Social Sciences
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
CULTURAL STUDIES WORKSHOP 2013
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) will hold its 17th Annual Cultural Studies Workshop at Santiniketan, West Bengal from 25 to 29 January 2013. The broad theme of this year is Cultures of Everyday Life. The Workshop proposes to participate in the recent explorations of the intellectual, cultural and political aspects of the everyday and broaden their scope by throwing light on different features of contemporary Indian life. It will discuss the speci?cities of the everyday as a temporal and spatial category; the myriad strategies of contestation, governmentality and claims to citizenship as they work out at an everyday, micrological level; the dispersal of power and the texture of affect; the gendered realities of the everyday; the effects of commodi?cation upon cultural practices; everyday objects and technologies, and the discursive and semiotic registers of the
everyday in literary and aesthetic activities.
The Workshop is intended to give young researchers an opportunity to share their work with some of the faculty of the CSSSC and other senior scholars in the ? eld. It is aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and young lecturers (below the age of 35) whose ongoing or recently completed work focuses on one or more of the issues listed above. They are required to present a paper based on their research at the workshop.
The morning session of each day will be devoted to faculty presentations based on a select number of readings. Under the anchorage of this year's theme, each session will address a speci? c topic. The possible topics are: Theorizing the Everyday (Day 1); Quotidian Histories (Day 2); The Everyday State (Day 3); and Regimes of Representation (Day 4). Between Day 2 and Day 3 is a break-day. The afternoon sessions are for students' presentations. CSSSC will bear the expenses of rail travel (AC two-tier) and accommodation at Santiniketan for all selected candidates. Priority will be given to students currently af?liated to Indian educational institutions. Those wishing to participate in the workshop may apply with their current C.V. clearly indicating date of birth, educational quali?cations, current academic af? liation and mailing address and email IDs. Applications must include a brief description (between 500 and 750 words in typed pages) of the paper they intend to present which draws on their current research. E-mail application must reach the Registrar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta latest by October 5, 2012 [email: [email protected]]. For further details, check CSSSC's website:http://www.cssscal.org/
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Social Sciences
CULTURAL STUDIES WORKSHOP 2013
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
CULTURAL STUDIES WORKSHOP 2013
The Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC) will hold its 17th Annual Cultural Studies Workshop at Santiniketan, West Bengal from 25 to 29 January 2013. The broad theme of this year is Cultures of Everyday Life. The Workshop proposes to participate in the recent explorations of the intellectual, cultural and political aspects of the everyday and broaden their scope by throwing light on different features of contemporary Indian life. It will discuss the speci?cities of the everyday as a temporal and spatial category; the myriad strategies of contestation, governmentality and claims to citizenship as they work out at an everyday, micrological level; the dispersal of power and the texture of affect; the gendered realities of the everyday; the effects of commodi?cation upon cultural practices; everyday objects and technologies, and the discursive and semiotic registers of the
everyday in literary and aesthetic activities.
The Workshop is intended to give young researchers an opportunity to share their work with some of the faculty of the CSSSC and other senior scholars in the ? eld. It is aimed at doctoral and postdoctoral students and young lecturers (below the age of 35) whose ongoing or recently completed work focuses on one or more of the issues listed above. They are required to present a paper based on their research at the workshop.
The morning session of each day will be devoted to faculty presentations based on a select number of readings. Under the anchorage of this year's theme, each session will address a speci? c topic. The possible topics are: Theorizing the Everyday (Day 1); Quotidian Histories (Day 2); The Everyday State (Day 3); and Regimes of Representation (Day 4). Between Day 2 and Day 3 is a break-day. The afternoon sessions are for students' presentations. CSSSC will bear the expenses of rail travel (AC two-tier) and accommodation at Santiniketan for all selected candidates. Priority will be given to students currently af?liated to Indian educational institutions. Those wishing to participate in the workshop may apply with their current C.V. clearly indicating date of birth, educational quali?cations, current academic af? liation and mailing address and email IDs. Applications must include a brief description (between 500 and 750 words in typed pages) of the paper they intend to present which draws on their current research. E-mail application must reach the Registrar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta latest by October 5, 2012 [email: [email protected]]. For further details, check CSSSC's website:http://www.cssscal.org/
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CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTA (CSSSC)Doctoral Programme 2012(Affiliated to Jadavpur University, Kolkata) Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission to the Doctoral Programme 2012 for which a maximum of 25 (twenty...
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CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTA (CSSSC)M. Phil. In Social Sciences 2012-14(Af? liated to Jadavpur University, Kolkata)Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission to M.Phil in Social Sciences Programme 2012-14. For...
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CENTRE FOR STUDIES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES, CALCUTTAADMISSION TO THE PH.D. PROGRAMME 2010Applications are invited, in the prescribed form, for admission to the Ph.D. Programme of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. The Ph.D. Programme of the...