Aliah University, Kolkata Department of English Two-Day International Seminar Nature, Culture, and Shakespeare: Interrogating and Negotiating the Significations SEMINAR SCHEDULE

DAY 1: DATE: 10.01.17

MORNING SESSION

Venue: AUDITORIUM 1, Ground Floor, Left Wing.

09:15 am —10:15 am Registration

10:15 am —10:50 am Inaugural Session

10:00 am —10:05 am Recitation from the Holy Quran, followed by English translation

10:05 am -10:10 am Welcome Address by Prof. Amzed Hossein, Head of the Department, Department of English, Aliah University.

10:10 am -10:15 am Felicitation of the Guests.

10:15 am -10:25 am Inaugural Address by Prof. A. T. Khan, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, Aliah University

10:25 am -10:40 am Special Address by the Chief Guest

10:40 am -10.50 am Address by the Registrar, Dr. Anowar Hossain.

10:50 am —11:00 am Refreshment

11:00 am —12:00 noon Keynote Address By Prof. Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf, IIUM, Malaysia

12:00 noon—01:15 pm Plenary-I

a) Prof. Subir Kumar Dhar, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. b) Abhijit Sen, Visva-Bharati University , Shantiniketan, West bengal

Chair: Prof. Sanjukta Dasgupta, University of Calcutta.

01:15 pm—02:00 pm Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION

 Business Session I (4 Parallel Sessions)  TIME:2:00 pm- 3.15 pm

A: AUDITORIUM 1, Ground Floor, Left Wing, DATE- 10/01/17, TIME: 2:00 pm- 3:15 pm a) Dr. Sukriti Ghosal, Principal, MUC Women’s College, Burdwan. b) “The Shakespeare Teacher in Colonial Calcutta” -- Dr. Sandip Ain, Associate Professor, Bankura University. c) “Violent Delights without an End: The Cross-Cultural and Cross-Medial Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet” -- Dr. Saikat Sarkar, Assistant Professor, Bankura Christian college. Chair: Prof. Chidananda Bhattacharya, Rabindra Bharati University

B: Auditorium 2, Ground Floor, Right Wing, DATE- 10/01/17

TIME: 2:00 pm-3:15 pm

a) “ Shakespeare and Eco-criticism: A Critique Of Shakespeare’s Poetical Works” –Sarwar Ahamed, Assistant Professor, Department Of English, Kaliganj Govt. College, Debagram, Nadia. b) “ ‘Treading the Groves’ in Shakespearean Multiverse: The Functionality of Forests in Selected Plays of Shakespeare” – Shreya Chakrabarty, F.I.P Lecturer, Vivekananda College for Women, Kolkata, & Anindita Mitra, Research Scholar, University of Calcutta, Kolkata. c) “Greening Macbeth: An Ecocritical Reading”—Somrita Ganguly, Research Scholar, JNU, New Delhi. d) “Shakespeare and the Colonial Encounter in Renaissance Bengal: Discourse and Counter- discourse”--Md. Sahinur Rahaman, M. Phil Scholar, University of Calcutta.

Chair: Professor Abhijit Sen, Visva- Bharati University.

C: Room No. 404, Fourth floor, DATE- 10/01/17, TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:15pm

a) “Ophelia and The Pre Raphaelites” -- Biswajit Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Muragachha Govt. College & Subhadip Das, Assistant Professor, Muragachha Govt. College. b) “Shakespeare’s State and Court”. ---Ms. Kakali Bhattacharyya, Assistant Professor, Humanities and Management Science Department, B. P. Poddar Institute of Management and Technology, Kolkata. c) “Empathising with Animals in Shakespeare’s Works” – Dibyajyoti Ghosh, Research Scholar, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. d) “Shakespeare as the Crime Writer”, -- Somali Saren, Research Scholar, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad.

Chair: Prof. Subir Kumar Dhar, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.

D: Room No. 405, Fourth Floor, DATE- 10/01/17, TIME: 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

a) “Into Something Rich and Strange: Reimagining The Tempest”-- Dr. Shymasree Basu, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Vidyasagar Evening College. b) “ ‘Prospero is the Anti-Nature. And I say: Down with the Anti-Nature’: Nature and Culture in Aime Cesaire’s Unetempete” -- Sarbajaya Bhattacharya, Guest Lecturer, Kidderpore College. c) “ ‘Grafting’ the ‘Hypotext’ and the ‘Hypertext’: A Critical Analysis of Stoppard’s ‘Adoptation’ of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and its ‘Appropriation’ in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”— Pintu Karak, Teacher-In-Charge of Siuri Junior High School, East-Midnapore. d) “‘I burn, I pine, I perish’: Defying Nature for Culture in the Indian Adaptations Of Shakespeare’s Tragedies” -- Paulomi Sharma, M.Phil Scholar, Jadavpur University.

Chair: Prof. Asim Sissiqui, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

 Business Session II (4 Parallel Sessions) DATE: 10/01/17,  TIME:3.15 pm-4.30 pm

A: AUDITORIUM 1, Ground Floor, Left Wing, DATE- 10/01/17,

TIME: 3.15 pm- 4.30 pm

a) “Men are as time is: Nature and Culture in King Lear ” -- Dr. Arpa Ghosh, Associate Professor, Vivekananda College for Women. b) Dr. Devi Arumugam, Senior Lecturer. c) “Viola in a Male Soccer team: Adapting Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night into a teen Sport film, She’s the Man (2006)” -- Jayanta Rana, Assistant Professor, N. S. Mahavidyalaya.

Chair: Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam, University of Dhaka.

B: AUDITORIUM 2, Ground Floor, Right Wing, DATE- 10/01/17,

TIME: 3:15 pm-4:30 pm

a) “ ‘Cultured’, ‘Natural’ Or ‘Alternate Reality’: Reading Food Behaviour in Shakespeare” -- Dr. Sanghamitra De, Department of English, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, Assam. b) “Whose ‘art more lovely and temperate?’: Interface between Physical and Human Nature in Shakespeare” ---Dr. Sohail Ahmed, Head, Department of English, Aligarh College of Education, Aligarh. c) “Agential Coalition versus Individual Volition: Lacanian Study of the Love-triangle in Shakespeare Sonnets”—Kanak Kanti Bera, Assistant Professor, Panskura Banamali College & Sanjida Parveen, Independent Researcher, Kolkata. d) “From Shakespeare to শপীয়ার: Indigenization of Macbeth in the Bengali Plays of Nineteenth Century”–Arik Poddar, M. Phil Scholar (Comparative Literature), Rabindra Bharati University.

Chair: Prof Amit Bhattacharya, University of Gour Banga, Malda

C: Room No. 404, Fourth Floor, DATE- 10/01/17, TIME: 3:15 pm-4:30 pm

a) “The Nature of Alienation in the Shakespeare’s Plays” -- Sourav Banerjee, Assistant Professor, Mahitosh Nandy Mahavidyalaya, Jangipara, Hooghly, WB. b) “Liminality and Crossovers: Shakespeare in Bollywood” – Ghazala Yasmin, Assistant Professor & Head (Officiating), Department Of Journalism and Mass-Communication, Aliah University, Kolkata. c) “Shakespeare wallah: An Implication of the ambivalent reception of the ‘Bard’ in India” – Indranil Ghosh, Research Scholar, Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata. d) “From Denmark to Kashmir: A ‘Dystopian’ Reconfiguration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Vishal Bhardwaj’s ‘Haider’ ” –Jyotirmoy Sil, Research Scholar, Aliah University, Kolkata & Surojit Kayal, M. Phil Scholar, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

Chair: Dr. Pradip Ranjan Sengupta, Visiting Faculty, Aliah University and Rabindra Bharati University.

D: Room No. 405, Fourth Floor, DATE- 10/01/17, TIME: 3:15 pm --4:30 pm

a) “Nature, Culture and Alternative Reality in Heterotopian Space of The Tempest” –Debojyoti Dan, Head of the Department, Department of English, Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyala, Kolkata. b) “Prince of Morocco, Shylock and Caliban: A Critical Engagement on Shakespeare’s Racial Prejudices” –Musadhique Kottaparamban, Assistant Professor, Department of Freshman (English), Institute of Aeronautical Engineering (IARE), Hyderabad, & Muhammed Abdu Rahman KP, Research Scholar, School of Humanities, Centre of Excellence for Periyar Thought (CEPT), Periyar Maniammai University, Tamil Nadu. c) “You Talking to Me?”: The Tempest and Prosper’s Books”—Sayan Aich Bhowmik, Lecturer at South Calcutta Girls’ College, Kolkata. d) “ ‘But thy vile race’: An Inquiry into Xenophobia and Racial Otherness in Titus Andronicus”-- Md. Mizanur Rahaman, Research Scholar, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

Chair: Dr. Ayesha Munira Rasheed, Associate Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh.

04:30 pm--04:45 pm Tea & Snacks

04:45 pm—05:30 pm Panel Discussion (in memory of Prof. Sarbani Chaudhuri): (Venue: Auditorium 1)

a) Prof. Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf b) Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam c) Prof. Abhijit Sen

Co-ordinator: Prof. Subir Kumar Dhar

05:30 pm –07:30 pm Cultural Programme

DAY 2: 11.01.2017

MORNING SESSION

VENUE: AUDITORIUM 1

10:45 am —12.00 noon Plenary—II a) Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam b) Prof. Asim Siddique. Chair: Prof. Nor Faridah Abdul Manaf 12:15 pm—12:30 pm Refreshment

12:30 pm—1:45 pm Plenary—III a) Prof. Amit Bhattacharya b) Dr. Sandip Mondal. Chair: Prof. Syed Manzoorul Islam. 1:45 pm—02:30pm LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION

02:30 pm—03:45 pm Plenary—IV (Venue: Auditorium 1)

a) Prof. Sajal Kumar Bhattacharya b) Dr. Ayesha Munira Rasheed,

Chair: Prof. Asim Siddique

 Business Session -3 (4 Parallel Discussions), DATE:11/01/17,  TIME:3:45 pm -5:00 pm

A: AUDITORIUM 1, Ground Floor, Left Wing, DATE- 11/01/17,

TIME: 03:45 pm – 5:00 pm a) “Fun Shakespeare: Understanding Mya Gosling's Good Tickle Brain” -- Debalina Banerjee, Assistant Professor in English, Vidyasagar Evening College. b) “Scenes of Money and Death: Shakespeare and Welcombe enclosure seen through Edward Bond’s Bingo” -- Angshuman Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor of English, Prafulla Chandra College. c) Srideep Mukherjee, Assistant Professor, Netaji Subhash Open University.

Chair: Prof. Sajal Kumar Bhattacharya, Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol.

B: AUDITORIUM 2, Ground Floor, Right Wing, DATE- 11/01/17,

TIME: 03:45 pm – 5:00 pm

a) “‘My Dearest Love’: Enquiring into the Nature of Love in the Plays of Shakespeare” -- Dr. Syeda Ayesha Ali, Assistant Professor, St. Pauls Cathedral Mission College, Kolkata. b) “From Shakespearean Goblins to Utpal Dutt’s Dakini: Bangla Jatra as a Means of Re- appropiating European Theatrical Dialectics” -- Alisha Ibkar, Assistant Professor in English, Aligarh Muslim University. e) “Reading Shakespeare on the Blasted Heath: Towards A Green Pedagogy” -- Amrapali Bose, Guest Lecturer, Heramba Chandra College & St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College (PG Dept.). c) “High Art to High School: BazLuhrmann’s Romeo +Juliet as Transposition of the Classical Shakespeare into American Postmodern Cinematic Tradition” – Kashif Ilyas, Research Scholar, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University.

Chair: Prof. Amzed Hossein, Head of the Department, Department of English, Aliah University.

C: Room No.-404, Fourth Floor, DATE: 11/01/17, TIME: 03:45 pm – 5:00 pm

a) “The Bard in Indian Celluloid: A Study of Bhardwaj’s Reception of the Tragic Trilogy”— Krishnendu Das Gupta, Research Scholar, Netaji Subhas Open University. b) “Tracing a Green ‘Tragic Equation’ in Ted Hughes’s Reading of Shakespeare’s Macbeth” -- Mausumi Chatterjee, Research Scholar, Aliah University. c) “Nature and Culture in Songs of Shakespearean Comedies” – Sajda Chowdhury, Research Scholar, Department of English, Aliah University, Kolkata. d) “The Battle of Fair and Foul: An Eco-critical and Neo-historical Reading of Act-I, Scene-I of Macbeth” -- Md. Ali Murshed Mollah, Research Scholar, Aliah University & Sahabub Laskar, M. A., NSOU. e) “From Snipping of the Birnam Wood to a Green Pasture: An Eco-critical Niche in Macbeth and A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream” – Sahidur Rahaman Lasker, Research Scholar, Aliah University.

Chair: Dr. Sandip Mondal, Head and Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Kalyani.

D: Room No: 405, Fourth Floor, DATE: 11/01/17 TIME: 03:45 pm – 5:00 pm

a) “A Reading of the Fairy World and the Forest in A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Light of Ecocritism” -- Tahirul Islam, M. A. 1st Year., Aliah University. b) “Nature, Culture and Alternative Reality: Ambivalent Qualities of Shakespeare’s Writing” – Tohidur Rahaman, M. A. 1stYear, Aliah University. c) “Psychological Disturbance in Shakespearean Plays: Madness and Melancholia Plaguing the Dramatis Personae” – Sushrita Acharjee, UG III, Sri Shikshayatan College, University of Calcutta. d) “The Woman as a Man: Gender as Culture in Shakespeare’s Comedies” --Tamalika Roy, Department of English,UG III, Jadavpur University.

Chair: Dr. Swati Bhattacharya, Government Art College Kolkata. Visiting Faculty, Aliah University.

05:00 pm—05:15 pm Tea & Snacks

05:15 pm & onwards Valedictory Session

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