Conferences

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The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences organized the international conference on 'Region/Nation/Trans-nation: Literature-Cinema Interface' that took place in the campus on January 31-February 2, 2019.

With more than 130 registered participants from US, Australia, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the plenary speakers for the conference included Prof. Mariano Mestman (Universidad de Buenos Aires & CONICET, Argentina), Prof. Javier Campo (UNICEN & CONICET, Argentina), Prof. Fakrul Alam (Pro Vice-Chancellor, East West University, Bangladesh), Dr. Kanchuka Dharmasiri (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), Prof. Supriya Chaudhuri (Professor Emerita, Jadavpur University), Prof. M. Asaduddin (Jamia Millia Islamia, Sahitya Akademi awardee), Prof. Ravi S. Vasudevan (CSDS, New Delhi), Prof. Moinak Biswas (Jadavpur University), Prof. Kaushik Bhaumik (JNU), Prof. Brinda Bose (JNU), and Prof. Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri (Gauhati University, Assam). 

The conference was coordinated by Dr. Parichay Patra and Dr. Amitendu Bhattacharya and with financial support from the Govt. of Goa. 

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National Conference on Ecocinema: Celebrating Landscapes and Waterscapes

A National Conference on Ecocinema on the theme, ''Celebrating Landscapes and Waterscapes" was organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, on 8^th, 9^th and 10^th of October 2015. The conference was sponsored by ICSSR, New Delhi. Prof. Salma Monani, Gettysburg College, USA, and Rachel Carson Fellow, Munich, was the Chief Guest and keynote (Titled: Ecocinema Studies: Past, Present and Future) speaker for the National Conference. About 25 papers were presented in the conference. The conference was co-ordinated by Dr. Rayson K. Alex and Dr. Reena Cheruvalath, Assistant Professors at BITS Goa.

 

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International Conference on Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences along with ICLALS organized the international conference on ' Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile' on the 12^th, 13^th and 14^th of February 2015.

With more than 100 registered participants from various countries over 70 papers were presented. The Keynote address titled “Goa: A Perspective on Change – Culture, Society and Economy” was delivered by Ms. Maria Arora Couto, an Indian writer, and educationalist from Goa.  The keynote address on Goan culture, its fraught settlements and its many troubled pasts and present interrogated state politics and the concomitant concerns of capital that lie beneath the Goa most love but few care about. Damodar Mauzo and Elger Noronha our plenary speakers also spoke on Goan identity, writing and history. The conference was coordinated by Dr. Nilak Datta and Dr. Amitendu Bhattacharya, Assistant Professors at the Department of HSS, BITS Goa. 

 

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Indo-US Relations Conference

International Conference on “Indo-US Relations” was organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences from 31^st October to 2^nd November 2014. About 80 papers were presented in the conference coordinated by Prof. R. P Pradhan.

 

International Conference Towards Ecocultural Ethics: Recent Trends and Future Directions

 “The Ecological Arts: Humanities, Technology and Science” was the topic on which Prof. Mark C Long, President ASLE (American Society for Literature and Environment) and Professor at Keene State University, USA delivered the inaugural address at the three day International Conference "Towards Eco cultural Ethics: Recent Trends and Future Directions" being hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus during 9-11 October 2014. Chief Guest at the inaugural ceremony held at the campus auditorium on 9th October 2014, Prof. Mark explored the historical and ethical imperative to build intellectual collaborations across the humanities and sciences to address global issues of environmental concerns.

Environmental Humanities or Ecological Humanities, an interdisciplinary area of research that has emerged in the Humanities discipline over the past few decades is the topic of deliberations at the conference. The term “Ecoculture” brings the two disciplines namely ecology and culture on a single platform. The present conference strives to build a platform to initiate an ecocultural dialogue between theorists and practitioners belonging to various disciplines. It is here that ethics becomes a relevant and a vital point of focus. As the methodologies of the fused disciplines are diverse, the perspectives on ethics can also be seen from various dimensions.

 Realizing the importance of research in the area of Environmental Humanities, the conference has brought together about 130 participants across India and abroad to present papers on various related issues. Prof. K. E. Raman, Director, at the inaugural ceremony emphasized the environmental concerns researchers need to take up and also the need for promoting interdisciplinary research.  Prof. Meenakshi Raman, Dr. Reena Cheruvaleth, Dr. Rayson K. Alex and Dr. Gyan Prakash are the organizers of the event which is co-sponsored by ASLE, USA.

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