UEA India Creative Workshop

4th December: Literature as strategy

Presidency University, A.J.C Bose Auditorium
1. Peter D McDonald (Oxford) What about criticism?: Blanchots
Giant-Windmill , 11.30 am 12.30 pm
Chair: Swapan Chakraborty (Jadavpur University)
2. Swapan Chakravarty (Jadavpur) Literary Activism and Literary
Surrogacy: Instances from Twentieth-Century Bengal, 12.45
1.45 pm
Chair: Shanta Datta (Presidency)
Break
3. Rosinka Chaudhuri (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Calcutta) The Practice of Literature: the Calcutta context as a guide
to literary activism, 2.45 3.45 pm
Chair: Peter D McDonald (Oxford) 4. Closing address: Jon Cook
(UEA)
4 4.30 pm Break
5. Panel discussion, Presidency Cafeteria 86, 6.30 pm The
writers polemics in the age of the free market
Dubravka Ugresic, Amit Chaudhuri, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra,
and Jamie McKendrick
Moderator: Peter D McDonald