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2. A Two-day UGC sponsored National Seminar on ‗Teaching Social Sciences: Challenges
and Opportunities in the new millennium‘ in collaboration as part of all the Humanities
Departments of SJC was conducted in November 2012.
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3. A Seminar to commemorate the 50 anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s ―I have a
Dream‖ Speech and March on Washington was held in the American Corner in August 2013.
4. Thursday Causerie – A series of regular discussions for staff and students is conducted by
the Dept. of English. The following people have been speakers at the Thursday Causerie in
2015, 2015 and 2016
1. Arvind Narrain on Memory, Forgetfulness and the Indian state.
2. Nisha Susan on Writing about Bollywood
3. C.K Meena on Covering Theatre in Bangalore
4. Dr. Nitya Vasudevan, Prof. Kannaki Deka and Zenisha Gonsalves in a panel on
Women and Health
5. Prof. Arun Thampan on MOOCS
6. Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas on his book ‗Barracuda‘.
7. British Writer Adam Foulds on his book ‗Quickening Maze‘.
8. Mridula Koshy on her works.
9. Prof. Srikanth Mallavarapu, Roanaoke College, USA, on Science Fiction
10. Prof. Darryl Jones, University of Dublin, Ireland, on Horror Fiction
11. Prof. Nagesh Rao on Student Activism
12. Mizo writer Malsawmi Jacob on her book Zorami.
13. Prof. Lakshmi Srinivas on Cinema and the City.
14. Prof. Vinay Kambipura on D.R. Nagaraj‘s works.
15. Writer C.K Meena on Living/Writing
5. A number of Lecture-demonstrations were conducted by the Dept of English as part of
our literary festival META in the years 2013/2014/2015/2016.
Lec-Dems are in depth exploratory sessions in particular aspects of literature, or in new
ways of bringing text and technology together. Dev Sukumar, Namita Aavriti, Nicolas
Grandi, Priya Sen, Monica James, Srinath Perur, Lawrence Liang, Ayisha Abraham,
Prem Panicker, Ajay Cadambi, Prof. Manu Chakravarthy, Mallika Prasad, Arvind
Narrain, Joshua Muyiwa, Tejaswini Niranjana, Preeti Prakash, Deepika Sarma, Arjun
Swaminathan, C.K Meena, Padmini Ray and Bijoy Venugopal were a few invited
speakers for the Lec-dems.
6. The Dept also organized a series of Roundtables and panel discussions as part of Meta.
These panel discussions were on various themes and spanned across the four editions of
Meta. Roundtables on Madness as Metaphor (Women and Mental illness), Food writing,
Long form Journalism, Writing about Bangalore, Writing for the stage, Re-reading
Ambedkar, Revisiting Children‘s Literature, R.K Laxman‘s work, Discovering Bangalore
on foot, Remembering U.R Ananthmurthy were a few, Exclusion and Inclusion – After
Rohith Vemula were some of the panels.
7. The Dept also organised performances from national and international artists for Meta. In
collaboration with the Airplane Poetry Movement, a poetry slam workshop was held as
part of Meta 2015.
8. Another feature at Meta is the Young Writer Interaction where writers talk about the craft
of writing and also read from their work. Amandeep Sandhu, Sneha Rajaram, Nisha
Susan, Abhishek Majumdar, Joshua Muyiwa, Kurke Prashanth, Mounish Badiger, Gaurav
Jain, Rohini Mohan, Srinath Perur were some of the invited writers.

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