Hindu College Seminar

[Arjun Ghosh অর্জুন]

Dear Students,

The next DU English Seminar is in Hindu College. 15-16 December, 2008.

15 Deccember
9.30 "Unreal City" Prof. Shirshendu Chakraborty
11.15 "Augustans Negotiating the City Streets" Harriet Raghunathan
          "The Capitalist City and Consciousness: Balzac and Dostoevsky" Prof. Sambuddha Sen

2.00 "In Search of the Elusive Flaneuse: Visualising the City from its Margins" G. Arunima (JNU)
         "The Country and the City: The Bye Lanes of Identity" Dr. Karen Gabriel, St. Stephen's

3.30 "Looking Through Passion: Modernity, Sexuality and the City in Ray's Cinema" Dr. Brinda Bose, Hindu College
        "The Refugee City: Partition and Kolkata's Postcolonial Landscape", Debjani Sengupta, IP College
  

16 December

9.30 "Collective Violence: Public Spaces and the Unmaking of Man" Deepak Mehta, DSE
         "Caste and the Narrations of the City", Dilip Menon, Dept. of Hist, DU
         "Brahman Gali: The Ethnography of a Bye-Lane", Vaibhav Parel, Eng. Dept. DU
11.45  "Death and the City: A Reading of Some Modernist Texts" Lalita Sabbu, Hindu College
           "Artist's City; City's Artist: James Joyce and Salman Rushdie", Stuti Khanna, IIT
1.45    "Colonial Calcutta: Exploring the History of Urban Planning", Partho Datta, Zakir Hussain (Eve)
 2.30   "The City as Dreamworld and Dystopia", Ravi Sundaram, CSDS
 3.15   Panel Discussion: "The Contemporary City and Cultures of democracy"
           Prof. Satish Deshpande, DSE; Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, IEG; Prof. Sohini Ghosh, AJK MCRC, Jamia; Aseem Srivastava; Swaroopa Mukherjee, Hindu College.


Arjun Ghosh
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