1-3 June 2013

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

National Institute of Technology Durgapur, INDIA Programme Schedule Day 1: 1 June 2013
8 am to 10.00 am: Registration at Dr Shri Krishan Rais NSS Office (TR12) and SAC 10:00 am 11:30 am: Inauguration Ceremony in Student Activity Center (SAC) Chief Guest: Mr Mahesh Dattani, Playwright and Director 11:30 am -12:00 Noon: High Tea Beside SAC 12:00 Noon-1:30 pm: Keynote Session in SAC

Session Chair: Mr Mahesh Dattani, Playwright and Director 1. Sachin Tewari, Vice President of ASSITEJ, International's India Unit: an organization dedicated to theatre for young audiences. Literature to Cinema: Adaptation, Appropriation, Adulteration 2. Daniel L. Selden, Director, SRFSC, Humanities Academic Services, University of California. 'Our Films, Their Films': Adaptation and the Cinematic Apparatus"

1:30 pm-2:30pm Lunch

2:30pm to 04:30pm: I Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session: 1A in DM Sen Memorial Hall Chair Person: Prof Obododimma Oha, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1. Vikarun Nessa, Lecturer, Department of English, Southeast University, Banani-1213, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Code BLACK

2. Amarjeet Nayak, Assistant Professor in English, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Ice-Candy Man to 1947 Earth: Folklores and Legends Lost in Translation 3. Suman Rana, Shivaji College, University of Delhi, Performing Identities: The Hijras in Bollywood cinema in light of Butler's Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter 4. Naina Dey, Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, Kolkata, The Man in the Iron Mask: Presentation and Representation 5. Chitra Tanwar Srivastava Department of Mass Communication, Government Post Graduate College, Hisar, India and Pramiti Roy, Scholar, University of Calcutta, India, Gender Issues and Identity Crisis in Pakistani Cinema: A study of Shoiab Mansoors Bol
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6. Bhaskar Roy Barman, Agartala, West Tripura, India, Filming of Literature

02:30pm to 4:30pm

Parallel Session: 1B in Seminar Hall, Department of Metallurgy Chair Person: Prof Sachin Tewary, Vice President of ASSITEJ 1. Shagufta Hyder Sadia, Assistant Professor & Chairperson, Department of English, Central Womens University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Satyajit Ray, the Creator of Perfect Rhythm between Literature and Cinema 2. Gyanabati Khuraijam, Assistant Professor, Deptt. Of Humanities & Social Sciences, Agartala, Tripura, R. K. Narayans The Guide: Film Adaptation and Re-Creation of a New Text 3. Gaurav Thakarar, Lecturer, Department of Communication Skills, IIIM, CHARUSAT University, Changa, Anand-Gujarat, Shakespeares Othello and Vishal Bhardwajs Omkara:A text from Empire and Postcolonial performance 4. Ahmad Badr, (Syed Badre Ahmad), Department of Urdu, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Revisiting Umrao Jan : A Collative Comparison of the (con)text of the Great Literary Classic and Its Celluloid Versions 5. S. M. Yahiya Ibrahim, HOD, English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, Adapting Cinema To Literature:(Con)Textualising Deepa Mehtas Water by Bapsi Sidhwa 6. Jayanta Kar Sharma, Associate Professor, Government Womens College, Sambalpur, Odisha, Adaptation and Appropriation: A critical re-reading of Q & A
02:30pm to 4:30pm

Parallel Session: 1C in Seminar Hall, Department of Electrical Engineering Chair Person: Prof Daniel L. Selden, Director, SRFSC, University of California 1. Rajendraprasad Y Shinde, HOD, English, Kisan Veer Mahavidyalaya, Wai, A Comparative Study of Pygmalion and My Fair Lady 2. Indu Goyal, Assistant Professor, Allahabad Degree College, University of Allahabad, Book and Film-A Comparative Study 3. Satyendra Prasad Singh, Associate Professor of English, H.R. College, Mairwa (Siwan), Bihar, Women in Contemporary Literature and Cinema 4. Afrinul Haque Khan, Head, Department of English, Nirmala College, Ranchi University, From Text to Cinema: Naipauls Mystic Masseur Faces Camera 5. Mara-Dolores Garca-Borrn, Mythic Landscape and Nature in Literature and their adaptation in Films 6. C.S.H.N. Murthy, Oinam Bedajit Meitei & Dapkupar Tariang, Professor, Research Scholar and Masters Student, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism,Tezpur University, Napaam, Tezpur, Assam India 784028, The Tale of Gandhi through the lens: An Inter-textual analytical study of three major films- Gandhi, The Making of the Mahatma, and Gandhi, My Father

02:30pm to 4:30pm

Parallel Session: 1D in Seminar Hall, II Floor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Chair Person: Prof Anita Singh, Department of English, BHU, Varanasi 1. Sanjay Kumar M. Pundge, North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, Originality and Popularity of top Bollywood Movies --A Research 2. Shaweta Nanda, Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Unsettling Tradition: Rethinking Gender Roles and Identities via Animations Based on Graphic novels and Fairy Tales 3. KapouMalakar, Assistant Professor, Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Tezpur University, Tezpur 784028, Assam, India, Breaking the myth around disabilities an analytical study on the portrayal of disability in Hindi films 4. Arshad Masood Hashmi, Associate Professor in Urdu, Gopeshwar College, Hathua, Gopalganj, Relation of Literature and Cinema 5. Sharmistha Chatterjee (Sriwastav), Asst Professor, Dept of English, Aliah University, Kolkata, Adaptation and demystification: Treatment of Romeo and Juliet theme in Deepa Mehtas Water 6. Parvez Akhtar, Associate Professor, Dept. of English, M.K.College, Laheriasarai, L.N.Mithila University, Darbhanga, Presentation of Partition in the Novels of Khushwant Singh and Bapsi Sidhwa with special reference to Train to Pakistan (1956)and The Crow Eaters (1978)

02:30pm to 4:30pm

Parallel Session: 1E in Senate Room Administrative Building Chair Person: Prof BK Das, University of Burdwan 1. Deepanjali Mishra, Assistant Professor, KIIT University Bhubaneswar, Portrayal of Women in Indian Films: A Study with reference to the Immortal classic- Devdas 2. Nilanjana Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, Representation of the House Space in Mira Nairs The Namesake 3. Md Equebal Hussain, Associate Professor, PG Dept of English, M.S. College, Motihari , Bihar, Shakespeare in Bollywood: A Study of Maqbool 4. Dipankar Sen, Assistant Professor of English, Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, On a different note: A study of Ranaji maare gusse mein aaye from Gulal 5. Saptaparna Roy, Assistant Professor for English, Humanities, Heritage Institute of TechnologyKolkata, Plato, Pi and Parker: A Reading of Life of Pi from Representation to Reality 6. Abhijit Ghosh, Assistant Professor in English, Balagarh Bijoy Krishna Mahavidyalaya,Balagarh, Hooghly, Train to Pakistan: Revisiting sites of memory

02:30pm to 4:30pm Parallel Session: 1 F in Seminar Hall, Department of Electronics Chair Person: Prof Shreya Bhattacharji, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi 1. Ammu E. Rajan, Translation Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, The Return of the Canon: A Study in Sherlock 2. Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee, Research Scholar in English at IIT Gandhinagar & Arnapurna Rath, Assistant Professor in English at IIT Gandhinagar, Cloaks and Coverings: Sartorial Carnival in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne and Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone 3. Poulomi Das, Mphil Scholar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, The Almost Perfect Navi Self and The Deformed Human Other: A Romantic, Postcolonial Reading of Camerons Avatar (2009)
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4. Mithun Dutta, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi, Look Back in Love with Shakespeare: An Attempt to Recapture and Reinvent Shakespeare and His Time in the film Shakespeare in Love 5. Prachi Pabra, Research Scholar, Govt. Hamidia arts and Commerce College, Bhopal, M.P., Women in Literature and Cinema in India 6. Arshdeep Singh Brar, Department of English, Jadavpur University, Crime and Punishment and Phir Subah Hogi: Adapting Dostoevsky and the poetics of Sahir
4:30 pm to 4:45 pm Tea Break

05:00pm to 7:00pm: II Parallel Sessions

05:00pm to 7:00pm Parallel Session: 2 A in Seminar Hall, Department of Electronics Session Chair: Prof M Prasad, Department of English, University of Allahabad 1. Jigyasa Pandey, Assistant Professor& HOD (English) LDC Institute of Technical Studies, Allahabad, Acknowledging Universal Truth with an Introspection in Jane Austens Emma, the novel & Douglas Mcgraths Emma, the movie 2. Bashabi Gogoi, Tezpur University, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Tezpur University, Assam, Striving for Grace: A Study of the Novel and Film Adaptation of J. M. Coetzees Disgrace 3. Payel Ganguly, Assistant Professor, Gangadharpur Sikshan Mandir, University of Calcutta, The Japanese Wife--An Ode to Love 4. Richa Bijalwan, Assistant Professor, THDC Institute of Hydropower Engineering and Technology,B.Puram,Tehri,249001(Uttarakhand), Portrayal of Women in the Works of Indian English Women Writers and Contemporary Cinema: From Subjugation to Emancipation 5. Nazua Idris, Lecturer, Department of English, Stamford University Bangladesh, Pride and Prejudice from Page to Vlog Adaptations and Question of In/Fidelity 6. Janet Andrew Shah, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Nirmala College,Hinoo, Ranchi University, Roots- Alex Haleys Historiography 05:00pm to 7:00pm Parallel Session: 2 B in Seminar Hall, Electrical Engineering Session Chair: Prof K M Pandey, Department of English, BHU, Varanasi 1. Sheikh Sana Mariyam, Research scholar, Department of English. Aligarh Muslim University, Omkara: A New Version of Shakespeares Othello 2. Abhik Mukherjee, Research Scholar, HSS, NIT Durgapur, A Comparative study of Lawrences Travel Literature and Satyajit Rays movie Aguntuk 3. Ranjeeta Dutta, Project Fellow, Jamia Millia Islamia, Ecriture Feminine and the Cinema of Rituparno Ghosh: A Case Study of Unishe April (1994) 4. Bondina Elangbam, Research Scholar, Dept. of English, NEHU Campus, Shillong, North Eastern Hill University (NEHU), Shillong, Things are not what they seem: It is indeed Such a Long Journey 5. Rajashree Bargohain, Research Scholar, HSS, IIT Guwahati, North Guwahati, Kamrup, Assam, The Politics of the Spectacle and Midnights Children 6. Anup Baul, Research Scholar, HSS, NIIT, Silchar, Assam, The Colonial Agenda in Roys The God of Small Things

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05:00pm to 7:00pm Parallel Session: 2 C in Seminar Hall, II Floor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Session Chair: Dr G Banerjee, Principal, Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol 1. Longchanaro Longkumer, Research Scholars, Department of English, North-Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, Shillong, Princesses in Disneys animated films : Disney versus feminist viewpoints 2. Ambri Shukla, Research Scholar, & Suchi Srivastava, Assitant Professor, Department of Humanities, MANIT (Bhopal), Fantastically Readable/Watchable- The Namesake 3. Kooshna Gupta, Department of Linguistics, School of Languages,Gujarat University, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Transmuting Books into Films: A Common Tendency among Indian Diasporic Directors 4. Saayan Chattopadhyay, Research Scholar, Jadavpur University, Appropriating the Classics: Romeo and Juliet in Hollywood and Bollywood 5. Md. Tabarak Ansari, Research Scholar, Department of English &MEL, University of Allahabad, In Custody/Muhafiz : A cinematic adaption of Anita Desais novel In Custody 6. Suvankar Ghosh Roy Chowdhury & Sankha Ghosh, Research Scholar, Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, To Whom It May Concern?The Question of Author-Function in Satyajit Rays Film

05:00pm to 7:00pm Parallel Session: 2 D in DM Sen Hall Session Chair: Dr Mara-Dolores Garca-Borrn, Spain 1. Richa Shrivastava, Research Schloar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Literary Text to Cinematography: The Women of Brewster Place (1982) and Devdas (1917) a comparative study provokes inspirational thought 2. Sanjeev Kumar Vishwakarma, Research Scholar, University of Allahabad, Aesthetics of Pinjar: Writing vs Screening 3. Kuntal Bag, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Exploration into the Film Adaptations of three novels by Chetan Bhagat 4. Kusumika Sarkar, PhD Scholar, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, From Verbal to Visual: Gender, Identity and Representation In Bride and Prejudice and Raincoat 5. Sarmila Paul, Research Scholar, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, Reversing the Role: Theatre, Gender and Ideology in John Maddens Shakespeare in Love 6. Avishek Deb, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Battling with Imperialism from Page to Stage to Screen: an analysis of Utpal Dutts Ferari Fauj

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05:00 pm to 7:00 pm Parallel Session: 2 E in Seminar Hall, Metallurgy Department, Academic Building Session Chair: Dr Lata Dubey, BHU, Varanasi 1. Reena Singh, Assistant Professor, Applied Sciences & Humanities, Krishna Institute Of Engineering & Technology, Ghaziabad, Reflection on Women Portrayal of both Global and Native World in the writings of Salman Rushdie 2. Shilpa Gupta, Assistant Professor, Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi, From Comics to Motion Pictures: Aesthetics and Appropriations 3. Subhadeep Ray & Santanu Banerjee, Assistant Professors of English, Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, Titas Ekti Nadir Naam: Understanding the historical relationship of Nature and Human Beings through a Novel and a Film 4. Sandip Ain, Pandit Raghunath Murmu Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Tariq Alis Partition: From the written word to the moving image 5. Sanjukta Banerjee, Asst Professor, Durgapur Society of Management Science, Durgapur, The Kite Runner: Inaudible Voice of the Subaltern 6. Suman, Assistant Professor, English Literature, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, Rang De Basanti: Re-reading history through cinema 05:00 pm to 7:00 pm Parallel Session: 2 F in Senate Room, Administrative Buliding Session Chair: Dr Bhaskar Roy Barman, Tripura 1. Saumya Lal, Department of English, Delhi University, Capturing the Imagination: The Legend of Devdas 2. Shobhit Suman & Narendra Kumar, Dept. Of HSS, LNM IIT, Jaipur, Ethics of Survival and Identity: A Study of Life of Pi 3. Sayan Chattopadhyay, Student, Jadavpur University & Anujata Bhattacharya, JIS College of Engineering, Against the grain: the auteur, adaptation and the literary 4. Tuhin Bhattacharjee, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, The Queer Plays of Tennessee Williams: From Stage to Screen 5. Amrita De, PG I, JUDE, Department of English, Jadavpur University "What's it going to be then, eh? Exploring the trajectory of 'Violence' from Letter to Reel in A Clockwork Orange 6. Mayukh Ghosh, St. Xaviers College, Kolkata. Department of Mass Communication and Videography, Adaptation. Concept. Dynamization 7. Rony Patra, Presidency University, Kolkata, Govind Nihalanis Direction of Dysfunction in Party (1984) 8. Shatavisha Mustafi, MA, Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, The Dancer Figure in Bombay Cinema and in Indian literature

7:15pm to 8:30 pm Cultural Programme in SAC

Dinner: 8: 30 pm -9.30 pm

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Day 2: 2 June 2013 8.00am to 8.30 am: Breakfast

08:30am to 10:30 am: Plenary Session

Session Chair: Prof NDR Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Bastar University, Chhattisgarh Panelists:
1. Anita Singh, Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Banaras Hindu University, Film,

Feminism and Theory: Reading Rudalis Varying Versions 2. Prof Somdatta Mondal, Department of English, Vishwabharati University
3. B P Sinha, Department of English, Central University of Jharkhand, Language in Cinema

10:30 am to 10.45am: Tea

10:45am to 1:30 pm: III Parallel Sessions

Parallel session: 3 A in Senate Room, White House (Administrative Building) Session Chair: Dr Gautam Budha Saral, HoD, Department of English, BC College 1. Amritendu Ghosal, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, The Limits of imagery in AdaptationAllen Ginsbergs Howl: From Paper to the Screen 2. Seraphine Chepkosgei & Caroline Sambai, Moi MoiUniversity, Kenya, P.o Box 3900-30100 Eldoret-Kenya, Department of Literature, Theatre& Film studies, The interface between film and novel in the postnational hybridity of British-Asians: A Reading of Hanif Kureishis The Black Album & Buddha of Suburbia 3. Priyanka, Research Scholar, NIT Surthkal Manglore, Grass root questions of Feminism projected on Silver Screen 4. Huiningsumbam Nonida Devi, Research Scholar, Asha Khuraijam, Research Scholar, Gyanabati Khuraijam, Assistant Professor, Deptt.Of HSS, NIT Agartala, Alienation and Suppression as part of Womens Existence: A Study on Shashi Despandes That Long Silence and Bill Codons Dreamgirl 5. Md. Rakibul Islam, Research Scholar, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Mapping of Gender Oppression in Alice Walkers The Color Purple 6. Shreya Ghosh, Research Scholar, Department Of English, Tripura University, Translating Language To Moving Images: Exploring the various nuances as Filmmakers re-write the typographical text of Original fiction into the screenplay of a popular movie adaptation 7. Ritu Mohan, Research Scholar, and Mahesh Kumar Arora Associate Professor, Department of Management and Humanities, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, (Established by Govt. of India, Deemed University), Longowal, Punjab, A Contest between Doubt and Faith: Othello as Omkara in Bollywood 8. Payel Pal, Research Scholar, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kya Hua Tha Smriti Ko: A Study of Patriarchy and Gender Violence in Unni Vijayans Lessons in Forgetting 10:45am to 1:30 pm
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Parallel Session: 3 B in DM Sen Memorial hall

Session Chair: Prof BP Sinha, Department of English, Central University of Jharkhand

1. Kabita Chiring, Assistant Professor, Department of English, School of Engineering and Technology, Kaziranga University, Jorhat-Assam, Questions of the Canon: Renegotiating with the notion of White/Black in Othello and its Film Adaptations 2. Kavyashree G, Assistant Professor, Govt First College, Farahatabad, Gulbarga, Dist Karnataka & P. Nagabhushanagoud, Lecturer, Dept of History and Archaeology, Davangere University, Davangere, Karnataka, Role of Literature and Cinema in eliminating superstitions: Amaresh Nugadonis short story Savari as Kanasemba Kudureyaneri (raiding a stallion dream) Kannada film 3. Priyanka Srivastava, LDCITS, Allahabad, Cinematic Adaptability of Literature: Divergence in the Structure and Function of the Twilight Saga as Novel and Movie Series 4. Manju Ojha, Assistant Professor, Department of English, VISM,Group of Studies, Gwalior(M.P.), Indian Cinema vs Indian Society 5. Arnab Baul, Department of English, Suryasen Mahavidyalaya, (North Bengal University), Violence from Stage to Screen: the Case of Julie Taymors Titus 6. Zameerpal Kaur, Assistant Professor and Officiating In charge, Centre for Comparative Literature, Central University of Punjab, Bathinda, Bharat Muni`s Theory of Rasa as a Critique on Dramaturgy 7. Shyamasri Maji, Assistant Professor (English Dept.), NSHM Knowledge Campus-Durgapur, Ruth, Miriam and the Sepoy Mutiny: A Study of A Flight of Pigeons and Junoon 8. Farhanaz Rabbani & Jackie Kabir, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Cinema Reviving Traditions

10:45am to 1:30 pm Parallel Session: 3 C in the Seminar Hall, Department of Electronics Session Chair: Dr Amit Bhattacharya, Gour Banga University 1. Basuprada Roy, Research Fellow,Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, English Language and Literature Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India, Cinematic Adaptations: Pros and Cons 2. Mahima Singh, Research Scholar, M.G. K. Vidyapith, Varanasi, Visual Imagination vs Representation: Jhumpa Lahiris The Namesake 3. Asha Khuraijam, Research Scholar, Huiningsumbam Nonida Devi, Research Scholar, Gyanabati Khuraijam, Assistant Professor, Deptt.Of HSS, NIT Agartala, Tango Charlie: A Source of Unveiling the North East Issues 4. Sindhu Jose, Research Scholar, Department of Translation Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Celluloid- A Network of Translations 5. Minakshi Dutta and Jayashree Saikia, Research Scholar, Tezpur University, Jahnu Baruas film Xagaroloi Bahu Dur (1995): An Introspective Look towards the Society 6. Sharda Acharya, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha, Modern Technology and Indian Youth: Implications for Language Learning 7. Muhamed Ali Ek., Research Scholar, Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Textuality of Subtitles: Translation and Reading in the Film 8. A.S.Arunkumar, Research Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Pondicherry University, A Perspective in the Analysis of Anthropological Understanding of Reception in Literature and Cinema

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01:30PM to 02:30PM: Lunch Break

02:30 pm to 04:30 pm: IV Parallel Sessions

Parallel Session: 4 A in Senate Room, Administrative Building Session Chair: Prof CSHN Murthy, Tezpur Central University,Tezpur 1. Gopa Biswas Caesar, Department of Humanities Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dev D , An Adaptation of Adaptation : Transgressing the boundary of time, place and MYTH 2. Sayantan Pal Chowdhury, Assistant Teacher, Siliguri Baradakanta Vidyapith (HS), Siliguri, Darjeeling, West Bengal, The Japanese Wife: Communication, Multilingualism and Social Taboos 3. Swati Roy Choudhury, Part-Time Lecturer in Sarsuna College, Kolkata, Neeli Asmani Chatri: Cinematic Adaptation of Ruskin Bonds The Blue Umbrella 4. Sanjay Kumar, Lecturer, Dept. of English, M.M.T.M. College, L.N.M.U., Darbhanga 846004 (Bihar), Women in Contemporary Literature And Cinema 5. Susmita Baral, Assistant Teacher (English), A.C. Institution HS (Boys), Malda, WB, Gender Issues & Identity Crisis in African and Black American Films 6. Rajashi Sengupta Mothey, Senior Trainer, Globsyn Business School, Kolkata, Pinjar: Woman as the Other

02:30 pm to 04:30 pm Parallel Session: 4B in DM Sen Memorial Hall Session Chair: Prof K M Pandey, Department of English, BHU 1. Obododimma Oha, Department of English, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Cinematic and software adaptations and appropriations of R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island 2. Khanam Nargis Sultana, Assistant Professor, & Gopa Biswas Caesar, Lecturer, Department of Humanities, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Maqbool and Throne of Blood : Macbeth in OUR part of the world, our FEMININE, our witches 3. Satyamvada Singh, Associate Prof & Head, English Department, CMP, University of Allahabad, Literature to cinema - an inspiration and innovation 4. Sudeepta Banerjee, Associate Professor & Head, Dept. of English,Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol, WB, A Postcolonial Rendering of Sameness with Difference: Ice-Candy-Man to 1947 Earth 5. P. S. Vivek, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, Ranade Bhavan, Vidyanagari, Santacruz (E), Mumbai, Globality and the City: Reflections on Indian Cinema 6. Md. Tauheed, Dept of English, Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), Literature and Cinema 7. Muhammad Abrar Zahoor, Assistant Professor, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, (Punjab) Pakistan, Human Dimension of Partition of India: Image Marking Role of Literature and Cinema

02:30 pm to 04:30 pm
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Parallel Session: 4 C in Seminar Room, Electronics Department Session Chair: Prof SD Roy, University of Allahabad 1. Debaleena Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, BCET, Durgapur, SHREK: A Study in Metadaptation in the Tradition of Fairy-Tale Cinema 2. Chandrani Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pune, Cinema as Cultural Translation: A Theoretical Overview 3. Samarpita Ghosh-Ray, Assistant Professor, Rani Birla Girls' College, Kolkata, Devdas (2002): Spectacularization and Recasting of Nostalgia 4. Nidhi Singh, Jesus and Mary College, University of Delhi, Heathcliff in The Post-Racial World 5. Pinak Sankar Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, Translating Text into Celluloid: A Study of Rituparno Ghoshs Three Films 6. Manju Yadav, Assistant Professor, S P Memorial Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Vishal Bhardwajs Omkara: The Hindi Adaptation of Shakespeares Othello 7. Lily Lavanchawee Sujarittanonta, Francois Bouchetoux, & John Walsh, Assistant Professor,
International College of I-Shou University, Taiwan, The cinematic adaptation of the Chinese classic "Journey to the West

4:30pm to 4.45 pm: Tea Break

5:00 pm to 7:00 pm: V Parallel Sessions

Parallel session: 5 A in DM Sen Hall

Session Chair: Dr Amarjeet Nayak, IIT Indore 1. Silpa Mukherjee, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, The Heightened Exoticisation of the Otherin Omkara, Octopussy and Aranyer Din Ratri 2. Angshupriya Roy, Department of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi , The Caste-Class Nexus in West Bengal with respect to Devdas (2002): An Adaptation from Sarat Chandra Chatterjees Classic 3. Abhishek Banerjee, Pandit Ravi Shankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, Impact of Media Exposure And Educational Development On Women Empowerment In Rural Bengal: A Geographical Analysis 4. Kaustubh Ranjan, M.A. (English), Guru Ghasidas Central University, Bilaspur (C.G.), Searching for the Green: A Reading of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now 5. Pradip Mondal, Ex-Student, Vishwabharati, Treatment of A Passage to India and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in film adaptations 6. Ashwani Yadav, Arindam Ghosh & Hemant Agarwal 3rd Year Student, Mechanical Engineering, NIT Durgapur, The Cinematic Picture of a Prostitute 7. Rohit Yadav, Pursuing master in English, Amity university, Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow Campus), A Study of Woman in a Male Dominated Society: Thomas Hardys Tess and Michael Winterbottoms Trishna 8. Raj Dutta, Student , Department of Film Studies, West Bengal State University, Contribution of Yash Chopra in Bollywood Romantic Genre: A Critical Analysis 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Parallel Session: 5 B in Seminar Hall, Electronics Department Session Chair: Dr Rajendra Prasad Shinde, HOD, English, Kishan Veer Mahabidyalya

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1. Manjri Suman, Research/ Faculty Associate, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, Purple: The color of pain, violation, beauty and the unattainable - A comparative study of the text and Steven Spielbergs movie adaptation of Alice Walkers The Color Purple 2. Asim Chatterjee, Post Doctoral Research Scholar, Department of English, B.R.A.Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Literature Based Animations 3. Vandana Singh, Research scholar, Centre for Indian languages, School of languages, literature and cultural
studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Women in Literature and films: untold story of half of the population 4. Apala Das, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Godards appropriation and reproduction of Maupassants Psychoanalytic representation in his film Masculin Feminin (1966)

5. Kamalika Santra, Research Scholar, Centre for English Studies (CES) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, From Tagore and Sarat Chandra to Rituparno and Pradeep: Re-visiting the Classic to Cinema 6. Samana Asaghar, Research Scholar, Centre for Comparative Study of Indian Languages & Culture, AMU-Aligarh, Ummaraojaan: Turning Ruswas Novel Into Muzzafar Alis Screenplay 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Parallel Session: 5 C in Senate Room, Administrative Building Session Chair: Prof R K Singh, ISM Dhanbad 1. Itishri Sarangi, Assistant Professor, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Augmentation of Literary Sensibility through parallel Cinema 2. Saurav Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Damdama College, Guwahati, Ritwik Ghatak, the Politics of Narration and Cinematic Mythmaking 3. Ritu Chatterjee, Asst. Prof, Dept.of English, Bengal College of Engineering and Technology, Durgapur, From Childrens Literature to Bildungsroman: Alices Journey from Lewis Caroll to Tim Burton 4. Manisha Titus, Assistant. Prof., Dept. of English, Jamshedpur Co-Operative College, Jamshedpur, Pygmalion to My Fair Lady: Reformation vs Entertainment 5. Rezaul Ahsan, Lecturer, Dept of English Language and Literature,Jatiyo Kobi Kazi Nazrul Islam Univesity, Trishal, Mymensingh, Bangladesh, Indigenization of Shakespeare in Vishal Bharadwajs Maqbool (2004) and Omkara (2006): Reassessing the Concept of Authenticity through Questioning the Classic-popular Binary 6. Utpal Bhattacharjya, Assam, Aesthetics of Literature and Compulsions of Cinematography

7:15pm to 8:30 pm Cultural Programme in SAC

Dinner: 8: 30 pm -9.30 pm

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Day 3: 3 June 2013 8.00am to 8.30 am: Breakfast

08:30am to 10:30 am: Plenary Session

Session Chair: Prof Daniel Selden, University of California Panelists:
Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Professor, Department of English Studies, University of Allahabad, Mind, Word, Performance, Screen: Some Journeys

Prof NDR Chandra, Vice Chancellor, Bastar University, Chhattisgarh B K Das, Professor, Department of English, Burdwan University, Postmodernism, Television and Cinema

10:30 am to 10:45 am Tea

10:45 am to 1:30 pm: VI Parallel Sessions

10:45am to 1:30 pm Parallel Session: 6 A in DM Sen Hall Session Chair: Mr Mahesh Dattani, Mumbai 1. Manish Kumar Chaturvedy, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Self-Actualization & Self-Mocking: The Tools of 3 Idiots 2. Richa Mishra, Research Scholar, Dept. English & MEL, University of Allahabad, Reflection of Social Change and Literary Taste in Cinematic Appropriation of Sharad Chandra Chattopadhyays Devdas in Bollywood 3. Umesh Patra, Research Scholar, Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Challenges and approaches in adaptation of the Ramayana 4. Taniya Chakraborty & Joydeep Banerjee, HSS, NIT Durgapur, A voice to the unvoiced agonies of transgenders: Arekti Premer Golpo and Chitrangada, the Crowning Wish 5. Swatilekha mahato, Research Scholar, Department of English, Pondicherry University, The Lorex: As an Adapted Animated Movie in Ecological Perspective 6. Ashish Joe S.S, Research Scholar, University of Hyderabad, Deconstructing the heroic symbol: A case study of Christopher Nolans Batman trilogy 7. Sriniket Kumar Mishra, Research Scholar, Department of French Studies, BHU, Varanasi, Presentation of similar themes in Hindi, French and English Cinema 8. Finitha Jose & Prachand Narayan, Research scholars, Department of English, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry- 605014, Sifting Narratives in War Horse: An Adaptation of Childrens Book into Movie

10:45 am to 1:30 pm Parallel Session: 6 B in the Seminar Hall, Electronics Department Session Chair: Dr Sudeepta Banerjee, Bidhan Chandra College, Asansol

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1. Tushnim Gangopadhyay, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Hermeneutic Oversimplification: Tropes and Techniques 2. Summauli Pyne, Research Scholar,PP Sengupta, Professor, Arindam Modak, Assistant Professor, HSS, NIT Durgapur, The Home, the World and Beyond: Leadership thoughts from GhoreBaire 3. Md. Sahidul Islam, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Victims of History, Culture and Gender: Women in Khaled Hosseinis The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns 4. Janki Naynesh Bhatt, Research Student, Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Transformation;TEXT-SUB TEXT-TEXT:A Study of Film Adaptation in context with The White Night 5. Ms Aditi Jana, Ex-Student Burdwan University, The Pianist - A Saga of Music and War 6. Iesha Sharma, Ph.D Scholar, University of Jammu, Jammu, Clueless as a Cinematic Equivalent of Emma: A Study in Adaptation 7. Sneha Pathak & Vandana Pathak, Research Scholar, Banasthali Vidyapith, Duvidha: A Folkloric Textual and Cinematic Experience 8. Dipa Mukherjee, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Adaptation of Hajar Churashir Ma in Cinema: a comparative study between the novel and its cinematic adaptation

10:45 am to 1:30 pm Parallel Session: 6 C in Senate Room, White House, Administrative Building Session Chair: Dr Iquabaal Hussain, MS College Bihar

1. Shubha Mishra, Ph.D research scholar, Department of English and other European language, Dr. H.S.Gour Central University, Sagar (MP), Premchand And Cinema 2. Shubhankar Roy,Ph. D Scholar, University Department of English, Ranchi University, Hemingway and Women: A Cinematic Critique of To Have and Have Not 3. Shawan Roy, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Mothering a Revolution: Zooming in of State Violence through the Mother of 1084 4. Shybu. K.P, Comparative and English Literature, Central University of Kerala, Viola- Becoming The Self 5. Anandita Pan, Centre for English Studies, School, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Monstrosity becoming Visual: Adapting Mary Shelleys Frankenstein in the Visual Medium of Cinema 6. Punyajit Gupta, Research Scholar, Department of Humanities and SocialSciences, NIT, Durgapur, Aranyer Dinratri (Days and Nights in the Forest) a journey from Literature to Cinema 7. Akaitab Mukherjee, Research Scholar, HSS, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, Politics of Representing The Crowning Wish of Gay Person in Chitrangada 8. Soumya Sarkar & Anand Atikant, Research Scholar, (Dept. of English), B.R.A. Bihar University, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, Five Point Someone to Three Idiots: An Adulterated Journey with an optimistic View

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10:45 am to 1:30 pm Parallel Session: 6 D in the Seminar Hall, II Floor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Session Chair: Prof Somdatta Mondal, Department of English, Vishwa-Bharati

1. Vinita Gupta, Research Scholar, M. G. Kashi Vidyapith, Reconfiguring Cracking India into 1947: Earth: A Critical Perspective 2. Tathagat Banerjee, Research Scholar, and Prof. Seemita Mohanty, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Rourkela, Lost And Found In Adaptation: An Analysis Of The Cinematic Adaptation Of Mahasweta Devis Hajaar Churasir Maa 3. Shayantani Banerjee, Research Scholar, Ranchi University, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam: A study of its representation in mainstream Hindi and Bengali Cinema 4. Arup Ratan Basak, Research Scholar, Dept. Of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, Hello from Call Centre: The Journey of a Fiction into Film 5. Bhuban Chandra Talukdar, Research Scholar, Dept. of English, Banaras Hindu University, Countering the Received Notions of Identity: Shashi Tharoors Riot in Context 6. Upamanyu Sengupta, Dept of English Literature, School of Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, Translating Silences: Exploring Alternative Practices of Adaptation between the Poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Hany Abu Assad's Paradise Now 7. Raghavendra Nayak, Research Scholar & Poet, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, Originality and Popularity of Titanic and Avatar 8. Rashmi Singh, Research Scholar, Department of English and Modern European Languages, University Of Allahabad, Allahabad, Issues of Belonging and Identity: A Critique of Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies
10:45 am to 1:30 pm Parallel Session 6 E in the Seminar Hall, Metallurgy Department Session Chair: Prof R K Singh, ISM Dhanbad

1. Sonali Das, Assistant Professor, Synergy Institute of Technology, BBSR, Cinematic Adaptations of The Canonical Texts: Transforming The Guide and Devdas into Mega Blockbusters 2. Hemant G. Shirsath, Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Pune, From linguistic to cinematic: the journey of a code 3. Riya Raj, Research/Faculty Associate, Gautam Buddha University, Literary Adaptations: An Emerging Canon or a Rehash 4. Nujhat Nuari Islam, Lecturer of English, Department of English, Hamdard University Bangladesh Humayun Ahmeds Novels as Movies: A Critical Analysis 5. Tora Mahanta , Asstt Professor, Dept of English, Gauhati Commerce College, Guwahati, Assam, Text to Cinema: Scope of Issues and Adaptation in Charulata and Agnisnaan
6. Dhananjay Tripathi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Sikkim, Cinema a Subliminal Simulation 7. Ravi Shankar Singh , Dainik Bhaskar, Role of media in development of cinema and literature

8. Vibhavari, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida(U.P.), Women in Hindi Cinema and Literature: A Comparative Study

01:30PM to 02:30PM: Lunch Break

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02:30 pm to 04:30 pm: VII Parallel Sessions

2:30 pm to 04:30 pm
Parallel Session 7 A in the DM Sen Hall

Session Chair: Prof S D Roy, Department of English, University of Allahabad 1. Sarani Ghosal (Mondal), Asst. Professor in Business Communication (DSMS, Durgapur) & Associate IIAS, Shimla, Jhumpa Lahiris The Namesake: Issues of Identity and Gender 2. Smita Umesh Nayak, Dept.of English, M.E.S.College of Arts & Commerce,Zuarinagar, Vasco-daGama, Goa, A Comparative Study of RK Narayans The Guide with its Film Adaptation 3. Sutapa Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Dr. Kanailal Bhattacharyya College, Howrah-4. West Bengal, Adaptation, Appropriation, Adulteration: Charulata and the Politics of Gender 4. Sandip Mondal, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, University of Kalyani, Cultural invasion, Cinema and Latin America: The Journey 5. Samrat Laskar, Assistant Professor of English (W.B.E.S), Krishnagar Government College, Brokeback Mountain: The Pastoral and the Homosexual 6. Reetamoni Das, Assistant Professor, Assam Rajiv Gandhi University of Cooperative Management, Rudaali in film narrative: Through the feminist lenses.

2:30 pm to 04:30 pm
Parallel Session 7 B in the Seminar Hall, Department of Electronics

Session Chair: Prof Oha, University of Ibadan 1. Hirak Gupta, Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Humanities, Asansol Engineering College, Vivekananda Sarani, Asansol, Re-Interrogating Gender Identity in Rituparno Ghoshs Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish 2. Shamenaz Bano, Assistant Professor, Deptt of Humanities, AIET, Allahabad, Women Victim of Communal Riots as Portrayed in Partition Novels & Cinema 3. Asit Biswas, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Goenka College of Commerce and Business Administration, Kolkata, The Comedy of Errors to Bhranti Bilas: A Study in Transverse Adaptations and Appropriations 4. Mahesh Kumar Arora, Associate Professor in English, Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal Punjab, Anne Ghore Da Daan - The Fiction and the Movie: An Analysis 5. Anupama Ghosal, Coordinator, School of Social Sciences & Asst Prof WBNUJS, Kolkata, Select Women Characters in Rays Films: Adaptations from Bengali Literature 6. Bharati Falari, Department of English, Goa University, Goa, Re-presentation of Women Protagonists from Celebrated Literary Works into Hindi Cinema: A Critical Review 2:30 pm to 04:30 pm
Parallel Session 7 C in the Seminar Hall, Metallurgy Department

Session Chair: Prof NDR Chandra, Vice Chancellor, BU 1. Narendra Kumar, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, The LNM Institute of Information Technology (Deemed University), Jaipur, Revisiting the Holocaust: Texts and their Adaptations

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2. Anindita Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Dept of English, Sanskrit College, Kolkata, Representation of the femme fatale in Vishal Bharadwajs Saath Khoon Maf 3. Roopamala Saha, Assistant Professor, English, Krishnagar Govt. College, Jadavpur, Kolkata, Stage to Cinema: Experiments and Challenges 4. Sangeeta Jain, Assistant Professor in English, &. Shardul Chaubey, Assistant Registrar, DAV PG College, Varanasi, Amrita Pritams Pinjar: Traversing from Literature to Cinema 5. Rashmi Singh, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Dr. H.S.Gour University, Sagar (M.P.), Chetan Bhagat , Literature And Film 6. Digvijay K. Sahay, HOD English, P.P.K. College, Bundu, Ranchi, (Ranchi University, Ranchi , Jharkhand), Literature and Cinema 2:30 pm to 04:30 pm Parallel Session 7 D in Senate Room, Administrative Building
Session Chair: Prof Nandini Bhattacharya, University of Burdwan

1. Arnab Chakraborty, 23, Old Ballygunge, Second Lane, Kolkata, V for Vendetta, Hactivism, the Culture of Conspiracy and the Interactions of Signs: Examining the Complex lifeworlds and Para-texts of a Graphic Novel 2. Mantu Kumar, Research Scholar, V.K.S.U - ARA, Bihar, Folklore & Mythological Representation in the Plays of Girish Karnad 3. Debarati Dhar, Department of Mass Communication, University of Burdwan, Adaptations of Literary Works in Bollywood 4. Anindita Das, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Poetics of Fractured Identities: A Study of Meena Alexanders Fault Lines and Manhattan Music 5. Md. Jakir Hossain, Research Scholar, Department of English, A.M.U., Aligarh, Enigma of Partition Depicted in Bapsi Sidhwas Ice Candy Man 6. Anupriya Roy, Research Scholar, Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, From Text to Screen: Aparna Sens The Japanese Wife

2:30pm to 4:30 pm Parallel Session 7 E in the Seminar Hall, II Floor, Department of Mechanical Engineering Session Chair: Dr Maria-Garcia-Doloros, Spain 1. Himanshu Sharma, HPU, Kangra HP, Marginalisation and Hybridity in Monica Alis Brick Lane and Lahiris The Namesake 2. Bibhudatta Dash, Research Scholar School of HSS&M, IIT Bhubaneswar, Toshali Plaza, Satyanagar, Moving from the Base: a Critique on Vishal Bharadwajs Cinematic Adaptation of Ruskin Bonds The Blue Umbrella 3. Aritra Sanyal Research-scholar, Assam University, Silchar, From Gajanan Muktibodh to Mani Kaul: Layers of Adaptations in Sattah Se Uthta Aadmi 4. P.VijayaLakshmi,Freelancer,Ramakrishnanagar,Baghamberpet,Hyderabad, Gender Issues And Identity Crisis In Jhumpa Lahiris Novel The Namesake 5. Anshu Pandey, A freelance Writer in Pune, Maharashtra, Absurd Global Trepidation and Alienation: A Critical Study of Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter 6. Ipsita Barat, Assistant Professor, Mass Communication and Videography Dept., St. Xaviers College Kolkata, Reframing Bollywood: Changing narratives of Post millennium Bollywood Cinema

04:30pm to 5:30pm: Valedictory

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