Type of Event:
Conference
Date:
2009-01-28
Venue:
University, Hyderabad (India)
Event theme(s):
The sub-themes include: 1. Forms, genres, themes; 2. Literary trends and movements; 3. Cultural interaction and exchange; 4. Migration and border-crossings; 5. Translation; 6. Travel writing; 7. Histories and genealogies; 8. Folklore; 9. Literatures of the marginalized; 10. Philosophy and religion.
Description:
Civilizations impact upon each other. Those moments of contact can be either transitory or long-lasting; they can give rise to new forms and ideas or displace and/or transform old ones. This conference is planned as a fusion event to map and celebrate the meeting of literatures and cultures to foster better understanding of both the bonds that bind and the differences that must be respected. While the theme of the conference invites discussion of co-existent yet distinct literary and cultural trends, movements and histories, the notion of confluence hopes to complicate the workings of unilateral influence and power paradigms and engage with the study of relations, literary and cultural flows, and the exchange of ideas. The effort is not to forge any fictive unity among people, societies and nations, but to understand the thrilling harmony of diverse melodies that meeting of cultures can generate.
Keynote Speakers:
Conference Coordinators: Professor Tutun Mukherjee, CCL, UoH; Professor Abhai Maurya, EFLU.
Deadline for submission of proposals:
2008-09-15
Registration deadline:
Contact details:
For further information, please contact:
Dr. Chandra Mohan
Dr. Sayantan Dasgupta
General Secretary, CLAI Joint Secretary,
CLAI Eg-106 Inderpuri,
Dept of Comparative Literature
New Delhi 110012
Jadavpur University,
Kolkata 700032
anukul7@vsnl.com;
011-25835385
dasgupta.sayantan@gmail.com
09831191181
Event website:
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