Inaugural Session (10:00-11:30) |
- Welcome
Dr. B. Hariharan (Director, UGC Area Study Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Kerala) - Introducing the WADIS
Dr. Manas Chatterji (Professor, School of Management, State University of New York, Binghamton)
- Presidential Address
Dr. Maya Dutt (Professor & Head, Institute of English, University of Kerala)
- Inaugural Address
Shri Sashi Kumar Menon (Asian School of Journalism, Chennai)
- Felicitations
- Dr. Mohanachandran Nair (Member, Syndicate, University of kerala)- Dr. Jolly Jacob (Member, Syndicate, University of Kerala)- Dr. Jameela Begum (Chairperson, Curriculum Committee, ASAP, Government of Kerala)
- Vote of thanks
Dr. B. S. Jamuna (Director, CELT, Coordinator, UGC-SAP, Institute of English, University of Kerala)
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Session II (11:45-13:15) |
- Chair
Dr. Joseph Dorairaj (Dept. of English, Gandhigram Univ.) - Presenter
- Shri Gouridasan Nair (Deputy Editor and Chief of Bureau The Hindu), "Diaspora and Media"- Dr. Mridul Eapen (Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram), "Diaspora and Gender"- Dr. Swati Ganguly (Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan), "Westward Ho!: The Diasporic Academia and Indian Postocolonial Studies"
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