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The Blind Owl: Hooting for 80 Years
Marking 80 years since Sadeq Hedayat’s novel The Blind Owl (Buf-e Kur) was published in India — two days with the IIC-Asia Project and the sponsorship of the ICSSR.
Day 1 of 2
Wednesday, 17 February 2016
India International Centre (Annexe), New Delhi
10:30 – 11:30
Inaugural session
Welcome Address:
Dr Syed Akhtar Husain,
President IIPS
Speech of the Guest of Honour:
Mr. Syed Shahid Mahdi,
Ex-Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia
Speech of the Chief Guest:
Professor Chander Shekhar, Head, Dept. of Persian,
University of Delhi
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Houra Yavari,
Encyclopaedia Iranica, Columbia University, New York
Presidential Address:
Dr Kapila Vatsyayan,
Chairperson, IIC-Asia Project
Vote of Thanks:
Professor Aleem Ashraf Khan,
Vice President, IIPS
11:30 – 13:00
Session 1
In Chair:
Professor Kiran Chaudhry
Centre of French and Francophone Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Canada
Like “An Image on a Pen-Case” Sadeq Hedayat’s Men and Women in The Blind Owl
Pinky Isha, Rabindrabharati University, India
The Blind Owl: A Study through the lens of a fine Gothic Heritage blended with elements of Drakula Fiction.
Parminder Singh Bhogal, Punjab University, India
Sadegh Hedayat: A Look into his Socio-Political Times
Syed Akhtar Husain, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Bits and Pieces of the Blind Owl
13:00-14:30- Lunch
14:30 – 15:30
Session 2
In Chair:
Dr Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Canada
Mahmood Alam, EFL University, India
The Inanimate Characters in The Blind Owl
Miad Rashedifar, Tehran Peace Museum, Iran
Silent Women in The Blind Owl
Nahid Morshedlou, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
To Be or Not To Be? A Comparative Study on Intellectual Dialogue in Afsaneh of Nima and Buf-e-Kur of Hedayat
15:30 – 16:30
Session 3
In Chair: Professor Aleem Ashraf Khan, Dept of Persian, University of Delhi
Behnaz Alipour Kaskari
Payam-i-Noor University, Iran Cultural Intertextuality in The Blind Owl
Golam Moinuddin, Hyderabad Central University, India
Blind Owl in South Asia
Muzaffar Alam, English and Foreign Languages University, India
Reproduction of Buf-i-Kur in Arabic: A Critical Study
Arif Naushahi,
Gordon College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Ajmal Kamal a translator of Buf-i-Kur in Pakistan
16:30- Tea
20:00-21:30- Dinner at Annexe Lounge Terrace, IIC (Annexe)
Day 2 of 2
Thursday, 18 February 2016
India International Centre (Annexe), New Delhi
10:00 – 11:30
Session 4
Chair: Professor Houra Yavari, Encyclopaedia Iranica
Mandana Mangeli, Islamic Azad University, Iran
Violence in the Novel The Blind Owl
Md. Abul Kalam Sarkar, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Critical Evaluation of The Translation of The Blind Owl in Bangladesh
Nahid Tabatabai, Bokhara Journal, Iran
The Letters of Hedayat
Ali Dehbashi, Bokhara Journal, Iran
The Epistolary Genius of Hedayat
11:30-12:00 Tea
12:30 – 13:30
Session 5 (in Persian)
Chair: Mr. Ali Dehbashi, Editor, Bokhara, Iran
Faranak Jahangard
Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Iran India: A Lost Paradise of Hedayat in the Blind Owl
Asieah Zabinhia Emran
Payam-i-Noor University, Iran Prototypes in the Novella Blind Owl of Sadegh Hedayat
Mehrishah Hosseini, Iran
The Blind Owl and Owl in Western and Eastern Stories
Md Ataullah, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
A Critical Analysis of The Blind Owl of Sadeq Hedayat
13:30-14:30 Lunch
15:30 – 16:30
Novel: A Canvas with Hues of Our Lives
Speakers:
Houra Yavari, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Columbia University
Khatereh Sheibani, York University, Canada
Rakshanda Jalil, Writer, Critic and Literary Historian, New Delhi
G.J.V Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Syed Akhtar Husain (Moderator)
16:30-17:30- High Tea
19:00 – 20:00
Shab-i-Bokhara: A Tribute to Sadegh Hedayat
At Annexe Court, IIC (Annexe)
Speakers
Syed Akhtar Husain
Ali Dehbashi
Houra Yavari
Nahid Tabatabai
Nahid Morshedlou
Nadeem Akhtar
20:00-21:30- Dinner
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