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The Daily Miracle: Publication of an English Newspaper in Bangladesh |
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ULAB MSJ Department and the Daily Sun jointly organized a seminar on "The Daily Miracle: Publication of an English Newspaper in Bangladesh" on November 24, 2011. Mr. Shahnoor Wahid, Joint e ditor of the Daily Sun was the resource person for the seminar. Mr. Wahid started the seminar by exploring the evolution of newspapers from the type setting era to modern offset machine era, and block making. He specially focused on the history of English newspaper readership, English newspapers and its current scenario. Mr. Wahid subsequently spoke of the technicalities of publication of daily newspapers and weekly magazines. Lastly, Mr. Wahid provided some examples of how journalism ethics is being violated in Bangladesh. At the end of the lecture, the students prepared a demo of a weekly newspaper magazine. Monami Haque, advisor of ULAB business news digest provided the opportunity to her apprentices to share and learn the technicalities in the seminar through active learning. Though the original plan was to conduct a seminar, the session turned out to be a successful, interactive and participatory workshop. The seminar was planned by Mr. M Asiuzzaman, Assistant Professor and Proctor of ULAB and was moderated by Ms. Monami Haque, Senior Lecturer of MSJ. |
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DEH faculty Seminar on "JULY'S PEOPLE" |
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English and Humanities Faculty Seminar on "JULY'S PEOPLE". The Department of English and Humanities (DEH) as part of its faculty development programme conducted a seminar on Thursday, December 1, 2011. Ms.Nadia Rahman, Sr. Lecturer, DEH, presented her paper titled "July’s People" a novel by Nadine Gordimer in which she portrayed the post-apartheid period of the blacks in South Africa overtaking gradually their political power over the white hegemonic colonial domination. 
She discussed the topic quite in detail by referring to the historical background of oppression suffered by the black communities and the way they resisted the European colonization for their basic human rights and freedom. The two most important characters July and Maurin exposed the conflict between the whites and the blacks in which ideological boundaries favouring the whites historically are broken down by the black protesting for their individual rights in their own land. Finally Maurin taking shelter in the custodianship of her servant July breaks free for a discovery of her own image as a woman symbolizing the end of her white authority over her servant gradually gaining voice for rights. The presentation was applauded by the audience comprising the head of the department, DEH faculty and students. It came to a close after a lively question answer round. |
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Electronics Club's "Hands on training on Electronics" |
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ULAB Electronics Club (UEC) organized a "Hands on training on Electronics" on November 30, 2011 from 5.15PM to 7.00PM . A good number of students participated in the event . Prof. A.H.M Asadul Haq was present there to encourage the trainees . The training session was demonstrated by Aminul Islam , TA, ETE.   
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ULAB Professor Dr. Shahnaj at the Asiatic Society |
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ULAB Professor and Archaeologist Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan presented a paper at the Asiatic Society.
Renowned Archaeologist Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan, Professor, presented a paper on "Archaeological Explorations and Excavations at Bhitargarh (2008-2011)" in an the international seminar on "Perspectives on History, Culture and Ethnicity" held in Asiatic Society Bangladesh on November 29-30, 2011. The seminar was organized to mark the Diamond Jubilee occasion of Asiatic Society Bangladesh. The prestigious program was inaugurated by Dr. Anisuzzaman, Professor Emeritus of the Dhaka University.
Dr. Shahnaj Husne Jahan is involved in teaching and research in the field of archaeology, history and culture of South and Southeast Asia. Since 2008 Dr. Jahan has been excavating Bhitargarh, the largest fortified settlement in Bangladesh.
A photo exhibition of Bhitargarh excavation project was also held in the Asiatic Society Bangladesh premises during the seminar. |
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DEH Seminar by Ms. Tahmina Anwar |
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Tahmina Anwar, Lecturer of DEH, held a seminar on the paper, "A Journey from Honeymoon to Home," on December 24, 2011. While the paper initially seemed literary, eventually featured a set of practical problems faced both by the learner and the teacher in a typical tertiary language classroom. She pointed out some of the most common initial cognitive difficulties a language teacher faces in a language classroom and how it becomes for the teacher a continuous struggle to develop a good degree of camaraderie in the classroom to make teaching effective.  Metaphorically the phases a teacher undergoes with his/her learners can be equated with a journey from honeymoon to home, to be lukewarm in the beginning, conceding and concessional, but gradually taking up the harder aspects of teaching, but still not making the students feel that they are being purposefully taught. At the end of her presentation Tahmina answered a number of questions put by students and faculty, by which the whole session proved to be very illuminating. The seminar was part of ULAB's Department of English and Humanities (DEH) Seminar Series, in which students can attend lectures on various subjects which face literature or language students and teachers. Tahmina Anwar, Lecturer of DEH, giving her talk at ULAB Campus A
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DEH Seminar by Professor Kaiser Haq |
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ULAB Professor Kaiser Haq gave the third presentation, "Resurrecting the first modern English poet of the subcontinent: Hassan Shaheed Suhrawardy" in the DEH Seminar Series on December 24, 2011. Professor Kaiser Haq is an eminent poet, editor, and translator, and now a full time ULAB Professor, who has sought to rediscover the first ever modern poet in this subcontinent, Hassan Shaheed Suhrawardy.  Suhrawardy, who in his early days traveled across Europe and imbibed modernist influences in his poetry, was a member of a noble Muslim family of Bengal. He studied in Presidency College, Kolkata, and then pursued his studies in several universities of Europe, including Oxford and Cambridge University. He then came in close contact with the masters and scholars of modern art and poetry, of the likes of T.S. Eliot, Baudelaire, Mallarme, etc. Professor Haq said, Suhrawardy was influenced by the symbolist movement in the early 20th century France, while he studied at Sorbonne for a year. He was a multifaceted genius in that he pursued his scholastic studies in literature, philosophy and art criticism, translation and theatre. He taught at the Visvavarati University as professor of fine arts. His early poetry, a group of rhythmic lyrics adorned with nature images, was inspired by the 19th-century Romanticism, but as he came into contact with the early 20th-century modernist and symbolist artists and poets his verse grew more mature and nuanced, though, at times, abstract. Unfortunately his mind lost the poetic certitude at the partitioning of Bengal, and his knack for composing poetry slackened and he became overshadowed as a poet. Professor Haq’s presentation, sprinkled with his usual sense of humor, created profound interest amongst the audience, comprising DEH faculty and students, about a poet gone to oblivion. The session was followed by a question-answer session which further substantiated the idea that a poet can never be lost, but s/he reemerges at this or that point of time. The seminar was part of ULAB's Department of English and Humanities (DEH) Seminar Series, in which students can attend lectures on various subjects which face literature or language students and teachers.
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