Thursday, 16 November 2017

Seminar on Transnational Narratives @ Kozhikode

The Department of English
Govt. Arts and Science College
Kozhikode
Invites you for a
Three-Day National Seminar
on
‘Traversing Boundaries: Readings on Transnational Narratives’

9 to 11 January 2018


Over the last few decades there has been a surge of interdisciplinary interest in the investigation of social transformations. In recent years, a significant body of interdisciplinary literature has recognized transnationalism as an important macro phenomenon emerging in relation to the de-territorialisation of cultural, social and economic practices, which are moving away from nationally rooted apparatuses. The term transnationalism has been used not only in social anthropology to account for new forms of social interaction resulting from intensified cross-border mobility (whether related to diaspora or triggered by economic factors) but also in political theory with regard to practices of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to highlight the fact that at least one of the actors involved is a non-state entity.

Transnationalism has thus conceptually emerged as a range of complex social phenomena which interface discursively with powerful narratives of cultural ‘inbetweeness’, territorial ‘unboundedness’, and post-national politics.

Transnational narratives aim at constructing literatures emerging through supplementing and challenging the existing models of literature based on fixed notions of space and time. The objective of transnational literature is to complicate the idea of place and location as fixed, making it cross cultural which in effect creates spatial and temporal understanding as fluid and ambiguous. Transnational narratives mainly focus on New Literatures. It has given a novel shape to literary and cultural studies since the last few decades.

The Department of English, Govt. Arts and Science College, Kozhikode proposes to conduct a Three-Day National Seminar on ‘Traversing Boundaries: Readings on Transnational Narratives’ from 9th to 11th January 2018.

Keeping in view of the topic of the seminar the following areas could be included or considered for academic paper presentations:

Narratives on,
Cultural flows and Migrations
Diaspora
Deconstructing Nationalism across the globe
Fourth World narratives/ Indigenous culture
Literature of the Middle East
Translation and transnational politics
Gender studies
Forms of creolizations
Cosmopolitanism
Culture and trauma
Comparative literature
Pacific/ African/ Caribbean/ Chicana cultures
South Asia
Cross cultures
Philosophical exchanges
Syncretisms
New media
Graphic narratives
Emerging genres
International politics
Science and literature
Neo colonialism
Ethnic Literature
Eco criticism/eco feminism

The abstracts shall not exceed 300 words. It should contain the title of the paper and the contact details of the author. Send in your abstracts to

govtartsenglish@gmail.com
or
karimkkr@gmail.com
Mob: 9447454024
9946847682

Last Date of submission of abstract: 27-11-2017
Date of intimation of acceptance: 05-12-2017

Date of submission of full paper: 29-12-2017

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