Program for the India Conference

##Second Biannual International Conference on Literature, Culture and History Regional Issues: India since 1800## ##Thursday, January 29, 2009, Poříčí 9, Brno## ###Organized by the English Dpt., Faculty of Education, Masaryk University### 8:00 – 9:00 Registration (secretary's office, 3rd floor) 9:00 – 9:30 Conference opening, photo exhibition opening (3rd floor lobby) 9:30 – 10:30 Block I papers and discussion (Dean's boardroom, 1st floor) 10:30-10:45 Coffee & tea break 10:45 – 11:45 Block II papers and discussion (same place) 11:45 – 12:45 Lunch break 13:00 -14:00 Block III papers and discussion (Dean's boardroom, 1st floor) 14:00 -14:15 Coffee & tea break 14:15 – 15:15 Block IV papers and discussion (same place) 15:15 – 15:30 Conference closing (same place) ###Photo Exhibition: Kamila Berndorffová is a photographer, documentarist and publicist. Her long-term Indian experience has been reflected in numerous photo exhibitions, lectures and talks. In 2007, Ms. Berndorffová was awarded 3rd place in the Czech Press Photo competition. She has recently been in India. The English Department of Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, is proud to host a black and white photo collection from 2006 and 2007 in India by Kamila Berndorffová. The exhibition will remain open until April 2009. ###Conference Papers: ####9:30, Block I, Dean's boardroom, 1st floor 1. Martin Hříbek, M.A., Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic: Texts and images in making of the Indian nation. 2. Anna R. Helal, M.A., English Dpt., Faculty of Education, The University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic: Neil Bissoondath: Challenging the Tenets of Multiculturalism in Canada. 3. Dr. Bozena Kucala, Dept. of 20th-Century English Literature and Culture, Institute of English Philology, Jagellonian University, Kraków, Poland: The Indian Mutiny and British Fiction. ####10:45, Block II, Dean's boardroom, 1st floor 1. Mgr. Radek Glabazňa, M.A., Institute of Foregin Languages at Selesian University in Opava, Czech Republic: Secular cosmopolitanism and religious fundamentalism in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh: Bombay as a site of struggle. 2. PhDr. Maria Kissová, Dpt. of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia: Redressing the Imbalance of Fasting, Feasting on the Spiritual Path to Tranquillity and Self-recognition, 3. PaedDr. Dagmar Blight, Dpt. of English Lang. and Literature, Faculty of Education, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia: East meets West, India meets Scotland. ####Block III, 13:00, Dean's boardroom, 1st floor 1. Mgr. Martin Němec, Dpt. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Do you have a pen? The clash of cultures on one of the famous Nepali treks in Himalaya Mountains. 2. PhDr. Irena Přibylová, PhD., Dpt. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Indian Love Call, or, from bhangra to The Imagined Village project. 3. Mgr. Simona Hevešiová, PhD., Dpt. of English and American Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia: India through a lense of an expatriate consciousness. ####Block IV, 14:15, Dean's boardroom, 1st floor 1. Doc. Daniela Petríková, PhD, KAA FF UCM Trnava, Slovakia: Remythologization of modern English fiction. 2. Mgr. Hana Waisserová, PhD. candidate, Dpt. of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Trauma, Repressed Memory, Memory Recovery and Abjection in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. 3. Renata Kamenická, PhD., Department of English and American Studies Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic: Writing Culture, Translating Culture: Cultural Refractions in A. Roy’s The God of Small Things and its Czech Translation.