Young Researchers Conference on PANORAMA OF/AND THE PANDEMIC: LITERARY AND CULTURAL RESPONSES

Organizer: Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

About the Conference

  • When: 17-18 DECEMBER 2022
  • Virtual Platform: Zoom

Zoom Meeting Link: Join Here

Meeting ID: 844 5386 2374 – Passcode: pandemic

Session Details

SESSION 1: 11:00 – 12:20 INAUGURAL KEYNOTE SESSION

11:00 – 11:10 – Introduction to the Conference, Ruchi Nagpal, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
11:10 -11:15 – Welcome Address, Prof. Simi Malhotra, Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
11:15 – 12:15 – Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

“How to Create a “Panoramic Anthropology” Instead of an Anthropomorphic one – An Exercise in the Historical Intelligence of a Pandemic Situation”
(45 + 15 mins. Q/A)
Chair: Prof. Simi Malhotra and Steven S George, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Moderator: Aditi Das Khan, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Ruchi Nagpal, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
12:15 – 12:20 – Vote of Thanks: Sananda Roy, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
12:20 – 12: 30 – TEA BREAK

SESSION 2: 12:30 – 2:15 PUNCTUATING THE PANDEMIC: LITERATURE AND CONFINEMENT

Vikram K Pancham, Ph.D. Scholar, African Studies Centre, University of Leiden and Centre for African Studies, University of Edinburgh

“Panoramas of Memory, like screams that died in their throat, floating up to an unmadeworld: An Epistemology of the Pandemic/closet/prison from South African shimmerings on the water”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Kritika Nautiyal, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

“Snapshots of Memory: A study of Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee’s The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture During Lockdown”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Indrani Dasgupta, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

“‘Performance’ of Survival in the Post-apocalyptic world: Examining Art and Academia in Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Soumava Maiti, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, University of Delhi

“Globalisation, Pandemic and Plague-Poetics: Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Albert Camus’s The Plague”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Chair: Grace Mariam Raju, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

Rapporteur: Arisha Habib, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

2:15 – 3:30 LUNCH BREAK

SESSION 3: 3:30 – 5:15 PANDEMIC PANORAMAS: ART IN THE TIME OF CONTAGION

Armeen Kaur, M.Phil., Department of English, University of Delhi

“The Cyber in the Pandemic Art”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Nevin Dalvin, Ph.D. Scholar, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University

“Transitions During the Pandemic: NFTs & Digital Art”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Sreerupa Bhattacharya, Ph.D. Scholar, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

““Shared Solitude”: Family Portraits in the Age of Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Saheli Biswas, Ph.D. Scholar, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

“Burning Hope: Caste and Pandemic in Nagraj Manjule’s Vaikunth”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Chair: Kashish Dua, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Monib Ahmed, Ph. D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

5:15 – 5:30–TEA BREAK

SESSION 4: 5:30 – 7:15 PERFORMING THE PANDEMIC: FROM THE AUDIO-VISUAL TO THE PEDAGOGIC

Vasundhara Gautam, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

“Lived through Covid 19 Pandemic: Understanding lived experience through Haryanvi folk songs”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Krishna Priya, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Science, National Institute of Technology, Telangana

“Viral Times: Microcuentos and the Digital Narrations in Latin America During Covid-19 Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A

“Unmasking the features of the Pandemic through Malayalam Cinema: A Study on Sanu John Varghese’s Aarkariyam and Dileesh Pothan’s Joji”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

G. Thiyagaraj, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee

“Immunity Against Fear: Cinematic Prophylaxis in and through the film Virus(2019)”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Aishwarya Kumar, Ph.D. Scholar, School of Letters, Ambedkar University, Delhi

“Acknowledging Loss: Some Reflections on the Experiences of Unconscionable Loss(es) in the Classroom”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Chair: Indrani Dasgupta, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Pakhi Jain, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

7:15 – 7:30 TEA BREAK

SESSION 5: KEYNOTE SESSION: 7:30- 8:30

Dr. Justin Weinberg, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, Columbia

“Ethics of Distinction”

Chair: Prof. Simi Malhotra and Ruchi Nagpal, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Moderator: Jubi C John, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Asmita Pandey, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

Day 2, 18 DECEMBER, 2022

SESSION 6: 11:00 – 1:00 PHILOSOPHIZING THE PANDEMIC: AFFECT, CRITIQUE AND LANGUAGE


Sayan Parial, M.A. English, University of Gour Banga, West Bengal

““My Race is not My Virus”: Affective Racial Algorithms during Covid 19 Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Rimpa Mondal, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University

“Doctors versus Admins: Covid Warriors in Various Screen Shapes and Coat Colours”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Ainee Basir, M.Phil. Scholar, Department of English, University of Delhi

“Banning TikTok during the Pandemic: Spatial, Temporal and Imaginative Limits of the Indian Public”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Himanshu Balhara, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, University of Delhi

“Last Word: The Linguistic Response to Epidemics”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Chair: Faizan Moquim, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Tarika, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

1:00 – 1:30 TEA BREAK
SESSION 7: 1:30 – 3:30 PICTURING THE PANDEMIC: GRAPHICS, GAMES AND MEMES

Rashmi Sharma, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University

“Thy will be Done: Examining the Metaphysics of the Graphic Renditions of Pandemics”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Gaurav Kumar, Assistant Professor of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi

“Deathly Games: Playing in the Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Smriti Handoo, Ph.D. Scholar, Centre for Spanish and Latin American Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia

Meenakshi Yadav, Ph.D. Scholar, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

“When Virus met the Viral: Internet Memes in India and the Covid-19 Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Chair: Sudipta Agarwal, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Arghya Dey, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

3:30 – 5:15 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION 8: 5:15-7:15 PERSONALISING THE PANDEMIC: ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE SELF AND THE OTHER

Steven S. George, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

“Digital theatre: The Personal is Political”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Zeba Munib, Ph.D. Scholar, Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minority Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia

“Examining the Space of Mourning in COVID19- An Auto Ethnographic Study”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Shadab Anis, Ph.D. Scholar, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, Delhi

“Life and Death: A Narrative of Mourning and Struggle for Justice in Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Devika Sharma, Ph.D. Scholar, Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minority Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia

“An Impressionist Tale: A Day of Fieldwork in the Pandemic”
(20+5 mins. Q/A)

Chair: Suman Bhaghchandani, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Zainab Abrar, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

7:15 – 7:30 TEA BREAK
SESSION 9: VALEDICTORY KEYNOTE SESSION: 7:30-8:30

Prof James S. Baumlin, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, Missouri State University, Springfield

“Teaching Pandemic/s: What We Have Yet to Learn (Or Are Unwilling to Admit)”

Chair: Prof. Simi Malhotra and Sananda Roy, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Moderator: Ann Susan Aleyas, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Rapporteur: Somya Charan Pahadi, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Vote of Thanks: Steven S George, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

Zoom Meeting Link: Join Here

Meeting ID: 844 5386 2374 – Passcode: pandemic

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Prof. Simi Malhotra, Head, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Ruchi Nagpal, Ph. D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Steven S George, Ph. D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia
Sananda Roy, Ph. D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia

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