Re-thinking Cultural Studies in India is a conference aimed at understanding the aspirations and visions of undergraduate students in influencing India’s cultural future. By inviting students across colleges in India we hope to challenge and engage existing scholarship, to consolidate empirical and theoretical studies on the state of the nation


The conference will be held on the FLAME University campus in Pune, India on 28 February, 2016 and aims at constituting an academic community, facilitating research and advocacy on cultural questions that frame our time.


The topics for the conference include: 


1. Power, culture and knowledge: Re-examining how mythology and society align across Indian history


2. The City: Community spaces and reconstitutions of urban forms and solidarities; Gendering discourses on bodies and public space


3. Regional writing and minor literatures: Translating bhasha literatures and comparative studies


4. Dramatic adaptations:  Storytelling in narrative modes such as dastangoi, naqal, bideshi, nautanki, tamasha etc.


5. Food Studies: Narrating regional identity to de-emphasize geographic boundaries


6. Digital humanities: Recuperating collective memory through crowd-sourced archival collections in new media such as the Indian Memory Project, the Traveling Archive etc.


7. “Indian-ness” Re-imagined: Mapping popular culture, film, graphic forms and commercial writing


8. Science & Society: Re-visiting ethical philosophy and alternate epistemologies


9. Legal Studies: Querying colonial legacies, constitutionalism, minority rights, censorship and governance


We seek to support all forms of undergraduate research and so welcome summaries of prospective submissions as abstracts of 300 words or less via e-mail, to - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


The deadline for the abstracts is January 15, 2016. 


Notification of selection: January 20, 2016. 


If you would like to attend the conference - please RSVP via the following weblink: 


http://goo.gl/forms/RpFcgVFC9y