Day1: YRIW on Bengali Identity

Day1 of Young Researchers’ International Webinar
on
The Evolution of Bengali Identity: Reflections in Literature, Culture & Society
10 October 2020
Organised by
postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies
[Online, Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, Indexed in DOAJ, ISSN 2456-7507]
A Publication of the Department of English, Sarat Centenary College
Welcome Address by Dr Sandip Kumar Basak, Principal, Sarat Centenary College
Keynote Speech
“Being Bengali: Reading Bankimchandra’s Bangadarshan and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane as Continuum”
Dr Nandini Bhattacharya, Professor of English, Department of English & Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan
Business Session 1
Chair: Dr Sharbani Banerjee, Associate Professor of English, Trivenidevi Bhalotia College
Sharmita Ray: The Elusive Science: Medicine and Women in Late Colonial Bengal
Mita Bandyopadhyay: Female Literacy in Bengal: The Journey of a Woman from Andar Mahal to a Professional Life
Debottama Ghosh: The Emerging Bhadramahila of Colonial Bengal: Subarnalata's Journey from the Periphery to the Centre
Nibedita Paul: Nationalism and Politics through Bina Das’s Memoir
Business Session 2
Chair: Dr Jati Sankar Mondal, Assistant Professor of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsa University
Stella Chitralekha Biswas: Daughters of the Nation: Revisiting Women’s Speculative Writings in Bengal
AGNIBHA MAITY: (Trans)Forming Identity: A Study on the Cartographic Project of Nineteenth-Century Bengal
KYAMALIA BAIRAGYA: SPORTS AND THE BENGALI CULTURAL IDENTITY: THE CASE OF COLONIAL BENGAL