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| eDhvani Issue V: July 2014 CFP: Please Forward, Share and Inform Others Posted: 15 Apr 2014 07:26 AM PDT ISSUE V; July, 2014 Gender and Travel: Questioning Categories Travel especially as a category yields easily or so it seems to the dominant. Our endeavor in this issue of eDhvani is to problematize the idea of travel and analyse it from positions that not only question the leisurely and gendered notions of travel but also reconceptualise the notion of travel in ways that open up the field of enquiry. Beginning with questions of "who travels? To where? How and why? ", eDhvani intends to explore the idea of travel and gender as movement. Gender is now largely understood as performance which is constantly shifting. On similar grounds, can there be a connection made between gender and travel as movement? Can we look at gender itself as travel, as movement? Travel writing as a genre has defined its boundaries largely within the concept of travelling for pleasure. How do we understand day-to-day experiences of travelling/commuting for work, travelling forced by displacement or even travelling/walking for basic necessities? The existing discourse of travel studies has to be re/read in this light. For example, the colonial travel writings have already been reread as documents that produced and established knowledge on the Orient for colonization. The extension of the boundaries of the genre in this manner would further complicate the study by looking at travel as movement from one space to another not necessitated by one's pleasure or pleasure to 'see/know', but necessitated by compulsion through which people negotiate. Thus, a displaced body as an engendered displacement, constructing gender spatially through body and performance, may link both travel and gender. eDhvani, in its fifth volume, calls for scholarly papers that discuss and analyze various aspects of gender and travel. The papers would be peer reviewed and published in the coming issue of eDhvani. Papers can address but not limit to the following sub-themes:
eDhvani also calls for
Last Date of Submission: 20 May, 2014Intimation Regarding Acceptance/Rejection & Revision: 15 June, 2014 Final Submission after Editing: 30 June, 2014 Date of Publishing: First Week of July, 2014 Send complete papers/writings/translations to edhvani@uohyd.ac.in by 20th May 2014. The papers should follow the format mentioned in http://edhvani.in/ and please check the website for further details on submission. See Submission Guidelines for more details… Thanks & Regards: Abu Saleh PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL) School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India. Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abusalehenglish Twitter: https://twitter.com/abusalehenglish  |
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| Researchers at Work Conference (RAW CON 2014) Posted: 05 Apr 2014 05:42 AM PDT Centre for Comparative Literature School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India Researchers at Work Conference (RAW.CON 2014) “Literature and Culture; Expanding Horizons: New Paradigms of Knowledge Production”
10 - 12 September, 2014 Hyderabad, India RAW.CON or Researchers at Work Conference, in its fourth year, from the Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, is a research initiative which broadly focuses on Literary and Cultural Studies. In the previous years, this conference looked at various issues of literatures, cultures and modernities. This year it proposes to explore new frontiers of knowledge production so as to understand how they contribute to research and analyses. The idea of knowledge has been questioned profoundly from different positions, especially in a world where politics of identity asserts itself through various domains and what has been privileged as knowledge is called into question. Over time, knowledge has undergone major conceptual changes with various interventions and expansions. In addition, knowledge production in the recent times has altered its production, dissemination and reception in drastic ways. The everyday social, political and cultural identities are highly mediated by technologies. This mediation manifests itself in a broad range of circulatory practices which both dissolve and expand spatial, temporal and social boundaries, offering us new ways to represent the world. Knowledge production in contemporary world of ‘New Media’ visualizes identities through social networks and enlarges the concept of culture as a sphere of acceptance. The altered space and time juxtapose the material and the digital places, producing new forms of the ‘social’, while simultaneously renegotiating the political and social logics of local/global or private/public. It also augments the understanding of Culture and Literature as engaged in gaining historical knowledge to interpret contemporary situations. Keeping all these as backdrop, RAW.CON 2014 calls for papers that connect new forms of knowledge, from all domains of literature and culture including ones that are mediated and facilitated by newer technologies, newer media, and newer modes of production. Terrains of textual making generating newer understandings through gender and queer, resistance literatures, texts through translation, dalit and minority writing, tribal literature, and, their possible interface with the available forms of technology will be focused upon. Hence, RAW.CON 2014 seeks to raise questions such as how does ‘new media’ trigger and create new social phenomena. It intends to interpret the new-now that is mediated. What are the altered modes of communication, collaboration, and consumption of knowledge. How does it structure new forms of expression while transforming knowledge production and dissemination? Abstracts are invited, but not limited to, the following areas: * Historiography of Digitization * Knowledge in Digital Domains * Newspaper and Publishing * Television, Advertisement, Photography * Video as Text and Narrative * Media, Intermedia and Interart * Archiving Folk Art and Forms * Translation and Knowledge Networks * Sports and Performance Studies * Gender and Sexuality * Language and Ideology * Margins and Popular Culture * Dalit, Tribal, Minority Discourses * Virtual Activism and Resistance * New and Emerging Areas and Forms of Literatures
Last date for submission of abstracts : 30 June 2014 Intimation of selection : 15 July 2014 Submission of full papers : 31 August 2014 Abstract should be emailed to: raw.con2014@uohyd.ac.in Further, please visit: http://profiles.uohyd.ac.in/raw-con-2014 or www.ccluoh.in The conference is exclusively for full time or independent ‘research scholars’, thus graduate, post-graduate students, senior teachers are humbly requested not to apply. Abstracts should be around 250-300 words in Microsoft word (.docx) format. No way it should cross 300 words. Please write your full name, institution, contact details and current programme/year/semester of research in the body of the mail. Papers will be screened through blind peer review process. Authors will be intimated accordingly. The conference committee may think of separate sessions to accommodate short films, documentaries, digital documentation and archival work in these areas by researchers. Proposals are invited and are subject to the approval of the advisory committee. Shared accommodation and food will be arranged for outstation participants. The conference committee will think of a limited number of minimum travel allowances depending upon the availability of funds. Once the conference over, we hope to publish selected papers either in hard or e-book format. If the outstation participants are interested, the conference committee may arrange a city tour on Saturday, 13th September, 2014 to the few important places in Hyderabad.
raw.con2014@uohyd.ac.in * 040-2313-3350 http://profiles.uohyd.ac.in/raw-con-2014 * www.ccluoh.in Thanks & Regards: Abu Saleh PhD Research Scholar @ Centre for Comparative Literature (CCL) School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad (UoH), India. Mobile: +91 94 94 24 26 45 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/abusalehenglish Twitter: https://twitter.com/abusalehenglish  |
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Centre for Comparative Literature
School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, India
Researchers at Work Conference (RAW.CON 2014)
“Literature and Culture; Expanding Horizons: New Paradigms of Knowledge Production”
10 - 12 September, 2014
Hyderabad, India
RAW.CON or Researchers at Work Conference, in its fourth year, from the Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, is a research initiative which broadly focuses on Literary and Cultural Studies. In the previous years, this conference looked at various issues of literatures, cultures and modernities. This year it proposes to explore new frontiers of knowledge production so as to understand how they contribute to research and analyses.
The idea of knowledge has been questioned profoundly from different positions, especially in a world where politics of identity asserts itself through various domains and what has been privileged as knowledge is called into question. Over time, knowledge has undergone major conceptual changes with various interventions and expansions. In addition, knowledge production in the recent times has altered its production, dissemination and reception in drastic ways. The everyday social, political and cultural identities are highly mediated by technologies. This mediation manifests itself in a broad range of circulatory practices which both dissolve and expand spatial, temporal and social boundaries, offering us new ways to represent the world. Knowledge production in contemporary world of ‘New Media’ visualizes identities through social networks and enlarges the concept of culture as a sphere of acceptance. The altered space and time juxtapose the material and the digital places, producing new forms of the ‘social’, while simultaneously renegotiating the political and social logics of local/global or private/public. It also augments the understanding of Culture and Literature as engaged in gaining historical knowledge to interpret contemporary situations.
Keeping all these as backdrop, RAW.CON 2014 calls for papers that connect new forms of knowledge, from all domains of literature and culture including ones that are mediated and facilitated by newer technologies, newer media, and newer modes of production. Terrains of textual making generating newer understandings through gender and queer, resistance literatures, texts through translation, dalit and minority writing, tribal literature, and, their possible interface with the available forms of technology will be focused upon.
Hence, RAW.CON 2014 seeks to raise questions such as how does ‘new media’ trigger and create new social phenomena. It intends to interpret the new-now that is mediated. What are the altered modes of communication, collaboration, and consumption of knowledge. How does it structure new forms of expression while transforming knowledge production and dissemination?
Abstracts are invited, but not limited to, the following areas:
* Historiography of Digitization
* Knowledge in Digital Domains
* Newspaper and Publishing
* Television, Advertisement, Photography
* Video as Text and Narrative
* Media, Intermedia and Interart
* Archiving Folk Art and Forms
* Translation and Knowledge Networks
* Sports and Performance Studies
* Gender and Sexuality
* Language and Ideology
* Margins and Popular Culture
* Dalit, Tribal, Minority Discourses
* Virtual Activism and Resistance
* New and Emerging Areas and Forms of Literatures
Last date for submission of abstracts : 30 June 2014
Intimation of selection : 15 July 2014
Submission of full papers : 31 August 2014
Abstract should be emailed to: raw.con2014@uohyd.ac.in
Further, please visit: http://profiles.uohyd.ac.in/raw-con-2014 or www.ccluoh.in
The conference is exclusively for full time or independent ‘research scholars’, thus graduate, post-graduate students, senior teachers are humbly requested not to apply.
Abstracts should be around 250-300 words in Microsoft word (.docx) format. No way it should cross 300 words. Please write your full name, institution, contact details and current programme/year/semester of research in the body of the mail.
Papers will be screened through blind peer review process. Authors will be intimated accordingly.
The conference committee may think of separate sessions to accommodate short films, documentaries, digital documentation and archival work in these areas by researchers. Proposals are invited and are subject to the approval of the advisory committee.
Shared accommodation and food will be arranged for outstation participants. The conference committee will think of a limited number of minimum travel allowances depending upon the availability of funds.
Once the conference over, we hope to publish selected papers either in hard or e-book format.
If the outstation participants are interested, the conference committee may arrange a city tour on Saturday, 13th September, 2014 to the few important places in Hyderabad.
raw.con2014@uohyd.ac.in * 040-2313-3350
http://profiles.uohyd.ac.in/raw-con-2014 * www.ccluoh.in
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