Group Photo

Delegates of the Feb Conference 2010 in Chandigarh/

The conference-cum LitFest was a great success.

Lookout for the detailed report.

International Conference Feb 2010

http://www.theindiapost.com/2010/02/25/first-day-of-the-international-conference-on-contemporary-issues-literature-and-culture-since-1980-and-the-lit-fest/

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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TENTH MELUS-MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE / FIRST CHANDIGARH LITFEST FEB 25-27, 2010

25^TH FEBRUARY 2010

9.30 AM REGISTRATION

9.45 AM INAUGURAL SESSION Venue: English Auditorium

10:00 am	Introduction	Manju Jaidka
10:15 am	Presidential Welcome	Gulshan Kataria
10:30 am	Inauguration	R.C Sobti (VC)
10:45 am	Special Guest	Pradip Mehra, IAS

11:00 am Announcement of Isaac Sequeira Prize and Book Launch

11.15 AM TEA BREAK

11.30 am to 12 noon: First Keynote. Prof. Harish Trivedi: “India, America and World Literature”

Venues for all Parallel Sessions:

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, 1^st Floor, Arts Block I

12 NOON – 1.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A - D

[Brajesh Sawhney]	[Vijay Sharma]	[Mita Biswas]	[Sushila Singh]
Anu Celly	Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt	Sushi Datta-Sandhu	Meenu Gupta
Manpreet Kaur Kang	Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri	Sandhya Devesan Nambiar	Pankti Desai
Purnendu Chatterjee	Vinita Jha	Rohini Tukdeo	Rachna Rastogi
Sunita Sinha	Garima Williams	Shuchismita Mitra	Mary Mohanty

1.30 TO 2.30 PHOTO SESSION & LUNCH

2.30 TO 4.00 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS A - D

[Harish Trivedi]	[Sudhir Kumar]	[Anu Celly]	[Lovelina P. Singh]
Stella Hockenhull	Anil Raina	Anurag Kumar & Nagendra Kumar	Nilakshi Roy
Somdatta	Razdan, K B	V.Lakshmanan	Maghsood Esmaieli
Mohanmeet Khosla	Mukul Sengupta	Roshan Lal Sharma	Amrit Kaur
Sachin Ketkar	Santosh P. Rajguru	Niyatee Ayyar	Navjot Kaur

4.00 TO 4.15 TEA BREAK

4.15 TO 5.15 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS A - C

(Himadri Lahiri)	[V. Lakshmanan]	[Mukul Sengupta]
Azad+Esmael	NDR Chandra	R.G.Kulkarni
Jyoti Mishra	Ravichandran T.	Hossein Sabouri
Navreet Sahi	Melissa Helen	Ramanpreet Grewal

5.15 TO 6.00: BREAK

6.00 PM PLENARY PPT presentations (Eng Audi) On Michael Jackson; on Chandigarh by S.S. Bhatti,

8.00 PM DINNER

7.00 PM: Play Performance by Dept of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, Chandigarh

“The Trojan Women” in Hindustani – Venue – Open Air Theatre

26^TH FEB 2010

9.30 AM TO 11.00 - PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D

[Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara]	[Razdan, K B]	[Nishi Pandey]	[Meera Malik]
Carolyn Kraus	Yatri Dilipbhai Dave	Rashmi Mathur	Sukla Basu (Sen)
Raphael Joseph	Mahesh M. Nivargi	Vandana Datta	Reza Yavarian
Anjali Chauhan	Harneet Sandhu	Anupam Nahar	Vicky Sylvester
Neeti Mahajan	Jayanta Kar Sharma	Kaliknar Pattanayak	Debashish Lahiri

11.00 TO 11.30 TEA BREAK

11.30 AM TO 12 NOON

PLENARY SESSION

Mukesh Williams

Second Keynote Address: “Culture of Capitalism and Consumerism: The American Gulliver and World Systems —Cooperation and Consensus”

12 NOON TO 1.00 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO C

[Somdatta Mandal]	[Mina S. Singh]	[Suneeta Patnayak]
Carlos Gohn	Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara	Anshu Shekhawat
Vivek Sachdeva	Nandini Bhadra	Vandana Sukheeja
Himadri Roy	Alka Saxena	Ranjita Barik

1.00 TO 2.00 PM LUNCH

2.00 PM TO 3.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO C

[Mukesh Williams]	[Carolyn Kraus]	[Anil Raina]
Kaoru Kinoshita	Dipankar Purkayastha	Himadri Lahiri
Ui Teramoto	Roya Yaghoubi	Seema Malik+Vaibhav
Kun Jong Lee	Ashu Vashisht	Namrata Nistandra
Akiko Ogihara	Seema Bhupendra	Smita Jha

3.30 : TEA BREAK

3.45 to 4.15 PM MELOW GBM

6.00 TO 7.30 TWO PARALLEL POETRY SESSIONS (Hindi and English)

(A) Venue: Gandhi Bhavan [Mamta Kalia / DS Gupt] T N Raaz Yojana Rawat Roshan B D Kalia Rupa Saba Taaran Gujral Santosh Dhiman Atul Vir

(B) Venue: English Audi [Sushila Singh / Manju Jaidka] Nirupama Dutt Kailash Ahluwalia Balpreet Kaur Lalita Jagmohan Aradhana Sharma Sourabh Gupta Debashish Lahiri

7.30 PM: DINNER

27^th Feb 2010 Venue: English Auditorium

9.45 am to 10.30 am		Shashi Deshpande (Pratibha Nagpal & Sudhir Kumar)
10.30 am to 11.15 am		Mamta Kalia (Mina Singh)
11.15am to 11.30 am		TEA BREAK
11.30 noon to 12.15 pm		Chander Trikha (Madhav Kaushik)
12.15 to 1.00 pm		Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal (Manju Jaidka)
1.00 pm to 2.00		LUNCH
2.00 to 3.30 pm TWO PARALLEL STORY SESSIONS
	(A) Venue: Gandhi Bhavan		(B) Venue: English Auditorium
	[Dr. Zakir]		[Manjula Padmanabhan]
	V. Mehndiratta		T N Dhar
	Indu Bali		Carolyn Kraus
	Ravindra Kalia		Jaideep
	3.30 to 3.45 pm TEA BREAK
3. 45 to 4.15 pm		P.C. Kar (Gulshan Kataria) ISM Lecture “Aesthetics of Modernism”
4.15-4.30 pm		Summing up & Vote of Thanks

CONFERENCE UPDATE:

The International Conference on “CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: Literature and Culture Since 1980” is being held from Feb 25 to 27, 2010. The Conference will dove-tail into the First Chandigarh LitFest for which there will be several well-known literary figures visiting Chandigarh. The event has been announced over the Internet through different mailing listservs and the expected participation from Chandigarh, India and abroad will be around 250 delegates.

The event is being co-hosted by the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi (www.chandigarhsahityaakademi.blogspot.com) which is governed by the Chandigarh Arts Council (UT) and organizes Literary events from time to time. In collaboration with the Panjab University and MELOW, the Akademi is, for the first time in the history of Chandigarh, organizing a Literary Festival.

MELOW (website www.melus-melow.org and blog www.melusmelow.blogspot.com) is an independent, registered, non-profit organization committed to the study World Literatures. A team of senior Professors from different universities in India and abroad manages the affairs of the Society. It has an International advisory board and to date it has held nine conferences. The February 2010 conference will be its tenth international conference.

About 200 delegates are expected to participate in this conference, including 20 from abroad. Well known names of academics are Profs Harish Trivedi, P.C. Kar, Tejnath Dhar, Sushila Singh, Malashri Lal. Mukesh Williams, Brajesh Sawhney, Mita Biswas, Dipankar Purukayastha, Nishi Pandey, Gulshan Kataria and KB Razdan. Creative writers particpating in the event include Shashi Deshpande, Mamta and Ravinder Kalia, Namita Gokhale and Manjula Padmanabhan. They will interact with local writers and scholars like Dr KL Zakir, V. Mehndirata, Indu Bali, Chander Trikha, Atulvir Arora, Nirupama Dutt and university teachers including Profs Manju Jaidka and Anil Raina, the main organizers of the conference and LitFest. Dr DS Gupt and Madhav Kaushik, Vice-President and Secretary, respectively, of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi, are also involved in the organization.

The 3-day Event will be inaugurated on 25th Feb by Prof RC Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab Universtiy, Chandigarh. The Special Guest on this occasion will be Shri Pradip Mehra, IAS, Adviser to the Administrator, UT, Chandigarh.

There will be a special Isaac Sequeira Memorial Lecture delivered by Prof PC Kar on 27^th February.

The ISM Award for the best paper presented at the last (Shantiniketan) Conference will be given to Dr Dipankar Roy.

An anthology comprising selected papers of the Shantiniketan Conference will be released at the Inauguration.

FEBRUARY 2010 CONFERENCE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE AND LITFEST 2010

The Panjab University will collaborate with the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi and the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World (MELOW) to hold an International Conference on “Literature and Culture Post-1980” from Feb 25 to 27, 2010. The Conference will dove-tail into the First Chandigarh Literary Festival for which there will be several well-known literary figures visiting Chandigarh. The event has been announced over the Internet through different mailing listservs and the expected participation from Chandigarh, India and abroad will be around 200 delegates.

MELOW (website www.melus-melow.org) is an independent, registered, non-profit organization committed to the study World Literatures. A team of senior Professors from different universities manages the affairs of the Society. It has an International advisory board and to date it has held nine conferences. The Februrary 2010 conference will be its tenth international conference.

Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi (www.chandigarhsahityaakademi.blogspot.com) is governed by the Chandigarh Arts Council (UT) and organizes Literary events from time to time. In collaboration with the Panjab University and MELOW, the Akademi is, for the first time in the history of Chandigarh, organizing a Literary Festival.

WELCOME TO THE INAUGURATION ON 25TH FEB 2010 AT 9.45 AM.

VENUE: ENGLISH AUDITORIUM, PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH