Paper Presentation Schedule

AIFEST International Conference

Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-modern Society

11-13 February 2022

 Instructions for Paper Presenters

1. Please make sure that you find your slot and room in advance, and be there in time. If you are absent during the session, we may not be able to give you another chance as the schedule is tightly packed.

2. Each paper presenter can take 10-12 minutes to complete the presentation. No extra time will be provided. After each presentation there will be a brief interaction and feedback (3 minutes).

3. During the presentation, the presenter is expected to turn the video on.

4. Powerpoint presentation is not compulsory. However, if you are making a ppt presentation, make sure everything is in order well in advance.

5. Merely reading out the paper is strongly discouraged. Please make sure that you are well-versed with your paper.

6. Introduce yourself at the beginning of the presentation.

 * There won’t be paper presentation sessions on 11^th February.

Paper Presentation Schedule for 12^th February 2022

Paper Presentation Session 1

Day 2 | 12 February 2022 | Saturday | 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Ayushi Dwivedi, Christ University Bangalore: Exploring the Ecofeminist Perspective in Atwood’s Surfacing

2. Priyanka Dutta, PhD Research Scholar, EFLU Lucknow Campus: Discourse and Ideology in Select Plays of Manjula Padmanabhan

3. Malvika Avasthi, PhD Scholar: Taxi Driver: A Post-Modernist Study

4. Radha Singh, PhD Scholar, Department of English, BRA Bihar University (Muzaffarpur): Exploring Modern Socio-Cultural Phenomena in the Works of Chaman Nahal

5. Parul Soni, Junior Research Fellow, Department of English, Kurukshetra University: Aboriginal Identity Matters: A Study of N Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony

6. Sakshi Bansal, Research Scholar, Amity University UP & Vineeta Prasad, Head of Institute, Amity University UP: It’s on Me! The Viewer of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

 Day 2 | 12 February 2022 | Saturday | 12.30 pm to 2.00 pm

Room 2: Palace of Illusions

1. Haimanti Bagchi, Freelance Communication Trainer: A Post-Modern Study of the Folk Culture of Bengal- the Baul Tradition

2. Padmaja Mishra, Post-Graduation Scholar: The Kite Runner: Pyschoanalysis in the Pretext of Post Modernity

3. Sonal Agrawal, Phd Research Scholar, Barkatullah University Bhopal: The Theme of Marginalization and Crisis of Woman Survival in Keneally’s Blood Red, Sister Rose

4. A Bindu Sri Geeta Madhuri Devi, PG Student, AP: Ecofeminism in 3 Tollywood movies: Padaharella vayasu, Osey! Ramulamma and 36 Vayasulo

5. Neha Raghuvanshi, Research Scholar, Barkatullah University, Bhopal:      Individual Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient

6. Manju Kumari, Research Scholar, Department of English, Arunachal University of Studies: Code-Switching of Assamese Culture and Language

 Paper Presentation Session 2

Day 2 | 12 February 2022 | Saturday | 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Sanjukta Dutta, Student, WB: Understanding ‘Post Modern Feminism’ in the Literary Compositions of Female Writers in India

2. Raja M, M. Phil English, Jawaharlal Nehru University: A Critical Study of Torture in Chandrakumar’s Lock-Up and Vertrimaaran’s Visaranai

3. Dr Sapna Dogra, Assistant Professor, Government College Baroh, Kangra, HPU: Graphic Narratives and Social Activism: A Study of Select Narratives from Drawing the Line: Indian Women Fight Back

4. Dr Navreet Sahi, Associate Professor of English, Shoolini University, Solan, HP: Storytelling, Perspective and Point of View: An Analysis of Pete Travis’s Film Vantage Point

5. Simran Tripathi, Research Scholar, Department of English, IIS University, Jaipur: From ‘Pan-determinism’ to ‘Free Will’: Dasein’s Journey in Paul Auster’s Mr Vertigo

6. Samikshya Pattnaik, Ph.D Scholar, Sambalpur University: Changing Paradigms in Use of Literary Devices: A Postmodernist Reading of Don Delillo’s Falling Man

 Day 2 | 12 February 2022 | Saturday | 3.30 pm to 5.00 pm

Room 2:  Palace of Illusions

1. Christy Gnana Deepa J, MA English, Fatima College Madurai: Existentialism and Absurdism in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot

2. Raja Meena N, Research Scholar, VIT University Chennai: Winning Charisma: Conglomerate Analyses of Wake up, Life is Calling and This is not your Story

3. Tania Shri, Research Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Jammu: Development, Deforestation, Deterioration and Displacement: Postcolonial Ecofeminism in Mahasweta Devi’s short stories “ The Hunt” and “Douloti the Bountiful”

4. Sakshi Kaushik, Assistant Professor, Chitkara School of Mass Communication, Chitkara University, PB: From Adulteress to Able: A Post-Modernist Study of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

5. Venisha D, Research Scholar, VIT University,Vellore: Ethnic Conflict and Identity Crisis in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost

6. Vellachi V, UG Student: Post Modern Feminism in Anita Desai’s Novels 

Paper Presentation Session 3

Day 2 | 12 February 2022 | Saturday | 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Rituparna Mukherjee, Faculty, Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata: Problematizing Gendered Automobility in Postcolonial Lagos in Chimamanda Ngozi  Adichie’s “Birdsong”

2. Dr Mali Mitra: The Crisis of New Modernity: The Context of Digital Music

3. Vidhi Ravrani: Resurgence of Mythology in Indian writing in English: Analysing Latest Trends of Contemporary Popular Culture

4. Momin Taibahfatma Altafhusain, PhD Scholar: Nissim Ezekiel’s Post Modern Poetry and Feminism

5. Safhana Kareem, MA English, St Paul’s College, Kalamassery, Kerala: Postmodern Feminism: Feminism of the Postmodern

6. Kamaljot Kour, Research Scholar, Department of English, Central University of Jammu & Dr Vandana Sharma, Associate Professor of English, Central University of Jammu: Shifting Paradigms of Ecofeminism in Select Writings of Anuradha Roy

 Day 2 | 12 February 2022 | Saturday | 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm

Room 2:  Palace of Illusions

1. Dhritimoni Mahanta (M.A. Cotton University) & Tanmoya Barman (M.A. Tezpur University): Tracing the Criterion of Post-Modern Tenacity in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

2. Kirtikumar D Ramanuj, Research Scholar, Department of English and CLS, Saurashtra University, Rajkot: An Existential Reading of Dangling Man by Saul Bellow

3. Aditya Raj, Research scholar, Patna University & Dr Stuti Prasad: A Postmodernist Study of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Green Mars

4. Shreya Bhardwaj, PhD Research Scholar, Sharda University  & Dr Mukuta Borah, Assistant Professor, Sharda University: Women amid Partition: A Critique of Psychological Turmoil in Where Did I Leave My Purdah?

5. Esny Elias, Postgraduate Student, Union Christian College, Aluva: Breaking the Fourth Wall of Fiction: A Therapeutic Narration of Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars

6. Dr Mridusmita Mahanta, Associate Professor, Dept of English, Sonapur College: A Post-Modern Approach to the Communicative Aspect of Mythology: A Study into the Myths of the Brahmaputra

 Paper Presentation Schedule for Sunday, 13 February 2022

Paper Presentation Session 4

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 08.00 am to 9.45 am

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Dr Sanghamitra De, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati: The Body at Risk: Poetics of Gender and Corporeality in Select Postmodern Texts

2. Diana Monisha R, PhD Research Scholar, Auxilium College, Vellore: Feminist Phenomenology in Elif Shafak’s 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

3. Ms Jithya Merin Paul, Research Scholar, VIT: Post Modern Analysis on Brechts’ The Unworthy Old Woman: Through a Gerontological Lens

4. Dr Shatakshi, BRABU, Muzaffarpur & Dr Rahul Sharma, Assistant Professor, AIESR, Amity University Patna: Exploration of Isolation, Materialism, Racism and Absurdity in The Caretaker

5. Dr. Neelu Khosla, Associate Professor, Vivek College of Commerce, Mumbai: Contextualizing Post Modernism and Post Nationalism: Revival in Asian Geopolitics

6. V. R. Raja Pravina, Assistant Professor, Department of English (SF), Thiagarajar College, Madurai: Sita’s Ramayana: A Postmodern Reading of the Graphic Novel

7. Yashasvini Rathore, Research Scholar, Dept. of English, IIS Jaipur: Prisons of Smile: Self-presentation and Expression in Nosedive

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 08.00 am to 9.45 am

Room 2:  Palace of Illusions

1. V. Heymonth Kumar, I M.A. English, Bharathiar University PGE and RC, Perundurai, Erode: Post-Modern Texts and Retelling in Atwood’s Hag-Seed

2. Manodip Chakraborty:  Asst. Prof. Dept. of Applied Science and Humanities, GL Bajaj Group of Institutions, Mathura: From Artificial to Natural: Understanding the Isogloss of Postmodern e-Gaming Language

3. Shavleen Kour, Research Scholar, Panjab University, Chandigarh: Unveiling the Reflections of Hyperreality in Emma Donoghue’s Room (2010)

4. Mitali Bhattacharya, Research Scholar, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi: Understanding Postmodernism in Indian Context: A Study of Select Plays of Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar and Mahesh Elkunchwar

5. Angel Tess Cherian, Former Assistant Professor on Contract, Assumption College: Mixing Memory with Music: Juxtaposing Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood with Select Songs by The Beatles

6. Ms K Indumathi, Assistant Professor of English: An Analysis of Magic Realism in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

7. Rajbir Samal, Ph.D. scholar, IIT Roorkee: Edible Indians: An Alternative Reading of Food, Gender, and Ethnicity in Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges’ The Mistress of Spices 

Paper Presentation Session 5

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 12.00 pm to 1.45 pm

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Dr Rajesh Vishnu Yeole, Head, Department of English, Changu Kana Thakur College,New Panvel & Ms. Deepti Nambiar, Research Scholar, English, Changu Kana Thakur College, New Panvel: The Cataclysm of Identity Crisis and Sense of Alienation in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

2. Lakhibai Yumnam, Research Scholar, English and Cultural Studies Department, Manipur University, Manipur: Intertexuality as a Narrative Device in Zadie Smith’s On Beauty

3. Gajendra Verma, Assistant Professor, Govt Girls College Hanumangarh: Diasporic Identity in Tiger’s Daughter by Bharati Mukherjee

4. Anny Saifi, Research Scholar, Raghunath Girls’ PG College, Meerut:  Depiction of Subalterns through the Time: A Study of Select Indian English Novels

5. Parvathi T S, Guest Lecturer, MES College, Marampally, Aluva: Post Modern Feminist Reading in Meena Kandasamy’s Novel When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

6. Gabriela Galeena, Student MA English, St Paul’s College, Kalamassery: Analysing the Space of Violence in Bond’s Lear

7. Preetha Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Basic Science and Humanities, GKCEM: Individual’s Imperative Need for Resistance: Re-thinking the Post-modern Individual in The Birthday Party

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 12.00 pm to 1.45 pm

Room 2:  Palace of Illusions

1. Shohib Bashir, Research Scholar, IIT Roorkee, Uttarakhand: Cultural Practices in Medicine and Post Modern Sensibility: A Reading of Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy

2. Prasenjit Singha, Student, Dept of English, Sonapur College: Post-Modern Feminism in Sudha Murty’s Mahasweta

3. Jyoti Priyadarshini, PhD Scholar, IIIT Bhubaneswar: Problematising Truth in Anees Jung’s Unveiling India and Chitra Fernando’s Women There and Here

4. Swagath S Senan, MPhil Scholar, Centre for English Studies, JNU, New Delhi: Anthropocene as Grand Narrative of the Post Modern World: A Reading of Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition

5. Maria Siby, Student, SB College Changanasserry: Women and Augmented Reality: The Era of Social Media Influencers

6. Ankita Choudhary, Ph.D. scholar, Department of English, IIS University, Jaipur: Beyond Postmodernism: British “rudeboys” Transcending Marginalization Through Language in Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani

7. Sangeetha M, Assistant Professor of English, SDNB Vaishnav College for Women: BoJack Horseman: Hyperreality, Hollywood and the Horse

 

Paper Presentation Session 6

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Ms Jithya Merin Paul, Research Scholar, VIT: Post Modern Analysis on Brechts’ The Unworthy Old Woman: Through a Gerontological Lens

2. Shatabdi Mondal, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, WB: John Fowles’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman remodelled as a Deconstructionist of Self-image and a Postmodern Feminist

3. Dr Abha Singh, Assistant Professor, SRMIST, Delhi NCR Campus: Language Impact of Mythical-Superheroic Stories and Fairy Tales upon Tender Minds of Children

4. Javairia Nousheen - Research Scholar, REVA University & Dr. Abhisarika Prajapati, REVA University: White Wash Culture in Enid Blyton’s Series for Children: A Study of the Representation of the Individual Child and Socio-Cultural Aspects

5. Aarti, Phd Research Scholar, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar: A Critical Evolution of Tagore’s Philosophy of Education and its Relevance in Post Modern Era

6. Geetanjali Basumatary, PhD Scholar, Tezpur University: The Journey From Absent Mother to Working Mother in The Autobiography of a Sex Worker

 

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm

Room 2:  Palace of Illusions

1. Nisha Narwani,  Assistant Professor, Ramroa Adik Institute of Technology, Nerul Navi Mumbai: Celebration of Chaos:A Postmodernist Study of Manto's Toba Tek Singh

2. Alamuri Sri Nidhi, Assistant Professor of English, G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College Kurnool: English as a Lingua Franca for the Voiceless: Marginalized Literature

3. Mehar Jahan Bushra, PhD Scholar, Department of English and MELL, University of Lucknow: (Un)reliable Narrator and Postmodern Fiction: Reading Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending

4. Mohammed Shafeer KP, PhD Research Scholar, Thiruvalluvar University, TN: Margaret Atwood’s Theory of Victimisation and the Role of Kerala Feminism

5. Ms Sparsh Vyas, PhD Scholar, Central University of Gujarat: The Power(ful)less Women: A Critical Study of Contemporary Indian Drama

6. Vijay Kumar K.V, Assistant professor of English, Government First Grade College Bapuji Nagar, Shivamogga: Postmodernist Metanarrative of ‘Wizard of the Crow’

Paper Presentation Session 7

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm

Room 1:  Slaughterhouse-Five

1. Dr Klinsa Kurien, Assistant Professor, Medicaps University, Indore MP: The Quest of Existence in Post-Covid Times: A Study of the Theme of Existence in Sigrid Nunez’s Salvation City

2. Dr Priyanka Kulhari, Assistant Professor, ARSD College, University of Delhi: Indian Woman and Cinema: A Shift from “Men act, women appear”

3. Vasantha S, Assistant professor, Department of English, Sir MV Govt Arts and Commerce College, Bhadravati: Marginalization of Cultures and Mahasweta Devi

4. Dr. Aparna Ajith, Asst. Professor, Dept. of English, Sree Narayana College for Women, Kollam: Actuality Versus Possibility: A Postmodern Reading of Margaret Atwood’s Happy Endings

5. Mariya Sheema, Faculty of English, Sarojini Naidu Vanita Maha Vidyalaya, OU: Postmodernism and the Decayed Portrayal of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

6. Nikhat Fatima, Lecturer, Sarojini Naidu Vanita Maha Vidyalaya, Hyderabad: Existence of Aliens: A Myth or a Post-Modern Reality?

7. Dr Anchal Dahiya, Assistant Professor, Gurugram University: Post-modern Elements in the Plays of Manjula Padmanabhan: Lights Out and Harvest

8. Reshma Ann Peter, Assistant Professor of English, Don Bosco College TN: Reclaiming Space and Identity: Examining the Rohingyan Refugee Crisis through Literary Memoirs 

Day 3 | 13 February 2022 | Sunday | 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm

Room 2:  Palace of Illusions

1. Meghana V Goshi, Research Scholar, Jain University, Bangalore & Dr Vinodhini Chinnaswamy, Assistant Professor, Jain University, Bangalore: “Quest for Mizo Identity” in Malsawmi Jacob’s Novel Zorami: The Redemption Song

2. Rangnath Thakur, Research Scholar, IIT Roorkee: (Re)visiting Gandhi’s Idea of Swaraj in Postmodern Condition

3. S Jemima, Assistant Professor, English, Bishop Ambrose College, Coimbatore: The Concept of Replica and the Quest for Originality in Julian Patrick Barnes’ Novel England, England

4. Dr Pooja Joshi, Assistant Professor of English, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur: Mapping Spatiotemporal Memory and Postmodern Identity in The Kite Runner

5. Dr Mahi S Thavarathu, Assistant Professor, VISH, VIT-AP University: Dub Poetry, Re-telling and Elements of Negotiations in the Poetry of Raquel McKee

6. Showkat Ahmad Shiekh, Research scholar, Department of English Studies Akal University, Talwandi Sabo: Exploring Postmodernism in John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

7. Dr. M. Samadhanam Emimal, Assistant Professor of English, Don Bosco College, Yelagiri: Re-Contextualizing the Narrative: A Postmodern Insight on Retold Fairytales

8. Jeffy Catherine R, Research Scholar, Sarah Tucker College & Dr R Selvi, Associate Professor of English, Sarah Tucker College: The Changing Chronicle of the Subaltern: A Postmodern Reading of Jaishree Misra’s Ancient

If you don’t find your name in the list (provided your abstract got accepted and you paid the registration and presentation fee), please email us at aifestevents@gmail.com. No new registrations and abstract submissions will be entertained.