Rethinking Humanities and its Entanglements
3 Day International Web-Conference
on
Rethinking Humanities and its Entanglements
organized by
Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity University Kolkata
August 5-7, 2020
Event Registration Link : https://forms.gle/yxTjkVUCdVZEm8an9
Schedule of the Event
(schedule-timings are mentioned in Indian Standard Time)
DAY 1 (August 05, 2020)
2 pm : Inaugural session (total 30 mins)
Keynote 1:
2.30 pm : Travelling Towards the Post-Human: An interrogation of the Digital World
Prof. Nigel Wood (Professor of Literature and Head, School of Humanities,
Loughborough University)
Keynote 2:
3.15 pm : Post-Humanities for the Post-Covid University
Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (Professor of English and World Literatures, Wadham College,
University of Oxford)
Break 15 minutes
Panel 1 : Aesthetics and the Decolonial
4.15 pm : Environmental Aesthetics
Dr. Daniela Angelucci (Associate Professor of Aesthetics, University Roma Tre)
4.45 pm: Catastrophic Realities and Humanities Studies
Dr. Sourit Bhattacharya (Lecturer, Department of English and World Literatures,
University of Glasgow)
5.15 pm Rethinking the Sublime in Humanities in Contemporary Times
Amrita Bhattacharyya (Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of English Studies and
Research, Amity University Kolkata)
Chair and Discussant : Subro Saha
Session Break [45 mins] : 5.45 pm – 6.30 pm
Panel 2 : Reflections on Diaspora and Comparative Literary Studies
6.30 pm: Postcolonialism and Diaspora Studies
Prof. Himadri Lahiri (Retd. Professor, Department of English and Culture Studies,
University of Burdwan)
7 pm : Lies, Damned Lies, and Covid19: Reflections on Literature and Culture at a
Time of Pandemic
Prof. Samantak Das (Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur
University)
Chair and Discussant : Dr. Paromita Mukherjee
Conclusion: 7.30 pm
DAY 2 (August 06, 2020)
Keynote 3:
2 pm : Thinking through the Knowledge Wars: the Sciences and the Humanities
Dr. Anirban Das (Associate Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Socia
Sciences Calcutta)
Panel 3: Rethinking Humanities and its Outside: Negotiating the Science Question
2.45 pm : An Outline of a Theory of Embodied Value
Dr. Stefan Ecks (Senior Lecturer of Medical Anthropology, School of Social and Political
Sciences, University of Edinburgh)
3.15 pm : Narrative Medicalization of the Human Psyche and Literary Modernism
Dr. Arka Chattopadhyay (Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar)
Chair and Discussant : Dr. Cecile Malaspina
Session Break [45 mins]: 3.45 pm – 4.30 pm
Panel 4 : Gender,Performance and the Ambiguities of Interpretation
4.30 pm: Accross Border and Back: The ‘Shuttlecock’ Woman
Prof. Swati Ghosh (Director, Centre of Women Studies & Professor of Economics,
Rabindra Bharati University)
5 pm: Connecting to an Intimate Self: Being Humane
Dr. Maroona Murmu (Associate Professor of History, Jadavpur University)
5.30 pm: The many “truths” of Bowls, Bags and Borders: In Intimate Acts of Crossing
Dr. Debaroti Chakraborty (Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts,
Presidency University)
6 pm: The Self and the Other: A Literary Reading on Issues of Gender and Liminality
Dr. Paromita Mukherjee (Assistant Director and Head, Amity Institute of English
Studies and Research, Amity University Kolkata)
Chair and Discussant : Dr. Madhurima Mukhopadhyay
Break 10 mins
6.40 pm – 8 pm : Paper Presentations (Parallel Sessions)
DAY 3 (August 7, 2020)
Keynote 4:
2 pm : Could it think, the heart would stop beating: Thinking with Simondon about the
Human animal in times of crisis
Dr. Cecile Malaspina (Directeur de Programme, College International de Philosophie,
Paris and Visiting Fellow, Kings College London)
Panel 5: Thinking Humanities from the Margins
2.45 pm : From the Margins of Feminism: Politics of the Dalit Woman
Prof. Ritu Sen Chaudhuri (Professor, Department of Sociology, West Bengal State
University)
3.15 pm : Without Assembly: Performance and Politics in the Face of Isolation
Dr. Trina Nileena Banerjee (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies
in Social Sciences Calcutta)
3.45 pm : Postcoloniality and the Appropration of Caste: Some Conceptual (Con)tensions
Subro Saha (Assistant Professor, Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Amity
University Kolkata)
Chair & Discussant : Dr. Anirban Das
Session Break (45 mins): 4.15 pm - 5 pm
Panel 6 : Sanglap: critical dialogues on the idea of Humanities
5 pm: Special presentation by the Founding Editors of Sanglap: Journal of Literary
and Cultural Inquiry (international peer-reviewed journal, included in UGC-Care List,
indexed by ERIHPLUS,MLA, DOAJ, ProQuest,Worldcat Directories Library of Congress,
British Library, NationalLibrary of Scotland, among others)
5.40 pm -7 pm : Paper Presentations Panels (Parallel Sessions)
7pm : Vote of Thanks and Conclusion (30 mins)
Contact : aukenglish@gmail.com