Pat White National Conference

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(Commemorating the Birth Centenary of Patrick White 1912-2012)

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National Conference On “Re-inventing Patrick White: Reading the Fictive as Cultural Texts” organized by INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF AUSTRALIA, Eastern Region and Dept of Humanities, Heritage Institute of Technology In collaboration with University of Western Sydney and University of New South Wales On 15-16 march 2012

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Programme Schedule 15 March, 2012 Registration: 10:00-10:30 Room No. I (Outside A Building Seminar Hall)

10.30: Welcome Address: Aditi Bhunia Chakraborty, Departmental Coordinator, Dept of Humanities, Heritage Institute of Technology 10.35: Chief Guest’s Address: Professor BB Paira, Director, Heritage Institute of Technology

10.55: Inaugural Address: Professor Rabiranjan Chattopadhyay, Hon’ble Minister in Charge, Science and Technology, Technical Education and Biotechnology, Govt of West Bengal 10.15: Inaugural comments: Prof Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay & Prof Kalidas Misra Vote of Thanks: Arindam Das 11.30: TEA BREAK 11.40: Keynote Address: Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay, Professor & Head, Dept of English, Burdwan University & Secretary IASA, ER. Working Session I Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) 12.40: Niladri R Chatterjee (Kalyani University): Colonial Masculinity in Patrick White’s Flaws in the Glass 1.00: Amit Ranjan (Delhi University): (To be declared later) 1.20: Q/A Chair: Kalidas Misra 1.30: LUNCH Working Session II Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall)

4 2.15: Sarbojit Biswas (Barjora College): Re-reading ‘Mandala’ Motif: Australian Identity in White’s Solid Mandala 2.35: Rajlakshmi Basumatari (THB College, Jamugurihat, Assam): Shifting Identities and Homosexuality: A Search into the Mindscape of Patrick White 2.55: Q/A Chair: Aninda Basu Roy (Vidyasagar University) Working Session III Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) 3.05: Jaya Ghosh: Search for the Self in Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves 3.25: Sarita Sarma (Epitome College & Institute of Information Technology, Tezpur, Assam): A Study of the Theme of Subalternity in ‘Dead Rose’ and ‘The Woman who wasn't Allowed to Keep Cats’ 3.45: Q/A Chair: Arindam Chattopadhyay

16 March, 2012 Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) 11.00: Arpita C. Mukhopadhyay (Presidency University): Quest for Cultural Identity in Patrick White’s Voss 11.20: Sudhir Singh (Jammu University): Metaphor of Land and Landscape in Patrick White’s Voss 11.40: Q/A Chair: Subir Dhar (Rabindra Bharati University) Working Session IV Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) 11.50: Anshuman Kar (Burdwan University) (To be declared later) 12.10: Kalidas Misra (Sambalpur University): (To be declared later) 12.30: Q/A Chair: Pradip Patra (Gauhati University)

5 Working Session V Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) Translating/Transcreating 12.40: Arindam Chattopadhyay (Burdwan University) Chair: Sumit Chakravorty 1.00: LUNCH Working Session VI Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) 1.45: Tathagata Das: (To be declared later) 2.05: Debayan Barman: Postcolonial questioning of a colonial/romantic/masculine quest: A study of Patrick White’s Voss 2.25:Q/A Chair: Jayanta Saha 2.35: Anandarup Biswas (Calcutta Univcersity) Shifting Landscapes in Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves 02.55: Diganta Bhattacharya: Constructing Thirdspace Epistemology: A Reworking on Patrick White's Mythmaking 03.15: Q/A Chair: Sarbojit Biswas 03.25: TEA BREAK Working Session VII Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) 3.40: Gursharan Kaur Arora (Sikkim Manipal University): Voss: From Demon to Mystic 4.00: Sobha Sarma (Sikkim Govt. College): Identity, Suffering and Expedition in Patrick White’s Voss 4.20: Q/A Chair: Tanushree Nayak (NEHU)

6 Valedictory Session: 04.30 Room No. I (A Building Seminar Hall) Special Address: Shibnath Banerjee (President IASA Eastern Region) Vote of Thanks: Kasturi Guha Thakurta