PUBLIC TALK
WORLD LITERATURE AND
MINORITY CULTURES:
Perspectives from India
Thursday, October 1, 12:30 pm
.
Thompson Center
Room 207 A
Winston-Salem State University
Presenter
Dr. Mohamad Asaduddin
Professor of English, Dean of Humanities and Languages
Sponsored by: the Office of International Programs, the National endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Initiative:
Jamia
Millia
Islamia,
India
Integrating
India into
the Liberal
Arts," New
and theDelhi,
Department
of English
For more information, call the Office of International Programs, WSSU, 336-750-3345
Scholar to Speak at WSSU on World Literature and Minority Cultures
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Dr. Mohamad Asaduddin, professor of English, Dean of Humanities
and Languages, and Hony Director of Academics at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University in New
Delhi, India, will deliver a lecture on “World Literature and Minority Cultures: Perspectives from
India” on Thursday, October 1, at 12:30 p.m. at Winston-Salem State University in Room 207A
Thompson Center on campus.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will engage with the current discourses on world
literature and examine how insights from Indian experiences of multi-lingual literature can
significantly intervene in the way world literature is being conceived, promoted and consumed.
He will explore how as world literature as a discipline moves out of the Euro-American “core” to
the Asian-African-Latin American “peripheries”, world literature, if is is to have a meaning at all,
will have to engage with diversities in local traditions, different forms of multilingualism, ethnicity
and minority perspectives, as well as technologies of print and orality. Discussion will be invited
on implications for including minority and subordinate discourses as legitimate part of world
literature that is truly global, and circulates globally.
Author, critic and translator in several languages, Asadudddin writes on literature, language
politics and translation studies and also serves as the director of the Jamia Centenary Project. He
was Fulbright Scholar- in-Residence at Rutgers University during 2008-2009 and a Charles
Wallace Trust Fellow at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East
Anglia, Norwich, UK, in 2000. He has lectured and led workshops at universities in South Asia,
the United States and the United Kingdom. Among his books are: Filming Fiction: Tagore,
Premchand and Ray, The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories, Lifting the Veil: Selected Writings
of Ismat Chughtai, and Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives in India with Mushirul
Hasan. He is the vice chair of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies. He is a regular speaker at literary festivals on translated literature and translation
studies, and has received numerous prizes for his translation.
During his visit to WSSU from September 30 to October 8, Asaduddin will also participate in a
faculty workshop on Global Engagement through Technology, a conversation on the The
Transformative and Global Role of Minority Serving Institutions in India and the US, visits to
several classes in English, Management and Economics, as well as meetings with students,
faculty, and the administration to develop future collaborations with JMI.
WSSU is developing a partnership with JMI University in connection with the National
Endowment of the Humanities project “Integrating India into the Liberal Arts.” In Spring,
Asaduddin team-teaches a course on “World Literature and Culture” via video conference with
Dr. Rose Sackeyfio, associate professor of English at WSSU, a project made possible by the UNC India Technology Learning Grant.
Jamia Millia Islamia is a minority serving institution founded to serve the interests of India’s
diverse religious groups and other minorities from a secular perspective. As a comprehensive
university, JMI offers courses in arts, the humanities and social sciences, as well as management
and computer science among other fields.
PUBLIC TALK
Women Writing in India:
Negotiating Marginalities
Monday, April 6, at 1:00 p.m.
.
L05 Hill
Hall
Winston-Salem State University
Presenter
Dr. Mohamad Asaduddin
Professor and Chair, Department of English
Sponsored by the Office of International Programs and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Initiative:
Jamia
Millia Islamia,
New
Delhi,
“Integrating
India into the
Liberal
Arts” India
For more information, call the Office of International Programs, WSSU, 336-750-3345
Scholar to Speak at WSSU on Writings by Indian Women
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Dr. Mohamad Asaduddin, professor and chair of the Department
of English, and director of Academic Programs at Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) in New Delhi,
India, will deliver a lecture on “Women Writing in India: Negotiating Marginalities” on
Monday, April 6, at 1 p.m. at Winston-Salem State University in Room L05 of Hill Hall on
campus.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on the emergence of women’s
writings in Indian languages through a long and painstaking struggle with patriarchal
structures and complex negotiations with those structures, as is the cases of other cultures.
Asaduddin will discuss the need for Dalit women or Muslim women to first negotiate with
the oppressive elements of their own communities before any attempt to establish
solidarity with the women of the dominant majority community. This issue will be
considered in the context of the complexities in the lives of women from the minority
communities.
Author, critic and translator in several languages, Asaduddin writes on literature, language
politics and translation studies and also serves as the director of the Jamia Centenary
Project. He was Fulbright Scholar- in-Residence at Rutgers University during 2008-2009 and
a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University
of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, in 2000. He has lectured and led workshops at universities in
South Asia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Among his books are: Filming Fiction:
Tagore, Premchand and Ray, The Penguin Book of Classic Urdu Stories, Lifting the Veil:
Selected Writings of Ismat Chughtai, and Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives
in India with Mushirul Hasan. He is the vice chair of the Indian Association for
Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. He is a regular speaker at literary festivals
on translated literature and translation studies, and has received numerous prizes for his
translation. Asaduddin obtained the B.A. degree from Karimganj College in Assam, and the
M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree in English from Aligarh Muslim University.
WSSU is developing a partnership with JMI University in connection with the National
Endowment of the Humanities project “Integrating India into the Liberal Arts.” This
semester, Asaduddin is team-teaching a course on “World Literature and Culture” via video
conference with Dr. Rose Sackeyfio, associate professor of English at WSSU, a project made
possible by the UNC - India Technology Learning Grant.
Jamia Millia Islamia is a minority serving institution founded to serve the interests of India’s
diverse religious groups and other minorities from a secular perspective. As a
comprehensive university, JMI offers courses in arts, the humanities and social sciences, as
well as management and computer science among other fields.