Literary Circulations in South Asia : Producing, Translating, Preserving Texts

Organisation
Anne Castaing, Nicolas Dejenne, Claudine Le Blanc, Ingrid Le Gargasson
 

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Programme

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Mardi 21 août
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09h30 Inaugural Session

• Welcome address by IFP and the DELI team
• Presentation of the DELI project
• Introduction to the conference

10h00 Keynote address by ABHIJIT GUPTA (Jadavpur University)

• Two Centuries of Indian Print.
   

10h30 Coffee break
 

11h00 Session 1

• Heleen DE JONCKHEERE (Ghent University)
  ‘Examining Religion’ through Generations of Jain Audiences : The Circulation of the Dharmaparīkṣā Tradition.

• Shalin JAIN (Delhi University)
  Constructing Knowledge and Circulating Perceptions : The Jain Vigyaptipatras in Early Modern South Asia.

• PRAKASH V. (Institut Français de Pondichéry)
  Tinai : Love, Nature, Landscape. The Place and Its Development in Tamil Literary Tradition.
   

12h30 Lunch
 

14h00 Session 2

• Kedar KULKARNI (Flame University)
  The Manuscript and the Anthology in Colonial India.

• Cezary GALEWICZ (Jagiellonian University)
  The Veda, the Imperial Typography and Regional Print Cultures in Colonial India.

• Catherine SERVAN-SCHREIBER (CNRS/CEIAS)
  History of Publishing Indian Popular Literature : Printing and Circulation of Bhojpuri Chapbooks inside the North India Book Market Economy.
   

16h00 Session 3

• Sushmita BANERJEE (Delhi University)
  Persian Taz̠kirāt-s and Circulation of Knowledge in Sixteenth Century North India : Tracing Narratives and History in the Ak̲h̲bār al-Ak̲h̲yār.

• Zahra SHAH (Governement College University, by Skype)
  The Key to the Hearts of Beginners : Gender and Movement in an Eighteenth-Century Persian Text.
   

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Mercredi 22 août
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09h30 Session 4

• Krupa SHAH (IIT Gandhinagar)
  Reading Hothal : Language Travel and Multilingualism.

• VINOTH M. (Institut Français de Pondichéry) & THIAGARAJAN S. (Sri Jayendra Saraswathi Ayurveda College)
  Challenges in Translating Sanskrit Drama : The Case of the Tamil Translation of Bhavabhūti’s Mālatīmādhava.

• Ashokan C. NAMBIAR (Delhi University)
  Producing a “New” : Kandathil Varghese Mappila (1858- 1904) and the Emergence of a Modern Literary Space in Malayalam in Nineteenth-century Kerala.
   

11h Coffee break
 

11h15 Session 5

• Namrata RATHORE MAHANTA (Banaras Hindu University)
  The Journey of the Vrata Narrative in Vārāṇasi : From the Purāṇa-s to Popular Tracts.

• Tanima DEY (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  Text and Context : 18th Century Bengali Literary Culture in Cachar and Tripura.

• Dhurjjati SARMA (GAUHATI UNIVERSITY)
  Transcreating the Ramayana in Assamese : Madhav Kandali’s Satkanda Ramayana.
   

12h45 Lunch
 

14h00 Session 6

• Marielle MORIN (CNRS/CEIAS)
  Reading between the Shelves : Books and Public Libraries in Colonial Bengal.

• Debashree DATTARAY (Jadavpur University)
  Rearticulating Indigenous Knowledge Systems : Institutional and Cultural Practices in Karbi Anglong, Assam.

• Jayadhir THIRUMALA RAO (Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Hyderabad)
  The Indigenous Text and Preservation in Oral and Written Forms.
   

15h30 Coffee break
 

16h00 Final session : round table (chaired by Kannan M.)

• V. GEETHA (Essayist)
• Dilip KUMAR (Publisher and Translator)
• Kanchana MUKHOPADHYAY (Bingsha Shatabdi Publishers)
• J. SHASHIKUMAR (School of Translation Studies and Training, Ignou)
• Rajesh VENKATASUBRAMANIAN (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)

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