Seshadripuram Educational Trust SESHADRIPURAM EVENING DEGREE #27, Nagappa Street, Seshadripuram, Bengaluru – 560 020, Karnataka, INDIA Affiliated to Bengaluru City An IQAC Initiative Department of English In Association with , UNITED KINGDOM and MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES Organizes International Webinar On Digital Humanities (Session 8)

Date: 17th April 2021, Saturday Time: 6.30 PM IST Click Here for (5.00 AM Lancaster, Registration UK, 8:00 AM Mississippi, USA).

Theme Speaker 1 Theme: Quantitative Analysis of Indian English Novels Shanmugapriya is working as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project 'Digital Innovation in Water Scarcity in Coimbatore, India' at the Department of History, Lancaster University. She completed her PhD at Indian Indore. Her research and teaching interests focus in the areas of digital humanities, digital environmental humanities and digital literature. She is particularly interested in building and applying digital tools and technologies for humanities research. Currently the topics (but not limited to) she focuses for her research are text Dr. Shanmugapriya T mining, geographical text analysis and mapping, and digital culture. Department of History Lancaster University, United Kingdom Theme Speaker 2 Theme: Infrastructures of Data Colonialism Dr. Dhanashree Thorat is an Assistant Professor of English at Mississippi State University. Her research is situated at the intersection of Asian American Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Digital Humanities. Broadly, she examines how colonial and racial ideologies shape technical infrastructures, platforms, and policies. Dhanashree is a founding Executive Council member of the Center for Digital Humanities, Pune in India. She serves as the lead organizer for a biennial winter school on Digital Humanities. She is currently working on two book projects: the first is a digital Dr. Dhanashree Thorat humanities textbook localized to the Indian context, and the second is a scholarly Assistant Professor of English monograph on Internet infrastructures. Mississippi State University, United States Presided by W.D. Ashok holds a Masters Degree in Pharmacy Specialized in the field of Total Parenteral Nutrition. He served at the famous Al-Adan Hospital, Kuwait over 13 years. He is a Trustee of Seshadripuram Educational Trust. Sir is the backbone for all the events conducted in our Evening Degree College.

Shri W. D. Ashok Hon. Trustee Seshadripuram Educational Trust ABOUT SET :- The Seshadripuram Educational Trust was founded by two lady educational enthusiasts viz. Smt. Anandamma and Smt. Seethamma started a primary school with about 20 children in two rooms. The institution has grown in all dimensions and today the total strength of students is more than 22,000. The Trust runs 34 educational institutions all over Karnataka from kinder garden to postgraduate courses and research; it has collaborative programs with overseas too. Under the umbrella of our trust more than 1,500 employees are serving.

ABOUT SEDC :- Seshadripuram Evening Degree College was established in the year 1971, the irst college established by the Seshadripuram Educational Trust for higher education which is celebrating its golden jubilee this academic year. It is afiliated to Bengaluru Central University. In the beginning, the College catered basically to the needs of those who were in the employment but had zeal to enhance their educational qualiications and achieve higher standards of learning. The crux of the idea is to let people learn while

ABOUT LANCASTER UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM :- Lancaster University is a collegiate public in 1964, one of several new universities created in the 1960s.The university was initially based in St Leonard's Gate in the city centre, before starting a move in 1967 to a purpose-built 300 acres campus at Bailrigg. The campus buildings are arranged around a central walkway known as the Spine, which is connected to research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by royal charter a central plaza, named Alexandra Square in honour of its irst chancellor, Princess Alexandra. . Lancaster is a residential collegiate university; the are weakly autonomous. The eight undergraduate colleges are named after places in the historic country of Lancashire, and each have their own campus residence blocks, common rooms, administration staff, and bars. Lancaster is ranked in the top ten in all three national league tables, and received a Gold rating in the Government's inaugural (2017) Teaching Excellence Framework. Along with the universities of Durham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Shefield and York, Lancaster is a member of the N8 Group of research universities. Elizabeth II, Duke of Lancaster, is the visitor of the University.

ABOUT MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY, UNITED STATES :- Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a public land-grant research university adjacent to Starkville, Mississippi. It is classiied among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity" and has a total research and development budget of $239.4 million, the largest in Mississippi. The university was chartered as Mississippi Agricultural & Mechanical College on February 28, 1878 and admitted its irst students in 1880. Organized into 12 colleges and schools, the university offers over 180 baccalaureate, graduate, and professional degree programs, and is home to Mississippi's only accredited programs in architecture and veterinary medicine. Mississippi State participates in the National Sea Grant College Program and National Sea Grant College and Fellowship Program. The university's main campus in Starkville is supplemented by auxiliary campuses in Meridian, Biloxi, and Vicksburg. Mississippi State's intercollegiate sports teams, the Mississippi State Bulldogs, compete in NCAA Division I athletics as members of the Southeastern Conference’s western division. Mississippi State was a founding member of the SEC in 1932. In their more-than 120-year history, the Bulldogs have won 21 individual national championships and 30 regular season conference championships. The school is noted for a pervasive Baseball fan culture, with - Duty Noble Field holding 17 of the top 25 all-time NCAA attendance records and the school's Left Field Lounge being described as an epicenter of college Baseball.

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