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SUMMARY:Call for Abstracts for Research Conference on Philanthropy and Giving in India
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy (CSIP) at Ashoka University invites interested researchers and practitioners to submit abstracts for contribution to the ‘Research Conference on Philanthropy and Giving in India’ to be held on 28-29 April 2022. This will be an online conference.  \nCSIP is India’s first academic centre focused on enabling strategic and robust philanthropy for greater social impact. It informs sector strategy through credible research and data\, convenes platforms for norm-setting and collaborative learning\, and offers programmes that strengthen civil society capability and sustainability. CSIP undertakes a number of research studies focused on critical topics in social impact and philanthropy with emphasis on applied research.  \nThe conference will be hosted by CSIP for researchers and practitioners in the philanthropic and social impact ecosystem. We invite abstracts exploring different forms of giving. The conference will serve as an avenue to inform as well as re-shape discourses as we try to build a more resilient post-pandemic third sector. \nAbstracts for theoretical as well as empirical papers on the following sub-themes are welcome for submission to the conference.  \nThemes \n\nPhilanthropic response to COVID-19\nNew and emerging forms of giving \nCommunity based giving \n\nInstructions for Abstract Submission \nAbstracts should be submitted directly to the research team at CSIP at research@csip.ashoka.edu.in with the subject line ‘Research Conference on Philanthropy and Giving in India’. Abstracts sent for review must be in English. Please submit a brief biography and a 500 word abstract with a working title\, clear statement of the research problem\, concise methodology used\, an outline of the primary arguments and statement of conclusion/s by 13 March\, 2022 5:00 PM. The decision regarding the selection of the abstract for the conference will be communicated via email by April 1\, 2022.
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SUMMARY:On Not Mentioning the Modern
DESCRIPTION:  \nPresented by the Centre for Creative and the Critical\, Ashoka University and literaryactivism.com\, in partnership with The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH) and the India International Centre\, Delhi. \nAs the mission statement says\, one must wonder ‘why modernity\, the modern\, and modernism – terms that are by no means interchangeable\, but which are related to each other – have largely vanished\, in India\, from critical discourse and the quest for self-knowledge. There’s not only a deep hostility to\, and nervousness about\, the modern; it has\, in a sense\, slipped out of language.’ This is true not only of India\, but of other countries and contexts. They symposium hopes to generate a conversation about modernity and its elision. \nIt is open to all. \nLink to join - 25th February  Link to join - 26th February \n\n\n\n\n25th February  \nOpening remarks – 4.45-5 pm Indian Standard Time \nPartha Mitter: ‘Swimming in the Waters of Modernity’ – 5.00-5.50pm \nKaiser Haq: ‘The Perpetual Catwalk of Modernity’ – 5.50-6.40 pm \nYi-Ping Ong: ‘Fictions of Modernity: An Immigrant Reads Joyce and Akutagawa’ – 6.45-7.35 pm \nLaetitia Zecchini: ”Listening to Indian Poets: Explorations into Modernism as Struggle’ – 7.35-8.25 pm \nRobert O’Meally: ‘Unforgivable Jack Johnson: The Black Heavyweight’s Juneteenth’ – 8.30-9.20 pm \n26th February  \nHaun Saussy: ‘Modernist House-Cleaning’ – 10.30-11.20 am Indian Standard Time\n \nMarjorie Perloff:  ‘Modernism after Postmodernism’ – 11.20 am-12.10 pm \nJatindra Kumar Nayak: ‘Negotiating Modernity: The Emergence of the Essay in Odia Literature’ – 12.15-1.05 pm \nAmit Chaudhuri: ‘Freedom and Invisibility: Literary Modernity in India’ – 1.05-1.55 pm \nClosing remarks – 1.55-2.15 pm \n\nSPEAKERS \nKaiser Haq is Professor of English at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh. He is interested in writing poetry and non-fiction\, and in literary translation. His books include Published in the Streets of Dhaka: Collected Poems and The Triumph of the Snake Goddess. \nPartha Mitter is an author and art historian. He is Professor Emeritus at Sussex University. His books include Much Maligned Monsters: History of European Reactions to Indian Art (1977\, 1992\, 2013) and The Triumph of Modernism: India’s Artists and the Avant-Garde 1922-1947(2007). He was awarded an honorary D Litt from the Courtauld Institute\, London \nJatindra Kumar Nayak retired as Professor of English\, Utkal University\, Odisha in 2016. He won the Hutch- Crossword Book Award in 2004. He has coedited Critical Discourse in Odia\, which was published by Routledge in 2021. \nRobert G. O’Meally is the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English at Columbia University\, where he has served on the faculty for thirty years. Director of Columbia’s Center for Jazz Studies\, O’Meally is the author of The Craft of Ralph Ellison\, Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday\, The Jazz Singers\, and Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey. \nYi-Ping Ong is Associate Professor of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Art of Being: Poetics of the Novel and Existentialist Philosophy (Harvard University Press\, 2018). Her work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy and literature has appeared in PMLA\, Philosophy and Literature\, Twentieth-Century Literature\, Comparative Literature\, nonsite\, and Post45. \nMarjorie Perloff is the Sadie D. Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is the author of many books on 20th and 21st century Poetry and Poetics.  Her most recent book is Infrathin:An Experiment in Micropoetics (2021)\,and her edition/ translation of Wittgenstein’s Private Notebooks 1914-1916 is due out in April 2022. \nHaun Saussy is University Professor at the University of Chicago\, teaching in the department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations and in the Committee on Social Thought. His work attempts to bring the lessons of classical and modern rhetoric to bear on several periods\, languages\, disciplines and cultures. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow\, a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin\, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. \nLaetitia Zecchini is a research fellow at the CNRS in Paris\, and visiting scholar at the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University. She writes on contemporary Indian literature\, especially poetry\, postcolonial modernisms and the politics of literature. \nAmit Chaudhuri is a writer and musician. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and the Critical\, Ashoka University. He is editor of literaryactivism.com and conceptualises and curates the ‘literary activism’ symposia.
URL:https://www.ashoka.edu.in/event/on-not-mentioning-the-modern/
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