Welcome to NBUSEMINAR: a portal for teachers and researchers of the humanities, arts and social sciences, working in colleges/universities in India. This site is one of the multimedia projects from the Department of English, University B.T. & Evening College, North Bengal University. It was born out of a sincere effort to digitally support and enhance college and university-level teaching and research in North Bengal.

This site was designed for local scholars in January 2010, but for some time has been getting an average of a thousand hits every day from all over the world. In 2012, people from 95 countries visited this site. Nbuseminar has grown over time and has facilitated the convergence of the national academic community, while keeping firm foot in North Bengal. My sincerest thanks to visitors who have been following this site and helping with bits of information.

Anindya Bhattacharya

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This page shares information on seminars/workshops/book projects in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences only. Click on the Call for Papers (CFP) tab in the menu bar. Please note that the NEWS tab is meant for other announcements concerning seminars and new publications. This site works in two ways:

If you have registered for email alerts (click the SIGN ME UP! button at the bottom of this page) the site automatically sends you emails when a new Call for Papers update is posted.
If there’s a book project/journal/ a conference in your college please be a good Samaritan and choose from these four options:

email the details to anindya_north@yahoo.co.uk. A pdf copy of the brochure would be excellent!
paste them on the “Leave a Reply” space below
paste on the wall of the Facebook avatar of NBUSEMINAR.
if you are technologically challenged please mail the brochure to The Department of English, University BT & Evening College, Keshab Road, Gunjabari, Cooch Behar 736101 (West Bengal).

Displayed on this forum, your project can have significant inputs.

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This site also works as an Academic Website Indexer. You’ll find some useful resources links here (Click Website Index below the site header). Feel free to suggest links. Interesting sites with rich multimedia/animation/videos are preferred. Nevertheless, you can always suggest resource-heavy and helpful conventional pages.

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The Nbu Tube page is a zone for sharing academic YouTube links. The NbuTube platform is dedicated to the cause of open access digital education. For now we are redirecting scholars to Yale University Open Courses. Click on the animated NbuTube banner to watch their theory classes.

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Open Access eJournals

The DOAJ Project (Directory of Open Access Journals) has been linked to this page. You can search in these journals using the JURN search bar linked here. Some Indian eJournals are also linked here.

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Book Review

A window to the world of scholarship, from North Bengal and beyond.

Authors/editors wishing to showcase their books on this page and get it reviewed by our community members please send two copies of the book to the department address. For any information feel free to write to anindya_north@yahoo.co.uk.

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This page links to websites of ALL academic staff colleges of India that conduct Orientation and Refresher courses regularly, and thus is a great time-saver for college teachers who find it difficult to locate institutions running such courses at a particular time. Below the list I’ll also post whatever ASC news I get from friends.

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Email, file sharing and Chat are not outdated, but they have been brought under one umbrella in Facebook. Click on the Community tab to see how this connection can benefit you. ”Like” this Facebook page to post a Call for Papers for a conference / journal / book project and to know about such projects in India

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With Professor Soumyajit Samanta (Head, Dept. of English, North Bengal University) at the helm, we expect to begin some more good projects in the future. It is his inspiration and constant prodding that keep the projects (and us) running.

Please bookmark this site and help to improve it with valuable comments.

Media Ethics in the Information Age | UGC Sponsored National Level Seminar at Mathabhanga College | 3-4 September, 2013

Posted on May 6, 2013 by nbuseminar

Media Ethics in the Information Age UGC-Sponsored National Seminar Jointly Organized by Department of Philosophy, Mathabhanga College, Mathabhanga, Cooch Behar, West Bengal (E-mail: mathabhangacollege@gmail.com | Website: www.mtbcollege.ac.in | 09434404843, (03583)256099, 09434228651, (03583)255282) Department of Philosophy, North Bengal University Perspective of the seminar ‘Journalism’ the concrete form of the freedom … Continue reading →

UGC Sponsored National Seminar at TIHU COLLEGE, Assam | FEMINISM AND WOMEN’S TEXTS IN NORTH EAST INDIA

Posted on May 6, 2013 by nbuseminar

Click to Download Flyer Seminar- TIHU COLLEGE, Assam

Seminar Outline

Feminism has generated interest and debates amongst people all over the world, and India is no exception to this critical experience. In Indian literature, feminism has been used as a modest attempt to evaluate women’s position under prevailing socio-cultural conditions. However, for analysing the social condition of women in India, it is by far fallacious to think in terms of Western concepts, because the experiences of Western women do not neatly fit into the Indian socio-cultural context. Hence, there is an urgent need for the formation of an indigenous feminist ideology embedded in our own culture and traditions in India. But, the task of exploring the territories of Indian feminism is not an easy one, since the concept of Indian womanhood does not present a clear, distinctive or homogeneous form. Analogically, in the diversity of the country itself, Indian women are deeply linked to their distinctive social, cultural, religious and regional features, and their identity is multi-layered and shifting.

Mapping the status of Indian women would become fragmentary without knowing the conditions of the women in Northeast India. Northeast India is the habitat of different ethnic groups, both tribal and non tribal and where both patriarchal and matriarchal control co-exists, the status of women for various reasons does not differ from that of the mainstream India. Women, here too, are oppressed, marginalized; and the overall condition of the womenfolk of the region is quite disillusioning. Moreover, this region has now turned into a conflict zone under insurgency or militancy, again devastating the lives of the women both physically and mentally.

Almost every language of the Northeast region has thrown up some remarkable women writers, sensitive, outspoken and critical of the state of affairs in the region. They have responded to gender issues in the regional and national context questioning the complicity of power structures with patriarchy. Women writers like Indira Goswami, Nirupama Borgohain, Temsula Ao, Mamang Dai, Arupa Patangia Kalita, Easterine Iralu, and many others have poignantly captured many unforgettable stories of women registering their protest against patriarchal hegemony. So, the Seminar would attempt to find out a distinctively female literary tradition in Northeast India, and will try to hear the authentic female voice or share women’s real experiences, which are transparently available in women’s texts. The seminar will also try to form a substantial platform to open women’s texts in regional languages to various radical readings and even relate texts to their global counterparts. Finally, the seminar seeks to bring out the women’s writings of Northeast India where the feminist upsurge is recognizably strong but awaiting a wider critical attention.

SUB-THEMES:

1. Feminism in India-Theoretical Formation.
2. Representations of Caste, Class and Gender.
3. Images of Indian Women: Tradition vs Modernity.
4. Marriage, Motherhood and the Family.
5. Body, Desire and Sexuality.

6. Women and the Subaltern.

7. Any other theme related to the main theme.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Papers are invited from scholars, teachers, research scholars and the students of colleges and universities within the stipulated time. Interested participants are requested to follow the following instructions before submission.

The abstract should not exceed 300 words.
The full length paper must not exceed 3000 words.
Both the abstract and the full length paper should be typed in A4 size paper and in Times New Roman font (size-12) with double-space in MS Word.
The authors are requested to use end notes instead of foot notes as per the latest MLA style.
Soft copy (in CD) of the full length paper has to be submitted on the day of the commencement of the Seminar.
All papers will be screened by the competent authorities of the SOC.
Abstracts and full length papers can also be sent through email to : jeutitalukdar_tihu@rediffmail.com

seminar.englishtc@gmail.com

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