Rabindranath Tagore across Disciplines
Texts, Performances, Experiments and Receptions
An interdisciplinary gathering exploring the many lives of Tagore’s ideas across literature, music, theatre, the visual arts, education, philosophy, science and global cultural exchange.
Abstract deadline: 25 November 2026 · Maximum 300 words with 5–6 keywords
One creative life. Many disciplines. A continuing conversation.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) occupied a distinctive place in global intellectual, literary and cultural history. Poet, novelist, playwright, composer, painter, educationist, philosopher, social reformer and public intellectual, he moved across conventional disciplinary boundaries, experimenting with form, language and ideas.
This seminar explores the connections between Tagore’s literary texts, performance practices, artistic experiments and their reception, adaptation, contestation and re-imagination across historical periods and cultural contexts.
His work engages with selfhood, freedom, love, nature, spirituality, nationalism, cosmopolitanism and humanism. His educational vision at Santiniketan and Sriniketan linked art, nature and learning, while the international reception of his work reveals complex histories of translation, canonisation, misreading, appropriation and revival.
