IACLALS Annual Conference

Program

7 Jan (Monday)

• 9 Registration (Venue: TLN Sabha Hall)
• 9.30 – 11.30 Inauguration and Keynote Address: Jayanta Mahapatra -- On the Edge of Ritual
• 11.30 – 12 Tea
• 12 – 1 Session 1
  • T Vijay Kumar The Global Indian Novel (Abstract)
  • Subhendu Mund Reader, Writer, Text: The Oriya Context (Abstract)
  • S Prasanna Sree Believable Slice of Life: Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies (Abstract)
• 1 – 2 Lunch
• 2 – 3 Plenary 1 (Venue: SAARC Centre) Ranga Rao Chair: A Prasannakumar
• 3 – 3.15 Tea
• 3.15 – 4.45 Parallel Sessions
  • 2A
    • C Vijayasree South Asia as a Category: Pedagogic Problems and Possibilities (Abstract)
    • Nikhila H (Con)textualizing Partition -- Partition Studies in Postcolonial Times (Abstract)
    • Bhuvana Shankar Kama's Arrows: Desire as Design in the River Sutra (Abstract)
  • 2B
    • Vishnupriya Sengupta The Dialectics of Homelessness (Abstract)
    • Ch Satyavani A New Look at Expatriation: Bharati Mukherjee's Short Stories (Abstract)
    • K Nirupa Rani Reader, Writer, Text: Nobel Naipaul's Half A Life (Abstract)
• 4.45 – 5 Tea
• 7 – Poets’ Meet and Conference Dinner

8 Jan (Tuesday), Venue: Academic Staff College, AU

• 9.15-9.30 ACLALS Business Session
• 9.30-10.30 Plenary 2 Bruce Bennett; Chair: Meenakshi Mukherjee
• 10.30 – 10.45 Tea
• 10.45 – 1 Session 3 (Australian Literature)
  • Veena Noble Dass Indigenous Literatures in Australia / New Zealand: Problems and Prospects (Abstract)
  • Ch A Rajendra Prasad Racial Conflict and the Beyond: Anne Daveson's Lines in the Sand (Abstract)
  • Sheena George "The Real Australian Story": A Reading of Jack Davis's Kullark (Abstract)
  • Ranganath Nandyal Literary Allusions and Intertextuality: Jessica Anderson's Tirra Lirra By The River (Abstract)
  • Sangeetha Postcolonial Situation in Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves (Abstract)
• 1 – 2 Lunch
• 2 – 4 Session 4
  • G K Subbarayudu Taxing Postcolonial Lore: Lagaan, the Movie (Abstract)
  • Vijaya Guttal Shashi Deshpande's The Binding Vine and A Matter of Time: A Reading in the Postcolonial Context (Abstract)
  • Bala Kothandaraman Who Needs Literature Anyway? (Abstract)
  • Shashikala S Making of a Text: English Discipline's Response to Globalization? (Abstract)

• 4 Tea and IACLALS General Body Meeting
• 5 Local sightseeing

9 Jan (Wednesday), Venue: Academic Staff College, AU

• 9.30 – 10.30 Plenary 3 Meenakshi Mukherjee, Chair: Bala Kothandaraman
• 10.30 – 10.45 Tea
• 10.45 – 12.45 Parallel Sessions
  • 5A
    • Laksmisree Banerjee World Women Poets: Sisters of the Soil (Abstract)
    • Indira B Wall With a Peek-Hole: Esther David's The Walled City (Abstract)
    • Jaydeep Sarangi Reconstruction of Myth in 'Indian Variety of English': T P Kailasam's The Purpose (Abstract)
  • 5B
    • Sowmya Dechamma Translating Modernity: Birth of Modern Child in Early Children's Literature in Kannada (Abstract)
    • Vijay Boratti Intervening the Hegemony: Construction of Vachanas as Literature in early 20th Century (Abstract)
    • B Madhavilatha A K Ramanujan: A Poet of Two Cultures (Abstract)
  • 5C
    • ISV Manjula On Jayanta Mahapatra (Abstract)
    • G Chenna Reddy On Chaman Nahal (Abstract)
    • Atchuta Raman On Raja Rao (Abstract)
    • K Sushil Paul On Salman Rushdie (Abstract)
• 12.45 – 1.30 Tea and Valedictory
• 1.30 - Lunch