish to participate in the C. D. Narasimhaiah Prize for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, kindly indicate “Submission for CDN Prize” in the subject line of the email, when you send in your full papers to [email protected] (the last date for submission of complete papers is November 30, 2023). For more details about the CDN Prize, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
MMM PRIZE 2024:
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the previous block of two years, 2022& 2023. In accordance with the detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines available on the website page listed below, IACLALS Members can submit their published paper for consideration to [email protected] latest by October 15, 2023. The Author(s) should have been a member of IACLALS at the time of publication of the paper. Please be sure to indicate “Submission for MMM Prize 2024” in the subject line of the email. For detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines, do visit: https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
Registration Fee and Mode of Payment (for Registration as well as Membership)
Sent to selected participants individually.
Accommodation
Participants will make arrangements for their own stay. The conference organizers will suggest a list of nearby hotels/guest houses/ home stays at a later date.
About Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, established in the year 1964, is an all-India Institute for Higher Education deemed to be a university by the Government of India. BITS offers admission in three tiers: First Degree, Higher Degree and Doctoral Degree. Programmes are offered in various disciplines such as Engineering, Science, Management and Humanities. BITS has always been ranked as one of the top few educational institutions of its kind. The university has five campuses in Pilani (Rajasthan), Goa, Hyderabad (Telangana), Mumbai (Maharashtra) and Dubai (UAE).
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus offers various courses in the areas of English language and Literature, Professional Communication, Mass Media, Philosophy, Political Science, Ecocriticism, Sociology and Developmental Studies. The department aims at enriching the knowledge and awareness of students in various areas of humanistic and social studies and enhancing the life-quality of all living beings.
For more details about the department, please check:
https://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/goa/HumanitiesandSocialSciences/HumanitiesandSocialSciences
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in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
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on
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Conference Schedule:
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in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 (Online)
on
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Keynote Address: MARCH 17, 2021
Conference Schedule: iaclals_2021_annual_international_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2021_annual_conference_abstracts_booklet.pdf
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