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国際ベンガル学会第4回大会(2015)日本委員会

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 Report

4th International Congress of Bengal Studies(2015)

12-13 December, 2015, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Special Speeches

 

Presidential Speech: চিনে বঙ্গবিদ্যার ধারা (Bengal Studies in China)

Prof. Dong Youchen, President, ISBS

Keynote Address:

Prof. Pabitra Sarkar, Academic President of 4th ICBS

 

Memorial Lectures

Professor Tsuyoshi Nara Memorial Lecture: Dominant Trends in the Recent Studies in Colonial Bengal’s Agrarian Order: Major Shifts in Historian’s Positions

Prof. Binay Chaudhuri, Former Professor, University of Calcutta, India

Professor Dušan Zbavitel Memorial Lecture: Orientalism, Indology, Bengal Studies

Prof. Anisuzzaman, Professor Emeritus, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

 

 

Panels

 

Panel

No.

<<History>>

1

History-1: Ancient and Medieval Bengal-I

 

Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf

Former Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.

Chairperson

 

Khan, Masum

Independent Researcher, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

চর্যাপদের কবিদের জীবন ও ধর্ম (Life and Religion of the Poets of Charjapod)

 

Kitada, Makoto

Teacher, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Report on the Fourth Song of Caryāpada Sung in Kathmandu & the Newly-discovered Fragment of Baṙu Caṇḍīdas’ Śrīkr̥ṣṇnakīrtan

 

Baur, Sukhendu Kumar

Independent Researcher, West Bengal, India.

শ্রীচৈতন্যের উড়িষ্যায় গৌড়ীয় বৈষ্ণবধর্ম প্রচারের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে পঞ্চসখা ও পঞ্চসখাধর্ম (Sri Chaitanya's Gaudiya Vaishnav Propagation at Orissa: Panchasakha and Panchasakha Cult of Orissa)

2

History-2: Ancient and Medieval Bengal-II

 

Das, Bela

Professor, Department of Bengali, Assam University, Silchar, India

Chairperson

 

Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf

Former Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Worldly Authority and Paradisiacal Ambition: Diversity of Titles in the Islamic Inscriptions of Bengal

 

Alam, Aksadul

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Geographical Factors in the Syncretistic Tradition of Early Bengal

3

History-3: Colonial Bengal - Printing, Law, and Domesticity

 

Mizutani, Satoshi

Associate Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Chairperson

 

Ghosh, Subhasree

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Asutosh College, Kolkata, India.

The Indian Limitation Act, 1877: A Study in Continuity of Colonial Intervention in Nineteenth Century India

 

Sharma, Ruchika

Assistant Professor (Ad Hoc), Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Studying Domesticity in Early Colonial Bengal

 

Paul, Subhadeep

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University, West Bengal, India.

God's Own Medicine, Man's Own Malady: Sketching the Murky Hisotry of Opium in Bengal Through Select English and Bangla Fiction & Non-finction

 

Das, Krishna

Ph.D Fellow, Department of Bengali Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Battala And The Various Edition Of Krittibasi Ramayana

4

History-4: Colonial Bengal - Trade, Money and Consumption

 

Wakimura, Kohei

Teacher, Graduate school of Economics, Osaka City University, Japan

Chairperson

 

Taniguchi, Kenji

Research Fellow, Center of Education and Studies of Economics, Graduate school of Economics, Osaka City University, Japan

The Early 1800s Economic Depression and Supply of Money in India

 

Kanda, Sayako

Professor, Deparment of Economics, Keio University, Japan

A Business History of Bengal: The Rise and Fall of the Salt Merchant Families, c.1780-1840

 

Hara, Koichiro

Graduate School of Arts, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo

The Role of Calcutta in the Supply Chain of Bengal Opium: Focusing on the Export System from 1870 to 1910

 

Ohisi, Takashi

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan

Pleasure, Subjugation and Nation: A Complexity in the Consumption of Luxury Goods in the Colonial Frontier of Assam and Bengal in the Early Twentieth Century

5

History-5: Colonial Bengal - Education, Demography, and Epidemics

 

Oishi, Takashi

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan

Chairperson

 

Mizutani, Satoshi

Associate Professor, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

The Emergence of ‘Semi-educated Natives’: the Colonial Politics of Education and Bureaucratic Recruitment in Bengal, ca.1830-1880

 

Dey, Bratati

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Dhruba Chand Halder College, Kolkata, India.

Gender Relations in Colonial Bengal - Levels of Living and Reinterpret Women's Demographic Pattern in Bengal

 

Wakimura, Kohei

Teacher, Graduate school of Economics, Osaka City University, Japan

Malaria and Population Changes in Bengal, 1872-1931: A Spatial Analysis

 

Taniguchi, Kenji

Research Fellow, Center of Education and Studies of Economics, Graduate school of Economics, Osaka City University, Japan

 

Mukherjee, Sujata

Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

Famine, Mortality and Epidemics in Late Colonial India: A Case Study of the Pancaser Manvantar or Famine of 1943 in Bengal

Panel

No.

<<Society and Politics>>

6

Partition and Bengali Nationhood

 

Chaudhuri, Tripti

Former Professor, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

Chairperson

 

Sengupta, Debjani

Assistant Professor in Bengali, Taki Govt. College, 24Pgs(North), West Bengal, India.

বাংলাবিভাগ' ৪৭: ‘স্মৃতি কথা'য় বহুস্বর (Bengal Partition ’47 : Multiple Voices in Memoir)

 

Faquire, ABM Razaul Karim

Professor, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Unfolding the Nationhood of Bangalee People Inhabited South Asia

 

Sengupta, Debjani

Department of English, Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi University, Delhi, India.

Refugee City: Football and Other Divides of the Self in Post-partition Kolkata

7

Democracy, Development and Identity in Modern India

 

Tanabe, Akio

Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies,
Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Mukherjee, Madhuja

Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Bearing Memory Project: Reconnecting with the Issue of Partition and Politics

 

Das, Susnata

Professor, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

Christian Missionaries in the 19th Century Bengal on the Eve of Western Contact in India and the New Development Process

 

Bhattacharya, Debarati

Assistant Professor, Calcutta Institute of Engineering and Management, Kolkata, India.

Bengal, Bong and Intellectual Elitism

8

Various Problems of Bengal Muslims

 

Khan, Shamsuzzaman

Director General, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Sugie, Ai

Graduate Student of Nagoya University, JSPS Research Fellow, Japan

The Issues on Stratification among Muslims in South Asian Regions

 

Khatun, Ayesa

Social Worker, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Bengal Muslims: Conflict between Liberal and Fundamentalist- An analytical Study

 

Khatun, Afroja

Associate Professor, Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

বাংলার মুসলিম নারী আন্দোলনের ধারা ও পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মুসলিম নারী আন্দোলনের সাম্প্রতিক রূপ (Tradition and the recent status of Muslim women’s Movement in Bengal)

 

Harun, Abantee

Assistant Professor, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

‘Blaming the Victims?’: Politics of Madrasa Education and Islamization in Bangladesh

9

Islam, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Bangladesh-1: Civil Society and Political Mobility

 

Chowdhury, Manosh

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Togawa, Masahiko

Associate Professor, IDEC (Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation), Hiroshima University, Japan

Islam, Nationalism and Civil Movement: Beyond Bipolar Politics

 

Haq, Fahmidul

Associate Professor, Dept. of Mass Communication and Journalism, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shahbag Movement: Unfinished Conflict between Secularism and Religiosity in Bangladesh?

 

Kusakabe, Naonori

Assistant Professor, Otsuma Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan

NGOs and Islam in Bangladesh: Are NGOs Anti-Islam or Actors in Civil Society?

 

Chowdhury, Moiyen Zalal

Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

Civil Movement through Social Media, Identity Politics, and Islam

 

Horiguchi, Matsushiro

Former Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, President of Japan-Bangladesh Society, and Prof. at Nihon University

Discussant

 

Murayama, Mayumi

IDE-Jetro

Discussant

10

Islam, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Bangladesh-2: Islam in Public Sphere

 

Imran (Mannu), Masood

PhD student, IDEC, Hiroshima University, Japan and Faculty, Department of Archaeology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Riaz, Ali

Professor, Illinoi State University, USA.

Constructing and Deconstructing Narratives: Shahbagh and Islamist Politics in Bangladesh

 

Begum, Momotaj

Researcher, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.

Female Tablighi as ‘Indirect Opinion Builder’ in Society: Understanding Gender Politics of Hefajat-e-Islam in contemporary Bangladesh

 

Siddiqi, Bulbul

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Reconsidering Politics: the Case of the Tablighi Jamaat in Bangladesh

 

Kabir, Humayun

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

‘Protectors of Islam’—Hefazat-e-Islam: Ulama in Politics and the State and Islamism in Bangladesh

 

Nejima, Susumu,

Toyo University

Discussant

 

Nakatani, Tetsuya,

Nara Prefectural University

Discussant

11

Islam, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Bangladesh-3: Nationalism and Civil Society

 

Riaz, Ali

Professor, Illinoi State University, USA.

Chairperson

 

Chowdhury, Manosh

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Can Popular Culture be a Cultural Policy to Negotiate Hatred Politics?

 

Kusakabe, Tatsuya

Hiroshima University, Japan

The Notion of Muslimness and Its Propagation through Education: Qawmi Madrasas in South Asia

 

Sabur, Seuty

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Social Science, BRAC University, Bangladesh.

Shahabag, Trance and the Magic of the Nation: Questions of Gender-Religion-Class-Ethnicity

 

Huq, Moshreka Aditi

Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chittagong University, Chittagong, Bangladesh

Four Decades of Bangladeshi Women: Their Role in Political and National Issues

 

Imran (Mannu), Masood

PhD student, IDEC, Hiroshima University, Japan and Faculty, Department of Archaeology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

"Bangalism": The Politics of Exclusion in Dominant History Writings of Bangladesh

 

Ikeda, Keiko

Professor, College of Education, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan.

Discussant

12

Education and Social Class

 

Minamide, Kazuyo

Faculty of International Studies and Liberal Arts, St. Andrew’s University, Osaka, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Alam, S.M.Shamsul

Professor of Sociology, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, BARC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Education for Whom?: Pedagogy and Social Change

 

Rahman, Siddiqur

Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Urban Social Class Mobility through Higher Education in Bangladesh in the Context of Globalization

 

Minamide, Kazuyo

Faculty of International Studies and Liberal Arts, St. Andrew’s University, Osaka, Japan.

Disparity of Education between Rural and Urban in Bangladesh: From the Perspective of Students' Life

 

Kabir, Humayun

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Cultural Sociology of Madrasa Education in Bangladesh : Perspectives on Class, Power, and Culture

 

Majumdar, Manabi

Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India.

The Idea and Practice of Schooling in Urban (West) Bengal : Through the Lens of Social Justice

 

Oshikawa, Fumiko

Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University, Japan

Discussant

13

The Filmic Reality in Bengal: Production and Consumption of Meanings of the Cinema

 

Chowdhury, Manosh

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Raju, Zakir Hossain

School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Independent University, Bangladesh

Cinema and Cultural Transition between Two Bengals

 

Biswas, Moinak

Professor, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

The Political and the Intimate: On Contemporary Bengali Cinema

 

Chowdhury, Manosh

Professor, Department of Anthropology, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Hardly Negotiated in 'Society' : The Portrayal of the 'Upper'-Class People in the Bangladeshi 'Mainstream' Cinema and the Anticipated Confrontation

 

Minamide, Kazuyo

Faculty of International Studies and Liberal Arts, St. Andrew’s University, Osaka, Japan.

Visualizing Invisible Reality through Ethnographic Film Making: A Film of ‘Papiya’ a Girl’s Life in Rural Bangladesh

14

Castes, Tribes and Dalit

 

Das, Susnata

Professor, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

Chairperson

 

Banerjee, Soumi

Master's Student, Department of International Relations, Jadavpur University,  Kolkata, India

Changing Dynamics of Caste in Indian Society and Politics

 

Bar, Tapan

Assistant Professor, Ramsaday College, Amta, West Bengal, India.

সুন্দরবনের আদিবাসী সংস্কৃতি ও সংগ্রামঃ সেকাল-একাল (The Culture and Struggle of the Tribals of Sundarban: Then and Now)

 

Basuri, Usha

Assistant Professor, Rama Devi Bajla Mahila College, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India

বাংলা সাহিত্যে আদিবাসী জীবন ও সমাজ (Glimpses of life and Society of Aborigines in Bengali Literature)

 

Pal, Gopal

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Deoghar College, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India. 

সর্বভারতীয় প্রেক্ষিতে নারায়ণ গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের গল্পে দলিত সম্প্রদায় (The Present Position of Dalit in India in the story of Narayan Gangopadhyay)

 

Naskar, Sanat Kumar

Professor, Department of Bengali Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

The Auto-biographies of Bengali Dalit Writers

15

Bengalis beyond Bengal

 

Noro, Motoyoshi

Retired Foreign Service Employee, Japan Bangladesh Association, Japan

Chairperson

 

Heikkila-Horn, Marja-Leena

Assistant Professor, Social Science Division, Southeast Asian Studies, Mahidol University International College (MUIC), Salaya Campus, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

Bengali Legacies in Myanmar and the Boundaries of Bengaliness

 

Seino, Kanae

Student, Graduate School of Seishin Women’s college, Department of Literature, Japan

Bangladeshi Migrants in Italy

 

Bose, Hira

Assistant Professor, Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad, India.

Influence of Inherited Bengali Culture in the Life of the Protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Novel Desirable Daughters

 

Chottopadhyay, Shrimoyee

Master’s Student, Department of English, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Home and Away: The Projection of Bengal in the Diasporic Literature

16

Panel on Bengali-language media and Bangla's journey around the world

 

Suvendrini Kakuchi

President, Foreign Correspondence Club of Japan, Tokyo.

Chairperson

 

 

Huq, Monzurul

Visiting Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Age of the Internet and Bangla media at a crossroad

 

Watanabe, Kazuhiro

Part Time Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

রেডিও জাপান বাংলার এতদিনকার ভূমিকা ও ভবিষ্যৎ (Radio Japan Bangla: its Past, Present and Future)

 

Sahu, Anirban

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Ranchi College, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India.

Evolution of Bengali Language and its Development in the Cyber Age

17

Various Studies from "Periphery"

 

Chaudhuri, Binay

Former Professor, Department of History, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Chairperson

 

Shimosawa, Takashi

Professor, Department of International culture, Faculty of Culture Policy and Management, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Japan.

Progress of Peace Accord Implementation of Chittagong Hill Tracts and Factor Analysis of Delaying the Implementation

 

De, Aparajita

Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

History at the Margins: Koch-Rajbanshis and their Politics of Resistance and Rewriting of the Past

 

Nandi, Rajib

Research Fellow, Institute of Social Studies Trust, India Habitat Centre, Delhi, India

 

Purkayastha, Sudeshna

Department of History, Assam University, Silchar, India.

Past and Language: Deployment of Bengali Language and the Construction of a Regional Past in First Printed History of Assam

 

Saha, Soumik

Master’s Student, College of Science, Technology and Agriculture University Of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. 

Anthropological Demography On The Santhals Of West Bengal

18

Kolkata and Dhaka

 

Kanda, Sayako

Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, Japan

Chairperson

 

 

Ghosh, Biswajit

Professor, Department of Bangla, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Folk Traditions of Dhaka City

 

Buser De, Maya

PhD Student, Department of Indian and South East Asian Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea

Impact of Social Inequalities and Bhadralok Culture on Parental School Choice in Kolkata: A Case Study in Two Government Secondary Girl Schools

 

DasGuptra Ghosh, Dipanwita

Principal, Jyotirmoy School of Education, Kolkata, India

Acknowledging Knowledge Industry of West Bengal- A Case Study of the University of Calcutta

 

Banerjee, Mita

Vice Chancellor, The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration, Kolkata, India

 

Choudhury, Maitreyee

Professor, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, West Bengal, India.

Kalikata-Calcutta-Kolkata - Making and Unmaking of a Conurbation in Bengal

 

Banerjee, Sucharita

Professor, Department of Bengali Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Changing Face of Calcutta: From Pre to Post Colonial Period

19

Bengal and Japan

 

Chakraborty, Subha Dasgupta

Visiting Professor, Dept of MIL & LS, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

Chairperson

 

Noro, Motoyoshi

Retired Foreign Service Employee, Japan Bangladesh Association

Japan's Mission for the Lasting World Peace

 

Shirai, Kei

Full-time lecturer, The Japan Foundation, Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa, Japan.

সানো জিন্নোসুকে সম্বন্ধে (On Jinnosuke Sano)

 

Keeni, Gita A

Associate Professor, Department of Japanese, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, India.

Women in Bengal and Japan Through the Prism of Proverbs-'Beauty'

 

Ray, Anirban

Presidency University, Kolkata, India.

Japan-India Bonding in the Bengali Short Science Fiction /Fantasy Stories by Satyajit Ray

 

Basu, Ambika

Ph.D Fellow, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan

Bengal studies in Japan

 

20

Gender, Feminism, and Women Studies-I

 

Choudhury, Maitreyee

Professor, Centre for Himalayan Studies, North Bengal University, West Bengal, India

Chairperson

 

Mukhopadhyay, Sumita

Associate Professor, Taki Govt. College, 24 PGS (North), West Bengal, India. 

বটতলার প্রহসন ও প্রান্তিক-নারী চরিত্র (Marginalised Women and Farce of "Bot-tola")

 

Choudhury, Rituparna

Research Scholar, Kolkata, India

নারীবাদী নৈতিকতা ও ধ্রুপদী নৈতিকতার আঙ্গিকে প্রেক্ষিত নিরপেক্ষতা (Impartiality in the Perspective of Feminist and Mainstream Ethics)

 

Chottopadhyay, Snigdha

Assistant Professor, Asannagar MMt College, Nadia, West Bengal, India. 

তৃতীয় সত্তার সংকটঃ সমাজে ও সাহিত্যে (Crisis of Third Gender: Social and Literary Context)

 

Babul, Muhammed Rezaul Alam

Bangla Department, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

স্বাধীনতা পরবর্তী বাংলাদেশের নাটকে সমাজ ও নারী (Society and Women as Manifested in Drama Literature of Post-Liberation Bangladesh)

21

Gender, Feminism, and Women Studies-II

 

Majumdar, Manabi

Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India

Chairperson

 

Chatterjee, Sukla

Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Philosophy, Derozio Memorial College, West Bengal, India.

An Insight into Swami Vivekananda's Perspective : Women Empowerment and Distance Education

 

Dasgupta, Sanghamitra

Associate Professor, Department of Economics & Philosophy, Derozio Memorial College, West Bengal, India

 

Chatterjee, Sandip

Asst. Gen. Manager & Economist, Allahabad Bank (Rtd.), India

 

Bandyopadhyay, Aparna

Associate Professor, Department of History, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata, India.

Women, Culture and Leisure in Colonial and Contemporary Bengal: A Feminist Perspective

 

 

Chaudhuri, Tripti

Former Professor, Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

 

Feminism and Social Activism: Role of Two Pioneer Exponents of Feminist Discourses in Colonial Bengal

 

Sinha, Sujata

Associate Professor, Jamshedpur Women's College, Bistupur, Jamshedpur, India.

বঙ্গীয় নারী শিক্ষা পরিষদঃ একটি দীপশিখা (Bengal Women's Education League: A Review)

 

Ikeda, Keiko

Professor, College of Education, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan.

Gender-based Violence and Evolution of Women Development Politics and Programs in Rural Bangladesh

Panel

No.

<<Religion>>

22

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-I

 

Tomizawa (Kitazawa), Kana

Project Associate Professor, U-PARL, The University of Tokyo Library System, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Chairperson

 

Toyoyama, Aki

Research Fellow, The Center for Contemporary India Area Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology (MINDAS), Kyoto, Japan.

Modernity, Hybridity and New Identities:
Architectural Representation of the “Black Town” in Late Colonial Calcutta

 

Fukuuchi, Chie

Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Social Research, Kwansei Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan.

'Puranic' and 'Vedic': On the Response to the Work of Ravi Varma in Bengal

 

Inaga, Shigemi

Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan. 

Nandalal Bose and Arai Kanpo: a brief Overview of their Friendship 

 

Swami Medhasananda

President, Nippon Vedanta Kyokai (Vedanta Society of Japan, a branch of the Ramakrishna Mission of India), Tokyo, Japan.

Swami Vivekananda, Okakura Tenshin and Shitoku Hori

23

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-II

 

Okita, Kiyokazu

Assistant Professor, Department of Indological Studies, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Hirano, Kuniko

Visiting Fellow, Institute of Asian Cultures, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.

Vivekananda and Japanese Buddhists: The Background Concerning their Encounter and Interaction

 

Lee, Yu-Ting

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

The Idea of Asia in Transformation: Starting from Rabindranath Tagore

 

Tomizawa (Kitazawa), Kana

Project Associate Professor, U-PARL, The University of Tokyo Library System, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

The Development of the Modern Use of the Term “Spirituality” in and around Late 19th-Century Bengal

24

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-III

 

Sardella, Ferdinando

Assistant Professor, History of Religions, ERG, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Chairperson

 

Ahsan, Mostofa Tarequl

Professor, Department of Folklore, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Rethinking of Sufi and Baulism in Bangladesh: From Post-colonial View Point

 

Zakaria, Saymon

Assistant Director, Folklore Department, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

The “New Law” or New Religious Code of The Baul Guru Lalan Sain

 

Shibuya, Toshiki

Visiting Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

Gajan Festival and the Folktales in Kolkata

25

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-IV

 

Toyoyama, Aki

Research Fellow, The Center for Contemporary India Area Studies at the National Museum of Ethnology (MINDAS), Kyoto, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Usuda, Masayuki

Professor Emeritus, Tokai University, Japan.

The Barisal Brahmo Samaj and the Nationalist Movement

 

Okita, Kiyokazu

Assistant Professor, Department of Indological Studies, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

A Middle Class Construction of Neo-Vaiṣṇavism in Nineteenth Century Bengal: Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura’s Commentary on the Brahmasaṃhitā

 

Sardella, Ferdinando

Assistant Professor, History of Religions, ERG, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Bhaktisiddhānta and the Social Structure of Colonial Bengal

 

Das, Bela

Professor, Department of Bengali, Assam University, Silchar, India,

Charcha in Dakshin Assam: Inculcation of Chaitanya's Vaishnavism in Southern Assam: An Investigation into the Causes of its Gradual Disintegration and Decline

26

Buddhism

 

Mizuno, Yoshifumi

Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Chairperson

 

Dharmarathne, Sumudu Manori

Lecturer, Department of History, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Kalinga Influence on Sri Lankan Buddhism with special reference to Image Cult

 

Barua, Dipen

Research Student, The Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

A Normative Cross-Cultural Hindu-Buddhist Interaction in Bengal: Adaptations and Transformations Revisited

 

Bhattacharya, Bandana

Research Officer, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, India.

Contribution of the Bengali Scholars and early Buddhist Monastic Libraries for the Propagation of Tibetan Buddhism

27

Changing Faces of Baul in the Era of Globalization

 

Ghosh, Biswajit

Professor, Department of Bangla, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Sengupta, Sutapa

Assistant Professor, Gobardanga Hindu College, 24Paraganas, West Bengal, India.

The Mystic Bauls: A Journey from Archaic to Modernity

 

Miah, Hanif

Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Status of Women in Baul Sadhana: A Social Aspect

 

Roy, Kazal Chandra

Bangla Department, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India.

বাউল গানে অসাম্প্রদায়িক চেতনা ও বাঙালি জাতীয়তাবাদ (Bengali Nationalism and Non-communal Conscience in Baul Songs)

 

Lorea, Carola Erika

Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. 

Music, History and Power: the Songs of a Bengali Madman in Their Performative Context

 

Ahsan, Mostofa Tarequl

Professor, Department of Folklore, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

 
 

Zakaria, Saymon

Assistant Director, Folklore Department, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Panel

No.

<<Arts and Literature>>

28

Performing Arts-1

 

Ali, Rahmat

Department of Performing Arts, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Pal, Sujit Kumar

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

বঙ্গরঙ্গমঞ্চে তৃপ্তি মিত্রঃ অভিনয় শিল্পের অঙ্গনে (Tripti Mitra in the Bengali Theatre: In the Yard of the Art of Acting)

 

Basu, Aindrila

Ph.D Fellow, Department of Bengali Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Contemporary Bengali Lyrics (after 1992) and Empower of Globalization

 

Som, Reba

Senior Fellow, ICSSR, Delhi, India.

The Musical Journey of Rabindranath Tagore

 

Ghosh, Ayantika

Assistant Professor. Department of Bengali language & Literature, Ananda Mohan College, Kolkata, India.

চলচ্চিত্রে বেতারের অনুষঙ্গ (Semiotics of Radio in Films)

29

Performing Arts-II

 

Kitada, Makoto

Teacher, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Roy, Susmita

Assistant Professor, Jyotirmoy School of Education, Kolkata, India

Musical Boost-An Endeavor to Propagate the Mood Regulation

 

 

 

Bandyopadhyay (Purohit), Jasodhara

Associate Professor, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose College, Kolkata, India

 

Guha, Debika

Assistant Professor, Department of B.Ed. Loreto College, Kolkata, India           

 

Alakolange Gedara,

Leena Seneheweera

Senior Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Bengal Transcultural Approaches to Music Culture and Aesthetic Practices in Sri Lanka: Case of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali

30

Popular Culture and Literature

 

Huq, Monzurul

Visiting Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Ashique, Mustafa

Master’s Student, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

স্বপ্ন ও বাস্তবতার দৌড়ে এগিয়ে বাংলা শিশুসাহিত্য (Imagination and Reality of Our Child Literature)

 

Basu Roy Choudhury, Baishali

Associate Professor, Government College of Education, Burdwan, West Bengal, India.

বিজ্ঞাপনের ভাষা ও সাহিত্য (The Language of Advertisement and Literature)

 

Rahman, Khalilur

Executive officer, Al-Arafah Islami Bandk Lt, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

বাংলাদেশে কমিক শিল্পের পথচলা (An Expedition To The Comics in Bangladesh)

 

Mahaldar, Orance

Research Scholar, Department of Art. Music & Theatre Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium.

Understanding of Ethical Norms in Filmmaking with special reference to Bengali Movies

31

Feminist Views in Bengali Literature

 

Bhattacharjee, Tapodhir

Former Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

Chairperson

 

Hosain, Selina

Writer and Former Director, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Feminist View in Bengali Literature

 

Biswas, Prarthita

Ph.D Scholar, Department of Education, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India.

Santa Devi – Sita Devi and Women Emancipation with Special Reference to Tagorean Influence

 

Begum, Shahnaz

Assistant Professor, Depertment of English, Purnidevi Chowdhury Girls' College, Bolpur, West Bengal. India.

Locating Tahmima Anam in the Literature of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation: A Study of The Golden Age and The Good Muslim

 

Awaya, Toshie

Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Discussant

32

19th Century’s Literature

 

Mukherjee, Sujata

Department of History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.

Chairperson

 

Guha, Chhaya

Retired Professor, S.K.M.University, Dumka, Jharkhand, India.

শ্যামাচরণ সরকারঃ এক অনুপম জ্ঞানতাপস (Shyamacharan Sarkar: The Scholar)

 

Bhattacharya, Sampa

Associate Professor, BKC College, Kolkata, India.

উনিশ শতকের দাম্পত্যভাবনাঃ বাঙালীর জীবন ও সাহিত্যে (Conjugal Life in Nineteenth Century Bengali Life and Literature)

 

Biswas, Ajanta

Assistant Professor, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India.       

Desher Katha: A Bridge between Literature and History

 

Masum, Md Abdullah AL

Professor, Department of History, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Zenana Education and Muslim Women Society in Bengal (1883-1933): A Historical Overview

33

Contemporary Bengali Literature I

 

Lekha, Eaysmin Ara

Pro-Vice Chancellor, Uttara University, Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Bhattacharjee, Topodhir

Former Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

Keynote Speaker

 

Begum, Mumtaz

Treasurer, Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

জীবনানন্দ দাশের কবিতায় পাখিরা (Semiotics of the Representation of Birds in Jibanananda Das' Poetry)

 

Lekha, Eaysmin Ara

Pro-Vice Chancellor, Uttara University, Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

বেগম সুফিয়া কামালের কবিতা (The Poetical Journey of Begam Shufiya Kamal)

 

Aldin, Masud Shams

Lecturer, Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

মুনীর চৌধুরীরর নাটক ‘চিঠি’ (Chithi: The Drama)

33A

Contemporary Bengali Literature II

 

Begum, Mumtaz

Treasurer, Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Anisuzzaman,

Professor Emeritus, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chief Guest

 

Chakrabarty, Barun Kumar

Professor Emeritus, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India.

Keynote Speaker

 

Ghosh, Biswajit

Professor, Department of Bangla, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Panelists

 

 

Das, Bela

Professor, Department of Bengali, Assam University, Silchar, India

Ahmed, Soaib

Professor, School of Education, Bangladesh Open University, Bangladesh,

Manna, Anirban

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali Language and literature, Saltora Netaji Centenary College, Bankura, West-Bengal, India.

Bar, Tapan

Assistant Professor, Ramsaday College, Amta, West Bengal, India.

34

On Travel Writing

 

Anisuzzaman,

Professor Emeritus, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Hosain, Selina

Writer and Former Director, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Travels of Ibn Batutah

 

Dev, Amiya

Former Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Travel Writings of Rabindranath Tagore

 

Dasgupta, Subha Chakraborty

Visiting Professor, Dept of MIL & LS, University of Delhi, Delhi, India.

Japan in Bengali Travelogues

 

Mukherjee, Tilottoma

Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Early Modern Bengal: Travelers and Travel Literature

 

Niwa, Kyoko

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Japan Yatri as a Travel Literature

35

Poetry

 

Hossain, Khaled

Professor, Department of Bengali, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Manna, Anirban

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali Language and literature, Saltora Netaji Centenary College, Bankura, West-Bengal, India.

স্ল্যাং নব্বুইয়ের দশক ও পরবর্তী বাংলা কবিতায় (Use of Slang in Bengali Poetry since the Nineties)

 

Sajjadi, Hasnain

President, Movement of science poetry, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

বিজ্ঞান যুগে বিজ্ঞান কবিতা (Science Poetry in Science Age)

 

Uddin, Md. Zafir

Assistant Professor, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

বাংলা হাইকুঃ প্রকরণ ও প্রবণতা (Bangla Haiku: Form, Technique and Trend)

 

Aktar, Nilufa

Assistant Professor, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

বাংলাদেশের পাঁচ জন পুরুষ কবির কবিতায় নারীচেতনার বিবর্তন (Women in Thought in the Poetry of Five Bangladeshi Poets)

36

Drama

 

Bandyopadhyay, Himabanta

Professor, Department of Drama, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India

Chairperson

 

Dutta Sensharma, Sushreema

Associate Professor, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College, Kolkata, India.

মানবতার প্রতিঃ মোহিত চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের নাটক (Towards Humanity: Mohit Chattopadhyay's Drama)

 

Khanra, Siddhartha

Research Scholar, Swami Vivekananda Research Centre Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, India

স্বাধীনতা-উত্তর বাংলা নাটকে মহাভারতের কাহিনির পুনর্নির্মাণ (Reconstruction Of The Mahabharata In Post-Independence Bengali Plays)

 

Chanda, Ruchira

Junior Research Fellow, Department of Bengali Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. 

Awareness towards Death and Philosophical View of Life Mingled together in Syed Walliullah's Play

 

Mandal, Samiran

Assistant Professor, Baruipur College, South 24-Parganas, West Bengal, India.

বাস্তবতা ও ব্যক্তিসত্তার নির্মাণঃ বঙ্গ নাট্যধারার আধুনিক পর্বে মোহিত চট্টোপাধ্যায়ের নাটক (Realism and the Construction of Postcolonial Subjectivity in Mohit Chattopadhyay's Plays)

37

Novel

 

Khan, Rafique Ullah

Professor, Department of Bengali, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Pradhan, Ramsankar

Assistant Professor, Ramananda Centenary College, Purulia, West Bengal, India.

শ্যামল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের “শাহজাদা দারাশুকো” মুঘল ইতিহাসের অবহেলিত সর্বধর্ম সমন্বয়ী প্রাণপুরুষ (Shyamal Gangopadhyay's Sahjada Darasuko)

 

Ghoshal, Chhanda

Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

সামুদ্রিক জেলে জীবনের বৃত্তান্তঃ দুই বাংলার দুই উপন্যাসে (Tales of Fishermen's Life at sea coast in Two Novels of Two 'Bango')

 

Siddika, Ayesha

Lecturer, Willes Little Flower School & College, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

বরফ গলা নদী : জহির রায়হানের সামগ্রিক মতার্দশের দর্পণ (Borof Gola Nody : The Mirror of Zahir Raihan’s whole Ideology)

38

Tagore-I

 

Sarkar, Pabitra

Former Vice Chancellor, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India

Chairperson

 

Bandhopadhyay, Amitava

Independent Researcher, Kolkata, India.

রবীন্দ্রনাথের ছড়া – লেখার সময় ও যৌক্তিকতা নিয়ে এক পর্যালোচনা (Tagore's Rhythms: A Peep into Reasonings of Creation)

 

Bhattacharya, Krishna

Former Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

On Rhymes in Tagore's songs

 

Chakraborty, Ahana

Principal, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Education, West Bengal, India.

Need of Rabindranath Tagore's Educational Philosophy and Literature in Developing Peace Education

 

Acharya, Saumyatjit

Part time Lecturer, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

 

Majumdar Acharya, Dharitree

Assistant Teacher, Shri Shikshayatan School, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

 

 

Dasmohanta, Swagata

Principal, Chakdaha College, Nadia, West Bengal, India.

 

পাঠ্যপুস্তক রচয়িতা রবীন্দ্রনাথ (Rabindranath Tagore as Text Book Writer)

 

Ray, Sekhar

Assistant Professor, Sundarban Anilkrishna Mahavidyalaya, North 24 pgs., West Bengal, India

শিক্ষাতত্ত্বে রবীন্দ্রনাথ (Rabindranath’s Theory of Education)

39

Tagore-II

 

Chakrabarty, Barun Kumar

Professor Emeritus, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India.

Chairperson

 

Dey, Rajat Kishore

Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, University of Gour Banga, Malda, India 

রবীন্দ্রনাথের ছোটোগল্পঃ বিবাহ ভাবনার প্রেক্ষিতে (Theme of Marriage in the Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore)

 

Adhya, Chandan

Part-Time Teacher, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

রবীন্দ্রনাথের জীবনদেবতাচেতনা : সূত্রে ও কাব্যভাষ্যে (Rabindranath Tagore’s Concept of Daemon: in Theory and Poems)

 

Purkayastha, Sumana

Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, Karimganj College, Karimganj, Assam, India.

রবীন্দ্রনাথের পরিবেশ চেতনার স্বরূপ সন্ধানঃ উনিশ শতকের শেষ দশকের ছোটোগল্পের পুনর্পাঠ (The Search for Rabindranath Tagore’s Consciousness over Environment: Re-reading of the Short Stories of last Decade of 19th century)

 

Khan, Shamsuzzaman

Director General, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Quest for our identity: Tagore and Nazrul

 

40

Literary Theory and Comparative Literature

 

Dev, Amiya

Former Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

Chairperson

 

Ghosh, Suman

Assistant Professor, Bengali Department, Serampore College, West Bengal, India.

Deconstruction: Theory and Application

 

Raha, Sujata

Associate Professor, Government College of education, Burdwan, West Bengal, India.

স্বামী বিবেকানন্দের সাহিত্যাদর্শ ও শিল্পচিন্তা (Thoughts of Swami Vivekananda on Literature and Art)

 

Murugesan, Manivannan

Centre of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India.

Subramania Bharati and Bengal Literature - A Comparative Study

 

Saha, Tapati 

Associate Professor In Bengali, Parimal Mitra Smriti Mahavidyalaya, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India.

প্রতিবেশী সাহিত্যে দ্বিজেন্দ্রলাল রায় (Dwijendralal Ray in Neighbouring Literature)

Panel

No.

<<Language and Linguistics>>

41

Syntax

 

Mizokami, Tomio

Professor Emeritus, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Bandyopadhyay, Anita

Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Govt. Sanskrit College, Kolkata, India,

Aorist Stem System in Bengali

 

Huziwara, Keisuke

Research Fellow, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies, Kobe, Japan.

A Contrastive Study of External Adnominal Clauses in Japanese and Bangla

42

Socio-Linguistics

 

Bhattacharya, Krishna

Former Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Chairperson

 

Alam, Mohammed Ansarul

Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Involvement of Bangladeshi Residents in Japan with Japanese Society - From an Interview Survey of Bangladeshi Foreign Students in Japan

 

Murshed, Sikder Monoare

Department of Linguistics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Language Situation of Bangladesh

 

Begum, Nasima

Student, Linguistics Department, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

বাংলা ভাষায় বুলি সরণঃ সমাজ ভাষাতাত্ত্বিক পর্যালোচনা (Code Shifting in Bengali Language: Socio-linguistic Observation)

 

Ahmed, Soaib

Professor, School of Education, Bangladesh Open University, Bangladesh,

Englishization and the Crisis in Bangla as a Medium of Instruction: Bangalee's Urge and Reality for Hundreds of Years in the Educational Context of Bangladesh - a Review

43

Language’s Various Aspects

 

Chakrabarty, Amalendu

Professor, Department of Bengali, Guwahati Univeristy, Gauhati, India

Chairperson

 

Chakma, Tiasha

Lecturer, Department of Bangla, Islamic University, Kushtia, Bangladesh.

Problems of Second Language Acquisition of Chakma-speaking Students in Present Education System in The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: An Overview

 

Mukhopadhyay, Dipankar

Department of Sanskrit, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Later Sanskrit Grammarian's Methodology in Composing Their Grammar: A Linguistic Survey

 

Mizokami, Tomio

Professor Emeritus, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan.

দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধের সময় জাপানী সৈন্য কর্তৃক পূর্ব ভারতবর্ষে নিক্ষিপ্ত প্রচারপত্রে ব্যবহৃত বাংলা ভাষার বৈশিষ্ট্য (Specialties of Bengali Used in the Propaganda-leaflets Scattered by the Japanese Army in East India during World War II)

   

44

Panel on Bengali Style Manual

 

Mannan, Abdul

Chairman, University Grants Commission, Bangladesh

Chairperson

 

Sarkar, Pabitra

Former Vice Chancellor, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India

Opening Remarks

 

Khan, Rafique Ullah

Professor, Department of Bengali, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Presenters

 

Naskar, Sanat Kumar

Professor, Department of Bengali Language & Literature, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

 

Anisuzzaman

Professor Emeritus, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Panelists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chakrabarty, Barun Kumar

Professor Emeritus, Rabindrabharati University, Kolkata, India.

 

Khan, Shamsuzzaman

Director General, Bangla Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

 

Bhttacharjee, Tapodhir

Former Vice Chancellor, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

 

Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf

Former Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Panel

No.

<<Development Studies>>

45

Development Studies-1: Various Aspects of Development

 

Bannerjee, Mita

Vice Chancellor, The West Bengal University of Teachers’ Training, Education Planning and Administration, Kolkata, India

Chairperson

 

Fukasawa, Mitsuki

Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.

The Economic Structure Based on Low Value Added Ready-made Garment Sector-The Case of Bangladesh-

 

Ganguli, Partha Sarathi

Faculty, Jyotirmoy School of Business, Kolkata, India.

Economic Resurgence of West Bengal – Entrepreneurship the Way Forward

 

Banna, B M Hasanul

Department of Finance and Banking, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Commercial Banks' Efficiency and its Determinants. A Crisis and Post Crisis Analysis in Bangladesh

 

Hassan, SM Monirul

Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Cultural Ethos and Organizational Behavior: A Study from Bangladesh

 

Kamal, Md. Masud All

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh

   

46

Development Studies-2: Ecology and Disaster Prevention

 

Shimosawa, Takashi

Professor, Department of International culture, Faculty of Culture Policy and Management, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Parvin, Gulshan Ara

Researcher, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Problems and Potential of Western Coastal Villages of Bangladesh-Focused towards Disaster

 

Shaw, Rajib

Professor, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

DasGupta , Rajarshi

PhD Candidate, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Fujita , Kumiko

Researcher, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Fujita, Kumiko

Researcher, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

Information System for Flood Risk Reduction in a River Flood Area, Bangladesh

 

Shaw, Rajib

Professor, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Parvin, Gulshan Ara

Researcher, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

DasGupta , Rajarshi

PhD Candidate, Environmental Education Laboratory, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

   

47

Development Studies-3: Adapting to climate Change in Asia: Challenges and Development (Discussion Panel)

 

Rahman, M Azizur

Vice Chancellor, Uttara University, Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Hoque, Bilqis Amin

Dean, School of Civil, Environment and Industrial Engineering. Uttara University. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

Keynote Speech: Adapting to Climate Change in Bengal Basin: Where We Are?

 

Parvin, Gulsan Ara 

Researcher, Environmental Education Laboratory (EEL), Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

Institutional Supports to Flood Affected Rural Community- A Case study of Goalanda Upazilla, Bangladesh

 

Shimi, Annya Chanda

Lecturer, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

 

Mukto, Q.S. Islam 

Chief Executive, Pathikrit- A Social and Human Development Organization, Bangladesh

 

Shaw, Rajib  

Professor, Environmental Education Laboratory (EEL), Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Mannan, Abdul

Chairman, University Grants Commission, Bangladesh

Chief Guest

 

Ambassador of Bangladesh in Japan

Special Guest

   

48

Development Studies-4: Community-based Approaches

 

Miyake, Hiroyuki

Researcher, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Nakatani, Tetsuya

Professor, Nara Prefectural University, Nara, Japan.

Tourism and Development: The Potentials of Community-based Tourism in Bangladesh

 

Razi, Alim Al

PhD Fellow, Department of Theatre, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

The Transformation and Adaptation of Community People through Cultural Politics in a Small Village of Bangladesh.

 

Dasgupta, Rajarshi

International Environment & Disaster Management Research Group, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.

Innovative Institutional Arrangements for Sustaining Community based ‘Eco-DRR Approach’ in the Reclaimed Islands of Indian Sundarbans: An Analysis

 

Shaw, Rajib

International Environment & Disaster Management Research Group, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan

 

Yamagata, Tatsufumi

Director General, International Exchange and Training Dept., Institute of Developing Economies, Chiba, Japan.

Disability and Development in Bangladesh: Promises and Challenges of Community Approaches to Handicap in Development (CAHD)

   

49

Development Studies-5: Impact of Microfinance and NGOs on Local Community

 

Ohashi, Masaaki

Part Time Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Chairperson

 

Mia, Md Aslam

Department of Development Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.

Measuring Productivity of Microfinance Institutions in Bangladesh

 

Chandran , VGR

Department of Development Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala-Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

Bose, Dipak Kumar

Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension & Communication, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad, India.

Impact of Self Help Groups on the Empowerment of Rural Women in Cooch Behar District of West Bengal

 

Bose, Hira

Assistant Professor, Chitamber School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology & Sciences, Allahabad, India.

 

Bose , Gautam

Assistant Professor, KD Higher Secondary School, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. India

 

Uesawa, Nobuko

Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate School of Global studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

The Diverse Incentives for Participation in NGO Women’s Groups

 

Rahman, Shafiqur

Vice President, Australian Academy of Business Leadership, Australia

Socio Economic Development: The Case of Bangladesh Banking Sector

 

Aziz, Abid

Independent Researcher, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

   

50

Development Studies-6: Waste Management and Weaker Sections

 

Hoque, Bilqis Amin

Dean, School of Civil, Environment and Industrial Engineering. Uttara University. Dhaka. Bangladesh.

Chairperson

 

Zahur, Moushumi

Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, BRAC University, Bangladesh

Inorganic Waste Recycling Activities: Role of Scavengers and their Socio-Economic Condition at Dhaka City of Bangladesh

 

Otoma, Suehiro

Former Professor, Faculty of Environmental Engineering, University of Kitakyushu, Japan.

 

Miyake, Hiroyuki

Researcher, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Osaka, Japan.

Waste Management to Formalize Waste Picking Children's Works in Bangladesh

 

Kanjilal, Mahananda

Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Jogesh Chandra Chaudhuri College, Kolkata, India.

Population and Provisioning of Civic Amenities in Urban Local Bodies of West Bengal

 

Bagchi, Amrita

Assistant Professor, Department of History, Taki Government College, West Bengal, India. 

Changing Health Care Culture: Expansion of Corporate Hospitals Under Global Compulsion in Contemporary India

 

 

 

 

Organized Panels

Panel No

Organized by

Theme

Sponsored or co-organized by

3

Kanda, Sayako

History-3: Colonial Bengal - Printing, Law, and Domesticity

 

4

Kanda, Sayako

History-4: Colonial Bengal - Trade, Money and Consumption

 

5

Kanda, Sayako

History-5: Colonial Bengal - Education, Demography, and Epidemics

 

7

Tanabe, Akio

Democracy, Development and Identity in Modern India

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research: Diversity-driven path of Development and Democracy in Contemporary India

9

Togawa, Masahiko

Islam, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Bangladesh-1: Civil Society and Political Mobility

FINDAS, NIHU Program Contemporary India Area Studies & NIHU Research Program of South Asia and Islam

10

Togawa, Masahiko

Islam, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Bangladesh-2: Islam in Public Sphere

FINDAS, NIHU Program Contemporary India Area Studies & NIHU Research Program of South Asia and Islam

11

Togawa, Masahiko

Islam, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Bangladesh-3: Nationalism and Civil Society

NIHU Research Program of South Asia and Islam

12

Minamide, Kazuyo

Education and Social Class

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A): Youth Migration and their Cultural Formation in the Era of Economic Growth in Bangladesh

13

Minamide, Kazuyo

The Filmic Reality in Bengal: Production and Consumption of Meanings of the Cinema

 

16

Huq, Monzurul

Panel on Bengali-language media and Bangla's journey around the world

 

22

Tomizawa, Kana

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-I

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K02055: The Development of Modern Expression of Religiosity in India and its Significance.

Toyoyama, Aki

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), No. 26770054: Residential Architecture of the Mercantile Castes in Colonial India.

23

Tomizawa, Kana

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-II

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K02055: The Development of Modern Expression of Religiosity in India and its Significance.

Toyoyama, Aki

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), No. 26770054: Residential Architecture of the Mercantile Castes in Colonial India.

24

Tomizawa, Kana

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-III

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K02055:The Development of Modern Expression of Religiosity in India and its Significance

25

Tomizawa, Kana

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern Bengal-IV

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K02055: The Development of Modern Expression of Religiosity in India and its Significance

27

Togawa, Masahiko

Changing Faces of Baul in the Era of Globalization

JSPS, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 25370750: Pan-Asianism and Modern Japan: Exchanges between Rabindranath Tagore and Tenshin (Kakuzo) Okakura

31

Niwa, Kyoko

Feminist Views in Bengali Literature

FINDAS, NIHU Program Contemporary India Area Studies

 

33

 

Uttara University

 

Contemporary Bengali Literature I

 

Uttara University, Bangladesh, Dhaka

33A

Uttara University

Contemporary Bengali Literature II

 

34

Niwa, Kyoko

On Travel Writing

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K02450: The Development of Language and Literature in Modern Bengal

44

Chakraborty, Amitava

Bengali Style Manual

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K02450: The Development of Language and Literature in Modern Bengal

47

Uttara University

Development Studies-3: Adapting to Climate Change in Asia: Challenges and Development (Discussion Panel)

Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh,

 

50

Miyake Hiroyuki

Development Studies-6: Waste Management and Weaker Sections

JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), No. 15K00660: System Building of Mutual Relationship among the Aspects of Social Consideration, Waste Management in the Developing Countries

 

Participant and Presentation Trend

 

Participants:

 

 

Participants

Papers

Japanese

45

34

Non-Bengali, Non-Japanese Foreigners

09 *China, Italy, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand

07 *Italy, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand

Bengali Scholars from Japan

10

10

Bengali scholars from Institutions outside Japan, Bangladesh and India

06 *Belgium, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, USA

 

06 *Belgium, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Pakistan, USA

Non-Bengali scholars from India

01 *Tamil

01 *Tamil

Bengali Participants from Bangladesh

46

43

Bengali Participants from India

96

82

Total

213

183

 

Speeches, Lectures, Reports, Papers:

Special Speeches: 02

Memorial Lectures: 02

Panel on Special Report: 01

 

 

Papers presented:

Area

Bengali Papers

English Papers

Total

History

03

14

17

Society & Politics

12

55

67

Religion

01

20

21

Arts & Literature

28

21

49

Language & Linguistics

02

07

09

Development Studies

00

20

20

Total

46

137

183

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