Conference “Between Language and Literature: Hindī in Classroom and Beyond” organized by Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in collaboration with Embassy of India and Indian Council for Cultural Relations in the context of International Hindī day on March 6 and 7, 2020.
Friday, March 6
Inaugural Session (9:00 am to 9:25 am)
Chair: Jyoti Sharma
H. E. Arindam Bagchi, Ambassador of India to Croatia
Prof. Vesna Vlahović-Štetić, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Assoc. Prof. Ivan Andrijanić, Head of the Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies
First Session (9:30 am to 11:00 pm): Hindī didactics
Chair: Milena Bratoeva
- Justyna Kurowska, Adam Mickiewicz Universiy, Poznań, Poland
Listening comprehension exercises in teaching Hindi
- Liliya Deneva, Indology Section, Classical East Dept. University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Urdu after Hindi – students’ and lecturer’s challenges
- Shiv Kumar Singh, Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisbon, Portugal
The (dis)help of translation in Hindi learning
Tea/Coffee Break (11:00 am to 11:15 am)
Second Session (11:15 am to 12:45 pm)
Chair: Krešimir Krnic
- Ivan Andrijanić, Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Hindī numerals in historical and comparative perspective II: the unpredictable ways of analogy
- Marijana Janjić, Independent researcher, Zagreb, Croatia
What’s in a translation? Translating Hindi literature for readers in Croatia
- Višnja Grabovac, Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Translating Hindī Words – Some Problems and possible Translation Strategies
Note: 20 min for presentation of each paper and 10 min for discussion
Lunch (12:45 pm to 1:45 pm)
Third Session (1:45 pm to 3:15 pm) Hindī didactics
Chair: Višnja Grabovac
- Anand Sharma, ICCR Chair, Indology Section, Classical East Dept. University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Experience of Hindi teaching: Problems and Solutions
- Piotr Borek, Department of Indology, Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
PBL method in introducing students to Hindi literary tradition
- Krešimir Krnic, Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Tea/Coffee Break (3:15 am to 4:00 am)
Fourth Session (4:00 pm to 6:00 pm) Literature
Chair: Ivan Andrijanić
- Monika Browarczyk, South Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Life Writings in a Hindi Classroom
- Milena Bratoeva, Indology Section, Classical East Dept. University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
“The Text within the Text”: Mapping the intertextuality in Kunwar Narain’s prose
Igor Grbić, Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
Overriding the world with the word: the case of the Bhāgavatapurāṇa
- Usha Sharma, Sant Hirdaram girls college Bairagarh, Bhopal, India
New trends in Hindi literature
7:00 Dinner for participants
Saturday, March 7
First Session (9:00 am to 10:30 pm): Language and linguistics
Chair: Monika Browarczyk
- Jacek Bąkowski, Department of Indology, Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Natural Languages Processing applied to Indian vernacular languages
- Jyoti Sharma, ICCR Chair, Department of Indology and Far Eastern Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Some Important Expressional dimensions of Hindi Language
Mandar Purandare, South Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz Universiy, Poznań, Poland
How much Sanskrit for a Hindi student?