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Chairperson Harish Trivedi Delhi University Vice President C Vijayasree Osmania University Secretary GJV Prasad Jawaharlal Nehru University Treasurer Brinda Bose Delhi University
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Iaclals Annual Conference 2008
Theme: Performing the Postcolonial: Imaging/Imagining India through Theatre, Film, Music and Dance The next annual conference of the IACLALS will be held in Udaipur from 28-30 January, 2008. The conference will be co-hosted by Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, and Dr Ashutosh Mohan will be our Local Secretary. This time we propose to focus on imaginative and creative perceptions and constructions of postcolonial India in the realms of performance. For a very long time in literature and language studies, of course, the rubric has stretched to include ‘other’ cultural forms such as theatre, film, music and dance: initially perhaps to analyze the success of adaptation of written texts into other media; afterwards, to scrutinize the politics of such adaptation; but increasingly, now, to share the excitement of a common platform with infinite possibilities, that of cultural studies. From this perspective, a focus on performance is not a departure from, but an extension of, our concerns at IACLALS, and a recognition of the ways in which multiple cultural forms may be critically apprehended to enhance our understanding of one or other of them in historical, social, political and intellectual contexts. How, then, can we think about the Indian postcolonial experience through the worlds of spectacle and performance? Performances – and their production, circulation, reception and preservation – are indeed crucial to the formation of ‘modern’ or ‘national’ memory, and delineate the ways in which we encounter social and cultural transformation. We would, therefore, like to invite abstracts (300 words) for papers/performances to be delivered at IACLALS 08, for presentations of 20 minutes’ duration on the theme Performing the Postcolonial (20 minute papers should be about 2,200 words in length). We hope presentations will explore constructions of postcolonial Indian identities in and through performance, whether theoretical, textual, practical or inter-disciplinary in approach. Please email your abstracts to Brinda Bose at iaclalsdelhi@yahoo.com by October 15, 2007. Acceptances will be notified by November 15, 2007. Those wishing to enter their papers for the CDN Prize competition 2008 should send them in by December 15, 2007. |
