DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
THE ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY
HYDERABAD, INDIA
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies
19-21 November 2012
Venue: Room No. 1 (Ground Floor), New Academic Block, EFL-U
PROGRAMME
DAY 1: MONDAY, 19 NOVEMBER 2012
8.30 AM• 9.00 AM: REGISTRATION
9.00 AM–11.00 AM: INAUGURATION
WELCOME SPEECH
Professor G Thirupathi Kumar, Head, Department of English
Literature
CONFERENCE STATEMENT
Dr Prakash Kona, Convener
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
Professor Sunaina Singh, Vice-Chancellor, EFL-U
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Voice to the Peripheral: Some Views from the Centre and the Margins
Githa Hariharan
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Professor T Nageswara Rao, Dean, School of English Literary Studies
VOTE OF THANKS
11.00 AM–11.15 AM: T TEA BREAK
11.15 AM• 12:00 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Professor Syed A Syeed (EFL-U)
Some Samples of Literary Orientalism in the Romantic Period ● Professor Abdur
Raheem Kidwai (Aligarh Muslim University)
12.00 PM–1.00 PM: SESSION 1
UNPACKING THE CANON
Chair: Dr. P.V. Amith Kumar (EFL-U)
Kenneth Burke and the Methodology of Canon Formation ● Dr Satish Gupta (W.R.
Government College, Arunachal Pradesh)
“One loses one’s classics”: Samuel Beckett and the Counter-Canonical Use of the
Canon ● Arka Chattopadhyay (Jadavpur University)
(Re)forming the Canon: Multiculturalism and American Literature ● Kishori Nayak K
(Mangalore University)
1.00 PM• 2.00 PM: T LUNCH
2.00 PM–3.00 PM: SESSION 2
HOW SAFE IS THE CANON?
Chair: Professor B. Gopal Rao (Osmania University, Hyderabad)
Politics of the Text ● Professor Hoshang Merchant (University of Hyderabad)
Dalits and Marginalization ● Dr. J. Bheemaiah (University of Hyderabad)
Disability as Critical Tool: Enabling the Canon to Theorize Normalcy ● Dr. Shilpaa
Anand (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad)
03.00 PM• 03.15 PM: T TEA BREAK
03.15 PM• 04.00 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Professor Sachidananda Mohanty (University of Hyderabad)
From a Crisis to the Crossroads: English Studies Then and Now ● Professor Prafulla C.
Kar (Centre for Contemporary Studies, Baroda)
06.00 PM• 07.30 PM
CREATIVE WRITING: A CONVERSATION
Professor Lakshmi Chandra in Conversation with Githa Hariharan
07.30 PM• 08.00 PM
POETRY READING ● Tejdeep Kaur Menon, IPS
08:00 PM: Dinner hosted by the Vice-Chancellor
DAY 2 TUESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2012
09.00 AM• 10.00 AM: SESSION 3
VOICES FROM THE MARGINS
Chair: Dr. Sonba Salve (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Problematizing Canon Literature with Subaltern Consciousness ● Ayon Haldar
(Balainagar Junior High School, West Bengal)
Pitching Poetry against Fundamentalism: A Subaltern Reading of Arun Kolatkar ● H.
S. Komalesha and M G Hari (IIT Kharagpur)
Equality, Emancipation and English Studies ● Sudeesh K (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
10.00 AM• 10.15 AM: T TEA BREAK
10.15 AM• 11.00 AM: PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Professor Mahasweta Sengupta (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Confronting the Canon Contrapuntally: The Example of Edward Said ● Professor Fakrul
Alam (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
11.00 AM• 12.15 PM: SESSION 4
CONTEXTS AND CONTINGENCIES IN LITERATURE
Chair: Dr. Asma Rasheed (EFL-U, Hyderabad)U Muslim Woman: Contextualizing the Secular Project ● Muhammadali PK (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Where Women Dare to Tread: Yasmina Khadra’s The Swallows of Kabul ● Dr.
Shahla Ghauri (Aligarh Muslim University)
Limiting Agency: “Veiled” Docility and the Monologue of “Unveiled” Resistance in
Barsa ● A.K. Muneer Hudawi (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Unpacking the Gendering of Food in the Indian English Novel ● Dr. Sami Rafiq
(Aligarh Muslim University)
12.30 PM• 01:30 PM: LUNCH
01.30 PM• 02.30 PM: SESSION 5
THE TRANSLATION ZONE
Chair: Professor Sumita Roy (Osmania University, Hyderabad)
Negotiating the Novel: A Bangla Novelist’s Attempts to Translate the Untranslatable
● Dipankar Roy (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan)
Right Word, Wrong Sense: Question of Translation of Nonsense Verse ● Aritra
Bhattacharya (Vivekananda Mahavidyalaya, Haripal, Hooghly) and Suvankar
Ghosh Roy Chowdhary (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan)
“Abol Tabol” to “Wordyguardyboom”: A Comparative Study of Sukumar Ray’s
Selected Works and their English Translations ● Priyadarshini Bhattacharyya
(Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
02.30 PM• 03.15 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Professor Meenakshi Reddy (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Figuration as Leitmotif of Literariness: Meaning Construction in Literary Texts ●
Rajvinder Singh (National Fellow, IIAS, Shimla)
03.15 PM• 03.30PM: T TEA BREAK
03.30 PM•04.15 PM
Chair: A. Shareeff (JNTU, Hyderabad)
Translating Chanda: Gender Politics in the Urdu Gazal ● Dr. Scott Kugle (Emory
University, U.S.A.)
05.30 PM–06.00 PM
Book Release by Professor Sunaina Singh, Vice-Chancellor, EFL-U
06:30-07:30
SESSION ON CREATIVE WRITING•POETRY
Chair: Sridala Swami
English Voyage of Desi Poets ● Keki N. Daruwalla
Irony in Modern Poetry ● Shiv K. Kumar
8.00 PM: T BANQUET DINNER
DAY 3 WEDNESDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2012
09.00 AM• 10.00 AM
SESSION 6 — LITERARY/ VISUAL CULTURES
Chair: Dr. Nikhila H. (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
The Formulation of Objects: A Reading of ‘Garo’ Production ● Akshi Singh
(University of Delhi)
Mapping Sea Island’s Culture in African American Artists ● Dr. Ashma Shamail ●
(Jazan University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Precariousness and Performance ● Gade Jagadeesh (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
10.00 AM–10.45 AM: Plenary Address:
Chair: Professor Dilip K. Das (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
English Literary Studies and the Sense of Borders ● Professor Udaya Kumar (University of
Delhi)
10.30 AM• 10.45 AM: T TEA BREAK 10.45 AM• 12.15 PM
SESSION 7—CANONS IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
Chair: Dr. T. Samson (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
The Strange Case of Lyric: Impasse of Methodology and Trans-cultural Literary Study
● Diviya Pant (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Canonizing Classrooms: Introspecting ‘English’ as a Discipline in Delhi University ●
Muhsina Ashraf (Ramjas College, Delhi University)
In Defence of the Canon: Re-thinking the re-thinking of English Studies in India ● Dr.
Ashley Tellis (Miranda House, Delhi University)
The Evolution of English Studies in India: A Critique ● Ravindra B. Tasildar (S.N.
Arts, D.J.M. Commerce and B.N.S. Science College, Sangamner, Maharashtra)
12.15 AM• 01.00 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Dr. Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
Literary Inquiries: Some Future Anterior Reflections ● Professor D. Venkat Rao (EFL-U,
Hyderabad)
01.00 PM• 02.00 PM: TLUNCH
02.00 PM• 02.45 PM: SESSION 9
PEDAGOGY AND LITERATURE(S)
Chair: Professor Maya Pandit (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
The Integration, Productivity and Semantic Coherence of Some Latinate Deverbal
Suffixes in Middle English with Reference to Five Plays of William Shakespeare ●
Sirigiri Kodanda Ramaiah
English Language Education in Bangladesh: Linking the Doubly Colonized Past to the
Present Situation ● Mian Md Naushaad Kabir (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
02.45 PM–04.00 PM: SESSION 8
SECRETS OF THE TEXTS: READINGS AND CRITICISM
Chair: Dr. Sherin B.S. (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
On Storytelling, ‘Historytelling’ and the ‘Epic’ Form: Notes on Identity in the
Postcolonial Context ● Saurav Dasthakur (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan) U Writing as an Attempt of Re-
Writing the Self: A Postcolonial Reading of
V.S.Naipaul’s Novels ● S. Madanwad (Ardhapur, Maharashtra)
The Long Shadow: Muhammad Taqi “Mir” and New Criticism ● Shad Naved
(University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)
Reinventing the Region: A Note on Indigenous Interventions in English Studies ●
A.C. Sreehari (Payyanur College, Kerala)
04.00 PM• 04.15 PM: T TEA BREAK
04.15 PM–5.00 PM: PLENARY ADDRESS
Chair: Keki N. Daruwalla
New Literature from the North-East ● Professor Temsula Ao (NEHU, Shillong)
05.10 PM-05.40 PM: VALEDICTORY SESSION
Chair: Professor T. Nageswara Rao (EFL-U, Hyderabad)
Some Thoughts on Future Directions for English Studies ● Professor Rashmi Dube
Bhatnagar (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.)
5.45 PM-5.50 PM
SUMMING UP OF THE CONFERENCE by the Head of the Department
5.50 PM-6.00 PM
VOTE OF THANKS by the Conference Coordinator U
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