Enrichment Lecture -“The State of the Humanities Studies Now”

The Department of English, IISU organised an Enrichment Lecture on “The State of the Humanities Studies Now” for all its Undergraduate and Postgraduate students on 14 October 2022. The esteemed speaker for the day was Dr. P.C. Kar, a retired professor at M. S. University, Baroda, and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Theory, Baroda. Dr. Kar talked about the importance of humanities in the present times and its differences from other fields of study. He also dealt with the qualitative nature of Literature and explained the means of going beyond literary texts to understand the layers of a text from various perspectives. The educative lecture came to an end with a Q & A session, leaving the attendees with a more positive outlook toward the field of Humanities.