(10th, 11th, 12th March 2015)
Programme
Venue: Seminar Room.
Tuesday, 10th March 2015:
10:30 to 11:45 a.m.: (Session 1) Keynote address. Chairperson: Rupin W. Desai.
Welcome address: Promodini Varma, Convenor.
Keynote address: Malabika Sarkar, (formerly) Vice-Chancellor, Presidency University: “Yeats, Kipling and the Haven-Finding Art.”
11:45 to 12:00 noon: Refreshments.
12:00 to 12:30 p.m.: Inauguration. Chairperson: Rupin W Desai.
Welcome address: Promodini Varma, Principal.
Inauguration: Prof. Dinesh Singh, Vice-Chancellor, University of Delhi.
12:30 to 2:00 p.m.: Session 2 (three papers). Yeats and Kipling: notes on an unlikely pair. Chairperson: Rupin W. Desai.
Alexander Bubb, Department of English, King’s College. “‘The Passionless Passion of Slaughter’: Heroism and the Aesthetics of Violence.”
Bhim S. Dahiya, (formerly) Department of English, Kurukshetra University. “Kipling and Yeats as Men and Writers: a study in relationship.”
Harish Trivedi, (formerly) Department of English, University of Delhi. “Orientalism and Imperialism: Yeats, Kipling and India.”
2:00 to 2:45 p.m.: Lunch.
2:45 to 4:15 p.m.: Session 3 (three papers). Yeats: age and ageing.
Chairperson: Malabika Sarkar.
Arindam Sarma, Department of English, Chaiduar College. “W. B. Yeats’ Later Poetry on Old Age and Death: A Saidian Reading.”
Sudipta Chakraborty, Department of English, Sreegopal Banerjee College. ““An old man’s eagle mind”: A Gerontological Perspective to the Problem of Aging in select works of W.B. Yeats’s later years.”
Amiya Bhushan Sharma, School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National Open University. “‘Turning from the Mirror to Meditation upon a Mask’: Yeats’s search for his Daimon in ‘Ego Dominus Tuus’.”
4:15 to 4:30 p.m.: Refreshments.
4: 30 to 5:00 p.m.: Film screening: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats.
Wednesday, 11th March 2015:
10:00 to 11:30 a.m.: Session 4 (three papers). Kipling: the epistemic Raj.
Chairperson: Rajiva Verma.
John Lee, Department of English, 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.”
Christel R. Devadawson, Department of English, University of Delhi. “Kipling, JLK and the visual politics of the beast fable.”
11:30 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.: Refreshments.
11:45 to 12:45 p.m.: Session 5 (two papers) Yeats: miscellany.
Chairperson: Alexander Bubb.
Prashant Sinha, (formerly) Department of English, University of Pune. “Politics, Drama and Poetry: The Political Vision of W.B. Yeats as Reflected in Select Plays and Poems.”
Peter Schulman, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Old Dominion University. “Songs of the Wandering Aengus: Echoes of the Political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear.”
12:45 to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.: Session 6 (three papers). Kipling: of men and jungles.
Chairperson: Subhajit Sengupta.
Naina Dey, Department of English, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College. “The Laws of the Jungle and the Ways of Men: Problematics of Identity, Indianness and Imperialism in Mowgli the Frog.”
Purabi Panwar, (formerly) Department of English, College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi. “Transcending the Colonial: Around the Great Indian Empire with Kim and the Lama.”
Mythili Kaul, (formerly) Department of English, University of Delhi; in-absentia. “Mowgli, the Law of the Jungle and the Panchatantra” [to be read by Dr. Jyoti BajajDesai].
3:00 to 6: p.m.: Yeats and Kipling on Stage.
3:15 to 3:45 p.m.: Yeats’s Purgatory; performance by Shaw’s Corner, directed by Dr. Vinod Bala Sharma.
3:45 to 4:30 p.m.: Yeats’s The Words upon the Window-Pane; performance by Chilman, Bharati College Drama Society, directed by Dr. Sonali Jain.
4.30 to 4.45: Refreshments.
4:45 to 5:15 p.m: Never the Twain Shall Meet; performance by students of Department of English, Bharati College, directed by Mr. Anubhav Pradhan.
5:15 to 6:00 p.m.: Conference supper.
8:00 p.m.: Sound and Light show ‘University of Delhi: A Legend’ at Vice-Regal Lodge, University of Delhi for interested participants.
Thursday, 12th March 2015:
10:00 to 11:00 a.m.: Session 7 (two papers). Yeats and India.
Chairperson: Robert S. White.
Ruth Vanita, School of Liberal Studies, University of Montana. “Self-Delighting Soul: A Reading of Yeats’s “A Prayer for my Daughter” in the Light of Indian Philosophy” [through Skype].
Ambri Shukla and Shuchi Srivastava, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology. “W.B. Yeats and Hinduism: The Universal Philosophy.”
11:00 to 11:15 p.m.: Refreshments.
11:15 to 12:45 p.m.: Session 8 (three papers). Kipling: politics and narrativity; Chairperson: John Lee.
Indrani Das Gupta, 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.”
Chetan, Department of English, Bharati College, University of Delhi. “War and sexuality in Kipling's The Light that Failed”.
12:45 to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch.
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.: Session 9 (three papers). Kipling and Yeats: miscellany.
Chairperson: Peter Schulman.
Robert S. White, Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia. “Kipling and Yeats as Contrasting Heirs of Shakespeare.”
Ipshita Nath, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Anubhav Pradhan, Department of English, Bharati College, University of Delhi. “Chaps: Kipling, Yeats, and the empire of men.”
Rupin W. Desai, (formerly) Department of English, University of Delhi. “Yeats and Kipling: Parallels, Divergences, and Convergences.”
3:00 to 3:15 p.m.: Vote of Thanks.
3:15 PM to 3:30 p.m.: Refreshments.
Friday, 13th March 2015; 6:30 to 9:00 a.m.: Walking tour of Northern Ridge for interested participants.