Annual International Conference

The Department conducts a theme course each year for MA and MPhil students. As a part of this course, an international conference is held in March. The conference, which has become a regular feature since 1996, takes place over three days and draws a large international participation. Conferences held so far:

• Contemporary European Images of India (1996)
  
• The Nation and Myth (1997)
  
• Literature and Exile (1997)
  
• The Romantic Response to Modernity (1999)
  
• Fin-de-Siècle: The Twentieth Century in Retrospect (2000)
  
• Literature and Anthropology (2001)
• Culture and Globalisation (2002)
• Literature and Industry: From the Printed Text to the Hypertext (2003)
  
• The Writer’s Craft: From World Wars to Gulf Wars (2004)
  
• Fact and Fiction. Autobiography after the Death of the Author (2005)
  
• Rites of Passage: Exploring changes in the travel motif (2006)
  
• The Contentious Question of Culture(s) in Contemporary Societies (2007)
• Empire and Rebellion: postcolonial perspectives (2008)
• Imagined Horizons: Spatial Configurations of the Present (2009)
• Improbable plots? Making sense of contemporary popular fiction (2010)
  

An annual student seminar is also organized at the end of the academic year, in which MA and MPhil students make presentations on the theme.

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