National meet on Epic in India at UoH from today

National meet on Epic in India at UoH from today
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The Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad is organising a national conference on \'Epic in India: Exploring Variations, Transformations and Mutations” from 24 to 26 August. 

The Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad is organising a national conference on 'Epic in India: Exploring Variations, Transformations and Mutations” from 24 to 26 August.

Around 60 delegates from the country will participate in the conference. Prof. Panchanan Mohanty, Dean, School of Humanities, UoH will inaugurate the seminar in the presence of Prof. Tutun Mukherjee, Head of the Centre of Comparative Literature, UoH. Prof. Harish Trivedi will deliver the keynote address on the ‘Idea of Epic across the Ages’.

This will be followed by the academic presentations by Prof. Ipshita Chanda of Jadhavpur University; Prof. Mohan Ramanan of the University of Hyderabad; Prof. Jancy James, Former VC at CUK; Prof. Rana Nayar of Punjab University; Prof. Anisur Rahman of Jamila Millia Islamia; Prof. T S Satyanath of Delhi University; Prof Makarand Paranjape of JNU; Prof. Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharya, Eminent Ideologist; Prof C T India, Formerly, Madras University, Prof. Sachidananda Mohanty, VC of CU Orissa and many others. The deliberations of these scholars will lead the academia of the conference towards better understanding and interpretations of our epics during the three days of the conference.

Epic in India represents the Indian cultural past, replete with various interpolations and interpretations through time. Indian epics are transmuted through centuries and are read not as single texts but different and varied texts in different times, places and contexts.

Epic written in India/Indian Subcontinent has invigorated dynamic literary traditions while its narrative form remains the carrier of a collective memory of the land and its people, traditions of storytelling, and contains varied forms that are re-enacted in marvellous and multifarious ways.

Epic in India has resurrected and offered re-interpretations of the past, forging new identities and creating new histories. It has moved in many directions and undergone several processes of re-creation at ethnic, regional, national and global levels.

The participants from across the country with their academic and critical analysis of local, folk, and epics will participate in this conference to share their views and evaluations of epics through the paper presentation on the broader theme of the conference.

Many nations are careworn to locate themselves according to their historical values and traditions that have pertained in their epics. This conference will intensely and methodically discuss the different aspects of Indian epics and their socio-cultural contributions to our values and traditions.

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