(18th March 2015)
Kipling Hall,
The Oberoi Cecil,
The Oberoi Cecil,
Chaura Maidan, Shimla.
Wednesday, 18th of March:
10:00 AM to 10:15 AM: Inauguration, by Promodini Varma, Principal, Convenor.
10:15 AM to 11:45 PM: Session 1 (three papers). Kipling: the epistemic Raj; chairperson: Subhajit Sengupta.
John Lee, University of Bristol. “'The writer is indebted to the Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette': Kipling, Newspapers, and Poetry.”
Paromita Patranobish, Department of English, University of Delhi. ““A great Knowability”: Fantasy as Ethnography in Kipling’s Short Fiction.”
K.B.S. Krishna, Department of English, Central University of Himachal Pradesh. “Kim's Modern Education: Rudyard Kipling the Zealot.”
11:45 PM to 12:00 PM: Tea/coffee break.
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM: Session 2 (two papers). Kipling: texts and contexts; chairperson: John Lee.
Indrani Dasgupta, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. “Redefining the Body of Censorship: Reading Rudyard Kipling’s Indian Short Stories (1888-1902).”
Subhajit Sengupta, Department of English & Culture Studies, University of Burdwan. “Of combatants and non-combatants: Rudyard Kipling’s short stories of the First World War.”
1:00 PM to 1:45 PM: Lunch.
1:45 PM to 2:45 PM: Session 3 (two papers). Yeats and Kipling: masculinity and muscularity; chairperson: K.B.S. Krishna.
1:45 PM to 2:45 PM: Session 3 (two papers). Yeats and Kipling: masculinity and muscularity; chairperson: K.B.S. Krishna.
Nanditha Shastry, Jawaharlal Nehru Technical University. “Empire and Muscular Christianity: A Study of Rudyard Kipling’s “If”.”
Ipshita Nath, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Anubhav Pradhan, Department of English, Bharati College. “Chaps: Kipling, Yeats, and the empire of men.”
2:45 PM to 3:00 PM: Tea/coffee break.
3:00 PM to 3:30 PM: Never the Twain Shall Meet, play on Kipling.
3:30 PM to 3:45 PM: Concluding remarks by Promodini Varma, Convenor.
