Chandigarh Festival of Letters 2011

CHANDIGARH SAHITYA AKADEMI

in collaboration with

PANJAB UNIVERSITY

cordially invites you to the

Inaugural session of the

CHANDIGARH FESTIVAL OF LETTERS 2011

on

28 February 2011 at 10.30 a.m.

Venue: English Auditorium, Panjab University, Chandigarh

Inaugural Address by Dr. KARAN SINGH

MP, Rajya Sabha

and President ICCR

Welcome Address by Professor R.C. SOBTI

Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University

DAY 1 28 January Friday	10.30 AM: Inaugural Session Welcome note by Vice-Chancellor, Prof RC Sobti Inaugural address by Dr. Karan Singh, MP Rajya Sabha, President ICCR Felicitation Ceremony – Awards of Recognition 2.00 PM: Keynote Address - Madhu Purnima Kishwar, Founder, Manushi Journal 2.45 PM: Face-to-Face with Creative Writers: Manjul Bajaj, Amandeep Sandhu, Alok Bhalla 4.15 PM: Press Interviews
DAY 2 29 January Saturday	(Celebrating the centenary of Agyeya, Nagarjuna and Shamsher Bahadur Singh) 11.00 AM: Lectures - Nand Kishore Acharya Lal Chand Gupt Mangal 2.00 PM: Paper Presentations: Archana Sharma Yojna Rawat Sudhir Kumar 3.30 PM: Book Launch: J.S. Grewal’s Four Centuries of Sikh Literature (OUP) 4.15 PM: Press Interviews
DAY 3 30 January Sunday	10.00 AM: (Paper Presentations by young scholars) Navreet, Jagmeet and Kirandeep 11.00 AM: Paper Presentations contd.: Susan Comfort on “Gender and Environment in Postcolonial Women's Literature” Mariam Karim-Ahlawat on “The Problematics of Translation” 12.15 PM: Talk - R.W. Desai on “The Relevance of Shakespeare Today” 2.00 PM: Literary Quiz (open to all) to be conducted by Anil Raina 4.00 PM: Press Interviews

Festival of Letters

Panjab University in collaboration with CSA to organize a Festival of Letters 28-30 January, 2011.

The Festival will include a seminar series, details for participation given below.

Abstracts of papers are invited by the 1st of January from early/mid-level academics, college teachers and research scholars on the following themes:
Literature Without borders (in English)
Critical papers on Agyeya, Shamsher and Nagarjuna (in Hindi)
Punjabi Literature at Home and Abroad (in Punjabi)

Send 200-word abstracts with CV to sahitakad2008@gmail.com

Participants can also mail ‘pdf’ files of Hindi and Punjabi abstracts to the above mentioned email id. Participants are requested to attach their complete contact information including email id, postal address and Phone/Mobile numbers

There will be a delegate fee for presentation of selected papers.

Certificates will be given to delegates who attend on all three days of the Festival.