| SEMINARS AND INVITED LECTURES
The Academy sponsors seminars and invited lectures
frequently.
At least four times a year, once in each season,
the Academy invites and hosts noted scholars and
to litterateurs present their work or creations.
These seminars or reading sessions will be advertised
globally, and admission tickets are sold to the
general public. We have observed with joy that
the intellectually curious participants of seminars
happily pay the admission fees and often travel
long distances to be a part of such presentations,
provided they are given enough advance notice
and all the relevant information.
Some examples as we envision and propose:
Professor Dr. Clinton Seely on the life and work
of poet Jibanananda Das.
Poet Jibanananda's centenary is being
globally observed this year. Professor Seely has
extensively researched and translated Jibanananda's
poetry, and has published a scholarly book on
the poet called "A Poet Apart", which
has been widely recognized by critics worldwide.
Professor Mary Francis Dunham on JARIGAAN: Folk
tradition in Bengal (Completed in 2000).
After extensive travel and research
in rural Bangladesh, Ms. Dunham has recently published
an authentic book on "Jarigaan", a popular
folk tradition in Bangladesh. She lives in New
York, and is closely in contact with myself, and
is a close friend of Ahmed Sofa. Professor Dunham
is an adjunct faculty in Harvard University.
The eminent poet Shoheed Quadri:
Readings from his lifelong work Poet
Shoheed Quadri is a name every literature loving
Bengali knows. He currently resides in Boston,
and still holds a round-trip ticket to DFW from
our BLC convention last June, which he never used
because of other commitments.
On the occasion of Ekushey February,
a sacrosanct date in every Bengali's mind, what
could be of more fitting than Quadri reading his
poetry? |
