A Two-Day Online International Conference
7th and 8th June 2022
Organised by
The Department of English
Presidency University Kolkata
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DAY 1: 7 JUNE 2022
10–11.30 am IST: Introduction & Keynote
Mahitosh Mandal, Gajendran Ayyathurai - Inaugural Plenary
11.45 am-1.30 pm IST: Caste and Cinema (I)
Chair: Karthick Ram Manoharan
11.45 am-1.30 pm IST: Life Writings of Dalit, Adivasi and Bahujan Women
Chair: Nandini Saha
11.45 am-1.30 pm IST: Dalit Feminism, Brahmanical Patriarchy (I)
Chair: Chair: Anandita Pan
2-3.45 pm IST: Caste and Anticasteism in Art and Popular Culture
Chair: Dickens Leonard
2-3.45 pm IST: Feminism and Anticaste Writing
Chair: Purna Banerjee
2-3.45 pm IST: Anticasteism, Aesthetics, and Visual Politics
Chair: Debanjana Nayek
2-3.45 pm IST: Anticasteism and the Novel (I)
Chair: Shanta Dutta
4-5.45 pm IST: Psychologising Casteism
Chair: Mahitosh Mandal
4-5.45 pm IST: Anticasteism in Bengali Literature
Chair: Sumit Chakrabarti
4-5.45 pm IST: Dalit Feminism, Brahmanical Patriarchy (II)
Chair: Maroona Murmu
6-7.45 pm IST: Caste, Religion and Politics
Chair: Joel Lee
6-7.45 pm IST: Dalit Men, Life Writings and Resistance
Chair: Arun Prabha Mukherjee
6-7.45 pm IST: Campus Casteism
Chair: Gaurav Pathania
DAY 2: 8 JUNE 2022
10-11.45 am IST: Dalit Feminism, Brahmanical Patriarchy (III)
Chair: Asha Singh
10-11.45 am IST: Case Studies from History
Chair: Rup Kumar Barman
10-11.45 am IST: Stories of the Dispossessed
Chair: Anirban Ray
12 noon-1.45 pm IST: Conceptualising Anticasteism (I)
Chair: Meena Dhanda
12 noon-1.45 pm IST: Queering Caste
Chair: Sowjanya Dharma Rao Tamalapakula
12 noon-1.45 pm IST: Theorising Caste and Anticaste Struggles
Chair: Anupama Mohan
12 noon-1.45 pm IST: Anticasteism and the Novel (II)
Chair: Md. Monirul Islam
2.15-4 pm IST: Caste and Cinema (II)
Chair: Priyanka Das
2.15-4 pm IST: Anticaste Thought
Chair: Rajat Roy
2.15-4 pm IST: Case Studies from the Field
Chair: Antara Ray
4.15-6 pm IST: Conceptualising Anticasteism (II)
Chair: Madhura Damle
4.15-6 pm IST: Anticaste Poetry
Chair: Ishita Roy
4.15-6 pm IST: Caste and Cinema (III)
Chair: Arijeet Mandal
6.15-8 pm IST: Panel Discussion: Reflections on Anticasteism
Panellists: Meena Dhanda K. Satyanarayana, Meena, Kandasamy, and Balmurli Natrajan.
8-8.15 pm IST: Valedictory address by Mahitosh Mandal