Opportunity for conference presentations

Sl.No.	Name of college	subject		Department		Dates
	College of Commerce	ERP.9		(State)		2016
		Emerging issues in International
7.	Deen Dayal	Trade and Finance in Post		Management Studies		22-23 Feb,
	Upadhyaya College	Recession Period		(National)		2016
8.	Motilal Nehru College	Goods & Service Ton: Impact on				18-19 Feb,
	(Eve)	Indian Economy		Economics (National)		2016
9.	Shaheed Bhagat Singh	Marketing in the 21st century:
	College	issues and challenges		Commerce (National)		5-6 Feb, 2016
10.		Emerging Trends and				29-30 March,
	Dyal Singh College (E)	contemporary issues in finance		Commerce (National)		2016
11.		Sustainable Business Models:
		Innovative Strategies and		Commerce		16-17 March,
	Shyam Lal College	Practices		(International)		2016
12.		Business Transformation in
		Contemporary World - Issues &
	Bharati College	Challenges		Commerce (National)		31 Oct, 2015
13.	Shaheed Bhagat Singh	Global Trade in Services : A WTO				30-31 March,
	College (E)	perspective		Commerce (National)		2016
14.		Globalization Economic				29 March,
	Shivaji College	Development and Sustainability		Commerce (National)		2016
15.		Changing Business and
		Economic Environment in India -				26-27 Feb,
	Sri Aurobindo College	Vision 2020		Commerce (National)		2016
16.	Sri Guru Nanak Dev	Make in India - Opportunities and
	Khalsa College	Challenges		Eco (National)		9 Jan, 2016
17.		Online Retailing - A paradigm
	Jesus & Mary College	shift in India's Retailing Scenario		Commerce (National)		19-19 Feb,
18.		India's Development Challenges:				28-29 Jan,
	Jesus & Mary College	Ideas for the Next Generation		Eco (National)		2016
19.	Sri Venkateswara	Make in India initiative: issues,				28-29 Jan,
	College	implications and inter linkages		Commerce (National)		2016
20.		Trade Negotiations under WTO:
	Shyam Lal College	Issues before Developing World		Eco (National)		4-5 Feb, 2016
21.		Third International Congress on
	University College of	Gerontology and Geriatric		Medicine		27-29 Nov,
	Medical Science	Medicine		(International)		2015
22.	Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur			Forensic Science Unit		27-28 Feb,
	Khalsa College	Crime Scene Management		(National)		2016
23.		Biotechnology in Crop
	Zakir Husain Delhi	Improvement: Prospects &
	College	Constraints		Botany (National)		29 Jan, 2016
24.		Emerging trends and future
	Kirori Mal College	Challenges in chemical science		Chemistry (National)		3-4 Feb, 2016
25.		Role of Analytical Sciences in				23-30 Jan,
	Hans Raj College	Sustainable Development		Chemistry (National)		2016
26.		Man-made Diseases: An Urban				11-12 Feb,
	Maitreyi College	Menace		Zoology (National)		2016
27.	Shaheed Rajguru			Electronics &
	College of Applied	Recent Trends in Instrumentation		Instrumentation
	Sciences for Women	and Electronics"(RTIE-2016)		(National)		5-6 Oct, 2016
28.		Reproductive Health in India:
	Deshbandhu College	concerns and awareness		Zoology (National)		12 Feb, 2016
29.		Nano-science - Opportunities and				19-20 Feb,
	Maitreyi College	Challenges		Chemistry (National)		2016
30.		Women Scientists in Biology and
	Sri Venkateswara	Health: Contribution to Indian		Biochemistry		8-9 March,
	College	Science:		(National)		2016
31.		Recent Innovations in Chemical				15-16 Feb,
	Sri Aurobindo College	Science and Technology		Chemistry (National)		2016
32.						17-18 Feb,
	Shyam Lal College	Peaceful use of Chemistry		Chemistry (National)		2016
33.	Shaheed Rajguru
	College of Applied	Advances in Food Science and		Food Technology
	Sciences for Women	Technology		(National)		Jan, 2016
34.		Acculturation religion society		History & Sanskrit		17-18 Feb,
	Shivaji College	language		(International)		2016
35.		Women, Crime and Law:		Women Development		31 March,
	Shivaji College	Protection or Assertion?		Cell (National)		2016
36.	Sri Guru Nanak Dev	Research Methodology in Social		Social Science		14-24 Dec,
	Khalsa College	Sciences		(National)		2015
37.	Moti Lal Nehru	Manavadhikaar ke Sawaal aur		All Department		10-11 Feb,
	College(D)	Bhartiyua Samaj		(National)		2016
38.	Zakir Hussain Delhi	Gandhi and the contemporary		Gandhi Study Circle		25-26 Feb,
	College	World		(International)		2016
39.	Zakir Hussain Delhi	Way of seeing: Critical Questions		Political Science
	College	on Indian Political thought		(National)		21 Jan, 2016
40.		Land use change, climate
	Shaheed Bhagat Singh	extremes and disaster risk		Geographical		18-20 March,
	College	reduction		(International)		2016
41.		Environmental Ethics, Resource
		Depletion and Sustainable				25-26 Feb,
	Kalindi College	Development		Geography (National)		2016
42.		Environment in Sociology
	Jesus & Mary College	Emerging Trends		Sociology (National)		31 Oct, 2015
43.		Education, Politics and Social		Elementary Education		16-18 Nov,
	Gargi College	Change		(International)		2014
44.		Caste and Gender, Historical				28-29 Jan,
	Shyam Lal College	Perspective		History (National)		2016
45.	Sri Venkateswara	Bhasha Aur Rajniti Ka Badlta		Political Science		18-19 March,
	College	Swaroop		(National)		2016
46.		Political ledership in independent
		India-Challenges and emerging		Political Science		23-24 Feb,
	Aryabhatta College	trends		(National)		2016
47.		Smart Agriculture: A Blend
		Ancient Wisdom and Modern				29-31 March,
	Aditi Mahavidyalaya	Technology		( National)		2016
48.	Sri Aurobindo College	Social Harmony and Well Being:			Applied Psychology	29-30 March,
	(Eve)	Issue and Challenges			(National)	2016
49.		Consciousness (With respect to
	Indraprastha College	Indian, Western and				3-4 March,
	for Women	Psychological view point)			Philosophy (National)	2016
50.		Indian Mind and Societal
		Concerns: An Interdisciplinary				11-12 March,
	Ramanujan College	Dialogue			Psychology (National)	2016
51.		Corporate Social Responsibility
	Maharaja Agrasen	Sports, Olympism and Global			Physical Education	23-25 March,
	College	Peace.			(National)	2016
52.		Madhyakaaleen Hindi Sahitya Ka				12-13 Jan,
	Hansraj College	Samajik Sandarbh			Hindi (National)	2016
53.		Migration and Identity : The urban				28-29 Jan,
	Daulat Ram College	Subject			English (National)	2016
54.		Media, State and the
		Marginalized : Tackling				17-18 March,
	Kalindi College	Challenges		Journalism (National)		2016
55.		Narratives of Stereotypes is text				11-12 Feb,
	Aryabhatta College	and Performance		English (National)		2016
56.		Dalit Sahitya Ka Sandarbh,
		Ambekakarvadi Vimarsh aur				28-29 March,
	Moti Lal College (eve.)	Bhartiya Samaj			Hindi (National)	2016
57.		lRrk] lLdfr vkSj lkfgR; vksnksyu				15-16 Feb,
	Aryabhatta College	ls vktrd			Hindi (National)	2016
58.		Badalta Bhartiya Paridrishya Aur				12-13 Feb,
	P.G.D.A.V.College(eve.)	Swatantryottar Hindi Natak			Hindi (National)	2016
59.	Sri Guru Nanak Dev					12-13 March,
	Khalsa College	lLdfr ehfM;k vkSj miHkksDrkokn			Hindi (National)	2016
60.	Hindu College	HkfDr  dkO;  dk  mRrj  vk|qfud  lanHkZ			Hindi (National)	17-18 March,
		vkSj fganh vkykspuk				2016
61.	Kalindi College	e?;dkyhu   lkfgR;   ds   f’k{k.k   dh			Hindi (National)	10-11 March,
		pqukSfr;k				2016
62.	Satyawati College	fgUnh	Hkk"kkvkSjlkfgR;esa		Hindi (National)	10-11 Feb,
		vfLerkewyd foe’kZ				2016
63.	Delhi College of Arts &	fgUnh  lkfgR;  esa  gkf’k,  dk  foe’kZ			Hindi (National)	15-16 March,
	Commerce	pqukSfr;k	,o lHkkouk,			2016
64.	Sri Guru Nanak Dev	Exegesis of Space in Literature				22-23 March,
	Khalsa College	and culture		English (National)		2016
		The teaching pedagogy for the
		English language teaching to the
		undergraduate students in the
65.		college of India-Consequent upon
		the implementation of CBCS				15 March,
	Moti Lal College(eve.)	system		English (National)		2016
66.		Trauma: Memory and History in				18-19 March,
	Ramanujan College	Literature		English (National)		2016
67.		Ranagmanch evm
		Natyakala:Adhjunik Prepakshan				10-11 Aug,
	Kalindi College	me		Sanskrit (National)		2016
68.	Maharaja Agrasen					24-25 Feb,
	College	City Lives: Spaces and Narratives		English (National)		2016
69.		Swatantryottar Hindi Kahani
	P.G.D.A.V. College	Rachnatamak Sarokaro Ki nayi				11-12 Jan,
	(eve.)	Padtal		Hindi (International)		2016
		Hindi Evam Anya Asiyaee
70.		Bhashaon Ke Madhyam se Dee
		ja Rahi Shiksha Mein Nvachaar				31 Oct, 1-2,
	Hansraj College	Kee Chunautiyaan		Hindi (International)		Nov, 2015
71.	Zakir Husain Delhi	Imagining the Indian 'Popular':
	College (eve.)	Globalization and its contents		English (National)		5-6 Feb, 2016

Urban Dictionary on Jeopardy!, December 2009

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.

Award of Fellowship

Scholars working on the below-mentioned research areas may apply for the award of Fellowships at the Institute at any time of the year. Their applications would be considered as and when vacancies arise.

(a) Social, Political and Economic Philosophy;

(b) Comparative Indian Literature (including Ancient, Medieval, Modern Folk and Tribal);

(c) Comparative Studies in Philosophy and Religion;

(d) Comparative Studies in History (including Historiography and Philosophy of History);

(e) Education, Culture, Arts including performing Arts and Crafts;

(f) Fundamental Concepts and Problems of Logic and Mathematics;

(g) Fundamental Concepts and Problems of Natural and Life Sciences;

(h) Studies in Environment;

(i) Indian Civilization in the context of Asian Neighbours; and

(j) Problems of Contemporary India in the context of National Integration and Nation-building.

1. Scholars belonging to weaker sections of society and those who are differently abled/physical challenged will be given preference.

2. Applications from scholars working in, and on, the North Eastern region of India are encouraged.

3. Fellows will be required to submit a monograph on the completion of their term. The Institute will evaluate and consider this monograph for publication. The Institute will have the first right of publication and will have the copyright of the monograph submitted by the Fellow.

4. The term of Fellowship for independent and retired scholars would initially be for a period of one year, allowing continuation for another year after evaluation of the work done during the first year. In no case will this continue beyond two years. However, for in-service scholars who want to come for two years, the Fellowship would be awarded for a period of two years subject to the condition that continuation of the Fellowship for the second year would only be granted if the external Evaluation Report of the work done by the Fellow during the first year is positive.

7. The prescribed application form can be downloaded from the website: www.iias.ac.in.  The application on the prescribed form may be sent to the Secretary, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla 171005. Only applications in the prescribed application form would be considered by the Institute.

8. Fellows are expected to remain in residence from 1st March to 15th December. Their stay at the Institute during the winter months is optional. They may proceed on study tours during this period.

9. Proposals involving empirical work requiring data collection through extensive fieldwork would not be considered.

10. The pay of in-service Fellows will be protected. In addition, they will get 20 per cent of their basic pay in case they are maintaining a separate house at the place of their work, other than government accommodation. The Fellowship grant for Fellows who are independent scholars is Rs. 56,400/- per month.

11. The Institute provides hard furnished, rent-free accommodation to Fellows in cottages on the Rashtrapati Nivas Estate. In addition, scholars will be provided a fully furnished study, on a sharing basis, with computer and Internet facilities.

12. The Fellows will be provided with free stationary. They will have access to the Institute's vehicles for local travel on payment of nominal charges.

13. Fellows are entitled to free medical treatment at the dispensary of the Institute.

14. It is mandatory for in-service candidates to apply through proper channel.

15. Fellowship applications of scholars who have been Fellows of the Institute within a period of the last five years will not be considered.

16. The short-listed scholars would be invited to make a presentation before the Fellowship Award Committee (FAC). Scholars with proven academic credentials, as decided by Screening Committee, may be exempted from this provision. Those interested can get further details from the Secretary of the Institute who is available on e-mail at secretary@iias.ac.in and may be contacted on 0177-2831379.

Applications are received throughout the year by the Institute. These are considered once or twice a year depending upon the number of vacancies arising from time to time.

The application forms can be downloaded from here PDF | MS Word