Elysian: National Students’ Seminar

Elysian: the Annual National Students’ Seminar is a projects of the Department of English is a project that aims at drawing in the best minds of the North-East. Held in virtual mode, the seminar facilitates a platform for undergraduate and postgraduate level students to present and share their ideas with a wide range of students and
academicians of the region as well as the country. It also aims at providing them with an opportunity to practise and enhance their skills at a national stage. It further aspires to propagate an academic and intellectual culture among youth.

2018-19 marked the centenary year of what was one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history that came to an end on 11th November 1918. To commemorate this historical event, the theme of the first edition of Elysian was ‘War Literature—Retracing Death, Disillusionment and Evolution.’ The seminar was held on 4th to 6th February, 2019. The second chapter of Elysian held on March 11-12, 2022, focussed on the theme ‘Disease, Health and Humanscape in Literature, Mass Culture and Beyond.’ A total of 25 papers were presented at the seminar. The third edition of Elysian was held on 10 th and 11 th April, 2023, on the theme ‘Literature, Culture and Film
Adaptation.’ A total of 16 papers were presented at the seminar. The fourth chapter of Elysian was held from February 29 th to March 1 st 2024. The theme was ‘Diversities: Inclusivity and Inter-dependence.’ The seminar was attended by participants from all over the country. The keynote lecture was delivered by Prof. Rakhee Kalita Moral, Dean, Faculty of Arts (Languages, Literature and Linguistics), Professor of English, Cotton University and Head of the Centre for Women’s Studies, Cotton University. Moral deliberated on the importance of acknowledging, embracing and celebrating diversity in the human and non-human worlds and their relationships and developing an inclusive mindset to establish a just and sustainable mode of existing in the anthropocene. A total of 18 papers were presented at the seminar.