From: srath-AT-pilot.lsus.edu
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:43:34 -0600
Subject: Call for papers


The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India)
Seminar on
INTERDISCIPLINARY CROSSINGS: THE QUESTION OF MODERNITY
1-3 January 1999

The seminar will focus on assessment of what constituted modernity, how 
it became a ubiquitous phenomenon in the West, and how it influenced 
those who came under its direct or indirect impact. It will examine 
modernity not only as a literary phenomenon, although the impact of 
modernism in literature has been profound, but as a cultural mission 
impinging on several disciplinary foundations and locations.

Some suggested topics:  state of English studies and the formation of 
the canon (especially in India); questions of nation; the role of the 
university at the present time and its future direction; the implosion 
of theory in discursive formations; the rise of cultural studies as an 
offshoot of interdisciplinarity.

There will be formal presentations in the morning, followed by 
discussion.  The afternoon sessions will be  devoted to panel 
discussion, in which specific themes will be examined informally.

Registration: Rs. 400/- ($20).  Local hospitality will be provided.

Contact person: Dr. Sudha P. Pandya
                Department of English
                The M. S. University, Baroda  INDIA 390 002
                Ph: 265-791971 or 265-331087



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