Interdisciplinary International Conference on New Trends in Humanities, Gender and Cultural Studies Oct 2015

Two-Day
Interdisciplinary International Conference
on
New Trends in
Humanities, Gender and Cultural Studies
9 & 10 Oct, 2015
Chembur, Mumbai-71

National Conference on Knowledge, Affect, Power: Feminism in Social Justice Discourse and Practice

UGC-Sponsored National Conference

on

Knowledge, Affect, Power: Feminism in Social Justice Discourse and Practice

Department of English, St. Xavier’s College

Ahmedabad, 4th - 5th September, 2015

Recent theorizing within feminism and in related areas has begun to emphasize the role of passion,  

feeling, the emotions, bodily experiences of these (all under the term ‘affect’) in processes of knowledge creation. This conference is an attempt at dialogue among people from a variety of backgrounds, who share a concern with social justice and the role of affect and power in consolidating and maintaining but also in challenging and re-creating what counts as knowledge, especially in the lives of marginalized individuals and groups.

Some of the issues which emerge are as follows:

• Feminism and the shapes of knowledge: looking at questions such as ‘who is considered to know?’, ‘what is considered valuable knowledge? (from ‘old wives’ tales’ to recipes passed down through generations of women; from rewritings of the epics, to popular culture)’,  what purpose does knowledge serve in the context of gender—when gender itself is not a homogenous category, but one which acquires meaning in relation to caste, class, ethnicity, religious and sexual identity, race, ability, age etc?

• Dalit feminism and issues of affect and power

• Gender, disability, affect: trying to understand, in a context in which the body is used though not often acknowledged, as a tool of production, what responses the differently abled body

• Empathy, affect and the humanities: Finally, what role do the disciplines within the humanities play in the context of today?

• Power, affect and pedagogical practice

• Knowledge and affect in media representation

• Knowledge, affect, power and the text

• Reshaping reading, rethinking consumption

We invite abstracts of 400-600 words on any of the issues above or other issues related to the theme of the conference.

The abstracts should be emailed to knowledgeaffectpower@gmail.com by July 30, 2015.

The participants selected will be informed and sent the Registration Form by August 2,

Registration fees:

Outstation participant: INR 5000 (with accommodation on twin-sharing basis)
Outstation Participant: INR 2500 (without accommodation)
Local participant: INR 2500
Local participant (student): INR 1000

The registration fees will cover conference kit and meals. Paper readers will receive an honorarium.


Payments can be made by

• Cash: at the St. Xavier’s College Society Office
• Cheque/Demand Draft drawn in favour of ‘Principal, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad’ and payable at Ahmedabad branches Cheques and Demand Drafts should reach the organizers by August 10, 2015.

Please send an email to knowledgeaffectpower@gmail.com with the registration form, indicating that the cheque has been sent.
For details and inquiries, please contact the organizers at: 9824651845

For updates, please check:
https://www.facebook.com/KnowledgeAffectPower?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

or email the organizers.

National Seminar on Mapping Borders: Discourses on Marginalization 2015

 UGC Sponsored 

National Seminar 

on 

Mapping Borders: Discourses on Marginalization

30 September-1 October 2015

Mar Dionysius College

Pazhanji, Thrissur

National Conference on Representation of the Marginalised in Literature 16 September 2015

  One Day 

National Conference

on

Representation of the Marginalised 

in 

Literature

16 September 2015

Shri Sakthikailassh Women's College

Salem, Tamil Nadu

    

National Conference on Transcending the Canon Emerging Literature in India August, 2015

Two Day National Conference
on
Transcending the Canon
Emerging Literature in India
28 & 29th August, 2015
S.C.P. Arts and DDS Commerce
College, Mahalingpur

International Conference on Emerging Approaches and Methods in English Language Teaching Dec 2015

Two day International Conference
on
Emerging Approaches and Methods in
English Language Teaching (EAMELT)
9 & 10 December 2015
Kongu Engineering College
Perundurai, Erode, Tamil Nadu

17th International Conference on English Language and Linguistics

ICELL 2015 : 17th International Conference on English Language and Linguistics

Chicago, USA
October 8 - 9, 2015

Conference Objectives

The ICELL 2015: 17th International Conference on English Language and Linguistics aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of English Language and Linguistics. It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of English Language and Linguistics.

Call for Contributions

All honourable authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of English Language and Linguistics are cordially invited for presentation at the conference. The conference solicits contributions of abstracts, papers and e-posters that address themes and topics of the conference, including figures, tables and references of novel research material.WASET

Conference Proceedings

All submitted conference papers will be blind peer reviewed by three competent reviewers. The post conference proceedings will be abstracted and indexed in the International Science Index , and submitted to be indexed in the Google Scholar, Scopus and Thomson Reuters. The conference abstracts and proceedings book, CD and certificate of presentation will be distributed to the conference participants at the conference registration desk. 

Special Journal Issues

ICELL 2015 has teamed up with the Special Journal Issue on Advances in English Language and Linguistics. A number of selected high-impact full text papers will also be considered for the special journal issues. All submitted papers will have opportunities for consideration for this Special Journal Issue. The paper selection will be carried out during the peer review process as well as at the conference presentation stage. Submitted papers must not be under consideration by any other journal or publication. The final decision for paper selection will be made based on peer review reports by the Guest Editors and the Editor-in-Chief jointly. Selected full text papers will be online published as free of charge.

Conference Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

The Conference offers the opportunity to become a sponsor or exhibitor in the Conference, please download and fill in theConference Sponsorship Request Form

Important Dates

Paper submissions Notification of acceptance Final paper submission and authors' registration Conference Dates

August 20, 2015 August 31, 2015 September 8, 2015 October 8 - 9, 2015