Confy @ Central University of Gujarat

Centre for English Studies

School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies

Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar

A TWO-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

WOMEN AND SECTARIAN VIOLENCE

IN SOUTH ASIA: FICTION AND REALITY

9-10 November 2017

The conference aims to enquire how South Asian women, situationally, moving beyond the traditional notions of motherhood, family and ‘womanhood’, creates a trail of some yet unexplored trait. Is she trying to re-create the notion of ‘woman’ in her ‘context of situation’, region and gender? Has there been an insistent attempt to re-contextualize herself?

 Themes under discussion
v Sectarian violence and Women
v Caste, Society and Violence
v Women and the mutilated body
v Humiliation and Self
v After-rape: Recovery, Revival and Reconciliation
v Experience and Body: Vulnerable and Viable
v After-experience: Body, trauma, memory and forgetting
v War and Women
v Widows, half-widows and war-widows
v Visual culture and women
v Cinematic (mis)representation of the traumatic woman
v Memory, history and women

Last date for abstract submission: 10th August, 2017

For queries: southasianremembering@gmail.com

For brochure, click HERE