ICPR Funded National Workshop, February, 2016 (8-13)
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KHARAGPUR 721302 W.B.
Themes
* Countering East West Philosophic Binaries
* Revisiting Orientalism through Epistemic Restructuring
* Non-West as the Primary Signifier
* Politics of Knowledge, Colonization of Epistemes
* Western Paradigms and Eastern Rejoinder
* Deleuze`s Notion of Time Image, repetition and difference and Indian Idea of Kala
* Heidegger`s Deep Time and Itihasa
* Derrida, Deconstruction and Vartihari or the Mahabharata
* Post-humanism, the Anthropocene and the the Foundational Indian Philosophic Texts
* Notion of the Self in Deleuze, Derrida, Irrigary and an Indian Philosophic Response
* Zizek`s Notion of Violence and Gandhi
* Identity Politics of Deleuze and Ambedkar
* Philosophising the Human Condition: Derridean Reading of The Mahabharata
* Alain Badiou, Being and Event and a Study of Atman
Contact Info
Prof. Saswat.S.Das
Associate Professor, Postmodern and Postcolonial Studies
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
West Bengal 721302
India
Phone: +91- 03222-283611
Email: saswatdas.bapi@gmail.com Ssd@hss.iitkgp.ernet.in
Dr. Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
Associate Professor
Department of English, Kazi Nazrul University
Asansol, West Bengal
Pin code: 713340
India
Email: anindyasp@gmail.com
How To Apply
Kindly send your bio-data in .doc or pdf format. Important publications and other achievements/ recognition related to the topic may be sent along with the biodata. It will help in selecting the candidates. The number of the participants will be limited to 25. The selection will be made on the basis of qualifications and experience. Interested participants are requested to contact Prof. Saswat. S. Das over mail for further details.
IIT Kharagpur
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur more commonly known as lIT Kharagpur. Situated about 120 km west of Kolkata, Kharagpur can be reached in about 2 hours by train from Howrah railway station of Kolkata or 3 hours by car from Kolkata Airport. Kharagpur is also connected by direct train services to most major cities of the country. The Institute is about 10 minutes drive (5 km) from the Kharagpur railway station. Private taxi, autorickshaw or cycle-rickshaw can be hired to reach the Institute.