The first public lecture in Edinburgh by the new chair Prof Indra Nath Choudhuri was “Tagore and Gandhi: Their intellectual conflicts and Companionship”. It was chaired by the Principal of the University and took place at Edinburgh Napier University on 18th October 2013. Public lecture at Edinburgh Napier University
Public lecture on ‘Tagore Studies in Scotland and Europe’ Prof Bashabi Fraser at Visva-Bharati University, India. Read more
Prof. Fraser gave a keynote address at the Dartington Tagore Festival in Totnes, Devonshire, entitled “Tagore: the Renaissance Man”. Keynote address at Dartington Tagore Festival Read more
Prof Fraser was the plenary speaker at an international workshop on Tagore at Goettingen University in March 2013. She presented a paper on “Tagore and Dualism.” at Goettingen University Read more
A Trans-Atlantic Poetry Evening in a meeting of West and East, with the American poet John Menaghan celebrating the centenary of Tagore’s Gitanjali and readings by Scottish Poets Alan Riach and Ian Brown, chaired and organised by Prof Fraser with Wordpower Books in Edinburgh. Read more