This conference seeks to explore the broader canvas of the Epic that has transformed into contemporary social and political narratives. The issues to be addressed in the conference are: the reception of Indian epics at home and in the world; the ways different epic traditions have intermingled; what role epic has played in the formation of other genres instituted as they are by multiple and discursive influences and contingencies of reception, its other mutations. The conference will have a special focus on the rewriting of epics through translation and their metamorphosis through folktales. please contact 94942-42645 for further details.