3rd International e-Conference
3rd International e-Conference
on
“Gender, Culture and Society”
Date: 26th, 27th, and 28th November, 2022
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
In collaboration with
Department of English and Foreign Language, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur
CALL FOR PAPERS
CONCEPT NOTE:
Gender studies constantly contend with the normative presumptions about gender and sexuality that haunt even the most radical definitions of individual identity. Since the nature of these normative assumptions varies with respect to history and cultures, studies in gender are always and already simultaneously commentaries on culture. Even while resisting the homogenization of the mainstream discourses on gender in any culture, feminist and LGBTQ movements have to define genders along with and against the prevalent parameters of heteronormativity. Literature and case studies play a key positive role in the academic debates on gender when they highlight individual utterances of gender. Rather than leading us from the general norms to individual utterances, contemporary works on gender studies have found it more fruitful to concentrate on the desiring-machines that make such individual narratives possible. For example, if Judith Butler’s Bodies that Matter (1996) captures the heterogeneity and protean richness of genders through the singular variations resulting from each new iteration of selfhood, very recent works like Nick Walker’s Neuroqueer Heresies (2021) or the manifesto Feminism for the 99% (2019) either nuance their takes to celebrate the visceral subtleties beyond the socius or turn self-critically productive in a resistance against mainstream bandwagonism. Furthermore, what these methodological extensions entail could be grasped as a non-binaristic multiplicity building on its theoretical precursors while tethering to the multimodalities of international labour market, migrant crisis, blockchain dispersion, financial discrepancies, post-pandemic unemployment, inadequate healthcare, border policing, and post-neoliberal, neo-statist forms of oppression. The question of representation and that of selfhood has thus been replaced by the quest for a resingularization effecting a people to come as well as a new earth working out towards a new planetarity beyond the older identarian conceptions of gender. What the likes of Paddy McQueen call postgenderism nowadays, charts exactly this post-identarian politics offering the nonhuman cartographies beyond the false depths of representation; as contemporary gender theorists understand representation to be an allied form of normative assimilation, they see futurity entangled in nonrepresentative becoming-other and becoming-imperceptible.
Very often literature can serve to reinforce and generalize the gender roles instead of furthering proper awareness. Hence, feminism and gender studies recognize the necessity for strategic approaches that effectively read both literature and social events. For a proper appreciation of the diverse narratives, it is equally important to read literature and society not in isolation, but in association with the history of activism that constitutes feminism and gender rights movements. Multiple critical interventions including gynocriticism, intersectional feminism, queer studies, and others have shown how literature and society can always be reinterpreted to reveal new and interesting facets of gender that undo existing presumptions. One such important departure stands with gender studies’ impressive tackling of the obvious conflations surrounding feminism and its recategorization of masculinism attending to the essentialist and oppressive patriarchal blotches affecting men and women alike. However, fortunately, Christine Quinan and Kathrin Thiele are able to show that individualistic bio- and necropolitical grounds are slowly receding to make way for the broader, yet, not so universal cosmopolitical gendered vision that effectively captures the specter of corporate capitalism long hidden under comparatively simplistic patriarchal structures. Accordingly, by effecting a rupture with the long held neoliberal alliances, the current field of gender studies expands its remit towards the post-pandemic global precarities with an aim to assert its anti-capitalist, antiracist, and eco-socialist position as clearly as possible.
The 3rd International Conference by New Literaria and Department of English and Foreign Language, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, therefore, invites contributions that shall provide new strategic and critical approaches that shall radically explore the gender spectrum beyond any forms of established understanding.
Topics welcomed for this conference include, but are not restricted to:
- Genders and their literary representations
- Feminism and Literature
- Capitalism, gender and commodification
- Academia, culture and gender
- Biopolitics and queer studies
- Gender and postcolonial culture
- New Materialism, posthumanism and gender
- Gender roles and the cyberspace
- Heteronormativity and politics
- Masculinism and Gender Studies
- Gendered Planetarity
- Genderism and Society
- Ecogenderism
- Neurodiversity Studies
- Neuroqueering
- Third World Genderism and Decoloniality
- Cosmopolitics and Gender
- Necropolitics and Gender
- Pedagogy and Gender
- Affect Studies and Gender
- Sexuality and Performativity
- Gendering of politics and economics
- Gender and Religion
- the uncanny and gender studies
- Race and Gender
- Class and Gender
- Caste and Gender
- Postgenderism
- Embodiment and Gender
- Gender and Space
We will accept abstracts for individual paper presentations as well as panel proposals (three/four participants plus chair/commentator). An individual paper presenter must send an abstract of no more than 300 words (including keywords) with a supporting bio note of 100 words in a separate attachment to newliteraria@gmail.com
For full panels, submit a proposal of no more than 750 words and individual bio notes of the participants (100 words each) to newliteraria@gmail.com
| SCHEDULE | |
| Conference Dates | 26th, 27th, and 28th November, 2022 |
| Deadline for Submission of Abstracts (300 words) and Panel Proposals (750 words) | 15th October, 2022 |
| Acceptance of Abstracts | 25th October, 2022 |
| Registration | 25th – 30th October, 2022 |
| Last date of sending full paper | 30th December, 2022 |
Platforms: ZOOM, GOOGLE MEET, FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE
Keynote Speaker:
Prof. (Dr.) L. Ayu Saraswati, Professor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, The University of Hawai`i
Resource Persons:
Prof Albrecht Classen, The University of Arizona, US
Prof Zinia Mitra, Head of the Department & Professor, Department of Women’s Studies, University of North Bengal, India
Dr. Kavya Krishna K.R, Assistant Professor, Dept of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India
Dr. Anandita Pan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Conveners:
Dr Tanmoy Kundu, Editor, New Literaria Journal & Assistant Professor of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India
Dr Parthasarathi Mandal, Assistant Professor, Manbhum Mahavidyalaya, West Bengal, India
Dr Anurag Chauhan, Assistant Professor of English, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India
Dr Prasenjit Panda, Assistant Professor of English, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India
Dr Ashutosh Singh, Assistant Professor of English, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, India
Organizing Secretaries:
Gokul S., Member of Editorial Board, New Literaria Journal
Subhankar Dutta, Member of Editorial Board, New Literaria Journal
Moumita Bala, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Nisarga Bhattacharjee, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Ankana Das, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Ipsita Deb, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Dipra Sarkhel, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Sindhura Dutta, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Zahra Ahmad, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Trishita Karmakar, Academic Editor, New Literaria Journal
Advisory Committee:
Prof Aparajita Hazra, Professor, Department of English, Diamond Harbour Womens’ University, West Bengal, India
Prof Pinaki Roy, Professor, Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal, India
Prof Debarshi Prasad Nath, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tezpur University, India
Prof Anita Singh, Professor, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Banaras, India
Prof Rebecca Haque, Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dr Chandrakant Langare, Associate Professor, Department of English, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India.
Dr Elisabetta Marino, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, Department of History, Humanities and Society, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy
Dr B. J. Geetha, Associate Professor, Department of English Studies, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Central University of Tamil Nadu, India.
Dr Jai Singh, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad, India.
Dr Sanjukta Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Department of English, Raiganj University, West Bengal, India.
Dr. Suranjana Choudhury, Assistant Professor, Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, India.
Dr Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University, West Bengal, India.
Dr Dhurjjati Sharma, Assistant Professor, Department of MIL & Literary Studies, Gauhati University, Assam, India.
Dr Pradipta Shyam Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of North Bengal, West Bengal, India