Narrative Matters Conference JNU

Thank you for helping us make our conference a success! Here are some photos from the event.

Photo credits: Sulthana Nasrin

The final schedule of our conference is here!

Registration begins at 9 AM on February 8th - hope to see you all there!

Announcing our Panel Discussion!

Date: 9th February
Time: 4.00 - 5.30 PM
Venue: Committee Hall, Convention Centre, JNU

Chair: Prof. Udaya Kumar, CES, JNU

Panelists:

Dr. Baidik Bhattarcharya, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Dr. Milind Wakankar, IIT Delhi

Dr. B. R. Alamelu, CES, JNU

Announcing our Plenary Speaker: Prof. M. Madhava Prasad!

Plenary Session: Of Recent Changes in Indian Film Narrative

Date: 9th February
Time: 10 AM
Venue: Committee Hall, Convention Centre, JNU

Prof. M. Madhava Prasad retired as a Professor from the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. He is the author of the books Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Cine-Politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in South India (Orient Blackswan, 2014). He has published widely on Indian cinema, popular culture, politics and society.

Announcing our Keynote Speaker: Amruta Patil!

Keynote Session - Narrative Shift: Distracted Readers and Behroopiya Storytellers

Date: 8th February
Time: 10 AM
Venue: Committee Hall, Convention Centre, JNU

A graphic novelist talks about finding her place at the (literary) table, and the effort to hold onto that place at the literary table, telling stories that aren't being currently told, and telling them in a way that actually holds an increasingly attention-deficit audience. A personal journey in visuals and words.

Amruta Patil is a graphic novelist, visual artist and writer. She is the author of the graphic novels Kari, Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean, Sauptik: Blood and Flowers, and Aranyaka. Hailed as India's first female graphic novelist, she is also a recipient of the Ministry of Women and Child Development's Nari Shakti Puraskar.

The Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University invites you to its two-day National Conference

'Narrative Matters: Materialities, Modalities and Ethical Dimensions of Storytelling'

Sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)

on February 8th and 9th, 2024

in the Committee Hall of the Convention Centre, JNU

Watch this space for further updates!