Seminars Conducted
International
Conference on Post Mordernism (March 5th - 7th, 2005)
About the conference
Even though the terrain of this conference was vast,
the basic purpose of this seminar was to engage in
a dialogue to touch upon all sides to this phenomenon.
The purpose was to bring in scholars from science
and humanities for an interface. The other need for
this conference is in its context. There is a need
to get into such inquiries primarily because of its
potential to bring in a range of scholars for a dialogue.
The first International conference
on Postmodernism was held at the Kogakuin University,
Tokyo, Japan in March 2004. The University of Limerick
(Ireland) was also an active participant in the conference.
It was at this conference that it was proposed that
the follow up conference be held in India. This proposal
was accepted by the Mudra Institute of Communication
(MICA), Ahmedabad, India and the conference was held
between March 5th -7th, 2005 at MICA.
The Tokyo conference was an overview
of postmodernism with respect to science and humanities.
The MICA conference was an extension to the same with
a focus on the arts and the media in the context of
globalization. Papers are also invited from related
areas. Given the global scenario today and the interplay
of postmodernism in academic discourses, it is necessary
to delve deeper into the realm of social sciences.
The underlying themes of the India conference were:
1) An enquiry into postmodernism in the realm of science
and humanities in the context of globalisation.
2) How the various dimensions of arts, cinema and
the media are linked to the process.
This seminar was held with the joint
academic collaboration with the University of Limerick
(Ireland) and Tokyo Urban Tech. More than 30 speakers
and participants from Ireland, United Kingdom, United
States, Japan, Pakistan, Iran and India attended the
conference. Palestine was also represented at the
conference. Apart from the invited speakers, all the
other speakers registered for the conference.
This conference was coordinated by
Prof. A.F.Mathew, Prof. Chanchal Shaktawat and Ms.
Juri RoyBurman. The conference proceeded well with
a wide ranging issues being debated and discussed.
We at MICA were also privileged to have some of the
important names in the country and abroad presenting.
We were privileged when renowned Palestinian filmmaker,
Mohammad Bakri sent his documentary film, Jenin Jenin,
to be screened at the Conference. The film highlighted
the economic, political and social condition of the
Palestinian people and their resistance to oppression.
The speakers present at the conference
were:
International :
Prof. Philip Schlesinger, University of Sterling,
England
Prof Brian Coates, Department of Languages and Cultural
Studies, University of Limerick
Prof. Michael Kearney, Department of general Education,
Kogakuin University
Prof. Farooq, A.V, Lahore Institute of Management
(LUMS), Pakistan
Prof. Setsuko Adachi, Department of General Education,
Kogakuin University
Prof Kieran Cashell, University of Limerick
Dr. Kim Arnold, University of Limerick
Dr. Kate Boulay, University of Limerick
Dr. Anne Heith, Umea University, Sweden
Mr. Hossain Najjari, Islamic Azad ,University of Gonabad,
Iran
Mr. Taghi Jabbarifar University of
Yazd, Iran
Indian:
Prof. Nandita Haksar, Former Professor of Law, Bangalore
Law School, India
Prof. Atul Tandan, Director, MICA
Dr. Somnath Zutshi, Director, Seagull Arts and Media
Centre, Calcutta, India
Dr. Rannabir Sammadar, Director, Calcutta Research
Group.
Dr. Lalit Joshi, Department of History, University
of Allahabad
Mr. George Jose, IFA, Bangalore.
Dr. J. J. Roy Burman, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
(TISS), Mumbai
Dr. Paromita Bannerjee, Director, Diksha, Calcutta
Dr. Tattwamasi Paltasingh, EDII, Ahmedabad
Dr. T. Ravichandran, IIT, Kanpur
Mr. Satyaraj. V; Research Scholar, IIT, Kanpur
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