
The Episteme and the Ontology of a Centre for Memory Studies
Calcutta Comparatists 1919 presents to you the 71st lecture of the CC1919 LECTURE SERIES. We are extremely happy to announce that Prof.


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Calcutta Comparatists 1919 presents to you the 71st lecture of the CC1919 LECTURE SERIES. We are extremely happy to announce that Prof.
For my research purposes, it was important for me to incorporate eminent Dalit writers from Bengal who are yet to be recognized by many.
Read moreThe eminent Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), on his visit to China during 1924 delivered some very important and these lectures have been collected as Talks in China (1924).
Read moreAll the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players I really enjoyed studying As You Like It, the play by Shakespeare which covers various aspects and layers of human emotions.
Read moreCalcutta Comparatists 1919 invites you to the 69th lecture of the online lecture series. Topic: The ‘Double Trouble’: The Doppelganger Motif in Satyajit Ray’s Fiction.
Read moreProfessor David Damrosch spoke on our forum on 31st March 2021. David Damrosch is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
Read moreCalcutta Comparatists1919 invites you to join the 67th lecture of the CC1919 lecture series. This time Professor Sipra Mukherjee from West Bengal State University delivered a lecture on religious conversion in Bengal.
Read more' নতুন যৌবনেরই দূত’ একদল নব্য গবেষকের আন্তরিক ও উষ্ণ আহ্বানে সাড়া দিয়ে বক্তা হিসাবে উপস্থিত হয়েছিলাম এই আসরে - বিস্বজোড়া মহামারীর সংকট লগ্নে। সুন্দর ও সুচারু সেই আয়োজনে মুগ্ধ হয়েছি। নিত্য নতুন বিষয়ের চমৎকার পশরা সাজিয়ে প্রতিনিয়ত তাঁর অভিনব সব মননশীল বক্তৃতার আয়োজন করে চলেছেন। আন্তরিক শুভেচ্ছা জানাই তাঁদের এই মহতী উদ্যোগের। দিন দিন শ্রীবৃদ্ধি ঘটুক ‘Calcutta Comparatists 1919’ বৌদ্ধিক গোষ্ঠীর।।
As a PhD Candidate, it is always wonderful to have opportunities like this, where we can share our research and our evolving ideas and get feedback and comments from our peers. It was wonderful to be able to Skype in across time zones, and give a talk in an Indian university. I think academia reinscribes a lot of problematic colonial relations, by keeping institutions in the “West” isolated from institutions in other places. I think it is important to have dialogues across these divides, and so presenting my work scholars in India, while residing in the US, felt like both an interesting and important opportunity.
I believe Calcutta Comparatists to be an important initiative for interdisciplinary scholars. It is crucial to cultivate dialogue and exchanges between researchers at all stages of their careers and this group is doing this very well. I was approached by them to give a lecture on my historical research on material histories, and I had a wonderful experience delivering the talk as well as engaging in fruitful discussions with the organizers and attendees. I look forward to the future events and talks organized by Calcutta Comparatists.
The Calcutta Comparatists 1919 are a group of enthusiastic students and research scholars who have come together during the pandemic to bring a series of talks/ lectures on wide ranging topics from literature and culture studies. I was one such speaker and must say that the entire program was wonderfully organized. My best wishes to this energetic bunch of young people as they forge ahead.
It has been an excellent experience to be associated with the Calcutta Comparatists 1919. This forum of sincere, talented and young scholars of literatures and humanities from universities and research institutes across the world has been recently engaged in exploring multiple intersecting trends of the contemporary studies in social sciences and culture. The ongoing lecture series organized by CC1919, with its very distinctive nature, is a novel and highly successful way to focus and continue dialogues on several areas of research interests in humanities. I feel myself really fortunate to be linked with the collective effort of this forum to interrogate and change the paradigms, and wish it every success.
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