INTERNATIONAL LEVEL STUDENTS' WEBINAR ON 'HUMAN VALUES AND SOCIETY'

 

The Poona College 𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒔 in association with 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑸𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒍 organised today an 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑳𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔’ 𝑾𝒆𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒓 on 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒕𝒚 with an objective to 𝒗𝒊𝒈𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒆𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒕 '𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓-𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉' 𝒊𝒏 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚. 

The 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒄𝒆 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 highlighted the importance of taking initiatives in pronouncing rigorously and promoting restlessly 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍-𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆. To this end, one must take into account 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔, 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏. 

The students responded to the webinar by presenting their research papers on the topic and sub-themes. The zoom-platform was used to bring about, and share, awareness on how 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒔, 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅𝒘𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕-𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒔.

𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒇. (𝑫𝒓.) 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒂𝒃 𝑨𝒏𝒘𝒂𝒓 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒌𝒉, Principal, Poona College, 𝑴𝒓. 𝑴𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒏 𝑲𝒉𝒂𝒏, Vice Principal, and 𝑫𝒓. 𝑰𝒒𝒃𝒂𝒍 𝑵. 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒌𝒉, IQAC coordinator, were the big hearts behind the conception of the webinar. 𝑴𝒓. 𝒁𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒎 𝑺𝒂𝒚𝒚𝒆𝒅 and 𝑴𝒓. 𝑨𝒔𝒊𝒇 𝑰𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝑲𝒉𝒂𝒏, Assistant Professors of English, were the Webinar-Coordinators working under the chaperonage of 𝑫𝒓. 𝑮𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝑷𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏, Head, Department of Sociology.

Indeed, this webinar underlined one value among many: 𝑵𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆.

Mr. Moinuddin Khan, Vice Principal, delivering Welcome Address

Dr. Gulab Pathan, Head, Department of Sociology, explaining theme of the Webinar

Ms. Firuza Setdarova, Vice President of Federation of International Students' Association (FISA), Pune Chapter, from Turkmenistan, while addressing the gathering

Mr. Ahmed Abdullah Mohammed, Freelance Life Coach from Iraq, while emphasising character-traits like generosity, simplicity and kindness as the most crucial values to overcome prevalent crises

Mr. Ihsan Mudhar Mahmood, Assistant Professor, Tikrit University, Iraq, while exemplifying how barriers test our values and refine us at the end, reminded the audience of the Mahatma Phule's quote 'When Character is lost, Everything is lost'

Ms. Natalia Sivitskaya, Associate Professor, Belarusian State Academy of Aviation, Belarus, informed the attendees about the values legalized in her country

Participants who chose to stay tuned during the Webinar

Student-participants while presenting their papers on the webinar topic and sub-themes