Conference on Margins, Globalization and the Postcolonial at Punjab University

Department of English and Cultural Studies, Punjab University is all set to organize an intensive level conference from February 20-22, 2014.

Topic of the conference will be “Margins, Globalization and the Postcolonial”. PU will organize the conference in association with Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.

The conference would hope to urge thoughts on the nature and means of such a reiterative project of the ‘margins’. What are the literary or cultural forms that best enable a re-articulation of the politics of marginality? What is the role of the translator and of translation? Does the translation of Dalit or adivasi writing not run the risk of an ethnic proselytization? Is the autobiographical mode (in ‘impure’ literary forms like the diary, memoir, letter, etc.) a productive strategy to counter the biographical strain in dominant history-writing?

The conference will be co-hosted by the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Punjab University, Chandigarh. The local secretary for the conference will be Prof Akshaya Kumar: akshayakumarg@gmail.com

Abstracts of 200 words with a bio-data of up to 50 were submitted to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com by 5 November 2013.

Acceptances will be notified by November 20, 2013. For the C. D. Narasimhaiah Prize for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, full texts of papers, of about 2,200 words, may be submitted by 5 December 2013.

Last date to submit the entries for the Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize, for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the period 2012-13 was November 10, 2013. Entries for both the prizes too may be submitted to iaclalsconferences@gmail.com

Source: Pooja Gupta, click4college Specialist