Eighth Conference on East-West
Intercultural Relations:
"Reconsidering
Cultural Ideologies and Identities
in India
and Beyond"
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WHEN:
March
17-19, 2016
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WHERE:
Ramjas College, Delhi University, Delhi,
India
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SUBTHEMES:
You are cordially invited to present a paper dedicated to one of the following
subthemes (other sub-themes
related to the
main theme of the conference may be accepted by the conference committee.)
• Re-thinking
India and the West as categories
• The
"West" and "East" as ideas in Indian discourse
• The
"West" in Indian and Indo-Islamic Arts and Architecture
• Indian and Indo-Islamic Arts in
the West
• East-West intercultural relations
• Orientalization of the Indian
imaginary
• Exoticizing
India in the Americas and the Iberian world
• Portuguese presence in India
• Archiving South Asian narratives in the
Americas and the Iberian world
• Consumption and reception of Bollywood
(Hindi-language film industry)
in the West
• Consumption and reception of Western
films in South Asia
• Cultural production by authors of South
Asian descent in the Caribbean
• South Asian presence in Latin America
and the Caribbean
• Orientalism and
self-orientalization in Indian cultural production
• Decolonial and Postcolonial
connections between the cultural
production in
South Asia, the Americas, and the Iberian world
• Indian travelers in the West
• Western travelers in South Asia
• Images of the Luso-Hispanic world
in South Asian cultural production
• Images of South Asia in
Luso-Hispanic literature and culture
• Translations of Indian texts in the
West
• Translations of Western texts in India
• Latin American cultural production by
authors of South Asian descent
• The Indian princess “La China Poblana”
in Mexico
• Images of South Asia in the works of
Latin American writers, such
as Vicente Fatone, Octavio Paz, Pablo
Neruda, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Severo Sarduy,
• Indian
religions in the West
• Hispanic Orientalism in
literature and film
• Trans-Pacific Studies
• Travel narratives
• Exoticization and idealization of
the Oriental “Other”
• Orientalism and Occidentalism
• Asian and Arab literature and
culture in the Hispanic world
• Cooleism
• Asian and Arab testimonials,
memoirs, and autobiographies
• Representation of Asian and Arab
women in the Hispanic world
• Asian and Arab Diasporas
• Filipino literature in Spanish
• Chinatowns in the Americas
• Asian and Arab religiosity and
"witchcraft" in the Americas
• Transculturation and hybridity
• Transnationalism and
globalization
• Racialization of Jews in the
Hispanic world
• Orientalism and the Asian and
Arab presence in the Lusophone world
• Muslims in the Western imagination
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FOR
MORE INFORMATION:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
lopezcalvo@msn.com
Dr. Aditi Chandra
Dr. Vinita Chandra
vinitamihir@gmail.com
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TENTATIVE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
To be announced
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TIME:
There will be a maximum of 20 minutes to present the paper (about
8 double-spaced pages,
Times New Roman 12).
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PUBLICATION:
If presenters are interested, they can submit papers
dealing with Luso-Hispanic
issues to our academic journal
World to
be evaluated by the editorial committee. Provided that there are enough
submissions, a volume with selected essays may be published with Cambridge
Scholars Publishing.
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ABSTRACT:
Please send your abstract via email before December 1, 2015 along with a brief
biography (maximum of 10 lines) to any of the following emails:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
Dr. Aditi Chandra
Dr. Vinita Chandra
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LANGUAGES:
Papers can be presented in English or Spanish.
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REGISTRATION:
Deadline Dec. 15, 2014.
For online payment go to
https://intelforms.ucmerced.edu/Form/CallForPapers
►USA/Asia: US$100
Graduate students -
USA/Asia: $75
►Europe: 80 euros
Graduate students - Europa:
60 euros
►Latin America and Africa: US$60
►India: US$10 (or 500 rupies)
If the website to pay the registration online
does not work, participants
from the USA, can send a check signed to University of California
Regents. The address is the following:
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
SSHA University of California, Merced
5200 North Lake Road
Merced, CA. 95343
Non
US participants can pay on site at the conference to any of
the three co-organizers.
Hotels and Transportation: TBA
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RECOMMENDED HOTELS
Hotel Gautam Deluxe, D.B. Gupta Road, Karol Bagh
Hotel Metro Heights, W.E.A., Karol Bagh
Hotel Taj Princess, W.E.A., Karol Bagh
Janpath Hotel, Janpath, Connought Place
Shangr1-La’s Eros Hotel, Ashoka Road, near Connought Place
Radisson Blu Marina Hotel, Connought Place
Maidens Hotel, Civil Lines (near University)
Le Meridien, New Delhi (near Connought Place)
The Imperial, Janpath, Connought Place
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RECOMMENDED CAB SERVICES:
Meru Cabs: 91-11-4422 4422
Easy Cab : 91–11-4343 4343
Mega Cab: 91-11-4141 4141
Ola Cabs (App based)
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CONTACTS
(CO-ORGANIZERS):
Dr. Ignacio López-Calvo
University of California,
Merced
Dr. Aditi Chandra
Dr. Vinita Chandra
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