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“The Feminine in the Tagore‟S Oeuvre,” India-Bangladesh Symposium On International – Paper Presentation Lal, Malashri. “The Feminine in the Tagore‟s Oeuvre,” India-Bangladesh symposium on “Contemporarizing Tagore and the World”; January – May 2011. Chakrabarti, Shirshendu. “Christian over Pagan: Milton‟s Aesthetic dilemma?” International Seminar on “Inhabiting this Hour‟: John Milton, His Bequest, 1608-2010,” University of Delhi; March 2010. Chakrabarti, Shirshendu. “Tagore‟s Experience of Russia (1931),” 3rd International Conference – India and Russia in the Third Millennium: Dialogue of Cultures, INDAPRYAL (Association of Teachers of Russian Language and Literature), ROSSOTRUDNICHESTVO and MAPRYAL, Russian Centre for Science and Culture; September, 2010. Chakrabarti, Shirshendu. “Tagore and the Search for an Alternative Modernity,” International Conference on “Tagore, Neruda, Cèsaire: A View from the South,” IIAS, Shimla; October 2011. Panja, Shormishtha. “Marriage, Monarch, Mayhem: Queen Elizabeth I and the Anomaly of the Political Woman,” International Conference, Theater Without Borders, Madrid, Spain; May 2011. Panja, Shormishtha. “In Search of a Local Habitation: Illustrations in 19th Century Bengali Prose Retellings of Shakespeare,” Seminar on “Shakespeare and the Visual Arts,” World Shakespeare Congress, Prague, Czech Republic; July 2011. Panja, Shormishtha. “To Confine the Illimitable,” International Seminar on “Revisiting Shakespeare in Indian Literature and Culture,” Shakespeare Society of India and IP College, University of Delhi; March 2013. Panja, Shormishtha. “Visual Syntax in Verbal Retellings of Shakespeare,” International Conference on “Action, Language, Text: Crossing Translational and Transnational Boundaries in Early Modern Theater and Performance Culture,” Theater Without Borders, Gallatin, New York University; June 2013. Panja, Shormishtha. “Boydell, Bengal and After,” International Seminar on “Global Exchanges, Local Encounters: Indo- and Pan-European Theatrical, Cultural, Political and Economic Dialogues in the Early Modern Period and Beyond,” Theater Without Borders & National School of Drama, New Delhi; January 2014. Panja, Shormishtha. “Shakespeare „the great painter of Nature‟ Boydell and Bengal,” International Conference on “Transnational Networks and Systems in Early Modern Theatre,” Theater Without Borders, Ertegun House, University of Oxford; June 2014. Kumar, Udaya. “Disciplining Taste: Drama and the Literary Field in Nineteenth-Century Kerala,” Seminar at Lincoln School of Humanities and Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom; May 2010. Kumar, Udaya. “Autobiography and the Postcolonial: An Indian Postscript,” Seminar at the Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York, United Kingdom; June 2010. Kumar, Udaya. “Consciousness, Agency and Humiliation: Reflections on Dalit Writing and Subalternity,” International workshop on “Subalterns and Dalits in the work of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar” School of Oriental and African Studies, London; December 2010. Kumar, Udaya. International Conference on “Postcolonial Translation: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from South Asia,” Leverhulme Network on Postcolonial Translation at India International Centre, New Delhi; January 2011. Kumar, Udaya. “Spectral Transactions: Memory and Masculinity in C. Ayyappan‟s World,” International Conference on “Postfeminist Postmortems?: Gender, Sexualities and Multiple Modernities”; February 2011. Kumar, Udaya. “Conditions of Reception: Rabindranath Tagore in Kerala,” Conference on “Many Worlds of Rabindranath Tagore,” Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago; October 2011. Kumar, Udaya. “Personal and Public Histories: Nehru and His Vernacular Successors,” 40th Annual Conference on South Asia at Madison, Wisconsin; October 2011. Kumar, Udaya. “Reading the Braille of Annual Rings: The Multiple Archives of N. S. Madhavan,” 40th World Congress on “The Archive and Its Afterlives,” International Institute of Sociology; February 2012. Kumar, Udaya. “English Literary Studies and the Sense of Borders,” International Conference on “Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies,” English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad; November 2012. Sen, Sambudha. “Technology, Visuality and the Making of a Modern Urban Imaginary” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference on “Picturing the Nineteenth Century,” University of Kentucky, Lexington KY; March 2012. Dewadawson, Christel Rashmi. “Sherlock Holmes & the Darwinian Legacy,” International Seminar on “The Expanding Universe: Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century,” Jadavpur University; February 2010. Dewadawson, Christel Rashmi. “Visualising Paradise Lost” International Seminar on “„Inhabiting this Hour‟: John Milton, His Bequest,” University of Delhi; March 2010. Dewadawson, Christel Rashmi. “The Golden Age and the Cult of the Amateur,” International Seminar at St Stephen‟s College, University of Delhi; February 2012. Dewadawson, Christel Rashmi. “Is Reading Seeing? Jug Suraiya‟s Dubyaman Saga,” International Seminar on “Rethinking the Novel,” University of Delhi; March 2013. Dewadawson, Christel Rashmi. “Strategies of Protest: Gandhi in Contemporary Cartoons,” Seminar on “On the Move: People, Protests, Progress,” AAGS Bangkok; April 2013. Kumar, Raj. “Language, Literature and Translation: A Case of Oriya Dalit Literature,” International Seminar Leverhume Trust, UK at India International Centre, New Delhi; January 2011. Kumar, Raj. “The Progressives and the Untouchable Body: Dalit Women in Indian Literature,” International Seminar, Department of English, University of Delhi; February 2011. Kumar, Raj. “Myth, History and Politics: Caliban as the Subaltern Subject,” International Seminar, St. Bede College, Shimla & Shakespeare Association (India); September 2011. Kumar, Raj. “Arrival of a New Aesthetics: A Reading of Dalit Novels,” International Conference on “Re-thinking the Novel,” University of Delhi; March 2013. Chakravarty, Gautam. “Tagore on Aitihasik Chitra,” International Conference on “Tagore: the global impact of the writer in the community,” Edinburgh Napier University; May 2012. Bhattacharya, Rimli. “Playing with Time” International Conference on “Tagore, Neruda, Cèsaire: A View from the South,” IIAS, Shimla; October 2011. Bhattacharya, Rimli. “Figurations and Configurations,” International Seminar on “Temporal Spaces, Corporeality and Embodiment in Tagore‟s Theatrical Works,” National School of Drama, Delhi; January 2012. Bhattacharya, Rimli. “Head Curry: Familiar Food,” International Conference on “The Politics of Children‟s Literature,” Ravenshaw University, Cuttack; January 2012. Bhattacharya, Rimli. “Reading Lies. In Many Tongues,” International Conference on “The Humanities in Ferment: Strategies in for Our Times,” MargHumanities and the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; August 2012. Bhattacharya, Rimli. “Bringing into Translation: Script Sound Signification,” International Conference & Workshop on “Translation: Roles, Rights and Responsibilities,” Jadavpur University, Calcutta; September 2013. Chattarji, Subarno. “Specialisation in Journalism,” Alumni Conference on “The Changing Role of Journalism,” International Institute for Journalism (Berlin), New Delhi; July 2010. Chattarji, Subarno. “„To be made over‟: Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Memoirs.” International Conference on “War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature,” University of Newcastle, Australia; November 2010. Chattarji, Subarno. “James Bond as thriller hero in From Russia with Love,” International Conference on “Crime Fiction,” St Stephen‟s College, University of Delhi; February 2012. Chattarji, Subarno. “„The distant shores of freedom‟: recollecting and rehabilitating Vietnam in America,” International Conference on “War Memories: Commemoration, Re-enactment, Writings of War in the English-Speaking World (18th-21st Centuries),” University of Rennes 2, France; June 2014. Basu, Tapan. “Genealogies of Dispossession: A Critical Analysis of Jotiba Phule‟s and B.R.Ambedkar‟s Writings on the Origin of India‟s Caste Society,” International Conference on “De-territorialising Divesities: Cultures, Literatures and Languages of the Indigenous,” Maharaja Agrasen College, Univeristy of Delhi, in collaboration with FORTELL, February 2013. Basu, Tapan. “Beyond Protest Fiction: A Reading of Sharankumar Limbale‟s Hindu in the Light of a Debate on Protest Fiction in the African-American Literary Context,” International Conference on “Re-thinking the Novel,” Department of English, University of Delhi; March 2013. Majumdar, Rupendra Guha. “The Importance of English Translations of Dalit Writings in India‟s Regional Languages,” International Seminar on “English in the Dalit Context,” University of Hyderabad; January 2011. Majumdar, Rupendra Guha. “Et in Arcadia Ego: Ophelia‟s Orphic Recall through the Pastoral,” Conference on Shakespeare Across Media, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; June 2012. Majumdar, Rupendra Guha. “The Eleusinian Mythic Paradigms of Life and Death in Shakespearean Drama,” 7th Annual International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan; October 2013. Bose, Brinda. “Towards a New Aesthetics of Silence: Some Passionate Experiments with Contra-Outing,” International Conference on “Postfeminist Postmortems?” Department of English, University of Delhi; February 2011. Bose, Brinda. “Humility and its Effects,”
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