PROGRAM IN DETAIL
|
DATE
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Session
I |
Session
II |
Session
III |
Session
IV |
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October
6, 2023 |
9:00
AM Registration 10:
00 AM Inaugural Session 11:00
AM Group Photo & High Tea |
12
noon KEYNOTE:
Prof. ML Raina (Chair:
Krishnan Unni P.) |
2:00
to 3:30 Parallel
Sessions A1-A6 6 sessions,
4 speakers each |
4:00
to 5:00 PM ISM
Special Lecture Prof
Tej Nath Dhar (Chair:
Dipankar Purkayastha) |
|
October
7, 2023 |
9:30
to 11:00 Parallel
Sessions B1-B5 5
sessions, 4 speakers each |
11:30
to 1:00 PM Parallel
Sessions C1-C6 6
sessions, 4 speakers each |
2:00
to 3:30 PM Parallel
Session D1 – D6 6
sessions, 4 speakers each |
3:45
to 5:15 PM ISM
Session 3
speakers (Chair:
Sanjay Mukherjee) |
|
October
8, 2023 |
9:30
to 11:00 Parallel
Sessions E1-E5 5
sessions, 4 speakers each |
11:30
to 1:00 PM Parallel
Sessions F1 -F6 6
sessions, 4 speakers each |
1:00
to 2:00 PM Valedictory &
GBM |
2:00
PM Lunch
& Disperse |
AT A GLANCE
PROGRAM IN DETAIL
OCTOBER
6, 2023
10:00 TO 11:00 AM
Inauguration (moderated by Ms Gursheek Kaur)
Welcome note by Manpreet Kaur Kang,
Secretary, MELOW
Introduction and felicitation of
Guests of Honour
Introduction to the Conference theme
Manju Jaidka, President MELOW
Address by the Principal, Dr. Navjot
Kaur
11:00 AM TO 12 NOON: PHOTO SESSION & HIGH TEA
12:00 NOON TO 1:00 PM
Keynote Address: PROF. M.L. RAINA
Chair: PROF. KRISHNAN UNNI P.
PROGRAM
IN DETAIL
6
OCTOBER
2:00 to
3:30 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS A1 TO A6
A1
CHAIR:
PROF. AHMED AHSANUZZAMAN
SPEAKERS:
|
Arusharko
Banerjee Department of
English, Kidderpore College, Kolkata -700023. “To be
"Human" or "Humane"? - The Debate of Climate Change” Adela Kuik-Kalinowska Pomeranian University in Słupsk (Poland) Institut of Philology adelakuik@poczta.onet.pl Bindiya
Rani Research
Scholar, Department Of English, PU, Chd. bindiyavishavkarma34@gmail.com “Memory of the Holocaust as a Testimony of
Dehumanization: Primo Levi’s If This is a Man” Sayan Chatterjee University Of Calcutta |
A2
CHAIR:
PROF. ROSHAN LAL SHARMA
SPEAKERS
(4):
|
Divya S Department of
English Bishop Moore
College Mavelikara,
Alappuzha Dist. Kerala divyasravindranathan@gmail.com “Arborescent
Musings in the Anthropocentric World: Ficus carica in Elif
Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees” Hutulu Dasai Research Scholar, Christ
University, Bengalaru English and Cultural Studies
Department. hutulu.dasai@res.christuniversity.in and Sharmila Narayana Professor, Christ University,
Bengalaru, School of Law sharmila.narayana@christuniversity.in “Non-human
Subjects and Environmental Ethics: An Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s
The Nutmeg’s Curse” JapPreet Kaur
Bhangu Professor &
Head, Dept. Of Management & Humanities, Sliet Longowal, Dist. Sangrur,
Punjab 148106 India jkbhangu@gmail.com jappreetkaurbhangu@sliet.ac.in “Beyond
Borders: Geetanjali Shree’s Ret Samadhi (Tomb of Sand)” Nasser Dasht Peyma, English Department, Faculty of
Liberal Arts & Ancient Indian Wisdom, Shoolini University Solan, HP nasserpeyma@shooliniuniversity.com “Harmony and Balance in Brenda
Wong Aoki’s ‘The Queen's Garden’: An Ecocritical Study” |
A3
CHAIR: DR.
ABIN CHAKRABORTY
SPEAKERS
(4):
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Kriti Kuthiala Kalia Assistant Professor (P.G
Department of English), D.A.V. College, Sector
10, Chandigarh “The Non- Conscious Consciousness: Subverting Anthropocentric
Discourse in Yan Lianke’s Years, Months Days via Human
Subjectivity” Manthan
Dhiman Independent
Researcher “My Own Inferno: A Spherological study of
loneliness, depression, and addiction in David Foster Wallace's Infinite
Jest” Maria
Pratibha Da Cruz Assistant
Professor at Fr. Agnel College of Arts and Commerce, Goa Kadambri Gasso PhD Research Scholar Department of English BPSMV, Sonipat (Haryana) "We
Know What Poonachi Thinks: A Study of Animal Subjectivity in Perumal
Murugan’s Poonachi or The Story of a Black Goat" |
A4
CHAIR:
DR. ILA RATHOR
SPEAKERS:
|
Sunaina Jain Assistant Professor Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College
for Women, Chandigarh “Trauma in
Human/Non-Human World: A Critical Reading of Elif Shafak’s The Island
of Missing Trees” Aditi
Magotra Research
Scholar (Literature), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology Jammu. “Ghassan
Under ‘Moderate Pressure’: An Analysis of Memory, Torture, and Trauma Faced
by Ghassan in Sacco’s Palestine” Amit
Narula Assistant
Professor in English DAV
College, Chandigarh Traumatic
Memory Vis-A-Vis Memorable Trauma: A Study Of The Voices Of Dalits In Dalit
Literature Bhakti Vaishnav Assistant Professor
(English),Government Arts and Science College, Bavla , GujaratUniversity “Individual and Collective Trauma in Han Kang’s
Human Acts An Analysis from the Perspective of Pluralistic Model
of Trauma Theory” |
A5
CHAIR:
PROF. ANIL RAINA
SPEAKERS
(4):
|
Kalpana Purohit Professor, Department of English,
JNV University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan) “Traversing
The Narratives Of Violence, Memory And Identity With Special Reference To
Khaled Hosseini And Atiq Rahimi” Khagendra Acharya (1), Dr.
Bashabi Gupta (2), Mr. Tirtha Raj Ghimire (3) “Physiological
Manifestation of Trauma in Maoist Partisans’ Narrative” Khushboo
Thakur Research
Scholar, Shoolini University, Solan, H.P. “The
Struggle for Reconciliation: Trauma and Memory in Abdulrazak Gurnah's By the Sea”
Madhav
Dubey PhD
student, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of
Technology Roorkee Tracing
the Trauma of Displacement in Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon has Blood
Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir” |
A6
CHAIR:
DR. NIPUN KALIA
SPEAKERS:
|
Renuka Dhyani Associate Professor Department of English SMMD Government Sanskrit College,
Panchkula (Haryana) “There are Roughly Zones:
Insightful Poetry from the Hills of Uttarakhand” K
Aravind Mitra Bashabi Gogoi Assistant Professor, Department
of English, Tezpur University, Assam myselfluna24@gmail.com “The
Lambs Are Silent”: Interpreting Trauma In The Novel And Film Adaptation
Of The Silence Of The Lambs Beant
Kaur Research Scholar,
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh
(160014) “Deconstructing
the Discourse of Emigration: A Critical Study of Yaar Chale Bahar” |
|
3:30 to 4:00 PM: Tea Break |
4:00 – 5:00
PM
SPECIAL
ISAAC SEQUEIRA MEMORIAL LECTURE
SPEAKER: PROF.
TEJ NATH DHAR
CHAIR:
PROF DIPANKAR PURKAYASTHA
5:30 PM –
CULTURAL PROGRAM
7:30 PM
-PRINCIPAL’S DINNER
7
OCTOBER
9:30 to
11:00 AM - PARALLEL SESSIONS B1 TO B5
B1
CHAIR: PROF
KALPANA PUROHIT
SPEAKERS:
|
Palak Dawar Pooja Duggal PhD Research Scholar
(JRF), Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University “Rethinking
the Animal: A Critical Study of Sharankumar Limbale's The Outcaste:
Akkarmashi” Reeswav Chatterjee State Aided College Teacher I Maheshtala College Calcutta University “Spectres of the
Future: Marginal Children of Posthumanity in Selected Stories by Saikat
Mukhopadhyay” Ahmed Ahsanuzzaman Professor Department of
English and Modern Languages Independent
University, Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka "Sharatchandra Chattopadhyay’s Devdas'
Travels from Text to Screen” |
B2
CHAIR:
PROF RIMIKA SINGHVI
SPEAKERS:
|
Shalini Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of English at Srinath
University shalini.chakraborty1996@gmail.com “Writing the animal-
Anthropomorphic language and human subjectivity depicting the canine
consciousness in Paul Auster’s Timbuktu” Sirishty Thapa PhD Scholar, Department of
English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh. “Blurring
the Boundaries between Animals and Humans: An Interpretation of Ruskin Bond’s
Select Stories” Sumnima Parajuli “Beyond
Boundaries: Exploring Subjectivities in The Overstory (2018) and Bees (2014)” Livine Ancy A PhD research scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology,
Tiruchirappalli. livine2212@gmail.com “Exploring Caregiving Dynamics through Comics:
Interactions Between Humans and Technology” |
B3
CHAIR:
DR. HEM RAJ BANSAL
SPEAKERS:
|
Kusum
Bhatia Assistant Professor, Government PG College,
Ambala Cantt. (Affiliated to Kurukshetra University), Haryana Malvika
Avasthi Ph.D. Scholar,
Shoolini University Solan, India The Reel and the Real in Me Before You Manik Ahuja PhD Senior Research Fellow,
Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh “Dystopian
Reality: An Exploration of the 'Demotic' in The Truman Show” Nipun
Kalia Associate
Professor (English), University
Institute of Liberal Arts and Humanities, Chandigarh University, Mohali “The
Communion of Dance: Politics, History and Performance in Luca
Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018)” |
B4
CHAIR:
PROF ROSHAN LAL SHARMA
SPEAKERS:
|
Bilge Mutluay Cetintas Assoc. Prof. Dr. / Department
of American Culture and Literature / Hacettepe University, Ankara,
Turkey “‘Home
Is Where One Starts From’: Generational Trauma And Postmemory In Nora
Krug’s Heimat” Cem Kılıçarslan Hacettepe University
Ankara Turkey Dolly Shah, Ph.D. Research Scholar,
Himachal Pradesh University Neha Negi, Ph.D. Research Scholar,
Himachal Pradesh University Email- shahdolly298@gmail.com “Thenmozhi
Soundararajan's Dalit feminist viewpoint on memory trauma and survival in her
book Trauma of Castes” Jayashree Borah Associate Professor Department of English Indraprastha College for Women University of Delhi Traumatic Memory, Complicity and
Narrative in Select Assamese Fiction |
B5
CHAIR:
PROF. TEJ NATH DHAR
SPEAKERS:
|
Mariya Dogan PhD Student Department of American Culture and Literature Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye “‘The Future is History’: Dystopian Discourse in Post-Soviet Russian American Fiction” Megha Suresh Kamble, Research Student (Ph.D.), Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. And Tripti Karekatti, Professor and Head, Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. “Violence,
Child Sexual Abuse And Trauma In Rituparna Chatterjee’s The Water
Phoenix (2020)” Merve Özman Department of American
Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey “Diving
in and out of Memories: Becoming in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep” |
11:00 AM
to 11:30: Tea Break
11:30
to 1:00 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS C1 TO C6
C1
CHAIR:
DR. JAYASHREE BORAH
SPEAKERS:
|
Nidhi Rana Assistant Professor Department of English Post Graduate Government College
for Girls, Sector-42, Chandigarh “The
Afterlives: From Violence and Trauma of War to Healing in Christy
Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo” Nitika Stan Research scholar Department of English Shoolini University, India nitikastan@shooliniuniversity.com “Exploring Violence, Trauma
and Recovery in Chimananda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus: A Feminist
Perspective” Parminder Singh Assistant Professor Dev Samaj College
for Women, Chandigarh “Haunting
Memories - Death and Destruction in the Representative Poetry of Indian
Partition” Pradipta
Shyam Chowdhury Assistant
Professor of English, University of North Bengal pradiptashyamchowdhury@gmail.com “Memories in Food,
Food of Memories: Blurring Borders through Food and Foodways in Indubala
Bhater Hotel (2020)” |
C2
CHAIR:
DR. KAVITA ARYA
SPEAKERS:
|
Priya Uthaiah. I. Maharani's Arts
College for Women, Mysore Memory and Post-memory
in Eka Kurniawan’s Beauty is a Wound Rajdeep Guha PhD Scholar, Dept. of English, Lovely Professional University Punjab, India “Violence
and Trauma as the Leitmotif in Select Works of Mahasweta Devi” Ranjeet Kaur Teaching Assistant Dept of Agricultural
Journalism, Language and Culture, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana Ritu
Sharma Asst.
Professor, Dept. of English D.A.V.
College, Sec.10 Chandigarh Exploring
the Intersections of Time, Trauma and Racial Identity in Octavia E. Butler’s
Kindred |
C3
CHAIR: DR. AMIT NARULA
SPEAKERS:
|
Sandeep Kaur Assistant professor in English Amar Shaheed Baba Ajit Singh
Jujhar Singh Memorial College, Bela, Ropar. “Reading Trauma and Its
Reflections on the Body and Self in Namita Ghokhale's The Blind Matriarch” Saumya Sharma PhD Scholar,
Department of English GGSIPU “Representation
of Rape Trauma in Shakespeare Onscreen: A Look at Julie Taymor’s Adaptation
of Titus Andronicus” Saurav Shandil Research Scholar Department of
English CUHP Dharmashala “Fact-Fiction
Interface: Revisiting the Holocaust Memory, Trauma and Violence in The
Librarian of Auschwitz” Savi Khera Assistant Professor, English Department of Indian & Foreign Languages Gurugram University,
Gurugram (Haryana) “Scepticism, Territorial Concerns and Infracted Humanity in the
selected works from the Northeast” |
C4
CHAIR:
DR KHAGENDRA ACHARYA
SPEAKERS:
|
Sheetal Kumari Research Scholar (HSS,
IIT Roorkee) Shishu Bala Associate Professor English Department - VGC Mandi, H.P. And Suman Sigroha Violence, Trauma, and memory in Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy Shivani
Chaudhary Assistant Professor of
English, GDC Dehar, Distt. Mandi (H.P.) “Trauma Narrative and Healing in Leslie Marmon
Silko’s Ceremony” Shraddha Singh Ph.D Scholar, University School
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University,
Delhi. “Sheher Dar
Sheher: Remapping Lucknow after Partition Through the Reading of Sleepwalkers
by Joginder Paul” |
C5
CHAIR:
DR. BILGE MUTLUAY CETINTAS
SPEAKERS:
|
Shoaah Amjad (First Author), Research
Scholar, Dept. of English Literature & Language, IIS (deemed to be
University), Jaipur and Rimika Singhvi (Second
Author), Professor & Head, Dept. of English Literature & Language,
IIS (deemed to be University), Jaipur “Walking through Occupation: Reading
Selected Fictional Works on Everyday Palestinian Resistance and Remembrance” Nujhat Nuari Islam ICCR PhD Scholar, The English and
Foreign Languages University and Shafaat Mobarok Abdul Jabber, ICCR PhD Scholar, The English and
Foreign Languages University Digital
Literature in the 21stCentury: Prospects and Challenges Somrita Misra Assistant Professor of English, Chanchal
College, P.O Chanchal, Dis-Malda, West Bengal-732123 "Without
memory there is no healing": Exploring Memory and Postmemory in Rahul
Pandita's Our Moon Has Blood Clots” Sonika Thakur Ph.D. Research Scholar Shoolini University, Solan “Violence, Trauma, Memory in
Shashi Deshpande’s Select Short Stories” |
C6
CHAIR:
PROF MANPREET KANG
SPEAKERS:
|
Supriya Mohan Patil Research Student
(Ph.D.), Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur And Tripti Karekatti Professor and Head,
Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur “Mystery, an Essential Fabric:
Exploration/Study of the Narrative Design and Structure of Anita Nair’s Lessons
in Forgetting as a Sensitive Representation of the Traumatic
Unspeakable” Tanushree Sarkar Department of English SRM University Sikkim tanushreescholar2020@gmail.com “Mossy
Violet of the Human Mind: Indira Goswami’s ‘Under the Shadow of Kamakhya’” Umang Research Scholar, Department of English, Punjabi University, Patiala “Remembering Violence and Trauma of the
Partition across Borders” Valentina
Bhargava Sohaili Research
Student (Ph.D.) Department of English, Shivaji University,
Kolhapur and Tripti
Karekatti Professor
and Head of Department of English, Shivaji University,
Kolhapur “Overcoming
War Caused Trauma: The Healing Effect Of Positive Counsel In Literature |
1:00 to
2:00 PM LUNCH BREAK
2:00 to
3:30 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS D1 TO D 6
D1
CHAIR:
PROF DIPANKAR PURKAYASTHA
SPEAKERS:
|
Varnika PhD Research Scholar, Department of English,
Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala “Exploring
the Memory, Trauma and Survival of a Yazidi Girl in Nadia Murad’s The
Last Girl” Vinita Vincent Doctoral Scholar in
the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad Violence,
Victimization, and Traumatic History in Jason Reynolds’ Long
Way Down and Kekla Magoon’s Light It Up Vinod Kumar Chopra Principal, GSSS Nagnoli Distt Una HP. “Trauma
Emerging Out of Violence: A Study of Select Short Stories on the Partition Of
India” Vipasha Bisht PhD Scholar, Department of English, Central
University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala. “A Comparative Analysis of Violence and
Trauma in Abhishek Majumdar’s Plays, The Djinns of Eidgah and Pah-Lah” |
D2
CHAIR:
DR. MOUSUMI CHOWDHURY
SPEAKERS:
|
Biraj Poddar &
Bibhash Anjan Divita Singh Research Scholar,
Department of English and Cultural Studies. Panjab University,
Chandigarh “Redefining
Dalitatlity; Portrayal of Dalit Assertion, Agency, and Identity in
Nagraj Majule’s Jhund” Ila Rathor Assistant Professor, Head, Department of
English Dev Samaj College for
Women, Chandigarh. “The Reel meets Real in Vikramidtya Motwane's Jubilee” Pallavi
Panda Research
Scholar, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences Sardar Vallabhbhai National
Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat and Urvashi
Kaushal Assistant
Professor, Department of Mathematics and Humanities, Sardar
Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, Gujarat, k.urvashi@amhd.svnit.ac.in “Semiotic
Analysis of the Film Qala” |
D3
CHAIR:
PROF KRISHNAN UNNI P.
SPEAKERS:
|
Samyukthah A. Sanjay Mukherjee Professor, Department of English & CLS Saurashtra University, Rajkot, Gujarat “Always
Under Accusation: Poetry Vs. Truth” Sonika Kumari Sonu Lohat “Dialectics of the Characters’ Roles as Native
Indians or Elite Natives in The God of Small Things” |
D4
CHAIR:
PROF. TEJ NATH DHAR
SPEAKERS:
|
Rupam Gogoi Assistant Professor,
Department of English, North Lakhimpur College (Autonomous), North Lakhimpur,
Assam “Death, Death Rituals and Folk Life: An Analytical
Study of Selected Fiction from North East India” Hem Raj Bansal Assistant Professor of English, Central
University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala “Rethinking
(Islamic?) Terrorism in the Era of Post-truth: A Study of Richard
Flanagan’s The Unknown Terrorist” Gulsara Ahmed Research Scholar Department of
English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh ahmedgul212@gmail.com; gulsara.ahmed@rediffmail.com “Fictions
of Memory, Remembrance and History: Exploring Rushdie’s Re-Engagement with
the Past” Kumari
Lama Asst.
Professor of English, Tribhuvan University, Nepal “Revisiting
the History to Reclaim Identities: A Critical Analysis of Syangtan and
Tamang’s Texts” |
D5
CHAIR:
DR. SHIMI DOLEY
SPEAKERS:
|
Abin Chakraborty Assistant Professor in
English, Chandernagore College “Fabulous History, Fearful Future: Reading
Rushdie’s Victory City as National Allegory” Amandeep
Kour Research
Scholar Department
of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab
University, Chandigarh “Pure
Consciousness: The Ultimate Truth in Poetry of Lalleshwari” Arisha Habib PhD Research
Scholar Department of
English, Jamia Millia Islamia "Truth, Perception and Control: Seeing and
Unseeing in China Miéville’s novel The City & The City" Debasmita Das PhD Scholar St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata “In/Spectre and the Construction of ‘Truths’” |
3:45 –
5:15 PM - ISM AWARD SESSION
CHAIR: PROF
SANJAY MUKHERJEE
SPEAKERS:
|
Amitrajeet Mukherjee Mandeep Kaur Assistant Professor P.G. Department of
English Gujranwala Guru Nanak
Khalsa College, Ludhiana Email: Mandeep210191@gmail.com “Madness
Plagued by Memories in Elie Wiesel’s A Mad Desire to Dance” Sayantani Sengupta |
8
OCTOBER
9:30 to
11:00 AM -PARALLEL SESSIONS E1 TO E5
E1
CHAIR:
DR. NAMRATA NISTANDRA
SPEAKERS:
|
Ahana Bhattacharyya Lecturer/ Department of English/ Chakdaha College/
University of Kalyani A Cross-study of Time
and Trauma in the Feminist Space of Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale Gurpreet Kaur “Postfashion and Diasporic
Designs: A Study of Selected Texts in Media” Jasmine
Sharma Kavita Arya Associate Professor, Department of English & other foreign
languages. Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi (UP)
-21002 “Interdisciplinary
Crossings in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry
Tide” |
E2
CHAIR: PROF
RIMIKA SINGHVI
SPEAKERS:
|
Aalisha Chauhan “1947
Partition Archive:
Contextualising the Narratives of Trauma and Postmemorial Community of
Survivors Pallabee Dasgupta Assistant
Professor Dept.
of English Smt.
B.D Jain Girls P.G College, Agra “Femme Fatales in Science Fiction
Cinema: Disembodiment and Gender in Posthuman Dystopias” Shimi Moni Doley Asst. Professor,
Dept. of English Jamia Millia
Islamia, New Delhi- 25 Posthuman/Cyborg Subjectivity in the Science
Fiction Clone: A Reading through the Lens of Cultural History Surabhi Chandan Assistant Professor, SRM
University and Research Scholar at Central University Himachal Pradesh “Unveiling the Catastrophic Future: Science,
Technology and Ecological Crisis in Oryx and Crake” |
E3
CHAIR:
DR. SUSMITA TALUKDAR
SPEAKERS:
|
Tarika Satyawati (E) College,
University of Delhi “Nation as History and Nation as Memory in Arun
Kolatkar’s Jejuri” Vidu
Vijayan Assistant Professor, Bishop Moore College,
Mavelikara, University of Kerala "History
in the Making: A Study of Mahasweta Devi's Mother of 1084 as
an attempt at historical documentation of the Naxalite movement in
Bengal" Manika Ahuja Designation: UGC NET
JRF University:
Pursuing Ph.D. in English Literature from PG Department of English, MCM DAV
College for Women, Chandigarh (affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh) M(othering) the Mother: Rethinking
Reproductive Justice and Abortion Rights by Critically Analysing Selected
Literary Works Vandana Sukheeja Assistant
Professor, English Miri Piri Khalsa
College, Bhadaur, Barnala “Literary Technocracy and
Digitalization in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West” |
E4
CHAIR: PROF. JAPPREET BHANGU
SPEAKERS:
|
Rasheda
Parveen Assistant
Professor, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Vellore Institute of
Technology University, Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh-522237. “Medical Politics and Confessions of Allen
Ginsberg: Re-reading his Poems and Travel Diaries” Mousumi Chowdhury Associate
Professor, Department of
English, Raja Rammohun Roy
Mahavidyalaya, University of
Burdwan “Post-truth Politics and EU Immigration: A Study of Sam Byers’ Brexit Novel Perfidious Albion” Sumita Kumari PhD Research Scholar Department of English, School of
Languages Central University of Himachal
Pradesh, Dharamshala “Museum
as the Site of Reconstructing Memory in Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of
Innocence” Swastik Sharma PhD Scholar, Department of English,
Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala “Using Historical Memory to Critique
the Post-truth Politics in Gabriel Garica Marquez's The Autumn of the
Patriarch” |
E5
CHAIR:
DR. SUNAINA JAIN
SPEAKERS:
|
Medini Prabhu Asst. Prof., Dept. Pf English,
Surana College Autonomous mediniprabhu@gmail.com, medini.eng@suranacollege.edu.in “Animal
subjectivities as portrayed in literature” Mettin Jacob Ph.D. Scholar, Discipline of
English, Humanities and Social Sciences
Department, IIT Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India “Human
and Nonhuman Subjectivities: Blurring Boundaries in a Diffractive Ecosocial
Politics of Drought in Jaideep Hardikar’s Ramrao (2021)” Noorussabah |
11:30
to 1:00PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS F1 TO F6
F1
CHAIR: PROF
KRISHNAN UNNI P.
SPEAKERS:
|
Madhurima Nargis Namrata Nistandra Associate Professor, Dept of English, Doaba College, Jalandhar. Exiles and Prisoners:
Literary Representation of Illness in Albert Camus’s The Plague Priyanka Singh PhD (English) Scholar, USHSS,
GGSIPU, DWARKA, NEW DELHI “Understanding Death’s
relation to Society: A Reading of Jose Saramago’s Death with
Interruptions” |
F2
CHAIR:
PROF ROSHAN SHARMA
SPEAKERS:
|
Ruchi Raj Thakur Assistant Professor Dept. of English, HP NLU, Shimla “Narratives
of Partition, ordeal and Remembrances in Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas and
Yashpal’s Jhoota Sach” Sanya Nagpaul Independent Scholar, M.Phil
qualified “Examining
the Idea of Labour in All That Breathes (2022)” Shivalika Agarwal Senior Research Fellow IIT Roorkee “Are we for Ree[al]: Understanding the Changing
Representation of the Mothers in Indian Cine [Maa]” Sumana Chakraborty Assistant
Professor, Department of English, Assam University, Silchar csumone@gmail.com |
F3
CHAIR:
PROF. MANPREET KAUR KANG
SPEAKERS:
|
Subhash Verma Assistant Professor
of English, RNT Govt. College Sarkaghat, Mandi, HP 175024 “Religious
Hypocrisy, Protection Acts and Trauma of Being an Aboriginal in Doris
Kartinyeri’s Kick the Tin and Glenyse Ward’s Wandering
Girl” Snigdha
Nagar Assistant
Professor, English, Berhampore College, Kalyani University. “Centrality
of Memory and Forgetting in Dystopia” Poulami Banerjee Ph.D. Research Scholar.
Shoolini University, Solan poulamibanerjee@shooliniuniversity.com “Komi
Can't Communicate and Social Anxiety: Understanding Fictional and Real-Life Experiences” Ananya
Pahari |
F4
CHAIR:
PROF JAPPREET BHANGU
SPEAKERS:
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Susmita Talukdar Professor/ English/ Padmakanya
Multiple Campus/ Tribhuvan University susmitatalukdar2013@gmail.com, susmitatalukdar2021@outlook.com “Spatial
Reading of Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts” Thamarai Selvan Research Scholar, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, VIT-AP UNIVERSITY. “Zoo Poetics/Zoo
Politics in the Ramayana” Navdeep Kahol Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government
College, Dera Bassi, Punjab Rousing Ghosts of Sri
Lankan Civil War: A Study of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida as
a Political Satire” Neetu
Kumari Gupta Assistant
Professor, Department of English Nowgong
Girls’ College Gauhati
University “Trauma
and Survival Crises in Lalithambika Antharjanam’s ‘A Leaf in the
Storm’” |
F5
CHAIR:
PROF SANJAY MUKHERJEE
SPEAKERS:
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Sakshi Sundaram Assistant Professor Vivekananda School
of English Studies VIPS-TC “The
Un/Dead Trespasser: A Critical Reading of Shehan Karunatilaka’s The
Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” Disha Pokhriyal Assistant Professor Department Of English Satyawati College (Evening) University Of Delhi “A Tenacious Vulnerable Art: Reading Simone Weil
And Frida Kahlo” Mahi Kichu “The
Mechanics of Violence and Trauma: Re-presenting Sri Lankan War through
Language and Art in Vanni” |
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Mirza Sadaf Fatima Independent Scholar Bhaderwah, J&K “Literature, War & Afghan Writers: A Study of
Select Works of Contemporary Afghan Writers” |
F6
CHAIR:
PROF. DIPANKAR PURUKAYASTHA
SPEAKERS:
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Garima Malik Research Scholar Department of English, Bhagat
Phool Singh Mahila Viswavidyalaya “Memories of Violence and
Wartime Discourse: A Study of Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird
Chronicle and Kenzaburō Ōe’s The Silent Cry” Huzaifa Pandit Assistant Professor Government Degree College
Pampore, Kashmir “Countries
of Memory: Trauma and Contest in The Country Without a Post Office” Jitender Thakur PhD Scholar, Department of English, Central
University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala. “Impact of Traumatic Violence
in Shaping Memory: A Study of Richard Flanagan's The Narrow Road to
the Deep North” Manika Arora Assistant Professor of
English, Mehr Chand Mahajan D.A.V. College for Women Chandigarh |
1:00 PM to
1:30 PM – VALEDICTORY 1:30 PM
to 2:00 PM – LUNCH & DISPERSE
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