Details of Registration Organizing Committee

All the participants and paper presenters will PATRON: SRI JAYANTA MOULIK, PRESIDENT, have to register themselves by paying a GOVERNING BODY Registration Fee of Rs. 200/- only. The CHAIRPERSON: DR P.K. MISHRA, PRINCIPAL CONVENER: DR ARNAB BAUL, DEPT. OF ENGLISH registration fee should be transferred online JT.CONVENER: PROF. SUTAPA SAHA, HOD, DEPT. OF (Net Banking, Debit/Credit Transfer, UPI ENGLISH payment etc.). Members Details of the bank account NIMU RAI, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH ICSSR SPONSORED Name of the account holder: DR SANCHITA DAS, DEPT. OF ENGLISH ‘SSM Seminar Account’ PUJA MAHAJAN, DEPT. OF ENGLISH NATIONAL WEBINAR ON Name of the Bank: Union Bank of ISHWAR CHANDRA DARNAL, DEPT. OF ENGLISH Name of the branch: Deshbandhupara branch DR SUPHAL BISWAS, CONVENER, ESTABLISHMENT CELL SOCIETY, DISASTER AND Account Number: 502102011114024 DR SANTANU DAS, LIBRARIAN IFSC : UBIN0550213 SOURAV BARMAN, DEPT. OF COMPUTER SCIENCE RESILIENCE: LESSONS FROM Last date of Registration: 02.02.2021 LITERATURE Payment Details must be filled in the Experts of Academic Excellence Registration Form. 8th February, 2021 Inaugurator: Dr Jaydeep Sarangi, Principal, New Alipore College, Kolkata REGISTRATION AND YOUTUBE LINKS Keynote Speaker: Prof (Dr) Abhijit Sen, Professor of English, Department of English & Click here for OMEL, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan

Registration Resource Person: Prof (Dr) Debarshi Prasad Nath, Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Organised By School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam Department of English

Click here for Inaugural Session Resource Person: Dr Binayak Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of English SILIGURI University of North Bengal, Siliguri Click here for technical Sessions Invited Speakers & Session Chair Meeting Platform: Cisco Webex 1.Dr Amitabh Roy Meeting ID will be shared with the Registered Vice Principal & Associate Professor in English SPONSORED BY participants only. Join the webinar WhatsApp Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalaya, ICSSR (Indian Council of group separately with the link provided after Alipurduar submission of Registration Form. Social Science Research) – 2.Dr Joydeep Bhattacharyya, E - Certificates will be provided to all the Eastern Regional Centre, Associate Professor of English, College, participants only after submission of feedback Kolkata form at the end of the Webinar. Kurseong Contextualization Call for Paper PROGRAM SCHEDULE 8th February 2021, Monday from 10.30 am to 5.00 pm Great literary narratives have a transformative We invite Papers with original analysis and potential; it challenges the way we think. While argument from scholars of all disciplines, 10:30 am – 12:45 pm: Inaugural Session it draws our attention to diverse socio-political having relevance to the following sub-themes: Compere: Puja Mahajan and cultural issues, by using various 10:30 am - 10:35 am: Introduction: Dr Arnab Baul, Convener interpretative tools, a literary text can be used Literature of epidemic/pandemic and 10.35 am - 10:40 am: Welcome Address: Dr P.K. Mishra, Principal, SSM in triggering a positive response. The literature resilience of disaster and ruin is wide and deep. Authors 10:40 am - 10.45 am: Inaugural Comments: Prof. Sutapa Saha, Deprivation, threat & the narratives of Jt. Convener & HOD, Dept of English find hope in times of great upheaval by resistance & survival suggesting that chaos, in addition to its ill 10:50 am - 11:00 am: Inauguration: Dr Jaydeep Sarangi, Theme of self-regulation and adaptiveness effects, offers many opportunities for Principal, New Alipore College, Kolkata in literature transformation. Over the centuries they have 11:05 am – 11:35 am: Key Note Speech by Dr Abhijit Sen, Theorizing disaster & resilience charted the factors that contribute to making a Professor, Department of English & Other Modern European community resilient to cataclysmic events. From of resilience Languages, Visva Bharati Resilience in life writing 11:40 am – 12:10 noon: Invited Lecture by the Resource Person Homer’s account of sea disasters in ‘Odyssey’ to Dr Debarshi Prasad Nath, Professor, Department of Cultural Robin Cook's medical thriller novel ‘Pandemic’ Resilience and the Literature of Studies, Tezpur University (2018), literary creations are not only graphic Environmental Disaster 12:15 am –12:45 pm: Invited Lecture by Dr Binayak Roy, Holocaust/terrorism/other catastrophes Assistant Professor, Department of English, North Bengal accounts of human confrontation with dread University but also are narratives of survival, optimism and resilience and love. In an age of great calamities when Resilience in the literature of post- LUNCH BREAK: 12:45 pm – 1:30 pm anthropogenic and other disasters take a heavy apocalyptic world order toll on humanity, this web-seminar wants to Resilience and post-human literature TECHNICAL SESSION: explore literary motifs across genre, which Resilience and zombie apocalypse 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Technical Session: 1 highlight human tryst with disasters, both real Extinction-studies and survival strategies Invited Speech & Session Chair: Dr Amitabh Roy and imagined - narratives that chronicle the Compere: Ishwar Ch Darnal Paper Presentation & discussion surge in community spirit and help us to Please note that the sub-themes listed above reiterate our faith on civilizational ethos. are merely indicative and not exhaustive 3:05 pm – 4:35 pm Technical Session: 2 Invited Speech and Session Chair: Dr Joydeep Bhattacharyya, Compere: Ishwar Ch Darnal Paper Presentation & discussion ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Abstracts in not more than 200 words may be mailed to Valedictory Address: 4:40 pm –4:50 pm by Prof Sutapa Saha [email protected] on or before Vote of Thanks: 4:50 pm to 5:00 pm by Dr Sanchita Das 11th January 2021. Please place ‘The 2021 SSM-ICSSR Conference’, in the email's subject line. Acceptance shall Contact persons: be conveyed by 13th January 2021 Dr Arnab Baul, Convener, Mob: 6295081848, E mail: Last date for submission of abstract [email protected] FULL PAPER SUBMISSION: 11/01/2021 Prof. Sutapa Saha, Jt.Convener, Mob: 9832073161, E Mail: Upon acceptance of abstracts, full papers must be [email protected] Abstract Acceptance Report submitted by 2nd February 2021 13/01/2021 Last date for submission of full paper PUBLICATION: 02/02/2021 A PDF Abstract book before the webinar. Last date for Registration Selected papers will be considered for publication for an 02/02/2021 edited volume with ISBN after due referring process.