Keynote Address, Creativity in Crisis
Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
How to Heal a Nation using Freud? On the Treatment of National Vices according to Stanis?aw Ignacy Witkiewicz
Daniel Kalinowski
Bombay Fever, the Toujours Vu, and Our Plague Era: A Phenomenology of Reflexivity
Jason S Polley
Detecting the Self: Dis-eases and Spirituality in Contemporary Popular (Japanese) Literature
Amy Lee Dean
Skepticism in Belief: Pandemics, Procopius, and Political Schism
Stephanie Laine Hamilton
Marguerite Duras L'Amour: Understanding Madness through Foucault’s Concepts of ‘Biopower’ and ‘Biopolitics’
Fouzia Usmani
Hypochondriac Notions: Thoughts on the Language of Disease in J.D. Salinger’s “Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters”
Serena Demichelis
Amidst the Pandemic: A Study of Katherine Anne Porter’s “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”
Jap Preet Kaur Bhangu
Death, Disease and Disillusionment: Logotherapy and Survival Motivation in Somerset Maugham’s “The Painted Veil”
Navreet Sahi
Progeria and Stigma of Normality in Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
Sowmya Srinivasan
Blindness as a Trope: Probing the Metaphorical Illness and Understanding the Socio-Political Reality in José Saramago's Blindness
Sudipta Saha
The Mortal Condition: Four Epidemic Tales from Late Colonial-India
Amrapalli Mohan Sharma
Locating Death, Disease and Salvation in the Selected Hindu Scriptures: A Critical Examination
Ajay K. Chaubey & Sarvesh Kumar Pandey
Representation of Illness and Death in Bollywood: A Comparative Analysis of Devdas and Dil Bechara
Priya Meena & Rajiv Ranjan Dwivedi
The Paroxysm of Pandemics: Human Mutation from Dysphoria to Euphoria
Charu Ahluwalia
Spiritual and Emotional Illnesses: Recovery and Healing in Indigenous Women’s Poetry
Swarnim Subba
The Healing Power of Poetry: A Study of the Select Works of John Keats
Masrat Yousuf
Identity Crisis, Depression, Death and Political Allegory in Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House
Saurav Shandil
Pandemic Woes, Undead Foes: A Case Study of the CDC’s “Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic” Graphic Novel
Nilak Datta and Neha Yadav
Facing the Threat of Plague: A Study of Two Indian Short Stories
Sonika Thakur
Disease, Death, and Desire in Githa Hariharan's “The Remains of the Feast”
Amirtha Devarajan
Stigmatization of Mental Illness: Analysis of Women’s Condition Through “The Yellow Wallpaper” and Newspaper Articles on Women
Nida Ambreen
Contagion: The Compelling Thriller of a Prophetic Narrative during COVID 19
Monali Chatterjee
Healing as Narrative Strategy in Fiction
Nilakshi Roy
