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27th FILLM Congress News Call for Papers Registration and Fees Programme Travel and Accommodation Location and Venue John Benjamins Prize Advisory Panel Local Organizers Contact Details | Programme Updated: 8 March 2017 Academic Programme The program for the 27th FILLM Congress is now available. To download, click here. The General Meeting of the FILLM Committee is scheduled for Tuesday 14 March 2017. It will begin at 10.00 and is expected to last until 17.00. The meeting will take place in Seminar Hall 3, Kamaladevi Block of the India International Centre. For more on the social and cultural programme, see below. Invited plenary speakers:
Elleke
Boehmer (BA(Hons), MPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)) is Professor of World
Literature in English in the English Faculty, University of Oxford, and
is currently Director of the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
(TORCH). She is a founding figure in the field of colonial and
postcolonial studies, and internationally known for her research in
anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire. She is an acclaimed
novelist and short story writer, most recently of The Shouting in the
Dark (2015). Abstract
Professor Tania
Lewis is the Deputy Dean for Research in the School of Media and
Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her research falls into
two broad areas: green citizenship, ethical consumption and lifestyle
politics; and global media formats and multiple media modernities, with
a particular focus on South East Asia. She has also worked primarily as
a Research Fellow in an eclectic mix of disciplinary settings from
media studies and sociology to critical public health. NB. Unfortunately, Professor Lewis has had to cancel her participation at the FILLM Congress. However, she has very kindly given FILLM permission to publish a video recording of her paper on our website. The video will be available on 14 March 2017. Abstract
Dr.
Ayesha Kidwai's research interests include linguistic theory, with
particular reference to the (generative) syntax and morphology of
Indian languages, philosophy of language, gender and language, the
politics of English, and language evolution. After completing her PhD
in 1995 from Jawaharlal Nehru University on scrambling and binding in
Hindi-Urdu, she has worked on diverse morphological and syntactic
phenomena in languages of all the four-language family of India, as
well as Indian Sign Language. Her current research interests include
the syntax of finite complementation and the properties of adjunction
in natural language. Abstract
Formerly,
a Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi,
she is at present, Director of the Centre for Oral and Tribal
Literature, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi and the President of the
Linguistic Society of India. She has occupied positions of Guest
Scientist at Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany; Leverhulme Professor at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK; and Visiting
Professorships at universities in the USA, UK, Germany and Australia.
Dr.
Devadawson is currently the Head of the Department (English),
University of Delhi. She has been a Visiting Fellow (under ASIHSS
grant), Department of English, Jadavpur University, March-April 2008 .
Dr. Devadawson has also been a Teape Lecturer for the three-part
Westcott Memorial lecture-series, University of Cambridge, November
2001 (lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Leicester,
and Warwick) with the series title ‘Travelling through Britain: India’s
road to postcolonialism’ with funding support obtained from the
Indian Council of Cultural Relations (1996), the Human Resource
Development Ministry (1994), the British Council (1994). Abstract
Formerly,
a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, she is an
Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Programme, University of
Iowa (USA), as also of Hong Kong Baptist University and Cambridge
Seminars. She is honorary faculty at the Durrell Centre at Corfu
(Greece). At present she holds the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the Cluster
Innovation Centre, University of Delhi.
Director
of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study. He is Professor of
English at the Centre for English Studies School of Language,
Literature and Culture Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
He has been Visiting Fellow and Professor at the Universities of Paris,
Hyderabad, Essex and Grinnell College, Iowa. He is the Elected
Chairperson of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and
Language Studies (IACLALS) 2014-2017 and a member of the Executive
Committee of the Indian Association for the Study of Australia (IASA).
Ashok
Vajpeyi, a Hindi poet-critic, translator, editor and culture-activist,
is a major cultural figure of India. He is widely recognised as an
outstanding promoter of culture and an innovative institution builder. As
an organiser he has more than a thousand events relating to literature,
music, dances, theatre, visual arts, folk and tribal arts, cinema,
etc., to his credit. He set up the renowned multi-arts centre, Bharat
Bhavan, in Bhopal, and has been the first Vice-Chancellor of the
Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi University (set up by Government of
India). For more than a year he doubled up as the Director General of
the National Museum, New Delhi and as the Vice-Chairman, National
Museum of Man, Bhopal. A prominent public intellectual of India, he has
been a creative global trotter and has visited Europe many times to
attend conferences, deliver lectures and give readings. Mr. Vajpeyi has
been a Writer in-Residence at Jamia Millia Islamia University and a
Fellow of K.K Birla Foundation. He has been decorated by the President
of the Republic of Poland with the Polish National Award. The Officer’s
Cross of Merit of the Republic of Poland; by the French Government’s
award of ‘Officier De L’Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres,’ and the Embassy
of Romania to India’s award ‘Best Promoter of Indo-Romanian Relations.’
In India he has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Dayawati
Kavi Shekhar Samman and the Kabir Samman. Mr. Vajpeyi recently retired
as Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, Ministry of Culture, Government of
India, New Delhi. He lives in Delhi. Social and Cultural Programme The local organizers have arranged a number of social and cultural events to take place during the Congress. For example: For more information, click on the posters. | |||||||||
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