Conference Program

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The conference schedule is given below.
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PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

DAY 1	10am-11.15am Inaugural Address: Kanwar Sandhu	11.15-11.45 TEA	11.45am-1.15pm Parallel Sessions A1 Nandini, Navjot, Manpreet, Ismael A2 Archana, Samik, Sangeeta, Renuka, A3 Meenu, Monica, Sukhdeep, Swati	1.15pm-2.15pm LUNCH	2.15pm-4.00pm Parallel Sessions B1Kanchan, Sonali, Radika, Tajinder, Sunaina B2 Ashis, Parul, Prasita,Sonam, Suman B3 Janesh, Nilanjana, Ramneek, Reena
DAY 2	9.15am-11am Parallel Sessions C1Divija, Pranav,Priya, Nirmal, Harpreet C2 Amritendu, Anway, Parvinder, Harpreet, Ranjita C3 Harneet, Chanchal, Gaurav,KBS, Neela	11.00-11.15 Short Break	11.15am-1.15pm ISM SESSION Anupam Nanditha Neepa ISM Lecture: Amritjit Singh	1.15pm-2.15pm LUNCH	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
DAY 3	*9.15am-10.00am Optional Session on Academic Writing	10.00-11.00 Parallel Sessions E1 Munejah, Rimika, Namrata E2 Vandhana, Harsh, Shagun E3 Aman, Suneeta, Sarabjeet	11.00-12.00 Parallel Sessions F1Poonkulaly, Manjinder, Sakshi F2 Ashima, Debobani, Sakoon F3 Ruheela, Simranpreet, Rajinder	12.15-1.30pm Valedictory + GBM	1.30pm LUNCH

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

·        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”

·        Manpreet Kang:           “The Hailed and the Condemned: A Study of Select Novels by Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison”

·        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

·        Archana R. Singh:   “Muzzling the Media: Press Censorship in India”

·        Sangeeta Singh:      “Muzzling the Muse: The Politics of Censorship”

·        Renuka Dhyani:      “Censorship and Nature”

·        Samik Malla             “Is There an Epistemic Purity”

SESSION A3

Banning and Silencing

·        Meenu Gupta:                     “Ban-Bane, Boon- Boom –The Satanic Verses Saga”

·        Monica Sabharwal :           “Blaspheming Literature: Religion, Rationality and Censorship”

·        Sukhdeep Ghuman:          “Silencing of Stories: Censorship in Rushdie's 'Haroun'”

·        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

·        Kanchan:                  “Freedom, Humanism and Censorship in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

·        Sonali Sarkar:          “The Color Purple Banned: US Response to Alice Walker’s Novel, 1984-2008”

·        Radika Chopra:       “The Political and the Artistic: George Orwell’s Animal Farm”

·        Tajinder Singh:        “The Strange Case of Slaughterhouse Five and Censorship in American Schools”

·         Sunaina Jain:           “Book Censorship in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Selected Dystopian Novels”

SESSION B2

The Forbidden in Non-Western Literature

·        Ashis Sengupta:      “Power, Performance, Censorship: Contemporary South Asian Theatre”

·        Parul :                        “Politics at Work: Writing and Banning of Katherine Mayo’s The Face of Mother India”

·        Prasita Mukherji:   “BOL: Speaking Silence”

·        Sonam Angmo        “Sexuality and Violence in Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hassan Manto’s short stories.”

·        Suman Sigroha:      “Forbidden Love: Same-Sex Marriages in Popular Hindi Cinema”

SESSION B3

‘Deviant’ Sexuality

·        Janesh Kapoor:       “Rethinking Deviant Sexuality: Negotiating Female Body and Self in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

·        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”

·        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

·        Divija Kumari:         “Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: Why was it Banned?”

·        Pranav Joshipura: “The Masterplan: An Exposé of Apartheid Government’s Master Plan”

·        Priya Sandhu:          “Beyond the Colour Line: A Case Study of July’s People by Nadine Gordime”r

·        Namrata Nistandra: “ The Idea of the Public Intellectual: A Saidean Reading of Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”

·        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.

·        Amritendu Ghosal:            “The Homophobe’s Last Resort: The Tradition of Bans from Whitman to Ginsberg”

·        Anway Mukhopahdyay: “Buckles for Voices: The Politics of ‘Editing’ and/or Censoring Manuscripts before Publication”

·        Parvinder:                “Foregrounding the Tabooed: Cultural Censorship and Autobiographical Resistance”

·        Harpreet Bali:          “Anthologies and Censorship: A Critical Analysis of Selective Controversial Anthologies”

·        Ranjita Pati:             “Representation versus Repression: An Ideological Concern”

SESSION C3

Censorship and Children’s literature

·        Harneet Sandhu                 “Of Guppees, Gardeners and Genies: A ‘Childish’ Study of Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories”

·        Neela Sarkar:           “ In Search of Light: A Reading of Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials”

·        Chanchal Narang:              “Fantasy and Escape: The Barbie Factor”

·        KBS Krishna:                         “Should Children Read Sherlock Holmes?: Issues & Challenges while considering Detective Fiction as Children’s Literature”

·        Gaurav Sood:          “Cultural Politics of Censorship: A Case Study of Child Pornography” 

11.00-11.15                        SHORT BREAK

11.15-1.15               ISM SESSION

·        Anupam Vatsayan:            “The Bard and the Bawdiness: Profanity and Censorship in the Shakespearean Canon”

·        Nanditha Krishna:              “Taslima Nasrin’s Lajja: Was the Ban justified?”

·        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

·        Jyoti Mishra:            “Shall we submit to gagging?- Angaaray : An Interrogation”

·        Karan Singh:            “The Politics of Ban: The Great Soul, Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India”

·        Parminder Singh:   “ Death Sentence to a Sentence: A Study of Libricide in Selected 20^th century South Asian Novels”

·        Amandeep & Amandeep Kaur: “Framed, Captured and Gagged: Resisting Presence of the Kabir Kala Manch”

·        Vipan Kumar :         “Presentation of Dalits in Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History

SESSION D2            

Films, Art, and Censorship

·        Vivek Sachdeva:     “Do Films Threaten the Nation”

·        Gursheek KAur:      “Criticism versus Creativity: Considering Censored Films”

·        Rahul Chaturvedi: “Inside Censorium: Ideology of Film Censorship in India”

·        Nosheen Kapoor:   “Silenced, Suppressed, Sometimes Salvaged: Art in the Face of Censorship”

·        Manjot Josan:         “Aesthetics and Censorship of Violence”

SESSION D3            

 Hindu(tva) and Censoring

·        Bhawna V. Arora: “Censorship: An Oppressive Apparatus of Hindutva Watchdogs: A Case Study of Select Texts”

·        Jaidev            Bishnoi:         “Politics of the Hindu right: A Mockery of the Freedom of Expression”

·        Khem Raj Sharma: “‘What’s in a Name?’: Politics of Censorship and Literary Voice in Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita”

·        Rohit Sharma:         “Draupadi, censored or uncensored?: A comparative analysis of the two TV adaptations of the  Mahabharata”

·        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

·        Munejah Khan:       "Reading Lolita in Tehran: An Account of the Banned Books of Literature through the Eyes of an Exiled Writer"

·        Rimika Singhvi:       “From Banning Lolita to Reading it in Tehran”

·        Harpreet Kaur:        “Censorship of  I Am Malala: Power, Politics and Hegemony”

SESSION E2

Censorship and the Future

·        Vandhana Sharma:            “Censorship: A Necessity for or Abuse of Human Speech”

·        Harsh Bhardwaj:                “Censorship Today: A Future Prism for Progressive Ideals”

·        Shagun Singh:         “Marilyne Robinson’s Mother Country: Humanity at Risk”

Session E3:             

Ethics and Censorship

·        Aman Deep:             “Issue of Untouchability: Profane and Ethical Defilement of Human Values”

·        Suneeta Patnayak:             “Caste, Ethics and Society: A Circumcision of Liberty in Ananthamurthy's Samskara”

·        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”

·        Debobani Biswas:               “Twice Militant: “‘Outing’ Lorraine Hansberry as the Complete Revolutionary”

·        Sakoon Singh:                     “Thomas Bowdler’s Family Shakespeare: Expurgation and Sensibility of an Age”

SESSION F3

Children and Censorship

·        Ruheela Hassan:                 “Media Content for Young Minds: An Appraisal”

·        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