Two-Day National Seminar on Gender-Based Violence in South Asia: Literature, Culture and Media

Organizer: Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur

About the Seminar

• When: 30 & 31st October 2026
• Venue: Department of English, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur
• Call for Papers
• Selected papers will be considered for publication in both an edited volume with an internationally renowned publisher (Routledge/Bloomsbury) or a special issue of a Scopus Indexed journal

Registration Fee:

• Faculty Members and Independent Researchers: INR 2000
• Research Scholars : INR 1500
• The registration fee shall cover the Seminar kit, breakfast and lunch for the two days of the Seminar. (Limited accommodation can be made available in the University Guest House on payment of the guest house charges.)

Plenary Speaker: Prof. Dhriti Ray Dalai (Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi)

Panel Titles

Reproductive Justice, Motherhood and Violence” (by Dr. Dhananjay Tripathi)

“Knowing pain, Governing Bodies: Gender, Health, Care and Epistemic Violence in South Asia” (by Dr. Sakshi Srivastava)

“Gendered Violence in the Nineteenth-Century India-A Study of Select Women's Literature” (by Dr. Agnibha Maity)

“Beyond the spectacle of violence: Transgender lives, Cinema and Life Narratives in South Asia” (by Dr. Mohd Shamim)

“Bodies that matter in Place: Trans Performativity, Surveillance, and the Making of Queer Worlds” (by Dr. Diksha)

“Violence Against Women and Girls, Bodily Autonomy and Reproductive Justice: Literary, Cultural and Media Perspectives in South Asia.” (by Dr. U.H. Ruhina Jesmin)

“Post-feminist Digital Cultures, Manosphere, and the Reconfiguration of Gendered Violences” (by Dr. Shayequa Tanzeel)

“Indigeneity, Gender and Political Power: Media Representation, Cultural Narratives and Resistance in South Asia” (by Dr. Himashree Patowary)

“Gender-Based Violence at the Margins: Intersectionality, Subalternity and Women's Voices in South Asia” (by Ms. Sanjeewani Priyadarshika Rupasinghe)

"Framing Inherited Memories and the Gendered Body: Tracing Trans-generational Partition Trauma in South Asian Cultural Narratives" (by Dr. Ishmeet Kaur)

“Reclaming the Female Body: Bodily Textuality and the Subversion of Phallocentricism”. (by Dr. Parshnat Kumar)

"Gender and New Media": Digital Spaces as Sites of Gendered Violence (by Dr. Ragini Kapoor)

"Rethinking Gender Violence: Posthumanist, Materialist, and Technological Perspectives" (by Dr. Hariom Singh)

“Caste, Gender and Violence: Dalit Feminist Writings, Testimonios and Anti-Caste Critiques” (Dr Abhisarika Prajapati)

"Breaking the silence :Gender -based Violence,Patriarchy and Female Agency in Hindi Cinema" (Prof. Vikas Sharma)

"The Violence of Unhoming: Representing Gender, Migration and the Fractured Self in Women’s Writing" (Dr. Sadaf Fareed)

Organizing Committee Members

Patron: Prof. Krishna Pal Singh (Vice Chancellor, DDU Gorakhpur University)

Convenor: Prof. Sunita Murmu (Head, Department of English, DDU Gorakhpur University)

Co-Convenor: Dr. Brijesh Kumar (Department of English, DDU Gorakhpur University)

Organiser: Dr. Sanjeev Vishwakarma (Department of English, DDU Gorakhpur University)

Contact Details

Prof. Sunita Murmu: +91 9935176406

Dr. Brijesh kumar: +91 9532323940

Dr. Sanjeev Vishwakarma: +91 9455243846

Email: gbvseminar@gmail.com