Diaspora and Memory Studies
The primary aim of this group is to explore the significance of cultural displacement in the lives of diasporic immigrants, and the problems associated with the aspect of migration, for instance, trauma, alienation, rootlessness and loss of belonging. The significance of remembering and forgetting in diaspora studies is an important area of engagement of this group. It will further probe into making a comparative study of the differences in experience in the movement of the immigrants within the home country as well as to the host nation. The group will also study how the diaspora communities negotiate the anxieties and complexities of displacement. The study will also extend to the itinerant communities like pastoralists, nomads, and hunters, for whom a diasporic sentiment is a part of their very consciousness.
Research Group Coordinator: Shrimoyee Chattopadhyay
Events:
Lectures:
Webinar 1 – Memory, Storytelling and the Situated Brain by Dr. Avishek Parui. Date & Time: October 21, 2020. 11:00 a.m. (IST)
Webinar 2 – From Victim to Survivor: Representing Rape in Contemporary American Fiction by Prof. Robin Field. Date & Time: December 11, 2020. 7:00 p.m. (IST)
Webinar 3 – Dialogic Possibilities in Arts and Literature by Dr. Syrrina Haque. Date & Time: February 5, 2021. 5:00 p.m. (IST)
Webinar 4 – Postmemory, Art and Archive by Prof. Marianne Hirsch and Mirta Kupferminc. Date & Time: April 6, 2021. 7:00 p.m. (IST)
Webinar 5 – Uprooted Life: Re-viewing the Partition from a Bengali Dalit Refugee’s Perspective by Dr. Runa Chakraborty Paunksnis. Date & Time: August 6, 2021. 5:00 p.m. (IST)
Webinar 6 – Transoceanic Spaces as Memory Region: Remembering Forced Labour Migration in M.G. Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and Yovnne Owuor’s Dust by Dr. Hanna Teichler. Date & Time: September 1, 2021. 5:00 p.m. (IST)
Webinar 7 – Staging Loss and Hope: Spanish Civil War Exiles in Latin American Theatre by Prof. Catherine O’Leary. Date & Time: September 19, 2021. 5:00 p.m. (IST)
Webinar 8 – Relational Memory in the World Risk Society: The Coronavirus Pandemic by Prof. Astrid Erll. Date & Time: October 6, 2021. 5:00 p.m. (IST)
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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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