{"id":95740,"date":"2020-03-07T03:06:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=95740"},"modified":"2020-03-07T03:06:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:36:20","slug":"rgus-national-seminar-concludes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/03\/07\/rgus-national-seminar-concludes\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU&#8217;s national seminar concludes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>RONO HILLS, Mar 6:<\/strong> Sixty-five papers were presented during a two-day national seminar on &#8216;Modernity and indigeneity: Shifting perspective in culture, literature and language&#8217;, which concluded at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Friday.<br \/>\nThe seminar, organized by RGU&#8217;s English department, featured 10 technical sessions, during which papers on different sub-themes of the seminar were presented.<br \/>\nOn the second day, plenary talks were given by Profs Sarah Hilaly and Vokendro Singh. A panel discussion on &#8216;Encountering modernity and indigeneity in Northeast India: Culture, literature and language&#8217; was also held.<br \/>\nAddressing the valedictory session, RGU Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Prof Amitava Mitra, elaborated &#8220;the importance of written script and developing a bilingual dictionary.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe also advocated the use of mother tongues in primary-level schooling.<br \/>\nLater, Prof Mitra awarded certificates to the presenters of papers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Mar 6: Sixty-five papers were presented during a two-day national seminar on &#8216;Modernity and indigeneity: Shifting perspective in culture, literature and language&#8217;, which concluded at Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) here on Friday. The seminar, organized by RGU&#8217;s English department, featured 10 technical sessions, during which papers on different sub-themes of the seminar were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-95740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}