Exploring Identity through Multiple Lenses

Prof (Dr.) P.K. Shajahan
Dean, Academic Affairs , Director’s Office
Professor, Centre for Community Organization and Development Practice,
School of Social Work – Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

Dr. P.K. Shajahan is currently the Vice-President of International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW) and represents ICSW at the Task Force on Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development 2020 – 2030. As a Member of the Board of Directors, International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), he Chairs the Publication Committee of IASSW. He along with colleagues from Europe, Americas and Africa founded two global academic alliances – Critical Edge Alliance (CEA) and Solidarity Economy Reciprocity and Social Innovation (SERESI). He is heading international collaborative academic projects with University of Bristol (UK), Roskilde University (Denmark), University College Dublin (Ireland), University of California, Berkeley and Tribhuvan University (Nepal). His research, publications and areas of expertise include, Participatory Development; Social Enterprises and Social Innovation; Diversity and Social Cohesion; Community and Civic Engagement; School Education and Accountability; Social Protection and Social Policies; International Social Work; and Youth Development. He has been a visiting faculty at University of Chicago (USA), Gavle University (Sweden), Tampere University (Finland) and Roskilde University (Denmark).

Research Interests:
Social Innovation and People-Centred Development, Social Enterprises Diversity, Social Cohesion and Human Security, Community and Civic Engagement, Social Protection and Social Policies, International Social Work, Youth Development.

Prof (Dr.) Shilpa Phadke
Professor, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Culture, School of Media and Cultural Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

Dr. Shilpa Phadke is a Professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is co-author of the critically acclaimed book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (Penguin, 2011) and co-director of the documentary film Under the Open Sky (2016). She has published both academically and in mainstream media in the areas of gender and public space, ethnographies of feminism, feminist pedagogy, risk and the city, middle-class sexualities, middle classes and the new spaces of consumption, feminist pedagogies and feminist parenting.

Research Interests:
Cultural studies, gender studies, urban studies, sexuality studies, Gender and the politics of space, the middle classes, sexuality and the body, feminist politics among young women, reproductive subjectivities, feminist parenting, single women and marriage, friendship, and pedagogic practices

Prof Swati Banerjee
Professor, Programme Convenor – School of Social,
Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation, School of Social Work,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

Dr. Swati Banerjee, is Associate Dean, Office of Alum Affairs, OAA TISS and Professor and Program Convenor at the School of Social Work, Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. She also co-ordinates the Right Livelihood College, RLC- Mumbai which is part of the global network of universities initiated by The Right Livelihood Foundation that connects academia to practice.
She has been a post-doctoral fellow at Lund University, Sweden and visiting faculty at many Universities across the world including University of Roskilde, Lund University, University of British Columbia etc.

Research Interests:
People-Centered Social Innovation and Development (Framing the concept and complexities of Social Innovation as a driver for Social Change), Social Context and Education, Participatory Methodologies and Tools for actor participation, epistemic justice, and Social Innovation, towards co-evolving intersectional knowledge, Community-Based and Grassroots Social Entrepreneurship and Empowerment of Women and Marginalized Communities (Decolonizing the concept of Social Entrepreneurship), Human Centered and Inclusive Design Thinking for addressing societal challenges, Livelihoods of marginalized communities and Post Development understanding in livelihoods (with a focus on indigenous communities/particularly vulnerable tribal groups, nomadic tribes, women in marginalized communities etc.)

TRACK: PSYCHOLOGY & BUSINESS

Dr. Priyanka Kacker
Dr. Priyanka Kacker is a Senior Assistant Professor
at the Institute of Behavioral Science of Gujarat Forensic
Sciences University, Gandhinagar, since 2013

Prof. (Dr.) Himanshu Barot
Dr. Himanshu Barot is a Professor
at the United world School of Business of
Karnavati University, Ahmedabad since 2014.

TRACK: ENGLISH

Prof. (Dr.) Nigam Dave
Dr. Nigam Dave is a Professor and Director
of the School Of Liberal Studies, Pt. Din Dayal Upadhyay Univesity Gandhinagar

Prof. (Dr.) Atanu Bhattacharya
Dr. Atanu Bhattacharya is a Professor & Chairperson center
for the English studies school of language, literature, and culture studies
in the Central University of Gujrat.

TRACK: MEDIA

Prof (Dr.) Shilpa Phadke
Professor, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Culture,
School of Media and Cultural Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

TRACK: SOCIOLOGY, POLITICS, AND PHILOSOPHY

Prof (Dr.) P.K. Shajahan
Dean, Academic Affairs , Director’s Office
Professor,
Centre for Community Organization and Development Practice, School of Social Work –
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

Prof Swati Banerjee
Professor, Programme Convenor – School of Social,
Centre
for Livelihoods and Social Innovation, School of Social Work,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

Unitedworld School of Liberal Arts and Mass Communication (USLM) at Karnavati University started with in 2017. Currently, USLM offers BA programs in two disciplines: (a) Psychology, and (b) Journalism and Mass Communication. USLM is grounded in liberal education framework that includes intricate yet diverse areas such as human behavior, mass communication, journalism, public relations, economics and policy, sociology, philosophy and literature. The pedagogy at USLM is superior by the virtue of fine balance of the rigor of theory and orchestration of practical knowledge driven by social immersion, innovative exploration, and scientific execution fully aided by other schools of the university. Beyond-the-classroom flagship events include one outbound camp after each year of study and a constant/periodic masterclass by experts. Thus, USLM is, in the true sense, a theater of compounded knowledge and the exponential manifestation of ideas.

The National conference on Exploring Identity through Multiple Lenses will examine how IDENTITY is understood and explored across all sections of society. It is interesting to see these from various perspective and subject approach. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants to share and discuss their research. We invite papers both conceptual and empirical, which focus on the research questions as per the theme given above. Some of the subthemes of the paper presentation for submission include, but are not limited to, are given below.

Subthemes of the paper presentations:

Participants can send their papers related but not limited on following topics:

1: Psychology and Identity

• Self, sex, and gender identities
• Recent psychosocial challenges
• Women, gender and social psychology
• Gender role conflict and psychological benefits
• Trauma and identity
• Memory and identity

2: Media and Identity

• Identity politics in media
• Social media and identity
• Online communities
• Gender and identity in media
• Representational politics in media
• Identity and consumer behaviour
• Ideological identities and media
• Identity in cinema

3: Literature and Identity

• Migrant identities
• Book history and authorship
• Graphic literature and identity

4: Philosophy and Identity

• Personal identity and metaphysics
• Personal identity and witness awareness
• De se and identity
• Identity, self, and consciousness

5: Politics and Identity

• Caste politics in India
• Religious politics in India
• Politics of nationalism
• Reason, choice, and Identity

6: Business and Entrepreneurial Identity

• Marketing trends via social media
• Entrepreneurial spirit towards startups
• Digitization in manpower management
• Relationship marketing
• Compassionate leadership
• Technology and reward management

Note: • Participants are free to submit papers on other related research topics.

1• Papers submitted to the conference should be original and previously unpublished work. Research paper should be free from plagiarism. Any paper having plagiarized content beyond the stipulated norm of 10 % will be automatically dismissed.

2• The length of the full paper should be between 3500 to 4500 words.

3• Abstract should be around 300 words with 3-5 keywords at the end of the abstract.

4• Abstract and paper should include Name, designation, contact number, email ID and organization affiliation. Authors should write their names on the cover sheet only for purposes of blind review.

5• Abstract and Paper font size 12, Times New Roman, 1.5 line spacing, 1 inch margin on all sides. The title of the paper should be size 14 and aligned. Paper should be submitted in the MS-Word as DOC or DOX. All references should follow the latest edition of APA/MLA/ IEEE style, whichever is applicable. All tables, figures and images should be properly number with captions and well cited.

6• All papers should be written in English.

7• All Abstract, papers should be sent by email to conference.uslm@karnavatiuniversity.edu.in

8• Selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

9• Full papers. If submitted by the due date, will get an opportunity to get published in a research journal published by Taylor & Francis. There will also be an opportunity for a book chapter to be published by Taylor & Francis in a book. (with print ISBN & EISBN)

10• The above publications will be included in Scopus.
11• The processing fee for the same need to be borne by the author. However, the final decision to publish the papers would lie with the editors of the respective journals.

Patron: Mr. Tariq Ali Saiyed, Registrar, Karnavati University