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RAW.CON 2013 – Call for Papers – National Conference on \u201cVernacular Modernities\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Centre for Comparative Literature
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School of Humanities<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Hyderabad<\/strong><\/p>\n

RAW.CON 2013<\/b><\/p>\n

National Conference on<\/i> \u201cVernacular Modernities\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

24 \u2013 27 September 2013<\/b><\/p>\n

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RAW.CON <\/b>or Researchers at Work Conference,<\/b> in its third year, is a research initiative, broadly focusing on Literary and Cultural Studies, from the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad.<\/p>\n

RAW.CON 2013<\/b> seeks to re-engage with the questions posed by\/to modernity, in all its plural-singularity, from our academic and everyday locations. While \u201cmodernity\u201d has been on our table\u2014in terms of its incompleteness, in terms of its ab-original in(di)genuity and also in its various other unrealized trajectories\u2014at least over the past two decades, an uneasy relation, if not dissatisfaction, seems to be the overall term of reference.<\/p>\n

RAW.CON 2013<\/b>, hence, is an attempt to take stock of current research in terms of modern-ities and its various regional\/vernacular alter-ities. Using \u201cvernacular modernities\u201d as a shorthand notation, the proposed four-day conference intends to explore this problematic in its broadest possible sense in order to engage with issues regarding \u201cour\u201d present which is being heterogeneously and discontinuously re-constituted with respect to given, if not pre-given, understandings of the \u201cnational\u201d and the \u201cvernacular.\u201d Indeed one could start by asking: Is regional\/vernacular modernities even a viable concept for our times, particularly in an increasingly contested public sphere where\u00a0new forms of cultural elaboration and differentiation seem to emerge every other day, and whereby the local is invariably being interrupted by global traffic?<\/p>\n

RAW.CON 2013<\/b> intends to interrogate the ambivalence in the way we seem to be living with modernity, in all its singular-pluralities, especially since most research work does not seem to be very concerned about foregrounding such an engagement. While interesting work seems to be happening all around us, it seems imperative that we do not cry off from engaging with the larger framework that belies such work also. More than papers on textual explorations and analyses, what is envisaged is a critical engagement with the very ground on which most recent research is based upon. Apart from questions regarding vernacular modernities and whether they were\/are imitative, derivative, indigenous\/nativist or on their relationship with the national and the sub-national\/regional, a central question to be addressed would be the political stakes of various caste\/community formations in this debate.<\/p>\n

RAW.CON 2013<\/b> welcomes papers that explore\/explode the above notions. Some of the broad rubrics for the conference would be:<\/p>\n