RABINDRANATH TAGORE -- IN HIS TIME AND OURS...

CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES

UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

National Seminar

on

   RABINDRANATH TAGORE -- IN HIS TIME AND OURS

27-29 February 2012

As part as part of the Rabindranath Tagore 150^th Birth Centenary Celebrations begun last year with Basanta Utsav: Roop-Raag at the University of Hyderabad, Centre for Comparative Literature has planned a National Seminar to review Tagore’s immense legacy for the benefit of young scholars.  The Seminar proposes to emphasize the contextual significance of Tagore’s work in his own time and the continuing relevance of his ideas for India and the world in the present time of cultural crises and transformations. The Seminar urges a looking back at Tagore’s contribution to the discourses of “his time” to understand that the past is not inconsequential for us today since they  gave birth to and indicated the direction of the discourses of ‘our time.’

The Seminar will be inter- and multi-disciplinary in its scope to encourage engagement with the multifaceted nature of Tagore’ work.

The thrust areas for discussion comprise [but not limited to]:

Tagore and Time/Memory                                      Tagore and Nationalism

Tagore and Narrative                                               Tagore and Globalism

Tagore and Poetry                                                    Tagore and the Child

Tagore and Drama                                                   Tagore and Education     

Tagore and the Arts                                                   Tagore and Science

Tagore and Popular Culture                                   Tagore and Gender

Abstracts of 250 words may be emailed to: nandinibhattacharya60@gmail.com;                       tutunmukherjee@gmail.com

Last date for the submission of abstracts:  15^th January, 2012

Intimation of selection:                               20^th January, 2012