Diaspora and Memory Studies Events
Lectures:
Webinar 1 – Memory, Storytelling and the Situated Brain
Dr. Avishek Parui (IIT-Madras)
Chair: Prof. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee (Assam University)
October 21, 2020
Webinar 1 – Memory, Storytelling and the Situated Brain by Dr. Avishek Parui 
Webinar 2- From Victim to Survivor: Representing Rape in Contemporary American Fiction
Speaker- Prof. Robin Field (King’s College)
Discussant- Dr. Soma Mukherjee (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan)
December 11, 2020
From Victim to Survivor: Representing Rape in Contemporary American Fiction by Prof.Robin Field Webinar 3 – Dialogic Possibilities in Art and Literature
Speaker- Dr. Syrrina Haque (University of Lahore)
February 05, 2021
Dialogic Possibilities in Art and Literature by Dr. Syrrina Haque Webinar 4- Postmemory, Art and Archive
Speakers- Prof. Marianne Hirsch & Mirta Kupferminc
April 06, 2021
Postmemory, Art and Archive by Prof. Marianne Hirsch & Mirta Kupferminc Webinar 5 –Uprooted Life: Re-viewing the Partition from a Bengali Dalit Refugee’s Perspective
Speaker- Dr. Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis (Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania)
August 6, 2021
Uprooted Life: Re-viewing the Partition from a Bengali Dalit Refugee’s Perspective by Dr. Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis Webinar 6- Transoceanic Spaces as Memory Region: Remembering Forced Labour Migration in M.G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor’s Dust
Speaker- Dr. Hanna Teichler (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
September 1, 2021
Transoceanic Entanglements and Afrasian Connections in Memory Literature by Dr. Hanna Teichler Webinar 7- Staging Loss and Home: Spanish Civil War Exiles in Latin American Theatre
Speaker- Prof. Catherine O’Leary (University of St. Andrews)
September 19, 2021
Staging Loss and Home: Spanish Civil War Exiles in Latin American Theatre by Prof. Catherine O’Leary Webinar 8- Relational Memory in the World Risk Society: The Coronavirus Pandemic
Speaker- Prof. Astrid Erll (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
October 06, 2021
Relational Memory in the World Risk Society: The Coronavirus Pandemic by Prof. Astrid Erll Webinar 9- “There was a woman, a translator, who wanted to be another person”: Jhumpa Lahiri and The Exchange Politics of Linguistic Exile
Speaker- Dr. Mridula Nath Chakraborty (Monash University, Australia)
October 31, 2021
Webinar 10- Tell ’em about men: The Fractured Politics of Heritage in British Postindustrial Museums
Speaker- Dr. Anindya Raychaudhuri (St. Andrews University, UK)
November 10, 2021
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CALL FOR PAPERS (Intermediality in Indian Literary Cultures)
We invite papers addressing the issues raised here and on the topics suggested relating to intermediality.
WEBSITE LAUNCH
Delhi Comparatists website launched.
12th August 2021
JOURNAL (VOL 1, ISSUE 1)
Delhi Journal of Comparative Studies is an online, peer-reviewed, full text, bi-annual journal with open access in the field of comparative literature and cultural studies in their various forms in the Indian context.
Ongoing Projects
- Covid 19 Muslim Response Research
- Covid-19 Cultural Response Book
- Covid-19 Cultural Response Archive
- Reception of Kazi Nazrul Islam in Indian Literatures
- Multilingual Translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Comparative Literature in India Archive
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