The subject of the 2nd symposium is 'de-professionalisation' - the urge, as a creative practitioner, or, indeed, a practitioner of any kind, not to be identified with one genre or activity, and to be, in general, a critic of specialisation

 

Speakers include Prof Ashis Nandy, psychologist, cultural commentator, honorary fellow, CSDS; Jeremy Deller, one of Britain’s leading artists and winner of the Turner Prize; Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, poet and essayist; Nikil Saval, writer and editor of n+1; Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and editor, Indian Express; Peter D McDonald, Professor of English and Related Literatures, Oxford University; Sunetra Gupta, novelist and Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology, Oxford University; Rosinka Chaudhuri, Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta; Jon Cook, Emeritus Professor, University of East Anglia, critic and biographer; and Amit Chaudhuri, novelist, critic, Professor of Contemporary Literature, University of East Anglia