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DAY ONE
25 FEBRUARY 2010
INAUGURAL SESSION 9.45 AM
10:00 am Introduction Prof. Manju Jaidka
10:15 am Welcome Prof. Gulshan Kataria
10:30 am Inauguration Prof. R.C Sobti (VC)
10:45 am Special Guest Shri Pradip Mehra, IAS
11:00 am Announcement of Isaac Sequeira Award and Book Launch
11.15 am: TEA BREAK
11.30 am to 12 noon: First Keynote. Prof. Harish Trivedi: “India, America and World Literature."
12.00 noon to 1.30 PM – PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D
Venue for all parallel sessions on Day 1 & 2:
SESSION A – English Auditorium
SESSION B – Lecture Hall I, GF, Arts Block I
SESSION C – Lecture Hall II, GF, Arts Block I
SESSION D – Language Lab, FF, Arts Block I
SESSION A:
Chair: Prof. Brajesh Sawhney, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra.
Speakers:
Anu Celly: “Quest for the West: The Tragic Audacity of Immigrant Dreams in Laila Lalami’s Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits”
Manpreet Kaur Kang: “Indian Women Writers in Canada: A Socio-Literary Study”
· Purnendu Chatterjee: “Indian Sub-Continental Female Diaspora: Reading Three Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Kiran Desai and Monica Ali
Sunita Sinha: “Miasma of Violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India”
SESSION B:
Chair: Dr. Vijay Sharma, Principal, RLA College, Delhi University
Speakers:
· Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt: “Metamorphosis of the Protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters”
· Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri: “Body and Food in Bharati Mukherjee’s Wife and Jasmine”
Vinita Jha: “The Postcolonial Syndrome: A Study of The Inheritance Of Loss”
· Garima Williams: “Sublime and Subversive Women of Jhumpa Lahiri as Victims of Consumerist Culture”
SESSION C
Chair: Prof. Mita Biswas, HPU, Shimla.
Speakers:
· Sushi Datta-Sandhu: “Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai: Environmentalist, Political Activist and Cultural Icon of Kenya”
· Sandhya Devesan Nambiar: “The Left Hand Of Darkness: An Ecofeminist Reading of Ursula Le Guin”
Rohini Tukdeo: “In Search of Woman’s Sphere: A Case Study of a Marathi Novel.”
· Shuchismita Mitra : “Role-Play and Shifting Identities in Popular Hindi Cinema : A Case Study of Jo Bole So Nihaa”
SESSION D
Chair: Prof. Sushila Singh
Speakers:
· Meenu Gupta: “Aesthetics of Representing Cultural Paradigms in Rushdie”
· Pankti Desai: “Sugarcanes, Swans and Sex: Depiction of Feminine Sexuality in Sujata Bhatt’s Poetry”
· Rachna Rastogi: “Assimilation of Eastern and Western Values in Markandaya’s Pleasure City”
Mary Mohanty: “The Woman Question: A Study of Arundhati Roy's The God Of Small Things”
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS A-D
SESSION A
Chair: Prof. Harish Trivedi, Delhi University
Speakers:
Stella Hockenhull: “Emotional Landscapes and My Summer Of Love”
Somdatta Mandal: “‘Fat Studies’: The Obsession and the Discourse of Revolt in American Culture”
· Mohanmeet Khosla: “Pictures in our Heads: Media as Society’s Mirror or Driver?”
· Sachin Ketkar: “Rebuilding Babel: Literary Studies in the Post-Global/Post-Political Era”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. Sudhir Kumar, PU, Chandigarh
Speakers:
Anil Raina: "Reliving the Medieval Conflict: Terrorism in John Updike's Terrorist"
Razdan,K B: “Literature-Culture Synergy: Chronic Scenario of an Unnerving Fracture in John Updike’s Roger’s Version”
Mukul Sengupta: “Strategies of Culture and Imperialism in Howard Bahr’s The Year Of Jubilo”
· Santosh P. Rajguru: “Multiculturalism and Ethnicity: A Study of Zadie Smith's Novels”
SESSION C
Chair: Dr. Anu Celly, University of Tennessee, U.S.A.
Speakers:
· Anurag Kumar & Nagendra Kumar: “Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day: A Cultural Study”
· Roshan Lal Sharma: “Subverting Mainstream Cinema: A Critique of the Images of Despair, Death and Violence in Bahman Ghobadi’s film Turtles Can Fly”
· Niyatee Ayyar: “Journey from Compliance to Competence: Selfhood in the Novels of Alice Walker”
SESSION D
Chair: Lovelina P. Singh
Speakers:
Nilakshi Roy: “Schooled” and “Classed”: The Portrayal of the Asian Girl-Child in British Asian Texts of the 1980s to the Present.”
Meghsood Esmaieli: “Hijab in Islam and Iran: The Shiite Perspective”
Amrit Kaur: “Shame of ‘Honour Killing’: Moral Policing in Jaswinder Sanghera’s Daughters of Shame”
Navjot Kaur: “Of Inner Roots and External Adjuncts: An Analysis of Soyinka’s A Play Of Giants
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Photo Session & TEA BREAK
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS A-C
SESSION A
Chair: Dr. Himadri Lahiri, University of Burdwan. Burdwan, West Bengal
Speakers:
Azad & Esmael : “Stephen King's Desperation (1996) as an Ecocritical Novel”
· Jyoti Mishra: “Living and not Pretending to Live through Self- Actualization:Coelho’s Veronika Decides To Die”
· Navreet Sahi: Breaking the Boundaries: The Underdog from Fringes to Frames”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. GR Kataria, Pbi University, Patiala
Speakers:
· NDR Chandra: “A World Without Real: Understanding Hyperreality
Ravichandran T : “Mixing of the Mythical and the Hyperreal in Cyberhell: Tracking the Topology of Cybermancy”
· Melissa Helen: “Mass Media and the Polarization of Racism and Sexism with reference to the Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas Case in the United States”
SESSION C
Chair: Dr. Mukul Sengupta, Kolkata
Speakers:
R.G.Kulkarni : “Dissolving Boundaries: A Critical Appraisal of Sandra Cisneros’ Poetry”
· Hossein Sabouri: “Chinua Achebe’s Anthills Of The Savannah: Whose Is To Blame?”
Ramanpreet Grewal: “Morbid Interregnum: Racial Violence in the Novels of Nadine Gordimer”
5:30 – 6:00 PM BREAK
6:00 pm Plenary Presentations (English Audi)
“This is It”: The Virtual Life of Michael Jackson
S. S. Bhatti : “Chandigarh, the City Beautiful”
7.00 PM: Play Performance by Dept of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, Chandigarh
“The Trojan Women” in Hindustani
Venue: Open Air Theatre, Panjab University
8.00 PM: Dinner
26TH FEB 2010
9.30 AM TO 11.00 - PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D
SESSION A
Chair: Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara, North Carolina Central University
Speakers:
Carolyn Kraus: “Notes From Underground: Detroit's Other Economy”
Raphael Joseph: Re-Remembering Space and Place: Spatializing Literary and Cultural Studies
Anjali Chauhan: “Lucknow City: From the Cuture of the Nawabs to the Culture of Consumption”
Neeti Mahajan: “Bombay Lost And Found: The Question of Relocation and Identity Formation in Suketu Mehta's The Maximum City”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. K.B Razdan, Jammu University.
Speakers:
Yatri Dilipbhai Dave: “Culture of Consumerism in Chetan Bhagat’s One Night @ Call Center”
· Mahesh M. Nivargi: “Heading For The Light : An Exegesis Of The Mysticism In The Traveling Wilburys’ Lyrics”
· Harneet Sandhu: “‘Literature and Culture: Concerns of Creativity in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink”
· Jayanta Kar Sharma: “A Critical Re-Reading of Dalit Literature”
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SESSION C
Chair: Prof. Nishi Pandey, Lucknow University
Speakers:
Rashmi Mathur: “Rise of the Indian Picaro: A Metamorphosis from Underdog/ Slumdog to The White Tiger/Millionaire”
· Anupam Nahar: “The Bard in Bollywood: Adaptations Across Cultures”
Kaliknar Pattanayak: “The Fictional Representation of Contemporary Reality: A Comparative Study of Midnight's Children and The White Tiger”
· Nishi Pulugurtha: “Translocating Identity in Sino-Indian Diasporic Literature: Kwai-Yun Li’s The Last Dragon Dance”
SESSION D
Chair: Prof. Meera Malik, Panjab University, Chandigarh
Speakers:
· Sukla Basu (Sen): “African American Consciousness since the 80s: The ‘Songs’ of Dramatist August Wilson”
· Reza Yavarian: “Nature/Human in Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants”
V. M. Sylvester: “Critical Perspectives on Popular African Myths of Women: Implications for Development
· Debashish Lahiri: ““Grave Dirt, Dried Toads, and the Blood of a Black Cat: Man Jacks of Ideology and the Obi Bag”
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11:00 – 11:30 TEA BREAK
11:30 – 12 NOON PLENARY SESSION
2nd Keynote Address. Prof. Mukesh Williams, Soka University, Tokya: “The American Gulliver and World System - Cooperation and Consensus”
12 noon – 1:00 pm PARALLEL SESSIONS A – C
SESSION A
Chair: Dr. Somdatta Mandal, Visvabharati Univesity, Shantiniketan.
Speakers:
Carlos Gohn: “As They Saw India: The Case of a Soap Opera in Brazil”
Vivek Sachdeva: “Media as a Weapon: A Study of the Presentation of Terrorism in Indian Visual Media with special reference to 26/11
Himadri Roy: “Gays in Bollywood Representation: A Case Study of Dostana”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. Mina S. Singh, PU, Chandigarh.
Speakers:
Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara: “The 21st-Century Challenge of Exploring Violence and Envisioning Peace through Multi-Ethnic World Literature: Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey and Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence and Haroun and the Sea of Stories.”
· Nandini Bhadra: “Transculturing the Chinese Legend Mulan and the Woman Warrior Tradition: Legend, Myth, Film and Popular Culture”
Alka Saxena: “Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge: A Study in Cultural Negotiation”
SESSION C
Chair: Dr. Suneeta Patnayak, DAVC, Chandigarh
Speakers:
Anshu Shekhawat: “Gender Perspectives in the Domestic Sphere in Post-1980 Indian Drama
· Vandana Sukheeja: “Postcolonial Dichotomy in Girish Karnad’s Wedding Album”
Ranjita Barik: “The Voice of the Subaltern in The White Tiger”
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00—3:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D
SESSION A
Chair: Prof. Mukesh Williams, Soka University, Tokyo.
Speakers:
Kaoru Kinoshita: “Concept of Gender In The Poetry Of Walt Whitman And Daisaku Ikeda”
· Ui Teramoto : “Configuring and Representing Indian Diaspora in Japan”
Kun Jong lee: “Repositioning Korean Military Wives in Ishle Yi Park’s The Temperature of This Water”
Akiko Ogihara: “American expatriate in Japan, citizenship and Identity”
SESSION B
Chair: Prof. Carolyn Kraus, U Michigan.
Speakers:
Dipankar Purkayastha: “Negotiating Transitions: Charles Johnson And Mamang Dai”
Roya Yaghoubi: “Image of the Afro-American Subaltern Girl in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”
Ashu Vashisht: “Ecstatic Literature and Enigmatic Culture: Gendered Apostasy in Jerzy Kosinski’s Pinball”
Seema Bhupendra: “Politics of Violence and Oppression in the Plays of Harold Pinter”
SESSION C
Chair: Prof. Anil Raina, PU, Chandigarh
Speakers:
Himadri Lahiri: “Memory and Reality in Khaled Hossaini’s The Kite Runner”
Seema Malik + Vaibhav: “Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism: A Reading of Orhan Pamuk’s Snow”
Namrata Nistandra: “The World Was Silent When We Died: Remembering History in C N Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun”
· Smita Jha: “The Western Paradigm: An Overview of Slumdog Millionaire and The White Tiger”
3.30 PM: TEA BREAK
3.45 PM to 4.15 PM: MELOW GBM
6.00 PM to 7.30 PM: TWO PARALLEL POETRY SESSIONS
SESSION A: (Hindi, Urdu, Pbi)
Venue – Gandhi Bhavan
Chair: Mamta Kalia (DS Gupt)
Poets: T N Raaz, Yojana Rawat , Roshan Sharma, B D Kalia, Rupa Saba, Taaran Gujral, Santosh Dhiman, Atul Vir Arora
SESSION B: (English)
Venue: English Auditorium
Chair: Prof. Sushila Singh (Manju Jaidka)
Poets: Nirupama Dutt, Kailash Ahluwalia, Balpreet Kaur, Lalita Jagmohan, Aradhana Sharma, Sourabh Gupta, Debashish Lahiri
27th Feb 2010
Venue: English Auditorium
9.45 AM to 10.30 AM: Shashi Deshpande in conversation with Pratibha Nagpal & Sudhir Kumar
10.30 AM to 11.15 AM: Mamta Kalia in conversation with Mina Singh
11.15 AM to 11.30 AM TEA BREAK
11.30 noon to 12.15 PM: Chander Trikha in conversation with Madhav Kaushik
12.15 PM to 1.00 PM: Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal: In Search of Sita
1.00 PM to 2.00 PM: LUNCH
2.00 to 3.30 PM TWO PARALLEL STORY SESSIONS
(A) Venue: Gandhi Bhavan
Chair: Dr. KL Zakir
Speakers: Ravindra Kalia, V. Mehndiratta, Indu Bali
(B) Venue: English Auditorium
Chair: Manjula Padmanabhan
Speakers: T N Dhar, Carolyn Kraus, Jaideep Chadha
3. 45 to 4.15 pm Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture Venue: English Audi
Chair: Prof. Gulshan Kataria
Speaker: Prof. P.C. Kar “Aesthetics of Modernism”
4.15 to 4.30: Summing-up and Vote of Thanks Venue: English Audi
