Seminars and Events

EVENTS

Every academic year the Department organizes Seminars, Conferences, Symposia or Workshops not only to encourage research in Linguistics, but also to take Linguistics to wider domains of relevance to society. The activities of the Department in past few years are as follows:  

§  Special Lectures Series on the area of Graph Theory conducted by Salil Badodekar during the year 2014-2015. 

§  Workshop on "Phonology of Indian Languages" from the 5^th – 14^th of December, 2014.

§  A series of lectures on "Negating", "Linguistic Negations" & " The Problem of Existential Import" by Prof. Fabian Schang on 24^th & 25^th February, 2014.

§  A series of  lectures on "Bhartrhari’s Philosophy of Language" by Prof. Kapil Kapoor on 11^th & 12^th March, 2013.

§  A series of lectures on "Phonology" by Prof. K.P. Mohanan on 4^th & 5^th March, 2013.

§  A special lecture on "Indian Languages and Split Lexis" by Prof. Probal Dasgupta on 5^th February, 2013.

§  A special lecture on "Pragmatics & the Counting of Speech-Act Units" by Prof. Probal Dasgupta on 2^nd August, 2011.

§  A series of special lectures on "Indian Grammatical Theory" by  Prof. Malhar Kulkarni from 4^th – 9^th January, 2010.

§  .A series of special lectures on "Some Issues in Marathi Grammar" by Dr. R. V. Dhongde from the 3^rd of December to 5^th of December, 2009.

SEMINARS

• National Symposia of "Right to Education and the future of our languages" from 9^th – 11^th of March, 2015.

• National Seminar on "The Role of Language & Culture in the makings of a nation" from 27^th to 29^th January, 2011

• The Fourth International Student’s Conference of Linguistics in India (SCONLI-4) from the 18^th-20^th of February, 2010.

Events in 2014-2015

A National Symposium on Right to Education and the Future of Our Languages

The Department of Linguistics and Dr. Rakhmabai Educational Resource and Research Centre, (The Unique Foundation), Pune organized this Symposium in association with ICSSR-WRC, during 9^th-11^th March, 2015.

The Symposium was aimed at bringing together the academic experts and researchers in the areas of Education and Linguistics andthe actual practitioners such as primary school teachers, to share their experiences in order to draw a plan to take the progressive spirit of the RTE ahead in the multilingual set up of Indian society. In this Symposium, apart from around 15 experts, 25 primary school teachers from government schools from all over Maharashtra had actively participated.

The Symposium is to be followed by a series of workshops for school teachers to be conducted jointly by the Department of Linguistics and Dr. Rakhmabai Educational Resource and Research Centre, (The Unique Foundation), Pune across various regions of Maharashtra.

Click here for the Concept Note and Click here for the Schedule of the Symposium.

Workshop in the Phonology of Indian Languages

In order to familiarize the students of Linguistics to the current theoretical trends in phonology, train the students to apply their skills in analyzing the phonological patterns in Indian languages, and encourage research in Phonology, a ten-day intensive workshop was organized by the Department during 5^th-14^th December, 2014. Some students from outside the Department had also participated in the Workshop. The focus of the Workshop was on identifying some research problems in Phonology of Indian languages and therefore, a lot of emphasis was given on practical problem-solving sessions and a group activity.

The Department intends to organize such intensive workshops in various areas of Linguistics every year.   

A Beginners’ Workshop in Linguistics

Since 2012, the Department has been organizing a week-long workshop to introduce basics of Linguistics to a wider audience who comes with no background in Linguistics, but has interest in languages. This Workshop is open for anyone above the age of 13 years. This year, the Beginners’ Workshop took place during 23^rd-28^th of December, 2014.

The Beginners’ Workshop was started as an activity in support of the Panini Linguistics Olympiad India Programme of the Department of Linguistics, University of Mumbai (see Outreach Programmes of the Department), to train the school and junior college students to participate in the National and the International Linguistics Olympiad competition.  

OUTREACH PROGRAMMES 

The Department is keen to spread awareness regarding linguistic issues in the larger sections of society. With this aim in mind, the Department has initiated various outreach programmes such as: 

Teacher Training Programmes in Linguistics & Language-in-Education

The Department will be conducting a series of workshops for school teachers in collaboration with Dr. Rakhmabai Educational Resource and Research Centre, (The Unique Foundation), Pune across various regions of Maharashtra. The aim of the workshops will be to interact with school teachers regarding the various issues concerning language in education with special reference to multilingualism in India.

The Department also looks forward to conduct similar workshops in the area of linguistics and language-in-education in collaboration with various educational institutes across Maharashtra.  

The Panini Linguistics Olympiad, India programme

The Department initiated the Panini Linguistics Olympiad, India programme to promote Linguistics among school and college students. As part of this programme, a group of students from various parts of the country are selected to represent India in the International Linguistics Olympiad held every year.

For more details on Panini Linguistics Olympiad, India programme, visit the following link: https://sites.google.com/site/paninilinguisticsolympiad/