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Nationalist Ideology and the Historiography of Literature in South Asian Cultures
Venue: Hallischer Saal, Burse, Universitätsplatz 5
Friday, 22nd September 2006
2 pm
Welcome Address (Hans Harder, Halle)
Keynote Lecture (Monika Böhm-Tettelbach, Heidelberg) (not yet confirmed)
3 pm
A.R. Venkatachalapathy (Chennai): The 'Nationalisation' of Subramania Bharati, 1948-1949
3.45 pm
Vasudha Dalmia (Berkeley): From 'Carita' to a 'humble attempt at novel writing: The history of the novel in Hindi
4.30 pm
Coffee break
5 pm
Sourav Kargupta (Halle): The Concept of the 'Folk' in Dinesh Chandra Sen's History of Bengali Literature: The reconstruction of the (forgotten) Bengali self
5.45 pm
Udaya Kumar (Kolkata): Literary Histories in Context: Communities, Identities and the Shaping of Literary Space in Kerala
7.30 pm
Dinner
Saturday, 23rd September 2006
8.30 pm
Ipshita Chanda (Kolkata): Writing the Nation: A Comparatist's Thought on Some Foundational Categories in the Literary Historiography of Postcolonial South Asian Literatures
9.15 am
Stuart Blackburn (London): The Problem of Tribal Oral Traditions in Indian Literary History and Nationalism
10 am
Gautam Bhadra (Kolkata): The 'Local' in the Literary Historiography of Nationalist Bengal
10.45 am
Coffee break
11.15 am
Navina Gupta (Halle): The Politics of Exclusion - the place of Urdu in Ramchandra Shukla's Hindi sahitya ka itihas
12 am
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Ann Arbour): The Poetry of Territory in Modern India
1 pm
Lunch break
2.30 pm
Thomas Anzenhofer (Halle): Caught Between (Re?-)Creation and Depreciation of Tamility: The beginnings of Tamil literary historiography in the 19th century
3.15 pm
Ira Sharma (München): Food for Thought: Literary history in schoolbooks
4 pm
Anirban Das (Jadavpur University): The 'Woman Poet' in the History of Bangla Literature: Weaving the nation, the language, and the question of sexual difference
4.45 pm
Coffee break>
5.15 pm
Syer ur-Rahman (Dhaka University): A Study of Works on the History of Bengali Literature during the Pakistani Period (1947-71)
6 pm
Charu Gupta (Delhi): From 'Aesthetics' to 'Ethics': Debating sexuality and obscenity in Hindi literature in colonial North India
7.30 pm
Dinner
Sunday, 24th September 2006
8.30 am
Thomas de Bruijn (Leiden): The Notion of 'Syncretism' in Hindi Literary Historiography
9.15 am
Torsten Tschacher (Singapur): On the Historiography of Islamic Tamil Literature
10 am
Coffee break
10.45 am
Purushottam Agrawal (Delhi): While Changing the Guru-parampara of his
Sect, He Changed the Literary Historiography of Nirguna Bhakti: The fascinating story
of Swami Bhagwadacharya of the Ramanandi order
11.30 am
Hans Harder (Halle): Indian Literature in English and the Problem of 'Naturalisation'
End of the conference around 1 pm
All who are interested in attending this conference please get in touch with us beforehand by sending us an e-mail, either to carmenbrandt@yahoo.de or hans.harder@suedasien.uni-halle.de!
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