Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now
North South University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
International Conference in English Studies
Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now
November 4-5, 2022
Organized by the Department of English and Modern Languages
~“You may make a rupture, draw a line of flight, yet there is still a danger that you will reencounter organizations that restratify everything, formations that restore power to a signifier, attributions that reconstitute a subject . . .” (Deleuze & Guattari, 9)
Join us for “Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now,” Department of English and Modern Languages, North South University’s 2022 international conference. Conceptualized with the intention to reevaluate the constructs of thought, relationality, and power within the field of English studies, this year’s conference welcomes papers, panels, posters, and creative works from scholars and students that explore the many ways in which the dispersed branches of English studies assemble, enliven, and interact in our academia. Galvanized originally by the Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s idea of rhizomatic multiplicity, this year’s conference confronts the following: can our academic inquiries—in the fields of language, literature, and TESOL—hold within themselves the potentiality to simultaneously create alliances and stage caesuras? In other words, what are some of the consequences of the coexistence of ruptures and resilience within our scholarly and academic activities? In the wake of increasingly complex, emerging troubles of our current moment—a global pandemic, war, the revitalization of issues pertaining to class, nation, race, and faith—how can our critical thinking make room for multiplicities? From newer, non-anthropomorphized investigations into the agency of the non-human other to renegotiations with(in) the canon which push against Euro-western practices of reason and rationality, how does thought in the field of English studies take shape, make action, build coalitions? How can we merge the call to destabilize with an urge to rebuild?
It is to this end we encourage scholars and students from various fields to submit proposals, papers, posters, and creative works that are in dialogue with this year’s theme. Please note that online presentations are welcome and selected papers will be published.
Avenues of inquiry may include, but are not limited to:
American literature and its borders
Homeland, migration, deportation
Animal studies
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and education
Biopower and biopolitics
Technology in TESOL
Canonical literature in a globalized world
Language policy and planning
Colonial and postcolonial studies
Translation studies
Critical disability studies
Publishing
Cultural studies and historical approaches
Consumer culture and resistance
Digital humanism
Film, television, social media
Inclusive education
World Englishes
Ecocriticism, environment, literature
Performance and performative art
Ecolinguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics
Narrative ideas, author identity, censorship, self-censorship
English language pedagogy
Archival research
Applied linguistics
Bilingualism
Ethnicity and national identity
Critical race theory
Core linguistics
Decolonizing pedagogy
Submission Details:
300-word abstract for papers addressing any aspect of this year’s theme “Rupture and Resilience: English Studies in the Now”
Email to: conference.deml@northsouth.edu
Submission Deadline: August 20, 2022
Registration fee: International participants: $100
Local participants: BDT 3,000
Students: BDT 2,000/$75