Webinars from 20th to 31st January, 2021 via MS teams Platform at BNU, Udaipur (Rajasthan)
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Announcements For Upcoming Webinars from 20th to 31st January, 2021 via MS teams Platform at BNU, Udaipur (Rajasthan)
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https://teams.microsoft.com/join/64z29v3pm2wl-- MS teams invite link for webinars from 29th to 31st January, 2021. This has been already shared in the Webinars Group 1, 2, and 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPBA6O96rU8 English Webinar Day 4, 21st Jan.2021 BN University Udaipur
Now next sessions will start from 29th -31st January, do join in from the invitee link directly . Timings for the next opening of webinar series will be 10:30 am onwards. You will also be provided with YouTube link by 10:30 am the same day i.e. 29th January, that needs to forwarded to your known one.
Report on the Webinar Series from 20-31 Jan.2021 held by the Department of
English, BNPG Co. Ed. College, Bhupal Nobles’ University, Udaipur, Rajasthan,
India.
The Theme of the Webinar Series was – “English Communication, Creative Content and Learning Spaces”.
The Series of Webinar is online from January 20-31, 2021 for Early Career Scholars and students to participate to receive one-on-one coaching and mentorship.
There was also a request for a short abstract to be emailed to singh.67jayshree@gmail.com on any of the three books of creative writing mentioned in the brochure, their sessions fall on January 29-30, 2021. The abstracts could let participants be prepared to take part in books discussion/launch sessions.
Featured speakers in the Webinar Series are - Professor R.K.Dhawan, Prof Jaya Chakrovarty, Prof Vidushi Sharma, Associate Professor Saroj Bala, Associate Professor Rachna Yadav, Assistant Professor Dinesh Kumar, Assistant Professor Charles Joseph and Assistant Professor Shashibhushan Nayak, besides the creative writers - Roswitha Joshi and Richa Dhawan — see the attached flyer for more details.
The webinars have been designed as a unique opportunity to encourage and focus on language development for career prospects, self-proficiency, self-creativity and research analytical skills in academic English Language Skills.
Founder Patron is Shri Maharana Bhupal Singhji of Mewar State who endowed in the year 1920 around 102 Hectre square land for educational purpose in the modern city of Udaipur. The trust that was formed under the banner of Vidya Pracharini Sabha, Udaipur by the contemporary noblemen, now in continuation run by the Old Boys Association which includes women too now, the executives of Vidya Pracharini Sabha are elected after years to promote educational cause by way of different Degree, Professional Units of Bhupal Nobles’ Sansthan. Hence Bhupal Nobles’ University is the most recent unit established in 2015 under the provision of state legislative Act 2015 for private universities.
Two days and four sessions of the
selected key note speakers have taken place at virtual platforms of MS Teams
and Youtube Live Streaming and by way of YouTube Live chat on 20th and 21st
January, 2021. The Convener of the programme Dr. Jayshree Singh, Associate
Professor, Department of English, Bhupal Nobles’ University, Uaipur, Rajasthan
reported that Six hundred or more than have registered and more than 700 hundred
are in what’s app webinars’ three groups linked and they are constantly in
touch by way of sending them per day sessions’ MS Teams link and rest can
access webinar ongoing session via YouTube Live Streaming.
Day - 1
The first Day and the first Session inaugural Guest of Honour was Dr. Renu Rathore, the Dean Faculty of Science, Bhupal Nobles' University, Udaipur city and She is also the Principal of B. N. of. G. Co. Ed. College, BNU, Udaipur. She expressed heart felt gratitude to speakers for taking such initiative in education in her inaugural welcome address in the midst of after the first day session on 20th January, 2021.
The first Speaker of the first day session 20th Jan. Wednesday was Dr. Saroj Bala, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi and the second speaker of the first day session of the webinar series was Dr. Rachna Yadav, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities, Himalayan Gharwal University, Uttrakhand. The Session Convened by Dr. Jayshree Singh and moderated and coordinated by Ms. Samina Wagla, a Research Scholar of BNU, Udaipur.
The main points of yesterday’s session were:
Session – 1
The webinar topic of Dr Saroj Bala was Employability Skills
Participants were able to learn various communication processes
Various process and techniques of
phonetics were explained, including verbal pronunciations and practices of
various difficult English and French words, commonly used in a day-to-day
conversation.
Various points regarding
development of confidence for getting through the process of interview and not
having affected by stage fright were explained.
The session was overall
interactive and insightful as the participants - both on MS teams as well as
Youtube livestreaming were actively participating and engaging when Dr Saroj Bala
was asking for responses.
Dr Saroj Bala’s interactive techniques were moreover useful because of her enthusiastic explanation avoiding boredom among participants.
Session – 2
The Webinar topic of Dr Rachana Yadav was – Professional Development Skills.
Dr Rachna’s highly engaging session was conducted quite successfully as she helped the audience in one grip by making her speech interactive since the commencement of it.
b. Dr Rachna’s superfluous use of
both Hindi and English language made the session even more engaging and bright
as the perpetual monotony of English language usage in the speech was broken if
and when required.
Dr Rachna’s way of explanation
was found to be very effective among participants as she gave references of eminent
personalities for explaining various types of personalities which exist.
The manner in which Dr Rachna
explained the hand-shake activity by turning on the focus of audience towards
her palm and telling how the firmness of palm can be a sign of nervousness or
confidence was a completely new and innovative approach.
Dr Rachna was moreover very much
interactive while answering to the queries of the audience both on MS teams as
well as Youtube livestreaming.
In the first point, process and types
also you can add - like verbal, non-verbal, inter and intra personal. Formal
and informal etc.
Day -2
The Honorable Guest of today's session on 21st Jan. 2021 was Dr. Surendra Singh Dogra, the editor, writer, films and Documentary maker, journalist, educationist in media studies and talented instructor to spread the relevance of media and communications with creative and critical thinking aspect.
Dr. Vidushi Sharma’s Webinar topic was Communication Parameters and Skills for Professional Development
The speakers of this session were Dr Vidushi Sharma, Professor Department of Communications, Delhi Institute of Management, New Delhi and the Editor, Writer, Journalist and Short Documentary and Filmmaker Dr. Surendra Singh Dogra.
Various techniques of communication
were discussed. The interactive, insightful and illustrative with examples from
real life experiences were quoted by her. Her special focus on pictorial and
verbal illustrations to visualise and think upon the conceptual ideas and
theoretically effective and relatable instances were par excellence. Her
presentation on self-grooming and improving upon leadership qualities were
highly cognitive and cogitative in explanations keeping in view the times of
post-covid and covid and the emerging changes in the perspective of information
exchange and dissemination of knowledge for studying or for interaction. Her
illustrations on what to avoid while at workplace negotiations, inter-personal
skilled interaction for example like to handle office politics, negative
responses, criticism dealing etc. – all these notions she clarified in
simplistic and significant manner. Her elaborate explanation on various
creative aspects that fill the learning spaces or create further learning
spaces via problem solving, giving space to oneself through alternative
parameters like design of artistic sense, critical thinking etc. Her insights
on various professional aspects like friendliness, work-life balance,
time-management, taking criticism etc. Were of high merit to all the attendees
of the webinar. Her question-answer session was also very interactive and many
participants were engaged with her on teams as well as on YouTube.
Dr. Surendra Singh Dogra, the Bureau
Chief Editor of Kathmandu, Nepal Based Hindu Monthly Magazine 'Himalien"
and heading a Media Group as Managing Director and short film maker - got
awarded for his film "Uttarakhand Warriors" - a work on para-athletes
in the IV International Film Festival at Dehradun. He spoke that media is an
important part of life since after birth and even after death. Reading books is
a part of media. The life journey in itself is a part of media. Media is a part
of communication, a tool to say. In the era of internet, media has lot to
contribute - it has wings to further the creativity and communication process.
All gadgets and devices are related to extension of media to outreach to the
farthest and remote places in digital times of contemporary world. The culture
and destination can be reached to Google - a source of media. Media plays very
important role in students life. Media is an umbrella - it creates wonders -
lots of videos and audios can be prepared and be circulated across world. The
point is how to utilize all these sources of media through technology and
technical gadgets to cultivate interest in different fields, indeed language is
the tool majorly used in media to communicate.
The session was convened and deliberated with passion and prompts by Dr. Jayshree Singh and with finesse moderation is done by the coordinator Samina Wagla, a BNU scholar under Dr. Jayshree Singh.
Day - 3
The sessions were chaired by Dr. Shivani Vashisht, Professor and Head, Department at Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Faridabad. Two books - Portrayal of Women in Media and Literature (2013) and Globalization and Indian English Literature (2015) .
The session convened by Dr. Jayshree Singh. She set the tone of the session by putting forth the concerns with regard to creative content, poetic mind, poetic pleasure, understanding the role of literary criticism in analyses and development of creative content or imagination expressed in creative piece. She also alleged that literary theories are embedded in literary criticism framework so when John Milton's book Paradise Lost is read and interpreted then the Biblical, Hellenic and cultural allusions for modern times - all that he collaboratively uses makes the art of work canonical, or Gandhiji if writing the book "Hind Swaraj" - then he not only dealt the present times of the pre-independent history or cultural aspects, but he comparatively delineates the effects of present on the past history of inhabitants of India and their imbibing the pattern of modern civilization given to them imperialist gaze. Similarly if T.S.Eliot's essay "Tradition and Individual Talent' look into from the point of theoretically understanding principles of creativity in/and research, half the struggle to understand the notions of creative unity, living culture, and poetic pleasure will be understood to follow up creative process.
Prof. Jaya Chakrovarty, former Dean,
Faculty of Arts, University of Rajasthan, (Currently Guest Faculty in the
constituent colleges of the University of Rajasthan) was the keynote speaker of
the session. Her topic of deliverance was "Creativity in/and
Research". Her key words in the concept note were Creative madness,
Constructive criticism, Communicative competence, Creative Thinking and
Critical Thinking.
She related creativity to novel
quantum of ideas, imagination and research. Her address was very beneficial to
early career scholars and young faculty members. New dimension and perspective
she gave to the idea of creativity. She said the qualities of scholar are
persuasiveness, passionate, curious, exploratory, scientific temperament,
ability to add interpolations etc. She illustrated that all scientists,
discoverers, inventors, explorers, innovators, unleash their madness in
creativity and their ideas turn into constructive creativity. She gave many
anecdotes in context of such aptitude of scholars, writers, performers,
creators. At the same time she focused also on the qualities of the supervisors
who supervised scholars' researches or projects - that despite being
hard-pressed of their official stress, they must encourage students' curiosity,
should not snub their queries, should develop among scholars a habit to have
their project proposals discussed among their peers to identify weak areas in
order to improve it.
She also focused that while exploring
Review of Literature, the researcher should dwell into the mind of the author
and create his/her own interpretation as a critic.
Ms Lalita Sharma, the scholar of Jaya Chakravarty in presentation on the poem "My Last Duchess" spoke about the patterns of teaching poetry both online and offline to graduate students. To illustrate pedagogy, she illustrated the part of interpretation of a poem in context of the times of the poet Robert Browning, the 19th century Victorian poet of British History of English Literature. She foregrounded the art of prosody to critically appreciate the poem. Lastly, she discussed the poem from the gender lens point of view - both the duchess and the duke with regard to their notions of being-in-life either remain at par from each other or play with par to relish life at their own ways of means or mar their life that manifested their death either physically (in case of duke) or to eternity (in case of duchess).
The session was coordinated and technically monitored by Ms. Samina Wagla, the research scholar of Dr. Jayshree Singh, BNU Udaipur.
Day - 4
The session was chaired by Dr. Shruti Das, Associate Professor, Behrampur University, Odisha, the writer of nine books - has published eleven books (including two volumes of poetry): From Margin to the Centre- A Toni Morrison Reader (2009), Contemporary Communicative English (1st Edition 2010, 2ndEdition 2015), Language Learning Skills: Teacher’s Perception (2016), The Widening Gyre (OUP 2016), Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis (2017),Form and Finesse: Business Communication and Soft Skills (2017), A Daughter Speaks: a Collection of poems (2013) and Lidless Eyes (2015), Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature(2019), Earth Song(2020)and Environment and Culture in the Anthropocene(2020).
She said that both novels focus on unsung characters of Indian villages of pre-independent India. The novelists Raja Rao and R.K.Narayan both refelct upon society's caste-community conflicts, and how an individual reflection influence the surroundings and environment of family and nation.. The novelists tapped Gandhi's ideals to do away with the impact of secular culture and modern civilization of that the representation of Ruling Imperialism of Britain in the history of Modern India.
The first speaker was Dr. Dinesh Kumar, Dayal Singh College, Karnal, Kurukshetra University, Haryana. He spoke about the following points in his talk delivered on the topic - " Critical Analyses of the Novels - Kanthapura and Vendor of Sweets".
1. Raja Rao and R. K Narayan are
among the three greatest novelists in Indian writing in English forming trinity
with Mulk Raj Anand being the third one.
2. Both the novelists have mirrored a
faithful and an authentic reflection of Indian culture in their works by
reflecting Both of them reflect culture and ideology of the people of a region
related to their religious beliefs and rituals.
3. On the one hand, Raja Rao was
profoundly influenced by the traditional lore of India which abounds in
scriptures like Bhagavad Gita, Upnidshadas, Puranas and epics like Ramayana and
Mahabharata. He considers literature spiritual experience whose traditional and
mythical sensibility can be seen in almost all his works.
4. On the other hand, R.K. Narayan, a
major novelist and one of the most admired writers, has unobtrusively built up
an edifice of fiction which will endure the worst ravages of ephemeral trends
and flashy vogues in Literature. The myths, legends and folktales have been an
integral part of his novels.
5. If in Kanthapura, the protagonist
of the novel, Moorthy, represents the Gandhian sensibility by adhering to the ideals
if truth and non-violence, in The Vendor of Sweets, Jagan, the central figure
of the novel, is following Gandhi’s ideals whom we find sticking to
truthfulness in speech as far as he can, he prays to Gandhi’s spirit to forgive
the lie he was about to utter.
6. In this way Raja Rao’s Kanthapura,
and The Vendor of Sweets reflect the whole social and moral awakening of the thirties
brought about by Gandhi.
7. Both the novelists have also dealt with the post-colonialism in their works- an aspect where both share ground with each other. It is an established fact that without colonialism, there can be no postcolonialism. The Vendor of Sweets is concerned, one comes across the children’s action in removing MR. Noble, the district collector from the frame would seem to serve merely as an ironic device reflecting on the transience of power and the inevitable return of external Indian values which colonialism merely overlaid. In Kanthapura, Raja Rao’s depiction of Indianisation emphasis on the decolonization of English language which can be interpreted from the viewpoint of post-colonialism.
8. Both the novelists also share
ground as far as the theme of East-West encounter is concerned.
9. Indian myth is another point which
is the central concern of Raja Rao’s Kanthapura, and R.K. Narayan’s The Vendor
of Sweets.
10. The readers also find a powerful exploration of Indian folk-lore, the element which has been dealt by both the novelists in Kanthapura, and The Vendor of Sweets.
The second Speaker was Dr. Charles
Joseph, Assistant Professor, Teresian College, University of Mysore, Karnataka.
He delivered his lecture and oral presentation on the topic "Gender
Language and Gender Eye". The key points of his lecture were - Gender
studies state biological identities, Gender is a social construct, Gender leads
you into performance, Apart from masculinity and femininity there are other 72
types of gender-construction across the world-civilizations.
Dr. Shruti Das as the Keynote Speaker addressed upon the Reflection of whiteness playing in the dark in the American Culture and she deliberated upon the roots of Racism in the whites' literature that shoot from the advent of whites in American Continent, which further emerged as slavery trend due to the opening of Atlantic passage and deportation of outlaws or escape of vanguards or criminals from Europe or deportation of Africans to American-British/European colonies in America. She elaborated this historical background to enumerate upon her topic of the talk entitled " Toni Morrison's writings: A Refection upon Racism". Dr Shruti very relevantly related her talk with the concept of Webinar theme because any creative content when acknowledged world across, it creates waves of discoursal identity, reflection and community needs and ideologies. She brought to notice how Toni Morrison's novels brought to light the narrative imagination into relativity and realism, and last but the least self-awareness regarding African-American's double consciousness, negritude and pan-Africanism as of being into thinking themselves secondary in the world of racism.
The session was coordinated and
technically monitored by Ms. Samina Wagla, the research scholar of Dr. Jayshree
Singh, BNU Udaipur.
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