Two Day National Seminar on ‘Literature into Film: A Revolution in the Making’

 

Name of  The Activity: Two Day National Seminar on ‘Literature into Film: A Revolution in the Making’
Date	Faculty	Department/ Committee	Coordinator  Name & Phone no.
11th & 12th February 2017	Arts	English	Ms. Zeenat Merchant 8806320719
Time	Venue	Activity for class/group & student number	Nature: Academic/co- curricular / extracurricular/ Environmental/ social/ other
10:00am	PIMSE Hall	UG & PG students	Extracurricular

Topic/ Subject of the activity	Two Day National Seminar on ‘Literature into Film: A Revolution in the Making’
Objective for conducting the activity	To deliberate upon whether cinematic adaptations and appropriations of literary works do really a justice to literature or reduce our canonical texts to mere adulterations in the pursuit of entertainment and popularity       To bring into dialogue reception theory, adaptation studies, film studies, and interpretation of the canons from the socio-economic perspective       To deliberate on whether the updating of literature in cinematic form refreshes and broadens or ruins and restricts the reach of a source text
Methodology	Watching Tom Alter recite in a mellow baritone the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock composed by T. S. Eliot kept the auditorium spell-bound.The auditorium was full of literature and film aficionados from the rich fraternity of Literature & Media who witnessed Tom’s recitation and were transported to lyrical heaven. Tom Alter was present as Keynote Speaker accompanied by Mr. Amit Tyagi, Dean (Films), FTII, Pune who inaugurated the seminar on 11th February 2017. Dr. M. Rafique Sarkhawas, Principal of the College, welcomed all the guests and delegates from all over India and Janab Mirza Salat Baig, Trustee, AKI Poona College, set the tone of the seminar and prepared the audience to dive deep into the ocean of adaptation studies. The symposium continued with five plenary sessions leaving no stone unturned in its deliberations on ‘cinematic experience’ of literary works. The English Department faculty members – Mrs. Ashwini Purude, Mr. Zameer Sayyed, Mr. Asif Irshad Khan – and the college faculty members Dr. Shakir Shaikh, Dr. Gulab Pathan, Dr. Baba Shaikh, Dr. Afreen, Mr. Rizwan Sayyed, Mr. Rafique Sayyed, Mrs. JahanAara Pathan, Mrs. Hashimzade and others teamed up to make the seminar a grand success.
Outcome	Tom alter also felicitated the Prize winners of the various competitions organized by the Department of English.  The prize winners of the National Level Essay Writing competition, National Level Short Story Writing competition, National Level Poetry Writing competition, National Level Book Review Writing competition, and District Level Literature Quiz Competition were given away the prizes on the occasion in presence of delegates all over India.