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Indian Institute of Advanced Study
Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla 171 005
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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.
