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International Conference Region/Nation/Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface 31 January – 02 February 2019 Page 1 of 114 BOOK OF ABSTRACTS International Conference Region/Nation/Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface 31 January – 02 February 2019 Department of Humanities and Social Sciences BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus Zuarinagar, Goa, India – 403726 INDIA Page 2 of 114 Table of Contents Conference Theme ...................................................................... 4 Organizing Committee ................................................................ 6 Conference Schedule .................................................................. 7 Plenary Speakers ...................................................................... 21 List of Presenters ...................................................................... 41 Abstracts .................................................................................. 43 BITS Goa Campus Map .......................................................... 108 Names & Contact Numbers of Taxi Operators ......................... 113 Sponsor .................................................................................. 114 Page 3 of 114 Conference Theme This conference traces the various modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, without limiting itself to the age-old domain of adaptation. It tries to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation. These three locations work as contact zones where the literature- cinema interface manifests in various forms. With the emergence of transnationalism and comparative film studies as methods in cinema studies, multiple modes of literature-cinema negotiation are becoming increasingly evident with cinema studies borrowing concepts such as ‘world literature’ and ‘comparative morphology’. In the Indian/South Asian context, these locations are entangled with issues such as the language question, regional nationalisms, the crumbling idea of a federal republic with an increasingly stronger unitary governance, linguistic identity politics as manifested in popular cinemas and literatures, translational politics and the formation/development of certain national centres for the production of various modes of translation, India’s cultural/literary/cinematic negotiations with the trans- nation before and after globalization/economic liberalization etc. With contemporary India as its primary site of inquiry, the conference moves towards inter-continental geopolitical engagements without considering Indian regional/national and literary/cinematic questions in isolation. Apart from thematic and ideological associations with the trans-nation, it involves participants beyond the borders of the Indian nation (from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh), transforming itself into a discursive space where the conceptual apparatus meets with the narratives that inform and shape the former. Narratives from the margins will also significantly feature in the conference, with panels and plenaries on and from the Indian North- East. Moreover, panels will be devoted to Goa and its distinctive history of colonial and postcolonial politico-cultural engagements as manifested in indigenous literature and art. Sub-themes include, but are not limited to, the following: Transnationalism as Method Comparative Cinema Studies and the transnational question South Asia’s Cultural Engagement with the ‘West’ Page 4 of 114 Cultural/Literary/Cinematic Migration within South Asia Idea of India and the Language Question Linguistic Identity Politics in South and North-East India North-East India and the Politics of Translation South Korea’s Cultural Penetration into the Indian North-East Goa’s legacy as an erstwhile Portuguese colony Goa’s engagement with other Portuguese colonies (Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique) Goa as a contact zone of culture Histories of colonial, anti-colonial and postcolonial cultural negotiations in Goa National and Transnational Cultures in South Indian Cinemas Regional Militancy in National (Popular) Cinema Trans-Nation and Indian Modernity Trans-Nation/Translation Subtitling/Fan-Subbing/Dubbing/Remake as Cultural Translation Internet Sharing in the Age of Post-Cinema Formative Years of Film Industries and the Cultural and Literary Translation(s) From Adaptation to Cultural Translation and Beyond State and Non-State Actors in translation Page 5 of 114 Organizing Committee Coordinators Parichay Patra and Amitendu Bhattacharya Head of the Department Reena Cheruvalath Faculty Members Basavadatta Mitra Bidisha Banerjee Geetha Bakilapadavu Hareesh A. G K. A. Geetha Mohan Kumar Bera Nilak Datta Rajiv Kumar Chaturvedi Rayson K. Alex R.P. Pradhan Sayantani Sarkar Shalini Upadhyay Solano Jose Savio Da Silva Research Scholars Ashish Krishna Gokul Sisir Gnana Bharathi Hajara Abdul Hameed Hemant Sharma Neethu Prakashan Neha Yadav Nithya Gopi Priteegandha Naik Sandhya Basu Sebastiao Anthony Rodrigues Sunkara Sairam Sushant Kishore Tanna Shilpa Shirishkumar Thomson C S Office Assistant Vijay M. Lamani Page 6 of 114 Conference Schedule DAY 1: 31 January 2019 (Thursday) REGISTRATION AUDITORIUM FOYER 8.30 AM INAUGURATION AUDITORIUM 9.00 AM Welcome Address and Introduction to the Conference: PARICHAY PATRA, Conference Coordinator Introduction to the Department: REENA CHERUVALATH, Head, Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, BITS Pilani – K.K. Birla Goa Campus Address by the Chief Guest: G. RAGHURAMA, Director, BITS Pilani – K.K. Birla Goa Campus Vote of Thanks: AMITENDU BHATTACHARYA, Conference Coordinator PLENARY ADDRESS 1 AUDITORIUM 9.30 AM Speaker: SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI, Jadavpur University, Kolkata Title: Borderlands: The Margins of Cinema Chair: RAVI S. VASUDEVAN, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi TEA BREAK AUDITORIUM FOYER 10.30 AM SESSION 1A DLT-7 11.00 AM Topic: Global/Transnational in Indian Cinema: Aesthetics and Exhibition Chair: Parichay Patra 1. Veena Hariharan India@Doc-Leipzig 2. Srirupa Chatterjee Beauty Politics and Aesthetic Labour in Post Millennial Indian Cinema 3. Kuntal Bag India through Trans-national Gaze: A Case Study of Slumdog Millionaire in the Context of Global Flow 4. Smriti Avinash The Development of Transnationalist Elements in Indian Cinema Page 7 of 114 SESSION 1B DLT-8 11.00 AM Topic: Narrating Terror: From Regional to Global Chair: Sourit Bhattacharya 1. Mrinalini Sharma The Other Side of History: Terrorism & Human Nature 2. Vivek Sachdeva Narrating Terror Through The Sound Image in Chauthi Koot 3. Vidhi Mehra Regional Militancy in Newton 4. Aashima Jain Transnationalism in Question: Movement from a Local to a Global Condition of Surveillance in Post 9/11 World PLENARY ADDRESS 2 DLT-7 12.15 PM Speaker: RAVI S. VASUDEVAN, CSDS, New Delhi Title: Short Film and Documentary: Archives and Genealogies of Informational Film Use, India c. 1910-1960 Chair: BRINDA BOSE, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi LUNCH DLT LOBBY 1.15 PM SESSION 2A DLT-5 2.00 PM Topic: Look East: Cultural Penetration in the Indian North-East Chair: Dibyakusum Ray 1. Abhirup Sarkar From 'Indianization' to 'Koreanization' : South Korea's Cultural Penetration in North- East India 2. Meshabaker Umdor South Korea’s Cultural Influence on the Syiem North East India 3. Vidisha Mukherjee South Korea’s Cultural Penetration Into The & Indian North East Naila Nasir 4. Hannah Rachel Growing influence of the Hallyu Wave in Abraham North East India SESSION 2B DLT-6 2.00 PM Topic: Cinema and the Politics of Representation Chair: Arka Chattopadhyay Page 8 of 114 1. Jeetumoni Constructing the Bodo National Identity: Basumatary Literature and its Role 2. Nirmala M.N. Linguistic Identity, Regional Cinema and Unionization of South Indian Film Workers 3. Kalplata Jungle Book: The Question of Other 4. Tanushri Banerjee Representation of Transnational Identity of & Gunjan Gupta Second Generation Immigrants in Select Episodes of Master of None SESSION 2C DLT-7 2.00 PM Topic: India and the West: Negotiations through the Cinematic Lens Chair: Anuparna Mukherjee 1. Chinmaya Lal Violence and Non-Violence in Regional Thakur Nationalism: Reading the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army in/and Rang De Basanti 2. Ruth Susan Mathew Globalisation and the Changing Representation of Christian Women Characters in Selected Hindi Films 3. Rani Jana UNIndian Diaspora and Engagement with the West: A Reading of Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham and UNIndian 4. Chaitra Indian Popular Culture and its Engagement Nagammanavar and Confrontation with the West SESSION 2D DLT-8 2.00 PM Topic: Cultural Politics and Identity in the Indian North-East Chair: Amitendu Bhattacharya 1. S. Elika Assumi Locating Identity and Naga Modernity in Films from Nagaland 2. Hemchandra A Re-reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth in the Nameirakpam Context of Vaishnavisation in Manipur 3. Kaushik Thakur Remnants of an Empire: Cinema as Archive in Bhuyan Twentieth Century Colonial and Post Colonial Assam (1900-1990) 4. Simona Sarma Humour and Cinema: A Study of Language & Sukrity Gogoi Politics in Assam Page 9 of 114 5. Gautam Chandra Voices from the Margins: Reflections from Roy Prantabashir Jhuli: Goalparar Lokjeeban O & Juthika Das Gaan PLENARY ADDRESS 3 DLT-7 3.15 PM Speaker: KANCHUKA DHARMASIRI, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Title: The Many Phases of Ravana: Transcreations and Revisionings of Ravana in a Post-Colonial Sri Lankan Context Chair: