• 09 30 – 10 00 Registration
• 10 00 – 11 30 Inaugural and Keynote Address
  • Introduction of Keynote Speaker Harish Trivedi
  • Keynote Nirmal Varma
• 11 30 – 11 45 Tea

11 45 – 01 15 Session 1

• Wendy Woodward Beyond the Borders of Our Times: Dislocating Apartheid in Some Recent South African Novels
• Vandana Mathur "Not that: Not Black": The White Writer in South Africa
• T Vijay Kumar The Asian in African Writing
• Geetha Nuruddin Farah’s Maps

01 15 – 02 00 Lunch

02 00 – 03 00 Session 2A

• John Mee Not at Home in English?: India’s Foreign Returned Fictions
• Nikhila Haritsa Imaging India in US
• Tharakeswar V B Postcolonial Theory(ies): Locations and Politics

Session 2B

• Satish C Aikant Postcolonial Theory: Shifting Domains
• Bala Kothandarmam Post-Colony: Virtual/Illusory/Dynamic Field?
• Subramani The Bilingual Double Vision

03 00 – 04 00 Plenary 1

• Speaker Robert Young Gandhi's Counter-modernity
• Chair Rajeswari Sunderrajan

04 00 – 04 45 Session 3

• Maria Antonella Pelizzani A Good Story to Tell: British Photography of Architecture in India.
• H Kalpana Location and Creativity of Music Contextualising Colonial Cousins

10 00 – 11 00 Session 4A

• Debjani Ganguly Of Unremarkable, Un-Rushdie- like lives: The Diasporic Local in the Latest Fiction of Amit Chaudhuri
• Jayita Sengupta Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace through Post-colonial lens
• Yuonne Hyrynen Locating and Dislocating the Post-colonial Self through the Female Gaze in Shashi Deshpande’s Small Remedies

Session 4B

• Padmini Mongia Marketing Arundhati Roy
• Someshwar Sati The Jona Act: The Politics of Collusion in Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English, August
• Manjushree Kumar Hegemonic Constructs: Locating an aftermath

11 00 – 12 00 Plenary 2

• Speaker Jasbir Jain Agenda, Activism and Agency: Mapping the Post-Colony
• Chair Meenakshi Mukherjee

12 00 – 01 00 Session 5

• GJV Prasad British Drama and Postcolony Angst
• C Vijayasree The Dubious Empire: Some Home Grown Thoughts
• Vijaya Singh Locating the Colony in the British Heritage Films of the 1980’s

01 00 – 02 00 Lunch

02 00 – 03 00 Session 6A

• Martina Ghose–Shellhorn Amandla Zindabad: Two Political Autobiographies from South Africa and India
• Savita Goel A Perspective on Khalid Ahmad’s "Come and See my City from Here"

• Asma Rasheed Locating "Second-Hand": Najma Nikhat and a Critique of Colonial Modernity
• Purabi Panwar The Translator as Creator: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Rendering of Mahasweta Debi’s Stories
• Santosh Gupta Gopinath Mohanty’s Voices of the Marginalised: Colony or Postcolony?

03 00 – 03 30 TEA

03 30 – 04 30 Panel Discussion

10 00 – 11 00 Session 7A

• A Raghu Indra’s Curse: India as Postcolony
• Subhendu Mund Locating the Nation: Indian Novel in English
• Pradeep Trikha Post colonialism in Indian Short-Story

 Session 7B

• Indira Bhatt The Victor and the Vanquished: A study of Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiography of My Mother
• Sunaina Singh Cultural Polyvalency in Diasoric Women Wirters: the Canadian Scene
• Sudha Rai The Poetics Of Travel Narratives: Indigenous, Diasporic and Gender Perspectives

11 00 – 12 00 Plenary 3

• Speaker Rajeshwari Sundarrajan
• Chair Gayatri Spivak Chakravorty

12 00 – 01 00 Session 8

• Mousumi Roy Chowdhury A Canon of One’s Own? Reading the Emergence of Dalit Feminism
• Sunita Rani Subversion of Caste Hegemony in Lambada Oral Narrative
• S K Sareen Aborigine Identity and Representation: Location/Dislocation in the Post Colony

01 00 – 02 00 Lunch

02 00 – 03 30 Session 9

• Smita Bharati The World made text in the Reading Performances of Tihar Inmates: Notes toward a Radical Pedagogy
• S K Agarwal Decolonizing English Text Books (The Case of Tribal Learners)
• Makarand Paranjape W(h)ither English Studies? A Look at Indian Doctoral Dissertations in English
• Vijay Kumar Boratti Drop-Outs in English Department: A Case Study

03 30 – 04 30 Tea & Conclusion