Re-thinking Cultural Studies in India

Re-thinking Cultural Studies in India Undergraduate Conference

“Re-thinking Cultural Studies in India” is a conference at FLAME University which hopes to better understand the aspirations and visions of undergraduate students in influencing India’s cultural future. We explicitly invite undergraduate students from colleges across India to challenge and engage existing scholarship, to consolidate empirical and theoretical studies on the state of the nation. The

conference will be held on the FLAME University campus on 28 February, 2016 and aims at constituting an academic community, facilitating research and advocacy on cultural questions that frame our time.

Bangalore is in for a treat with Lekhana - Bangalore's Literary Weekend! 26th to the 19th of April, at Indian Institute ...
25/04/2017

Bangalore is in for a treat with Lekhana - Bangalore's Literary Weekend!

26th to the 19th of April, at Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) - Come!

The study of song- texts essentially demands inquiry and discussion from diverse fields like musicology, ethnomusicology...
12/01/2017

The study of song- texts essentially demands inquiry and discussion from diverse fields like musicology, ethnomusicology, linguistics, literary studies, and phonology amidst several others. As has been eloquently stated by scholars Myfany Turpin and Tonya Stebbins, “songs to be highly structured art forms that have the ability to convey complex associations of meaning beyond everyday spoken language.”

In India, where oral traditions predate hand scripted manuscripts or printed compilations, poets with vastly varied literary impulses, from bhakti to riti, have for centuries written poems prescribing musical rendering in specific raags, taals and genres. There also exists a flourishing tradition of musicians and composers selectively extracting a few lines from a larger existing poem or narrative verse for use in forms that demand relatively less wordiness. Briefly then, there is ample evidence to prove that the giving, sharing, borrowing and lending between literature and music is in itself an established tradition in India where the vaggeyakar or song composer is often both poet and music composer. In the contemporary context, where music is as much ‘seen’ as heard ,the study and analysis of song-text in India must therefore be an interdisciplinary and collaborative activity between musicians, composers, musicologists, ethnomusicologists and scholars and postgraduate students of literature, linguistics, cultural studies, history, sociology, psychology, media, theatre, film and music.

A two - day International Conference on song- texts is proposed for teachers, students, practitioners, independent researchers and others who might be interested across various disciplines. Papers are invited on the following themes and any others that fall within the rubric of Indian song- texts. The conference to be held on Flame University Campus on January 21 & 22, 2017 is being mentored by renowned exponents Shubha Mudgal and Dr. Aneesh Pradhan.

Please find the schedule below. For more information, you can email us at: [email protected]

Taking from the need to understand the digital world and its relevance in cultural studies - FLAME University today host...
16/10/2016

Taking from the need to understand the digital world and its relevance in cultural studies - FLAME University today hosted a colloquium titled 'Learning Through Archives'

Digital archiving has become the most accessible mode of learning through a variety of texts, and with infinite opportunities of curating, cataloguing, cross-referencing, and so on.

In addition, digital archiving is a practice that encourages the production of knowledge as much as its consumption. As such it necessarily requires critical reflexivity, inter-disciplinary perspectives, and broader contexts of assessment.

February 28, 2016. FLAME University Campus.The Re-Thinking Cultural Studies in India Conference is a platform for studen...
21/02/2016

February 28, 2016.
FLAME University Campus.
The Re-Thinking Cultural Studies in India Conference is a platform for students and scholars to interact and better understand the state of our state from each others' perspectives.

30/12/2015

Hello Everyone!
We are extending the deadline for submission of abstracts to the 15th of January, 2016.
The new date for notification of selection will be the 20th of January, 2016.
Have a wonderful day, and a very happy new year! Send in your abstracts NOW! To:
[email protected]

16/12/2015

Hello Everyone!

Here's a little update on the Conference, posters and invites have been mailed to your colleges and hopefully should be up within a day or two.

In terms of the paper submissions, by the 30th, abstracts of 300 words or less, on any of the topics mentioned, or an amalgam of various topics that interest you are to be submitted via e-mail to [email protected]

We will put out a list of papers that have been accepted to be presented at the conference by the 15th of January 2016!

14/12/2015

Hello Everyone!

Please remember, the deadline for abstracts is the 30th of December 2015, if you don't know what the topics are, and would like to submit a paper - here's something to jog your memory!

1. Power, culture and knowledge: Re-examining how mythology and society align across Indian history
2. The City: Community spaces and reconstitutions of urban forms and solidarities; Gendering discourses on bodies and public space
3. Regional writing and minor literatures: Translating bhasha literatures and comparative studies
4. Dramatic adaptations: Storytelling in narrative modes such as dastangoi, naqal, bideshi, nautanki, tamasha etc.
5. Food Studies: Narrating regional identity to de-emphasize geographic boundaries
6. Digital humanities: Recuperating collective memory through crowd-sourced archival collections in new media such as the Indian Memory Project, the Traveling Archive etc.
7. “Indian-ness” Re-imagined: Mapping popular culture, film, graphic forms and commercial writing
8. Science & Society: Re-visiting philosophy and alternate epistemologies
9. Legal Studies: Querying colonial legacies, constitutionalism, minority rights, censorship and governance

Stay tuned to this space for more updates!

:)Deadline for abstracts: December 30th, 2015.
10/12/2015

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Deadline for abstracts: December 30th, 2015.

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