GOVERNMENT ARTS COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS), SALEM-7
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ONE DAY NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
‘SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA LITERATURE IN ENGLISH'
About the College:
Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem-7 is one of the oldest higher education institutions of Tamil Nadu. It is situated in the centre of Salem city. It caters to the needs of people, who aspire for higher education in Salem and neighbouring areas. This oldest institution was founded in 1857 by Sir.A.J.Alexander Arbuthnot as an Anglo Vernacular School. In March 1879, the school was upgraded into college and affiliated to Madras University. Later, it was maintained by Salem Municipal Council since1885. It was raised to the status of the first grade college. In April, 1960, it was taken by the Government of Tamil Nadu and began to function under Higher Education Department. It was re-accredited by NAAC with B++ level and it was granted Autonomous status since the academic year 2007. Now the college offers 19 UG and 16 PG courses and also 10 M.Phil and 8 Ph.D research programmes.
About the Department:
The Department of English holds a unique record of being a pioneering department in the college. It offers the Undergraduate and Postgraduate and also research programmes such as M.Phil., and Ph.D.,(both Full Time and Part Time) courses. It holds a record of repute in active research. Besides, it promotes an aptitude for language and communication development through such programmes as, Soft Skills, CLIL, Bridge and Remedial courses. It is equipped with English Language Laboratory, which caters to the Audio-Visual needs of students for effective language learning. The department conducts the periodical seminars, conferences and workshops. 20 Regular Lecturers and 9 Guest Lecturers(Shift II) are a part of English department. The department has an excellent library and it houses more than 5000 books.
About the Seminar:
South Asia is the southern region of Asian continent, which comprises pivotal point geographically and culturally. It contains such countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Maldives. Journey is always a topic of great interest. Migrations are recorded in written documents. Diaspora literature is one of the upcoming areas of research in the recent years. Jewish, European and Black American diaspora literature is the most researched and taught area. However, South Asian Diaspora literature is the least researched field, as compared with other diaspora literature. Saffron, Cohen, Paul Gilroy and others highlighted the significance of western diaspora only. Vijay Mishra’s essays have brought to light the importance of Indian subcontinent diaspora. Besides, Arjun Appadurai has also brought it to limelight through his books and essays. The aim of this seminar is to bring out different aspects of South Asian diaspora literature and its different writers.The seminar aims to highlight the seminal issues of ambivalence, hybridity, third space and rootlessness of South Asians in host lands.
Thrust Areas
1. History of South Asian diaspora
2. Indo-American, Indo-Canadian, Indo-British literature.
3. Pakistan-American, Pakistan-Canadian, Pakistan-British literature
4. Sri Lankan-British, Sri Lankan-American and Sri Lankan-Canadian literature.
5. Afghan diaspora literature.
6. Bangaladesh diaspora literature and other South Asian diaspora writings.
7. Diaspora issues, such as ambivalence, third space, hybridity, rootlessness in South
Asian diaspora literature.
Paper Submission
The papers should address on the core issues of South Asian diaspora literature only. Other papers would not be considered for the seminar.
Papers are invited from scholars and teachers relating to the theme of the seminar. The Abstract of the paper not exceeding 250 words along with the Registration form should be sent via e mail gac7artseng2018@gmail.com on or before 06.012018.
The full-length paper in 2000 words in duplicate along with one soft copy in MS Word format of Times New Roman font size 12 points with double space should be sent via e mail on or before 21.01.2018. Each presentation would be of 10 minutes duration only. Sources are to be acknowledged.
The papers will be peer reviewed and the accepted papers will be intimated by e mail.
Important Dates
- Last date for submission of Abstract/Full Paper- 12.01.2018
- Intimation of Acceptance- 10.01.2018
- Seminar date 27.01.2018
- Submission of Full Paper 21.01.2018
Registration
All participants have to register for the seminar by sending duly filled-in Registration Form along with prescribed fee by crossed DD drawn from any nationalized bank payable at Salem. Co-authors must pay the registration fee separately. Demand Draft has to be drawn in favour of The Principal, Government Arts College, Salem-7, payable at Salem. It can be sent along with the registration form.
Faculty : Rs.1000/-
Ph.D/M.Phil Scholars: Rs. 750/-
Students (PG/UG) : Rs. 500/-
Publication
Selected papers will be published in Book with ISBN number later.
REGISTRATION FORM
(Photocopies of the form can also be used)
National Seminar
on
South Asian Diaspora Literature
Name :
Designation :
Institution Address :
Mobile No :
Title of the paper :
Email id :
Status (Please tick) : Paper Presentation / Publication
Registration Fee of Rs.300/- Enclosed: Yes/No
Postal Address :
Details of Registration Fee :
Bank DD.Amount : ---------------
DD Date : ----------------
DD No. : ----------------
Place :
Date : Signature of the Participant
------**************------
Chairman
Dr.M.Sagunthala,
Principal.
Convenor
Dr.V.Anbarasi
Associate Professor and Head
Department of English
Organizing Secretary
Prof.T.Gangadharan,
Associate Professor
Peer Review Committee
Dr.V.Kundhavi, Associate Professor
Dr.K.Thamizharasi, Associate Professor
Prof.K.Anbazhagan, Associate Professor
Dr.P.Mythili, Associate Professor
Dr.R.SheelaBanu, Associate Professor
Dr.T.Alagarasan, Associate Professor
Prof.P.Shanmugavel, Associate Professor
Organizing Committee
Dr.D.Balasubramaniam. Asst.Professor
Prof.T.Govindarajan Asst.Professor
Prof.Y.Raja, Asst.Professor
Prof.K.Niranjana Asst.Professor
Prof.K.Gomathi Asst.Professor
Prof.P.Nithyakalyani Asst.Professor
Prof.GeethaRajagopal Asst.Professor
Dr..K.Ravichandran Asst.Professor
Dr.J.Jayakumar Asst.Professor
Dr.S.Shanmugam (On deputation) Asst.Professor
Prof.J.Partheeban Asst.Professor
For details contact:
Dr.T.Gangadharan - 9842072189
Prof.K.Anbazhagan-9443957117
Dr.T.Alagarasan - 9597451901
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
ONE DAY NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
‘SOUTH ASIAN DIASPORA LITERATURE IN ENGLISH'
About the College:
Government Arts College (Autonomous), Salem-7 is one of the oldest higher education institutions of Tamil Nadu. It is situated in the centre of Salem city. It caters to the needs of people, who aspire for higher education in Salem and neighbouring areas. This oldest institution was founded in 1857 by Sir.A.J.Alexander Arbuthnot as an Anglo Vernacular School. In March 1879, the school was upgraded into college and affiliated to Madras University. Later, it was maintained by Salem Municipal Council since1885. It was raised to the status of the first grade college. In April, 1960, it was taken by the Government of Tamil Nadu and began to function under Higher Education Department. It was re-accredited by NAAC with B++ level and it was granted Autonomous status since the academic year 2007. Now the college offers 19 UG and 16 PG courses and also 10 M.Phil and 8 Ph.D research programmes.
About the Department:
The Department of English holds a unique record of being a pioneering department in the college. It offers the Undergraduate and Postgraduate and also research programmes such as M.Phil., and Ph.D.,(both Full Time and Part Time) courses. It holds a record of repute in active research. Besides, it promotes an aptitude for language and communication development through such programmes as, Soft Skills, CLIL, Bridge and Remedial courses. It is equipped with English Language Laboratory, which caters to the Audio-Visual needs of students for effective language learning. The department conducts the periodical seminars, conferences and workshops. 20 Regular Lecturers and 9 Guest Lecturers(Shift II) are a part of English department. The department has an excellent library and it houses more than 5000 books.
About the Seminar:
South Asia is the southern region of Asian continent, which comprises pivotal point geographically and culturally. It contains such countries such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bhutan and Maldives. Journey is always a topic of great interest. Migrations are recorded in written documents. Diaspora literature is one of the upcoming areas of research in the recent years. Jewish, European and Black American diaspora literature is the most researched and taught area. However, South Asian Diaspora literature is the least researched field, as compared with other diaspora literature. Saffron, Cohen, Paul Gilroy and others highlighted the significance of western diaspora only. Vijay Mishra’s essays have brought to light the importance of Indian subcontinent diaspora. Besides, Arjun Appadurai has also brought it to limelight through his books and essays. The aim of this seminar is to bring out different aspects of South Asian diaspora literature and its different writers.The seminar aims to highlight the seminal issues of ambivalence, hybridity, third space and rootlessness of South Asians in host lands.
Thrust Areas
1. History of South Asian diaspora
2. Indo-American, Indo-Canadian, Indo-British literature.
3. Pakistan-American, Pakistan-Canadian, Pakistan-British literature
4. Sri Lankan-British, Sri Lankan-American and Sri Lankan-Canadian literature.
5. Afghan diaspora literature.
6. Bangaladesh diaspora literature and other South Asian diaspora writings.
7. Diaspora issues, such as ambivalence, third space, hybridity, rootlessness in South
Asian diaspora literature.
Paper Submission
The papers should address on the core issues of South Asian diaspora literature only. Other papers would not be considered for the seminar.
Papers are invited from scholars and teachers relating to the theme of the seminar. The Abstract of the paper not exceeding 250 words along with the Registration form should be sent via e mail gac7artseng2018@gmail.com on or before 06.012018.
The full-length paper in 2000 words in duplicate along with one soft copy in MS Word format of Times New Roman font size 12 points with double space should be sent via e mail on or before 21.01.2018. Each presentation would be of 10 minutes duration only. Sources are to be acknowledged.
The papers will be peer reviewed and the accepted papers will be intimated by e mail.
Important Dates
- Last date for submission of Abstract/Full Paper- 12.01.2018
- Intimation of Acceptance- 10.01.2018
- Seminar date 27.01.2018
- Submission of Full Paper 21.01.2018
Registration
All participants have to register for the seminar by sending duly filled-in Registration Form along with prescribed fee by crossed DD drawn from any nationalized bank payable at Salem. Co-authors must pay the registration fee separately. Demand Draft has to be drawn in favour of The Principal, Government Arts College, Salem-7, payable at Salem. It can be sent along with the registration form.
Faculty : Rs.1000/-
Ph.D/M.Phil Scholars: Rs. 750/-
Students (PG/UG) : Rs. 500/-
Publication
Selected papers will be published in Book with ISBN number later.
REGISTRATION FORM
(Photocopies of the form can also be used)
National Seminar
on
South Asian Diaspora Literature
Name :
Designation :
Institution Address :
Mobile No :
Title of the paper :
Email id :
Status (Please tick) : Paper Presentation / Publication
Registration Fee of Rs.300/- Enclosed: Yes/No
Postal Address :
Details of Registration Fee :
Bank DD.Amount : ---------------
DD Date : ----------------
DD No. : ----------------
Place :
Date : Signature of the Participant
------**************------
Chairman
Dr.M.Sagunthala,
Principal.
Convenor
Dr.V.Anbarasi
Associate Professor and Head
Department of English
Organizing Secretary
Prof.T.Gangadharan,
Associate Professor
Peer Review Committee
Dr.V.Kundhavi, Associate Professor
Dr.K.Thamizharasi, Associate Professor
Prof.K.Anbazhagan, Associate Professor
Dr.P.Mythili, Associate Professor
Dr.R.SheelaBanu, Associate Professor
Dr.T.Alagarasan, Associate Professor
Prof.P.Shanmugavel, Associate Professor
Organizing Committee
Dr.D.Balasubramaniam. Asst.Professor
Prof.T.Govindarajan Asst.Professor
Prof.Y.Raja, Asst.Professor
Prof.K.Niranjana Asst.Professor
Prof.K.Gomathi Asst.Professor
Prof.P.Nithyakalyani Asst.Professor
Prof.GeethaRajagopal Asst.Professor
Dr..K.Ravichandran Asst.Professor
Dr.J.Jayakumar Asst.Professor
Dr.S.Shanmugam (On deputation) Asst.Professor
Prof.J.Partheeban Asst.Professor
For details contact:
Dr.T.Gangadharan - 9842072189
Prof.K.Anbazhagan-9443957117
Dr.T.Alagarasan - 9597451901
Special Issue 4: The IACLALS Journal
Theme: Location, Identity, Solidarity: Hegemonic Formations and Contestations (With Special Focus on the Northeast)
Concept Note
Temsula Ao writes in “The Old Story Teller” that
Grandfather constantly warned
That forgetting the stories
Would be catastrophic
We would lose our history,
Territory, and most certainly
Our intrinsic identity.
“History, Territory, Identity”, or as the special issue of the IACLALS Journal has it “Location, Identity, Solidarity”, are complex notions that are yet seen as fundamental to our construction of selfhood and for our understanding of relationships between communitarian and private meanings, for instance in the “layering of customary laws with new ideas of selfhood and personal responsibility” in regional histories of the Northeast. And importantly, not to forget, through our stories that we construct our pasts, presents and futures.
In recent times, the question of spaces and the ways in which we occupy them has become preeminent – in terms of homes, nations, identities, maps, territories, regions, and their exilic others – migrations/immigrations, displacement, travel, nomadicity. Whether we speak of the forces of globalization or nationhood, we need also to contextualize it in terms of how people affectively identify with certain locations, even though it may entail the transgressive possibility of erasing or crossing borders and boundaries. These locations may be held in common, or be completely unique and particular and yet deeply held. We may hold such positions with pride (even battling humiliation), passion (sometimes overcoming passivity), and creative construction (sometimes constructing the very location we hold). These formations, whether hegemonic or not, mobilize an array of contestatory responses and choices as regards our locations, articulated through the politico-aesthetic claims of language, gender, religion, race, tribe, caste, community.
It is this mode of recognizing difference and marking it, that creates the possibility of solidarities and alliances, whether rendered as a choice made through individual agency, or impositions made through a misrecognition of political ends. In the contestation between self and other, the question is what is the choice of the other predicated on – whom do we choose/designate as the other, why, and when, are questions that complicate agency and autonomy, and are made keener when we explore the many ways in which this is culturally de/legitimized.
This special issue seeks to address these questions and attempts to ask how we can participate in this process creatively and culturally, asking other questions along the way – what is the role of the engagee-observer? How do we speak of the aesthetics of pride, passion, of exemplifying and commemorating difference, forging alliances across memory and future?
The Issue will explore these questions with a special focus on the Northeast. Thus, contributors could also focus on the crisis in location in the context of multi-ethnicities on one hand and a monolithic imagination of the Northeast on the other. They could also explore Northeast literary and cultural productions to tease out the complexities of affective solidarity with location.
The Issue hopes to explore the following questions and topics among others:
Situating and Locating the Northeast
· Region and the Nation in Indian Literature(s).
· Literature of Conflict/Resistance/Subversion
· Defining Location: Nation, Region, Borders and Beyond
· Is the Regional 'Anti-national'?
· Is the Northeast a 'Location'?: The Politics of Place-making
· Located but Excluded?: The Case of the 'Northeast’
· How the world is socially constructed? Archaeology and the Northeast
· How Valid is the Category, 'Literatures from India's North-East'?
Is Regional Necessarily Marginal?
· The Notion of Mainstream (?) and Sub-strata in the Literatures of a Multi-lingual Country
· Imagining the 'Mainland' as 'Motherland': Cultural Norms/Forms of Citizenship
· Ethnic Marginalities and the Nation
· Translating the Marginal
· Enacting Marginality
Aesthetics and Cultures of the Marginal
· Performance Spaces and the Marginal
· Sacred and Profane Spaces: Rituals of anti/Sacralisation.
· Community Practices and Performative Cultures of the Lived Everyday
· Metropolitan Canon Formations
· Folkloric Aesthetics and Cultures
· The Bhashas and the Northeast
Locations, Politics and Identity
· Identity Politics and the Burden of Dis-identification
· The Limits of Identitarian Politics
· Positions as Locations: The Affective-Ideological Response
· Ghettoisation of Spaces and Representation in Literature
· Agitating from the outside: A politics of resentment
· The (In)adequacy of Solidarity: Rethinking Alliance as Intimacy
· Performing antagonisms: political praxis in (non) identitarian resistance
Manuscripts (including prelims, notes and references) should be prepared in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font, 12 point size, and should be sent to us via email.
The article should be submitted to iaclalsjournal@gmail.com only when it is complete in all respects.
See http://www.iaclals.com/journal.html for style sheet and other instructions.
Preliminary matter should include any or all of the following and in this order:
· The title page with the title and subtitle and your name as author or editor.
· List of abbreviations, plates, figures, maps and tables.
· Please provide 80‐100 word biographical notes with postal, e‐mail and phone details.
Final Date for Submission is extended to 14th Sept. 2017.
Theme: Location, Identity, Solidarity: Hegemonic Formations and Contestations (With Special Focus on the Northeast)
Concept Note
Temsula Ao writes in “The Old Story Teller” that
Grandfather constantly warned
That forgetting the stories
Would be catastrophic
We would lose our history,
Territory, and most certainly
Our intrinsic identity.
“History, Territory, Identity”, or as the special issue of the IACLALS Journal has it “Location, Identity, Solidarity”, are complex notions that are yet seen as fundamental to our construction of selfhood and for our understanding of relationships between communitarian and private meanings, for instance in the “layering of customary laws with new ideas of selfhood and personal responsibility” in regional histories of the Northeast. And importantly, not to forget, through our stories that we construct our pasts, presents and futures.
In recent times, the question of spaces and the ways in which we occupy them has become preeminent – in terms of homes, nations, identities, maps, territories, regions, and their exilic others – migrations/immigrations, displacement, travel, nomadicity. Whether we speak of the forces of globalization or nationhood, we need also to contextualize it in terms of how people affectively identify with certain locations, even though it may entail the transgressive possibility of erasing or crossing borders and boundaries. These locations may be held in common, or be completely unique and particular and yet deeply held. We may hold such positions with pride (even battling humiliation), passion (sometimes overcoming passivity), and creative construction (sometimes constructing the very location we hold). These formations, whether hegemonic or not, mobilize an array of contestatory responses and choices as regards our locations, articulated through the politico-aesthetic claims of language, gender, religion, race, tribe, caste, community.
It is this mode of recognizing difference and marking it, that creates the possibility of solidarities and alliances, whether rendered as a choice made through individual agency, or impositions made through a misrecognition of political ends. In the contestation between self and other, the question is what is the choice of the other predicated on – whom do we choose/designate as the other, why, and when, are questions that complicate agency and autonomy, and are made keener when we explore the many ways in which this is culturally de/legitimized.
This special issue seeks to address these questions and attempts to ask how we can participate in this process creatively and culturally, asking other questions along the way – what is the role of the engagee-observer? How do we speak of the aesthetics of pride, passion, of exemplifying and commemorating difference, forging alliances across memory and future?
The Issue will explore these questions with a special focus on the Northeast. Thus, contributors could also focus on the crisis in location in the context of multi-ethnicities on one hand and a monolithic imagination of the Northeast on the other. They could also explore Northeast literary and cultural productions to tease out the complexities of affective solidarity with location.
The Issue hopes to explore the following questions and topics among others:
Situating and Locating the Northeast
· Region and the Nation in Indian Literature(s).
· Literature of Conflict/Resistance/Subversion
· Defining Location: Nation, Region, Borders and Beyond
· Is the Regional 'Anti-national'?
· Is the Northeast a 'Location'?: The Politics of Place-making
· Located but Excluded?: The Case of the 'Northeast’
· How the world is socially constructed? Archaeology and the Northeast
· How Valid is the Category, 'Literatures from India's North-East'?
Is Regional Necessarily Marginal?
· The Notion of Mainstream (?) and Sub-strata in the Literatures of a Multi-lingual Country
· Imagining the 'Mainland' as 'Motherland': Cultural Norms/Forms of Citizenship
· Ethnic Marginalities and the Nation
· Translating the Marginal
· Enacting Marginality
Aesthetics and Cultures of the Marginal
· Performance Spaces and the Marginal
· Sacred and Profane Spaces: Rituals of anti/Sacralisation.
· Community Practices and Performative Cultures of the Lived Everyday
· Metropolitan Canon Formations
· Folkloric Aesthetics and Cultures
· The Bhashas and the Northeast
Locations, Politics and Identity
· Identity Politics and the Burden of Dis-identification
· The Limits of Identitarian Politics
· Positions as Locations: The Affective-Ideological Response
· Ghettoisation of Spaces and Representation in Literature
· Agitating from the outside: A politics of resentment
· The (In)adequacy of Solidarity: Rethinking Alliance as Intimacy
· Performing antagonisms: political praxis in (non) identitarian resistance
Manuscripts (including prelims, notes and references) should be prepared in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman font, 12 point size, and should be sent to us via email.
The article should be submitted to iaclalsjournal@gmail.com only when it is complete in all respects.
See http://www.iaclals.com/journal.html for style sheet and other instructions.
Preliminary matter should include any or all of the following and in this order:
· The title page with the title and subtitle and your name as author or editor.
· List of abbreviations, plates, figures, maps and tables.
· Please provide 80‐100 word biographical notes with postal, e‐mail and phone details.
Final Date for Submission is extended to 14th Sept. 2017.
CFP: Indialogs Spanish Journal of India Studies
Call for Articles Issue 5: Bodies
Deadline: 15 September, 2017
Issue 5 of Indialogs will focus on the theme of the body from a wide range of
perspectives. The representation of the human body in Indian culture differs
enormously from the West. Women were closely associated with fertility, abundance
and prosperity rather than sin and temptation, and sexuality has been embraced openly
as can be seen in many temples all over the country.
Read more...call_for_articles_issue_5_english.pdf
Call for Articles Issue 5: Bodies
Deadline: 15 September, 2017
Issue 5 of Indialogs will focus on the theme of the body from a wide range of
perspectives. The representation of the human body in Indian culture differs
enormously from the West. Women were closely associated with fertility, abundance
and prosperity rather than sin and temptation, and sexuality has been embraced openly
as can be seen in many temples all over the country.
Read more...call_for_articles_issue_5_english.pdf
