Shiv Nadar University presents 'That which we call a rose or Shakespeare’s Rhetoric of Flowers' a talk by Ananya Dasgupta at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15 pm on 14th March 2014
Time : 6:15 pm 
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description :The Lecture “That which we call a rose or Shakespeare’s Rhetoric of Flowers” by Anannya Dasgupta is part of the SHSS Inaugural Lecture Series organized by The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Shiv Nadar University. These are weekly public lectures delivered by the faculty members of SHSS covering their current work and research. When Juliet hopes to bypass a family feud by a simple disavowal of Romeo’s name, she calls on an analogy of flowers – if a rose by any other name smells just as sweet so could Romeo’s love. Romeo and Juliet is not the only play where Shakespeare puts flowers to work. Ophelia lets flowers speak her dying desperation in Hamlet; Perdita makes elaborate show of not choosing flowers that are called “nature’s bastards” in the Winter’s Tale; and in Sonnet 99 flowers carry the burden of being malicious malcontents in an unrequited lover’s pleading with the beloved. In these instances, and others, Shakespeare relies on the Renaissance convention of using the language of flowers where virtues of flowers abstracted for their quality became commonly understood symbolic points of reference in conversations that could be about love, despair, social status, war or just about anything. But flowers weren’t just symbolic abstraction in Renaissance language, flowers in particular and gardens in general, influenced the blossoming of rhetoric or the eloquent use of language and its formal ornamentation.
This Talk will argue for and illustrate a particularly Shakespearean move where symbolic abstraction calls attention to rhetorical ornament, as if to be a bouquet of flowers.
About the Speaker : Anannya Dasgupta earned her doctorate in Renaissance Literature at the Department of English, Rutgers University in the United States. Prior to SNU she taught at Rutgers University, The College of New Jersey and St. Stephens College, Delhi. Her areas of research interest are literary forms and creative reformulationof writing pedagogy. She often combines the two. Her essay. “Teaching the ghazal in an American Classroom” is forthcoming in an edited anthology in 2014.
Organization : Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description :The Lecture “That which we call a rose or Shakespeare’s Rhetoric of Flowers” by Anannya Dasgupta is part of the SHSS Inaugural Lecture Series organized by The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Shiv Nadar University. These are weekly public lectures delivered by the faculty members of SHSS covering their current work and research. When Juliet hopes to bypass a family feud by a simple disavowal of Romeo’s name, she calls on an analogy of flowers – if a rose by any other name smells just as sweet so could Romeo’s love. Romeo and Juliet is not the only play where Shakespeare puts flowers to work. Ophelia lets flowers speak her dying desperation in Hamlet; Perdita makes elaborate show of not choosing flowers that are called “nature’s bastards” in the Winter’s Tale; and in Sonnet 99 flowers carry the burden of being malicious malcontents in an unrequited lover’s pleading with the beloved. In these instances, and others, Shakespeare relies on the Renaissance convention of using the language of flowers where virtues of flowers abstracted for their quality became commonly understood symbolic points of reference in conversations that could be about love, despair, social status, war or just about anything. But flowers weren’t just symbolic abstraction in Renaissance language, flowers in particular and gardens in general, influenced the blossoming of rhetoric or the eloquent use of language and its formal ornamentation.
This Talk will argue for and illustrate a particularly Shakespearean move where symbolic abstraction calls attention to rhetorical ornament, as if to be a bouquet of flowers.
About the Speaker : Anannya Dasgupta earned her doctorate in Renaissance Literature at the Department of English, Rutgers University in the United States. Prior to SNU she taught at Rutgers University, The College of New Jersey and St. Stephens College, Delhi. Her areas of research interest are literary forms and creative reformulationof writing pedagogy. She often combines the two. Her essay. “Teaching the ghazal in an American Classroom” is forthcoming in an edited anthology in 2014.
Organization : Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh.
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Shiv Nadar University presents 'That which we call a rose or Shakespeare’s Rhetoric of Flowers' a talk by Ananya Dasgupta at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15 pm on 14th March 2014
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