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Programme

FRIDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER 2018    
Sala Pellegrino - Palazzo Berruto

9:00-9:30

Welcome

Tribute to Prabha Khaitan

​9:30-10:15

Keynote lecture

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Sundeep Bhutoria: Politics of feminism in the mirror of Prabha Khaitan's life and work

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10:15-10:45

Coffee break

​10:45-12:15

PANEL 1. Prabha Khaitan's writing

 

Chair: Veronica Ghirardi

 

Monika Browarczyk: A Woman Called Prabha Khaitan. The Art of Autobiography and the Ecriture Féminine

 

Alessandra Consolaro: Women’s bodies, women’s words: the body in situation in Prabha Khaitan’s writings.

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​12:30-14:00

Lunch break

​14:00-15:30

PANEL 2 Translating existentialism in South Asia

 

Chair: Pinuccia Caracchi

 

Andrea Drocco: Prabha Khaitan’s existentialism: a linguistic analysis

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Jayandra Soni: Can One Read Existentialist Ideas in Indian Thought?

15:30-16:00

Coffee break 

16:00 - 1 7:30 

PANEL 3 Translating Simone de Beauvoir in South Asia

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Chair: Chiara Correndo

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Mara Matta: Humayun Azad: «A palm-tree among the burning sands» of Bangladesh

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Kishwar Naheed: Translating The Second Sex in Urdu

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17:30 - 18:00

Concluding remarks and future plans

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