This is an academic organization, one of the foremost of its kind in India. The members are college and university teachers, scholars and critics interested in literature, particularly in American Literature and World Literatures. The Organization meets almost every year over an international conference. It seeks to maintain academic standards, encourages younger scholars and provides a forum for senior scholars in literature.
The Panjab University will collaborate with the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi and the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World (MELOW) to hold an International Conference on “Literature and Culture Post-1980” from Feb 25 to 27, 2010. The Conference will dove-tail into the First Chandigarh Literary Festival for which there will be several well-known literary figures visiting Chandigarh. The event has been announced over the Internet through different mailing listservs and the expected participation from Chandigarh, India and abroad will be around 200 delegates.
MELOW (website www.melus-melow.org) is an independent, registered, non-profit organization committed to the study World Literatures. A team of senior Professors from different universities manages the affairs of the Society. It has an International advisory board and to date it has held nine conferences. The Februrary 2010 conference will be its tenth international conference.
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi (www.chandigarhsahityaakademi.blogspot.com) is governed by the Chandigarh Arts Council (UT) and organizes Literary events from time to time. In collaboration with the PanjabUniversity and MELOW, the Akademi is, for the first time in the history of Chandigarh, organizing a Literary Festival.
WELCOME TO THE INAUGURATION ON 25TH FEB 2010 AT 9.45 AM.
VENUE: ENGLISH AUDITORIUM, PANJABUNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH
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