Activities Conducted Under B.B.Borkar Chair from 2013 to 2021

  • Year: 2013-14

    • ONB 104 A Course on Comparative Literature by Ashok Vajpeyi
    • ONB 105 How to Read  A Poem by Jeet Thayil
    • ONB115 How to Read & Write a Poem by Jeet Thayil
    • ONB 119 Comparative Literature by Prof Nirmala Jain

    Year: 2014-15

    • Adv. Uday L. Bhembre taught four  4 credit courses for MA-Konkani at Goa University. A musical programme on poems composed by Uday Bhembre titled “Amori Amurpiki” in association with Git Shakun group was held at conference hall on 19/2/2015.
    • Jeet Thayil conducted a workshop on Performance Poetry from 5/1 to 8/1/2015 at Sanskriti Bhavan, Patto, Panaji.

    Year: 2015-16

    • Adv. Uday L. Bhembre      taught four  4 credit courses for MA-Konkani at Goa University.
    • Geetha Hariharan conducted a course from 31st august to 15th September. Also delivered public lectures at IMB, ICG and Gomant Vidya Niketan, Margao.
    • Prof Vrinda Nabar conducted a course from 10th Jan to 22 Jan, 2016 and delivered public lecture at Goa University and ICG.
    • Seminar on Konkani poetry was held.

    Year: 2016-17

    • Adv. Uday L. Bhembre      taught four  4 credit courses for MA-Konkani students.
    • Geetha Hariharan conducted a course on “EG- 127 Reading and Writing Conflict” from 17th July to 30th July, 2016.
    • Prof Vrinda Nabar conducted a courses on “EGO 128 Imagining Women: Representations in Literature and Cinema” and “The Anxieties of Orientalism: India and the Diaspora” from 25  Sept-8 Oct, 2016 and 5th to 19th February, 2017 respectively. A public lecture on “Revisiting Mahabharat: An individual perspective” was delivered on Thursday,  9th February 2017at  4.00 pm at The International Centre Goa.
    • National Seminar on “R.V .Pandit’s poetry” was held on 20th January, 2017 in association with Dept of Konkani.

    Year: 2017-18

    • Adv. Uday L. Bhembre      taught four  4 credit courses for MA-Konkani students.
    • Prof Vrinda Nabar conducted a courses on “Ego 126 The Gender Of Literatures And The Literatures Of Gender” and “Ego 130 Writing Lives: An Interactive Literary Series” from 25  Sept-4 Oct, 2017 and 7th to 19th January, 2018 respectively.
    • One day Workshop on “R.V .Pandit’s poetry” was held on 20th January, 2017 in association with Dept of Konkani.
    • National Seminar on Konkani Dialects “ Field Linguistic and Konkani Dialects”  was held on 22nd March 2018 in association with Dept of Konkani.
    • Lok Utsav to “Showcase the great heritage of Goan folk culture to the student’s community and the researchers” was held on 14th February 2018 in association with Dept of Konkani.

    Year: 2018-19

    • Prof. Kiran Budkuley taught four 4 credit regular courses for MA-Konkani students from July to November 18 and November to April 2019.
    • Prof Vrinda Nabar conducted courses on “Ego 128 Imagining Women: Representations in Literature and Cinema” and “Ego 135 Roads Not Taken: Decoding Gender, Understanding Feminism” from 25 Sept-06th Oct, 2018 and 06th to 20th January, 2019 respectively.
    • Prof Vrinda Nabar also conducted a Public Lecture on “The Gendering of Narratives and Narratives of Gender” on 11th Januray, 2019 at International Centre Goa.
    • Two day Workshop on “Modern Konkani Poetry” was held on 22nd and 23rd January, 2019 in association with Dept of Konkani.
    • Prof Anvita Abbi conducted a Public Lectures on three different topics at International Centre Goa, Goa University and Rosary College, Navelim from 26th Nov to 12th Dec 2018.

    Year: 2019-20

    • Workshop on Language Documentation and Archiving by Prof Anvita Abbi from 09th December to 21st December 2019.
    • Department of Konkani had conducted National Symposium on “Contribution and Challenges of Bilateral Translation for Konkani: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” on 31st January,2020.
    • Department of Hindi had conducted Study tour in collaboration with D-VRPP to various places of B.B.Borkar on 15th November, 2019.

    Year 2020-21

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