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The conference schedule is given below.
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The conference schedule is given below.
In case you have any doubt please email aneelraina@gmail.com
PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
DAY 1
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10am-11.15am
Inaugural Address: Kanwar Sandhu
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11.15-11.45
TEA
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11.45am-1.15pm
Parallel Sessions
A1 Nandini, Navjot, Manpreet, Ismael
A2 Archana, Samik, Sangeeta, Renuka,
A3 Meenu, Monica, Sukhdeep, Swati
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1.15pm-2.15pm
LUNCH
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2.15pm-4.00pm
Parallel Sessions
B1Kanchan, Sonali, Radika, Tajinder, Sunaina
B2 Ashis, Parul, Prasita,Sonam, Suman
B3 Janesh, Nilanjana, Ramneek, Reena
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DAY 2
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9.15am-11am
Parallel Sessions
C1Divija, Pranav,Priya, Nirmal, Harpreet
C2 Amritendu, Anway, Parvinder, Harpreet, Ranjita
C3 Harneet, Chanchal, Gaurav,KBS, Neela
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11.00-11.15
Short Break
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11.15am-1.15pm
ISM SESSION
Anupam
Nanditha
Neepa
ISM Lecture: Amritjit Singh
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1.15pm-2.15pm
LUNCH
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2.15pm-4.00pm
Parallel Sessions
D1 Jyoti, Karan, Parminder, Amandeep & Amandeep, Vipan
D2 Vivek, Gursheek, Rahul, Nosheen, Manjot
D3 Bhawna, Jaidev, Khem, Rohit, Subah
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DAY 3
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*9.15am-10.00am
Optional Session on Academic Writing
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10.00-11.00
Parallel Sessions
E1 Munejah, Rimika, Namrata
E2 Vandhana, Harsh, Shagun
E3 Aman, Suneeta, Sarabjeet
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11.00-12.00
Parallel Sessions
F1Poonkulaly, Manjinder, Sakshi
F2 Ashima, Debobani, Sakoon
F3 Ruheela, Simranpreet, Rajinder
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12.15-1.30pm
Valedictory + GBM
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1.30pm
LUNCH
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PROGRAM IN DETAIL
DAY 1: 20 FEB 2014
10.00-11.15: INAUGURATION + KEYNOTE by KANWAR
SANDHU
11.15-11.45: TEA
11.45-1.15: PARALLEL SESSIONS
Session A1
Focus on Women Writers
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Nandini Bhadra : “The Sacred and the
Profane: Reading Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Saratchandra's Devdas in
Our Times”
·
Navjot Deol : “’Who’s Afraid of Edna O’Brien?’: An
Investigation into the Literary Journey of Ireland’s Controversial Writer”
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Manpreet Kang: “The Hailed and the Condemned: A Study of Select
Novels by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison”
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Ismael Saeed : “Censorship
as an Invisible Agent in Ursula Kroeber Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”
SESSION A2
Censorship: Politics and other issues
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Archana R. Singh: “Muzzling the Media: Press Censorship in
India”
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Sangeeta Singh: “Muzzling the Muse: The Politics of
Censorship”
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Renuka Dhyani: “Censorship and Nature”
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Samik Malla “Is There an Epistemic Purity”
SESSION A3
Banning and Silencing
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Meenu Gupta: “Ban-Bane, Boon- Boom –The Satanic Verses Saga”
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Monica Sabharwal : “Blaspheming
Literature: Religion, Rationality and Censorship”
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Sukhdeep Ghuman: “Silencing of Stories: Censorship in Rushdie's 'Haroun'”
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Swathi Krishna: “Eros and Blasphemy in John Updike’s Couples”
11.15-2.15 LUNCH
2.15-4.00 PARALLEL
SESSIONS
SESSION B1
Western Perspectives
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Kanchan: “Freedom,
Humanism and Censorship in The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn”
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Sonali Sarkar: “The Color Purple Banned: US Response to Alice
Walker’s Novel, 1984-2008”
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Radika Chopra: “The Political and the Artistic: George
Orwell’s Animal Farm”
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Tajinder Singh: “The Strange Case of Slaughterhouse Five
and Censorship in American Schools”
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Sunaina Jain: “Book Censorship in the Twentieth Century: A
Study of Selected Dystopian Novels”
SESSION
B2
The Forbidden in Non-Western Literature
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Ashis Sengupta: “Power, Performance, Censorship:
Contemporary South Asian Theatre”
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Parul : “Politics
at Work: Writing and Banning of Katherine Mayo’s The Face of Mother India”
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Prasita Mukherji: “BOL:
Speaking Silence”
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Sonam Angmo “Sexuality
and Violence in Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Manto’s short stories.”
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Suman Sigroha: “Forbidden Love: Same-Sex Marriages in Popular
Hindi Cinema”
SESSION B3
‘Deviant’ Sexuality
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Janesh Kapoor: “Rethinking Deviant Sexuality:
Negotiating Female Body and Self in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The
Color Purple
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Nilanjana Ghosal: “Forbidden Body Images and Violence of Assimilation:
A Reading of Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers”
·
Ramneek Kohli: “Rejection
of the Little Toy Wife and the Angel: Sylvia Plath's Demand for Personal and
Artistic Identity in The Bell Jar”
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Reena Sharma: “Representation of Deviant Sexuality in Mahesh
Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai”
DAY 2: 21 FEB 2014
9.15-11.00 PARALLEL
SESSIONS
SESSION C1
Intellectual Dissent
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Divija Kumari: “Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: Why was it Banned?”
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Pranav Joshipura: “The
Masterplan: An Exposé of
Apartheid Government’s Master Plan”
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Priya Sandhu: “Beyond the Colour Line: A Case Study of July’s People by Nadine Gordime”r
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Namrata Nistandra: “ The
Idea of the Public Intellectual: A Saidean Reading of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”
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Nirmal Kumari : “Erich Maria Remarque's All
Quiet on the Western Front: Dissent, Propaganda and Anti-War
Narratives”
SESSION C2
Censorship of Manuscripts, Anthologies,
etc.
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Amritendu Ghosal:
“The Homophobe’s Last Resort:
The Tradition of Bans from Whitman to Ginsberg”
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Anway
Mukhopahdyay: “Buckles for Voices: The
Politics of ‘Editing’ and/or Censoring Manuscripts before Publication”
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Parvinder: “Foregrounding the Tabooed:
Cultural Censorship and Autobiographical Resistance”
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Harpreet Bali: “Anthologies and Censorship: A
Critical Analysis of Selective Controversial Anthologies”
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Ranjita Pati: “Representation
versus Repression: An Ideological Concern”
SESSION C3
Censorship and Children’s literature
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Harneet
Sandhu “Of Guppees,
Gardeners and Genies: A ‘Childish’ Study of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and
the Sea of Stories”
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Neela
Sarkar: “ In Search of
Light: A Reading of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials”
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Chanchal
Narang: “Fantasy
and Escape: The Barbie Factor”
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KBS
Krishna: “Should Children Read Sherlock
Holmes?: Issues & Challenges while considering Detective Fiction as
Children’s Literature”
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Gaurav
Sood: “Cultural Politics of
Censorship: A Case Study of Child Pornography”
11.00-11.15 SHORT BREAK
11.15-1.15 ISM SESSION
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Anupam Vatsayan: “The
Bard and the Bawdiness: Profanity and Censorship in the Shakespearean Canon”
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Nanditha Krishna: “Taslima
Nasrin’s Lajja: Was the Ban
justified?”
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Neepa Sarkar: “Censoring the Voice: Gioconda Belli,
Ken Saro-Wiwa, Dario Fo and Franca Rame”
ISM special lecture by Amritjit Singh
1.15-2.15 LUNCH
2.15-4.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION D1
Silencing South Asian Voices
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Jyoti Mishra: “Shall
we submit to gagging?- Angaaray : An Interrogation”
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Karan Singh: “The Politics of Ban: The Great Soul, Mahatma Gandhi and
His Struggle with India”
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Parminder Singh: “
Death Sentence to a Sentence: A Study of Libricide in Selected 20th
century South Asian Novels”
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Amandeep & Amandeep
Kaur: “Framed, Captured and Gagged: Resisting Presence of the Kabir Kala Manch”
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Vipan
Kumar : “Presentation
of Dalits in Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History
SESSION D2
Films, Art, and Censorship
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Vivek Sachdeva: “Do Films Threaten the Nation”
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Gursheek KAur: “Criticism versus Creativity: Considering
Censored Films”
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Rahul Chaturvedi: “Inside
Censorium: Ideology of Film Censorship in India”
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Nosheen Kapoor: “Silenced, Suppressed, Sometimes Salvaged: Art
in the Face of Censorship”
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Manjot Josan: “Aesthetics and Censorship of Violence”
SESSION D3
Hindu(tva)
and Censoring
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Bhawna V. Arora: “Censorship: An Oppressive Apparatus of Hindutva Watchdogs: A Case
Study of Select Texts”
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Jaidev
Bishnoi: “Politics of the Hindu right: A Mockery of the
Freedom of Expression”
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Khem Raj Sharma: “‘What’s in a Name?’: Politics of Censorship and Literary Voice in
Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita”
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Rohit Sharma: “Draupadi, censored or uncensored?: A comparative analysis
of the two TV adaptations of the Mahabharata”
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Subah
Gautam: “Official Narrative v/s
Alternate Narrative: The Hindus by Wendy Doniger”
DAY
3: 22 FEB 2014
9.15-10.00 LECTURE ON ACADEMIC
WRITING (optional) by Anil Raina
10.00-11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION E1
Lolita and Malala
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Munejah Khan: "Reading
Lolita in Tehran: An Account of the Banned Books of Literature through the
Eyes of an Exiled Writer"
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Rimika Singhvi: “From Banning Lolita to Reading it in Tehran”
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Harpreet Kaur: “Censorship of I Am Malala: Power, Politics and Hegemony”
SESSION E2
Censorship and the Future
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Vandhana Sharma: “Censorship: A Necessity for or Abuse
of Human Speech”
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Harsh Bhardwaj: “Censorship Today: A Future Prism
for Progressive Ideals”
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Shagun Singh: “Marilyne Robinson’s Mother Country:
Humanity at Risk”
Session E3:
Ethics and Censorship
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Aman Deep: “Issue of Untouchability: Profane and Ethical Defilement
of Human Values”
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Suneeta Patnayak: “Caste, Ethics and Society: A Circumcision of Liberty in
Ananthamurthy's Samskara”
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Sarabjit Kaur: “A Way to be Good Again: A Study of The Kite Runner”
11.00-12.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS
SESSION F1
From the Indian Sub-continent
·
Poonkulaly
Gunaseelan:
“Literary Ellipses and the Violence of Silence in Vikram Seth’s A Suitable
Boy (1993) and Rohinton Mistry’s A
Fine Balance (1995)”
·
Manjinder Wratch: “Reading Moments of Cognition and
Self-Realization in Sadat Hassan Manto's Engagement with the Erotic”
·
Sakshi
Kaushik: “The Breaking of Silence in My Feudal Lord”
SESSION F2
·
Ashima
Bhardwaj: “Beat
Movement and the Conundrum of Censorship”
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Debobani Biswas: “Twice Militant: “‘Outing’ Lorraine Hansberry as the Complete
Revolutionary”
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Sakoon Singh: “Thomas
Bowdler’s Family Shakespeare:
Expurgation and Sensibility of an Age”
SESSION F3
Children and Censorship
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Ruheela
Hassan: “Media Content for Young Minds: An Appraisal”
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Rajinder
Singh: “ Pinki Virani's Unspoken Bitter Truth”
·
Simranpreet Kaur: “Persistent
Damsels and Omnipotent Dudes: Children
and Mass Media”
12.15-1.30 VALEDICTORY +GBM
1.30pm LUNCH
