EVENTS

Centenary Celebration of the Award of Nobel Prize to Rabindranath Tagore

Tagore’s Legacy of Inter-cultural Interaction

India, China and Civilization States

8-9 November 2013

Seminar Hall I and II, Kamaladevi Complex

India International Centre, New Delhi

Organized by Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi & Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan

With support from Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs, GOI

In association with India International Centre

 

PROGRAMME

Day One: 8 November 2013

Inaugural Session

6:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies

 Welcome Remarks: Prof. Alka Acharya, Director, Institute of Chinese Studies

 Introductory Remarks: Prof. Sushanta Dattagupta, Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, & President, President of the Committee for Centenary Celebration of the Award of Nobel Prize to Rabindranath Tagore

 Introducing India and China: Intercultural Perspectives (Essays in Honour of Tan Chung): Prof. Patricia Uberoi, Vice Chairperson, Institute of Chinese Studies, & Editor of the Book

 Release of the Book by Shri Shivshankar Menon 

 Inaugural Address: Shri Shivshankar Menon, National Security Advisor, India

 Keynote Address: Prof. Tan Chung, Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies

 Vote of thanks: Prof. Sabaree Mitra, Jawaharlal Nehru University, & Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (Conference Convenor)

Day Two: 9 November 2013

Tea: 9:00 a.m.  ----  9:30 a.m.

Sessions One and Two are Parallel Sessions

Session One: Tagore's Discourse on Civilization & Civilizational Interaction

9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.

Chair: Prof. Ashis Nandy

Imtiaz Ahmed (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh), Modernity and the Limits of Civilization State: Can Tagorean Discourse Make a Difference?

Udaya Narayana Singh (Visva-Bharati, India), Culturation, Civility and the Poet’s Dream

Zhou Liuxi (Beijing Normal University, China), The Humanistic Legacy of Tagore for a Renaissance of Civilization States

Session Two: Discourses in Interculturalism

9:30 a.m.  ----   10:45 a.m.

Chair: Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty

Tapati Mukherjee (Visva-Bharati, India), Universalism in Tagore’s Discourse and Civilizational Interaction

Gan Lijuan (Tianjin Normal University, China), Tagore and Gibran

Manindra Thakur (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Is there an ‘Asian Philosophy’?

Tea: 10:45 a.m.  ----   11:15 a.m.

Sessions Three and Four are Parallel Sessions

Session Three: Inter-cultural Interaction in the Post-Colonial Period: Theory & Practice

11:15 a.m.  ----   1:00 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed

Wang Yiwei (Renmin University, China), Between Easts and Souths: China and India’s Contributions to Human Civilization Transition in the Post-West Era

Guo Suiyan (Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China), China-India Cultural Interaction

Imankalyan Lahiri (Jadavpur University, India), International Encounter of Civilizations in the 21st Century: A Critical Analysis of India-China Relations from the Perspective of Rabindranath Tagore

Li Li (Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China), Current Status and Prosperity on Yunnan and India Cultural Exchanges

Session Four: Millenium of Echoes between Tagore and China-I

11:15 a.m.   ----   1:00 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Huang I-shu

B. R. Deepak (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Lu Xun’s Critique of Tagore: Sardonic Irreverence and Misunderstanding”

Zhu Xuan (Shenzhen University, China), “Tagore Fever” among the People

Huang Rong (Shenzhen University, China), Rabindranath Tagore and Tan yun-shan’s Great Harmonious Idealism

Avijit Banerjee (Visva-Bharati, India), Rabindranath Tagoer’s Contribution towards Modern Chinese Literature

Lunch: 1:00 p.m.  ----  2:00 p.m.

Sessions Five and Six are Parallel Sessions

Session Five: Intercultural through the Cultural

2:00 a.m.  ----  3:00 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Patricia Uberoi

Rimli Bhattacharya (University of Delhi, India), Hail the New!

Ilke Angela Marechal (AnimaViva Multiingue, Principality of Andorra), Tagore, A Man for Tomorrow

Samik Bandyopadhyay (Kolkata, India), Performing the Intercultural

Session Six: Millenium of Echoes between Tagore and China-II

2:00 a.m.  ----  3:00 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Tan Chung

Wei Liming (Peking University, China), Illumination from R. Tagore's “Talks in China” (English Version, 1999)

Master Guangquan (Hangzhou Buddhist Academy, China), Tagore’s Heart Blossoms in China

Yu Longyu (Shenzhen University, China), Rabindranath Tagore Becomes More and More Popular in China

Tea: 3:00 p.m.  ----   3:30 p.m.

Sessions Seven and Eight are Parallel Sessions

Session Seven: Inter-culturalism: Coping with New Challenges of Religion, Race, Gender & Class

3:30 a.m.  ----  4:30 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Alok Rai

Sanjay Kumar (Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India), Linguistic Nationalism: An instance of Hindi and Urdu

Hao Lan (Tianjin Normal University, China), The Tagore of Chinese Language and Education in the New Century: The New Theory of Classicization

Rajasri Basu (Rabindra Bharati, India), Women and Public Space: A Study of Three Festivals

Session Eight: Civilization States and Issues of Development

3:30 a.m.  ----  4:30 p.m.

Chair: Prof. Sreemati Chakrabarti

P. A. Mathew (Federal Institute of Science and Technology Business School, Kerala, India),China as a Civilization State: Issues and Challenges in State-Society Relationship

Shreeparna Roy (University of Delhi, India), The 21st Century Economic Development Model: An Echo of Rabindranath Tagore

Saradindu Bhaduri (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India), Tagore’s Ideals for Grassroots Innovation: An Alternative Policy Perspective?

CONCLUDING  SESSION

4:30 a.m.  ----  5:30 p.m.

Chair: Ms. Riva G. Das

Concluding Remarks: Udaya Narayana Singh

Report of the Organizing Committee: Sabaree Mitra

Vote of Thanks: Avijit Banerjee