Thursday 28 September 2017

Confy on 'Space and Culture' @ IISST, Trivandrum

Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology
(An autonomous institute under Department. of Space, Govt. of India)
(Declared as Deemed to be University under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)
Valiamala P O, Thiruvananthapuram - 695 547, Kerala

invites you for a

Three Day National Conference on 

Theorising Space: the Intersections of Space and Culture

14, 15, 16 December 2017

The three-day National Conference (14, 15 and 16 December 2017) will look at the intersectionalities that occur during the divergences of various readings of Space.

The recent emergence of Space as a vital theme in the humanities speaks volumes about its intersection with our existence, geography, habitat, history, myths, culture, sexuality and gender, cultural readings, apprehensions, expectations, and many more abstract and concrete practices. Far from the idea of an empty area evoked by its traditional usage, the term Space, today, invites new ambiguities and possibilities: How are Spaces political in their engagement with epistemes? What ideologies beset the concealment of this engagement? Which forces design and construct the framework of any given Space?

The three-day National Conference will look at the recent divergences in various critical readings of Space with special focus on intersectionality. It aims to look at the praxis and theories that are involved by analyzing the underpinnings of the cultural imaginations of Space and enquiries into contemporary spatial practices.

1. INTERDISCIPLINARY SPACES

Spatial Studies and its interventions across nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism; cultural globalization; gender and sexuality; urbanization; digital cultures, environmentalism and ecopoetics.

2. SPACE IN LITERATURE

Literature, being one of many “spatial” forms of art, is a complex site from which analyses of both space in literature and literature in spaces are possible.

3. SPACE AND CULTURE

Cultural conceptualizations of space are made visible in representations and location of space in culture. The ethos thus formed may be studied through an exploration of literary topographies, geocritical spaces, cultural codes in literary spaces, semiotics, linguistics, and diverse identities formed by specific  configurations of space.


4. SPACE AND EDUCATION

The manner in which spaces within the academia are envisaged, and used in Foucauldian terms to control and disseminate power. How digital spaces construe identities, the making of the primordial and the global citizen.

5. SPACE AND THE NATION

The ways in which spaces are imagined in an age of ultra-nationalism, particularly in contemporary globalised spaces, where the nation mediates between narratives of jingoism and secessionism.

6. SPACE AND POWER

How Space functions or is co-opted in the face of oppression, authority, resistance, empowerment, as defence mechanism, subaltern, hierarchy, centre & marginality

7. GENDER AND SPACE

How body practices and bodies are inscribed in the production of spaces, and in their engendering.

8. REAL , VIRTUAL AND THE THIRD SPACES

The interaction between real and virtual spaces by mobilizing the notion of cybernetic space to signify the relationship between spaces, culture, and identity. Also implicates the formation of hybrid realities in the virtual and vice versa.

9. SPACES OF VISION

Links between human geographies and visuality in the modern era. Walter Benjamin, Richard Leppart, Laura Mulvey and others talked about spaces which are visually constructed.

10. COLONIAL AND POST COLONIAL SPACES

Language, Linguistics and the construction of (post)colonial places and diaspora. Literature as construction of place and diaspora in (post)colonial settings, Cultures of (post)colonial space construction , Geographies of place and diaspora in (post)colonial contexts

11. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL SPACE

Public and private spaces, occupying the public space, gender mainstreaming spaces, the barriers faced by female, and transgenders. Spaces for gender activism, politicizing feminist will, feminist debates in academic spaces.

12. SPACE IN FICTION AND NON-FICTION

SciFi literature, movies and theory related to Space represented in SciFi Venue and Date: IIST, Valiamala 14th - 16th December 2017

Important Dates
Last date of Registration October 15th 2017
Shortlisting and informing shortlisted registrants: November 7th 2017
Registration fee for faculty members: Rs 2000/-
Registration fee for research scholars: Rs 1000/-

Plenary Sessions will be handled Prof. Udaya Kumar, Prof. Pramod Nayar, Prof. Sreekumar, Prof. MV Narayanan, etc.

Call for papers: We invite original, unpublished papers on the topics mentioned above or related areas for presentation at the conference. Each candidate will get fifteen minutes for presentation and five minutes for discussion. Select papers with exemplary content will be published as a special issue of the journal Littcrit in December 2018. We will also bring out an anthology of unpublished papers with ISBN number. Submit your papers in MLA Format (7th edition). Please send your abstracts and full paper to spaceconference2017@gmail.com

Corresponding Address

Dr. Babitha Justin (09447636677)
Dr. Gigy J. Alex (09446011903)

Coordinator: Dr. Gigy J. Alex & Dr. Babitha Justin
Organized by           
Department of Humanities,
Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology,
Valiyamala P.O.
Thiruvananthapuram 695 547
Phone (Off): 0471-2568445

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Online Registration      
Last date for online registration:  15th October, 2017

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