| Time |
|
Event |
|
Place |
Friday,
April 4, 2003
(all events at the Conference Hotel - Embassy Suites) |
| 12:00 - 5:00 pm |
|
Registration |
|
Conference Hotel Lobby |
| 3:00
- 3:30 pm |
|
Opening Address
|
|
Conf Hotel Meeting Room A |
| 3:30 - 4:50 pm |
|
Round Table
Bengal Studies Conference:
A Retrospect |
|
Conf Hotel Meeting Room A |
| 5:00 - 7:00
pm |
|
Social Mixer |
|
Conference Hotel Atrium |
| 7:30 - 9:30 pm |
|
Reception Dinner for Delegates |
|
Conference Hotel Dining Hall |
|
Saturday,
April 5, 2003
(all events at the Irving Arts Center - IAC)
|
| 6:30 - 8:00 am |
|
Breakfast |
|
Conference Hotel Breakfast Area |
| 8:00 - 8:30
am |
|
Transportation
to Irving Arts Center (IAC) |
|
From Conference Hotel Portico
to IAC |
|
| 9:00 - 10:20
am |
|
Concurrent Session 1A
Historical & Contemporaneous National
Identities
[Narasingha Sil, Amitava Chakraborty,
M. Waheeduzzaman] |
|
IAC Meeting Room A
|
| Concurrent Session 1B
Classic & Modern Literary Figures
and
Current Efforts in Translations
[Clint Seely, P.M. Das, Rama Datta,
Carolyn Brown, Sudipto Roy Choudhury] |
IAC Meeting Room B |
|
| 10:30 - 11:00
am |
|
Coffee Break |
|
IAC Atrium and Front Hall |
|
| 11:00
am - 12:20 pm |
|
Concurrent Session 2A
Business & Technology in the Bengals,
Bangla Transliteration Software
[Clint Seely, Md. Zamshed Ali,
Jhinuk Chowdhury, Nandita Dasgupta] |
|
IAC Meeting Room A
|
Concurrent Session 2B
Nation Building: A Politics Of Historical
Perspective
[Zillur R. Khan, Enayetur Rahim, M.A. H. Feroz,
Sirajul Alam Khan, Mehnaz Momin] |
IAC Meeting Room B |
|
| 12:30 - 2:00
pm |
|
Lunch Break |
|
Boxed Lunches on sale at the
IAC Atrium |
|
| 2:00 - 3:20
pm |
|
Concurrent Session 3A
Two Aspects of Bengali Religious Expressions:
At Home and Abroad
[Ralph Nicholas, Rachel McDermott, Judy Walsh] |
|
IAC Meeting Room A
|
Concurrent Session 3B
Security, Technology And Development
[Zillur R. Khan, Najmul Abedin, Dawood Afzal,
Md. Sirajullah, Joyce Rahim, Khaleda Adiba, Bimal
K. Paul] |
IAC Meeting Room B |
|
| 3:20 - 3:45
pm |
|
Coffee Break |
|
IAC Atrium and Front Hall |
|
| 3:45 - 5:05
pm |
|
Concurrent Session 4A
Remnants of Vanishing Cultural Expressions
[Joanna Kirkpatrick, Helen Abadzi] |
|
IAC Meeting Room A
|
Concurrent Session 4B
Identity Politics in Bengals:
Religion, Rhetoric and Mobilization
[Tithi Bhattacharya, Subho Basu,
Ali Riaz, Suranjan Das] |
IAC Meeting Room B |
|
| 5:10 - 5:30
pm |
|
Transportation
back to Conference Hotel
(for those who wish to return to hotel) |
|
From IAC Front Lobby |
|
|
Dinner on your own |
|
Conference Hotel or
Irving area restaurants |
| 7:00 - 7:30
pm |
|
Transportation
from Hotel to IAC |
|
From Hotel Portico |
| 8:00 - 11:00 pm |
|
Cultural Program |
|
IAC Carpenter Music Hall |
| 11:00 pm |
|
Transportation
from IAC to Hotel |
|
From IAC Front Lobby |
|
Sunday,
April 6, 2003
(all events at the Irving Arts Center - IAC) |
| 6:30 - 8:00 am |
|
Breakfast |
|
Conference Hotel Breakfast Area |
| 8:00 - 9:30
am |
|
Transportation
to Irving Arts Center (IAC) |
|
From Conference Hotel Portico
to IAC |
|
| 9:30 am - 11:30
pm |
|
Round Table
Bengal Studies Conference:
A Look Ahead
|
|
IAC Meeting Room A |
