𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (O𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲) 2023
UPDATES:
- Acceptances for the upcoming conference have been sent on March 13-14, 2023.
- Registration for the conference is to be completed by April 15th, 2023.
- Participants also need to be members of IACLALS. Details of payment of non-refundable regn. fee and membership are listed in the acceptance emails.
- For any query, please write to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS: 𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (O𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲) 2023
METROPOLIS AND MARGINS: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES IN LITERARY AND LANGUAGE STUDIES
April 27-29, 2023
‘Metropolis’ and ‘margins’, ‘centre’ and ‘peripheries’ are concepts that enable us to imagine multiple configurations of power-relationships of enablement and disablement. They are deployed to signify positions of dominance and subjugation. The metropolis is taken to be the centre, the repertoire of knowledge systems and world views that command attention and deference while the margins, by their very definition, inhabit the periphery and often have a complex relationship with the metropolis, ranging from seeking sanction/ approval from it to questioning the very legitimacy of this unequal relationship. Metropolis is also an empowered urban space providing hubs for writers, publishers, literary journals, thus producing debates, introducing newness, and generating innovative trends that the margins witness with alternating attitudes of reverence and resistance and try to replicate or replace. With the forces of decolonisation moving apace the shifting axes of metropolis and margins created new configurations in which earlier paradigms and tools of canonization are challenged/revisited and new paradigms imagined and accommodated. This, by its very nature, remains a work in progress and attempts must be made periodically to assess the paradigms and examine their validity. The IACLALS annual conference 2023 will be an attempt to further the discourse in this direction.
At its most obvious level the metropolis/margins dichotomy plays out in literature between what is perceived to be standard/trendy/mainstream and its opposite, that is, what are perceived to be regional, anchalic, mufassil, subaltern etc. This dichotomy can be seen in literatures in all the ‘vernacular’ Indian languages; in Indian Literature in English as well. Of course, India being such a vast country, the dichotomy plays out in different spheres and topographies. For example, the postcolonial India has witnessed transition and transformation in tribal societies and their efforts at preservation of their own cultures, largely oral, as well as their relationship with what is perceived to be the dominant culture/language in the region, and also with the nation. During this period, tribe has been increasingly used as a marker of identity and for the politics of representation and affirmative action. These factors are fashioning the self-image of the tribes and their literature will mirror this self-fashioning.
The tribal/non-tribal debates are further accentuated in recent time by the indigeneity debate that is raging in different parts of the country, particularly India’s Northeast. The indigenous/settler, insider/outsider discourses have been salient in different states of the Northeast and the literature produced in the region reflect this even as the writers try to imagine newer configurations of relating to the national mainstream.
The IACLALS Annual Conference 2023 welcomes papers on topics falling under the following general rubrics, but not limited to:
1. Indian English literature from the periphery/mufassil towns
2. Literature in translation from Indian languages from non-urban (anchalic) settings.
3. City/countryside, urban/rural discourses in Indian literatures
4. Literatures of the tribes and language debates
5. Indigeneity and its ambivalence
6. Discourses of orality and performance
7. Multilinguality and its interface with language and literary studies
8. Role of institutional structures (Sahitya Akademi, National Book Trust, ICCR etc) in connecting margins with the metropolis
9. Literature(s) from the margins: different perspectives including individual, literary, linguistic, cultural, geographic margins.
10. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and Mass Media
11. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and Migration/Immigration
12. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and ecocritical perspectives
13. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and global/local policymaking
14. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and diversity
GUIDELINES
The conference is open 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝑨𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑳𝑺.
PARTICIPANTS CAN TAKE MEMBERSHIP AFTER ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR ABSTRACTS.
(Please visit https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html to know how to become a member.)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Abstracts: February 25, 2023
Registration: April 15, 2023
Submission of papers: April 10, 2023
Please note that presenters shall have fifteen minutes to read their papers.
Registration to be completed by April 15, 2023 (details will be sent along with acceptances).
Registration Fees: Rs 500/ for research scholars and Rs. 800/ for employees.
CDN PRIZE 2023
If you wish to be considered for 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪 𝑫 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒂𝒉 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, please submit complete papers latest by March 20, 2023. Kindly indicate ‘Submission for CDN Prize’ in the subject line of the email, to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com.
For more details, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
All other participants should submit their papers by April 10, 2023 in no more than 3500-4000 words, to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com.
MMM PRIZE 2023
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗷𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 in the previous block of two years (2021-22) by a member of the IACLALS.
For MMM Prize submission guidelines, do visit:
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
In accordance with the detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines available on the website page listed above, you can submit your published paper latest by February 25, 2023 to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com. Please be sure to indicate ‘Submission for MMM Prize’ in the subject line of the email.
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April 27-29, 2023
‘Metropolis’ and ‘margins’, ‘centre’ and ‘peripheries’ are concepts that enable us to imagine multiple configurations of power-relationships of enablement and disablement. They are deployed to signify positions of dominance and subjugation. The metropolis is taken to be the centre, the repertoire of knowledge systems and world views that command attention and deference while the margins, by their very definition, inhabit the periphery and often have a complex relationship with the metropolis, ranging from seeking sanction/ approval from it to questioning the very legitimacy of this unequal relationship. Metropolis is also an empowered urban space providing hubs for writers, publishers, literary journals, thus producing debates, introducing newness, and generating innovative trends that the margins witness with alternating attitudes of reverence and resistance and try to replicate or replace. With the forces of decolonisation moving apace the shifting axes of metropolis and margins created new configurations in which earlier paradigms and tools of canonization are challenged/revisited and new paradigms imagined and accommodated. This, by its very nature, remains a work in progress and attempts must be made periodically to assess the paradigms and examine their validity. The IACLALS annual conference 2023 will be an attempt to further the discourse in this direction.
At its most obvious level the metropolis/margins dichotomy plays out in literature between what is perceived to be standard/trendy/mainstream and its opposite, that is, what are perceived to be regional, anchalic, mufassil, subaltern etc. This dichotomy can be seen in literatures in all the ‘vernacular’ Indian languages; in Indian Literature in English as well. Of course, India being such a vast country, the dichotomy plays out in different spheres and topographies. For example, the postcolonial India has witnessed transition and transformation in tribal societies and their efforts at preservation of their own cultures, largely oral, as well as their relationship with what is perceived to be the dominant culture/language in the region, and also with the nation. During this period, tribe has been increasingly used as a marker of identity and for the politics of representation and affirmative action. These factors are fashioning the self-image of the tribes and their literature will mirror this self-fashioning.
The tribal/non-tribal debates are further accentuated in recent time by the indigeneity debate that is raging in different parts of the country, particularly India’s Northeast. The indigenous/settler, insider/outsider discourses have been salient in different states of the Northeast and the literature produced in the region reflect this even as the writers try to imagine newer configurations of relating to the national mainstream.
The IACLALS Annual Conference 2023 welcomes papers on topics falling under the following general rubrics, but not limited to:
1. Indian English literature from the periphery/mufassil towns
2. Literature in translation from Indian languages from non-urban (anchalic) settings.
3. City/countryside, urban/rural discourses in Indian literatures
4. Literatures of the tribes and language debates
5. Indigeneity and its ambivalence
6. Discourses of orality and performance
7. Multilinguality and its interface with language and literary studies
8. Role of institutional structures (Sahitya Akademi, National Book Trust, ICCR etc) in connecting margins with the metropolis
9. Literature(s) from the margins: different perspectives including individual, literary, linguistic, cultural, geographic margins.
10. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and Mass Media
11. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and Migration/Immigration
12. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and ecocritical perspectives
13. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and global/local policymaking
14. Literature from the Metropolis/Margins and diversity
GUIDELINES
The conference is open 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑰𝑨𝑪𝑳𝑨𝑳𝑺.
PARTICIPANTS CAN TAKE MEMBERSHIP AFTER ACCEPTANCE OF THEIR ABSTRACTS.
(Please visit https://www.iaclals.com/membership.html to know how to become a member.)
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of Abstracts: February 25, 2023
Registration: April 15, 2023
Submission of papers: April 10, 2023
Please note that presenters shall have fifteen minutes to read their papers.
Registration to be completed by April 15, 2023 (details will be sent along with acceptances).
Registration Fees: Rs 500/ for research scholars and Rs. 800/ for employees.
CDN PRIZE 2023
If you wish to be considered for 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪 𝑫 𝑵𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒂𝒉 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, please submit complete papers latest by March 20, 2023. Kindly indicate ‘Submission for CDN Prize’ in the subject line of the email, to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com.
For more details, visit: https://www.iaclals.com/cdn-prize.html
All other participants should submit their papers by April 10, 2023 in no more than 3500-4000 words, to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com.
MMM PRIZE 2023
IACLALS also announces the next edition of the 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗶 𝗠𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗷𝗲𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 in the previous block of two years (2021-22) by a member of the IACLALS.
For MMM Prize submission guidelines, do visit:
https://www.iaclals.com/mmm-prize.html
In accordance with the detailed MMM Prize submission guidelines available on the website page listed above, you can submit your published paper latest by February 25, 2023 to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com. Please be sure to indicate ‘Submission for MMM Prize’ in the subject line of the email.
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𝗜𝗔𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 (𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲) 2022
INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES (IACLALS)
in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022 (Online)
on
CIRCULATIONS, MEDIATIONS, NEGOTIATIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSLATION FROM SOUTH ASIA
MARCH 2-5, 2022
Keynote Address: MARCH 2, 2022
Conference Schedule: iaclals___jdmc-2022-_online_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2022_book_of_abstracts.pdf
ALL SESSIONS STREAMED LIVE ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2022 (Online)
on
CIRCULATIONS, MEDIATIONS, NEGOTIATIONS: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSLATION FROM SOUTH ASIA
MARCH 2-5, 2022
Keynote Address: MARCH 2, 2022
Conference Schedule: iaclals___jdmc-2022-_online_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2022_book_of_abstracts.pdf
ALL SESSIONS STREAMED LIVE ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
IACLALS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021
INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE STUDIES (IACLALS)
in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 (Online)
on
UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS IN OUR TIMES
MARCH 18-20, 2021
Keynote Address: MARCH 17, 2021
Conference Schedule: iaclals_2021_annual_international_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2021_annual_conference_abstracts_booklet.pdf
All sessions are available to view on our Facebook Page.
in collaboration with
JANKI DEVI MEMORIAL COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2021 (Online)
on
UTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS IN OUR TIMES
MARCH 18-20, 2021
Keynote Address: MARCH 17, 2021
Conference Schedule: iaclals_2021_annual_international_conference_schedule.pdf
Abstracts Booklet: iaclals_2021_annual_conference_abstracts_booklet.pdf
All sessions are available to view on our Facebook Page.
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