Tuesday, October 17, 2023

There's a Spirit in the Woods: International Conference on Literature and Ecology

 

Conference Call

LITERATURE AND ECOLOGY

 

Concept Note

In an era marked by escalating environmental concerns and a pressing need for sustainable coexistence with the natural world, the study of literature through the lens of ecology has gained significance. Ecocriticism, as an interdisciplinary field, explores the intricate relationships between literature, culture, and the environment, offering valuable insights into how human beings perceive, interact with, and represent the natural world in their creative expressions. The proposed conference aims to delve deep into the multifaceted dimensions of ecocritical approaches to literature, fostering discussions that illuminate the symbiotic connection between artistic imagination and ecological consciousness.

The ecocritical approach recognizes the power of literature to shape perceptions and attitudes towards ecology – the environment, environmental ethics, activism, and policy-making. Analyzing the ways in which nature is portrayed, celebrated, exploited, or lamented in literary works, scholars can unravel the ecological, social, and philosophical implications of these representations. The proposed conference will provide a platform for academics, researchers, and enthusiasts to explore key themes that discuss the following issues:

1.      Nature as Character and Metaphor: How does literature personify nature, attributing human-like qualities to natural entities? How do ecological metaphors and symbols enrich our understanding of environmental issues?

2.      Wilderness and Urban Landscapes: Investigate depictions of wilderness and urban environments in literature. What do these portrayals reveal about the human-nature relationship and the impacts of urbanization?

3.      Environmental Justice: Examine narratives that address environmental inequalities, marginalized communities, and the socio-economic implications of ecological degradation.

4.      Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi): Explore the emerging genre of climate fiction, analyzing how authors envision and convey potential futures shaped by climate change.

5.      Eco-spirituality and Indigenous Knowledge: Delve into the spiritual connections between humans and the natural world, drawing from indigenous knowledge systems and cultural perspectives.

6.      Ecofeminism: Discuss the intersections between gender, ecology, and literature, exploring how feminist perspectives contribute to ecological discourse.

7.      Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Analyze how colonial legacies influence literary representations of landscapes, resource exploitation, and the indigenous relationship with nature.

8.      Ecopoetics: Study the aesthetic dimensions of eco-poetry and eco-prose, considering how literary forms and techniques engage with ecological themes.

9.      Theoretical Considerations: Explore and critique the contribution of theorists on the subject of Ecocriticism, Literature and Ecology, and Nature Writing.

10.   Specific authors and their texts.

 

This conference seeks to foster an inclusive and diverse dialogue, inviting scholars from literature, environmental studies, philosophy, cultural studies, and related fields to participate in a stimulating environment, examining literary texts from different historical periods, genres, and cultural contexts. Participants will contribute to a nuanced understanding of humanity's evolving relationship with the natural world. Through critical analysis and discussion, the seminar aims to unearth the transformative potential of literature in shaping ecological awareness and inspiring sustainable action.

Paper proposals are invited that engage with these thematic areas and encourage innovative interpretations, comparative analyses, and interdisciplinary explorations. Fostering collaboration and sharing insights, the seminar aspires to illuminate the ways in which ecocritical approaches to literature contribute to our collective efforts in nurturing a more ecologically conscious and harmonious world.

 

How to submit your abstract:

Abstracts of about 200-250 words are invited on panels 1-10 listed above. Please follow the following format:

 

Panel under which the abstract may be considered (1 to 10):

Mode of presentation: online (for delegates from outside India) or in person?

Is ppt required? Yes or No:

Name of the participant:

Designation and Affiliation:

Email id:

Title of the abstract:

The abstract in 200-250 words

Keywords (4-5):

 

Note:

i.                 The seminar will be hosted by SRM University, Delhi-NCR, Sonepat, India.

ii.                This will be a hybrid event. Participants from outside India will make their presentations online.

iii.               Participants from India will attend the seminar in person.

iv.               Details regarding Registration fee/accommodation will be sent along with the acceptance letters. For (online) participants from abroad there will be no fee.

v.                Full papers will be invited before the seminar.

vi.               Selected papers will go into a volume to be published by Springer.

 

Mail your abstracts by Nov 15, 2023, to ency.iwie@gmail.com with a copy to melusmelow@gmail.com

 

Important Deadlines:

Announcement: October 20, 2023

Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2023

Acceptance letters to be sent by: November 30, 2023

Full papers due by: January 30, 2024.

Proposed conference dates: 2-3 March 2024

MANJU JAIDKA (Prof)

Director of Humanities


Sunday, October 1, 2023

MELOW CONFERENCE 6-8 OCT 2023 - PROGRAM IN DETAIL

 PROGRAM IN DETAIL


 

 

DATE

Session I

Session II

Session III

Session IV

October 6, 2023

9:00 AM Registration

10: 00 AM Inaugural Session

11:00 AM Group Photo   & High Tea

12 noon

KEYNOTE: Prof. ML Raina

(Chair: Krishnan Unni P.)

2:00 to 3:30

Parallel Sessions A1-A6

6 sessions, 4 speakers each

4:00 to 5:00 PM

ISM Special Lecture

Prof Tej Nath Dhar

(Chair: Dipankar Purkayastha)

October 7, 2023

9:30 to 11:00

Parallel Sessions B1-B5

5 sessions, 4 speakers each

11:30 to 1:00 PM

Parallel Sessions C1-C6

6 sessions, 4 speakers each

2:00 to 3:30 PM

Parallel Session D1 – D6

6 sessions, 4 speakers each

3:45 to 5:15 PM

ISM Session

3 speakers

(Chair: Sanjay Mukherjee)

October 8, 2023

9:30 to 11:00

Parallel Sessions E1-E5

5 sessions, 4 speakers each

11:30 to 1:00 PM

Parallel Sessions F1 -F6

6 sessions, 4 speakers each

 

1:00 to 2:00 PM

Valedictory

& GBM

2:00 PM

Lunch & Disperse

AT A GLANCE

 

 

 

PROGRAM IN DETAIL

OCTOBER 6, 2023

10:00 TO 11:00 AM

Inauguration (moderated by Ms Gursheek Kaur)

Welcome note by Manpreet Kaur Kang, Secretary, MELOW

Introduction and felicitation of Guests of Honour

Introduction to the Conference theme Manju Jaidka, President MELOW

Address by the Principal, Dr. Navjot Kaur

 

11:00 AM TO 12 NOON: PHOTO SESSION & HIGH TEA

 

12:00 NOON TO 1:00 PM

Keynote Address: PROF. M.L. RAINA

Chair: PROF. KRISHNAN UNNI P.


PROGRAM IN DETAIL

6 OCTOBER 

2:00 to 3:30 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS A1 TO A6

A1

CHAIR: PROF. AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN

SPEAKERS:

Arusharko Banerjee

Department of English, Kidderpore College, Kolkata -700023.

arusharkobanerjee26@gmail.com

“To be "Human" or "Humane"? - The Debate of Climate Change”

Adela Kuik-Kalinowska

Pomeranian University in Słupsk (Poland)

Institut of Philology

adelakuik@poczta.onet.pl
“Death without pathos. Fryderyk Chopin's last moments in Cyprian Norwid's poetry and prose”

Bindiya Rani

Research Scholar, Department Of English, PU, Chd.

bindiyavishavkarma34@gmail.com

“Memory of the Holocaust as a Testimony of Dehumanization: Primo Levi’s If This is a Man”

Sayan Chatterjee
Department of English
The Bhawanipur Education Society College

University Of Calcutta
sayan.chatterjee@thebges.edu.in
“Re-negotiating Borders: Heterotopia and Witches in select short fictions of Mahasweta Devi”

 

 

A2

CHAIR: PROF. ROSHAN LAL SHARMA

SPEAKERS (4):

Divya S

Department of English

Bishop Moore College

Mavelikara, Alappuzha Dist.

Kerala

divyasravindranathan@gmail.com

“Arborescent Musings in the Anthropocentric World: Ficus carica in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees”

Hutulu Dasai                   

Research Scholar, Christ University, Bengalaru

English and Cultural Studies Department.

hutulu.dasai@res.christuniversity.in

 and

Sharmila Narayana

Professor, Christ University, Bengalaru, School of Law

sharmila.narayana@christuniversity.in

“Non-human Subjects and Environmental Ethics: An Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse”

JapPreet Kaur Bhangu

Professor & Head, Dept. Of Management & Humanities, Sliet Longowal, Dist. Sangrur, Punjab 148106 India

 jkbhangu@gmail.com  jappreetkaurbhangu@sliet.ac.in

“Beyond Borders: Geetanjali Shree’s Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand)”

Nasser Dasht Peyma, 

English Department, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Ancient Indian Wisdom, 

Shoolini University 

Solan, HP 

nasserpeyma@shooliniuniversity.com

“Harmony and Balance in Brenda Wong Aoki’s ‘The Queen's Garden’:  An Ecocritical Study”

 

A3

CHAIR: DR. ABIN CHAKRABORTY

SPEAKERS (4):

Kriti Kuthiala Kalia

Assistant Professor (P.G Department of English),

D.A.V. College, Sector 10, Chandigarh

interact_k@yahoo.com

“The Non- Conscious Consciousness: Subverting Anthropocentric Discourse in Yan Lianke’s Years, Months Days via Human Subjectivity”

Manthan Dhiman

Independent Researcher

Lpmanthan@gmail.com

 “My Own Inferno: A Spherological study of loneliness, depression, and addiction in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest”

Maria Pratibha Da Cruz

Assistant Professor at Fr. Agnel College of Arts and Commerce, Goa

maria27dacruz@gmail.com

Kadambri Gasso

PhD Research Scholar

Department of English

BPSMV, Sonipat (Haryana)

gassokadambri@gmail.com

"We Know What Poonachi Thinks: A Study of Animal Subjectivity in Perumal Murugan’s Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat"

 

 

 

A4

CHAIR: DR. ILA RATHOR

SPEAKERS:

Sunaina Jain

Assistant Professor

Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh

sunainajain@mcmdavcwchd.in

“Trauma in Human/Non-Human World: A Critical Reading of Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees”

Aditi Magotra

Research Scholar (Literature), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Jammu.

2018rhu0038@iitjammu.ac.in

“Ghassan Under ‘Moderate Pressure’: An Analysis of Memory, Torture, and Trauma Faced by Ghassan in Sacco’s Palestine”

Amit Narula

Assistant Professor in English

DAV College, Chandigarh

Amitnarula@Davchd.Ac.In

Traumatic Memory Vis-A-Vis Memorable Trauma: A Study Of The Voices Of Dalits In Dalit Literature

Bhakti Vaishnav

Assistant Professor (English),Government Arts and Science College, Bavla , GujaratUniversity

vaishanvbhakti@gmail.com

“Individual and Collective Trauma in Han Kang’s Human Acts An Analysis  from the  Perspective of Pluralistic Model of Trauma Theory”

 

 

A5

CHAIR: PROF. ANIL RAINA

SPEAKERS (4):

Kalpana Purohit

Professor, Department of English, JNV University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan)

Kalpana.p1410@gmail.com

“Traversing The Narratives Of Violence, Memory And Identity With Special Reference To Khaled Hosseini And Atiq Rahimi”

Khagendra Acharya (1), Dr. Bashabi Gupta (2), Mr. Tirtha Raj Ghimire (3)
1. Associate Professor, Kathmandu University; 2.  Professor, Delhi University; 3. Faculty, Fluorescent School 

khagendra@ku.edu.np

“Physiological Manifestation of Trauma in Maoist Partisans’ Narrative”

Khushboo Thakur

Research Scholar,  Shoolini University, Solan, H.P.

khushboothakur502@gmail.com

“The Struggle for Reconciliation: Trauma and Memory in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea”



Madhav Dubey

PhD student, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

nexan3115@gmail.com

Tracing the Trauma of Displacement in Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir”

 

A6

CHAIR: DR. NIPUN KALIA

SPEAKERS:

Renuka Dhyani

Associate Professor

Department of English

SMMD Government Sanskrit College, Panchkula (Haryana)

 renukadhyani06@gmail.com

 “There are Roughly Zones: Insightful Poetry from the Hills of Uttarakhand”

K Aravind Mitra
Assistant Professor
Dept. of English, Govt First Grade College, Napoklu, Mangalore University, 
kookivasu@gmail.com
The Virtual Solution: A Study of the Exam, A Kurdish Exam on Education and Women Empowerment 

Bashabi Gogoi

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Tezpur University, Assam myselfluna24@gmail.com

“The Lambs Are Silent”: Interpreting Trauma In The Novel And Film Adaptation Of The Silence Of The Lambs

Beant Kaur

Research Scholar, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh (160014)

jatanabeant007@gmail.com

“Deconstructing the Discourse of Emigration: A Critical Study of Yaar Chale Bahar”

 

 

3:30 to 4:00 PM:  Tea Break

 

4:00 – 5:00 PM

SPECIAL ISAAC SEQUEIRA MEMORIAL LECTURE

SPEAKER: PROF. TEJ NATH DHAR

CHAIR: PROF DIPANKAR PURKAYASTHA

 

5:30 PM – CULTURAL PROGRAM

7:30 PM -PRINCIPAL’S DINNER


 

7 OCTOBER

9:30 to 11:00 AM - PARALLEL SESSIONS B1 TO B5 

B1

CHAIR: PROF KALPANA PUROHIT

SPEAKERS:

Palak Dawar
Research Scholar, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Chandigarh - 160014
reachpalak25@gmail.com
"Movement Across Disciplines: A Photo Essay Analysing the New Turn to Plastic in Literary Theory."

Pooja Duggal

PhD Research Scholar (JRF), Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University

poojaduggal94@gmail.com

Rethinking the Animal: A Critical Study of Sharankumar Limbale's The Outcaste: Akkarmashi”

Reeswav Chatterjee

State Aided College Teacher I

Maheshtala College

Calcutta University

“Spectres of the Future: Marginal Children of Posthumanity in Selected Stories by Saikat Mukhopadhyay”

Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman                                                                                                  

Professor

Department of English and Modern Languages

Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka

ahsanuzzaman@iub.edu.bd

"Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas' Travels from Text to Screen”   

 

 

B2

CHAIR: PROF RIMIKA SINGHVI

SPEAKERS:

 

Shalini Chakraborty,

Assistant Professor of English at Srinath University

shalini.chakraborty1996@gmail.com

“Writing the animal- Anthropomorphic language and human subjectivity depicting the canine consciousness in Paul Auster’s Timbuktu”

Sirishty Thapa 

PhD Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh.

thapasrishti8@gmail.com

“Blurring the Boundaries between Animals and Humans: An Interpretation of Ruskin Bond’s Select Stories”

Sumnima Parajuli
Assistant Professor
Department Of English
SRM University, Sikkim
sumnimaparajuli.p@srmus.edu.in

“Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Subjectivities in The Overstory (2018) and Bees (2014)”

Livine Ancy A

PhD research scholar,

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

livine2212@gmail.com

“Exploring Caregiving Dynamics through Comics: Interactions Between Humans and Technology”

 

 

B3

CHAIR: DR. HEM RAJ BANSAL

SPEAKERS:

Kusum Bhatia 

 Assistant Professor, Government PG College, Ambala Cantt. (Affiliated to Kurukshetra University), Haryana
Kusumbhatia505@gmail.com
Iconographic Shifts in the Retellings of the Mahabharata Stories

Malvika Avasthi 

Ph.D. Scholar, Shoolini University Solan, India

malvikaavassthi@gmail.com

The Reel and the Real in Me Before You 

Manik Ahuja

PhD Senior Research Fellow, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh

manikn14@gmail.com

“Dystopian Reality: An Exploration of the 'Demotic' in The Truman Show”

Nipun Kalia

Associate Professor (English),

University Institute of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Chandigarh University, Mohali

nipunkalia17@gmail.com

“The Communion of Dance: Politics, History and Performance in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018)”

 

B4

CHAIR: PROF ROSHAN LAL SHARMA

SPEAKERS:

Bilge Mutluay Cetintas

Assoc. Prof. Dr. / Department of American Culture and Literature / Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

bilge.mutluay@gmail.com

“‘Home Is Where One Starts From’: Generational Trauma And Postmemory In Nora Krug’s Heimat”

Cem Kılıçarslan
Assistant Professor
Dept of American Culture and Literature

Hacettepe University Ankara Turkey
cemkilicarslan@yahoo.com
The Permeable Membrane: 
Cyberspace Borders in Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway

 

Dolly Shah, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Himachal Pradesh University

Neha Negi, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Himachal Pradesh University

Email- shahdolly298@gmail.com

“Thenmozhi Soundararajan's Dalit feminist viewpoint on memory trauma and survival in her book Trauma of Castes”

Jayashree Borah

Associate Professor

Department of English

Indraprastha College for Women

University of Delhi

jayashreeborah@gmail.com

Traumatic Memory, Complicity and Narrative in Select Assamese Fiction

 

 

B5

CHAIR: PROF. TEJ NATH DHAR

SPEAKERS:

Mariya Dogan

PhD Student

Department of American Culture and Literature

Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye

mariya_dogan@yahoo.com

“‘The Future is History’: Dystopian Discourse

in Post-Soviet Russian American Fiction”

Megha Suresh Kamble,

Research Student (Ph.D.),

Department of English,

Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

epmeghak@gmail.com

And

Tripti Karekatti,

Professor and Head,

Department of English,

Shivaji University, Kolhapur.

triptikarekatti@gmail.com

 “Violence, Child Sexual Abuse And Trauma In Rituparna Chatterjee’s The Water Phoenix (2020)”

Merve Özman

Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

ozman@hacettepe.edu.tr

“Diving in and out of Memories: Becoming in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep

 

 

 

11:00 AM to 11:30:  Tea Break

 

11:30 to 1:00 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS C1 TO C6 

C1

CHAIR: DR. JAYASHREE BORAH

SPEAKERS:

Nidhi Rana

Assistant Professor

Department of English

Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector-42, Chandigarh

rananidhi312910@gmail.com

“The Afterlives: From Violence and Trauma of War to Healing in Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo” 

Nitika Stan

Research scholar

Department of English

Shoolini University, India

nitikastan@shooliniuniversity.com

Exploring Violence, Trauma and Recovery in Chimananda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Feminist Perspective”

Parminder Singh

Assistant Professor

Dev Samaj College for Women, Chandigarh

parmindersinghaziz@gmail.com

“Haunting Memories - Death and Destruction in the Representative Poetry of Indian Partition”

Pradipta Shyam Chowdhury

Assistant Professor of English, University of North Bengal

pradiptashyamchowdhury@gmail.com

Memories in Food, Food of Memories: Blurring Borders through Food and Foodways in Indubala Bhater Hotel (2020)”

 

 

C2

CHAIR: DR. KAVITA ARYA

SPEAKERS:

Priya Uthaiah. I.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of English

Maharani's Arts College for Women, Mysore
drpriya202122@gmail.com

Memory and Post-memory in Eka Kurniawan’s Beauty is a Wound

Rajdeep Guha

PhD Scholar, Dept. of English,

Lovely Professional University

Punjab, India

rajdeepguha82@gmail.com

“Violence and Trauma as the Leitmotif in Select Works of Mahasweta Devi”

 

Ranjeet Kaur

Teaching Assistant

Dept of Agricultural Journalism, Language and Culture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
ranjeetsohi@gmail.com
“Trauma, Memory, and Identity Crisis in Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters”

Ritu Sharma

Asst. Professor, Dept. of English

D.A.V. College, Sec.10 Chandigarh

ritusharma@davchd.ac.in

Exploring the Intersections of Time, Trauma and Racial Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred

 

 

C3

CHAIR:  DR. AMIT NARULA

SPEAKERS:

Sandeep Kaur

Assistant professor in English

Amar Shaheed Baba Ajit Singh Jujhar Singh Memorial College, Bela, Ropar.

sandysomal@gmail.com

“Reading Trauma and Its Reflections on the Body and Self in Namita Ghokhale's The Blind Matriarch”

Saumya Sharma

PhD Scholar, Department of English GGSIPU

ssaumya800@gmail.com

“Representation of Rape Trauma in Shakespeare Onscreen: A Look at Julie Taymor’s Adaptation of Titus Andronicus”

Saurav Shandil

Research Scholar

Department of English CUHP Dharmashala

sauravshandil@gmail.com

“Fact-Fiction Interface: Revisiting the Holocaust Memory, Trauma and Violence in The Librarian of Auschwitz”

Savi Khera

Assistant Professor, English

Department of Indian & Foreign Languages

 Gurugram University, Gurugram (Haryana)

 kherasavi958@gmail.com 

“Scepticism, Territorial Concerns and Infracted Humanity in the selected works from the Northeast”

 

 

 

C4

CHAIR: DR KHAGENDRA ACHARYA

SPEAKERS:

Sheetal Kumari

Research Scholar (HSS, IIT Roorkee)
sheetal_k@hs.iitr.ac.in
“The ‘Red-Light’ Community and Collective Trauma: Reading Tracey Hoffmann’s Valley of Chaya

Shishu Bala

Associate Professor

English Department - VGC Mandi, H.P.
shishuenglish@gmail.com

And

Suman Sigroha
Associate Professor
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Mandi, H.P.
suman.sigroha@gmail.com

Violence, Trauma, and memory in Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy

Shivani Chaudhary 

Assistant Professor of English, GDC Dehar, Distt. Mandi (H.P.)

shivanisoni27@gmail.com

“Trauma Narrative and Healing in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony”

Shraddha Singh 

Ph.D Scholar, University School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi. 

singhsshraddha96@gmail.com

“Sheher Dar Sheher: Remapping Lucknow after Partition Through the Reading of Sleepwalkers by Joginder Paul”

 

 

C5

CHAIR: DR. BILGE MUTLUAY CETINTAS

SPEAKERS:

Shoaah Amjad (First Author),  Research Scholar, Dept. of English Literature & Language, IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur

shoaahamjad@gmail.com

and

Rimika Singhvi (Second Author), Professor & Head, Dept. of English Literature & Language, IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur 

rimikasinghvi@gmail.com 

 “Walking through Occupation: Reading Selected Fictional Works on Everyday Palestinian Resistance and Remembrance”

Nujhat Nuari Islam

ICCR PhD Scholar, The English and Foreign Languages University

neel.nujhat@gmail.com

and

Shafaat Mobarok Abdul Jabber, ICCR PhD Scholar, The English and Foreign Languages University

bhatirdesh@yahoo.com

Digital Literature in the 21stCentury: Prospects and Challenges

 

Somrita Misra 

 Assistant Professor of English, Chanchal College, P.O Chanchal, Dis-Malda, West Bengal-732123 

somritamisra2009@gmail.com 

"Without memory there is no healing": Exploring Memory and Postmemory in Rahul Pandita's Our Moon Has Blood Clots”

Sonika Thakur

Ph.D. Research Scholar

Shoolini University, Solan

sonikathakur1@gmail.com

“Violence, Trauma, Memory in  Shashi Deshpande’s Select Short Stories”

 

 

C6

CHAIR: PROF MANPREET KANG

SPEAKERS:

Supriya Mohan Patil

Research Student (Ph.D.), Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur

supriyamohanpatil@yahoo.co.in

 And

Tripti Karekatti

Professor and Head, Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur

triptikarekatti@gmail.com

 “Mystery, an Essential Fabric: Exploration/Study of the Narrative Design and Structure of Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a Sensitive Representation of the Traumatic Unspeakable”

Tanushree Sarkar
Assistant Professor

Department of English

SRM University Sikkim

tanushreescholar2020@gmail.com

“Mossy Violet of the Human Mind: Indira Goswami’s ‘Under the Shadow of Kamakhya’”

Umang

Research Scholar, Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala

umang1244@gmail.com

“Remembering Violence and Trauma of the Partition across Borders” 

Valentina Bhargava Sohaili

Research Student (Ph.D.) Department of English, Shivaji

University, Kolhapur

vbsohaili.593@gmail.com

and

Tripti Karekatti

Professor and Head of Department of English, Shivaji

University, Kolhapur

triptikarekatti@gmail.com

Overcoming War Caused Trauma: The Healing Effect Of Positive Counsel In Literature

 

1:00 to 2:00 PM  LUNCH BREAK

 

2:00 to 3:30 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS D1 TO D 6

D1

CHAIR: PROF DIPANKAR PURKAYASTHA

SPEAKERS:

Varnika

 PhD Research Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala

varnika025@gmail.com

Exploring the Memory, Trauma and Survival of a Yazidi Girl in Nadia Murad’s The Last Girl”

Vinita Vincent

Doctoral Scholar in the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad
la20resch14001@iith.ac.in

Violence, Victimization, and Traumatic   History in Jason Reynolds’ Long Way Down   and Kekla Magoon’s Light It Up

Vinod Kumar Chopra

 Principal, GSSS Nagnoli Distt Una HP.
drvinodkchopra7@gmail.com

“Trauma Emerging Out of Violence: A Study of Select Short Stories on the Partition Of India”

Vipasha Bisht

 PhD Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala.

vipashabisht04@gmail.com

 “A Comparative Analysis of Violence and Trauma in Abhishek Majumdar’s Plays, The Djinns of Eidgah and Pah-Lah”

 

D2

CHAIR: DR. MOUSUMI CHOWDHURY

SPEAKERS:

Biraj Poddar & Bibhash Anjan              
Tezpur University                           
birajpoddar.bp99@gmail.com  &   BibhashAC@gmail.com                
“Analysing Paradigms of Pain in the BBC Adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People”

Divita Singh

Research Scholar, Department of English and Cultural Studies.

Panjab University, Chandigarh

dynamicdivita@gmail.com

“Redefining Dalitatlity; Portrayal of Dalit Assertion, Agency, and Identity in Nagraj Majule’s Jhund”

Ila Rathor

Assistant Professor,

Head, Department of English

Dev Samaj College for Women, Chandigarh.

 ila13may@gmail.com

“The Reel meets Real in Vikramidtya Motwane's Jubilee”

Pallavi Panda

Research Scholar, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences

Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat

panda.pallavi.96@gmail.com

and

Urvashi Kaushal

Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Humanities, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, k.urvashi@amhd.svnit.ac.in  

“Semiotic Analysis of the Film Qala”

 

 

D3

CHAIR: PROF KRISHNAN UNNI P.

SPEAKERS:

Samyukthah A.
Official designation (Designation/Dept/College/University): PHD SCHOLAR, SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS, IIT JODHPUR

anandhasayanam.1@iitj.ac.in
Historical Memory, Postmemory and the Post-truth Society in Japanese Anime Films”

Sanjay Mukherjee

Professor, Department of English & CLS

Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat

sanjaymukherjee18@gmail.com

“Always Under Accusation: Poetry Vs. Truth”

Sonika Kumari
Sharda University (Research Scholar)-English Department
sharmasonicaa26@gmail.com
“Tamil Diaspora in French Antilles”

Sonu Lohat
Associate Professor of English. RG Govt. College Saha Ambala (Haryana). Affiliation: Higher Education, Haryana

sublimesonu@gmail.com

Dialectics of the Characters’ Roles as Native Indians or Elite Natives in The God of Small Things”

 

 

D4

CHAIR: PROF. TEJ NATH DHAR

SPEAKERS:

Rupam Gogoi

Assistant Professor, Department of English, North Lakhimpur College (Autonomous), North Lakhimpur, Assam

rupamgogoi14@gmail.com

Death, Death Rituals and Folk Life: An Analytical Study of Selected Fiction from North East India”

Hem Raj Bansal

 Assistant Professor of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala

rajbansal24mar@gmail.com

“Rethinking (Islamic?) Terrorism in the Era of Post-truth: A Study of Richard Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist”

Gulsara Ahmed

Research Scholar

Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

 ahmedgul212@gmail.comgulsara.ahmed@rediffmail.com

“Fictions of Memory, Remembrance and History: Exploring Rushdie’s Re-Engagement with the Past”

Kumari Lama

Asst. Professor of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal

 klama54@gmail.com

 “Revisiting the History to Reclaim Identities: A Critical Analysis of Syangtan and Tamang’s Texts”

 

 

D5

CHAIR: DR. SHIMI DOLEY

SPEAKERS:

 

Abin Chakraborty

Assistant Professor in English, Chandernagore College

abin_chakraborty@yahoo.co.in

“Fabulous History, Fearful Future: Reading Rushdie’s Victory City as National Allegory”

Amandeep Kour

Research Scholar 

Department of English and Cultural Studies, 

Panjab University, 

Chandigarh

tanuaman24@gmail.com

“Pure Consciousness: The Ultimate Truth in Poetry of Lalleshwari”

Arisha Habib

PhD Research Scholar

Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

arisha.habib@gmail.com

"Truth, Perception and Control: Seeing and Unseeing in China Miéville’s novel The City & The City"

Debasmita Das

PhD Scholar

St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata

eternophiliac@gmail.com

“In/Spectre and the Construction of ‘Truths’”

 

 

 3:30 – 3:45   TEA BREAK

 

3:45 – 5:15 PM -  ISM AWARD SESSION

CHAIR: PROF SANJAY MUKHERJEE

SPEAKERS:

 

Amitrajeet Mukherjee
Research Scholar, Delhi University, Dept of English
amitrajeetm@gmail.com
“South Asia’s Second World War: Exploring the Legacies of World War II in Indian Memoirs”

 Mandeep Kaur

Assistant Professor

P.G. Department of English

Gujranwala Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Ludhiana

Email: Mandeep210191@gmail.com

“Madness Plagued by Memories in Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance”

Sayantani Sengupta
Official Designation (Designation/Dept/College/University): FACULTY, DEPARTMENT OF English, Rajiv Gandhi National Institute Of Youth Development
sayantani123sengupta@gmail.com
 "(Non)Human Subjectivity and Inter-Species Interaction in Hitoshi Iwaaki’s Parasyte"

 

 


8 OCTOBER

9:30 to 11:00 AM -PARALLEL SESSIONS E1 TO E5

E1

CHAIR: DR. NAMRATA NISTANDRA

SPEAKERS:

Ahana Bhattacharyya

Lecturer/ Department of English/ Chakdaha College/ University of Kalyani

bhattacharyyaahana@gmail.com

A Cross-study of Time and Trauma in the Feminist Space of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Gurpreet Kaur 
PhD Research Scholar 
(Dept. of English & Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh)
 
gk244253@gmail.com

“Postfashion and Diasporic Designs: A Study of Selected Texts in Media”

Jasmine Sharma
Assistant Professor
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, New Delhi
jasmine@vips.edu
“Science. Technology, and Temporality: Ted Chiang's "The Merchant and the Alchemist Gate" as a Philosophical Science Fiction”

Kavita Arya

Associate Professor,

Department of English & other foreign languages.

Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi (UP) -21002

 kvtarya@gmail.com

Interdisciplinary Crossings in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide

 

 

E2

CHAIR: PROF RIMIKA SINGHVI

SPEAKERS:

Aalisha Chauhan
Doctoral Research Scholar (SRF)
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh
aalishachauhan421@gmail.com

“1947 Partition Archive: Contextualising the Narratives of Trauma and Postmemorial Community of Survivors

Pallabee Dasgupta

Assistant Professor

Dept. of English

Smt. B.D Jain Girls P.G College, Agra

paldg2009@gmail.com

“Femme Fatales in Science Fiction Cinema: Disembodiment and Gender in Posthuman Dystopias”

Shimi Moni Doley

Asst. Professor, Dept. of English

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi- 25

shimi.doley@gmail.com

Posthuman/Cyborg Subjectivity in the Science Fiction Clone: A Reading through the Lens of Cultural History

Surabhi Chandan

Assistant Professor, SRM University and Research Scholar at Central University Himachal Pradesh

surabhichandan92@gmail.com

“Unveiling the Catastrophic Future: Science, Technology and Ecological Crisis in Oryx and Crake”

 

 

E3

CHAIR: DR. SUSMITA TALUKDAR

SPEAKERS:

Tarika
Assistant Professor

Satyawati (E) College, University of Delhi

“Nation as History and Nation as Memory in Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri”

Vidu Vijayan

 Assistant Professor, Bishop Moore College, Mavelikara, University of Kerala

viduvijayan59@gmail.com

"History in the Making: A Study of Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084 as an attempt at historical documentation of the Naxalite movement in Bengal"

Manika Ahuja

Designation: UGC NET JRF

 University: Pursuing Ph.D. in English Literature from PG Department of English, MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh (affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh)

 manikaahuja1@gmail.com

  M(othering) the Mother: Rethinking Reproductive Justice and Abortion Rights by Critically Analysing Selected Literary Works 

Vandana Sukheeja

Assistant Professor, English

Miri Piri Khalsa College, Bhadaur, Barnala

vsukheeja@gmail.com

“Literary Technocracy and Digitalization in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West”

 

 

E4

CHAIR:  PROF. JAPPREET BHANGU

SPEAKERS:

Rasheda Parveen 

 Assistant Professor, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh-522237.

 rasheda.parveen13@gmail.com

 “Medical Politics and Confessions of Allen Ginsberg: Re-reading his Poems and Travel Diaries”

Mousumi Chowdhury

Associate Professor,

Department of English,

Raja Rammohun Roy Mahavidyalaya,

University of Burdwan

mcenglishrmc@gmail.com

 “Post-truth Politics and EU Immigration: A Study of Sam Byers’ Brexit Novel Perfidious Albion

 

Sumita Kumari

PhD Research Scholar

Department of English, School of Languages

Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala

sumitakumari1314@gmail.com

Museum as the Site of Reconstructing Memory in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence”

Swastik Sharma

PhD Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala

swastiksharma44@gmail.com

“Using Historical Memory to Critique the Post-truth Politics in Gabriel Garica Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch”

 

 

E5

CHAIR: DR. SUNAINA JAIN

SPEAKERS:

Medini Prabhu

Asst. Prof., Dept. Pf English, Surana College Autonomous

mediniprabhu@gmail.commedini.eng@suranacollege.edu.in

“Animal subjectivities as portrayed in literature”

Mettin Jacob

Ph.D. Scholar, Discipline of English,

Humanities and Social Sciences Department, 

IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

 mettinjacob@gmail.com

“Human and Nonhuman Subjectivities: Blurring Boundaries in a Diffractive Ecosocial Politics of Drought in Jaideep Hardikar’s Ramrao (2021)”

Noorussabah
Research scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
noorofficial000@gmail.com
"Action, Intentionality, Responsibility: the Human and the Non-human in Weird Fiction" 

 

11:30 to 1:00PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS F1 TO F6

F1

CHAIR: PROF KRISHNAN UNNI P.

SPEAKERS:

Madhurima Nargis
Assistant Professor, Pandaveswar College, KNU, West Bengal
"A Voyeur of Barbarity and Death  Analyzing select panels from Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde"

Namrata Nistandra

Associate Professor,

Dept of English,

Doaba College, Jalandhar. 

namratanistandra09@gmail.com

Exiles and Prisoners: Literary Representation of Illness in Albert Camus’s The Plague

Priyanka Singh

PhD (English) Scholar, USHSS, GGSIPU, DWARKA, NEW DELHI

priyanka862907@gmail.com

“Understanding Death’s relation to Society: A Reading of Jose Saramago’s Death with Interruptions”

 

F2

CHAIR: PROF ROSHAN SHARMA

SPEAKERS:

Ruchi Raj Thakur

Assistant Professor

Dept. of English, HP NLU, Shimla

ruchithakur@hpnlu.ac.in

“Narratives of Partition, ordeal and Remembrances in Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas and Yashpal’s Jhoota Sach”

Sanya Nagpaul

Independent Scholar, M.Phil qualified

nagpaulsanya@gmail.com

“Examining the Idea of Labour in All That Breathes (2022)”

Shivalika Agarwal

 Senior Research Fellow

 IIT Roorkee

 s_agarwal@hs.iitr.ac.in

“Are we for Ree[al]: Understanding the Changing Representation of the Mothers in Indian Cine [Maa]”

Sumana Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Assam University, Silchar

csumone@gmail.com
“From Print To Reel To The Digital: The Metamorphosis Of Stories”

 

 

F3

CHAIR: PROF. MANPREET KAUR KANG

SPEAKERS:

 

Subhash Verma

Assistant Professor of English, RNT Govt. College Sarkaghat, Mandi, HP 175024

subhash.hpu@gmail.com

“Religious Hypocrisy, Protection Acts and Trauma of Being an Aboriginal in Doris Kartinyeri’s Kick the Tin and Glenyse Ward’s Wandering Girl”

Snigdha Nagar

 Assistant Professor, English, Berhampore College, Kalyani University.

 s.nagar.snigdha@gmail.com

 “Centrality of Memory and Forgetting in Dystopia”

Poulami Banerjee

Ph.D. Research Scholar. Shoolini University, Solan 

poulamibanerjee@shooliniuniversity.com

Komi Can't Communicate and Social Anxiety: Understanding Fictional and Real-Life Experiences”

Ananya Pahari
Research Scholar and Principal Investigator, Research Mentorship Programme, UK and AIFEST, Hyderabad.
ananyapahari6@gmail.com
“The Spiritual Idealisation of Death in the Post-Covid times: Through the selected works of Keats, Andre Gide’s novel Strait is the Gate and J.M.Synge’s play Riders to the Sea

 

F4

CHAIR: PROF JAPPREET BHANGU

SPEAKERS:

 

Susmita Talukdar

Professor/ English/ Padmakanya Multiple Campus/ Tribhuvan University

susmitatalukdar2013@gmail.comsusmitatalukdar2021@outlook.com

“Spatial Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts”

Thamarai Selvan

Research Scholar,

School of Humanities and Social Sciences,

VIT-AP UNIVERSITY.

mthamaraiselvan32@gmail.com

“Zoo Poetics/Zoo Politics in the Ramayana

Navdeep Kahol

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government College, Dera Bassi, Punjab  

navdeepkahol@gmail.com

Rousing Ghosts of Sri Lankan Civil War: A Study of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida as a Political Satire”

Neetu Kumari Gupta

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Nowgong Girls’ College

Gauhati University

neetugupta08@gmail.com

“Trauma and Survival Crises in Lalithambika Antharjanam’s  ‘A Leaf in the Storm’”

 

F5

CHAIR: PROF SANJAY MUKHERJEE

SPEAKERS:

Sakshi Sundaram

Assistant Professor

Vivekananda School of English Studies

VIPS-TC

sakshisundaram09@gmail.com

“The Un/Dead Trespasser: A Critical Reading of Shehan Karunatilaka’s The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”

Disha Pokhriyal

Assistant Professor

Department Of English

Satyawati College (Evening)

University Of Delhi

“A Tenacious Vulnerable Art: Reading Simone Weil And Frida Kahlo”

Mahi Kichu
Assistant Professor in English
VIT-AP University, AP
mahi.kichu3@gmail.com

“The Mechanics of Violence and Trauma: Re-presenting Sri Lankan War through Language and Art in Vanni”

Mirza Sadaf Fatima

Independent Scholar

Bhaderwah, J&K

sadaf.fatima290@gmail.com

“Literature, War & Afghan Writers: A Study of Select Works of Contemporary Afghan Writers”

 

 

F6

CHAIR: PROF. DIPANKAR PURUKAYASTHA

SPEAKERS:

Garima Malik

 Research Scholar

Department of English, Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Viswavidyalaya

garimamalik@live.com

“Memories of Violence and Wartime Discourse: A Study of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kenzaburō Ōe’s The Silent Cry”

Huzaifa Pandit

Assistant Professor

Government Degree College Pampore, Kashmir

huzu84@gmail.com

“Countries of Memory: Trauma and Contest in The Country Without a Post Office

Jitender Thakur

 PhD Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala.

jitander.thakur.jt@gmail.com 

 “Impact of Traumatic Violence in Shaping Memory: A Study of Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to the Deep North”

Manika Arora

Assistant Professor of English, Mehr Chand Mahajan D.A.V. College for Women Chandigarh
aroramanika2@gmail.com
  Trauma of Witness and ‘Unspeakability’: A Reading of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner 

 

1:00 PM to 1:30 PM – VALEDICTORY            1:30 PM to 2:00 PM – LUNCH & DISPERSE