9:00 - Coffee
9:30 - Welcome and introductory remarks
SALC chair: Gary Tubb
9:45 - Introduction to the featured authors and response by the authors
Thibaut d’Hubert, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Raghab Bandyopadhyay, Saymon Zakaria
10:30 - Tea break
10:45 - Keynote Address: Clinton B. Seely (Prof. Emeritus, University of Chicago)
"Dui Bangla, na dui Bangali"
12:00 - Conference Lunch
1:45 - Bilingual reading of Raghab Bandyopadhyay’s novel
Satīk jādunagar (‘Notes on a Magical City’)
2:45 - Bilingual reading of Saymon Zakaria’s play
Bodhidrum (‘The tree of enlightenment’)
(Excerpts read by Jason Grunebaum, Rochona Majumdar and the authors)
3:45 - Tea Break
Paper session, chair: Françoise Meltzer
4:00 - Mansur Musa (Dhaka University)
“Bengali language: one or two?”
5:00 - Philippe Benoit (INALCO)
“'E par Bangla, o par Bangla': Representing Bengal's rural life in progressive novels by Tarashankar and Manik Banerjee”
6:00 - Reception
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9:30 - Presentation by Raghab Bandyopadhyay
“Always at the crossroads: exploring language possibilities in Bengali fiction”
10:30 - Tea Break
Paper session 1 - Chair: Philip Bohlman
10:45 - Saymon Zakaria (Bangla Academy)
"Tasting the soil: Seeking inspiration in Bengal’s traditional performances for contemporary urban creation"
11:45 - Tony K. Stewart (Vanderbilt University)
"Instruction in Fiction: the Conundrum of the Iblish Nama"
12:45 - Conference Lunch
1:45 - Coffee Break
Pedagogical Workshop
2:00 - Presentation by Th. d’Hubert and Mandira Bhaduri
2:30 - Philippe Benoit (INALCO)
"The use of modern Bengali literary texts at different course levels"3:00 - Hanna R. Thompson (SOAS)
“Bangla grammar in the classroom”
3:30 - Razima Chowdhury (Bangla Language Institute)
“Syllabus and material design for Bangla for professional purpose”
4:00-4:15 - Tea Break
4:15-5:15 - Roundtable discussion; discussant: Clinton B. Seely