ENH seminar series of the month consisted of two papers on Literature and History respectively. The first one entitled “Interpreting Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte” was presented by Dr. Sohana Manzoor on 28th July 2015. The lecture was based on her dissertation, "A Modernist among the Victorians: The Case of Emily Brontë", which repositions Brontë as a precursor to the modernists of the early twentieth century. Dr. Manzoor recently completed a Ph.D. in English Literature from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA.
The second paper of the monthly seminar series titled “The Disinherited: Conversion to Christianity & the Economies of Loss in Colonial Calcutta” was presented by Mou Banerjee on 29th July 2015. The guest speaker is a PhD candidate at the Department of History, Harvard University. Currently, she is a traveling scholar, dividing her time between India and the UK to work at several archives. Her research explores Indian intellectuals’ encounters with Christianity in the nineteenth century.