Sukrita Paul Kumar

Indian Poet, Critic, and Academician

Distinguished Speaker

Prof. Mohd. Asaduddin

Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Chief Advisor

Prof. R. C. Kuhad, Vice Chancellor, Central University of Haryana

Conference Chair

Dr. Pabitra Kumar Mishra, Principal, Bhatter College, Dantan

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Asha Varadharajan, Queen’s University, Canada

Inaugural Speaker

Prof. Himadri Lahiri, Former Professor of English, Burdwan University

Valedictory Speaker

Dr. Maria Ana Tupan, Professor & Author, Romania

Distinguished Speakers

• Prof. Debashis Bandyopadhyay, Dept. of English, Rabindra Bharati University
• Prof. Indranil Acharya, Dept. of English, Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India
• Dr. Jai Singh, Dept. of English, EFLU, Hyderabad, India
• Dr. Jeremy De Chavez, Dept. of English, University of Macau, China
• Prof. Mohd. Asaduddin, Professor of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
• Dr. Priyanka Tripathi, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna, India
• Dr. Ravikant, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
• Dr. Sathyaraj Venkatesan, National Institute of Technology, Trichy
• Dr. S. Chitra, Dept of English, Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan
• Dr. Subhajit Sen Gupta, Dept of English, University of Burdwan
• Dr. Swayam Prabha Sathpathy, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan, Bhubaneswar, India
• Urvashi Butalia, Writer, Publisher, Activist, Padma Shri Awardee
• Dr. Urvashi Kuhad, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi
• Sukrita Paul Kumar, Indian Poet, Critic, Academician

Organizing Committee:

• Dr. Pabitra Kumar Mishra, Principal, Bhatter College, Dantan (Chairman)
• Tarun Tapas Mukherjee, HOD, Dept of English, Bhatter College, Dantan (Convenor)
• Dr. Jai Singh, Assistant Professor, Dept of English, English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad (Co-convenor)
• Dr. Urvashi Kuhad, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi (Co-convenor)
• Dr. S. Chitra, Programme Leader, Dept of English, Yonphula Centenary College, Royal University of Bhutan (Co-convenor)
• Mir Ahammad Ali, Assistant Professor, Dept of English, Bhatter College, Dantan (Programme Organizer)

Key Features

• Open Access
• Double-Blind Peer Review
• Plagiarism Check
• Systematic Archival and Preservation
• Standard Publication

BCIC Scope

The BCIC is being launched as an annual event aiming at exploring the emerging areas in English Studies all over the world. The theme of the conference will change as per the academic and intellectual demand in the field and new areas will be explored. We will seek the assignment of ISSN for the Conference as a regular serial event.

2021 BCIC Theme

One of the recent trends in the field of English Studies is to deconstruct the hegemonic status of the canonical English literature, that came in the English academia around the world as colonial cultural baggage and to give space to the ‘new’/alternative kinds of literature, either written in English and/or available in English translation. This paradigmatic shift in recent decades quite consciously rejects the strict disciplinary divide between Science and Arts and Humanities and focuses on accommodating and integrating different other disciplines/ branches of knowledge within the domain of English Studies. This interfusing of disciplines can broadly be called interdisciplinarity. Quite naturally, there has been a rise not only of different interdisciplinary fields like Green Studies, Digital Humanities, Film Studies, Partition Studies, Animal Studies, Vegan Studies, Food Studies, Game Studies, Media and Communication Studies, Migration Studies, Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies, Memory Studies, and others; but there is also a conscious effort to make English discipline more inclusive, giving space for the marginal voices and disciplines like LGBT Studies, Ethnic Studies, Dalit Literature, Folklore Studies and so on. The conference proposes critical engagement with the recent advances in English Studies and to de/re-territorialize the fixed paradigm of English Studies in a global context. The Conference invites original, unpublished research articles and scholarly papers from teachers, professionals, research scholars, independent researchers and students studying at the postgraduate level.

Thrust Areas

For 2021, the following thrust areas have been chosen:

• Cultural Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Partition and Migration Studies
• Literature in the India Subcontinent in English and English translation
• Gender Studies
• Environmental Studies
• Indigenous Studies
• Dalit Literature and Human Rights
• Digital Humanities and Posthumanism
• Literature and Film
• Theatre and Performance Studies
• Health Humanities
• Media and Communication Studies
• Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies
• Translation Studies
• Field Survey and Documentation of Dalit and Tribal Cultural Texts

Registration Fee:

Rs 500 (India). Foreign: USD 30
Publication Fee:  Selected Papers will be published in the form of a book with ISBN. Publication fee in an edited volume with ISBN: Rs 1000. Foreign: 50 USD

Author’s Guidelines

• Submit the abstract of your paper in about 200-300 words (Times New Roman, 12) with 5-6 Keywords. Use a separate attachment for this and do not include any personal data for double-blind peer review,
• Include your personal details (name, affiliation, address, phone number, email id) in the body of the email.
• After the selection of your abstract, you are asked to submit a draft paper of 1000 words. Use the same email and do not use separate email.
• Finally, after the conference, you will have to submit full-length papers. Use the same email and do not use separate email.
• Articles should be written in an MS Word file following the latest edition of MLA style
• Word Limits for the full paper: 3000-4500 words
• Authors’ bio-note of around 50-60 words should be added at the end of the draft/full paper.

Contact Info:

• Send your submission to Thakurdas Jana, in charge of Communication and Academic Relations, at bcdic2021@gmail.com.
• All updates will be made available on the Departmental website at http://english.bhattercollege.ac.in/bcic2021 and on the Facebook Page of Bhatter College at https://www.facebook.com/bhattercollege