The Department of English of The Bhawanipur Education Society College organized a thought-provoking fifth installment of the UG Students’ Seminar on the 4th of May, 2024. The event was coordinated by Prof Neetisha Jha and Prof Chitrangada Deb. A CFP (Call for Papers) was circulated back on the 28th of March, encouraging students from UG Sem IV and VI to submit research oriented abstracts on “Memoirs and Autobiographies”, and its subsequent sub-themes. An Orientation Lecture on the same topic was delivered by Dr. Gargi Talapatra of the Department of English, on 6th April, 2024. Consequently, the selected participants were encouraged to conduct research and submit their papers to the coordinators.
The Students’ Seminar on “Memoirs and Autobiographies” was organized on the fourth of May, 2024, in the Concept Hall from 10 am to 5 pm. The poster for the programme was designed by Prof Soumyajit Chandra. The event was initiated by an introductory speech delivered by Ms. Chitrangada Deb, following which the panel of judges- Dr Gargi Talapatra, Prof Sonal Kapur and Dr Jashomati Ghose were felicitated. Dr. Gargi Talapatra delivered the welcome note. The Seminar was divided into 4 Sessions, with 29 participants. The papers presented ranged on a variety of topics, from analyses of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar or Helen Keller’s autobiography, all the way to the representation of poverty through the eyes of Charlie Chaplin, or the “Hiatus” of the ex-boy band, One Direction. The participants were asked questions after each session concluded, and the winners of both the semesters were announced separately:
Tessa Baksi (1st); Anushree Chakraborty, Ashmita Das and Mitaadru Dutta (2nd); along with Rajshree Pathak and Shrijan Dasgupta (3rd) from Sem IV; and
Adiptya Mukherjee, Geeti Maity and Swagata Mukherjee (1st); Sk. Md. Zaheeruddin (2nd); along with Rishav Nayak and Ujjwal Karamchandani (3rd) from Sem VI.
The Seminar concluded after the Prize Distribution Ceremony, followed by the Vote of Thanks delivered by Prof Neetisha Jha.
The Department of History of The Bhawanipur Education Society organized a lecture on November 26, 2022, entitled ‘The Sleuth and the City: Historicizing the Fictional Detective and Urban Modernity.’ Mr. Arup Ratan Samajdar, CWTT, Department of Film Studies, BESC, was the session’s speaker. The lecture began at 2:30 pm in Room No. 547 with a …
The Bhawanipur Education Society College organized a “Ethnic Day with Sunglasses” on the 19th of October, 2023 to bring out the diversity in ethnicity of one’s own culture. The theme of the event was “ethnic wear with sunglasses “, to bring out the desi version of you but in style. The event took place on …
The Bhawanipur Education Society College played host to a literary event that left attendees enraptured. The event featured a conversation with Mrs. Alka Saravagi, an acclaimed Indian novelist and short story writer in the Hindi language. Ms.Saravagi is the proud recipient of the prestigious 2001 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi for her novel, Kalikatha: Via …
The term Induction literally refers to the action or process of inducting someone to a post or an organisation. Viewed from this level, the process of Induction – and the elaborate rituals that accompany it – is just a ceremony where “freshers”, new students are formally embraced into the fraternity of the Bhawanipur Education Society …
UG students Seminar on Memoirs and Autobiographies
The Department of English of The Bhawanipur Education Society College organized a thought-provoking fifth installment of the UG Students’ Seminar on the 4th of May, 2024. The event was coordinated by Prof Neetisha Jha and Prof Chitrangada Deb. A CFP (Call for Papers) was circulated back on the 28th of March, encouraging students from UG Sem IV and VI to submit research oriented abstracts on “Memoirs and Autobiographies”, and its subsequent sub-themes. An Orientation Lecture on the same topic was delivered by Dr. Gargi Talapatra of the Department of English, on 6th April, 2024. Consequently, the selected participants were encouraged to conduct research and submit their papers to the coordinators.
The Students’ Seminar on “Memoirs and Autobiographies” was organized on the fourth of May, 2024, in the Concept Hall from 10 am to 5 pm. The poster for the programme was designed by Prof Soumyajit Chandra. The event was initiated by an introductory speech delivered by Ms. Chitrangada Deb, following which the panel of judges- Dr Gargi Talapatra, Prof Sonal Kapur and Dr Jashomati Ghose were felicitated. Dr. Gargi Talapatra delivered the welcome note. The Seminar was divided into 4 Sessions, with 29 participants. The papers presented ranged on a variety of topics, from analyses of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar or Helen Keller’s autobiography, all the way to the representation of poverty through the eyes of Charlie Chaplin, or the “Hiatus” of the ex-boy band, One Direction. The participants were asked questions after each session concluded, and the winners of both the semesters were announced separately:
The Seminar concluded after the Prize Distribution Ceremony, followed by the Vote of Thanks delivered by Prof Neetisha Jha.
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