Conference Schedule
PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
February 1-2, 2024
Day 1: February 1, 2024
Venue: Conference Hall, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
10.00 am to 10.30 am: REGISTRATION
10.30 am to 12. 30 pm: INAUGURAL SESSION
12.30 pm to 12.45 pm: HIGH TEA
12.45 pm to 1.45 pm: PLENARY ADDRESS by Prof. Shormishtha Panja - "Modernism and the Question of Music in 19th Century Bengal"
1.45 pm to 2.30 pm: Lunch
2.30 pm to 3.30 pm: TECHNICAL SESSION ONE: (COLONIAL GAZE AND THE VISUAL ARTS)
Chair: Prof. Shormishtha Panja (Retd.), Department of English, University of Delhi
• Shilpa Vashisht (University of Delhi) and Anukriti Bajpai (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi): “Subverting the Gaze: Navigating the Cinemascape of Colonial India”
• Thakurdas Jana (Bhatter College, Dantan, West Bengal, India): “Primitivism and Alternative Modernism: Recasting of ‘indigenism’ in the Paintings of Colonial Bengal”
• Anamika Mohanta (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) “‘Empire Films’ and the Colonial Gaze: Reading the Representation of India in Early Cinema”
3.30 pm to 4.30 pm: TECHNICAL SESSION TWO (MODERNISM AND THE DECOLONIZING NARRATION)
Chair: Prof. Anjana Neira Dev, Department of English, Gargi College, University of Delhi
• Dr. Leslie De Bont (University of Nantes, France): “May Sinclair’s Indian Narrators as Modernist Intercessors”
•Dr. Joita Dhar Rakshit (University of Delhi): “Decolonizing the Colonial Gaze: Representation of India in the Travel Narratives of British Women Travellers”
• Dr. Hari Priya Pathak (Kumaun University) and Shruti Pant Banerjee (Kumaun University): “Central Himalayan Folklores: Colonial Gaze and Counter Hegemonic Discourse”
4:30 pm- 5.30 pm- SPECIAL SESSION (Online)
Chair: Prof. Anamika, University of Delhi (Sahitya Akademi Award Winner)
Speaker: Dr Tom Walker, School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland “W.B. Yeats, Louis MacNeice and India”
Day 2: February 2, 2024
Venue: Conference Hall, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
10.00 am to 11.00 am: SESSION THREE (PRESERVING MODERNISM: HISTORY, ARCHIVES, AND MUSEUMS)
Chair: Dr. Swetha Antony, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi
• Nishant Singh (University of Delhi): “Antiquarianism and the Native Presence: A Subaltern Perspective on the ‘Broadley Collection’”
• Dr. Laldinpuii (Mizoram University): “Representation through the eyes of the administrators”
• Lalit Kumar (University of Delhi): “‘Visuality’& ‘Plurality of Perceptions’ in Colonial Travelogues by Victorian Women”
11.00 am to 11.15 am: Tea
11.15 am to 12.15 pm: PLENARY ADDRESS by Prof. Christel Rashmi Devadawson - “Incompleteness, Detective Fiction, and the Early Twentieth Century”
12.15 pm to 1.15 pm: SESSION FOUR (MODERNISM, NARRATION AND TRANSLATION)
Venue: G2
Chair: Dr. Bharti Arora, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Delhi
• Dr Jharana Rani Dhangadamajhi (Kalahandi University): “Translation and the Paradoxical Modernity: A Curious Case of Coloniality, Domestication, and the Formation of Odia Nationalism though Endotropic Translation”
• Dr. Somjyoti Mridha (North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya): “Colonial Gaze and ‘Queer’ Modernism: A Study of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India”
• Dr. Vandana (University of Delhi): “World Literature, Translation Studies, and the Politics of Canon: Is there any Space for the Subaltern?”
• Dr. Neelam Yadav (University of Delhi): “Travel, Gender, and the Colonial Gaze: Study of Select Works of Fanny Parkes and Dervla Murphy”
12.15 pm to 1.15 pm: (PARALLEL SESSION) -SESSION FIVE (INDIAN RESPONSE(S) TO MODERNISM) Venue: Conference Hall
Chair: Prof. Saugata Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
• Dr. Diamond Oberoi Vahali (BR Ambedkar University): “All India Progressive Writer's Association (AIPWA) and their Emergence as a Response to Modernism”
• Dr. Tonisha Guin (IIT Jodhpur): “Respectable/Criminal: Reading Crime Fiction as an Exercise in Disrupting the Colonial/Modern Bhadralok Gaze”
• Dr. Himani Sharma (Assistant Lecturer, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, National Sanskrit University, New Delhi): “Role of Ancient Indian Wisdom in Modernist Era: Analysis of The Indian Story Book Retold by Richard Wilson”
1.15 pm to 2.15 pm: PLENARY ADDRESS by Prof. Saugata Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
2.15 pm to 3.00 pm: Lunch
3.00 pm to 3.45 pm: SESSION SIX: (STUDENT SESSION)
Venue: G1
Chair: Ms. Saneya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
• Darshayata Deka (University of Delhi): “The ‘Other’: Socio-Economic and Gendered Exploitation in Colonial Assamese Tea Plantations with reference to Arupa Patangia Kalita's Joshnar Jhitash”
• Nahal Anjum (University of Delhi): “Modernism’s Global Bridge: Western and Indian Literary Intersections” • Anushka Hazra (Kolkata): “Rabindranritya: Looking Back at Tagore’s Modernist Dance Project”
• Snigdhadipta Majumdar (Independent Scholar): “The Shaping Influence of Europe on Sartorial Patterns in Colonial Bengal and its Reflection in Bengali Novels (1858- 1941)”
3.00 pm to 3.45 pm: PARALLEL SESSION
Venue: G2
Chair: Dr. R. Rajeshwari, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi
• Siddhi Maya Santhosh (M.A. English, University of Delhi): “Indian Absent-Presences in Mrs. Dalloway and To The Lighthouse: Interrogating the Colonial Other in Virginia Woolf’s Fiction”
• Akhya Shankar (M.A. English, University of Delhi): “Orientalist Discourse in Modernist Texts: Perpetuation and Subversion of Indian Identity”
• Ayush Ananda (M.A. English, University of Delhi): “Conceptualizing and representing temporality in life of T.S. Eliot and his select poetic works, with special reference to Letters exchange between Emily Hale and Eliot”
3.45 pm to 4.30 pm: CULTURAL EVENING –An Adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Play Dak Ghar
4.30 pm to 5.30 pm: VALEDICTORY SESSION and TEA