July was quite eventful at the Department of English and Humanities as the ENH Seminar Series hosted three talks this month.
On July 06, Thomas James Newbold, a doctoral candidate at the University of Chicago’s South Asian Languages and Civilization (SALC) Department delivered a lecture at the ENH Seminar room. The title was, “The Mind, the Modern and the Puthi: Historiographical questions and the narration of Bengali Muslim literary modernity- 1964-1981”. The talk was very well attended and saw an animated audience engaging with the speaker.
The second event was a sharing session held on July 13. Lubaba Sanjana, Lecturer, ENH, gave a talk titled “Student Engagement Techniques and Feedback”. Her talk was based on the experience and knowledge she had gathered from different modules of the 'Certificate in Training Strategies for Higher Education' programme run by Professional Development Centre (PDC). Mohammad Mahmudul Haque, Senior Lecturer, ENH, welcomed the audience and introduced Lubaba Sanjana. Ms. Sanjana discussed practical implication of several student engagement techniques. She also showed the importance of organized feedback, which she learned from her PDC course. An interactive Q/A session followed the talk. Prof. Dr. Ansar Ahmed, Pro-VC of BRAC University, members from the PDC team, and faculty members of ENH were present at the session.
The third and final event of the month was a talk by S.M.Mohibul Hasan, a faculty member of ENH. He is currently doing his Ph.D. at the Department of Linguistics, Dhaka University. Mohibul Hasan’s talk was entitled “The Choice of Learners’ Styles in Designing Pronunciation Instruction”. It looked at how individualizing instruction may lead to the development of a more efficient pedagogical intervention. Despite low attendance, the session was a success and audience members enjoyed the informative nature of the talk and the interaction that this session provided.