Conferences Workshops

[Upcoming] 2025, January 20-24, Winter School, Lest we forget: Entanglements of History and Memory, [Call for the Winter School]

[Upcoming] 2025, February 21-22, Annual International Conference: When Subaltern speaks…: Interrogating Marginalities [Call for Paper]

2024, March 14-16, International Conference: Bodies that matter: Deconstructing Corporeality [Call for Paper, Programme]

2023, March 2-4, International Conference: Islands in Literature, Literary Islands, Island Literature, (Online Mode) [Call for Paper, Brochure]

2022, March 10-12, International Conference: Conflict and Literature - Narratives of Struggle [Call for Paper, Programme, Abstracts, Photos]

2021, March 18-20, International Conference: No place to go? Perspectives on displacement, belonging and non-belonging [Call for Paper, Brochure, Programme]

2020, March 5-7, International Conference: Unravelling lives: Literary encounters and life-writing [Call for Paper, Programme]

2019, March 7-9, International Conference: Of Remembering and Forgetting: Perspectives on History and Memory [Programme, Brochure, Call for Paper]

2018, March 8-10, International Conference: Imaginary Homelands [Programme, Call for Paper]

2018, January 29-February 02, Second Interdisciplinary Research Scholars Conference: Which Way Home? – Imagining Homelands

2017, December 04-09, Winter School - Minor Cosmopolitanisms Delhi

2017, October 23-28, Workshop on Translation and Didactics

2017, March 2-3, International Conference: New Experiments in Contemporary Literature [Programme, Call for Paper]

2016, November 10-12, International Conference on India/Latin America: Emerging Epistemological Options & Inter/Cross/Transcultural Dialogues A Sur/South Conference

2016, March 3-5, International Conference: “Borders”: Metaphorical and Physical [Programme, Call for Paper]

2016, January 11-15, First Interdisciplinary Research Scholar Conference: Exploring Borders and Boundaries in Fact and Fiction

2015, March 12-14, International Conference: Crime and Literature [Programme, Call for Paper]

2014, March 6-8, Annual International Conference: India in Other Literatures [Call for Paper, For details click here]

2013, March 21-23, International Conference: “City City Bang Bang”: Contemporary Literary and Cultural Representations of the City [Programme, For details click here]

2012, March 1-3, Annual International Conference: Laugh so you don't Cry!: Contemporary Encounters of the Tragic and the Comic [Programme, Call for Paper]

2011, March 3-5, Annual International Conference: Figuring the Past: The Literary and Historical Imagination [For details click here]

2010, March 4-6, Annual International Conference: Improbable Plot?: Making Sense of Contemporary Popular Fiction [Programme, Call for Paper]

2009, March 5-6, Annual International Conference: Imagined Horizons: Spatial Configurations of the Present [Programme, Call for Paper]

2008, March 7-8, Annual International Conference: Empire and Rebellion: Postcolonial Perspectives [Programme, Call for Paper]

2007, March 1-3, Annual International Conference: The Continuous Question of Culture(s) in Contemporary Society [Programme, Call for Paper]

2006, March 3-4, Annual International Conference: Rites of Passage: Exploring changes in the Travel Motif [Programme, Call for Paper]

2005, March 10-12, Annual International Conference: Fact and Fiction: Autobiography after the Death of the Author [Programme, Call for Paper]

2004, February 26-28, Annual International Conference: The Writer's Craft: From World Wars to Gulf Wars [Programme, Call for Paper]

2003, February 27-March 1, Annual International Conference: Literature and Industry: From the Printed Text to Hypertext [Programme, Call for Paper]

2002, February 26-28, Annual International Conference: Culture and Globalisation [Programme, Call for Paper]

2001, March 7-9, Annual International Conference: Literature and Anthropology [Programme, Call for Paper]

International Colloquium

2013, November 7-9, Theme: Postcolonial Francophonies: Texts, Contexts, For details click here
2013, Novembre 7-9, Les Francophonies postcoloniales : textes, contextes, Poster, Conference Center - Committee Room 1
Programme details click here

Conference: European Responses to the 1857 Rebellion (2007)


Workshops

Workshop on Translation and Didactics: Concept, Programme


Visiting Fellows / Invited Lectures



Annual International Conference

The Department conducts a theme course each year for MA 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. The list of themes since the inception of the conference are available on the Department.

Research Colloquium & Students' Seminar

Students of the Research Programme (MPhil and PhD) are required to present the findings and status of their research in a Research Colloquium held in December each year.

Department conducts a theme course each year for MA and MPhil students. As a part of this course, a 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 internamtional participation. The list of themes since the inception of the conference are available on the Department

Previous Conferences

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Conference
European Responses to the 1857 Rebellion, October 2007

A special conference was organized in October 2007 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1857 Rebellion in India. The conference was part of an ongoing research project focusing on responses to the Rebellion in the non-English-speaking European world.
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Workshop

Foreign Language Education, November 2007

The workshop was organized in two parts. The first part over two days was a learning programme for teachers of Spanish. The second part over another two days was on the communicative approach and task based learning and aimed at teachers of various foreign languages. It focused on issues such as cognitive theories of learning, factors that determine task difficulty, principles of communicative methodology and their implementation in the classroom. The workshop was held as part of the project on Foreign Language Education.Read more ...