Spurred on by the success of the first edition, the Annual St. Stephen’s Conference-Festival was back between 15^th and 17^th February, 2013. With a start-studded array of speakers and panelists, the event was an immense success in this installment too. Here’s the list of panels, their Chairs and speakers and the research papers that they presented. Day 1, 15^th February, 2013 Keynote Address by Prof. Michael McKeon, Rutgers University  “The Origins of the English Novel in the Parody of Family Romance” Panel 1- Monsters, Marquez, Modernism, and Love Chair: Michael McKeon Rapture: Carol Ann Duffy at the (he)art of rupturing the sonnet SohiniBasak / B. A. Honours English IIIrd Year / St. Stephen’s College Modernism and Romance/Anti-Romance: Time, Travel and Love in Virginia Woolf’s novels Deeptangshu Das / M.Phil 1st semester/ Dept. of English, University of Delhi Stranger in a Strange Land: The Case of the Monster-Lover AratrikaChoudhury /Jadavpur University /Department of English Agape and Eros in Gabriel GarcíaMárquez’s Romance: The Short Circuit PavelTomar / M. Phil/ Jawaharlal Nehru University Panel 2- Harry, Holmes and the Homoerotically Inclined Chair: Akhil Katyal Coming out of the Shoebox: The Remus/Sirius ship in Harry Potter fan fiction Achala Upendran Questioning Romance: The Modalities of Same-sex Desire in Early Modern Urdu Poetry Rafiul Alom Rahman/ BA (Hons.) English, 4th Semester/ Zakir Husain College (Evening) (Homo-) Erotically Inclined: Reconfigurations of the Holmes-Watson Relationship in Popular Culture Sameer Chopra / M.Phil. English / Delhi University Panel 3- KitneAadmi the?Makhmalbaf, Kiarostami, SRK and Campus Romance Chair: Karen Gabriel The Romance of the Campus: Genre, Affect and Political Subjectivity in Malayalam “Campus Films” Aparna Nandakumar / PhD Scholar, Dept. of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University / Hyderabad. A Moment of Innocence: Romance in the Realist Cinema of Makhmalbaf and Kiarostami Soumashree Sarkar/ Jadavpur University, / Department of English,/ Masters, First Year. Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi? SRK and the cult of Romance Anubhav Pradhan/ M.Phil English / Jamia Milia Islamia Day 2, 16th February Keynote Address by Prof. Richard E. Miller, Rutgers University “Romance of the Apocalypse” Panel 4- Trash, Tragic, Tardis and Trans Romance Chair: Richard E. Miller “We Are All Stories in the End”: The Romance of Space and Time Travel in a Blue Box Urna Mukherjee, III B.A. (Hons) English, St. Stephen’s College Do Trash-Collectors Dream of (dis)Interested EVEs?: Wall-E, Robot Love, and the Dialectics of Redemption Arnab Chakraborty & Sujaan Mukherjee/ PG II/ Department of English/ Jadavpur University “The Love that dare not speak its name”: Forbidden Love and Tragic Romances in Fantasy Fiction Parvathy Rajendra/ Dept. of English/ University of Hyderabad Transhuman Romance Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay/ Kultrans, University of Oslo Panel 5- Devoted to Tradition: Riti, Devodaxi and TV Chair: Soofia Siddiqui ‘But I must keep my tryst’: Nayika in the medieval Riti poetry Ruchika Sharma / Asst. Prof. Dept. of History / Kamla Nehru College The Unheard Euphony of the Devodaxi Romance: A study of the Devodaxi Tradition of Assam Prerana Choudhury /School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Rini Barman /English Department, Jamia Milia Islamia Romancing the Disabled Body: Re-Thinking Corporeality in the Televised Articulation of Desire and Pleasure in India Vinita Singh/ M.Phil, Department of English, Delhi University Panel 6- Staging Romance Chair: Bhaskar Ghose Readings from “Salt”, a collection of short stories. Racquel Goodison / City University of New York: Borough of Manhattan Community College Puppet Mediates the Popular: Bollywood Bandwagon Manpreet Kaur / Asst. Prof. Dept of English / St. Stephen’s College The Crafting of Love (and why we shouldn’t do it) Paper: Somak Mukherjee (PGII) and Trisha Ray (PGI) / Jadavpur University Department of English. The performers are: Somak Mukherjee (PGII), Jayeeta Saha (UGII), Soumashree Sarkar (PGI), Aratrika Choudhury (UGIII) Mediated Perversion of Romance in Othello: Iago morphed on stage and cinema Nigitha John, Ann Susan Aleyas, Rishi Sood, Anisha Angellina Victor, Sameer Gardener, Anna Thomas, Twinkle Lal, Rizowana Hussaini , Aunnesha Sen, St. Stephen’s College “O re piya: The Woman and Romance” Ann Daisy Kavitha, Kavita Joseph, Laetitia Warjari, Priyanka Das Saharia, Urna Mukherjee St. Stephen’s College Day 3, Feb 17th Keynote address by Radhika Alkazi “Romancing the Stage: An Interactive Session” Panel 7- Love Notes: Mozart, Hindi Film Music, The Bandish and Thumri Chair: Giti Chandra Isharon Isharon Mein: Romance of Allusion in the Hindi Film Song Babli Moitra-Saraf / Indraprastha College Hori with Banwari: The Bandish, the Thumri and the Anxiety of No Influence Sonali Barua Mozart: Romantic and Anti-Romantic Sunit Tandon Panel 8- Politics and Romantics Chair: Tapan Basu Unmensch or Ubermensch?: A Commoner’s romance of Napoleon Supurna Dasgupta/ M. A. Eng. / Delhi University Valentine’s Day in India: Political Potentials of Romance? Kanika Sharma and Sakshi Dogra/ M.phil (English Literature) / Jamia Millia Islamia A Re-reading of African American Slave Narratives as a Discourse of the Romantic Ideal Shimi M Doley/ Asst. Professor/ Dept. of English/ Jamia Millia Islamia]]>