Activities

4 Feb

"Siting Vulnerability - II" Lecture series (Feb 2024)

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Online
Talks on vulnerability and/in
  • Biodiversity
  • Waste cultures
  • Posthumanism
  • Posthuman care
  • Animals
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22 Jan

Faculty Development Program (in collaboration with NIT Trichy, co-convenor VK Karthika, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences) on 'Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis'

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Online
Speakers: 

Pramod K Nayar, University of Hyderabad
Anna Kurian, University of Hyderabad
Maria Porras Sanchez, Complutense University of Madrid
Swarnalatha Rangarajan, IIT Madras
Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield
Saradindu Bhattacharya,  University of Hyderabad        Meenakshi Srihari, Sai University 

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13 Oct

"Siting Vulnerability - I" Lecture series (Oct-Nov 2023)

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Online
Speakers: 

Deepanshu Mohan, OP Jindal Global University
Ira Raja, University of Delhi
Pavan Malreddy, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Johan Höglund, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Rebecca Duncan, Linnaeus University, Sweden
Charles Hallisey, Harvard (in collaboration with the Murty Classical Library of India, Harvard UP)

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23 Aug

National Seminar on "Vulnerability and Urdu Literature – Social, Historical & Cultural perspectives"

09:30 AM - 05:30 PM
The University of Hyderabad

National Seminar on "Vulnerability and Urdu Literature – Social, Historical & Cultural perspectives" on 23rd & 24th August 2023 
at the Department of Urdu, University of Hyderabad,  coordinated by Zahidul Haque, Faculty Fellow, UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies.
 
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21 Jul

Workshop: "Doing Vulnerability Studies"

09:30 AM - 05:30 PM
The University of Hyderabad

 

Workshop: “Doing Vulnerability Studies” with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at GITAM University.
Workshop Facilitators: Pramod K Nayar & Anna Kurian

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3 Apr

Drawing Vulnerability

03:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Speakers:

April 3, 2023: Orijit Sen, Graphic Novelist
April 5, 2023: Kate Evans, Cartoonist and Graphic Novelist
April 10, 2023: Arghya Manna, Comics Artist and Artist-in-Residence, IIT Gandhinagar
April 17, 2023: Susan Squier, Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English, The Pennsylvania State University
April 28, 2023: María Porras Sánchez, Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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28 Mar

Screening Vulnerability

02:30 PM - 05:30 PM

Movies:
Genocide: The Killing Fields (1984) (dir. Roland Joffe) (English/Khmer)
Immigration: Dheepan (2015) (dir. Jacques Audiard) (Tamil/French)
Old Age: The Father (2020) (dir. Florian Zeller) (English)
Human Rights:
State of Siege (1972) (dir. Costa-Gavras)
(French)
Environment:
The Host (2006) (dir. Bong Joon-Ho) (Korean)
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17 Mar

Conceptualizing Vulnerability: A Roundtable (II)

08:00 PM - 10:30 PM

Speaker:

Lisa Diedrich, Stony Brook University

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10 Mar

Conceptualizing Vulnerability: A Roundtable (I)

09:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Speakers:
Melissa Wall, California State University - Northridge
Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Winifred Poster, Washington University
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24 Jan

Environmental Vulnerability and the Literary Imagination

07:00 PM - 09:00 PM

By Scott Slovic, University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities, The University of Idaho, USA

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7 Nov

Inaugural of the Chair

12:00 PM - 03:00 PM

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7 Nov

Community Media and Building Resilient Communities: Addressing Multiple Vulnerabilities

01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

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18 Oct

Vulnerability and Surrogacy: Biomarkets in India

01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

By Sheela Suryanarayanan, in the course 'Vulnerable Lives'. Department of English

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17 Oct

Vulnerable Afterlives: The Uses of Death in Shakespeare

01:00 PM - 03:00 PM

By Anna Kurian. Open Lecture in the series 'Mortal Lives/Immortal Characters'. Department of English. 

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List of Talks on Vulnerability by Pramod K Nayar (2021-2024)
  1. Vulnerability Studies: The Key Concepts. Invited Lecture. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. LNMIIT, Jaipur, 28 Feb 2024.
  2. ‘Reproductive Futurism’: The Earth’s Future(S) in Dystopian Literature. Keynote. International Conference, “Environmental Hazards and Gender Issues: (Re)imagining Literature, Language, and Culture of the Global South”, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 16 Feb 2024.
  3. Human Rights and Literature. Invited Lecture. Department of English, PSGR Krishnammal College for Women, Coimbatore. 7 Feb 2024.
  4. Drawing Water: Indian Graphic Novels and Hydrocrisis. Keynote. Climate Change and Cultural Representations: Australian and Indian Perspectives. International conference, University of Burdwan, 10 Jan 2024.
  5. Postcolonialism: Contexts, Concerns, Conspectus. National Seminar, ‘Reimagining Postmodern Theories’, Tirur Center, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit. Calicut 6 Jan. 2024.
  6. ‘Toxified Bodies: Reading Waste Memoirs’. Symposium. ‘Un–bordered Futures: Deconstructing and Reimagining Borders’, Centre for Studies on Borders & Movements, Kolkata, and Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. 14-15 Dec. 2023.
  7. Biopolitics and Precarious Lives in Contemporary Literature. Refresher Course. Allahabad University, 29 Nov. 2023.
  8. Creaturely Texts: Multispecies Encounters in the Posthuman Era. Keynote. 5th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Conference: Posthuman Southeast Asia, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 23 Nov 2023.

  9.  Eco/social Justice and the Contemporary Novel. FDP, National PG College, Lucknow. 8 Nov. 2023.

  10. The Literature of Climate Crisis. Special Talk. Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati, 27 Oct. 2023.

  11. Caring Posthumanism. Distinguished Lecture. Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, 25 Oct. 2023.

  12. Introducing Vulnerability Studies. Keynote. National Conference on Vulnerability Studies, NIT – AP, 6 Oct. 2023.

  13. Reading Environment, Writing Disaster. Plenary Lecture, International Seminar, ‘Earthy Echoes in English Literature’, Department of Languages and Literature – English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, 30thSept 2023

  14. Extinction Memories. ‘Memory, Ecology, Sustainability’, International Conference of the Indian Network of Memory Studies, IIT Madras. 21-23 Sept 2023.

  15. Environmental Justice Literature: From Toxic Dumping Memoirs to Neo-slavery Fiction. First Annual Alexander D’Souza Memorial Endowment Lecture, Department of English, St Aloysius College, Mangalore. 9 Sept 2023.
  16. Literary Research Trends: Doing Environmental Humanities. Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women. 30 Aug. 2023.
  17. Planetary Ecoprecarity: Texts and Themes in the End-times. Keynote. ‘Revamping Indian Tradition and Culture through NEP 2020: Multilingual, Multicultural and Multidisciplinary Modes of Education’, IIT Roorkee, 18-19 Aug 2023
  18. Retrieving Planetary Memory: De-extinction and the Afterlives of (Some) Animals’, Keynote. International Conference on ‘Mediations on Memory: Aesthetics and Poetics of Forgetting’, the Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, 26-27thJuly 2023.
  19. The Vulnerable Indian Body: Biopolitics, Famines and Colonial Discourse, 1770-1900. Keynote. ‘Embodied Identities: The Body in Cultural Spaces’. Farook College, Calicut 21 Feb 2023
  20. Disaster Flows: Historical Legacies and Continuing Vulnerability in the Contemporary Hydronovel. ‘Revisiting History through Literature: Religion, Politics, and Propaganda’, Department of English, University ofAllahabad, 24-25 March 2023.
  21. Literature and the Planet in Peril: Reading the End-ing Times. Keynote. National Seminar. ‘Comparing Indian Classics with Classics in World Literature’, SRNM College, Sattur, Virudhunagar, TN. 30 March 2023 
  22. Introducing Vulnerability Studies. GITAM University, Hyderabad, 24 April 2023.
  23. Posthumanism: From Origins to the Anthropocene Theme. Dept of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University. 10 May 2023.
  24. Fluid Precarity and the Planet: The Global Hydronovel. FDP. Kerala University, 14 May 2023
  25. “Precarious Animal Life: ‘The Dog of Tithwal’ and its Graphic Adaptation”. Keynote. National Conference on ‘Indian Freedom Struggle and Partition of India: A Revisit Through the Lenses of Literature’, Harsh Vidya Mandir PG College, Raisi, Haridwar, 23 December 2022
  26. “Posthuman Precarity: Artificial Beings, Servitude and Rights in Contemporary Literature”. Faculty Development Program, HSS, SRM Institute of Science and Technology. 17 Dec 2022
  27. “The Making of Vulnerable Subjects: Bhopal and Environmental Ethics”. NIT Trichy. Extension Lecture. 24 Nov. 2022.
  28. “Persona, Personification and Precarious Lives: Orijit Sen’s ‘Making Faces’ ”. Plenary Talk. “Tryst With Destiny”: Literary Portrayal of the Partition of India School of Social Sciences And Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 10-11 November 2022.
  29. Ecoprecarity: Vulnerable Lives in Literature and Culture. Indian Animal Studies Collective Roundtable. IIT Delhi 21 Oct. 2022.
  30. “Photography and the Pandemic: Covid-19, V.2”, International Conference on “Reconnaissance of Pandemic Societies” The Department of English Language and Literature, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 5 May 2022.
  31. “Biopower, Biopolitics and Pandemic Comics: Reading Covid Chronicles.” Keynote. Comin 21: International Conference on Indian Comics, IIT Delhi, 5 Dec. 2021.
  32. “The Literature of Human Rights”, Govt College Women University Faisalabad Pakistan. 25 Nov. 2021.
  33. “The Covid Normal”. Keynote. “Embracing the new normal: socio-cultural challenges and opportunities”. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, 17 Nov. 2021.
  34. “Reading Right(s): Literature and/of Human Rights”, Seminar, “Human Rights and Its Representation in Literature” Department of English, ICFAI University, Mizoram. 25 Oct. 2021.
  35. “Ecodystopias, Spectral Landscapes and the Ecological Uncanny”. International Webinar “Imagining Catastrophe: Literary and Cultural Representations of Environmental Disaster”. Department Of English, Seva Bharati, Mahavidyalaya, Kapgari, Jhargram, West Bengal, India. 23 Oct. 2021
  36. Cultural Trauma, Biopolitics and Precarious Lives in the 21st Dept. of English, SIES College, Mumbai. 7 Aug. 2021.
  37. “Memorializing Life in Covid Times”, Memory Studies Workshop, IIT Madras, 30 April 2021.
  38. “The Human Rights Graphic Novel”. Symposium on “Migration and Rights in Comics and Literature from South/Asia/Asian America”, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University, USA. 15 April 2021.
  39. “Vulnerable Ecosystems: Biosecurity and the Invasion Narrative”, Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Uttarakhand, 10 March 2021.
  40. “Growing Up – Digitally, Undying – Digitally”, National Symposium, Dept of Women’s Studies, University of Madras, 9 March 2021.