Synergies in Modern South Asian Studies
Institute of South and Central Asia, Charles University in Prague
&
South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
November 23, 2016, 9:30AM-4:30PM
Venue:
Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Hybernská 3, Prague 1, Room H303
Programme:
9:45 Opening
10:00-12:00 Session I
Hans Harder: The Uncanny in Bengali Literature and Film
Martin Hříbek: Acts of violence and political struggle in Nabarun Bhattacharya's fiction
Chaiti Basu: Modern Bengali short stories of the post-Tagore era
Daniela Cappello: Understanding obscenity in the Bengali Hungry Generation movement
Zuzana Špicová: Body and mind: The motif of illness in Saratchandra's novels
Sukla Chatterjee: Construction of Female Iconography between Bengal and Britain in the Nineteenth Century
Elisaveta Ilves: Text-Image Relations in Colonial Bengal
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:45 Session II.
Pavel Hons: Dalits in Tamil Nadu: potential for cooperation
Thomas Lehmann: Critical edition of classical Tamil texts
Soňa Bendíková: The Kota oral tradition in 21st century
Simona Jandová: Kuṟavañci: A Study of the Community of Kuṟavas
Zdeněk Štipl: The conception of hell in the Hindu Puranas
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-16:25 Session III.
Christina Oesterheld: Urdu fiction from the 19th century until the present
Jürgen Schaflechner: Hindus in Urdu horror stories from Pakistan
Nora Melnikova: Teaching Hindi as a Second Language
Gautam Liu: Young adult fiction in Hindi
Arian Hopf: Dynamics of the term religion in the colonial Urdu sphere