Call For Articles - Book on Pushkin -Russian Literature

 CALL FOR ARTICLES: 

A S Pushkin is considered to be "the beginning of all beginnings" as far as Russian literature is concerned. He is the greatest icon of Russian literature, like Tagore is for Indian and Shakespeare for English literatures. But the importance and stature of a world-class writer are also measured by his/her acceptance/reception across languages, cultures and geographical boundaries. 

On the occasion of Tagore's 150th birth anniversary a huge volume of work has been published a few years back, that discussed his reception all over the world. A similar volume on Shakespeare too came out recently from Santiniketan, that discussed his reception in India. Taking cue from these works, we are planning to bring out one edited volume on Pushkin's reception in Indian subcontinent. The proposed volume will be edited by me, but overall guidance comes from Prof. J P Dimri, one of the stalwarts of Russian Studies in India.

 We are inviting articles on Pushkin's reception in different languages of Indian subcontinent; namely Hindi, Urdu, Bangla, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam and all other prominent ones where Pushkin made an impact. We expect the authors to discuss 

1. History of Pushkin's reception in the particular language 
2. Pushkin in the polysystem of that language (translations of his works) 
3. Effect/impact/influence of Pushkin on the writers of that language (if any) 
4. Effect/impact/influence of Pushkin on the literary trends/ideologies of that language 
5. Present condition of Pushkin Studies in that language and other related issues. 

The language of discourse will be English for wide access to prospective readers worldwide and the volume will have an ISBN no.

Interested scholars may inbox me or contact me at sajaldey@eflushc.ac.in. 

Call for Book Chapters: Trends in Language Testing and Evaluation, NTS,CIIL, Mysore

Call for Book Chapters

Contributions are invited for chapters for an edited book titled current trends in language testing and evaluation. The manuscript aims to bring together multiple perspectives from different parts of the world where Indian languages are learned and taught as a second or foreign language. The proposed book is expected to be ready for publication by the month of July, 2018.

The submitted manuscript should address topics covering the following and other related areas:-

• Newer philosophy of language education. 
• Testing of less tangible concepts - attitudes, appreciations, interests and personal-social adaptability of the students. 
• Authentic assessment. 
• Evaluating all round growth of language learners. 
• Teaching and testing of language in lower resource classrooms. 
• Use of ICT in language testing. 
• Use of Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT). 
• Innovations in language Testing and Evaluation. 
• Formal vs. Informal Evaluation in process of language learning and teaching. 
• Emphasis on qualitative assessment. 
• Use of Internet for the purpose of assessment. 
• Product vs. Process Evaluation. 
• Testing of Hindi for pan-Indian communication (including the neighboring countries). 
• Role of self-assessment in language learning. 
• Specification of language use parameters for various social contexts and purposes. 
• New approaches to language Testing. 
• Any other relevant topic.

Guidelines for the preparation of manuscript:

Submitted manuscript must be accompanied by an abstract of about 500 words and should not exceed 5,000 words in total.

It is recommended that author should submit their short bio mentioning their current position, research interests and publications along with their manuscript.

The authors must submit an undertaking stating that submitted manuscript has not been published before or/and is not under consideration for publication, anywhere else. Authors must ensure that submitted manuscript is their own original work and is free from plagiarism in any form.

Only manuscript written in English will be accepted.

The style sheet to be adopted for referencing is the current APA format.

Manuscript submitted only in correct APA format will go through the review process.

It is suggested that submitted manuscript may broadly contain following components in relevant order:

Title

- Purpose of the chapter

- Theoretical framework

- Methods (for empirical papers)

(Discussion)

Conclusion

- References

Suggested readings

- Author(s): full name, contact details (including postal address), affiliation

Innovations in language Testing and Evaluation.

Received manuscript will go through double blind review process. The authors will have to revise/modify/improve their manuscript in accordance with the suggestions and comments made by the reviewers.

Deadline:

Deadline for the submission of the final manuscript is February 28, 2018. All submissions should be sent electronically to headnts@gmail.com and conf.ws.nts@gmail.com.

An author can submit only one independent or joint manuscript.

Any queries in regard to the above publication may be sent to headnts@gmail.com.

Contact us:

National Testing Service-India

Centre for Testing and Evaluation.

Central Institute of Indian Languages

MYSORE - 570 006

For More Details: http://www.ciil-ntsindia.net/Ann-Call-for-book-chapters.aspx

Call for Publication: Breaking New Grounds: Perspectives on Recent Indian English Fiction (Collection of Essays)

Call For Papers:

Indian English writing, from its infancy, has been preoccupied with representing the nation. This national dimension of Indian English writing is undoubtedly its most distinctive feature. Indian English novels as a postcolonial genre emerged out of the colonial encounter, and it is only natural that “its concern has been with that equally postcolonial entity, the nation-state” (Priyamvada Gopal, 2009). India as a postcolonial nation is a classic case of the history-nation confluence. Writers have been much beholden to this confluence as both history and nation come together to shape what political scientist, Sunil Khilnani terms, after Nehru, “the idea of India” (Khilnani, 1983). This national dimension of Indian English writing is undoubtedly its most distinctive feature. The 1980s witnessed a boom in these nation-centric narratives or “nationsroman” (Joshi, 2004). Largely revisionist in nature, the novels of the Rushdie-generation regarded the task of representing India and Indian history as a huge project.

But in more recent novels that have emerged after the fading of pan-Indian nation-centric trope in the texts of the Rushdie generation, the engagement with the nation and pan-national history has become much more diffused. This diffusion in the engagement with the pan-Indian dimension in the more recent works of Indian English fiction has taken diverse lines of development. On the one hand, a large number of novels have emerged that have sought to focus on the micro stories of regions and people which did not find a place in the earlier epic narratives of the nation. Unlike mainstream Indian English writings, these novels are written with settings in small towns of India, and they deal with the issues and problems most urgent and real to these regions and people. They show a keen sense of place or rootedness. The nation remains an integral concern of the writers. The younger and recent writers, though not rejecting the national altogether, seem to be moving away from pan-Indian nation-centric engagement to a more localized engagement with history, politics and Indian society. This concern with local allegiance and people seems to be increasingly the dominant tendency of recent Indian English novels.

Another significant development to this diffused approach towards history and nation is the growing urge of Indian English writers to tackle the issues of globalization and ramifications of economic liberalization. Indian English writing is now strongly embedded in the global frame, and it is now engaged in asking questions like “what shape does ‘India’ take fifty or more years after the independent nation-state officially came into existence on the world stage? How are older narratives of nation being rewritten or replaced by new ones that seek to break, remould or interrogate the former in the face of migration and globalization? Who owns ‘the past’ and what is the writer’s responsibility in relation to it?” (Gopal 2009). Apart from these broad trends, we can discern other new tendencies and thematic and ideological concerns in the new generation of writers. This new body of Indian English fiction in the new millennium have started dealing with such diverse issues as small-town life (The Bus Stopped and The Thing about Thugs by Tabish Khair, The Romantics by Pankaj Misra), gender transgressions ( Ratika Kapur’s The Private Life of Mrs Sharma), patriarchy and female desire (Anuja Chauhan’s Battle for Bittora), small histories (Alka Saraogi’s Kalikatha: Via Bypass, Aminuddin Khan’s A Shift in the Wind) fantasy (Meluha series by Amish Tripathi), Dalit life (Manu Joseph’s Serious Man), global terrorism, 9/11 and Indian Diaspora (Transmission by Hari Kunzru, Ask Me No Questions by Marina Budhos, The Disappearance of Seth by Kazim Ali), friction between old and new cultures (Saraswati Park by Anjali Joseph), drugs and underbelly of big cities (Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil and Eunuch Park by Palash Krishna Mehrotra), ethnicity, ethnic relations, insurgency and issues of identity, belonging and history of migration (e.g. fiction from the northeastern part of India by writers such as Siddhartha Deb, Daisy Hassan, Anjum Hassan, Janice Pariat, Dhruba Hazarika etc.), insurgency and political conflicts (Munnu: A Boy from Kashmir, graphic novel by Malik Sajad), child abuse and violence (Hush by Prateek Thomas, another graphic novel) among others. 

The editors of this proposed book are seeking contributions that shed fresh light on these new developments in Indian English fiction in the new millennium. The book envisages critical engagements with writers and texts that veer away from the usual focus on the writings of the Rushdie generation. Some of the writers and works mentioned above have received little critical attention. The proposed book, therefore, seeks to collect critically rigorous essays adopting different theoretical and thematic angles which will not only boost interests in these writers but also instil a new vigour and dimension to the study of Indian English fiction. Apart from the mentioned writers and texts, proposals are welcome from other writers who have started writing in the new millennium.

Abstracts of (maximum 400 words) and short biographical notes should be sent to the co-editors 

Dr. Arindam Sarma (dr.arindam.sarma@gmail.com) Himakshi Kalita (himakshisarma.kalita@gmail.com) 

by January 15, 2018.

If selected, the final papers will have to be submitted by March 30, 2018. The papers should follow the latest MLA style of parenthetical sources and works cited format.

Call For Publications: Book on Amitav Ghosh: His Art and Poetics

Call For Publications:

The original and unpublished research articles/papers are solicited from the Scholars, Critics, and Academicians for publication in the forthcoming Anthology on Amitav Ghosh and His Writings. The book will be published from the reputed house likes of Atlantic, Authorpress etc.

Sub-themes of the Book

1. Amitav Ghosh, nation, nationalism and transnationalism.

2. Amitav Ghosh and ‘Writing Past’.

3. Amitav Ghosh, travel, migration and diaspora.

4. Amitav Ghosh, violence and memory.

5. Amitav Ghosh and marginal discourse.

6. Amitav Ghosh and ‘the politics of ambivalence’.

7. Amitav Ghosh and anthropocene.

Editing Requirements:

• Paper Size: A4, Font: Times New Roman Font Size: 12, Spacing: 1.25 inches 

• Title of the Paper: Bold Sentence Case: centered 

• Text of the Paper: justified

• References & Citations: Kindly follow MLA Handbook Documentation Style 8 edition. Please don’t use footnotes; use endnotes

• Titles of Books: Italics; Titles of Articles: in double inverted commas

• Length of the article: 3000-4000 words 

• Work Cited should be given in the following format:

Mode of Submission: 

The learned contributor is advised to email a full-length paper, alongwith a brief bionote and also a declaration stating that the research paper is an original work in a single MS-Word attachment file to animeshbag007@gmail.com, latest by 31 December, 2017. 

Important: 

• No need to send hard copy of your paper.

• There is no publication fee for the contribution of research papers.

Plagiarism Alert: 

All submissions should be original. The contributor is advised to adhere to strict academic ethics with respect to acknowledgment of original ideas borrowed from others. The editor/publisher will not be held responsible for any lapse on the part of the contributor. If plagiarism is found at any stage, the author of the paper shall be blacklisted and disclosed publically. Therefore, the papers submitted should evince serious academic work, contributing new knowledge and innovative critical perspectives on the subject explored.

For any queries please feel free to contact 

Prof. Animesh Bag

Assistant Professor in English

K.K.Das College

Kolkata, West Bengal

Mobile No. 8101677829

Whatsapp. 8001558943

Call For Publications:Special Issue: Paradox of Globalization- Sociology Today- Journal

Call For Publications:

Sociology Today (http://sociologytoday.net) is a new journal dedicated to publishing socially  significant, well-researched and theoretically compelling research articles and book reviews predominantly in the field of sociology.

Sociology Today extends a platform for social scientists to present socially significant, well-researched and theoretically compelling research articles and book reviews predominantly in the field of sociology. Each volume will consist of comprehensive commentary on emerging areas of sociological enquiry. Echoing the spirit of Interdisciplinarity, this Journal will not restrict itself to the disciplinary boundaries. Any works that highlight socially relevant inputs from the cutting-edge of the field, in terms of theoretical, methodological, or topical areas, will be given equal consideration. Journal will follow a rigorous double-blind peer reviewing policy.

Scope:

The journal will be of interdisciplinary nature dealing with global and regional issues across the disciplines. Tentatively we have marked the following thrust areas:

• Ways of knowing 
• Knowledge Production 
• Deliberation, decision-making, and uncertainty management 
• Boundary work 
• Professional debates and credibility contests 
• Contentious discourse and narratives 
• Biomedical ethics 
• Tension between social and biological perspectives 
• Science and religion in debate 
• Claims-making in social movements 
• Community disputes over knowledge and values 
• State legitimation of knowledge claims 
• Transnational knowledge flows 
• Inequality and resistance in knowledge production 
• Diffusion of ideas and innovation 
• Institutional supports and impediments to knowledge production 
• Technological advancement and the meaning of progress 
• Epistemological disputes in the social and natural sciences 
• The challenges of mixed methodologies 
• Objectivity versus activism in research 
• Intersectionality,Migration and Urban living 
• Queer perspective 
• Gerontology 
• Diasporic study

Special Issue: Paradox of Globalization

For the Inaugural issue we are inviting papers and book reviews on the broad topics relating to the Paradox of Globalization.

Format of the Articles:

Authors must follow the APA style.

Word Limits:

Research articles: 3000-5000 words including the Reference section. Articles beyond 5000 words will also be considered.

Book Reviews: Word-limit: 1500-3000 words

Publication Charge: Free. No charge of any kind.

Deadline for Submission: 15 December, 2017.

For more information please visit http://sociologytoday.net/cfp/

Contact Info: 

Dr. Sudeshna Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, Department of Women Studies, University of Bangalore.

Email: editor@sociologytoday.net

Contact Email: editor@sociologytoday.net

URL: http://sociologytoday.net