SEMINAR SCHEDULE - The American Comparative Literature Association's 2016 Annual Meeting, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Women of Regalia in Power: A Catalyst

Organizer(s):

Jayshree Singh, Bhupal Nobles Post Graduate College, (Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur)

Stream(s): 

B

The social discourses dealing with gender and women studies in literal sense project gender and class relations, cultural tensions between men and women. The generic characteristics of such class-societies if analysed sociologically also implicate the power to reconstruct the text in its post-independence, post-modern societal phase. The historical background of such sections provide the readers to restructure indivisible duality of social conflicts, societal structuring, barriers and borders in a new dialogic process as regards  historical women in power position, who attempted to play their authority as guardians either to protect the heirs to the throne or to confront opposition for the safety of their provinces. Many women fighters in power position displayed their vision as well as they were instrumental in building women as workforce in freedom fighting or resurging collective consciousness among women.

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• Friday, March 18, 2016Stream B (10:30am - 12:15pm)Northwest B110
  • Women of Regalia in Power: A Catalyst
    Sudhi Rajiv, Jai Narain Vyas University
  • Using Regalia for Women’s Reform: A Study of Kashibai Kanitkar’s The Palanquin Tassel
    Usha Mudiganti, Ambedkar University
  • The Audacity to 'Be'
    Jyoti Rane, Pratap College, Amalner
  • Woman in Regalia: Rebellious Princess of Kapurthala
    Barinder Kumar, Baring Union Christian College
• Saturday, March 19, 2016Stream B (10:30am - 12:15pm)Northwest B110
  • Lakshmibai, The Warrior Queen of Jhansi: A Damsel Defying Destiny
    Shubhra Tripathi, Govt. Motilal Vigyan Mahavidhyalaya
    Shreeja Sharma, Institute for Excellence in Higher Education
  • The Aesthetics of Opposition: Reclaiming a Nonconformist Princess from Rajasthan
    Bhumika Sharma, Central University of Rajasthan
  • Conceptualising Gender: Realising Women’s Rights Globally
    Atul Hermit, Axtria India Pvt Ltd
• Sunday, March 20, 2016Stream B (10:30am - 12:15pm)Northwest B110
  • Ahilya Bai Holkar: The Defacto Administrator and Ruler of Malwa Region in India.
    Archana Parashar, Indian Institute of Management, Raipur
    Vineeta Saluja, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing
  • Subverting Subaltern Consciousness: Search for Self-Identity in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun and Mahasweta Devi’s Bayen
    Jyoti Hermit, Amity University