33.917, Calls: Sociolinguistics/India

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LINGUIST List: Vol-33-917. Thu Mar 10 2022. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 33.917, Calls: Sociolinguistics/India

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Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:28:05
From: Usha Kanoongo [usha.kanoongo at lnmiit.ac.in]
Subject: Cultural Trajectories through Language, Literature and Media

 
Full Title: Cultural Trajectories through Language, Literature and Media 
Short Title: CTLLM 

Date: 29-Apr-2022 - 01-May-2022
Location: Jaipur, India 
Contact Person: Usha Kanoongo
Meeting Email: ctllm at lnmiit.ac.in

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-Mar-2022 

Meeting Description:

The Humanities and Social Science department at the LNM Institute of
Information Technology, Jaipur (India) is organizing a three-day international
conference (online) titled “Cultural Trajectories through Language, Literature
and Media” on 29 April -01 May 2022.

‘Culture’ is a loaded and intense term that encapsulates the intersections of
complex social structures, ideologies, and representations. Culture and its
intricate study are thus situated in the dense interplay of deeper linguistic
expressions, diverse literary and non-literary constructions, and polymorphous
media narratives. While reading a Harry Potter book; watching a Bollywood
movie; enjoying an IPL match; relishing the WhatsApp jokes; buying a Maharaja
burger; and interacting in a multicultural classroom—we are invariably and
unwittingly encompassed and informed by the ‘circuit of culture’ (Paul Du Gay:
1997). From academic deliberations to everyday life experiences, dominant as
well as subversive meanings are being continuously produced, reproduced,
shared, and contested. 
The investigations of cultural ethos and experientialities tellingly thrive on
criticalities of language, mediation, and representation. Accordingly, the
realms of postcolonial, feminist, gender, race, media, or linguistic studies,
far from being compartmentalized domains have come to sharing overlapping
approaches, pedagogies, and concerns. Our conference seeks to uncover these
juxtapositions and the intersectionality of culture and map the layered
trajectories within.

We aim to delve deep into exploring the politics of culture, its trends, and
ever-changing dimensions vis-à-vis the varied forms and depictions. Through
this conference, we seek to address questions such as
- How do the contemporary cultural paradigms shape the narratives of
literature, language, and media?
- How are the emerging fields and popular forms of literature and linguistic
articulations reflecting upon and rendering ‘culture’ and its manifoldness? 
- How does the growing digitalization attest to the new modes of cultural
utterances and enunciations? 
- In what ways can narratives of media and cinema be studied and analyzed as
influenced by the ideological frames of ‘culture’? 
- How far can ‘culture’ be debated, resisted, and transformed by the
heterogeneous modes of literature, language, and media? 
- In what ways does globalization, borderlessness, and the growing
interconnectedness harmonize or erode cultures?


Call for Papers:

The conference theme is developed keeping in view the ongoing research in the
disciplines of English and cultural studies across the globe. It is designed
to have a comprehensive overview of the different modes of cultural
manifestations and underpinnings in association to growing digitalization,
diverse narrative representations, polymorphous linguistic constructions, and
dialogues on ethnicity, decoloniality, and transnational identities. The
themes are thought upon based on the larger theoretical understandings of
linguistic studies, postcolonialism, feminism, gender, film, and media
studies. The conference invites submissions on the themes which include but
are not limited to: 

- Medical, health, and digital humanities as new cultural tools 
- Graphic narratives and comic culture 
- Subversive cultures and postmodernism 
- Transnational cultures and hybrid identities 
- Ethnicity, Gender, and Cultural inequities 
- Digital media in contemporary mass culture 
- Culture and language teaching
- Cross-cultural pragmatics 
- Cinema and cultural representations 
- Cultural globalization and its manifestations
- Cultural Dialogues and Global Peace 
- Cultural Diversity and Global Sustainability 
- Cross-cultural communication 
- Language and intercultural competence 
- Media and Language 
- Media and Culture 
- Social media linguistics 
- Coloniality and Cultural Trauma 
- Decoloniality, border thinking and cultural 
- De-linking Nativism and cultural nationalism

Submission Guidelines:

Faculty, research scholars, post-graduate students and other professionals can
submit their 
abstracts (max 300 words) and a brief-bio (100 words) as a word document at 
ctllm at lnmiit.ac.in by 20 March 2022. 
Please mention your name in the word document’s title and also in the subject
line of the 
email.

Keynote Speaker
Prof. Pramod K Nayar
(Professor, Department of English, The University of Hyderabad)

Topic: The A-List: Atomic Scientists and the Nuclear Humanities

Prof. Pramod K Nayar teaches at the Department of English, the University of
Hyderabad. His most recent books include The Human Rights Graphic Novel
(Routledge 2021), Alzheimer’s Disease Memoirs (Springer 2021), Essays in
Celebrity Culture (Anthem 2021), Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire
(Bloomsbury 2020), Ecoprecarity (Routledge 2019), besides the edited Colonial
Education and India, 1781-1945 (5 volumes, Routledge 2019) and From Discovery
to the Civilisational Mission: English Writings on India (5 volumes,
Bloomsbury, 2022) 

 Speaker 1
Prof Pushp Lata
(Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS, Pilani)

Topic: Intercultural Competence and Global Preparedness in Higher Education

 Speaker 2
Dr. Priyanka Tripathi
(Associate Professor of English and Head, Department of HSS, IIT Patna)

Topic: Graphic Narratives in India: Content, Context and Possibilities

Speaker 3
Dr. Roshni Sengupta
(Assistant Professor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian
University in Krakow, Poland)

Topic: Indian cinema in the age of OTT: the 'liberation' of moving images on
mobile phones

Speaker 4
Dr. Torsa Ghosal
(California State University, Sacramento, USA)

Topic- Narrating the Hive Mind: Social Media Storytelling and Twenty-First
Century Fictions




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