Attended a National Seminar at MKBU

 Today on 5/3/2023 a national seminar was organised by English Department of MKBU. The seminar was on Research Prospect On English Studies. This seminar was organised by Alpa Ponda, Prakruti Ma'am and their team under guidance of Dr. Dilip Barad sir,the head of the English Department. 

First Dilip sir told a short story in hindi in context of first keynote speaker. He concluded that Robot (Chat GPT) has no power to feel or to memorize. It's human being who are able to memorize and then write any literature. 

     

  There were three keynote speakers of this seminar. First one was Dr. Avishek Parui from department of Humanities and Social sciences,Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

        He was joined virtually. He throw light upon memory. Talking about connecting dots for any research through memories. Whole process of memory is about remembering and forgetting. Whatever the last version of memory is in your mind and  it reflect as a memory and post cultural theory can put it there.  He also gave recommendations of 

- Joseph Leduox 

-David Laudge's book Consciousness in novel.

- Askard Kerl's article

- Julian Branes.

Second keynote speaker was Dr. Balaji Ranganathan.Hetalked about Chienise Literature and theory regarding to it.

Third keynote speaker was Dr. Atnu Bhattacharya

Professor/chairperson of Centre for English Studies,School of language, literature and culture studies,Central University of Gujarat.

He was talking about how technology shape literature. Also suggest software like Concoradasing , Olac etc.

He talked about term transstivite, the ability to drop certain objects.  Like, 

Active voice : Amit helped Shweta.

Passive voice : Shweta was helped. 

Here dropping of by Amit is like transstivite.

Then talking about Modality , something which doesn't say yes or no in simpler way multi-modal approach by use of technology. It was helpful for Research Scholars.  

He also talked about Digital humanities,with reference of 

1. Plestine 

2. Malis 

3. Perpepalis. 

Graphic narrative techniques for providing a new way for research. He also suggests some of the writer who followed this style.

     After the session we had our lunch session everything was very well organised by Department of English. 

       After lunch break there were perellal session of presentations. P. G. Students, Research scholar, Professor and Assistance Professor presented research papers. 

          

We had attended Vipul Sir's session. His topic of presentation was  Aravind Adiga's Last man in Tower: The locus of ambivalence in Modern India. In presentation we saw that how conflict of making flat is going on and how greed  lead us to our downfall. There were both side of character Dharmen Shah showing, at one time he arises as greedy man on the other hand he also shown as a victim of societal Inequality. At the conclusion by picture of bat, wordplay was very well used in it. There was also a stire by quote acdamia is dying. It was such a wonderful presentation by sir.

Our Ma'am also participated in poster making competition. Vaidehi ma'am very well designed this poster which was related to her research studies.

After that we had attended another session where so many research areas discussed including Feminism, Casteism, Film studies, Analysis of Hindu Muslim love marriage, eligibility que etc. Then heated debate also happened among the presenters and audience.

At 4:30 there was validactory ceremony, certificates were given to all presenters and attenders . It was such a fruitful session for us. We learnt so many ideas about research. 

It's privilege to attend such a session. Thankful to Vaidehi Mam and Vipul sir for taking us at the seminar. Also thankful to Department of English and their team to arranged such a seminar for students and research scholar. 

We had great experience of learning.