CPRACSIS [/si: praksiz/]- is a community of people to study the practice of culture through the paradigm of performance. A collective of scholars,
intellectuals, activists, teachers, authors, students, practitioners,
professionals in arts and culture and performers who consider culture critique as a vital force for social transformation. This centre experiments in Visual Cultural Studies by employing anthropological, psychological, philosophical, theatrical, archaeological, folkloristic, sociological, cultural and linguistic research in an attempt to invigorate academic and scholarly innovations in an inter-disciplinary mode. Promotion of academic understanding and research cooperation among researchers, scholars and professionals in Social Sciences, Visual Cultural Studies, Performance Studies and Visual arts is one of the most spectacular features of this initiative.
International Conference
FABLES of FEAR
August 07 & 08, 2010 •Hotel Ashoka Inn, Thrissur, Kerala.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
August 07, 2010, Saturday
08.00–08.45 hrs: Registration
08.45–09.00 hrs: Concept note for the day – Anilkumar P.V.
Panel 1 — Differently Abled
Chair: 09.00–10.00 hrs • Assembly
Syed Hussain S. M. — “Disability Discourse: The Cultural History of Fear”
Shilpa Das — “Disabled Dread: Culture’s Fear of the Disembodied Form”
Gokulnath A. &
Sathyaraj Venkatesan — “X-Fear: Politics of Media and Rhetoric of HIV/AIDS”
Panel 2 — Caste’ ing Fear
Chair: 09.00–10.00 hrs • Dew Drops
Pradeep Meshram & Ashok Borkar — “Atrocity: The fear of Caste identity”
Nisha M. — “Invisible Agencies of Fear in Maintaining the Dalit Female Identity”
Renjini R. — “On Legitimizing ‘Fear’: Social Sanction and Carnivalization in ‘Mannapedi’/’Pulapedi’”
Panel 3 — Anatomy, Existence and the Transcendental Other
Chair: 10.00–11.00 hrs • Assembly
Işıltan Ataman — “The Ontological Dimension of Fear in Heidegger’s Philosophy”
Chithra P. S. — “Bhagavati Pattu: Propitiating God”
Santanu Majumdar — “Wordsworth’s ‘Ministry of Fear’ and Existential Dread”
Panel 4 — The Fear Poetics
Chair: 10.00–11.00 hrs • Dew Drops
Chetan Deshmane — “Fear of the Father in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry”
Preetika Venkatakrishnan — “Mapping Fear: the Poetry of Robin S Ngangnom”
Purnendu Chatterjee — “Kaleidoscopic Visions of Fear: Reading the Poetry of Wystan Hugh Auden, Jean Arasanayagam and Kamala Das”
11.00–11.15hrs: Tea break
Panel 5 — The Global Space
Chair: 11.15–12.00 hrs • Assembly
Harjoth Kaur & Gurupreet Kaur — “Fear Marketing: Boon or Bane?”
Madhumathi M. — “Recession and Its Impact on Women Labour in Urban Informal Sector”
Panel 6 — The Body of Violence
Chair: 11.15–12.00 hrs • Dew Drops
Praggnaparamita Biswas — “Body as a Site of Violence: A Reading of Lights Out, Getting Away With Murder and Mangalam”
Priya V. — “Amputated Adolescence and Fear of the Body”
12.00–13.00 hrs: Inauguration and Keynote (Assembly)
Keynote Address: Dr Sudhir Kakar
13.00–13.45 hrs: Lunch
13.45–14.15 hrs: Discussion on Keynote (Assembly)
Panel 7 — Sexualities
Chair: 14.15–15.15 hrs • Assembly
Siddhant Srivastava — “Dynamics and Challenges to Legal Status of Homosexuals and Policy Level Development”
Sujay Thakur — “Propagation of Fear through the Idea of Homosexuality in India”
Srinivas A. Mopidevi — “‘Desire’ and ‘Fear’: A Critical Reading of ‘What are you?’”
Panel 8 — Sexuality
Chair: 14.15–15.15 hrs • Dew Drops
Reshma M. P. — “The Barbie Metaphor”
Remya V. V. — “Many Sitas”
Swadesin Mahapatra — “Few Smiles, Few Cries: A Socio-Psycho Analysis of Gender Identity in the Growth of ICT”
15.15–15.30 hrs: Tea break
Panel 9 — The New Fear
Chair: 15.30–16.30 hrs • Assembly
Swati Moitra — “Lost in Cyberspace”
Priya K. Nair — “Body Politics in the Age of Technological Voyeurism”
Sreepriya Warrier — “Who Fears Whom? Web Censoring as an Advanced Pathological Case of Fear in New Media”
Panel 10 — The Spectacle
Chair: 15.30–16.10 hrs • Dew Drops
Gourab Ghosh: “Fanatic Fear in the Free Space of Jatra”
Karuna Rajeev: “Alienation, Repression and the Audience’s Fear of the Spectacle”
Panel 11 — The Performed Fear
Chair: 16.30–17.30 hrs • Assembly
Tanya Mander — “Pinter’s Stage: Pathology of Fear”
Sunetra Mitra — “Understanding the ‘Fear Factor’: Choice of Acting as Profession in Colonial Bengali Public Stage”
Arka Chattopadhyay — “‘From Inner to Outer Shadow’: Reading the Obscure Object of Anxiety in Samauel Beckett’s Dramaticules.”
Panel 12 — The Society and Fear
Chair: 16.10–17.30 hrs • Dew Drops
Lydia Derkach & Pavlo Minka — “Psychological Mechanism of Genesis and Correction of Fear in Ukrainian Students”
Sushma Pendharkar & Shailja Dubey — “The Changing Attitude of Threatened Guardians Regarding the Marriage of their Daughters”
Tapasya Thapa — “The Construct of “Fear” in Nepali Culture and Literature”
Azizollah Salari & Ayat Karimi — “Social Adjustment Problems, Academic Performance and Academic Hardiness in High School Students”
August 08, 2010, Sunday
08.45–09.00 hrs: Concept note for the day – Gokul T.G.
Panel 13 — Seeing, Hearing, Fearing
Chair: 09.00–10.20 hrs • Assembly
Catriona Elder: “Scaring the Nation: Fear and the Feral in Australian Film”
Victoria Chatfield — “Patriarchy and the Power Drill: The Splat Pack and the New Discourse of Inertia”
Suchitra Mathur — “Ghostly Sirens, Haunting Serenades: ‘Uncanny’ Songs in Classic Hindi Cinema”
Sonali Agarwal — “Filming Fear: The Gujarat Genocide on Celluloid”
Panel 14 — Fear and Spectatorship
Chair: 09.00–10.20 hrs • Dew Drops
Arunima Sen — “The Eye and Horror of Spectatorship: A Study of Ram Gopal Varma’s Factory of Horror”
Niyas S. M. — “Mythifying the Dominant Ideology: Politics of Ghosts in Malayalam Films”
Madhura Mukhopadhyay — “Hitchcock and Hysteria: A comparison between Rebecca and Birds”
Ved Prakash — “The Role of ‘Fear’ in Discursivizing the Subjectivity in Indian and Western Cinema”
Panel 15 — Framing Fear
Chair: 10.20–11.20 hrs • Assembly
Sheeba K. — “The making of Tough Guise: Masculinity Fully Loaded!”
Smitha M. — “Framing Fear: Re-presenting the Post-Terrorist Trauma in Mumbai Meri Jaan and A Wednesday”
Debaditya Bhattacharya — “Testifying to the ‘Fact’ of Fear”
Panel 16 — En ‘countering’ Fear and Trauma
Chair: 10.20–11.20 hrs • Dew Drops
Nawazish Azim — “Recollection of Fear and the Trauma of Memory in Art Spiegelman’s Maus and In the Shadow of No Tower”
Shyam Sudhakar &
Jemima Farrar — “Who is afraid of The Beats? Mainstream vs. Counter Culture”
Chandrika Acharya — “Mass Consumption of Fear: Understanding Culture of Fear through Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine”
11.20–11.30: Tea break
11.30–12.40 hrs: Plenary Session and Keynote and Discussion
Key note: Dr Bill Durodie
12.40–14.00 hrs: Lunch
Panel 17 — The State of Fear
Chair: 14.00–15.00 hrs • Assembly
Sebastian V. — “Anxiety over ‘Hindu Degeneration’: Interface between Identity, Fear and Temporal Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century Reformist-Nationalist Thought”
Najeeb P.M. — “God-conscious and People-conscious: The role of fear and anxiety in the making of Muslim community in India”
Debarati Bandyopadhyay — “Arundhati Roy’s State of Fear: Marginalised People and Environment”
Panel 18 — Narratives of Fear
Chair: 15.00–16.00 hrs • Assembly
Anita Singh — “Fear of the Politics of Noah’s Ark: Technologies of Heterosexual Coercion and LBGT Packaging in Bollywood Films”.
Kamalakar Bhat — “Small and Subversive: Transgression in the Scene of Law in The God of Small Things”
Sacaria Joseph — “Fear of the ‘Un-dead’: A Study of Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Panel 19 — Narratives of Fear II (extended panel)
Chair: 15.00–16.00 hrs • Dew Drops
Mousumi Mandel — “Away from Home and Hearth: Analyzing Fear and Trauma in Refugee Women of Bengal Partition through Fictional Representations”
Durbadal Bhattacharya — “Exhuming the untold story: A study of ‘Marichjhapi incident’ through Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide”
Shylaja S. — “Cinderella Syndrome: As expressed in Women’s Writings”
16.00–16.20 hrs: Tea break
Panel 20 — Narrating Fear
Chair: 16.20–17.00 hrs • Assembly
Sujit R. Chandak — “Narrating Fear, Making of a thriller: Mohsin Hamid’s ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’”
Sukla Basu — “Imagining Man, Machine and Fear of the Future through Arthur C. Clarke’s Science Fiction”
Panel 21 — The Visuality of Fear
Chair: 16.20–17.00 hrs • Dew Drops
Samana Madhuri — “‘If my ears can hear then why am I forbidden to see?’ A reading of technology and surveillance in 21st century Bollywood cinema”
Nirmal Kumar — “The Visual Economy of Fear: Mahal and the Analysis of Horror Films in Early days of Hindi Films.”
Conference Concluding Session
Directives for Chairs please visit
http://www.cpracsis.org/wp/?page_id=192
