The time slots refer to Indian Standard Time. Links for joining the event will be sent to registered participants closer to the date.
Day 1 | 15 July 2021
10:00 - 10:50 :: Session 1
Kick-off: Introducing the Theme / Avishek Ray
Decolonizing 'Travel': Mind, Words and Magic / Mattia Salvini
11:00 - 12:00 :: Session 2
Re-discovery of Travel as 'Tirthajatra' in Tagore’s Java Jatrir Patra / Subham Dutta
Pastness of the Present in Anuradha Sharma Pujari’s Kolikatar Chithi : A Postcolonial Enquiry / Kabita Chiring
19:30 - 20:10 :: Session 3
Decolonial Dilemmas: Vernacular Translations, Indigenous Inscriptions, Evangelical Entanglements / Saurabh Dube
Day 2 | 16 July 2021
10:00 - 11:30 :: Session 4
Mobilities of/in Ritual: The Agnihotrabrāhmaṇas / Lauren Bausch
The Imagery of Travel within the Raga Music Schools and Its Ecosystem / Pelva Naik
In Search of Love: The Travels and Transgressions of Bulleh Shah / Riti Sharma
19:00 - 19:40 :: Session 5
'Floating straight obedient to the stream': Bibliomigrancy and Riverine Journeys in Colonial Bengal / Swati Chattopadhyay
Day 3 | 17 July 2021
10:00 - 11:00 :: Session 6
From Ignorance to Knowledge: A Selective Reading of Indian Travel Narratives as ‘Jivanmukti’ / Indrani Bandyopadhyay
Riverine Travel as an Existential and Cultural Quest: On Amritlal Vegad’s Narmada Parikrama / Hardeep Kaur
11:15 - 12:30 :: Session 7
'Sair kar duniya ki ghafil…': Liberatory Praxis via Traveling Theory? / Maya Joshi
Fashioning a ‘Hindu’ Freedom: Vernacular Travelogues of Satyadev ‘Parivrajak' / Charu Gupta
19:30 - 20:10 :: Session 8
India as 'Traveling' Theory: De-nationalizing Mobilities / David Ludden