Sunday, February 21, 2010

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

TENTH MELUS-MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE / FIRST CHANDIGARH LITFEST FEB 25-27, 2010

25TH FEBRUARY 2010

9.30 AM REGISTRATION

9.45 AM INAUGURAL SESSION Venue: English Auditorium

10:00 am

Introduction

Manju Jaidka

10:15 am

Presidential Welcome

Gulshan Kataria

10:30 am

Inauguration

R.C Sobti (VC)

10:45 am

Special Guest

Pradip Mehra, IAS

11:00 am Announcement of Isaac Sequeira Prize and Book Launch

11.15 AM TEA BREAK

11.30 am to 12 noon: First Keynote. Prof. Harish Trivedi: India, America and World Literature”

Venues for all Parallel Sessions:

Session A: English Auditorium

Session B: Lecture Hall I, GF, Arts Block I

Session C: Lecture Hall II, GF, Arts Block I

Session D: Language Lab, 1st Floor, Arts Block I

12 NOON – 1.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A - D

[Brajesh Sawhney]

[Vijay Sharma]

[Mita Biswas]

[Sushila Singh]

Anu Celly

Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt

Sushi Datta-Sandhu

Meenu Gupta

Manpreet Kaur Kang

Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri

Sandhya Devesan Nambiar

Pankti Desai

Purnendu Chatterjee

Vinita Jha

Rohini Tukdeo

Rachna Rastogi

Sunita Sinha

Garima Williams

Shuchismita Mitra

Mary Mohanty

1.30 TO 2.30 PHOTO SESSION & LUNCH

2.30 TO 4.00 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS A - D

[Harish Trivedi]

[Sudhir Kumar]

[Anu Celly]

[Lovelina P. Singh]

Stella Hockenhull

Anil Raina

Anurag Kumar & Nagendra Kumar

Nilakshi Roy

Somdatta

Razdan, K B

V.Lakshmanan

Maghsood Esmaieli

Mohanmeet Khosla

Mukul Sengupta

Roshan Lal Sharma

Amrit Kaur

Sachin Ketkar

Santosh P. Rajguru

Niyatee Ayyar

Navjot Kaur

4.00 TO 4.15 TEA BREAK

4.15 TO 5.15 PM PARALLEL SESSIONS A - C

(Himadri Lahiri)

[V. Lakshmanan]

[Mukul Sengupta]

Azad+Esmael

NDR Chandra

R.G.Kulkarni

Jyoti Mishra

Ravichandran T.

Hossein Sabouri

Navreet Sahi

Melissa Helen

Ramanpreet Grewal

5.15 TO 6.00: BREAK

6.00 PM PLENARY PPT presentations (Eng Audi)

On Michael Jackson; on Chandigarh by S.S. Bhatti,

8.00 PM DINNER

7.00 PM: Play Performance by Dept of Indian Theatre, Panjab University, Chandigarh

“The Trojan Women” in Hindustani – Venue – Open Air Theatre

26TH FEB 2010

9.30 AM TO 11.00 - PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO D

[Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara]

[Razdan, K B]

[Nishi Pandey]

[Meera Malik]

Carolyn Kraus

Yatri Dilipbhai Dave

Rashmi Mathur

Sukla Basu (Sen)

Raphael Joseph

Mahesh M. Nivargi

Vandana Datta

Reza Yavarian

Anjali Chauhan

Harneet Sandhu

Anupam Nahar

Vicky Sylvester

Neeti Mahajan

Jayanta Kar Sharma

Kaliknar Pattanayak

Debashish Lahiri

11.00 TO 11.30 TEA BREAK

11.30 AM TO 12 NOON

PLENARY SESSION

Mukesh Williams

Second Keynote Address: “Culture of Capitalism and Consumerism: The American Gulliver and World Systems —Cooperation and Consensus”

12 NOON TO 1.00 PM - PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO C

[Somdatta Mandal]

[Mina S. Singh]

[Suneeta Patnayak]

Carlos Gohn

Kuldip Kaur Kuwahara

Anshu Shekhawat

Vivek Sachdeva

Nandini Bhadra

Vandana Sukheeja

Himadri Roy

Alka Saxena

Ranjita Barik

1.00 TO 2.00 PM LUNCH

2.00 PM TO 3.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A TO C

[Mukesh Williams]

[Carolyn Kraus]

[Anil Raina]

Kaoru Kinoshita

Dipankar Purkayastha

Himadri Lahiri

Ui Teramoto

Roya Yaghoubi

Seema Malik+Vaibhav

Kun Jong Lee

Ashu Vashisht

Namrata Nistandra

Akiko Ogihara

Seema Bhupendra

Smita Jha

3.30 : TEA BREAK

3.45 to 4.15 PM MELOW GBM

6.00 TO 7.30 TWO PARALLEL POETRY SESSIONS (Hindi and English)

(A) Venue: Gandhi Bhavan

[Mamta Kalia / DS Gupt]

T N Raaz

Yojana Rawat

Roshan

B D Kalia

Rupa Saba

Taaran Gujral

Santosh Dhiman

Atul Vir

(B) Venue: English Audi

[Sushila Singh / Manju Jaidka]

Nirupama Dutt

Kailash Ahluwalia

Balpreet Kaur

Lalita Jagmohan

Aradhana Sharma

Sourabh Gupta

Debashish Lahiri

7.30 PM: DINNER

27th Feb 2010 Venue: English Auditorium

9.45 am to 10.30 am

Shashi Deshpande (Pratibha Nagpal & Sudhir Kumar)

10.30 am to 11.15 am

Mamta Kalia (Mina Singh)

11.15am to 11.30 am

TEA BREAK

11.30 noon to 12.15 pm

Chander Trikha (Madhav Kaushik)

12.15 to 1.00 pm

Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal (Manju Jaidka)

1.00 pm to 2.00

LUNCH

2.00 to 3.30 pm TWO PARALLEL STORY SESSIONS


(A) Venue: Gandhi Bhavan

(B) Venue: English Auditorium

[Dr. Zakir]

[Manjula Padmanabhan]

V. Mehndiratta

T N Dhar

Indu Bali

Carolyn Kraus

Ravindra Kalia

Jaideep

3.30 to 3.45 pm TEA BREAK

3. 45 to 4.15 pm

P.C. Kar (Gulshan Kataria) ISM Lecture

“Aesthetics of Modernism”

4.15-4.30 pm

Summing up & Vote of Thanks

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