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