Agyeya (1911-1987)
In his time and ours
Literary Formations in mid-20th Century India
University of California at Berkeley Symposium
February 11-13, 2011
Program
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Friday, February 11
Center for South Asia Studies, 10 Stephens Hall
4:30 — Inaugural Speech: Ashok Vajpeyi
5:00 - 6:30 — Kavi Sammelan (Poetry Reading)
Saturday, Feburary 12
SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle Hall
9:00 — Raka Ray (Director, CSAS)
9:05 - 9:15 — Vasudha Dalmia (UC Berkeley)
Agyeya - The Writer in his Times and Ours
POETRY
9:15 - 10:15 — Ashok Vajpeyi (Lalit Kala Akademi, Delhi)
Facing Challenges, Makes Departures: A Poetic Companionship
10:15 - 11:15 — Renata Czekalska (Krakow)
Matter of Imagination: The Worlds of Tar Saptak Poetry & the Polish Avant-garde
11:30 - 12:30 — Barbara Lotz
Rahon Ke Anveshi: The editor of the saptak-anthologies and his poets
12:30 - 1:30 — Greg Goulding (UC Berkeley)
"Yah Pose aur Posture:" Hindi Poetry, Modernism, & Aesthetic Models
THE RANGE OF GENRES
2:30 - 3:30 — Alok Rai (Delhi University)
Reading Agyeya through Pratik, Reading Pratik through Agyeya
3:30 - 4:30 — Francesca Orsini (SOAS)
The short story as an aide à penser: Ajñeya's stories
THEN AND NOW
4:45 - 5:45 — Uday Prakash (Delhi)
Resurrection of a Captive of Subversions from Oblivion: A narrative examination of Ajneya's life-line through his texts (Hindi)
Sunday, February 13
SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle Hall
THE NOVEL
9:00 - 10:00 — Vasudha Dalmia (UC Berkeley)
'Private Faces in Public Places': Sites of communication in Ajneya's anti-city novel Nadi ke Dvip
10:00 - 11:00 — Nikhil Govind (UC Berkeley)
What is modernism in the Hindi novel?
11:15 - 12:15 — Sanjeev Kumar (Deshbandhu College, Delhi University)
Projecting Freud on Jainendra and Ajneya: Contesting academic readings of the early psychological novel in Hindi
1:15 - 2:15 — Simona Sawhney (University of Minnesota)
The space of the political in Shekhar Ek Jeevani
2:15 - 3:30 — Concluding Discussion
Conference organized by:
Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi/Urdu and Magistretti Distinguished Professor in South and Southeast Asian Studies; Center for South Asia Studies; Townsend Center for the Humanities; Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR)
