Curtain raiser (25 February 2010)

• Theme presentation by Sahaj Padma Troupe (7.00pm-7.15pm)
• Uttaryayan: Choreography and Musical Performance (7.15pm -8.30pm)

Day 1 (26 February 2010)

Registration (8.45am-9.30am)

Inauguration (9.30am – 10.30am)                       Venue: S. N. Bose Auditorium
Anchor: Dr. J. Sen, Coordinator

• 9.30am-9.35am               Lighting of the lamp
• 9.35am-9.45am               Welcome Address, Prof. D. Acharya, Director, IIT Kharagpur
• 9.45am-9.50am               Welcome, Prof. D. Suar, Head, HSS Department
• 9.50am -9.55am              Welcome, Prof. B. K. Sengupta, Head, ARP Department
• 9.55am-10.00am             Theme Presentation, Dr. P. Patnaik, Coordinator
• 10.00am-10.10am           Guest of Honour’s observations, Prof. P. K. Mukhopadhya, Eminent Philosopher
• 10.10am-10.20am           Chief Guest’s Remark, Prof. R. Tripathi, VC, Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, Delhi
• 10.20am-10.25am           Vote of Thanks, Dr. N. C. Nayak, Dept of HSS

Exhibition detour (10.30am-10.45am)                Venue: Exhibition Hall

Tea (10.45am-11.00am)         Near S. N. Bose Auditorium

Plenary session I (11.00am-12.45pm)                 Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. R. Tripathi

• Prof. P. K. Mukhopadhyay, What and Why Aesthetics?
• Dr. J. Dutta: Idealism in Indian Aesthetics - Two early-20th century thinkers

Lunch Break (01.00pm-02.00pm) in respective Guest Houses

Plenary session II (02.00pm-03.45pm)               Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. P. K. Mukhopadhyay

• Prof. R. Tripathi, The Impact of Indian Poetics on other Art Forms/ Aesthetic Traditions of India
• Dr. Ranjan Ghosh, Indian Aesthetics and Art: An Overview

Tea (03.45pm-04.00pm)         Outside HSS Seminar Room

Workshop I: House of Tagores (4.00pm -06.00pm)         Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Coordinator: Prof. S. Basu

• Dr. A. Banerjee, Art and Aesthetics: House of Tagores
• Dr. J. Sen, Abananindranath and Pan-Asian Art
• Nirman: Film show

Visit to Workshop Exhibition at Exhibition Hall (6.00pm-6.45pm)

Tea (6.45pm-7.00pm)             At Netaji Foyer

Dance presentations (7.00pm-8.15pm)                              Venue: Netaji Auditorium

• Ms. Sonali Ghosh: Thumri Lec-dem Kathak (15 minutes)
• Ms. Priyadarshini Shome,  Lec-dem (15 minutes)
• Ms. Sonal Nimbkar, Ganesha Mahima,  Bharatnatyam Recital (50minutes)

Day 2 (27 February 2010)

Plenary session III (9.00am-10.30am)                Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. Bharat Gupt

• Prof. A. Sukla: Indian Aesthetics:Nature,Scope and Sources
• Prof. B. Gupt, Indian Music: Past and Present

Tea (10.30am-10.45am)         Outside HSS Seminar Room

Plenary session IV (10.45am-12.45pm)              Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. B. K. Sengupta

• Mr. Shayam Roy Choudhury: Photographing India
• Dr. Oopali Operajita: Text-Music-Image/Dance: My Experiences with Choreographing for the Classical Odissi Dance Repertoire
• Dr. S. Basu: Built Heritage of Bengal: a Study of Diverging Traits and Cross-cultural Perspective

Lunch Break (01.00pm-02.00pm) at respective Guest Houses

Parallel sessions I (02.00pm-03.00pm)               Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. Uttam Banerjee

• Dr. Subhas Phoghat, Abhinava Gupta: The Champion of Santa Rasa
• Dr. Ujjwal Jana: Bengali Theatre in Making: A Study of Tracing Influences on its Origin and Development

Parallel sessions II (02.00pm-03.00pm)             Venue: ARP Seminar Room
Chair: H. R. Tewari

• Ms. Rituparna Ghosh, Study of Aesthetics of Indian Rituals through the Ages
• Mr. Debkamal Ganguly, The Indian New Wave Cinema: A Methodological ‘Convergence’ Towards a New Cognitive ‘Divergence’

Tea (03.00pm-03.15pm)         outside HSS Seminar Room

Workshop II: Aesthetic Sensibility, Folk Art & Literature (03.15pm-05.15pm) Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Coordinator, Dr. B. Paranjape

• Dr. B. Paranjape, Aesthetic Sensibility, Folk Art and Literature: A Case Study of Oriya Laxmi Purana
• Dr. S. Singh, Laxmi Purana in Different Traditions
• Dr. S. B. Ota, Prehistoric Art: From, Style and Aesthetics
• Dr. G. Dash, In Search of aesthetics for the Shadow Theatre
• Dr. R.N. Tewari, Laxmi Purana, and Bhojpuri Folk Songs and Tradition

Tea (05.15pm-05.30pm)         Outside HSS Seminar Room

Institute Lecture (5.30-6.30) by Eminent Artist, Sri Jatin Das at Netaji         Venue: Netaji Auditorium

• Creativity in Academia and Public Life

Tea (06.30pm-7.00pm)           Outside HSS Seminar Room

Cultural Programme (07.00pm-08.30pm)            Venue: Netaji Auditorium

• Dr. G. Dash& Dr.R. N. Tewari: Introduction
• Shadow Puppet Show & Bhojpur Play based on Laxmi Purana

Dinner (08.30pm onwards)                  Venue: Vikramshila Foyer

Day 3 (28 February 2010)

Holi Celebration (8.45am-9.00am) Venue: Outside HSS Seminar Room

Plenary session V (9.00am-10.30am)                   Venue: HSS Seminar Room

• Chair: Dr. J. Dutta
• Prof. Navjyoti Singh, Conquest over Disembodied: The tale of Nagnajit on the Origin of Arts
• Dr. B. Mohapatra, Impact of Odisan Art and Culture on my Work

Tea (10.30am-10.45am) outside HSS Seminar Room

Parallel session III (10.45am-01.00pm)              Venue: HSS Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. R. Ghosh  

• Ms. Priyadarshini Shome, Rasa in Yoga - Dance and Asanas as Mind Body Spirit Wellbeing
• Mr. Anindya Sekhar:  From the Seventh Art to Post-aesthetics: Bollywood and the Demise of the Aesthetics of the Auteur
• Asmit & Friends: Translating Poetry to Dance in Kathak Tradition: A Presentation
• Anup & Friends: Multimedia presentation on Sound and Text

Parallel session IV (10.45am-01.00pm)               Venue: ARP Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. B. Mohapatra

• Mr. Manu Khatiyan, Aesthetics and Symbolism in the Flora and Fuana motifs in Moughal Architecture of Fathehpur Skri
• Ms. Sonal Nimbkar, Ontological Analysis of Natya
• Mr. B. S. R. Akhilesh: Chala-Chitra Darpana: Cinema Analysis Software
• Mr. Abhishek & Friends: Translating Shadow Theatre to Cinema: A Presentation
• Mr. Anutosh Kanoria: Motion, Music & Modernism (Photography)

Valedictory  (01.00pm-01.30pm)
Chair: Prof. D. Suar

• Guest of Honour: Prof. B. K. Sengupta
• Participation certificates will be distributed
• Vote of Thanks: Dr. J. Sen