Special Lectures - Attention

PROFESSOR DAVID HAWKES

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

WILL SPEAK ON

"WHY MILTON MATTERS"

AT

3 pm on Friday 9 January 2009

in the AV Room, Department of English

And

"RAISING MEPHISTOPHELES: MAGIC AND LABOUR ON THE RENAISSANCE STAGE"

AT

3 pm on Wednesday 14 January 2009

in the AV Room, Department of English

ALL ARE WELCOME

MPhil Classes - Notice

MPhil classes will remain suspended for this week, and, in all probability, during the next one as well. Please wait until the second week of January for news about classes.

N.B. Please use the blog for questions or enquiries, rather than asking individuals. Class schedules, for example. will always be posted on the blog, at least a day in advance. So please look at the blog regularly.

Class on Friday, 12 December 2008

Professor Samantak Das will take class on Post-Moderniam at 2:00pm on Friday, 12 December 2008.

Class on Wednesday, 10 December 2008

We will have class on 'Texts' tomorrow, with either Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri or Professor Swapan Chakravorty. Either way, we will have a class.

Class on Friday, 5 December 2008

Professor Ananda Lal will take class on Friday, 5 December 2008.

Class on Wednesday, 3rd December 2008

Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri will take the second class in the 'Text' component of the General Theory paper on Wednesday 3rd December 2008 at 2 p.m. This class will be on "The Electronic Text."

No class on Friday, 28 November 2008

There will be no class tomorrow, i.e. Friday, 28 November 2008.

Class on Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri took a class on Wednesday, 26th November 2008. His lecture was the first of those scheduled under the 'Text' component of the General Theory paper.

Class on Friday, 21 November 2008

Dr. Rimi B. Chatterjee will take class on Post-Colonialism as part of our General Background paper, from 1:30-3:30 pm, on Friday, 21 November 2008.

Update: Class Schedule

No class today, i.e. Friday, 14 November 2008.
Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will take class on Wednesday, 19 November 2008. She will discuss "Genre", continuing on from her previous lecture on the same.
General Background classes will resume from next Friday, 21 November 2008.

Class on Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will discuss Genres with us on Wednesday, 12 November 2008, continuing on from her previous lecture on the same.

Class on Friday, 7 November 2008

We will not have a regular class on Friday, 7 November 2008. The department is hosting an international conference on travel-writing within the university premises, and it is recommended that students take the time to attend at least some of the papers of the same.

Class on Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Professor Supriya Chaudhuri will take a General Theory class on Wednesday, 5 November 2008, on Genre.

This Week's Lectures

This Wednesday (24.9.2008) Ms Sonia Sahoo will give a talk on Linguistics.
On Friday (26.9.2008) Amlan Das Gupta will speak on Walter Benjamin's Theses on History. This is the last lecture in the History segment.
Benjamin's text is available at
http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/ThesesonHistory.html
Please read the text carefully before Friday!

Class on Friday, 19th September 2008

The second lecture of the History component of our General Theory course, entitled "History and Salvation: Saeculum and the City of God" will take place on Friday, 19th September 2008.

The main text, Augustine's City of God, can be found here. The complete URL for the same can be found here.

For further reference and discussion, you could also look at:
RA Markus, Saeculum (CUP:1970)
JGA Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (PUP: rev. ed. 2003)

No class on Wednesday, 17th Sptember 2008...

...it being a holiday, on account of Vishwakarma puja.

Links

These are links to some of the primary texts for the History component of our General Theory course:
Herodotus, Persian Wars
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian Wars
Xenophon, Cyropaedia
Cicero, On the Orator

The complete URLs for the above can be found here.

Class on Friday, 12 September 2008

Professor Amlan Das Gupta will take the General Theory class on Friday, 12th September 2008, on History. Consider this confirmed.

Won't we get a stipend for our M Phil course?

Class on Wednesday, 10th September 2008

On Wednesday, 10th September 2008, Professor Sobha Chattopadhyay will take a class on Modernism as part of the General Background series of lectures. This has been confirmed.

No class...

...on Friday, 5th September 2008. Dr. Santanu Biswas will take class on Saturday, 6th September 2008 (at 11:00 a.m.) instead. This has been confirmed.

Class on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008

Dr. Shanta Dutta will take the class on Wednesday, 3rd September 2008, on the 'Victorian Period'. This has been confirmed.
UPDATE: Confirmed, see here.

Class on Wednesday, 27th August and Friday, 29th August

Professor Malabika Sarkar will take a General Background class on Wednesday, 27th August 2008.
Dr. Santanu Biswas will take a General Theory class on Friday, 29th August 2008.
Please note that this stands confirmed.
UPDATE: Dr. Santanu Biswas will be unable to take class on Friday, 29th August 2008.

Class Rescheduled...

Because of the bandh on Wednesday, 20 August, we will now have class on Thursday, 21 August instead. Click here for more details.

2oth is a Bandh? what happens to the class on that day?

Schedule --- 2008-09

A. General Theory (Wednesdays 2:00PM-4:00PM)
1. Representation: Dr. Santanu Biswas
2. Genre
3. History: Professor Amlan Das Gupta
4. Text

B. General Background (Fridays 2:00PM-4:00PM)
1. The Renaissance: Professor Swapan Chakravarty
2.The Enlightenment: Dr. Chandreyee Niyogi
3. Romanticism: Professor Malabika Sarkar
4. The Victorian Period: Professor Shanta Datta
5. Modernism: Professor Shobha Chattopadhyay
6. Post-Colonialism
7. Post-Modernism
8. The Film Age
9. Gender Studies
10. Theatre Studies

C. Special Theory
1. Principles of Scholarly Research, Writing and Publication

D. Special Background (To be announced)