Academic Report 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies,...

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国際ベンガル学会第 4 回大会, 2015

東京外国語大学

東京都日本

Academic Report

4th International Congress of Bengal Studies, 2015

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Tokyo, Japan

Academic Report: 4th International Congress of Bengal Studies, 2015

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan

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Special Speeches

Presidential Speech: বচবি িঙ্গবিদ্যার 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



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Panels

Panel

No.

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 জীিন ও ধর্য (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.

শ্রীচচতদনের উবিষ্োয় গ ৌিীয় বিষ্ণিধর্য প্রচাদরর পবরদপ্রবিদত পঞ্চসখা ও পঞ্চসখাধর্য (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



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



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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



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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.

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.

িাাংলাবিভা ' ৪৭: ‘সৃ্মবত কথা'য় িহুস্বর (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



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Khatun, Afroja

Associate Professor, Surendranath College for Women,

Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

িাাংলার রু্সবলর্ নারী আদদালদনর ধারা ও পবির্িদের রু্সবলর্ নারী আদদালদনর সাম্প্রবতক 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 Reconsidering Politics: the Case of the Tablighi



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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and

Sociology, North South University Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Jamaat in Bangladesh

Kabir, Humayun


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



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



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Minamide, Kazuyo



Disparity of Education between Rural and

Urban in Bangladesh: From the Perspective of

Students' Life

Kabir, Humayun


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



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


The Political and the Intimate: On

Contemporary Bengali Cinema

Chowdhury, Manosh



Hardly Negotiated in 'Society' : The Portrayal

of the 'Upper'-Class People in the Bangladeshi

'Mainstream' Cinema and the Anticipated

Confrontation

Minamide, Kazuyo



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


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.

সুদরিদনর আবেিাসী সাংসৃ্কবত ও সাংগ্রার্ঃ গসকাল-একাল (The Culture and Struggle of the Tribals of

Sundarban: Then and Now)

Basuri, Usha

Assistant Professor, Rama Devi Bajla Mahila College,

িাাংলা সাবিদতে আবেিাসী জীিন ও সর্াজ (Glimpses of life and Society of Aborigines in Bengali



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Deoghar, Jharkhand, India Literature)

Pal, Gopal

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Deoghar

College, Deoghar, Jharkhand, India.

সিযভারতীয় গপ্রবিদত নারায়ণ দোপাধোদয়র দে েবলত সম্প্রোয় (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.

গরবিও জাপান িাাংলার এতবেনকার ভূবর্কা ও ভবিষ্েৎ (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

Chairperson



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Calcutta, Kolkata, India

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



Changing Face of Calcutta: From Pre to Post

Colonial Period



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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.

সাদনা বজদনাসুদক সম্বদে (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.

িটতলার প্রিসন ও প্রাবিক-নারী চবরত্র (Marginalised Women and Farce of "Bot-tola")

Choudhury, Rituparna

Research Scholar, Kolkata, India

নারীিােী বনবতকতা ও ধ্রুপেী বনবতকতার আবেদক গপ্রবিত বনরদপিতা (Impartiality in the Perspective of Feminist and Mainstream

Ethics)

Chottopadhyay, Snigdha

Assistant Professor, Asannagar MMt College, Nadia,

West Bengal, India.

তৃতীয় সত্তার সাংকটঃ সর্াদজ ও সাবিদতে (Crisis of Third Gender: Social and Literary Context)

Babul, Muhammed Rezaul Alam

Bangla Department, Assam University, Silchar, Assam,

India

স্বাধীনতা পরিতযী িাাংলাদেদের নাটদক সর্াজ 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



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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.

িেীয় নারী বেিা পবরষ্েঃ একবট েীপবেখা (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.

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



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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 A Middle Class Construction of



13

Assistant Professor, Department of Indological Studies,

The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto

University, Kyoto, Japan

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


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


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.

িাউল াদন অসাম্প্রোবয়ক গচতনা ও িাঙাবল জাতীয়তািাে (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 Discussant



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Professor, Department of Folklore, University of

Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Zakaria, Saymon

Assistant Director, Folklore Department, Bangla

Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Panel

No.

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.

িেরের্দঞ্চ তৃবি বর্ত্রঃ অবভনয় বেদের অেদন (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.

চলবিদত্র গিতাদরর অনুষ্ে (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



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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 িাস্তিতার গেৌদি এব দয় িাাংলা বেশুসাবিতে (Imagination and Reality of Our Child

Literature)

Basu Roy Choudhury, Baishali

Associate Professor, Government College of Education,

Burdwan, West Bengal, India.

বিজ্ঞাপদনর ভাষ্া ও সাবিতে (The Language of Advertisement and Literature)

Rahman, Khalilur

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

Bangladesh.

িাাংলাদেদে কবর্ক বেদের 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.

েোর্াচরণ সরকারঃ এক অনুপর্ জ্ঞানতাপস (Shyamacharan Sarkar: The Scholar)

Bhattacharya, Sampa উবনে েতদকর োম্পতেভািনাঃ িাঙালীর জীিন ও



16

Associate Professor, BKC College, Kolkata, India. সাবিদতে (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


Assam, India

Keynote Speaker

Begum, Mumtaz

Treasurer, Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

জীিনানদ োদের কবিতায় পাবখরা (Semiotics of the Representation of Birds in Jibanananda Das'

Poetry)

Lekha, Eaysmin Ara

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

Bangladesh.

গি র্ সুবিয়া কার্াদলর কবিতা (The Poetical Journey of Begam Shufiya Kamal)

Aldin, Masud Shams

Lecturer, Uttara University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

রু্নীর গচৌধুরীরর নাটক ‘বচবি’ (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


Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Panelists

Das, Bela


Silchar, India

Ahmed, Soaib

Professor, School of Education, Bangladesh Open

University, Bangladesh,



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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,


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


Chairperson

Manna, Anirban

Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali Language and

literature, Saltora Netaji Centenary College, Bankura,

West-Bengal, India.

স্লোাং নবু্বইদয়র েেক ও পরিতযী িাাংলা কবিতায় (Use of Slang in Bengali Poetry since the Nineties)

Sajjadi, Hasnain

President, Movement of science poetry, Dhaka,

Bangladesh.

বিজ্ঞান রু্দ বিজ্ঞান কবিতা (Science Poetry in Science Age)

Uddin, Md. Zafir

Assistant Professor, Shahjalal University of Science and

Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

িাাংলা িাইকুঃ প্রকরণ ও প্রিণতা (Bangla Haiku: Form, Technique and Trend)

Aktar, Nilufa িাাংলাদেদের পাাঁচ জন পুরুষ্ কবির কবিতায় নারীদচতনার



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Assistant Professor, Shahjalal University of Science and

Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh.

বিিতযন (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.

র্ানিতার প্রবতঃ গর্াবিত চদটাপাধোদয়র 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 িাাংলা নাটদক র্িাভারদতর কাবিবনর পুনবনযর্যাণ (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.

িাস্তিতা ও িেবিসত্তার বনর্যাণঃ িে নাটেধারার আধুবনক পদিয গর্াবিত চদটাপাধোদয়র 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.

েোর্ল দোপাধোদয়র “োিজাো োরাশুদকা” রু্ঘল ইবতিাদসর অিদিবলত সিযধর্য সর্ন্বয়ী প্রাণপুরুষ্ (Shyamal Gangopadhyay's Sahjada Darasuko)

Ghoshal, Chhanda

Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, Vidyasagar

University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

সারু্বিক গজদল জীিদনর িৃত্তািঃ েুই িাাংলার েুই উপনোদস (Tales of Fishermen's Life at sea coast in Two

Novels of Two 'Bango')

Siddika, Ayesha

Lecturer, Willes Little Flower School & College, Dhaka,

Bangladesh.

িরি লা নেী : জবির রায়িাদনর সার্বগ্রক র্তােযদের েপযণ (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 রিীন্দ্রনাদথর ছিা – গলখার সর্য় ও গর্ৌবিকতা বনদয় এক



19

Independent Researcher, Kolkata, India. পর্যাদলাচনা (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.

পািেপুস্তক রচবয়তা রিীন্দ্রনাথ (Rabindranath Tagore as Text Book Writer)

Ray, Sekhar

Assistant Professor, Sundarban Anilkrishna

Mahavidyalaya, North 24 pgs., West Bengal, India

বশক্ষাতবে রিীন্দ্রিার্ (Rabindranath’s Theory of Education)

39 Tagore-II



India.

Chairperson

Dey, Rajat Kishore

Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, University

of Gour Banga, Malda, India

রিীন্দ্রনাদথর গছাদটা েঃ বিিাি ভািনার গপ্রবিদত (Theme of Marriage in the Short Stories of

Rabindranath Tagore)

Adhya, Chandan

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

রিীন্দ্রনাদথর জীিনদেিতাদচতনা : সূদত্র ও কািেভাদষ্ে (Rabindranath Tagore’s Concept of Daemon: in

Theory and Poems)

Purkayastha, Sumana

Associate Professor, Department of Bengali, Karimganj

College, Karimganj, Assam, India.

রিীন্দ্রনাদথর পবরদিে গচতনার স্বরূপ সোনঃ উবনে েতদকর গেষ্ েেদকর গছাদটা দের পুনপযাি (The Search for Rabindranath Tagore’s Consciousness over

Environment: Re-reading of the Short Stories

of last Decade of 19th century)

Khan, Shamsuzzaman


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



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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.

স্বার্ী বিদিকানদদর সাবিতোেেয ও বেেবচিা (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.

প্রবতদিেী সাবিদতে বিদজন্দ্রলাল রায় (Dwijendralal Ray in Neighbouring Literature)

Panel

No.

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.

িাাংলা ভাষ্ায় িুবল সরণঃ সর্াজ ভাষ্াতাবিক পর্যাদলাচনা (Code Shifting in Bengali Language:

Socio-linguistic Observation)

Ahmed, Soaib

Professor, School of Education, Bangladesh Open

Englishization and the Crisis in Bangla as a

Medium of Instruction: Bangalee's Urge and



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University, Bangladesh, 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.

বিতীয় বিশ্বরু্দের সর্য় জাপানী বসনে কতৃযক পূিয ভারতিদষ্য বনবিি প্রচারপদত্র িেিহৃত িাাংলা ভাষ্ার বিবেষ্ট্ে (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



Anisuzzaman


Panelists



India.

Khan, Shamsuzzaman


Bhttacharjee, Tapodhir


Assam, India



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University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Panel

No.

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,


University, Japan

DasGupta , Rajarshi

PhD Candidate, Environmental Education Laboratory,




23

University, Japan

Fujita , Kumiko



University, Japan

Fujita, Kumiko



University, Japan

Information System for Flood Risk Reduction

in a River Flood Area, Bangladesh

Shaw, Rajib

Professor, Environmental Education Laboratory,


University, Japan

Parvin, Gulshan Ara



University, Japan

DasGupta , Rajarshi

PhD Candidate, Environmental Education Laboratory,


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),


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



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Shaw, Rajib

Professor, Environmental Education Laboratory (EEL),


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.



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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


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



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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


Bangladesh-2: Islam in Public Sphere

FINDAS, NIHU Program Contemporary

India Area Studies & NIHU Research

Program of South Asia and Islam


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.



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23 Tomizawa, Kana

The Dynamics of Religion in Modern

Bengal-II




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


(C), No. 15K02055:The Development of


and its Significance

25 Tomizawa, Kana The Dynamics of Religion in Modern

Bengal-IV




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



Language and Literature in Modern Bengal

44 Chakraborty,

Amitava

Bengali Style Manual



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, Bangladesh, Dhaka

50 Miyake Hiroyuki Development Studies-6: Waste

Management and Weaker Sections


(C), No. 15K00660: System Building of

Mutual Relationship among the Aspects of

Social Consideration, Waste Management

in the Developing Countries



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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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Tables

A= Japanese

B= Non-Bengali, Non-Japanese Foreigners

C= Bengali Scholars from Japan

D= Bengali Scholars from Institutions outside Japan, Bangladesh and India

E= Non-Bengali Scholars from India

F= Bengali Participants from Bangladesh

G= Bengali Participants from India



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