NEWS / CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: “Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture”, MZU. 25th and 26th May, 2023
The Department of English and Culture Studies, Mizoram University, proposes to hold a two-day national seminar on “Representations of Disability in Literature and Culture” on the 25th and 26th May, 2023. The seminar shall focus upon the various representations of disability in literature, culture, society, and politics and it aims to widen the scope of our understanding of what it means to function in the normal-abnormal binary, how notions of ‘normal’ and its definitions can be expanded, and the need to re-examine slogans like “better off dead than disabled”. The seminar seeks to engage with various representations, methodologies and approaches on disability on various fronts like the arts, in performance, in law, in academia, in literature, in the media while also linking them to complex explorations through race, gender and class.
Sub-themes may include:
The Disabled Female Body
Disability and Sex
Disabled Childhoods
The Disabled Body as Social Outcast
Socio-economic Barriers of the Disabled
Queer Approaches to Disability
Domestic Violence and Disability
Social Media and the Disabled
Cultural/Social Response to Disability
Disability in Translation
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for submission of abstract within 250 words) along with a bio note within 100 words: :11th April 2023
Notification of acceptance: 20th April 2023
Please send your abstracts and queries to :
[email protected] and [email protected]
CFP: ""Humanistic Concerns: A Preview through Partition Literature", April 11, 2023
Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College
NAAC ACCREDITED GRADE B, FULLY WiFi CAMPUS
MULTI-FACULTY, POSTGRADUATE, Co-EDUCATIONAL COLLEGE
CIVIL LINES, LUDHIANA (PB.) Phone: 0161-2401546, 5211980, 5211981
E-mail [email protected], Website : www.ggnkcl.com
Invitation for Seminar
Respected Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you that Post Graduate Department of English,
Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Ludhiana, a century old premier Multi Faculty
College, affiliated to Punjab University. Chandigarh, will host a one-day National
Seminar on April 11, 2023 on "Humanistic Concerns: A Preview through Partition
Literature". Prominent litterateurs/writers and their works will be under critical scrutiny
during the intellectual conclave of writers, researchers and scholars. Critical study of the
partition and splitting up, by the writers and their texts, translations from other languages
too. will be an added feature of the proposed seminar in which distinguished and eminent
resource persons from all over India will address the delegates.
We cordially invite the teachers and scholars of your esteemed institution to be a
part of this conference. The papers adhering to the norms set forth in MLA style
sheet, 8"/9" edition, within the range of 2500-3000 words, be submitted by March
20, 2023.
Registration fee of Rs. 1 000/- may be deposited in
AC No.08251100000003,
Punjab & Sind Bank,
G.G.N. Khalsa College branch,
Ludhiana (IFSC Code
PSIBO0O0825).
Kindly register yourself by filling the form
https://forms.gle/XoGtWjiPPLbNoKu8 and submit the full length research paper
to the [email protected] as per the guidelines mentioned above.
The selected and presented papers will be published in the form of a book
with ISBN number. Certificate of Participation will also be issued to the delegates on the
day of the seminar. We request you to circulate the message to your colleagues and
research scholars.
Dr. Sushmindarjeet Kaur
Organising Secretary
Associate Professor
Head,
P.G. Deptt. of English
Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College
NAAC ACCREDITED GRADE B, FULLY WiFi CAMPUS
MULTI-FACULTY, POSTGRADUATE, Co-EDUCATIONAL COLLEGE
CIVIL LINES, LUDHIANA (PB.) Phone: 0161-2401546, 5211980, 5211981
E-mail [email protected], Website : www.ggnkcl.com
Invitation for Seminar
Respected Sir/Madam,
We are pleased to inform you that Post Graduate Department of English,
Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Ludhiana, a century old premier Multi Faculty
College, affiliated to Punjab University. Chandigarh, will host a one-day National
Seminar on April 11, 2023 on "Humanistic Concerns: A Preview through Partition
Literature". Prominent litterateurs/writers and their works will be under critical scrutiny
during the intellectual conclave of writers, researchers and scholars. Critical study of the
partition and splitting up, by the writers and their texts, translations from other languages
too. will be an added feature of the proposed seminar in which distinguished and eminent
resource persons from all over India will address the delegates.
We cordially invite the teachers and scholars of your esteemed institution to be a
part of this conference. The papers adhering to the norms set forth in MLA style
sheet, 8"/9" edition, within the range of 2500-3000 words, be submitted by March
20, 2023.
Registration fee of Rs. 1 000/- may be deposited in
AC No.08251100000003,
Punjab & Sind Bank,
G.G.N. Khalsa College branch,
Ludhiana (IFSC Code
PSIBO0O0825).
Kindly register yourself by filling the form
https://forms.gle/XoGtWjiPPLbNoKu8 and submit the full length research paper
to the [email protected] as per the guidelines mentioned above.
The selected and presented papers will be published in the form of a book
with ISBN number. Certificate of Participation will also be issued to the delegates on the
day of the seminar. We request you to circulate the message to your colleagues and
research scholars.
Dr. Sushmindarjeet Kaur
Organising Secretary
Associate Professor
Head,
P.G. Deptt. of English
Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College