Sahitya Akademi - IACLALS – SCILET National Seminar

Program

DAY 1, Monday 10 Sep 2001

• 10 – 11 am Inaugural Session.
  • Speakers: K Satchidanandan, Paul Love, Meenakshi Mukherjee
• 11.30 am – 1.30 pm
  • C N Ramachandran -- The Non-East West: The Image of the ‘West’ in the Colonial Period (Abstract)
  • Jasodhara Bagchi -- The 'West' in Colonial Humour (Abstract)
  • Sumanta Banerjee -- World Upside Down in a Bengali Satire (Abstract)
• 2.30 - 4.30 pm
  • C T Indra -- Representations of the 'West' in Tamil Literature (Abstract)
  • T Vijay Kumar -- Splitting the West: Gurazada's Kanayasulkam (Abstract)
  • Anjali Gera Roy -- Figment of Imagination: The Good and the Bad West in the Indian Imaginary (Abstract)

DAY 2, Tuesday 11 Sep 2001

• 9 – 10.30 am
  • Harish Trivedi -- To the East through the West: Four Modern Hindi Novelists (Abstract)
  • Prem Chowdhry -- Breaching the Divide: Reading the Images from Junoon and Lagaan (Abstract)
• 10.30 – 11 am -- About SCILET
• 11 - 11.30 am -- Tea
• 11.30 am - 1.30 pm
  • Mala Pandurang -- Empire Builders, Empire Breakers: Discourse of Early Indian Nationalists in Africa (Abstract)
  • Indira Chowdhury -- The 'West' As They Saw It: the Travel Writings of Vivekanda and Rabindranath (Abstract)
• 2.30 – 4.30 pm -- Excursion 

DAY 3, Wednesday 12 Sep 2001 

• 9.30 – 11 am
  • C Vijayasree -- 'The White Lady' Love Stories (Abstract)
  • Mahasweta Sengupta -- Identity Crisis: Representing the 'West' in Bangla Literature (Abstract)
• 11.00 – 11.30 am -- Tea
• 11.30 am – 1.30 pm
  • Bala Kothandaraman -- Construction of Knowledge: Libraries as Resource (Abstract)
  • Asaduddin -- From Persian to Urdu and English: Some Reflections on the Change in the Knowledge System, 1857-1947 (Abstract)
  • Pushpa Bhave -- Representation of the West: Marathi Literature (Abstract)
• 2.30 – 4.30 pm 
  • Tilottama Misra -- Asamia Literature of the Colonial Period (Abstract)
  • Udaya Kumar -- Beauty and Its Frames: Representation, Use, and the Archive (Abstract)