The Maya Mitra Das Annual Lecture on Tagore brings a distinguished scholar to campus each year to give a lecture on Tagore.
2026
The 5th Maya Mitra Das Annual Lecture on Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Art, and Bangladesh: An Intricate Connection will be delivered on Zoom by Professor Lala Rukh Selim, a sculptor and Professor at the Department of Sculpture, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tue, April 28. 2026. See more here.
2025
The 4th Maya Mitra Das Lecture on Tagore, Mother, Lover, Śakti: Female Protagonists in Rabindranath Tagore‘s Novels was delivered by Dr. Hans Harder, Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, Heidelberg University, on Thu, May 1, 2025. Hans Harder is Professor of Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. His research interests include modern literatures in South Asia, particularly Bengali, religious movements, and colonial and postcolonial intellectual history. Click HERE for more details.
2024
The 3rd Maya Mitra Das Lecture on Tagore, The Primacy of Creativity in Rabindranath Tagore, was delivered by Bashabi Fraser, the Director of the Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh Napier University, on Thu, Apr 4 from 5-6:30 pm at the Institute for South Asia Studies. Please click on this link for further details on how to attend the lecture.
2023
The 2nd Maya Mitra Das Lecture on Tagore, The Artistic Truth of Politics: Reading Rabindranath's Fictional Writings, was delivered by scholar of South Asian politics and intellectual history, Prof. Sudipta Kaviraj on Thu, Oct 19 from 9-10:30 am on Zoom. Please click on this link to view the Facebook livestream of the lecture.
2022
The Inaugural Maya Mitra Das Lecture on Tagore, Starting at the End: Picking Up the Relay of Shesher Kabita, was delivered by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak , the acclaimed Indian literary theorist, feminist critic, and postcolonial theorist, on Fri, Apr 22, 2022.