Confy @ Osmania University, Hyderabad

62nd All India English Teachers Conference

Organized by Osmania University Centre for International

Programmes (OUCIP), Hyderabad

under the Aegis of

The Association for English Studies of India (AESI)

on

Globalization: Emerging Trends in English Language and

Literature

18- 20 January 2018

OUCIP, OU Campus, Hyderabad-500 007, TS

AESI (The Association for English Studies of India)

In the early 1930's, Indian educationists began to feel the need of schemes and methods of teaching English in the country. In 1937 the first formal association was formed at Allahabad University and within next ten years it took its shape as IJES, now it is AESI. The executive Body plans and executes the academic decisions. Annual Conference is a major event of the Association conducted at various universities. So far 60 conferences have been organized successfully. The official website of The AESI is www.aesi-india.org. which can be visited by all to get the information about life membership, annual membership and the conference. The members are entitled to get a free copy of the Indian Journal of English Studies which is the official organ of the Indian Association for English Studies in India.

Osmania University

With a sprawling campus of nearly 1600 acres and buildings of majestic beauty and architectural splendor, Osmania University, is perhaps, the largest higher education system in the Country. It is a home to nearly 30,000 students pursuing their higher studies in its Campus, Constituent, Affiliated Colleges and District Centres. Its faculty and staff number nearly 5000. It is a multi-faculty and multidisciplinary university, offering rich and varied courses in the fields of Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Engineering, Technology, Commerce and Business Management, Information Technology and Oriental Languages. The University's strategic planning, teaching-and learning policies and research direction have always emphasized respect for the concerns of the society and the need to address the issues that challenge it. In recognition of its excellent academic achievements, Osmania University had the distinction of being awarded the 'A' Grade status by the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) of the University Grants Commission, Government of India in the year 2008.

Connectivity

The city is well connected by air, railway, and road with all the major cities of India. Since it is the geographical centre of India, it is accessible from all directions

Accommodation

Accommodation will be provided only to those delegates who will register by 15 Dec 2017. Kindly avoid last minute pressure in the interest of all the concerned. Those who wish to stay on their own may contact the Local Secretary or Convernors for guidance.

AESI Membership

The Conference is open to all members of the Association for English Studies in India (AESI) whether they hold annual membership or life membership, and also open to teachers of English as well as research scholars, students and the others who may not be members. Those with annual membership would need to renew their membership, and non-members can get enrolled as members by paying Rs. 300/in cash /Rs. 325 by cheque as annual membership fee to the Treasurer, AESI, at the venue. Members will get free copy of the journal of English Studies and the soft copy of the newsletter will be available on the website.

Mode of Payment

All the participants should send emails to the concerned sections along with print form of registration duly signed along with DD. DD's drawn in nd favor of 'The Local Secretary, 62 AIETC, OU, Hyderabad - 7, payable at SBI, OU Branch. A/c No. 37157729928, IFSC Code SBIN 0020071.

Theme of the Conference

Globalization: Emerging Trends in English Language and Literature

Globalization is a concept very difficult to define, especially because the term has come to refer to a gamut of variables and trends so much so that once the term 'Globalisation' is mentioned it evokes a lot of passion and emotion. Whereas the perception of globalization dominant in Western Europe and North America is the possibility of extensive opportunities for economic development of the world and immense opportunities to make the world a better place of living. The Third World perception of globalization is that of a harmful process that maximizes inequality within and among the States. We can say that globalization, integrating and fragmenting the world, is about uniformity and localization, increased material prosperity and deepening misery and homogenization and hegemony.

Literature has always been influenced by political and economic pressures. In the recent decades one can witness the outburst of a powerful postcolonial discourse, writing back to the empire and asserting its own identity and cultural and national individuality.

Postcolonial and Postmodern trends have reflected the increased flow of individuals from one country to the other, mostly to the land of colonizer and dealt with consequent issues like migration, hybridity, multiculturalism, loss of identity and disappearance of rigid national identities. Globalization has evidenced this process while uniting cultural practices and increased marketing of culture through an influx of MacDonald's and Pizza Huts, etc. in all metropolitan cities and through celebration of special days like Valentines Day, Father's Day, etc. This sort of neocolonialism has been making its presence felt not only through violent political strategies, but slowly confiscating the markets as well as culture.

There are many literary figures especially from former colonies who have equated globalization with westernization or modernization. According to such writers, globalization has been changing the very structures of cultural and social facets of modernity that have spread across the globe, usually destroying the pre-existent cultures and local self-determination in the process. Writers are convinced of the fact that multinational companies have taken up the place of colonizers. They have spread their tentacles into the culture and economies of these nations, sucking out the livelihood of the down trodden and the marginalized have-nots of the developing countries like India and Africa. In Africa Ngugi Wa Thong'O, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and in India Aravind Adiga, Arundati Roy, Vikram Chandra, Mohsin Hamid, Kiran Desai, capture this situation in their fiction very well. The following sub-themes can be explored in this connection.

Sub Themes:

1. New Literatures

2. American Literature including Native American Literature

3. Diasporic Literature & Theory

4. Voices of the Marginalized

5. Culture Studies

6. Gender and Class Studies

7. English Language Teaching (ELT)

8. Digital Humanities

9. Translation Studies

10. Comparative Literature

11. Eco- Criticism

12. South Asian Literature

13. Fourth World Literature

14. Children Literature

15. Indian English Literature

Important Dates for the Conference

1. Last date for submission of Abstract: 15 October 2017

2. Abstract confirmation : 30 October 2017

3. Submission of Full Paper : 15 November 2017

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