tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27109058890594815122024-02-20T11:55:37.609-08:00Gender and Modernities Conference '11Annual Conference of the Dept. of English, University of Dehi, India.Conference Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177195638732312062noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710905889059481512.post-35001073980541005912011-02-03T20:02:00.000-08:002011-02-03T20:02:56.770-08:00CONFERENCE PROGRAMME<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">POSTFEMINIST POSTMORTEMS? </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">GENDER, SEXUALITIES AND MULTIPLE MODERNITIES</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Annual Conference of the Department of English, University of Delhi</span></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">PROGRAMME</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DAY 1, February 14, 2011, Vice-Regal Lodge Convention Hall, Delhi University</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.30 Registration</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.00 </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Welcome: Sumanyu Satpathy</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Introduction: Brinda Bose<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.30 - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">KEYNOTE</b>: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Situating Feminisms</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.30 – Coffee</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.45-1.45, Session 1.1 – Chairperson: Rajeswari Sunder Rajan </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mary John (Centre for Women’s Development Studies): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">After Feminism:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflections on the “Post”</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Ratna Kapur (Geneva School of Diplomacy and International relations/Jindal Global Law School): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Hecklers to Power? The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in India<u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></u></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Nivedita Menon (Jawaharlal Nehru University): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">The Disappearing Body and Feminist Thought</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.45-2.30 - Lunch</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.30- 4.00, Session 1.2 – Chairperson: Gautam Chakravarty</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ruth Vanita (University of Montana): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Playful Speech: Gender and Modernity in Late 18th, Early 19th Century Lakhnavi Poetry</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Rimli Bhattacharya (Delhi University): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">A Moment in Performance</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.00-4.15 – Tea</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.15-5.45, Session 1.3 – Chairperson: Prasanta Chakravarty</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia University): </span><span class="apple-style-span"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="color: black; font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Feminism, Animal Anti-Vivisection, and Alternative Religions</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Anirban Das (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences): </span><b><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">The Aesthetics of Decision: Justice, Law and The Fetus in a Divided Planet</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DAY 2, February 15, 2011, Conference Centre, Delhi University</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.30 – 11.00, Session 2.1 – Chairperson: Shirshendu Chakrabarti</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michael Levenson (University of Virginia): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Same-and-Other: Modernist Desire, Feminist Demand, and the Androgynous Imagination</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur University): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Women, Writing and Violence, or, Outside Woolf’s Room</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.00-11.15 – Coffee</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.15-1.15, PARALLEL Session A: 2.2.i – Chairperson: Rupendra Guha Majumdar </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Trina Nileena Banerjee (PhD scholar, Centre for the Study of Social Sciences): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Agents of Pain and Shame/ or Performing a Habitus: The Performance of Pain by Women on the Contemporary Indian Stage</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Anuradha Dingwaney Needham (Oberlin College): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">“Performing Women”: On the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nachne-Ganewali</i>s of Shyam Benegal’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bhumika, Mandi, </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sardari Begum</i></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Samrat Sengupta (Kharagpur College)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">: Ideology of the Lips: New Hegemonies of Femininity and the Politics of Images in Global Consumerism</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.15-1.15, PARALLEL Session B: 2.2.ii – Chairperson: Subarno Chattarji</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Mallarika Sinha Roy (Jawaharlal Nehru University)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Weapons and Wounds: Modernity’s Encounter with Gendered Violence in Postcolonial Bengal</span></b><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Divya Dwivedi (PhD scholar, IIT Delhi): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Let the Right One In: Citizenship, Gender and Politics</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taisha Abraham (Jesus and Mary College, DU): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sathin Bhanwari Re-visited: A Feminist (Post) Mortem</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.15-2.00 – Lunch</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.00-3.30, Session 2.3 – Chairperson: Harish Trivedi</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Udaya Kumar (Delhi University): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Spectral Transactions:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Memory and Masculinity in C. Ayyappan’s World</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Raj Kumar (Delhi University): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">The Progressives and the Untouchable Body: Dalit Women in Indian Literature</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.30-5.00, PARALLEL Session A: 2.4.i – Chairperson: Nandini Chandra</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pushpesh Kumar(SRTM University) : <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We Have More <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">nakhada</i> than Women: Desire, Censorship and Negotiation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">khada kotis</i> in a Provincial city</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Niladri Chatterjee (University of Kalyani): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Shake Your Bonbon [and Your Heteronormativity]”: The Spectacular Homographesis of Ricky Martin</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.30-5.00, PARALLEL Session B: 2.4.ii - Chairperson: Baidik Bhattacharya</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sneha Krishnan (PhD scholar, University of Oxford): <b>A Masculine Metaphor: Exploring the Sexual Psychodynamics of Leadership in Nehru’s Life and Writing</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Pranav Jani (Ohio State University): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Constructing the Nationalist Goddess: Representations of the Rani of Jhansi</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.00-5.15 – Tea</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.15– <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Performance</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Ananya Chatterjea (University of Minnesota/Ananya Dance Theatre): </span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Body Knowledges/Performance as Feminist Historiographies: Excerpt from Khoy!/Decay!</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"> (2010 production)</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">---------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">DAY 3: February 16, 2011, Conference Centre, Delhi University</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.30 – 10.50, Session 3.1 – Chair: Sambudha Sen</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Rajeswari Sunder Rajan (New York University): </span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">The Subject(s) of Mourning: The Uses and Limits of Antagonism as Feminist Politics</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Charu Gupta (Delhi University): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Hindu Women, Muslim Men:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romance, Sexuality and Everyday Violence</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.50-11.05 – Coffee</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.05–1.05, Session 3.2 –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chairperson: Christel Devadawson</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shohini Ghosh (Jamia Millia Islamia): <b>Camp, Style and Testimony:</b> <b>The Emergence of Queer Independent Films</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ranjani Mazumdar (Jawaharlal Nehru University): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bombay Cinema's Dancing Queen: The Case of Helen</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paromita Vohra (filmmaker, Devi Pictures)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: Independent Women: Feminism, Film, Fun</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.05-2.00 – Lunch</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.00–3.20, Session 3.3 – Chairperson: Supriya Chaudhuri</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Flavia Agnes (Legal Centre of Majlis): <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Citizenship at the Margins: Balancing Visibility and Invisibility: The Case of the Bar Dancers</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Brinda Bose (Delhi University) and Akhil Katyal (PhD scholar, SOAS, London University): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-SG" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-ansi-language: EN-SG; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Toward a New Aesthetics of Silence; Or, Some Passionate Political Experiments with Contra-Outing</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.25-4.45, PARALLEL Session A: 3.3.i - Chairperson: Tapan Basu</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Radha Chakravarty (Gargi College, Delhi University): </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Bodymaps: Women’s Stories from South Asia</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Vandana Saxena (Miranda House, DU): </span><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">Reclaiming Monsters: The fairy tale of ‘Beauty and the Beast’</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.25-4.45, PARALLEL Session B: 3.3.ii – Chairperson: Rochelle Pinto</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Paromita Patranobish (PhD scholar, Delhi University): <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mortuary Morphologies: Death, Dismemberment and Desire in the Work of Four Contemporary Indian Women Artists</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nishat Haider (University of Lucknow)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">: Female Embodiment, the Veil and Islam</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.45-5.00 - Tea</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.00 – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Performances: Mono-Acts</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pramada Menon: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fat, Feminist and Free</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Gautam Bhan: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Dude</b> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Vote of Thanks</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">----------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">February 17, 2011</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-family: "Segoe Print"; mso-fareast-font-family: MingLiU-ExtB;">: Arts Faculty, DU, 11.00-1.00 - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Post-Conference Body Movement ‘Vigilance’ Workshop conducted by Ananya Chatterjea</b>. For a limited number of participants; please contact us if interested. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div align="center"></div></div>Conference Committeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01177195638732312062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710905889059481512.post-21877927692871548912010-09-09T11:51:00.000-07:002010-09-09T13:03:15.215-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Postfeminist Postmortems? Gender, Sexualities and Multiple Modernities </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">February 14-16, 2011</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Feminisms and modernities have had a long and interlocked history. Now that we are, arguably, in a post-feminist, post-modern era, is it a fitting moment to stop and take stock of this critical encounter?</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This provocation emerges out of a particular trajectory of debates, controversies and confrontations in gender studies</span></strong> <strong>over the past two decades. Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble (1990) destabilised understandings of these interlocked categories about two decades after feminism emerged as a serious tool of critical inquiry. In 1990, also, Gayatri Spivak in The Postcolonial Critic re-located critical feminisms outside the Anglophone world.</strong> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>As a result of such foundational interventions, gender and modernities have encountered each other in and across unlikely cultural geographies, and have produced unforeseen critical progeny. Recent developments, in particular, dislocate any universalist assumption behind such mercurial categories, and allow us to re-conceptualize both gender and modernities across multiple spatial coordinates spanning innovative understandings of postcolonial feminisms, queer studies, performance/film studies, legal studies and so forth. Following on leads offered by such significant scholarship in these areas, this conference in the 21st century will look for fresh evaluations of modernities and gender across the arts and social sciences. The conference will seek to understand the complex interactions of gender/sexualities with a large array of social identifications including race, class, nation and caste within the framework of modernities across literatures, cinema, art, music, dance, photography and theatre in western as well as in post/neo/colonial sites. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Possible topics may include but are not restricted to: </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Literary modernity and gendered politics</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Sexualities and contemporary modernities</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Queer politics and cultural tropes</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Postfeminist interventions and contemporary frames of knowledge</strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Reframing political thought and gendered citizenship</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· The gendered subaltern and modern historiographies </strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Gender, sexualities, and everyday life</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Postfeminist geographies and locational politics</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Metropolitan modernities and feminist interventions</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>·Gender, sexualities and contemporary visual cultures</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Genres of modernity</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Postsecular interrogations</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Consuming modernities and public/private spaces</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Performing gender and modernities</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Gender and science/technology</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Sexual minorities and contemporary legal discourses</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Class, caste and gendered politics</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Islam, the veil and the West</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Gender and development/environment</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Radical queernesses</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Violence, sexuality and power</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· The desiring/desired body</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>· Affective modernities </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Please send your abstract (300 words) and a brief bionote (150 words) to the following email or postal address by October 31, 2010:</strong></span><br />
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<a href="mailto:DUgendermodernitiesconf@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>DUgendermodernitiesconf@gmail.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong> </strong></span><br />
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