Schedule

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

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