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<div>I am very pleased to announce a 2 day conference titled <i>Everyday Life in Contemporary India
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<div>The CFP is appended below, which I hope you would help circulate. </div>
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<div>The conference website is: <a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/research/otago080322.html">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/research/otago080322.html</a></div>
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<div>best wishes, vijay</div>
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Life in Contemporary India</span></i></b></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Apple Chancery'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">17 & 18 December 2014</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Apple Chancery'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">University of Madras</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: 'Apple Chancery'; font-size: 10pt; text-align: center;">Chennai, India</span></div>
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<div><i style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans"">Jointly organised by the Department of Journalism & Communication, University of Madras, India, the Department of Media, Film & Communication, University
of Otago, New Zealand, & New Zealand India Research Institute.</span></i></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This conference explores the everyday lives and experiences of people in contemporary India. It seeks to critically interrogate and debate the varied ways in which everyday
life in India is played out, acted upon, and conceived. The Indian everyday is diverse, heterogeneous, and changing rapidly. Multiple complimentary and contradictory forces circulate and compete, and new social divisions, solidarities, and struggles for recognition
and legitimacy animate the contemporary Indian everyday. At a time when India is at a critical juncture in its globalization story,
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/research/otago080322.html"><i>Everyday Life in Contemporary India</i></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> seeks
to examine the ways that people</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> negotiate, traverse and engage various aspects of their everyday life.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> The aim of the
conference is to examine the complexities of the everyday and provide a platform to foster a deeper understanding of socio-cultural life in contemporary India.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">We welcome papers from a variety of disciplines — cultural studies, social and cultural geography, media studies, communication studies, sociology, anthropology, history, literature, visual
culture, and politics — that theoretically and critically engage with selected aspects of everyday life in contemporary India.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">We invite papers to address the following broad concerns:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt;">How do people cultivate practices, activities, practical techniques, tactics, and
social bonds in order to negotiate everyday life in contemporary India?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -24px;">·</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt;">How do they cultivate horizons that provide them with the
impetus, direction, and desire to construct a future?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt;">What is the impact of this on different aspects of their lived realities — gender
relations, production and consumption patterns, lifestyle choices, family structures, religion, social distinctions (caste and class), politics, sense of belonging, sexuality, community and culture?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt;">How are cultural practices and political attitudes changing and shifted in contemporary
India? What has remained unchanged, or perhaps been hybridized? What new experiences and practices animate metropolitan cities and rural communities? How have public spaces been reconfigured? How are social hierarchies articulated? What is the role and location
of new media in the negotiation of private/public spheres and the transformation of everyday life?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span lang="EN-US" style="text-indent: -18pt; font-size: 10pt;">Whose everyday are we talking about? How might we theorize everyday life in contemporary
India? What regimes of inequalities continue to prevail, in what circumstances have new ones formed? How do state & global policies impact local everyday practices? Have patterns of social mobility remained static or been transformed? How are citizens and
city planners responding to these contemporary changes in India? How is the diaspora reconfiguring the Indian everyday?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Abstract Submission</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The conference committee will accept abstracts until
</span><b style="font-size: 10pt;">10<sup> </sup>November 2014</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Paper proposals can be submitted to
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="mailto:contemlifeindia14@gmail.com">contemlifeindia14@gmail.com</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">. Proposals should include title, author's name/s, affiliation, contact email address,
a short abstract (no more than 300 words), and a 100-word bio. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt;">Duration & Venue</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The proposed conference will be for two days, on 17-18 December 2014. It will be organized in Chennai at the University of Madras (Chepauk Campus) premises.</span></p>
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