CALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English
Holy Cross College, Agartala, Tripura
is organizing a
Two-day International Seminar
on
Representing
the Self:
Addressing
Issues of Ethnicity and Identity across Domains
9,
10 November 2017
We cordially invite faculty members,
research scholars and academicians across the world to participate and present
papers in the conference, which will explore a wide variety of topics related
to ethnicity and identity. The standard papers of the seminar will be
considered for publication in the form of a book. The theme of the seminar as well
as the diverse sub-themes is illustrated below, for further reference.
Concept Note:
Literature,
language and society play a vital role in constructing, expressing and
sustaining our identities in the world around us. Even culture and music has an
essential role in supporting the identity that we build either by our endeavors
or the one we acquire by inheritance. However, people, often, feel the need to
confirm, and sometimes re-confirm, this identity of theirs, over time.
Affirmation and authentication of identity becomes mandatory to validate their
familial, social, ethnic and also cultural heritage – their legacy, on which
the individuals not only have their birthright but they are also proud of.
The
issues of endorsing identities arise when people, either voluntarily or is
forced to, migrate from one country to the other or from one region to the
other; are physically separated from their native land and indigenous people;
come in contact with other communities - their customs, traditions and
language. Such instances are very much evident in post-colonial societies, in
post-independent countries, in immigrants, in regional and linguistic
conflicts, in the race of asserting superiority over neighboring or connected
communities, and so on.
Even language vitally contributes to the social and
psychological development of ethnic identity. Diasporic identities, too,
depends on the common language of communication in the society. Therefore, as
social creatures, declaration and assurance of people’s ethnic and
socio-cultural identities is one of the urgent and much attended to concern
today, not only at the social level but also in research and studies. It is a
thought that adheres to the existence of every particular individual and an
awareness that needs to be created in every member of the upcoming generation.
It
is our identity that constitutes our sense of ‘self’ – who we are – that
reflects our ethnicity and enable us relate with others. ‘Ethnicity’ functions
as a tool for asserting our identity – which leads to the search for ‘the
self’. Therefore, it is interesting to examine the evolution as well as the
maintenance of identity across diverse domains and spheres in our society. The
seminar will thus, provide a platform to question, examine and explore how
identity and ethnicity stands centrally positioned to our sense of ‘ourselves’.
Sub-themes:
1. Identity crisis
2. Diasporic literature
3. Gender identities
4. Ethnicity in northeast literature
5. Post- colonial literature and ethnic identity
6. Afro-American literature and ethnic identity
7. Intercultural and cross-cultural studies
8. The position of local languages in global culture
9. Indigenous culture and language preservation
10. Language teaching in ethnic groups
11. Education and indigenous communities
12. Films, media and ethnic identity
13. Music and ethnic connections
14. Language and construction of ethnic identity
15. Insurgency and threat to loss of ethnicity
Guidelines for
submission of Abstract and Full papers:
1.
The abstract as well as full papers
must be composed in MS Word, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font, with a line spacing of 1.5 inch, in A4
size format.
2.
The abstract should be accompanied
by at least 3 keywords.
3.
The length of the abstract should
not exceed more than 300 words.
4.
The APA style of referencing should
be used.
5. Biography of the author(s): The
name(s), designation, correspondence address, contact number, email id of the
author(s) should be mentioned at the end of the abstract.
6.
An author / person can submit a
maximum of one single paper and one joint paper.
Deadlines:
a. Last date for submission of Abstract :
1st of October, 2017
b. Notification of the acceptance of Abstract : 10th of October, 2017
c. Last date for submission of Full Paper :
30th of October, 2017
The Abstract as
well as the full paper must be sent to the email id: hcc.englishdept@gmail.com
Publications:
This is to inform
the interested paper presenters that the standard papers, presented in this
seminar, will be considered for publication in the form of a book.
Registration
details:
1. All paper presenters and participants will have to
register themselves.
2. There will be spot registration.
3. Only the registered paper presenters and participants
will be entitled for certificates, lunch and seminar kits.
4. In case of joint authors, both paper presenters will
have to register separately.
5. Accommodation for outstation paper presenters will
be provided.
6. Registration fee per paper presenter: Rs 600/- only.
Contact Details
Ms. Moumita Dey : 8794938820
Ms. Barnita Mazumdar: 9774207629
Ms. Elemi Debbarma : 7005527521
From
Ms. Moumita Dey,
Convener of the Seminar,
& HoD, Dept. of English,
Holy Cross College, Agartala,
Tripura, India.
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