International Conference on TAGORE AND NATIONALISM (05-07 November 2015)

Indian Institute of Advanced Study Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla 171 005

International Conference

on

TAGORE AND NATIONALISM

      (05-07 November 2015)

    Programme

05 November, 2015, Thursday

9.15-9.45:         REGISTRATION

9.45-10.15:      Welcome address by CHETAN SINGH, Director,  IIAS.

                        Introducing the Theme: K.L. TUTEJA, Convener

10.15-11.00:   Inaugural Session: SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA

                           11.00-1130:  Tea Break and Group Photo

Session I:   11.30-1.15

Chairperson:   Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

Speakers:           SUKANTA CHAUDHURI

                            Tagore, Nationalism and Imperialism

                            FAKRUL ALAM

                            Rabindranath Tagore at the Intersection of Nationalism and Modernity

                           K SATCHIDANANDAN

 The Pathography of Nationalism: Rabindranath Tagore and the National   Question

1.15-2.00: LUNCH BREAK

Session II: 2.00-3.45

Chairperson:    Chetan Singh

Speakers:         HARISH TRIVEDI

Tagore's Nationalism—and Premchand's

                           BHASKAR CHAKRABORTY

The Self, the Nation and the World Beyond It: Reading Tagore’s Travel Writings

                           STEFANO BEGGIORA

Tagore and nationalism: a perspective on Italy imagining the Indian Unity

3.45-4.00: TEA BREAK

Session III: 4.00-5.45

Chairperson:   K Satchidanandan

Speakers:         SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI

History, Identity and Nation in Tagore's Fiction

                           KRISHNA SEN

1910 and the Evolution of Tagore’s Vernacular Nationalism

                                    TILOTTAMA MISRA

Language, Nationalism and Tagore

November 6, 2015, Friday

Session IV: 9.45-11.30

Chairperson:               Harish Trivedi

Speakers:          MAHESH CHAMPAKLAL

Rabindranth Tagore’s Theater: Circumspect Nationalism in the Garden of Internationalism

                           SUKUMAR MURLIDHARAN

The Indian Enlightenment as Work in Progress: Looking back at the dialogue of Tagore, Gandhi and Ambedkar                            

                          SWAGATA K BASU

Ideas on Nationalism in Tagore and Unamuno: A Comparative Study                                         

Session V: 11.30-1.15

Chairperson: Indra Nath Choudhuri

Speakers:         R SIVA KUMAR

Santiniketan, the Making of a Community     

                            

ASMA RASHEED

“Living Gramophones”: Educators, Access and Equity in Higher Education Today

                              MRIDU RAI

Defending Nationalism: The Ideas of Rabindranath Tagore and Kashmiri Resistance

1.15-2.00: LUNCH BREAK

Session VI: 2.00-3.45

Chairperson:   Supriya Chaudhuri

Speakers:          BIRAJ M RATHI

Tagore’s Ghare Baire (Home and the World) and Char Adhyaya (Four Chapters): Rethinking Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Gender

                           AISHIKA CHAKRABORTY

Dancing against the Nation? The Politics of Kinesthetic of Tagore

                           SAURAV DASHTHAKUR

The useless and the ‘wonderful’: Work, leisure and being ‘at home in modernity’ in the music of Rabindranath Tagore

3.45-4.00: TEA BREAK

Session VII: 4.00-5.10

Chairperson:   Anindita Mukhopadhyay

Speakers          PATHIK ROY

From Rabindranath to Rituparno Ghosh: Domestic Space, Gender and the Nation in Chokher Bali

                          MANAS GHOSH

Nation and Partition: Home and Exile: Tagore reinvented by Ritwik Ghatak

November 7, 2015, Saturday

Session VIII: 9.45-11.30

Chairperson:   Krishna Sen

Speakers:          BASHABI FRASER

Rabindranath Tagore and the Spirit of India: an exploration of Tagore’s ideas on nationalism

                           SHAILESH PAREKH

Nationalism in Tagore’s Poetic Oeuvre

                           INDRA NATH CHOUDHURI

Tagore as a Transnational Writer                            

Session IX: 11.30-1.15

Chairperson:   Sukanta Chaudhuri

Speakers:         RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR

Grammar Lessons and Language Games: Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the Epistemology of Education

                        MAKARAND PARANJAPE

Tagore's Indignation: Swadeshi Samaj and the Political Novel

                       ANDREAS L KOTANIS

Rabindranath Tagore and Social Sensitivity 

Valedictory Remarks: 1.15-1.30

by CHETAN SINGH, Director, IIAS.