Bhubaneswar: A two-day ‘National Conference on Language, Literature and Diversity’ was organised at Birla Global University (BGU) on its campus here Saturday.
Renowned professors, experts, teachers and research scholars of different colleges and universities from across the country had gathered to deliberate and discuss on various issues and challenges to language and literature in a diversified world.
Padmashree awardee DP Pattnayak, Sachidanand Mohanty, Jatin Nayak, Kalyani Samantaray, Rajgopal and many such intellectuals from the discipline addressed the audience.
The highlights of conference were a Panel Discussion, Plenary Session and a Poster Competition on the theme ‘DIVERSITY’.
The conference started with the welcome address by P Nayak, Dean School of Management and was presided over by the Vice Chancellor of BGU Sudhakar Panda.
The conference was convened by Anubha Ray, area head English and Business Communication.
Jatin Nayak in his plenary speech said that language is a marker of identity not only a tool of communication. He further added that the present generation is “going Googlish without being embedded in culture.” He emphasised humanising the digital world.
Anubha Ray said the conference will provide an excellent forum for sharing knowledge and research findings among researchers, practitioners, academicians, professionals and students. The topics of interests covered a variety of theoretical and practical aspects of language and literature in a world of diversity. The primary goal of the conference was to promote language and literature in a world of diversity and as a larger field of study, thereby, looking at the challenges and latest research and innovations through discussion, exchange and sharing among researchers, practitioners, academicians, professionals and students.
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Delegates, faculty members and students of Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar pose for a photograph