DAY 1, 28TH DECEMBER, 2016 INAUGURAL SESSION TIME: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM FIRST KEYNOTE BY Prof. ALAN JOHNSON, Idaho State University TEA BREAK TIME: 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM SECOND KEYNOTE TIME: 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM SECOND KEYNOTE BY Prof. BRINDA MEHTA , Mills College, Oakland, CA LUNCH BREAK TIME: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM FIRST PLENARY SESSION TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CHAIR: Prof. PRAFULLA KU. MOHANTY 1. DAYA DISSANAYAKE, AUTHOR, SRILANKA 2. Dr. SOOSHILLA GOPAUL , MAURITIUS 3. Prof. SUKHBIR SINGH, OSMANIA UNIVERSITY Date: 28/12/2016: Technical Session I: Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Title: Folklore, Myth, Ethics, Travel & Tantra Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2 Parallel Session 3 Parallel Session 4 New Conference Hall BKT LIBRARY(ENG DEPT) Eliot House Shakespeare House Chair: Dr. N S R IYENGER Chair: Prof Tim Wenzell Chair: Dr Brinda J Mehta Chair: Dr. Arturo Dávila Name Name of Name of Name of Paper Paper Paper Paper of the the Title of the paper the Title of the paper the Title of the paper Title of the paper no. no. no. no. Present Presenter Presenter Presenter er Natural Supernaturalism and Sunrises and Sunsets at Kanchenjunga: Tribal Eco-theology in Satyajit Ray’s Kanchenjungha : Prof Sabita Achebe’s Ironic Vision of Nature and Akaitab Madhusmita Pati Modern Nation State Vs Environment Dr. Asis De Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s Tourists, Nature and Ecological I.1.A I.2.A Tripathy y Culture in Things Fall Apart I.3.A I.4.A Mukherjee in Desai's Inheritance of Loss". The Mysterious Ailment of Crisis Rupi Baskey Role of Literature in Environmental A Journey from Folksongs to Religion at the Rescue of The Sandip Kumar Awareness- An Ecocritical Study of Dr Tanuja J. M. Coetzee: the Voice of the Moumita Mr Priyaranjan Das National Songs and Anthems: Earth: An Ecological perspective I.1.B Mishra PPT Aranyak (Of the Forest) by Bibhuti I.2.B Kumar Nayak Voiceless I.3.B I.4.B Santra An Ecocritic Reading of Hinduism bhushan Bandyopadhyay “The alive being”:- De- rationalizing “environment” Bonbibi and Cetology: The ETHICAL PRAXIS AND THE Auswyn Winter in AmitavaGhosh”s “The Ms Maitrayee Confluence of the Mythic and the ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF KHASI Zeenat Taher PPT Environmental Justice in Literature Reeswav Chatterjee I.1.C Japang PPT I.2.C I.3.C hungry Tide” and I.4.C Misra Scientific in Amitav Ghosh’s The FOLKLORE BibhutibhusanBannerjee’s Hungry Tide “Aronnyak” TREATMENT OF NATURE IN Conceptualizing Nature as THE FOLK SONGS OFTHE The Harmonious Bond between Nature The Art of Gardening in Two Years, Poonam Nigam Patrycja Austin ‘Feminine Divine’ in Indian Amaresh KANDHA AND THE and Man (A critical enquiry into the role Eight Months and Twenty Eight Dr. Sarannya V Pillai I.1.D Sahay I.2.D PPT I.3.D Literature and the Tantric I.4.D Achary PARENGA PARAJA TRIBAL of our ancient scriptures) Days by Salman Rushdie Associations COMMUNITIES OF KORAPUT DISTRICT 0F ODISHA Date: 28/12/2016: Technical Session II: Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Title: The Eco-critical Praxis Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2 Parallel Session 3 Parallel Session 4 Shakespeare House New Conference Hall Eliot House BKT LIBRARY(ENG DEPT) Chair: Prof Loveleen Chair: Dr Nigamananda Das Chair: Dr Joji J Paniker Chair: Dr Bhagabat Nayak Name Name of Name of Name of Paper Paper Paper Paper of the the Title of the paper the Title of the paper the Title of the paper Title of the paper no. no. no. no. Present Presenter Presenter Presenter er DIRE CONSEQUENCES OF From the Ideal to the Chaotic: Eco-Terrorism: A Study of THE FALL OF AN An Ecofeminist Interpretation of Dr. Sherly M.D. Ramesh K. G Prof Loveleen Cultural/Spiritual Conflicts in Debaraj Swain “The Monkey wrench Gang” ECOSYSTEM: A CRITIQUE ON II.1.A Selected Texts II.2.A PPT II.3.A II.4.A PPT Buddhaland Brooklyn by Edward Albee HELON HABILA’S OIL ON WATER SCATHING DEVELOPMENTALITY & Man, woman and the wild: An Creating a Sense of Place through Environmental Re- Dr. Aleena Dr. P. C. Roy ECOLOGICAL Bibek Adhikary ecocritical reading of Kira Salak’s The Literature: Bioregional Reading of Chandramani Imagination in Margaret II.1.B II.2.B Manoharan PPT II.3.B II.4.B PPT DEGRADATION: A CRITIQUE White Mary Barungin Atwood’s Surfacing ON SARA JOSEPH’S GIFT IN GREEN Ecopoetics of Grazia Delleda: Negotiating Ecocritical Discourse: Nanditha The Angami concept of harmony in Pritha Banerjee Entangled Bodies— The symbiotic Dr Bishnu Dr.Chittaranjan Misra A Study through Reeds in the A Comparative Study of Kalidasa II.1.C Rajaram Shastry Easterine Kire’s When the River Sleeps II.2.C PPT eco-cosmo-vision of Tree Matters II.3.C II.4.C Charan Dash Wind and Shakespeare Veena R. Nair Towards Symbiogenesis: Re- Eco-consciousness in Swear Songs: Eco-centric Dimension in Md Monirul Islam The Dog Talks in “The Flood” and O. Arun Dr. T. Eswar Rao Dr Suranjana Reading Carlos Saldanha’s Rio II.1.D II.2.D A Study of Bharanippattukal II.3.D Thoreau’s Walden II.4.D Kumar PPT Bhadra PPT and Rio 2 CULTURAL PROGRAMME TIME: 5:30 PM DAY- 2, 29/12/2016 THIRD KEYNOTE TIME: 10:00 AM - 10:40 AM THIRD KEYNOTE BY Prof. TIM WENZELL, Virginia Union University TEA BREAK TIME: 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM SECOND PLENARY SESSION TIME: 11:00 AM - 11: 40 AM Chair: Prof. SUKHBIR SINGH 1. PANKAJ SEKHSARIA, AUTHOR, ENVIRONMENT ACTIVIST 2. RISHIKESH SINGH, ASLE Date: 29/12/2016: Technical Session III: Time: 11.45 – 12.45 p.m. Title: Eco-critical Theories and Indian Literature Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2 Parallel Session 3 Parallel Session 4 New Conference Hall Shakespeare House BKT LIBRARY(ENG DEPT) Eliot House Chair: Dr Bishnu Ch Das Chair: Dr Prem Kumari Shrivastava Chair: Dr Asis De Chair: Dr Chittaranjan Mishra Name Name of Name of Name of Paper Paper Paper Paper of the the Title of the paper the Title of the paper the Title of the paper Title of the paper no. no. no. no. Present Presenter Presenter Presenter er Ecological Perspective in The Flora and Fauna in Karnad’s Plays: Dr. Devamitra Dr. Bhagabat Ecoethics: A Philosophical Panacea Oriya Poetry: A Study of Hina Twined Tendrils of Womanhood A Study of Naga Mandala and The Chittaranjan Bhoi III.1.A Chakraborty PPT III.2.A Nayak for Environmental Melancholia III.3.A Radhanath Ray and Nanda III. 4.A Nandrajog and Ecology in Literature Fire and the Rain Kishor Bala ANTHROPOCENTRIC LIMITS IN The praxis of divorce: Power, Harit Sujata Rath & Dr. Eco-Feminism: A journey from ancient Dr.Gagana Bihari ECOLOGICAL control and co-existence of Ratan Thiyam’s Manipur Trilogy : Dr. Vibha S. Chauhan Sambhabana III.1.B NamitaRath PPT days to the modern era III.2.B Purohit CONSIDERATIONS: TOWARDS A III .3.B the ‘human’ and ‘natural’ III. 4.B A Study in Eco-Humanism Khandayatray GREEN ORIENTATION world in literatures in India Rhythm of land in padayani: a Eco- consciousness in the vedic Chinmayee Sahu Eco – Sensitivity Coercion in Meghna Dr.ManasRanjan A Selective Study of Eco- Aesthetic Dr. Preetha Saritha.M PPT study of ecological ethics in age: A reading of III.1.C PPT Pant’s People of the Sun III.2.C Misra Elements in Kalidas’s Poetry III .3.C III.4.C M.M padayani AshwinSanghi’s Krishna Key Old Age and Nature: A Study of Nature and Social Responsibility: Ecotheology and Uttarrāmacarita: A Dr. Joji John Dr. Prabha Prajna the Relationship between Nature Analyzing the Poetics of Study in relation to Concomitance, Dr. Manisha Chhotray Ecofeminism : An Overview III.1.D Panicker PPT III.2.D Shankar Dwivedi III .3.D III.4.D Paramita and Old Age in the Short Stories Environmentalism Correspondence, and Simultaneity of Manoj Das Date: 29/12/2016: Technical Session IV: Time: 12:45 – 01.45 p.m. Title: Eco-critical Studies in Poetry Parallel Session 1 Parallel Session 2 Parallel Session 3 Parallel Session 4 Eliot House New Conference Hall Shakespeare House BKT LIBRARY(ENG DEPT) Chair: Dr Hina Nandrajog Chair: Dr Debapriya Dash Chair: Dr R. Sheela Banu Chair: Pabitra Mohan Bhuyan Name Name of Name of Name of Paper Paper Paper Paper of the the Title of the paper the Title of the paper the Title of the paper Title of the paper no. no. no. no. Present Presenter Presenter Presenter er Re-thinking the Non-human INVOKING A SENSE OF SANKARDEV AND Animal in Select Poems of BELONGINGNESS: A GREEN Culture and Nature in Selected Poems NIGAMANAND PANCHASAKHA VAISHNAVA Lingaraj Patra Samita Mishra KRISHANU MAITI Ted Hughes:An Approach STUDY OF SOME SELECT IV.1.A of Shruti Das: An Ecocritical Study. IV.2.A A DAS PPT POETS OF ODISHA: A STUDY IN IV.3.A IV.4.A PPT from Animal Studies POEMS OF JAYANTA SPIRITUAL ECOLOGY Perspective MAHAPATRA PANTHEISM, ANIMISM AND Poetic Configuration of Eco Nandini In Spirit of the Environment: An PERSONALISM: UNDERSTANDING Locating Environmental Ethics in Dr. Shiba Shankar Consciousness:A Study Dr Sanjib Shrabanee Khatai Choudhury Bora Ecocritical Inquiry of the poetry of IV.1.B DEEP ECOLOGY THROUGH THE IV.2.B Wordsworth’s Poetry: A Select Study IV.3.B Nath through Jayanta Mahapatra’s IV.4.B Kumar Sarma PPT John Keats POETRY OF ROBINSON JEFFERS Poetry Dr. U. D. NATURE AND RELIGION :A Dr.