Schedule For Conference
Day 1 : 23rd September, MondayTime | Programme |
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10:30am- 11:30am | Inaugural Session |
11:30am-12:30pm | Keynote Address: Professor Swapan Chakravorty |
12:30pm- 01:30pm | Lunch Break |
01:30pm- 02:30pm | Plenary Session I: Dr. Radhika Seshan: ‘The Book as History’ |
02:30pm- 03:00pm | Tea Break |
03:00pm- 04:30pm | Session I: Chairperson: Dr. Abhijit Gupta Dr. Nirmala Kulkarni: ‘Copying of Manuscripts Described in the Puranic Texts.’ Dr. Rajan Barrett: ‘The Bible: Reception, Rejection, Contestation and Reformulation In India.’ Kanaga Vinayagam: ‘Patronage, Religious Fanaticism, Castes and Topography: The Story of the Tamil ‘Text’ from Palmyra Leaves to Paper.’ |
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10:00am- 11:00am | Plenary Session II: Dr. Abhijit Gupta: ‘Darogar Daptar, or the Strange Case of the Non Existent Books.’ |
11:00am-11:30pm | Tea break |
11:30pm- 01:00pm | Session II: Chairperson: Professor Swapan Chakravorty Dr. Epsita Halder: ‘Placing the Bangla Karbala Narratives between the Copyist’s Desk and the Printing Press.’ Prasanta Das: ‘Appropriating Print: The Case of the Orunodoi in Nineteenth-Century Assam.’ Aradhana Bora: ‘Constructing Literary Culture in Assam: The Role of the Asom Sahitya Sabha.’ |
01:00pm- 02:00pm | Lunch Break |
02:00pm- 03:00pm | Plenary Session III: Rekha Natarajan |
03:00pm- 03:30pm | Tea Break |
3:30pm- 5:00pm | Session III: Chairperson: Professor Raj Rao Roanna Gonsalves: ‘What is the capital of Frankfurt: Indian publishing at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012.’ Aswathi Jerome: ‘Developing New Reading Tastes in the 1960s: IBH and Blyton - A Case Study.’ Finitha Jose & Prachand Narayan: ‘Pottermania and the Transformation of Publishing History.’ |
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10:00am- 11:00am | Plenary Session IV: Dr. Urmila Bhirdikar: ‘Granth, Book and Notebook: Three Texts in the Classicisation of North Indian Music. |
11:00am-11:30pm | Tea break |
11:30pm- 01:00pm | Session IV: Chairperson: Professor Aniket Jaaware Koel Mitra: ‘Questioning Existing Methodologies: Studying the Digital Collaborative Text.’ Udayaravi Shastry: ‘Digital Literature in the 16th Century.’ Sritama Halder: ‘Learning How to Draw the Bones perfectly: Reading Harish Chandra Halder’s Illustrations in Balak.’ |
01:00pm- 02:00pm | Lunch Break |
2:00pm- 3:30pm | Session V: Chairperson: Professor B.S. Korde Frederick F. N. Noronha & Sandra Ataide Lobo: ‘Goa, the World and the Printed Page: History of the book and of reading since the 19th century.’ Jagadeesan/ Jack Surya: ‘Print, Translations and Political Consciousness: Towards an Understanding of the Dravidian Movement.’ Veena R. Nair: ‘Destroyer and Preserver: Print and the Transition of Araya Culture.’ |
03:30pm- 04:00pm | Tea Break |
04:00pm- 04:30pm | Valedictory Session |