International Webinar on NARRATING THE INDIGENOUS

Organizer: Department of English, JYOTI NIVAS
COLLEGE, AUTONOMOUS, Hosur Road, Koramangala Bengaluru – 560095

Abot the Webinar

  • When: 14TH MAY 2022
  • TIME: 9:00 AM (IST)
  • CALL FOR PAPERS
  • Registration Fee Needed
  • Selected papers will be reviewed for publication in Navajyoti journal (http://navajyotijournal.org/)
  • Registration Fee for paper presenters: Rs. 300

Concept Note:

The indigenous communities, long marginalised
and exploited, have in recent years come to the
forefront of socio-political discussions. This
webinar aims to explore the complexity of
Indigenous cultures across the world as well as
the traditional and contemporary expressions
of culture of the Indigenous, the richness of
Indigenous expressions and the very culture of
storytelling itself.

It hopes to generate awareness and discussion
of their recent struggles for recognition,
including the processes of cultural and
linguistic revitalization and how the indigenous
reaffirm their Identity through narratives of
different types – literary, folk, visual and
performative.

Abstracts (200 words) for paper presentations
relating to the following themes are invited
from students, scholars and academics:

  • Strengthening Indigenous Identities
  • Politics of language
  • Forced acculturation of indigenous peoples.
  • Land and Indigenous creation stories
  • Settler-colonial myths about the land
  • Memory and imagination
  • Oral tradition and modernity
  • Transindigeneity
  • Folklore and preservation of Indigenous and
  • minor cultures
  • Mythologizing of Indigenous cultures and landscapes
  • Decolonisation and Neocolonisation
  • Authenticity and appropriation
  • Translating the indigenous narrative

Important Dates

  • Last Date for Submission of abstracts: 22 April 2022
  • Intimation of Acceptance: 30 April 2022
  • Submission of full papers: 10 May 2022

Email abstracts to roopaphilip@jyotinivas.org

Contact roopaphilip@jyotinivas.org
https://jyotinivas.org/jnc-pg/index.php

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