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