[ELTWeekly Volume 7, Issue 18 | October 26, 2015 | ISSN 0975-3036]

A Two-day International Conference on

(Re)envisaging India’s Northeast: Ethnicity, Identity, Culture, Literature

March 29-30, 2016

Department of English, Assam University, Silchar

Introduction:

The Department of English, Assam University, Silchar, has decided to organize a two-day International Conference on “(Re)envisaging India’s Northeast” during 29-30 March, 2016. The conference will be organized around plenary sessions, panel discussions and presentations by participants. Proposals for presentation at the conference are welcome from faculty members, research scholars and academicians engaged with research on various aspects of Northeast studies.

Concept Note:

One of the most diverse regions of India, both ethnically and linguistically, Northeast India, comprising eight states – Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Meghalaya and Sikkim – is also one of the most militarised regions of the country with a long troubled history of secessionist movements, often regarded as a region far removed from the national consciousness, with the engagements with the histories of its peoples being few and far between, leading to a feeling of alienation amongst the peoples here, a feeling further deepened by the geographical remoteness of the region from mainland India. This distinctive troubled region is often seen as India’s ‘Mongoloid fringe’, especially in the context of the racial and other similarities it has with the highland societies of South East Asia. (more…)