[Reader-list] Lady Shri Ram College Conference 22- 23 March 2013

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Dear all,
            The Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College for Women is
holding a two-day national conference *Traditions of Intellectual Inquiry:
Histories, Politics, Responses* on *22nd and 23rd March 2013*.

Please find below the schedule for the event. Hope to see you there.

*Programme Schedule*

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*Day I/ 22 March 2013*


*Registration*: 9.00 - 10.00 am



*Inauguration* 10.00 - 10.30 am



Welcome by Principal

Address by Head of the Department of English, DU

Welcome Note by Conference Convenor



*Plenary*/ *Through the Dark Woods of Theory*

10.30 - 11.30 am

Chair:  Dr. Maya Joshi



Prof. Rukmini Bhaya Nair – “The Desire for Theory and The Theory of Desire”*
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Coffee/Tea 11.30 - 11.45 am



*Session 2*/*Unlit Paradigms, Lit Paradoxes: Revisiting the Modern* 11.45
am - 01.15 pm

Chair: Prof. Sambudha Sen



Prof. Aditya Nigam – “*Formations of the Modern and the Idea of the
Political”*



Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty – “The Concept of Heresy in Early Modernity”



Lunch 01.15 - 2.00 pm



*Session 3*/*Resurrecting Hypatia: Feminisms, New and Old*

2.00 - 3.30 pm

Chair: Dr. Vasudha Pande



Prof. Nivedita Menon – “Deconstructing Nature: Feminist Interventions in
Science”



Ms. Manpreet Kaur – “The History of Feminism(s) in 50 objects”



Coffee/Tea 3.30 - 3.45 pm



*Session 4*/ *The London Eye: Mechanics of Empire-building*

3.45 - 5.15 pm

Chair: Dr. Madhu Grover



Dr. Baidik Bhattacharya – “‘Kipling's Colonial Soldiers': Rethinking
Technology, Empire, and Aesthetics after Walter Benjamin”



Mr. Sameer Chopra – “‘Knowing’ the ‘Other’: Said’s *Orientalism*, the
Imperial Gaze and the Construction of Criminality in Conan Doyle’s Sherlock
Holmes Stories”





*Day II/ 23 March 2013*



*Session 1*/ *Enlightenment and its Others*

10.00 - 11.30 am

Chair: Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhary



Prof. V. Sanil – “The Idea of Critique in Kant and Nietzsche”



Prof. Bijoy Boruah – “Criticism and the Cunning of Reason”



Coffee/Tea 11.30 - 11.45 am



*Session 2/Blotting Selves, Shattering Mirrors: Theorizing the Body* 11.45
am - 1.15 pm

Chair: Prof. Simi Malhotra



Prof. Udaya Kumar – “The Body and Contemporary Thought”



Dr. Anup Dhar – “Naming Psychoanalysis: Between the ab-Original and the
Aboriginal”



Lunch 1.15 - 2.00 pm



*Session 3*/ *Knights of Labour: Rethinking Marxist Paradigms*

2.00 - 3.30 pm

Chair: Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty



Dr. Soumyabrata Choudhury – “‘Illiterates are the Real Hope of Literature’:
Towards a Theory of Common Language”



Dr. Rajarshi Dasgupta – “Alienation for an Alien Nation: Toward a Critique
of the Progressive Tradition”



Coffee/Tea 3.30 - 3.45 pm



*Session 4*/*Reconstructing the Fragment: Crises in Postmodern
Thought*3.45 - 5.15 pm

Chair: Dr Baidik Bhattacharya



Dr. Saitya Brata Das – “Affirmation of Deconstruction: Yes, and a Yes and a
Yes Again”



Prof. Simi Malhotra – “Past-Philosophy in Postmodernism: Postmortem
Postulations”



*Session 5/* 5.15 - 5.45 pm

Vote of Thanks/Closing Session