PROGRAMME IN DETAIL
DAY ZERO: 8 OCTOBER 2020
SESSION ONE
4.00
to 4.40 PM: CURTAIN RAISER – CHAIR: ANIL RAINA (Dept of English, Panjab
University)
DAY ONE: 9 OCTOBER 2020
SESSION TWO
9.30
TO 11.00 AM: MOVEMENTS I
CHAIR:
MANUEL BRONCANO (Texas A&M University)
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1. |
Amin
S. Sama Assistant Professor Department of English Bahauddin Government Arts College Junagadh – Gujarat |
Beat
Generation: An Avant-garde Movement in American Literature |
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2. |
F.
Laltlankimi Assistant Professor
Department of
English, Government
Zawlnuam College Mizoram |
The Beat
Movement and the American Model
of Freedom and
Resistance |
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3. |
Shikha Thakur Department of
English DAV University shikhamittu1@gmail.com |
Invisible
in Visible: A Review of Transcendentalism as a Timeless Therapeutic
Philosophy Addressing COVID-led-Insanity |
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4.
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Shruti Gaur M.Phil.
Research Scholar USHSS
Guru
Gobind Singh Indraprastha University |
From
the Room to the Road: Reading Spaces and Movements of the Beats through Jack
Kerouac’s On the Road (1957) |
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5.
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Vishant Ramteke Independent Researcher |
Beat
Generation and the Non-Conformity |
6.
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Pragati Panwar
Department of English and Cultural Studies
Panjab University - Chandigarh
pragati.panwar@gmail.com
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Hegemonic
Discourses, Debilitating American Identities and Rhetorical Perspective in
Fiction of Jack Kerouac: A Polyrhythmic Study |
11.30 AM to 1.00 PM: MOVEMENTS II
SESSION THREE
CHAIR:
GABRIELA VARGAS CETINA (Universidad Autonoma de
Yucatan, Mexico)
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1.
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Gopika Sankar U Assistant
Professor Dept.
of English University
of Hyderabad |
Carving a Niche in the Real and Imagined Realms:
Space and Place in Asian American Literature |
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2.
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Ila Rathor Assistant
Professor Dev
Samaj College for Women Panjab
University - Chandigarh ila13may@gmail.com |
Search for Identity in the Works of Chitra
Bannerjee Divakaruni with Special Reference to Palace of Illusions and
The Forest of Enchantments |
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3. |
Kavita Dhillon Ph.D. Research Scholar Department of English Central University of Punjab Bathinda |
Reading John
Oliver Killens’ Sippias a Site of
Witness to the Human Rights Violations of African Americans |
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4.
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Pratiksha N. Chavada Assistant
Professor (Ad hoc) Department
of English & CLS Saurashtra
University Rajkot
– Gujarat pratikshachavada@gmail.com |
Re-appraisal of Harlem Renaissance: A Century
Later |
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5.
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Ruby Jindal Sangrur -
Punjab |
Reconstructing Identities: Black American Poets of
Harlem Renaissance |
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6.
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Shamenaz Bano Assistant Professor Department of English RTMM College Allahabad – India |
The Rise of Diasporic
American Muslim Writers |
2.00 to 3.15 PM: NON-FICTION
SESSION FOUR
CHAIR:
GIORGIO MARIANI (University of Roma, Italy)
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1.
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Disha Pokhriyal
PhD Scholar Department of English Jamia Millia Islamia - Delhi |
“To bathe my head in
atmospheres unknown”: Time, Nature and the Human Self in Henry David
Thoreau’s Walking |
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2.
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Manjinder
Wratch Visiting Faculty, UIPS Panjab
University |
Cosmography
and the Expression of Transcendentalist Vision in Thoreau’s Walden (1854) |
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3.
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Praveen Kumar Former Principal Govt. College, Sarahan Distt. Sirmaur - H.P. |
Enduring Relevance of
Thoreau’s Environmental Consciousness |
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4.
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Tanja Cvetković Faculty of Philosophy University of Niš Serbia |
From Henry David Thoreau
to Annie Proulx: Environmental Literature or ‘Literature of Hope’ |
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5.
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Debarati
Bandyopadhyay Professor of English Visva-Bharati (a Central University) Santiniketan - West Bengal |
Revisiting Thoreau |
DAY TWO: 10 OCTOBER 2020
9.30 to 11.15 AM: FICTION I
SESSION FIVE
CHAIR:
AMRITJIT SINGH (Ohio University, OH, USA)
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1. |
Anju Chhetri Department of English T.H.B.College, Sonitpur Assam |
Memory and Trauma in Toni
Morrison’s Beloved |
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2. |
Ankita Sharma PhD Research Scholar, English
Department GGS Indraprastha University, New Delhi |
The White
Gaze and the Black Memory: Looking Back and Seeing Ahead with Toni Morrison’s
The Bluest Eye |
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3. |
Bhawna Shrey Research Scholar, English Literature Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi |
Beloved: The Great American Horror Story, from Tony
Morrison to Jonathan Demme |
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4. |
Neerja
Sachdev Associate
Professor, Department of English S.S.K. Girls’
P.G. College, Prayagraj |
Toni
Morrison: Establishing One’s ‘Self’ and ‘Space’ |
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5. |
Shivani Duggal
Assistant Professor
Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences College, Delhi
shivani200995@gmail.com
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Traumatic
Reverberations and Awakening: A Reading of Toni Morrison’s Sula |
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6. |
Sunita Sinha Professor and Head, Department of
English Women’s College Samastipur, L. N.
Mithila University, Darbhanga |
Bondages and
Agency in Toni Morrison’s Beloved |
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7. |
Khagendra Acharya Kathmandu University Kathmandu, Nepal |
Trauma and
Social Identity in Toni Morrison’s Novels |
11.30 to 12.30 PM: FICTION II
SESSION SIX
CHAIR: PAWEL JĘDRZEJKO
(University of Silesia, Katowice Poland)
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1. |
Gönül Bakay Professor Bahçeşehir University, İstanbul Turkey |
Racism and
Gender Identity in Toni Morrison’s Sula
and Beloved |
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2. |
Sriparna Chakraborty PhD Research Scholar Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University |
Understanding Triple Consciousness in Sweetness, an Independent Excerpt from Toni Morrison’s
Novel, God Help the
Child (2015) |
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3. |
Arun DM Assistant Professor, School of Arts and
Humanities CHRIST (Deemed to be University),
Bengaluru |
The Sinned Descendants of Hester
Prynne: An Archetypal Study on Select Dystopian Works of 20th
Century |
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4. |
Mridul Bordoloi Associate Professor, Department of English Dibrugarh University |
Anticipating the Anthropocene in Moby-Dick |
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5. |
Paweł Jędrzejko Associate Professor, Institute of Literary Studies, Faculty of
Humanities University of Silesia, Katowice Poland |
“I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee” (Notes on the Margins of Moby
Dick) |
1.00 to 2.15 PM: FICTION III
SESSION SEVEN
CHAIR:
MUKESH WILLIAMS (Soka University, Tokyo)
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1.
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Amishal Modi Freelance writer |
Imagining America: A Study of the Critical Interpretations of The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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2.
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Research
Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee and
Smita
Jha Professor,
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee |
Proposing
Protopia as a Vision for Better Future in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court |
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3.
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Nilak Datta Assistant Professor, Department of English BITS Pilani University (K K Birla Goa Campus) |
Tourist Versus Traveler: The Legacy of
Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad |
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4.
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Sakshi Sundaram Assistant Professor, Shoolini University |
Adam’s and Eve’s Diaries: A Comparative Critique of
Mark Twain’s Companion Texts |
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5.
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Mukesh Williams Professor, Faculty of Letters Soka University |
Hemingway’s Stories of a Lost Generation |
DAY THREE: 11 OCTOBER 2020
9.30 to 10.45 AM: POETRY I
SESSION EIGHT
CHAIR:
ROSHAN LAL SHARMA (Central University of Himachal Pradesh)
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1. |
Anindita
Kar Bapujee College Sarukshetri Sarthebari Barpeta, Pin-781307 |
The Garden as an
E(co)motional Territory: Reading Emily Dickinson’s Garden Poems |
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2. |
Parth
Joshi Assistant Professor Dept of English, Christ College, Rajkot
Research Scholar Dept of English & CLS Saurashtra University, Rajkot (Gujarat) |
Interiorization and Transcendence of Reality in
the Poetry of Emily Dickinson |
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3. |
Pedro Panhoca
da Silva Ph.D. Scholar Graduate Program in Languages Mackenzie Presbyterian University UPM Brazil |
The Five Colors of
Poetry: Emily Dickinson In Magic: The Gathering |
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4. |
Sanjay
Mukherjee Professor Department of English & Comparative Literary
Studies Saurashtra University Rajkot |
“With Will to Choose, or
to Reject”: Contextualizing Emily Dickinson’s Vision |
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5. |
Somjeeta Pandey Assistant Professor Department of English
Gobardanga Hindu
College West Bengal, India and Anindita Shome Ph.D. Research Scholar Centre for the Study of Indian Diaspora University of Hyderabad |
The New World and Poetry:
A Reading of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson |
11.00 to 12.30 PM: POETRY II
SESSION NINE
CHAIR:
MANPREET KAUR KANG (GGS Indraprastha University, Delhi)
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1. |
Sudipta Saha Lecturer Department
of English Surendranath
College Kolkata |
The Construction of the
Self: Negotiating the Confessional Movement and its Poetry |
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2. |
Harpreet
Kaur Vohra Assistant Professor of English PU Regional Centre Ludhiana |
The Confessional Poetry
of Sylvia Plath: Death and Desperation as Leitmotif |
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3. |
Neeti Singh Associate Professor of English Department of English The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda Vadodara sufiandtheswan@gmail.com
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In the Beehive of Living:
The Bell Jar of Sylvia Plath
& Other Stories |
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4. |
Anita
Sharma RKMV College,
Shimla |
William Carlos William: Images of Winter |
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5. |
Department of
English Shoolini
University Solan, Himachal
Pradesh |
Celebration of Humanity
from Self to Selves: Reading Whitman’s Song
of Myself in Corona Times |
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6. |
Rajat Suvra
Mandal Ph.D. Research Scholar Department of English Raiganj University West Bengal India |
Man and Whitman: Body,
Nation, and Camaraderie |
1.15 to 2.15 PM: DRAMA I
SESSION TEN
CHAIR:
NASSER DASHT PAYMA (Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)
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1. |
JapPreet Kaur Bhangu Professor, Department of Management &
Humanities Institute of Engineering & Technology,
Longowal |
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun:
A Timely Classic |
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2. |
Smita
Verghese Assistant
Professor, Department of English St. Francis
College for Women, Hyderabad |
“All I Want to Say is that They Don’t
Really Care about Us…”: A Revisit to the Younger Household in 2020 |
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3. |
Monika Dhillon Assistant Professor, Department of English MDSD Girls College, Ambala |
The Self and the Society in Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass |
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4. |
Nasser Dasht Payma Department of English Language and Literature,
Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. n.dashtpeyma@iaut.ac.ir |
Family in Post-World War I American Drama |
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2.30 to 3.45
PM: DRAMA II SESSION
ELEVEN CHAIR: AHMED
AHSANUZZAMAN (Independent University, Bangladesh) |
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1. |
Namrata Nistandra Associate Professor, Department of English Doaba College, Jalandhar |
Mapping the Mindscapes: Expressionism in Arthur Miller’s Death
of a Salesman |
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2. |
Neeraj Pizar Assistant Professor Shoolini University neerajpizar@shooliniuniversity.com |
Illusion and Reality in Arthur Miller’s Death of
a Salesman |
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3. |
Rishika Sharma Teacher, Department of School Education
Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir |
The Interplay of Emotion and Tragedy in
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons |
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4. |
Monali Chatterjee Assistant Professor Nirma University, Ahmedabad monalichatterjee3@rediffmail.com |
Arthur Miller's All My Sons as a
Pivotal Text Modern American Drama |
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5. |
Ahmed
Ahsanuzzaman Professor,
Department of English and Modern Languages Independent University,
Bangladesh (IUB) ahmed.ahsanuzzaman67@gmail.com; ahsanuzzaman@iub.edu.bd |
Miller’s
Indictment of the Majority through Ibsen in His Adaptation of An Enemy of
the People |
CONCLUDING SESSION
3.45 to 4.15 PM: Valedictory and Vote
of Thanks
(MANPREET KANG)
