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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Friday, June 10, 2016
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE February 2017
Institute of Advanced Studies in English
International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, Feb 2017
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE February 2017
Preamble
The academic fraternity world over is preoccupied with various ways of understanding language, literature and culture. In addition to their interrelations and interdependence, the new ideas and approaches emerging from various disciplines like literary theory, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis alongside technological revolution and socio-cultural transformations, have a bearing on our study of language and literature. The conference aims at exploring this dynamics with a focus on the complementary nature of language, literature and culture and their centrality in human life.
This year, we especially encourage papers that examine the intersection of digital technology and the Humanities. What are the new methodologies, theories, and sites of study that are emerging from this intersection? What kind of collaborations between the Humanities and Sciences must we envision for 21st century education and research? Papers that take up these and related issues should be submitted under the Digital Humanities, New Media Studies, and Future of Humanities Studies tracks.
Tracks for Discussion and Presentation
The ICLLC 2017 will address a range of important tracks including the following:
1. Language, Literature and Ideology
2. Culture, Communication and Identity
3. Cultural Studies
4. Postcolonial Literature and Theory
5. Diaspora Identities
6. Feminist and Gender studies
7. Language, Gender and power
8. Postmodernism
9. Ecocriticism
10. Pragmatics
11. Discourse Analysis
12. Contemporary Literature and Media
13. Digital Humanities
14. New Media Studies
15. Film Studies
16. Future of Humanities Studies
Submission of Abstracts
Proposal (abstracts) can be submitted to iasepune@gmail.com as an attachment with 'Submission of Abstract' typed in the subject field. Proposals should include title, author's name/s, affiliation, contact email address and 150-200 word abstract of your paper. Abstracts received till January 15, 2017 will be scheduled in the printed program. Late submissions will be adjusted on the site.
Publication of Conference Papers
Conference presenters may choose to submit their full papers for publication. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in two stages:
1. Full articles received from registered participants by December 15, 2016, will be reviewed and published in the pre-conference issues of our refereed, international journals published at the Institute of Advanced Studies in English, Pune by Forum for Innovation and Transformation:Asian Journal of English Studies and Asian Quarterly: An International Journal of Contemoporary Issues(ISSN 2227-2606 and ISSN 2229-581X).
2. Full articles received after December 15, 2016, will be reviewed and published in the post-conference issues of these journals.
Authors need to observe the following guidelines for submission of articles for publication;
1. Soft copy should be submitted in Microsoft Word format using Times New Roman
2. Title: 15 words maximum, 14 pts centered
3. Abstracts reduced to 150 words, 10 pts. italics and aligned on both sides
4. References: please use MLA style for references
5. Maximum permitted length is 3000 words
6. Articles should be written as continuous expository narrative - not as lists of points or PowerPoint presentation
7. Please ensure that the article is thoroughly checked and proofread before submission
8. Please avoid using certain advanced word features like background or font colors, drawing objects, highlighting, embossing and other complex Word text formatting
Professional Development Workshop
We also plan to organize a Professional Development Workshop on 'Conference Do's and Don'ts'. Graduate students and early faculty members will have an opportunity to participate. Attendance at the Workshops will be capped at 30 participants on the first come first served basis. The cost of attending will be covered by the conference registration fee.
Registration
The registration process will be open from June 01, 2016. Participants from outside India are advised to register at least three months in advance so that they get enough time for completing the formalities for getting Indian Visa. These participants are also requested to submit the following details along with registration: Name (Surname, Given Name and Father's Name), date and place of birth, nationality, passport number, date and place of issue, expiry date and registered address. These details will be submitted to the Indian Ministry of External affairs in order to facilitate issuing of visa.
Preferred mode of registration is to email, as an attachment, the completely filled in registration form and to use the money transfer facility. Our bank information is as follows:
Bank Account Name: Principal, Institute of Advanced Studies in English
Bank account Number: 20104462641
Swift Code: MAHBINBBOCP
Bank Name and Branch: Bank of Maharashtra, Aundh Branch, Pune 411007 (India)
IFSC Code: MAHB0000118
Branch Code: 0118
Important: For easy identification of your payment when we receive it, please send a scanned copy of the bank transfer receipt to iasepune@gmail.com
We will send you confirmation as soon as we have received the official receipt from the bank. For international bank transfers it can take a few days for the remittance to be received.
However, in case the above procedure cannot be followed, completely filled in registration form along with a Bank Draft (drawn in favor of Forum for Innovation and Transformation, Pune) for the registration fee may be sent to the following address;
Forum for Innovation and Transformation
10, Usha Manor, Ganeshkhind Road
Aundh, Pune 411007 (India)
Registration Fee
Rs. 4000/- for Indian and US $ 180 for International Participants
For students: Rs. 2500/- for Indian and US $ 100 for International Participants
Registration fee covers the conference kit that includes printed material, scribbling pad and a pen, tea/coffee on the first day and lunch and tea/coffee for the next two days.
Participants who need printed and scanned copies of invitation letter/ confirmation of registration for visa should send registration details to iasepune@gmail.com with 'Request for Invitation Letter/Confirmation of Registration' typed in the subject field.
Registration Form
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ICLLC 2017
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1. Name of Participant: .....................................................................................
Nationality ........................................
2. Affiliation/Institute: ......................................................................................
3. Address as per Passport: ...............................................................................
4. Contact Details; Cell: .................................. E-mail: ....................................
5. Registration Fee of Rs./ US $ ................. paid by
(a) Demand Draft drawn in favor of Forum for Innovation and Transformation,
No........................ Date ..................... Bank .................................................
(b) transferred to the bank account on ...../...../ 2016/17 (bank transfer receipt enclosed)
6. Are you making a presentation?: yes/ no
7. Do you require assistance for accommodation?: yes/ no
8. Signature ................................... Date : .......................
Please copy, paste, fill-in and email this form to iasepune@gmail.com or print and send by post along with Demand Draft at the following address;
Institute of advanced Studies in English
Sankalp Park, New D P Road
Aundh, Pune 411007
Venue
The conference will be held at the MDC, YASHADA located approximately 500 mtrs from Pune University Main Gate, on Baner Road, Aundh, Pune 411007. MDC is a premier state-of-the-art conference center in central part of Pune city. The auditorium, conference rooms, guest rooms and dining hall are air-conditioned, comfortable and equipped with computers, LCD and sound system.
Accommodation
The organizers will not provide accommodation. However, we have requested two nearby hotels to reserve (single/double/triple) rooms for the participants at a special discounted rate. The necessary details will be emailed on request. Accommodation requests will be considered till December 15, 2016.
Transport
The nearest international airport is Mumbai. For onward journey to Pune, one of the most regular and cheap mode of transport is the K K Travels Car/Jeep on sharing basis. These vehicles are available round the clock and take you to wherever you want to reach in Pune. The distance from Mumbai Airport to Pune is 160 kms and it takes three and a half hours to reach. Booking can be made online (www.kktravels.com) or over phone(+91-20-24224267/24223839; cell: +91-9890779977).
The participants reaching Pune Airport (domestic) can take pre-paid taxi or a Radio Wings Cab (+91-20-40100100). The participants reaching Pune by Train can get down at Pune Railway Station and take an Auto Rikshaw.
For any assistance, please send an email to iasepune@gmail.com or call at 08308908349/9422313068
Program Overview
(Tentative)
| Session Time | Friday, Feb 3, 2017 | Saturday, Feb 4, 2017 | Sunday, Feb 5, 2017 |
| 09.00 am -10.30 am | --- | Thematic Sessions | Thematic Sessions |
| 10.30 am -11.15 am | --- | Plenary 3 | Plenary 4 |
| 11.15 am -11.45 am | --- | Coffee/Tea | Coffee/Tea |
| 11.45 am -01.15 pm | --- | Thematic Sessions | Thematic Sessions |
| 01.15 pm -02.15 pm | Registration | Lunch | Lunch |
| 02.15 pm -03.00 pm |
Professionl Development Workshop
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Panel Discussion on the Future of humanities
| Thematic Sessions |
| 03.00 pm -04.30 pm |
Plenary 1 (3.00-3.45)
plenary 2 (3.45-4.30)
| Thematic Sessions | Thematic Sessions |
| 04.30 pm -05.00 pm | Coffee/Tea | Coffee/Tea | Coffee/Tea |
| 05.00 pm -06.30 pm | Thematic Sessions | Thematic Sessions | Thematic Sessions |
IIAS Workshop on Language & Learning 6-8 October 2016
Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Rashtrapati Niwas, Shimla.
Workshop on Language & Learning
6-8 October 2016
Concept Note
Language, it is often reiterated, is constitutive of our identities, playing a distinctive role in the discourse of mass-media, advertising, gender marking, politeness behavior, class formation, political activity and, most importantly - in education. Our focus in this workshop will thus be on the cognitive and communicative skills facilitated by language amongst school children in particular. This is because of the now widely accepted ‘Language Bio-program’ hypothesis proposed by Lenneberg which suggests a ‘language window’ that is open from birth to puberty. Although this window never entirely closes, children most effortlessly acquire one or more languages between the ages of 1-14 years. There is also convincing evidence that this is probably the period best suited to equip an individual with mental capabilities to last a lifetime.
Clearly, language is central to our existence. It is inconceivable that we could ever manage to pose important questions to ourselves about our societies, cultures and systems of knowledge, our past histories, our present quandaries and our complex futures, without language. Educators and thinkers from Rabindranath Tagore to Paulo Freire and Noam Chomsky have long regarded language as a mental pivot, a primary medium for the transmission of knowledge, the articulation of innovative ideas and critical thinking. Education, indeed, is ideally supposed to begin with such linguistically driven processes of questioning as well as with continuous attempts to answer and rearticulate certain basic questions in every age, across the entire fields of the sciences and the arts.
The irony, however, seems to be that this fundamental tool for shaping the ‘self’, namely language, about which there has been a very sophisticated tradition of thinking from Panini onwards on the Indian subcontinent, has been greatly neglected in the contemporary Indian educational scenario. This is especially surprising given our rich heritage of languages and scripts, the historic formation of ‘linguistic states’ after Independence, the vigorous debates in the Constituent Assembly on the ‘official language(s)’ of India, the key Eighth Schedule of the Indian Constitution devoted to a listing of India’s languages, the devising of the ‘three-language formula’ in the 60s and so forth.
How is it that such a potent inheritance of thinking about language has come to be forgotten or, at the very least, become far too chaotic and Babel-like to be clearly articulated in present-day India? Such a lack of clarity in the ways in which we conceive of the relationship between language and learning could in fact profoundly affect the very foundations of our school and university education across the country. Further, in the rapidly transmuting scenario of an India that possesses a uniquely youthful demographic in an otherwise aging global world, the qualities of mind that we wish our young citizens to have and their access to a hopeful future seem inextricably bound up with ‘the language question’. It is this context that makes the subject of this workshop quite urgent.
Today, it is widely admitted that the quality of education in our schools is extremely variable with some children who have highly privileged language access and others who may be said to suffer from severe language deprivation or what one might even call debilitating forms of ‘language malnutrition’. In addition, the twin problems of rote learning and punitive exams harshly judged by grades and grades alone, without any space for debate and questioning, are so familiar that even to raise them comprises a rote objection. As Tagore strikingly put it long ago:
From our very childhood… we are made to lose our world to find a bagful of information instead. We rob the child of his earth to teach him geography, of language to teach him grammar…Children’s minds are sensitive to the influences of the world…This sensitive receptivity allows them, without any strain, to master language, which is the most complex and difficult instrument of expression, full of indefinable ideas and abstract symbols... In childhood we learn our lessons with the aid of both body and mind, with all the senses active and eager.
The current workshop seeks to reexamine, in the rapidly mutating context of 21st century India, some of the ‘body and mind’ educational anxieties so sharply expressed over a century ago by Rabindranath Tagore.
It is said that global modernity and post-modernity in the time since Tagore wrote has been marked by ‘the linguistic turn’ in academia during which a variety of perspectives on language learning were developed. Scholars like Chomsky believe, for example, that language rules are ‘innate’ i.e. they are already present in the human mind before it is exposed to society. Still others believe that the ‘general cognitive abilities’ that account for other kinds of learning also account for language. A large number of thinkers subscribe to the view that language is essentially socially embedded and that all learning takes place through social interactions. Some regard language simply as a pairing of a lexicon and syntax but all agree that the phenomenon of language is both complex and the most crucial attribute of our humanness. This workshop will examine some of these theoretical viewpoints in order to make a fresh analysis of the current lacunae in our approaches to education.
More than thirty years ago, Shirley Brice-Heath, an educational anthropologist, predicted in a famous paper that “in the decades ahead the functional knowledge about language that has come from linguistics will be like certain principles of mathematics, physics, and biology; basic knowledge for other disciplines as well as for practical domains such as teacher training, legal and medical education, and computer software production… Language increasingly will be a natural part of the research domain of fields ranging from computer science to industrial sociology”.
It is hard to disagree today with such a prediction. The approach to studying a complex phenomenon like language can only be multidisciplinary in nature. This workshop will bring together linguists, scientists and other academicians with professional teachers and practitioners in the field of language teaching. It will not only aim to create awareness about the nature of language and explain its deep relationship to learning in the widest sense but will also seek to recommend sets of practical and implementable measures that will strengthen the hands of all those who wield a pen – even if that ‘pen’ is increasingly likely to be a computer – to tell new stories.
The workshop will broadly address a range of issues related to language learning in the complex multilingual context of India. It will seek to clarify the links between theory and practice in education and bring together scholars across disciplines. Some questions that might be addressed at the workshop include - but are not exhausted by - the following list of a dozen basic questions:
1. What should the medium(s) of instruction be in school at the primary and secondary levels?
2. What is meant by language standard(s) and standardization and how valid are prescriptive notions of ‘correctness’ in spoken and written language? In what ways is a ‘language’ different from a ‘dialect’?
3. What are some of the proactive and practical measures that can be taken to increase children’s hold over language as a medium of thought as well as action?
4. What roles can teachers play, not only in language and literature but also in science, technical education and social science classrooms, in nurturing vocabularies and modes of reasoning that might equip students with the mental resources needed to cope with dramatic social change and creatively find solutions to the challenges of the future?
5. What is the relationship between language and emotion, between one’s mother-tongue and other tongues?
6. Is bilingual code-mixing, so common in Indian languages, to be discouraged or encouraged in language learning?
7. Is knowledge of English a ‘must’ in the global environment of today?
8. Is it time to revise the ‘three language formula’ and start a fresh dialogue on the subject between various stake-holders across the Indian states? If so, how many and which languages should be taught at what level of schooling?
9. How are speech and writing related and in what instances should one be privileged over the other in school environments?
10. How are general cognitive abilities implicated in language learning and how can they be harnessed to support language learning?
11. How does learning take place through social speech-acts and language interaction?
12. How do factors like gender, class and home spaces affect language access and use?
A limited number of participants will be invited for the workshop. Those interested in participating should send an abstract (500-700 words) of the proposed paper along with their C.V. to following Email ID’s:
Call for Papers
A limited number of participants will be invited for the workshop. Those interested in participating should send an abstract (500-700 words) of the proposed paper along with their C.V. to:
Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Head of the Department
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology
Hauz Khas
New Delhi – 110 016
Mobile No.: 9810044777
rbnair@hss.iitd.ernet.in
The last date for submission of abstract (500-700 words) is 15 June, 2016. The Institute intends to send Invitation letters to selected participants by 27 June, 2016. It is the policy of the Institute to publish the proceedings of the workshop it organizes. Hence, all invited participants will be expected to submit complete papers (English or Hindi), hitherto unpublished and original, with citations in place, along with a reference section, to the Academic Resource Officer, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla – 171005 by 15 August, 2016. Style sheet for the submission of papers may be downloaded from the IIAS websitehttp://www.iias.org/content/shss.
IIAS, Shimla, will be glad to extend its hospitality during the workshop period and is willing to reimburse, if required, rail or air travel expenses from the place of current residence in India, or the port of arrival in India, and back.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
National Workshop on Basics in Research Methodology and Statistical Techniques June 2016
7 Days National Workshop
on
Basics in Research Methodology and Statistical Techniques
24-30 June, 2016
National Workshop on Basics in Research Methodology and Statistical Techniques June 2016
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