[ALOCHONA] Bangla Literary Conf @ Univ of Chicago- The Third Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL) - 4/27 - 4/28

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Date: April 11, 2012 3:19:28 PM CDT

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Subject: [Cosas_emeriti] The Third Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL) - 4/27 - 4/28

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The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago

is pleased to announce

The Third Norman Cutler Conference on South Asian Literature (COSAL)

Featuring noted Bengali novelist Raghab Bandyopadhyay and playwright Saymon Zakaria

April 27-28, 2012

Foster Hall, University of Chicago

 

Foster Hall, Room 103
1130 E. 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois

** Signs will be located near the entrance to help guide visitors to the door.

FOR MORE INFORMATION  »  http://cosal.uchicago.edu/index.shtml

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Program

SCHEDULE: Day 1 – Friday April 27, 2012 (Foster 103)

9:00 – Coffee

 

9:30 - Welcome and introductory remarks

SALC chair: Gary Tubb

 

9:45 - Introduction to the featured authors and response by the authors

Thibaut d'Hubert, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Raghab Bandyopadhyay, Saymon Zakaria

 

10:30 - Tea break

 

10:45 - Keynote Address: Clinton B. Seely (Prof. Emeritus, University of Chicago)

"Dui Bangla, na dui Bangali"

 

12:00 - Conference Lunch (held in Kelly 110)

 

1:45 - Bilingual reading of Raghab Bandyopadhyay's novel

Satīk jādunagar ('Notes on a Magical City')

 

2:45 - Bilingual reading of Saymon Zakaria's play

Bodhidrum ('The tree of enlightenment')

(Excerpts read by Jason Grunebaum, Rochona Majumdar and the authors)

 

3:45 - Tea break

 

Paper session, chair: Françoise Meltzer

 

4:00 - Mansur Musa (Dhaka University)

"Bengali language: one or two?"

 

5:00 - Philippe Benoit (INALCO)

"'E par Bangla, o par Bangla': Representing Bengal's rural life in progressive novels by Tarashankar and Manik Banerjee"

 

6:00 - Reception

 

8:00 - Conference dinner (participants only)

 

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SCHEDULE: Day 2 – Saturday April 28, 2012 (Foster 103)

9:00 – Coffee

 

9:30 - Presentation by Raghab Bandyopadhyay

"Always at the crossroads: exploring language possibilities in Bengali fiction"

Paper session 1 - Chair: Phillip Bohlman

 

10:30 - Saymon Zakaria (Bangla Academy)
"Tasting the soil: Seeking inspiration in Bengal's traditional performances for contemporary urban creation"

 

11:30 - Tony K. Stewart (Vanderbilt University)
"Instruction in Fiction: the Conundrum of the Iblish Nama"

12:30 - Conference Lunch (held in Kelly 110)

Pedagogical Workshop

 

2:00 - Presentation by Th. d'Hubert. Mandira Bhaduri and Hanna R. Thompson

 

2:30 - Philippe Benoit (INALCO)

 

3:00 - Hanna R. Thompson (SOAS)

"Bangla grammar in the classroom"

 

3:30 - Razima Chowdhury (Bangla Language Institute)

"Syllabus and material design for Bangla for professional purpose"

 

4:00 - 5:00 - Roundtable discussion; discussant: Clinton B. Seely

 

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Arjumand Thompson
South Asia Language and Area Center & The Committee on Southern Asian Studies

Southern Asia at Chicago University of Chicago, Humanities Division
5848 S. University Ave., Kelly Hall 104
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773.702.8637
Fax: 773.702.1309

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