Friends,
Dr. GJV Prasad owing to personal tragedy is unable to attend our seminar as key note speaker and so we have made certain changes in our schedule. pls go through it and for further queries feel free to contact us.
- Seminar Convener
Dr. GJV Prasad owing to personal tragedy is unable to attend our seminar as key note speaker and so we have made certain changes in our schedule. pls go through it and for further queries feel free to contact us.
- Seminar Convener
| Day- I 27th August,2011 Saturday Venue - Shree Ravishankar Maharaj Auditorium, N S Patel Arts College, Anand. |
Inaugural Session: 9:00 to 10:30
| Invocation | Divyanath Shukla Dept. of Sanskrit N S Patel Arts College, Anand. |
| Welcome and Introduction | Anila Nair, Seminar Convener, Asst. Professor, Department of English, N S Patel Arts College, Anand |
| Address by Guest of Honour | Dr. Sridhar Rajeswaran, Professor and Head, Department of English Kuchch University |
| Key Note Address | Dr. T.Sai Chandra Mouli Former Professor of English, Railway College, Secunderabad |
| Speech by Principal | Dr. M C Patel Principal, N S Patel Arts College, Anand |
| Presidential Address | Shree Bhikhubhai Patel Managing Trustee and Secretary, Sardar Patel Education Trust, Anand |
| Vote of Thanks | Robert Parmar Asst. Professor N S Patel Arts College, Anand |
| Tea Break 10:30 to 10:45 |
| Plenary – I (10:45 – 11:30) | Critical Strategies for Reading a work of Literature Dr. Madhurita Choudhary Associate Professor, Dept. of English Faculty of Arts M S University, Vadodara |
| Session I (11:30 – 12:45) | Chair: Dr. Madhurita Choudhary |
| Mr Kirti B Vitthani | Interpreting Anita Desai’s In Custody in the Light of Susan Sontag’s Critical Essay Against Interpretation |
| Dr Swati Kapadia | Triangulation Of Theories As Well As An Achievement In Creativity: A Study Of Mahesh Dattani’s Tara |
| Dr. Sindhu Sara Thomas | Pacifism, Vegetarianism, Feminism: Attempting Wholeness In Alice Walker’s The Temple Of My Familiar |
| Dr Sudhir Narayan Singh & Dalvir Singh Gahlawat | Gender Descriminations in Manju Kapur’s Home |
| Manisha Shah | ` Aint I a Woman? ` Alice Walker’s Womanism and The Color Purple |
| Lunch Break 12:45 to 1:30 |
| Session II (1:30 to 3:30) | Chair: Dr T.Sai Chandra Mouli Former Professor of English, Railway College, Secunderabad |
| Dr Hemang Desai | (Im)Mediation of ‘Meaning’ beyond Consumption and Production: Translating Identity in Marginalized Texts |
| Dr Dinesh Kumar | Ecocriticism and the Critique of Toxic Discourses |
| Dr Raji Ramesh | Postfeminist Interrogation of Sterile Discourses: Gender and Textuality in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve |
| Dr Abhipsa Yagnik | Midnight’s Children: The text’s paradoxical opposition between its form and its content |
| Dr. M. B. Gaijan | Dalit Literary Theory, Text and Literariness. |
| Jay Mehta | A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of the Diasporic Maladies in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies |
| Tea Break : 3:30 to 3:45 |
| Session III (3:45 to 5:45) | Chair : Dr. J H Khan Professor and Head, Dept. of English, S P University, V V Nagar |
| Mr Mitul Trivedi | Dispersion of Meaning : Reading Chronicle of a Death Foretold in the light of Post-Existentialism, Culture and an Individual Self |
| Sahdev R Luhar | Derrida’s Deconstruction and Nagarjun’s Sunyata: A Comparison |
| Ms. Anubha Anushree | Understanding the Popular: The Imagined Masculinities of Chetan Bhagat’s Three Novels |
| Dr. Chetankumar Trivedi | Triangulation of Post-colonial Theory, Ultimate Anger and Husband –wife Relationship in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger |
| Ms. Avani Trivedi | Feminism in context to Seven Steps in the Sky |
| Day- II 28th August,2011 Sunday Venue: Shree Ravishankar Maharaj Auditorium, N S Patel Arts College, Anand. |
| Plenary II (9:00 – 9:45) | Literariness to Interliterariness Dr. Sachin C. Ketkar Associate Professor, Dept of English,Faculty of Arts, The MS University of Baroda, Baroda |
| Session I (9:45 – 11:00) | Chair: Dr. Sachin C. Ketkar |
| Surendra Rohilla | Queering As You Like It |
| Prof. Jagdish V. Anerao & Prof. Shruti Kikani | Application Of The Bharat Muni's Rasa Theory To The English Text Of The Rivals |
| Vishal Bhadani | An Idea of Mosaic Text |
| Dr.Bipin R. Parmar | A Socio-psychological Analysis of Homosexuals in Mahesh Dattani’s plays On A Muggy Night In Mumbai and Do the Needful. |
| Doyel Gosh Kavita S. Vansia | The Mind And The Book - A Long Look At Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism Propounded by Freud |
| Tea Break 11:00 to 11:15 |
| Session III (11:15 to 1:15) | Chair: Dr. R K Mandalia Associate Professor Dept. of English, S P University, V V Nagar |
| Varsha Vanza | Silence, Speech and Shadowiness: Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines |
| Hardik Thakkar | Humanistic Approach In Mending Wall and Stopping by Woods |
| Dr. Vimmi Sadarangani | Sindhi Vibhajan Sahitya – Sarhad Se Pare |
| Swarnbharti Evani | Triangulation of Nationalism in India: A History |
| Ulupi S. Patel | Reflection of Avian Ethology On Literature |
| Lunch Break : 1:15 to 2:00 |
Valedictory Function: 2:00 to 3:45
| Welcome & Seminar Report | Hiten Solanki Asst. Professor, Dept. of English N S Patel Arts College, Anand |
| Address by Chief Guest | Dr D S Mishra Former Head & Professor Dept. of English, S P University, V V Nagar |
| Vote of Thanks | Dipesh Patel Asst. Professor, Dept. of English N S Patel Arts College, Anand |
| | National Anthem |
