International Conference on Rabindranath Tagore Today

RABINDRANATH TAGORE (7 MAY 1861 – 7 AUGUST 1941), MOST EMINENT MODERN BENGALI POET AND LITTERATEUR, IS ALSO CRITIC, ESSAYIST, COMPOSER AND EDUCATOR. HE WAS THE FIRST INDIAN AND FIRST ASIAN TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1913.

“The Indian heart will again be full when our education is a blend of the Vedic, Puranic, Buddhist, Jain and Islamic minds. That is how India will grasp the unity in its diversity.

We must rediscover ourselves in this connected way or else our education will not be our own. No nation can thrive on imitation.”

- Rabindranath Tagore, 1919, in Uma Das Gupta ed., Rabindranath Tagore, My Life in

My Words, Penguin Books, 2010, p. 196.

Welcome

International Conference

on

Rabindranath Tagore Today

“Where the Mind is without Fear and the Head is held High”

7 – 8 April, 2011

Department of English

Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut, India

Contact

Dr Arun Kumar, Professor & Head, Department of English

Chaudhary Charan Singh University

Meerut - 250005 - Uttar Pradesh - India

drarun_kumar72@rediffmail.com

Cell: 91 – 98977 06116

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Uma Das Gupta

Santiniketan

UMA DAS GUPTA did her postdoctoral research on Rabindranath Tagore and the history of the institutions he founded at Santiniketan and Sriniketan, 1940-41. Her recent publications include The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism and Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography. Her forthcoming publications include a collection of Tagore’s writings on India’s history and culture. Das Gupta taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta and Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan and was Head of the United States Educational Foundation in India for the Eastern Region.

Call for Abstracts (200-300 words maximum)/Papers (designed for 15 Minute delivery; maximum)/Bio-Briefs (150-200 words).The deadline for submission by Registered Post is

15 March 2011.

The mission of the Department of English at Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut is to offer Rabindranath Tagore scholars and other interested persons an opportunity to share in the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author.

Registration:

INR 2,500/-

INR 1,000/- Research Scholars/Student Fee

Registration Form

INR 2,500/-

INR 1,000/- Research Scholars/Student Fee

Your registration fee includes: breakfast and lunch on 7^th April, Thursday and 8^th April, Friday and all conference sessions, kit and materials.

Presenter registration closes on March 15 2011.

The detailed programme will be posted on the conference website shortly after this date. Attendee registration will remain open until the conference facility fills.

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Mail by Registered Post to:

Dr Arun Kumar

Professor & Head, Department of English

Chaudhary Charan Singh University

Meerut – U.P. – India

drarun_kumar72@rediffmail.com

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