An Education Society Registered under Government of Indias Societies Registration Act 1860 (Maha/651/2013/Thane) &

A Trust Registered under Bombay Trusts Act 1950 (AF/27205/Thane)

NL 6/5/13, Sector-10, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, India- 400 706

In Association with

PG DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

VASANTRAO NAIK GOVERNMENT INSTITUTE OF ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES, NAGPUR, INDIA

International Conference on

Comparative Literature & Culture

11th

& 12th

September 2015

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Venue Vasantrao Naik Government Institute

of Arts & Social Sciences (Morris College), Nagpur, India

Higher Education and Research Society is a Navi Mumbai based international learned

society concerned with the advancement and understanding of higher education,

especially through the insights, perspectives and knowledge offered by the systematic

research and scholarship. The Society aims to be the leading international organisation in

the field to support and disseminate research and education. We commit sustainable

development and focus on the solutions to spread the scientific attitude in academicians

and citizens, practical and solution-based approach to higher education in general;

introduction of applied education, social inequality, awareness of literature and language,

climate change and many more The Society intends to play a role of a catalyst to enable researchers in different

regions and disciplines to exchange information, share discussions on professional and

theoretical issues, and initiate and co-ordinate research. Purely committed to the cause of

academics in a top-down pattern, the prime goal of the society is to encourage and foster research by providing a platform to showcase the innate research aptitude of the

academician. Promoting academic research and scholarship into Language and Literature,

Humanities, Basic Sciences, Technology and Management streams, the society is

determined to bring about a scholarly get-together of the intellectuals.

Comparative Literature, now grown into an academic discipline, originated in the late

nineteenth century with Hutcheson Macaulay Posnetts book Comparative Literature. This discipline visualises and promotes the methodology that enables the recognition and

exploration of socio-cultural differences in/within culture/s and the way different

literatures are produced globally by these socio-culturally different groups. It transcends

the national frontiers, periods, languages and genres, even across the boundaries between

literature and the other arts. Though, Comparative Literature in the early stages mostly

contributed to the exchange and links between the dominant European literatures, its

paradigms suddenly widened to engulf the national cultures through literatures. In the age

of globalization, literature could not be restricted to its spatially defined traditions. The

study of Comparative Literature is the need of the hour in the increasing cultural contact.

Moreover, comparison has always been an important and integral tool of human

inquiry. This critical inquiry forms a natural part of the literary critics analytical and evaluative process and same is the contribution of this tool in almost all fields of life. It is

interesting to observe that our life starts with comparison. A newly born infant when seen

for the first time, the first inquiry comes- whose face/colour/hair/looks did the baby bore?

In short, no inquiry is possible without making comparisons, whether at

social/familial/personal or at academic/professional level.

Comparative Literature identifies, interprets and evaluates the ideas of an

integrated body of literary texts in a socially responsible and learned community that

strives for a more humane and just world. It attempts to establish dialogue between

languages, literatures, cultures and disciplines on equal scale beyond the paradigms of the

nation/state is the crux behind its origin. In fact, literary and cultural comparison is

defined and determined through a couple of concepts that form the basis of comparative

theory. These are thematics, influence, borrowing, revival, literary movements, theories,

cults and its ages, translation theories and history of comparative literature. It also pays

attention to those forms that permeates everyday experience through popular media

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(Television, Film, and Internet) and a range of performance practices-dance, music,

sports and fashion.

Comparative Literature and Culture has emerged into an interdisciplinary

academic discipline having a comprehensive vision of a cultural universe. This vision

leads one to believe that more than one literature juxtaposes and it removes cultural

differences and becomes one culture ultimately resulting in universal harmony. The

practitioners of this discipline study literature and other cultural artefacts across- national

borders, time periods, languages, genres, other arts (music, painting, dance, film etc) and

across disciplines- Literature and Psychology/Philosophy/Science/History/Architecture/

Sociology/Politics and others. Traditionally it deals with the literature of two different

linguistic, cultural or nation groups in comparison. Comparative study may also be

performed on the works of the same language if the works are originated in and around

different nations and cultures among which that language is spoken. Even, the works

written in different regional languages of the same nation could also be studied in

comparison. In this context for instance the rich Indian Bhasha Literatures (Tamil,

Bengali, Oriya, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi and others) provide a platform in the

making of the true Indian Literature. The other enquiry included in the range is film

adaptations of literary works. Moreover, the intercultural enquiries concern with the

relation between literature and other spheres of human activities including history,

politics, philosophy and science. In the light of above deliberations, Higher Education

and Research Society, Navi Mumbai, India organizes a two days international conference

on Comparative Literature and Culture on 11th and 12th September 2015 at Nagpur. The focal areas to be touched upon in this conference are as follows:

ART, AESTHETICS AND THEORY OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES

METHODOLOGY, TECHNIQUE AND TEACHING OF COMPARATIVE STUDIES

COMPARATIVE CULTURE STUDIES

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AS AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

INTERACTION BETWEEN LITERATURE AND OTHER ARTS (FINE ARTS, VISUAL

ARTS AND LIBERAL ARTS)

CROSS-GENRE STUDIES

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

TRANSLATION AS A GATEWAY TO COMPARATIVE STUDIES

ACHIEVING THE IDEAL OF ONE WORLD (VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM) THROUGH

COMPARATIVE STUDIES

DECONSTRUCTING THE CANON OF WORLD LITERATURE THROUGH

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE IN THE WEST

COMPARATIVE LITERARY HISTORY

COMPARATIVE LANGUAGE STUDIES

CROSS-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND TEACHING METHODOLOGY

INFULENCE, BORROWING, ASSIMILATION, DISTORTION AND ANXIETY

READING AND MISREADING; INTERPRETATION AND MISINTERPRETATION

REPRESENTATION AND THE REAL

ADAPTATION AND IMITATION

LINGUISTIC, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

COMPARATIVE COGNITION

SOCIALLY ENGAGED ARTS

Sub Themes

LITERARY THEORIES: WESTERN AND INDIGENEOUS

GEOPOLITICS, DIALECTIC GEOGRAPHY, AREA STUDIES AND REGIONAL

IDENTITIES

MULTI-CULTURALISM: NATIONAL AND TRANS-NATIONAL IDENTITIES

COMPARATIVE DIASPORIC LITERATURE

COUNTER CULTURE AND COUNTER IDEOLOGIES

SOFT POWER AND THE POWER POLITICS

WEST AND THE REST

POPULAR AND THE MAINSTREAM LITERATURE / CULTURE

FILM AND THE FICTION

FOLKLRISTIC AND SEMIOTICS

QUEERING COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

MEDIA, DIGITAL DIVIDE AND CULTURE

INTERTEXTUALITY AND EXEGESIS

CLASSICAL EPIC AND SCIENCE FICTION

ANY OTHER TOPIC(S) RELEVANT TO THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE

Nagpur, the "Orange City", the largest city in central India and the second capital of

Maharashtra was founded by the Gonds and later became a part of the Maratha Empire

under the royal Bhonsale dynasty. Nagpur is also called the "Tiger Capital of India" as it

connects many tiger reserves in India to the world. The city lies at the dead centre of

India with the Zero Mile marker indicating the geographical centre of India. Deekshabhoomi, the biggest "stupa" in Asia, is a sacred monument of Buddhism at the

place where the architect of Indian constitution Dr B. R. Ambedkar embraced the age old

religion of India. Nagpur city is dotted with natural and artificial lakes, the largest being

Ambazari Lake. Other natural lakes include Gorewada Lake and Telangkhedi lake. Other

places of tourist interests are: Seminary Hill, Sitabuldi Fort, Shukrawari Lake, Stone of

India, Maharajbagh Zoo, Raman Science Centre, Futala Lake, Ambazari Lake,

Khernakala, Balaji Temple, Dragon Palace Temple (Many tourists from Japan, Shrilanka,

Thailand, Burma, America, U.K. visit Dragon Palace Temple which is Considered as a

landmark of INDO-JAPAN friendship). Nagpur boasts vast forests and tiger sanctuaries

within a radius of few hundred kilometers. Some famous national parks surrounding

Nagpur include: Pench National Park, Nagzira-Navegaon and Tadoba Tiger Reserve.

Nagpur is very well connected by air, rail and road. The nearest Airport is Dr

Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur.

Vasantrao Naik Government Institute of Arts and Social Sciences is popularly known as

Morris College since its inception in 1885. Being, one of the oldest institutes of Central

India and located at the heart of the country (Zero mile), Morris College enjoys this pride

possession even now. The college offers postgraduate courses in thirteen subjects from

humanities discipline and most of them are languages. In its more than 128 years of

history, the college has gifted many gems to the society who later on emerged to shoulder

the highest responsibilities like Prime Minister of India, Chief Justice of India, Chief

Ministers of Maharashtra, eleven Vice Chancellors to R. T. M. Nagpur University and

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About Nagpur

many others. PG department of Morris College was established with the establishment of

the college in 1885 and, probably was the first PG Department of English in Nagpur.

State Government of Maharashtra bestowed the status of Institute to the college recently. The institute has been re-accredited with A grade by NAAC, Bangalore (CGPA-3.01) in the year 2013.

The participants may send ABSTRACTS of their standard research papers latest by 10th

July 2015 conforming to the Submission Guidelines uploaded on www.herso.org OR www.litsight.com.

Registration Form may be downloaded from the same website. The details regarding selection will be communicated within two days from the date of

submission of abstract.

The registration process has to be completed within three working days from the date of selection of the abstract.

The complete research paper for presentation may be submitted on the conference day at the registration counter.

Address for Correspondence Dr Sudhir Nikam

A-2, 503, Punyodaya Park

Near Don Bosco School, Adharwadi

Kalyan (West), Thane, India- 421 301

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Email: sudhirnikam@gmail.com

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Registration up to 10th July 2015 INR 2000/- (without accommodation)

INR 3000/- (with accommodation)

Late Registration (After 10th July 2015) INR 2500/- (without accommodation)

INR 3500/- (with accommodation)

SPOT REGISTRATION does not include accommodation. However, spot registration with accommodation is permissible to foreign delegates only, subject to availability and obtaining prior permission.

Moderate accommodation on sharing basis will be provided for outstation delegates during conference days (11

th & 12

th).

The stay before the conference day

will be charged separately. Since limited number of rooms are available, delegates

are requested to register well in advance. The rooms will be allocated on first-

come-first-serve-basis.

Submission of Abstracts

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Registration fees covers Conference Kit, Breakfast, Tea and Lunch during conference days.

Maharashtrian Vegetarian food will be served during conference days. A co-presenter or an accompanying person will have to make separate registration. No T.A./ D.A. is paid to the Delegates.

Registration fees should be paid through NEFT/online payment only as per the guidelines

mentioned in the SELECTION MAIL.

The Registered Delegates are entitled to get their research paper published online in the

Journal of Higher Education & Research Society: A Refereed International

(ISSN 2349-0209) Oct15/April16 issue subject to approval by the reviewers.

The Selection Mail following submission of ABSTRACT contains all the detailed guidelines regarding publication. The authors need to strictly follow

them.

The approved submissions to be presented in this conference or some other relevant paper should be mailed separately to hersomumbai@gmail.com ONLY AS PER THE GUIDELINES MENTIONED IN THE SELECTION MAIL.

The only email for publication related communication is hersomumbai@gmail.com

The final decision regarding publication of the article resides with the Convener / Organizing Secretary.

Dr Sudhir Nikam Dr Madhavi Nikam (Convener) (Organising Secretary)

Dr Dnyanesh Naik Dr Ramdas Atram (Advisor) (Patron)

Dr Kapil Singhel Somnath Barure Harish Tapadia

(Members)

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