National Level Interdisciplinary Semiar

NATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR 

ON 

"HUMAN RIGHTS & GENDER STUDIES"

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES

 IN 

CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH LITERATURE

ORGANIZINED 

BY

MANGAYAKARASI COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCE FOR  WOMEN, MADURAI  

DATE OF CONFERENCE                                      :10-09-2016

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSION OF PAPERS     :04-09-2016 

Mail Papers to: engconference2016@gmail.com

THRUST AREAS

• 1.   New directions in literature and critical approaches since 2000
  2.  Literary theory and the trans-modern literature
  3.  Marginality in English Literature 
  4.  Feminism in Literary View  
  5.  Applied Linguistics   
  6.  Communalism Vs English Literature 
  7.  Eco-Literature   
  8.  Subaltern Literature   
  9.  Postcolonial Literature  
  10.  Poetry and Prose
  • • • • • • • • •  
                    

English Teachers can win Rs. 1,500 & 1,000 for presenting Shakespeare in the National Seminar

NATIONAL SEMINAR 

ON

SHAKESPEARE, THE IMMORTAL BARD OF AVON

Organized 

by

The Department of English, University of Madras

In association with 

The English Language Teacher's Association of India (ELTAI)

& 

The British Council 

In Commemoration of the poet's 400th Death Anniversary

on 

6th October, 2016

For More Details Visit:http://www.eltai.in/pdf/chennai-seminar.pdf

 

ELT@I TIRUPATHI CHAPTER FOURTH ANNUAL 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2016

DATE:26th  & 27th, AUGUST

THEME:TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE:   

                                    INNOVATIVE METHODS & PRACTICES

IMPORTANT DATES: Last date to send paper: 06.08.2016

                                        Last date of Acceptance: 08.08.2016

                                        Last date for Registration: 12.08.2016

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT: http://www.eltai.in/pdf/Tirupati-chapter-16.pdf

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON 5.08.2016

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON "INNOVATIVE IDEAS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING"

National Conference on - Postcolonialism: Imapacts on Society and Literature

18 - 20 November 2015

11th International Language and

 Development Conference 

ON

"Multilingualism and Development"

• The issues that might be addressed include but are not limited to the following:
• Identifying and describing the linguistic implications of urbanisation
• The benefits of linguistic hyperdiversity
• Linguistic barriers experienced by migrant populations in urban contexts
• How schools, health clinics and other government services cater for speakers of dozens of different languages in super-diverse urban contexts
• The practice of MTB MLE - and the capacity of schools to provide it - in multilingual urban contexts
• Social division as an unintended consequence of MTB MLE in multilingual contexts
• Multilingualism in semi-urban and urban non-metropolitan contexts

"LANGUAGE, TECHNOLOGY AND 

MULTI-LITERACIES"

This sub-theme may explore issues such as (but not restricted) to the following:

• Digital media as threat or opportunity for minority languages
• Digital media and non-Latin-based writing systems
• The use of digital media at times of crisis and natural disasters, especially in multilingual societies
• Digital media and language choice in education
• Digital literacy, language and gender

"MULTILINGUALISM,

 MARGINALISATION 

AND EMPOWERMENT"

• The tension between ideas of ‘development’ and formal education systems
• Educating girls and empowering women in multilingual societies
• Endangered languages and endangered livelihoods
• Language, identity and violence
• The role of parents in multilingual contexts
• Multilingualism in rural contexts, particularly in the context of accessing markets
• Prospects for indigenous peoples and speakers of minority languages in multilingual nations
• The roles of English in multilingual developing countries: empowering or marginalising?
• Describing and responding to the phenomenon of low cost private English-medium schools catering to the economically marginalised

KEY DATES

• Call for submission of abstracts is now closed.
• Notifications of acceptance of speaker proposals: Monday 27 July
• Registrations open: Monday 27 July
• Last date for speakers to confirm participation: Friday 14 August
• Early bird registration deadline: Sunday 13 September (23:59 Indian Standard Time)
• Registrations close: Monday 2 November (23:59 Indian Standard Time)
• Conference: Wednesday 18 to Friday 20 November

For more information, write to LDC2015@in.britishcouncil.org

Visit to Register online: http://www.britishcouncil.in/