CES, SLL&CS, JNU invites you to the
National Young Researchers’ Conference on
"Literature and the Mystical Foundations of Authority"
22-23 February 2018, Room 212, SLL&CS-I, JNU
Schedule:
Day 1: 22 February, 2018
Session 1. Sufi Thought and Mysticism (10:00 am – 11:15 am)
Chair: Raziuddin Aquil, Department of History, DU
a. Sushmita Banerjee- ‘Anecdotes, Aphorisms and Memory: The Fawa’id al-Fu’ad and Sufi Ideals in the Fourteenth Century’
b. Pia Maria Malik- ‘The Jawāmiʻ al-Kalim and the weaving of a Sufi t̤arīqa’
c. Umar N.- 'The Laws of Mysticism: Sharia, Sufism, and Its Cosmopolis/Microcosm'
Tea (11:15 am – 11:35 am)
Session 2. Mystical Philosophies (11:35 am – 12:50 pm)
Chair: Udaya Kumar, CES, JNU
a. Preetha Krishna L.- ‘Actual Words, Possible Worlds: Seeing Metaphor as Advaita in Sree Narayana Guru’s Daiva Dasakam’
b. Swarnadeep Sen- ‘Mysticism, polity, interpretation and receptivity on the sacral plane: A study of Shaikh Ahmad Sirhindi’s approach to the question of esoteric mysticism, as stated in his corpus’
c. Nandini Kalita- ‘Mysticism and Ethics in Sankardeva’s Religious Philosophy’
Lunch (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
Session 3. Popular Culture and Mysticism (2:15 pm – 3:30 pm)
Chair: Saugata Bhaduri, CES, JNU
a. Ravneet Gill Singh- ‘Charades of messianic proportions- How MSG (Baba Ram Rahim) trashed and rehashed the dynamics of movie making’
b. Sarmistha Roy- ‘Discursive Authority and Socio-Cultural Subjugation of Female Mystical Characters in Selected Popular Television Shows’
c. Asmita Kundu- ‘The Sacred in Democracy and the Sacred in Excess: Studying the Sacral in the Theme Pandals of Durga Puja’
Tea (3:30 pm – 3:50 pm)
Session 4. Mysticism and Literature in the Americas (3:50 pm – 5:05 pm)
Chair: GJV Prasad, CES, JNU
a. Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi- ‘Techne and Theos: Anthony Levandowski’s Church of the Way Of The Future’
b. Srinjoyee Dutta- ‘Female Phantasmagoria: The mystical body in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Of Love and Other Demons’
c. Susana Garbe- ‘La Loca Santa (The Crazy Saint) in Ana Castillo’s So far from God (1993)’
Conference Dinner: Faculty Lounge (7:30 pm onwards)
Day 2: 23 February, 2018
Plenary Address by H S Shiva Prakash, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU (10:00am – 11:00am)
Tea Break (11:00am – 11:20am)
Session 5. Performing Mysticism (11:20 am – 12:35pm)
Chair: H S Shiva Prakash, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
a. AK Muneer- ‘The Religious and the Literary: The Poetics and Performance of Islamic “Garland Songs” from Kerala’
b. Nandini Pradeep- ‘The Bawdy-Loving Goddess of Kodungallur: Bharani Songs as Objects of Madness, Power and the Latent Sex-Positivism’
c. Anab Naiyer- ‘Living through Imagination: The Indomitable Spirit of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan’
Lunch (12:45pm – 2:00pm)
Session 6. The Thinking of Mysticism in Indian Literature (2:00 pm – 3:15 pm)
Chair: Soumyabrata Choudhury, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU
a. Laki Molla- ‘Religious Syncretism in the paradigm of cultural diversity: Reading Dara Shukoh’s Sirr-i-Akbar’
b. Anup Bali- ‘Mysticism or militancy for Truth-Event: Reflections on Muktibodhian Fantasy’
c. Shaikh Musak Rajjak- ‘Marathi Bhakti Literature by Muslim Authors in Medieval Deccan’
Tea (3:15 pm – 3:40 pm)
Session 7. Negotiating Mysticism (3:45 pm – 5:00 pm)
Chair: Prasanta Chakravarty, Department of English, DU
a. Samudranil Gupta- ‘“Nothingness/in words enclose”: Samuel Beckett’s literary mysticism’
b. Jamphel Sheyan- ‘Myth and Misrepresentation: A study of the Names of the Selected Villages of Zanskar’
c. Akshat Seth- ‘The Gospel via Eros: The Imbrications of Explaining Adolescence and Sexuality in Moral Science Textbooks Authored by Christian Missionaries in India’
Closing Remarks and Certificate Distribution (5:00pm-5:15pm)
