Virtual International Conference on
Environmental Imagination & Greening of Literary Studies
27 & 28 July 2022
Registration & Abstract submission : 30 June 2022
Full paper submission : 05 July 2022
Registration link: https://forms.gle/uR6RuseeRyY76HnGA
Faculty / Academicians: Rs. 500 / $ 6.50
Research Scholars: Rs. 300 / $ 4.00
Post Graduates & Research Scholars: Rs. 300 / $ 4.00
Co-authored papers : Rs. 700 / $ 9.10
The registration fee is non-refundable.
Online Payment:
Account No. : 4134000100125368
A/C Name : DEPT OF ENGLISH, TRICHY-17
Bank : Punjab National Bank
IFSC Code : PUNB0413400
Payment link: https://bhc.edu.in/ONLINEAXIS/eigls/register.php
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Bishop Heber College is a religious minority educational institution established by Tiruchirappalli – Thanjavur Diocese of the Church of South India. The College traces its origin back to Heber Memorial School in 1864. It was the first College to be established in Tiruchirappalli. It is named after Reginald Heber, the Lord Bishop of Calcutta. The College was closed in 1934 owing to financial crisis and was revived in 1966. The College celebrated its Golden Jubilee in February 2016. The University Grants Commission, New Delhi granted Autonomy to the College during 2004-2005. The College was accredited with 5 stars by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council at the A+ level in March 2007. In March 2015, the college was reaccredited (3rd cycle) at A Grade by NAAC with CGPA of 3.58 on a 4-point scale. The College has been recognized by the UGC as “College with Potential for Excellence” in September 2011 and was elevated to the status of “College of Excellence” in April 2017. The College has established a great reputation for its high academic standards and attracts students from all over India and abroad.
The Department of English was established when the college was revived in 1966. It was upgraded as a post-graduate department in 1979. The M. Phil. Research program was begun in 1988 and later Doctoral Research in 1994 making the department a full-fledged research department enrolling full time and part time scholars. The department functions in two streams, the government aided and management financed, staffed with 74 qualified teachers.
The Department brings out a registered International ISSN Journal, Literary Explorer, annually, to which both research scholars and teachers contribute their critiques and creative outputs. The language lab, equipped with individual computer facility for hundred and twenty students at a time, provides interactive programmed lessons on English grammar and communication.
Bishop Heber College is one of the pioneering institutes in the study of Literature and Environment. It has been offering a core paper titled ‘Ecoliterature’ at the Postgraduate level since the early 2000s. It aims to study literature from an inter/multidisciplinary perspective to address ecological concerns of today. The critical practice of reading literature through an ecocritical lens also provides new insights into literary study. The department encourages research in Ecocriticism at the postgraduate and doctoral levels leading to significant scholarship.
This conference on Environmental Imagination and Greening of Literary Studies inaugurates an exciting new series of research papers and deliberations on environmental - philosophy, imagination, crises, ethics, literature and writings - one of the enormous and complex areas to explore and draws attention towards more practical insights on today’s environmental issues.
This conference initiates a special attention to and a newer consciousness towards the natural world and the physical environment, with special emphasis on - ‘environ’, ‘place’, ‘’space’ be they social, political, cultural, natural or religious in the pandemic Covid-19 world. This Eco-conference calls for a fresh shift in the critical thinking on political and spiritual decision making processes, on restructuring our ideological praxis and to ruminate on the quality of life-to-be in the post-pandemic Covid-19 world. Inventive reflections on how this Covid-19 state has changed our way of thinking and the pattern of our life are a matter of interest from the ecocritical, ecopolitical and ecoconscious perspectives. Hence, the deliberations are entitled to focus on the need for a modified understanding of our present environment and the ongoing crises/ reality which threaten human and the non-human today.
Environmental concerns have become ubiquitous. When all the other spheres of human endeavors have gone green, namely, architecture, religion, philosophy, technology, economy, industry, business and management, and while many green movements with an array of agenda crusade to preserve the rights of the non-human, the literary academia is goaded to heed to the wakeup call to draw more action plans to make literary studies green and safeguard the integrity of the living planet in the best way possible.
Indicative themes pertaining to the discipline of literature around which the events will be structured will include (but not limited to) the following:
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Speakers on 27 July 2022
University Distinguished Professor of Environmental Humanities
Department of English, University of Idaho, Moscow
In Medias Res: Complacency,Vigilance, and the Practice of the Medical-Environmental Humanities during the Ongoing COVID Pandemic.
Writer and Eco-critic and Formerly Professor of English, Madras Christian College, Chennai &
Head of the Department of English (Rtd.),
Central University of Tamil Nadu, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu, S. India
Speakers on 28 July 2022
Emerita Professor, Université Toulouse 2-Jean Jaurès,
5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex, France
Perceive the Colors of the World and Be Aware of a Bond
Professor of English, National College (Autonomous),
Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, S. India
Ph. D. Fellow, Fulbright Foreign Student Program Postdoctoral Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies/AHP,
Lecturer, Department of English and Literary Studies,
Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria
Bishop
CSI Tiruchirappalli-Thanjavur Diocese,
Chairman & Secretary, Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli
Principal
Bishop Heber College (Autonomous),Tiruchirappalli
Dean of Arts,
Associate Professor & Head
Department of English, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli-620017
Associate Dean of Arts,
Coordinator - Other Languages & Assistant Professor of English
Dean of Research & Development,
Associate Professor & Head(UG)
Department of English, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli-620017
Dean of Training & Placement,
Coordinator - Shift II & Assistant Professor of English