UGC NATIONAL SEMINAR on EMERGING TRENDS IN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH IN 21ST CENTURY - 21st & 22nd January, 2014.

Greetings!
       
Department of English, SRI DURGA MALLESWARA SIDDHARTHA MAHILA KALASALA,  VIJAYAWADA-520010, ANDHRA PRADESH, is organising a UGC NATIONAL SEMINAR on EMERGING TRENDS IN INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH IN 21ST CENTURY during 21st & 22nd January, 2014.

*Find enclosed the copy of the brochure.*

*Dates to remember*
Ø  Submission of Full Paper                    : 5 January, 2014
Ø  Date of Seminar                                 : 21 & 22  January, 2014.

*Registration fee :*                      
Ø  Rs. 200/- for Students (Submit proof)
Ø  Rs. 600/- for Academicians/faculty/research scholars
Ø  Rs.700/- for women participants with accommodation(limited rooms available in women’s hostel)

*Contact*
Ø  Organizing Secretary
            MRS M. NALINI, M.A, M.Phil, D.P.M.
            Head, Dept of English & Seminar Director
            Sri Durga Malleswara Siddhartha Mahila Kalasala
            VIJAYAWADA - 520 010. AP-INDIA.
            Mobile: 09908244356
            E-mail: nalinim61@gmail.com

Courtesy: Dr Somanchi Sai Kumar

Hyderabad Literary Festival 2014 - Department of Tourism, Government of Andhra Pradesh - 24,25,26 January 2014

About 

Hyderabad Literary Festival 2014 is organized by "Hyderabad Literary Trust" in association with the Department of Tourism, Government of Andhra Pradesh, and with the support of several academic, literary, cultural organizations and publishing houses.  Started in 2010, HLF has received excellent response from writers, readers, publishers, and the media. HLF is a multi-lingual event and one of its distinctive features is the strong accent on writing in the Indian languages. 

Guest Nation Inviting a foreign country to showcase its literature and culture was a feature added to the Festival in 2012. Germany was the 'Guest Nation' at HLF 2012, and France at HLF 2013. At HLF 2014, Ireland will be the 'Guest Nation'. Besides, three eminent writers from Singapore will be participating in HLF 2014. 
Indian Language in Focus Paying special attention to the writing in one Indian language at each edition of the festival was a feature introduced at HLF 2013. Telugu was the language in focus at HLF 2013, and it will be Hindi at HLF 2014. 
Other Highlights Special events for college students and school children Workshops on Haiku, Creative Writing, Theatre Book Launches, Bookfair

Venue 'Literary Street', Rd No 8, Banjara Hills. Events will take place at Ashiana (near Kalpa School), Saptaparni, Kalakriti Art Gallery, and Lamakaan. 
Admission Admission to all sessions is FREE. 
Broader Objectives of the Festival

• To highlight the rich cultural legacy of Hyderabad and promote the city as a focal point of new creative energy.
• To promote and further the cause of Indian literature in Indian languages and in English.
• To bring into focus the need for an active interaction among local, national, and foreign languages and cultures.
• To create a platform for artistes from different creative fields to interact with each other and share their work among themselves and with their readers/audiences.
• To provide and an opportunity for young and aspiring writers to interact with publishers.

Contact: 

"Hyderabad Literary Trust"

38, Malani Enclave, 

Trimulgherry

SECUNDERABAD 500015

hydlitfest@gmail.com

Web: http://www.hyderabadliteraryfestival.com/about.asp

Courtesy: Dr Somanchi Sai Kumar

National Workshop on SOFT SKILLS - ENDUING TRAINERS - Andhra University College of Engineering (A) - 9th JANUARY, 2014

Greetings!

      Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Andhra University College of Engineering (A), ANDHRA UNIVERSITY, Visakhapatnam – 530 003, Andhra Pradesh, India, is organising a National Workshop on SOFT SKILLS - ENDUING TRAINERS, on  9th JANUARY, 2014.

*Find enclosed the copy of the brochure.*

*REGISTRATION FEE*

Research Scholars : Rs.400

Faculty : Rs.700

Participants from Industry : Rs.1000

*CONTACT*

Dr. A. R. N. Hanuman

Assistant Professor of English

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences

Andhra University College of Engineering (A)

ANDHRA UNIVERSITY

Visakhapatnam – 530 003

Andhra Pradesh, India

Email: alapati.dr@gmail.com

dralapatis@yahoo.co.uk

Phone: +91 9603168881

Courtesy:  Dr Somanchi Sai Kumar

CFP: ‘The Futures of American Studies’: University of Delhi: 3-5 March 2014

CFP: ‘The Futures of American Studies’

Department of English, University of Delhi: 3-5 March 2014

American Studies has, since its formal inception in 1951 via the American Studies Association in the US, been both a seemingly monolithic field of study and a contested space. In its initial and almost exclusively literary avatar the objects of study and analysis were unequivocally white, Anglo-Saxon, and male and F.O. Matthiessen’s American Renaissance was a primary, influential example of this focus. This neo-formalist trend of criticism – the ‘myth and symbol school’ – yielded a rich body of textual readings from R.W.B. Lewis’s The American Adam (1955) to A.N. Kaul’s The American Vision. Subsequently, however, there were interventions that highlighted African American, women, ethnic minority perspectives and historicized the idea of ‘America’ and being American in ways that Matthiessen and his followers conveniently erased. For instance, frontier myths have been complicated by the works of feminist historians such as June Namias (White Captives: Gender and Ethnicity on the American Frontier) or Jo Ella Powell Exley (Frontier Blood) moving away from the Virgin Land paradigm of Henry Nash Smith. Contemporary American Studies is conscious of the hegemonic import of the field descriptor whereby ‘American’ was/is the United States, rather than a bi-continental term problematic in South America as well as amongst US neighbours in the North.

This conference hopes to consider trajectories within the disciplinary domains of AS and revolutionary work being done in interdisciplinary and ‘transnational’ American Studies, ranging from literature, film, music, to history, foreign policy, diaspora studies, and more. Meditations on the futures of AS will hopefully highlight the conceptual fluidity of the term as well as the possibilities arising therein.

Topics for discussion include but are not limited to the following:

1. “What, then, is this American, the new man?”
2. The idea of ‘America’
3. ‘Democracy’ in America, its contents and discontents
4. Multiculturalism in America; immigration in law, politics, popular culture
5. Of the ethnic and the mainstream in American culture; mainstreaming the ethnic
6. Elite culture v popular culture in America
7. The ‘Sixties’ in America: Years of Hope, Years of Rage
8. The decline and disappearance of the American Hero
9. Wars and the making of America: Indian Massacres, the Civil War, World Wars, Korean War, Vietnam, the ‘War on Terror’
10. America’s ‘manifest destiny’ from its ‘discovery’ to date
11. America and the postcolonial
12. Inter-textuality and American cultural production
13. American Studies in India
14. American Studies and the Americas
15. The African-American presence in American, history, culture and literature
16. Hollywood
17. TV (Mad Men, Wire, The Daily Show etc.)
18. The Frontier: Native Americans, women, captivity narratives
19. ‘The boomerang effect’: incarceration in the US

Abstracts of not more than 300 words for papers of about twenty minutes duration are invited. The proposals may be mailed directly to the conference e-mail address amstuddu@gmail.com by 31 December 2013. Please indicate academic affiliation and whether you require any AV equipment for your presentation.

The Conference Committee regrets that, apart from specially invited speakers, travel expenses and board and lodging will not be paid for.

Courtesy:  Dr Somanchi Sai Kumar

Three-day International Conference on Commonwealth Literature - Osmania University - 3 to 5 February 2014

Greetings!
      Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies in collaboration with Osmania University Centre for International Conferences (OUCIP), is organising a Three-day International Conference on Commonwealth Literature, during 3-5 February 2014.

*Find enclosed the copy of the brochure.*

*Important Dates*

Abstract Submission                               :  Contact the organizers

Registration Fee                                      : 10 January 2014

*Registration fee :*                    
US$ 300 (includes Conference fee, membership, Conference Kit, all foods including Conference dinner, The Commonwealth Review subscription, sightseeing trip, four nights accommodation). 
Fee for a couple US$ 400


*Contact*

Secretary, ISCS:         iscstudies@gmail.com

Dr. R.K. Dhawan:       rkdhawan@gmail.com

Dr. Suman Bala:          balasuman@yahoo.com

Dr. Jagdish Batra:       drjagdishbatra@gmail.com

Courtesy: Dr Somanchi Sai Kumar

Modern Drama in Tamil

வியாபாரமாயணம் நவீன நாடகம்

பேராசிரியர் மு.இராமசாமி அவர்களின் இயக்கத்தில் நவீன நாடகம் ’வியாபாரமாயணம்’ 

11/12/2013 மாலை 6.00 மணிக்கு பிஷப் ஹீபர் கல்லூரி-யில் நடைபெற உள்ளது.

நடிப்பு : மு.இராமசாமி ; ஆனந்த்சாமி

இசை: நெல்லை மணிகண்டன்

நெறியாள்கை : ராஜிவ்கிருஷ்ணன்

எழுத்தாக்கம் : மு.இராமசாமி

நிகழ்ச்சி ஒருங்கிணைப்பு:  சாம் கிதியோன் 

அனைவரும் வருக. கலை அமுதம் பருக.

Publication - An International Literary Journal (LLILJ ) - (Spring issue 2014)

Lapis Lazuli- An International Literary Journal (LLILJ )

(Spring issue 2014)

Lapis Lazuli- An International Literary Journal (LLILJ ) is going to publish a Special Issue on LITERARY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO TEXTS.  We encourage authors to submit original scholarly and innovative research papers on the following concept note:

Theory, since its advent, has bedazzled and bewildered many scholars and beginners alike. Traversing the jargon-ridden illuminated territories of Theory remains the eternal quest of every researcher worth his/her merit in the contemporary era. According to Peter Barry, while the 1980′s was thought to be the ‘moment’ of Theory, generating a barrage of books like After Theory, Post Theory and so on in the 1990′s, Theory has proliferated far and beyond from its roots with sustained explorations in the constantly overlapping manifestations of Theory in Inter-disciplinary studies. Prafulla C. Kar talks of how Theory wound its way through the radical period of the 60′s and 70′s and went on to occupy a distinguished niche in the academia in the 80′s and 90′s. thereafter, the flow of Theory seemed to initiate a new kind of dialogue on various issues which had once held the sway in literary and cultural studies, notes Kar.

It can be claimed beyond any scope of argument that literary theory has irrevocably transformed the way in which we produce, distribute and consume literature. Raman Seldon makes a significant observation in this context where he says that while the radical outburst of critical theory has been given a reactionary and philistine response apropos the open challenge of new ideas that it ushers in and at the same time, constructive and genuine engagements with theory have sprung forth in trying to negotiate the question of how to best assimilate and make use of especially such theories as are difficult to comprehend and complex to apply.

Pramod K. Nayar defines literary theory as organized, systematized analysis of literary texts, the institution of Literature and a reflection on the interpretative strategies ‘applied’ to these texts; and cultural theory as moving beyond literary texts studying art forms, films, the super hero comic book, sports, fashion etc– all of which are cultural practices including of course, Literature.

It is from this premise that we invite papers for the Spring issue 2014 of Lapis Lazuli with special emphasis on LITERARY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATION TO TEXTS.  Some of the major theoretical movements and schools of thought could be as under-

• Structuralism
• Post-structuralism
• Deconstuction
• Post-modernism
• Psychoanalytic Criticism
• Feminist Criticism
• Marxist Criticism
• New Historicism
• Cultural Materialism
• Queer Theory
• Post-Feminist Criticism
• Post-colonial Studies
• Critical Race Studies
• Ecocriticism
• Gynocriticism
• Technocriticism.

Contact e-mail: lapislazulijournal@gmail.com

Guest Editor- Khem Raj Sharma
Dept. of English & European Languages
The Central University of Himachal Pradesh

Please visit http://www.pintersociety.com for submission guidelines.

SPRING ISSUE of Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ) the last date for submission is 28 Feb, 2014.

tiNai Ecofilm Festival 2014

Greetings from tiNai Ecofilm Festival 2014.

As you know, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus is organising tiNai Ecofilm Festival on 31 January and 01 February 2014. 

The last date for registration is 15 December 2013.

For more details, check our website: www.teff.in

Kindly encourage your students/colleagues/friends to participate along with you in this unique festival which brings together academics and film industry.

Looking forward to meeting you at Goa.

Warm Regards,

Dr. Rayson K. Alex

tiNai Ecofilm Festival Founder and Co-Director

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

BITS-Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus

Goa.

National Conference on Socio-Cultural Redemption: Comparative Literature - Vasavi College, Erode - 1 February 2014.

Greetings!
       
The Department of  English, Vasavi College, Erode, Tamilnadu, is organising a National Conference on Socio-Cultural Redemption: Comparative Literature, on 1 February 2014.

*Find enclosed the copy of the brochure.*

*Dates to remember*
Ø  Submission of Full Paper                    : contact the organizers, since they have extended the time.
Ø  Date of Seminar                                 : 01 February 2014

*Registration fee :*                      
Ø  Presentation and Publication              : Rs. 500/-


*Contact*
Ø  Organizing Secretary
             Prof. K.A. Agalya        
             09842737323
             srivasavicollge@gmail.com

Courtesy: Mr. Elumalai

International Seminar on Women Novelists in English - VHNSN, TN - 24-01-2014

Greetings!
         
The Research Centre of  English, Viruthunagar Hindu Nadar Senthilkumara Nadar College, Viruthunagar, Tamilnadu, is organising an International Seminar on Women Novelists in English, on 24 January 2014.

*Find enclosed the copy of the brochure.*

*Dates to remember*
Ø  Submission of Full Paper                    : 28 December 2013
Ø  Date of Seminar                                 : 24 January 2014

*Registration fee :*                        
Ø  Presentation and Publication              : Rs. 1500/-
Ø  Presentation Only                             : Rs. 600/-


*Contact*
Ø  Organizing Secretary
             Dr. J. Samuel Kirubakar          
             09842161184
             samuelkirubakar@yahoo.in