DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
UGC-ASIHSS PROGRAMME
ALL INDIA STUDENTS’ SEMINAR 2010
PERFORMANCE TEXT EVENT
16 & 17 March, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Literature and performance are inextricably linked. From Plato’s dialogues to Walcott’s Omeros, from Tagore’s dance dramas to Bob Dylan’s lyrics, from Shakespeare’s plays to Agha Shahid Ali’s ghazals, the interplay of the oral/aural, the performative and the written has deeply enriched cultural and philosophical thought. Written forms of poetry, fiction and non-fiction have strong dramatic elements and traces of orality embedded in them. On the other hand, the reception of the written text, be it in Chaucer’s England or contemporary India, has involved not just silent reading but also telling, hearing, seeing, adapting. While we expect ‘theatre’ to be ‘performance,’ that is, the display and movement of human bodies in space, ‘drama’ has been appropriated by ‘literature.’ The re-emergence of spoken/sung poetry alongside established forms of written poetry marks the increasing traffic between the page, the stage and the audio/visual image.
Clearly, the notion of ‘performance’ extends far beyond theatre to a whole range of ‘performance events,’ ancient and modern, such as sports, ritual, political action and resistance, music concerts and so on. Factors such as class, location, ideology and gender shape the narrative forms of these events and the cultural texts they spawn. It is worth examining how textuality and performativity develop and reflect different ways of thinking about identity and place, especially with the emergence of new technologies of communication and recording. This seminar hopes to closely scrutinize the interplay between text, sound, spectacle, image and performance through the analysis of specific texts (printed, spoken, audio-visual) and/or performance events.
ABSTRACTS OF ABOUT 300 WORDS DEALING WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE ISSUES, AND PREFERABLY LINKED TO SPECIFIC TEXTS/EVENTS, ARE INVITED FROM B.A. AND M.A. STUDENTS. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS IS 14TH FEBRUARY, 2010.
PLEASE EMAIL ABSTRACTS WITH YOUR NAME, INSTITUTION AND CONTACT DETAILS TO nilanjanadeb@yahoo.com. PLEASE TYPE ‘J.U. STUDENT SEMINAR 2010 ABSTRACT’ AS THE SUBJECT OF THE EMAIL.
NOTE: ACCOMMODATION AND RAIL FARE (SLEEPER CLASS) WILL BE PROVIDED TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF DESERVING OUTSTATION PARTICIPANTS ONLY.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE: SCIENCE AND LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ‘THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE:
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY’
6TH – 8TH FEBRUARY, 2010
VENUE: H. L. ROY AUDITORIUM (GATE NO. 3)
6 FEBRUARY 2010 (SATURDAY):
10.00 – 10.30: Registration
INAUGURAL SESSION
10.30 – 11.00: Inauguration by Professor Ashoke Ranjan Thakur, Vice-Chancellor, West Bengal State University
11.00 – 12.00: Keynote Address: Professor Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge): ‘“The Backbone Shiver”: Darwin and the Arts’
12.00 – 12.15: COFFEE
SESSION II
12.15 – 1.00: Samantak Das (Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavapur University): ‘Written on the Body’
1.00 – 2.00: LUNCH
SESSION III
2.00 – 2.30: Christel R. Devadawson (University of Delhi): ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Darwinian Legacy’
2.30 – 3.00: Shilpy Malhotra (Miranda House, Delhi): ‘Science and Literature in the
Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sherlock Holmes’
3.00 – 3.20: Shantanu Majee (PG 2, Jadavpur University): ‘On the Origin of the New Woman: Reading Darwin’s Influence on Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book’
3.20 – 3.30: TEA
SESSION III
3.30 – 4.00: Debarati Bandyopadhyay (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan): ‘Science and Crime: “Recognizable Realities” of the 19th Century in the Novels of Wilkie Collins’
4.00 – 4.30: Prodosh Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University): ‘Bestseller Science: Some novels of Marie Corelli’
7 FEBRUARY 2010 (SUNDAY):
SESSION I
10.00 – 10.30: Phillip Mallett (University of St Andrews, Edinburgh): Thomas Hardy
10.30 – 11.10: Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester): ‘Literary Megatheriums and loose baggy monsters: Palaeontology and the Victorian Novel’
11.10 – 11.50: Sambudha Sen (University of Delhi): ‘Visuality, Technology and the Making of a Modern Urban Imaginary’
11.50 – 12.00: COFFEE
SESSION II
12.00 – 12.30: Nivedita Basu (St Stephen’s College, Delhi): ‘Staging Technology:
Nineteenth Century Melodrama and the Modern’
12.30 – 1.00: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata):
‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth Century Science’
1.00 - 2.00: LUNCH
SESSION III
2.00 – 2.30: Rimi B. Chatterjee (Jadavpur University): ‘The New Great Work: Frankenstein and the Transmutation of Alchemy’
2.30 – 3.00: Dhrubajyoti Sarkar (Vidyasagar College, Nabadwip): ‘Hind Swaraj to
Copenhagen: John Ruskin’s Lasting Legacy’
3.00 – 3.20: Pusapati Teja Varma (MPhil, University of Delhi): ‘Prescribing/ Proscribing Reform: Gender Prejudice and Medical Knowledge in Middlemarch’
3.20 – 3.30: TEA
SESSION IV
3.30 – 4.00: Saswati Halder (Jadavpur University): ‘“Ascendancy of a New Order”: The Rise of Professional Science in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters’
4.00 – 4.30: Shanta Dutta (Jadavpur University): ‘The “Terrible Muses” and Victorian Fiction’
8 FEBRUARY 2010 (MONDAY):
SESSION I
10.30 – 11.10: Madhav Gadgil (Agharakar Research Institute, Pune): ‘Genes, memes and machines: Samuel Butler’s evolutionary insights’
11.10 – 11.50: Jayanta Bhattacharjee (S. N. Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata): ‘The Story of Light’
11.50 – 12.00: COFFEE
SESSION II
12.00 – 12.40: Carlo Vecce (University of Naples): ‘The rediscovery of Leonardo da
Vinci’s manuscripts in the nineteenth century’
12.40 – 1.00: Anirban Ray (MPhil, Jadavpur University): ‘Exploring the Heavens: Space-Travels in the works of Jules Verne’
1.00 – 2.00: LUNCH
SESSION III
2.00 – 2.30: Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University): ‘Scientific Publishing in 19th century Bengal: an overview’
2.30 – 3.00: Arpa Ghosh (Vivekananda College for Women, Barisha, Kolkata): ‘Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay’s Krishnacharitra and Jagadish Chandra Bose’s Obyakta: The correlation between Science and Literature in two 19th century texts’
3.00 – 3.20: Abhishek Sarkar (JRF, Jadavpur University): ‘Thematizing Science on the 19th-century Kolkata Stage: Girish Chandra Ghosh’s Mayabasan’
3.20 – 3.30: TEA
SESSION IV
3.30 – 3.50: Ramit Samaddar (MPhil, Jadavpur University): ‘Ambivalence in Constance Naden: Science, Gender and “Evolutional Erotics”’
3.50 – 4.20: Chandreyee Niyogi (Jadavpur University): ‘Some call it Imagination and others call it God: dream, trance, and spirit communication in Victorian women’s battle for the soul of man’
4.20 – 4.45: VALEDICTORY
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ‘THE EXPANDING UNIVERSE:
SCIENCE AND LITERATURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY’
6TH – 8TH FEBRUARY, 2010
VENUE: H. L. ROY AUDITORIUM (GATE NO. 3)
6 FEBRUARY 2010 (SATURDAY):
10.00 – 10.30: Registration
INAUGURAL SESSION
10.30 – 11.00: Inauguration by Professor Ashoke Ranjan Thakur, Vice-Chancellor, West Bengal State University
11.00 – 12.00: Keynote Address: Professor Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge): ‘“The Backbone Shiver”: Darwin and the Arts’
12.00 – 12.15: COFFEE
SESSION II
12.15 – 1.00: Samantak Das (Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavapur University): ‘Written on the Body’
1.00 – 2.00: LUNCH
SESSION III
2.00 – 2.30: Christel R. Devadawson (University of Delhi): ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Darwinian Legacy’
2.30 – 3.00: Shilpy Malhotra (Miranda House, Delhi): ‘Science and Literature in the
Nineteenth Century: The Case of Sherlock Holmes’
3.00 – 3.20: Shantanu Majee (PG 2, Jadavpur University): ‘On the Origin of the New Woman: Reading Darwin’s Influence on Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book’
3.20 – 3.30: TEA
SESSION III
3.30 – 4.00: Debarati Bandyopadhyay (Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan): ‘Science and Crime: “Recognizable Realities” of the 19th Century in the Novels of Wilkie Collins’
4.00 – 4.30: Prodosh Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University): ‘Bestseller Science: Some novels of Marie Corelli’
7 FEBRUARY 2010 (SUNDAY):
SESSION I
10.00 – 10.30: Phillip Mallett (University of St Andrews, Edinburgh): Thomas Hardy
10.30 – 11.10: Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester): ‘Literary Megatheriums and loose baggy monsters: Palaeontology and the Victorian Novel’
11.10 – 11.50: Sambudha Sen (University of Delhi): ‘Visuality, Technology and the Making of a Modern Urban Imaginary’
11.50 – 12.00: COFFEE
SESSION II
12.00 – 12.30: Nivedita Basu (St Stephen’s College, Delhi): ‘Staging Technology:
Nineteenth Century Melodrama and the Modern’
12.30 – 1.00: Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata):
‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Early Nineteenth Century Science’
1.00 - 2.00: LUNCH
SESSION III
2.00 – 2.30: Rimi B. Chatterjee (Jadavpur University): ‘The New Great Work: Frankenstein and the Transmutation of Alchemy’
2.30 – 3.00: Dhrubajyoti Sarkar (Vidyasagar College, Nabadwip): ‘Hind Swaraj to
Copenhagen: John Ruskin’s Lasting Legacy’
3.00 – 3.20: Pusapati Teja Varma (MPhil, University of Delhi): ‘Prescribing/ Proscribing Reform: Gender Prejudice and Medical Knowledge in Middlemarch’
3.20 – 3.30: TEA
SESSION IV
3.30 – 4.00: Saswati Halder (Jadavpur University): ‘“Ascendancy of a New Order”: The Rise of Professional Science in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters’
4.00 – 4.30: Shanta Dutta (Jadavpur University): ‘The “Terrible Muses” and Victorian Fiction’
8 FEBRUARY 2010 (MONDAY):
SESSION I
10.30 – 11.10: Madhav Gadgil (Agharakar Research Institute, Pune): ‘Genes, memes and machines: Samuel Butler’s evolutionary insights’
11.10 – 11.50: Jayanta Bhattacharjee (S. N. Bose Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata): ‘The Story of Light’
11.50 – 12.00: COFFEE
SESSION II
12.00 – 12.40: Carlo Vecce (University of Naples): ‘The rediscovery of Leonardo da
Vinci’s manuscripts in the nineteenth century’
12.40 – 1.00: Anirban Ray (MPhil, Jadavpur University): ‘Exploring the Heavens: Space-Travels in the works of Jules Verne’
1.00 – 2.00: LUNCH
SESSION III
2.00 – 2.30: Abhijit Gupta (Jadavpur University): ‘Scientific Publishing in 19th century Bengal: an overview’
2.30 – 3.00: Arpa Ghosh (Vivekananda College for Women, Barisha, Kolkata): ‘Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay’s Krishnacharitra and Jagadish Chandra Bose’s Obyakta: The correlation between Science and Literature in two 19th century texts’
3.00 – 3.20: Abhishek Sarkar (JRF, Jadavpur University): ‘Thematizing Science on the 19th-century Kolkata Stage: Girish Chandra Ghosh’s Mayabasan’
3.20 – 3.30: TEA
SESSION IV
3.30 – 3.50: Ramit Samaddar (MPhil, Jadavpur University): ‘Ambivalence in Constance Naden: Science, Gender and “Evolutional Erotics”’
3.50 – 4.20: Chandreyee Niyogi (Jadavpur University): ‘Some call it Imagination and others call it God: dream, trance, and spirit communication in Victorian women’s battle for the soul of man’
4.20 – 4.45: VALEDICTORY
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