Focus Areas:

New Centres of Consciousness: New Post-colonial,

and International English Literature

The Diasporas, Multiculturalism

Indigenous Literatures in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand and the Fourth World

Histories, Empire and Post-Colonial Moment

African and Caribbean Literature
Indian Writings in English

Use of Technology in Teaching English

Innovative trends in ELT
Innovations in English language/ literature
education
Literature in Language Classroom
EFL/ESL pedagogy
Content Based Teaching
Issues in Testing Language Skills
All themes related to Language & Literature

Honorary Advisory:
Prof. C.R. Visweswara Rao, Former Vice-Chancellor, VSU
Prof. R. Saraswathi, ANU, Guntur
Prof. VVN Rajendra Prasad, Rayalaseema University, Kurnool
Prof. M. Madhusudhan Rao, ANU, Guntur
Prof. Vennelakanti Prakasam, CIEFL, Hyderabad
Prof. Sheba Victor, EFL, Hyderabad
Prof. K. Ramesh, Nannaya University, Rajamundry

Registration Fee:
For Members of Faculty

: Rs. 1200

For Students & Research Scholars

: Rs. 600

Spot Registration

: Rs. 1300

No TA/ DA will be paid to the Participants

Datelines:
Registrations open from : 18 February 2014
Last Date of Registration : 15 March 2014
Registration fee has to be sent in the form of DD drawn in
favour of the Convener, DLL - 2014, payable at any
nationalized bank in Nellore.

Accommodation:
The participants have to make their own
arrangements for accommodation.

About the Department:

Department of English, Vikrama Simhapuri
University is a highly motivated and resourceful
department with equal focus on both teaching and
research. The Department stands pioneering in being at
the frontiers of receiving the exponential trends in English
Language & Literature with their active imports reflected
in informed teaching practices and justifiable research.
The Department has its role underscored in presiding the
dearly-owned National Knowledge Commissions ideals
of realizing knowledge explosion through skill
enhancement of the students through global competence.
Soft Skills, the course offered by the Department, is
designed for this purpose. The Department offers the
specialized subject, Writing for Media, to give language
learning a purposeful social responsibility with an intent
to create an enterprising employable force.

About the University

Vikrama Simhapuri University reflects the vision
of the National Knowledge Commission that the new
universities ought to create equitable opportunities to
widen the access to promote higher education, and to
contribute to a value-based knowledge society. The
University came into being on 25th June, 2008 and is
currently offering Seventeen Courses. The University
College, Nellore, constitutes two Colleges: the College of
Arts, Commerce and Management & the College of
Science and Technology. The University has the
uniqueness of two campuses: one in Nellore and the other
is in Kavali in a sprawling 78 acre area. The University is
also endowed with 126 Affiliated Colleges extending its
academic jurisdiction in Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore
District, Andhra Pradesh.

About the Seminar

English Language and Literature, the saga of the
admirable strides of human progress, innovation, selfexploration and at the vanguard of linguistic-fluid lines, is
the life-bread of historico-cultural changes knocking
down the man-mapped boundaries of the world. The

Literatures of the world today have grown new that

resemble the trends of Modernity rather than of
Modernism and transcending the fragmenteddisillusioned vision of the Postmodern spaces. Since
Goethes concept of Weltliteratur (World literature),
Literature has reflected a nations psyche with the
Language its breath-force to represent the universal
human phenomenon. It is a language and culture rooted
process that includes our understanding of our position
and place in the world and others. Language and
Literature are made to be the stages for defining the
cultural richness and the historically-negotiated turns in
the globalized world.
The axiomatic fact is that language is a part of
culture and is to be found and savoured at its best in the
literature of that culture. Language and Literature could
establish a shared communion of sensibility. Perhaps it
was an instinctive and tacit recognition, not conscious,
much less explicit, that led civilized communities to
always associate the acquisition of language with an
acquaintance with some of the literature in the
language.
Key thinkers of Language and Literature of the
recent past such as the two totally different ones like
Leavis in England and Bakhtin in Russia never tired of
emphasizing the inextricable and intricate connections
among language, culture and literature, in their ways.
They came to similar conclusions on this though
through different routes. Bakhtin stressed the dialogic
or interpersonal or inter-subjective use of language in
life and literature its cultural charge. We understand
culture as a whole way of life, innately value driven.
The values may and do change by way of local,
regional or period modifications and shifts. But the
essential endure and adhere in some fashion or other to
something like the great Platonic values of truth, beauty
and goodness, albeit the ideas of what constitute these
may change.

In this context, the Seminar focuses on both

English Language and Literature as the
outgrowths and informing factors of culture.
Hence, the Dialectics of Language and Literature
negotiates these turns and trends to interesting
debates and deliberations.
Objectives of the Seminar:

To examine the Coleridgean idea that words tell

us about worlds and society with an affirming
faith to negotiate the Sasssurean linguistic notion
of arbitrariness of the relation of verba to res.
To study the literature of imagination as not a
copy of the quotidian reality, but a realization of
its own level of reality with a correspondence
with ordinary reality.
To interrogate the shared communion of
sensibility between Language and Literature.
To delve on the inextricable and intricate
connections among language, culture and
literature.

Second Endowment Lecture: The Seminar stages

Prof.
Vennelakanti
Prakasams
Second
Endowment Lecture on the Inaugural day, 19th
March, 2013. The Lecture will be delivered by:
Sri K. Ramachandra Murthy, Chief Editor, HMTV
& Hans India, Hyderabad.
Focal Theme of the Talk is Social Justice.
Guidelines:
Last Date of Submission of Abstracts*:

10-03-2014

12-03-2014

Submission of Full-Paper** :

16-03-2014

Intimation of Acceptance

* Abstracts should be sent only in MS Word, doc, docx

**Full papers in MS Word only will be accepted. PDFs are not
accepted and will not be acknowledged.
Send the full papers as Mail attachment to ecsc2013@gmail.com
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A Book with ISBN: 978-93-5156-174-3 will be

published from a publisher of repute after the Seminar
with select Research Papers of authenticity, pragmatic
interventions and research rationality.
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No Publication fee will be charged. Please be

plagiarism alert.