Tuesday, March 31, 2009

i am now on

i, nilanjana gupta, have now tried my first attempt at blogging.

from now i hope to be able to post any notices for the whole batch.

keep reading and contact me if you need any of the books.

nila

Thursday, March 26, 2009

No class on Friday (Cultural studies)

There will be no class on Friday, March 27 2009 for the Cultural Studies optional. Prof. Nilanjana Gupta will take class on Raymond Williams on Monday, 30 March 2009, at 2:00 PM.

Prof. Prodosh Bhattacharya will meet us on 3 April, 2009 to discuss Victorian Best Sellers.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Class on Wednesday, 25th March 2009

Dr. Rimi B. Chatterjee is supposed to take the third class on Research Methodology at 2/2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 25th of March, 2009.

Not been confirmed, this has, though.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Class on Wednesday, 18th March 2009

Dr. Rimi B. Chatterjee will take the third class on Research Methodology at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the 18th of March, 2009.

Monday, March 16, 2009

For those who have the CULTURAL STUDIES option

Alright, first things first, we will have class on Friday, 20 March 2008 at 2:00 PM.

The following is the schedule for the Cultural Studies classes, till mid-April. Nothing, of course, is set in stone, but this is more or less what we can expect for the nest month or so.

16th & 20th March: CULTURAL STUDIES (Nilanjana Gupta)

23rd & 27th March: RAYMOND WILLIAMS (Nilanjana Gupta)

30th March & 3rd April: THE VICTORIAN BEST SELLER (Prodosh Bhattacharya)

6th April: SOCIOLOGY OF TECHNOLOGY (Dalia Chakraborty)

10th April: SCIENCE & CULTURE (Kunal Chattopadhyay)

13th & 17th April: CULTURES OF PRINT (Swapan Chakravorty)


We will be informed about the remaining lectures at a later date.

Also, please see previous post.

Reading List for Cultural Studies optional

Professor Nilanjana Gupta has furnished us with the following reading list, so that we can get started.

Reading List (Nilanjana Gupta)

Raymond Williams: Culture

Raymond Williams: The Politics of Modernism

Stuart Hall: “Encoding, decoding”

Anthony Easthope: Literary into Cultural Studies

Pepi Leistyna: Cultural Studies: From Theory to Action



Other books and works may, of course, be added in due course.