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CALL
FOR PAPERS
Centre for Indo-Australian Studies
(Dayanand College, Ajmer, India)
2nd Biennial International Conference
13-14 January 2006 Mutuality & Actuality of the Creative Experience: Australia & India [In collaboration with Australia-India Council, Canberra] Dear Participant/s, The proposed Conference
on the above theme is in continuation of the earlier one on Caring
Cultures : Sharing Imaginations- Australia & India organized in
January 2004. We wish to make the Ajmer Conference a regular and
biennial feature.
The Conference aims to focus on the paradigms of the writing and creative processes of various writers/poets/creative artists. Papers discussing the major pre-occupations and pre-concerns of Australian literati are invited. This beside, the Conference endeavours to bring out the creative experience in the form of various constructs like the National Identity and Culture Convergence and Co-existence. It may also try to read the various Australian texts from the point of view of Post-Colonialism and how the latest trends in creative writings do fit-in the criterion of such critical theories. The creative experience, in fact, is a highly complex and subtle one and seems to differ from individual to individual. The making of a poet/writer involves the making of a nation. And therefore, the creative mind is the nation in a micro form and the nation is the macro version of all creativity. The Conference will, so it is believed and hoped, emphasize the notion of togetherness and shared creative experience. It, above all, involves a comparative study of various literary texts. Abstracts/Papers are invited on the following themes: 1. The Hows and Whys of shared Creative Experience among the
literary artists and the scholars of other fields, of India and Australia. 2. The role of Socio-Cultural, Histo-mythical Backdrop in the making of a literary artist. 3. The Writing-mode and its role in inventing and/or discovering a National Identity. 4. The parabolic vision of a future Australia and/or a future India being reflected in the writings of contemporary authors and being darted from the present ethos. 5. The bona fides of a literary past of the two countries and how and to what extent they have played a vital role in the creative experience of different writers. 6. Parallelism and/or contrasting modes of creative processes of the writers of two countries. 7. Creativity at work and its various manifestations in non-literary texts and fields like films/television, soap-operas and media. 8. Convergent and divergent cultural paradigms and their reflections in the writings of the literati of India/Australia. 9. Mutuality of experience in tourism, eco-tourism and environmental studies. 10. Post-colonial experience vis a vis creativity. Abstracts of papers, preferably research oriented, are invited latest by the 10th December, 2005.
The organizers wish to extend Local Hospitality to all the participants. The outstation Paper Presenters will be given Travelling Allowance as per norms. The participants are requested to submit their abstracts/papers to: sharma_anurag@yahoo.com or Dept. of English pradeeptrikha@rediffmail.com Dayanand College, Ajmer Registration Fee: * Indian Delegates - Rs. 500/- * Foreign Delegates - $ 50 * Research Scholars - Rs. 400/- * Students - Rs.200/- Dr.Pradeep Trikha, Department of English, Dayanand(Post Graduate)College, Ajmer -305 001, Rajasthan(INDIA). Phone:91-145-2691571 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) Conference 2006 Spectres, Screens, Shadows, Mirrors in
Australian Literature (Australia) The University of Western Australia
(UWA), Perth, July 3-5 2006 Nobby's story has its roots way back.
It's part of a bigger historical picture and a longer story of hardship passed
down from one generation to another. This story continues today. Ruby Langford Ginibi (from Haunted by the Past) History breaks down into images, not
into stories. Walter Benjamin There is no word or image that is not
haunted by history. Eduardo Cadava The 28th Annual ASAL conference calls
for 20 minute papers that address the cluster of themes-Spectres, Screens,
Shadows, Mirrors-in relation to all aspects of Australian culture. Participants are asked to attend
creatively to these themes, and to extend their suggestive metaphorical,
political and aesthetic significances. Interdisciplinary dialogues are
encouraged, and cross-cultural studies are welcomed. Suggestions for panels will also be considered. Papers from
postgraduates are warmly invited. Among other possibilities, proposed
papers may turn around the following interests: · Settler colonialisms and their spectres in Australian literature, history and film · Shadows of whiteness in Australia · Cultures of the image (scientific, cinematic, televisual, digital, artistic, photographic, ekphrasis) · Screen memories · Autobiographical mirrors · Possession and dispossession in Australia · Ways of seeing; ways of being · Ghostly encounters · Forgetting · Critical and poetic possibilities of catoptromancy, skiagraphy, reflection, semblances, anamorphosis… for 'reading' Australian culture Please send a 200-300 word abstract
along with a brief bio by December 15th 2005 to Tanya Dalziell at tdalziel@cyllene.uwa.edu.au or
Paul Genoni at P.Genoni @ curtin.edu.au Conference website (accessible through
UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, and to be periodically updated): http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/activities_and_programs Information on The University of Western
Australia: http://www.uwa.edu.au/visitors/
FORTHCOMING ISSUE OF POSTCOLONIAL JOURNAL CORRESPONDANCES OCEANIENNES FOCUSSING ON DEPARTURES and related themes of: JOURNEYS (PSYCHOLOGICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, EMOTIONAL) LEAVING A PLACE (NOT) TO RETURN ANTICIPATION OF A JOURNEY: MAPS, ROUTES, ETC DEATH EXILE TRANSGRESSION, INNOVATION, DEPARTING FROM TRADITION/ A NORM, ETC TRANSPORTS ORIGIN, BEGINNING, POINT OF DEPARTURE SEPARATION MIGRATIONS DISMISSALS All themes will have to be dealt with within the remits of Oceanic cultures. Articles will be no longer than 1200 words and will, once accepted, eventually have to be translated into French. We're looking for essays, interviews, artwork, fiction and non fiction. Please get in touch with Dr. Jean-Franois VERNAY Founding Editor of Correspondances Ocaniennes. Email : vernayj@yahoo.com |