Lyceum: An Annual International Peer-Reviewed e-Journal of the Department of English, Bankura University
ISSN 2582-3035
Vol. 2 August 2023
“Entangled: Takes on Trans- Today, in Literature and Culture”
Call for Papers
“Trans-”, a prefix of excess, unmake, radicality and new beginnings derived from Latin “trans” denoting “across”, signifies the urge to test, un-think, re-draw and finally, cross as also smudge boundaries and the conditions of confinement and exclusions they might represent. Contemporary realities and receptions come screened through technologies of speed, genres of emergency and the scream of loyalty to alleged singulars – of identities, icons, nationalities and market-brands. Trans-factors as bearer of alternative possibilities yet lurk, spill into, and re-form – discourses of the trans-/nation, as theorized by Bill Ashcroft, of translation, as contended by Harish Trivedi and Susan Basnett, and of disciplines and media, as proposed by Ranjan Ghosh.
To what extent do trans-factors like travel, exile, myriad socio-historical others mapped in matrices of language, gender, discipline, media, environment wounded around the developmental or, the human nudged to brink by machines and the viral, perform the unrest of imagined alterities? How to read trans- as a register in the context of open endings, or the politics of remembrance and forgetting, in literature, histories and popular culture? Would it write back to the sly compulsion of complicity in post-al discourses, could it become the Babel-hinge to forging difficult solidarities? If so, how?
This issue of Lyceum invites original research papers, also reviews of books and films on “Entangled: Takes on Trans- Today, in Literature and Culture” which may engage with, but may not be limited to, the following sub-themes:
Travel, transfusion, exile and expatriates in literature and histories
The craft of forgetting and memorializing in literature and histories
Nationing and the trans-nation
History, and historiographies, as rehearsals for the present
Genres of emergency
The nature of plastics, the plastic age
Technologies of speed, social media and digital society
Popular culture and cultural studies
Digital literature, literary data
Machines and thinking
Translation and heteroglossia
Reading the pandemic
Reading toxicity and pollution
Literature across frontiers
Testimony and trauma
Surveillance capitalism
Professor Alan Riach, Glasgow University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Professor Bashabi Fraser, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Professor Carla Sassi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Vice Chancellor (Retd.), Bankura University, India.
Professor Ian Brown, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom.
Professor James Arvanitakis, Dean of Graduate Studies, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Professor Krishna Sen, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.
Professor Neil Fraser, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor Paul Brown, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Professor Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Professor Raelene Frances, Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Professor Santosh Sareen, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Professor Sobha Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Professor Subir Dhar, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.
Editor: Head, Department of English, Bankura University
Editor of Volume 2 on "Entangled: Takes on Trans- Today, in literature and Culture"
Dr. Ipsita Sengupta
Associate Professor & Head, Department of English,
School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155.
Email: lyceum@bankurauniv.ac.in, hodenglish@bankurauniv.ac.in
Professor Goutam Buddha Sural
Hon’ble Vice Chancellor (Acting), Bankura University
&
Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155
Email: goutambuddhasural@gmail.com
Professor Sarbojit Biswas
Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155
Email: sarbojitbiswas@bankurauniv.ac.in
Professor Sandip Ain
Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155
Email: sandipain@bankurauniv.ac.in
Mr. Sukhendu Das
Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155
Email: sukhendujimmy@gmail.com
Dr. Subhadeep Paul
Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155
Email: subhadeeppaul@bankurauniv.ac.in
Dr. Aindrilla Guin
Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
Bankura University, Bankura, WB, India. Pin: 722155
Email: aindrilla.guin@gmail.com
ISSN: 2582-3035
After a COVID-induced hiatus, Lyceum, the international open access online only e-journal of the Department of English, School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies, Bankura University, Bankura, West Bengal, India, is now being re-launched in an annual, peer-reviewed version in 2023.
Its debut volume having been launched in February 2018, Lyceum aims to publish original scholarly articles on interdisciplinary and emergent areas of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, as also reviews of books and other cultural texts. All papers and articles will be subject to double blind peer review.
Meaningful contemporary research in South Asia in Humanities and the Social Sciences tends to smudge boundaries between disciplines and involves acts in translation. Lyceum intends to become an interdisciplinary portal for exciting and high-quality work from researchers across locations local and global and promote new critical-creative thought enabling conversations between locations. It would thus not only bridge research gaps in emergent domains of interdisciplinarity, but act as an interactive platform for academicians and students, readers and contributors for future collaborations and research possibilities connecting geographies and diverse perspectives. Through its articles and reviews, the journal hopes to create a perch for Bankura to speak and write to the world on domains of contemporary interest.
Issues will be theme based, highlighting recent trends in interdisciplinary research in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
The journal derives its name from Lyceum (Ancient Greek: Λύκειον, Lykeion) which was a temple dedicated to Apollo Lyceus or the wolf-god. The Lyceum in ancient Greece served as a site of philosophical discussions hosting such eminent philosophers and teachers as Prodicus of Ceos, Protagoras, Isocrates, Plato (of The Academy), Socrates, etc. More famously, The Lyceum is also the name of the Peripatetic school founded in 334 BCE by Aristotle on his return from Asia and continued by Theophrastus after Aristotle’s exile. We hope the journal title in translation in this tense and space continues the kindle of debates and creating-analysing habitats of diversity.
Professor Alan Riach, Glasgow University, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Professor Bashabi Fraser, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Professor Carla Sassi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
Professor Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Vice Chancellor (Retd.), Bankura University, India.
Professor Ian Brown, Kingston University, London, United Kingdom.
Professor James Arvanitakis, Dean of Graduate Studies, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Professor Krishna Sen, Calcutta University, Kolkata, India.
Professor Neil Fraser, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Professor Paul Brown, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Professor Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
Professor Raelene Frances, Dean of the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Professor Santosh Sareen, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
Professor Sobha Chattopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
Professor Subir Dhar, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.
Editor: HoD, Department of English
Editorial Board: Faculty Members of the Department
Email id: : lyceum@bankurauniv.ac.in
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Volume 02 August 2023 |
Lyceum welcomes submission of research papers and reviews suited to the theme of the particular volume, with a focus on interdisciplinarity, emergent areas of research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and fresh perspectives, concepts and analytical frameworks that would help advance theory and areas of praxis in the domain.
Lyceum invites writings on the following sections:
1. Research Paper / Scholarly Article
2. Book Review
Papers / Writings submitted for publication must not have been published elsewhere, or under consideration for publication anywhere else.
There is no charge to the author(s) or the authors’ institution for paper review and/or publication in Lyceum.
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Manuscripts for refereeing should conform to the guidelines specified for the Journal. Inparticular, all direct and indirect references to the author(s) should be eliminated from submitted manuscripts and author(s’) information included in a separate document.
Each manuscript submitted for publication is processed by the Editors. The manuscripts arethen blind reviewed by referees. Working from the referees’ reports, the Editors decide whether to publish a particular manuscript. The Editors may require the authors of accepted papers to make specific revisions, and may suggest to authors of rejected papers general revisions which might make them publishable.
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School of Literature, Language and Culture Studies,
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