Crossing the Boundaries of Genre and Challenging Form in Dalit Literature
An International symposium at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, France
17-18 October 2014
under the aegis of the research centre EMMA
and the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University
funded by the UK Arts & Humanities Research Council
convened by Judith MISRAHI-BARAK and Nicole THIARA
Salle des Colloques n° 1
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier - Centre St Charles
Friday, 17 October 2014
8:30 - 9:15
REGISTRATION
9:15 - 9:30
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE BY PR CHRISTINE REYNIER, DIRECTOR OF EMMA RESEARCH CENTRE
9:30 – 10:15
PANEL 1: ‘BODIES OF CASTE’
CHAIR: Laetitia ZECCHINI (CNRS/THALIM/ARIAS, Paris)
Nicolas JAOUL (CNRS/IRIS, Paris)
Embodying Dalit Radicality: Rebels and Victims on Stage
10:15 – 10: 45 TEA AND COFFEE
10:45 – 12:15 PANEL 2: ‘BODIES OF CASTE’ (2)
CHAIR: Lissa LINCOLN (American University of Paris)
Manohar REDDY (EFL University, Hyderabad)
Caste on Campus: Literary Associations and Dalit Student Politics in a South Indian University
Jondhale Rahul HIRAMAN (EFL University, Hyderabad)
The Representation of Dalit Conversion to Buddhism in Marathi Dalit Literature: A Critical Reading
12:15 – 13:00
PANEL 3: ‘DESTITUTE LITERATURE’?
CHAIR: Anupama RAO (Columbia University, New York)
Aniket JAAWARE (Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Dalit Literature: Consumption, Destitution and Further
13:00 – 14:00
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
PANEL 3: FILMING CASTE, ANALYSING FILM
CHAIR: Nicolas JAOUL (CNRS/IRIS, Paris)
Joshil ABRAHAM (G B Pant Engineering College, IP University)
Reading Kerala Modernity through Caste and/in Cinema: Analysing Vigathakumaran and Papilio
Buddha
B. RAVICHANDRAN (Dalit Camera)
Internet Video Archives and Contemporary Dalit Politics: A study on Dalit Camera
15:30 – 16:00
TEA AND COFFEE
16:00 – 17:00 A WRITER’S READING
Aniket JAAWARE in conversation with Nicole THIARA and Judith MISRAHI-BARAK
20:00
CONFERENCE DINNER AT LA BRASSERIE DU THÉÂTRE (off the Place de la Comédie)
Saturday, 18 October 2014
9:30 – 11:00
Panel 4: Interrogating the Boundaries of Literary Genre (1)
CHAIR: Nicole THIARA (Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Nottingham Trent University)
Shivani KAPOOR (JNU, Delhi)
How to Smell an Autobiography – A Sensory Examination of Hindi Dalit Autobiographical Writing
Santosh DASH (Arts and Commerce College, Savli, Baroda)
Stories of Sex and Bodies of Caste: Towards a Reading of Gujarati Dalit Short Stories
11:00– 11: 30
TEA AND COFFEE
11:30 – 13:00
PANEL 4: Interrogating the Boundaries of Literary Genre (2)
CHAIR: Judith MISRAHI-BARAK (EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier)
Dolores HERRERO (University of Zaragoza)
Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess: A Postmodern Novel with a Fearsome Political Agenda
Raj Kumar HANS (MS University, Baroda)
Encounters with Issues from Local to Global in Dalit Creativity: While Reading Des Raj Kali’s
Hypertext Novel Shanti Parav
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:30
PANEL 5: TEXT AND IMAGE
CHAIR: Joshil ABRAHAM (IP University, Delhi)
Deeptha ACHAR (Department of English, Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda)
Notes on Reading Dalit Art
Devika MEHRA (Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi)
From Gulamgiri to A Gardener in the Wasteland: A Study of Appropriating and Reworking Dalit
Literature in Twenty-first Century
15:30 – 16:15
PANEL 6: CREATING A NEW SPACE FOR DALIT WRITING
CHAIR: Aniket JAAWARE (Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Anupama RAO (Columbia University, New York)
The Literature of Emancipation
16:15 – 17:00
WORKING WITH THE NETWORK AND LOOKING FORWARD
TEA AND COFFEE