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CARITAS VERA NOBILITAS

C H A N G A N A S S E R Y

C A SHEPPARD MEMORIAL LECTURE

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Arjun Appadurai(

10.30 amMonday, February 4, 2013

Cardinal Padiyara Hall

Goddard Professor of Media, NYU)

SOME PREVIOUS LECTURES1988 Dr. U.R Ananthamoorthy : W B Yeats' Poetry

1991 Prf. G. Kumara Pillai : GM Hopkins' Poetry

1993 Prof. Vishnu Narayanan Namboothiri : The Irish Voice of W B Yeats

1994 Prof. A.E Augustine : A Sense of English

1998 Dr. James A Brigham : Bringing Home the Ashes : An

Inroduction to Lawrence Durrel

2002 Dr. K. Ayyappa Panicker : Eastern Aesthetics

2003 Prof. T.R.S Iyer : Word and Meaning : Eastern & Western Perspectives

2004 Dr. K Narayan Chandran : English in India : Its Social Life

2005 Dr. A Joseph Dorairaj : The Death of the Author :

Literary & Philosophical Perspectives

2007 Dr. Scaria Zacharia : Literary Studies Today : New Paradigms

2009 Dr. Prafulla C. Kar : New Contexts of Modernity

2010 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak : Speaking for the Humanities

2012 Akeel Bilgrami : Romanticism, Philosophy and Politics.

C A Sheppard (1921 - 1979)

Born in Bangalore in 1921, Colin Antony - Stuart Sheppard was educated at

St Bede's School, Loyola School, and Presidency College, Chennai. He

joined St Berchmans as Lecturer in English in 1943, and became the Head of

the Department in 1949 when Prof M P Paul retired from service. He left St

Berchmans in 1961 for St. Joseph's College, Devagiri. He passed away on

11 May 1979. He has his final rest in the West Hill Cemetery on the outskirts

of Calicut. Lectures in Grammar and Idiom, Towards Better English, and A

Sense of English are some of his important works. Prof. Sheppard was an

inspiring teacher, and helped others shape themselves as good teachers. By

dint of hard and steady effort he developed into an authority on English

Grammar and did all he could to help his colleagues master the language.

He was a writer of books, and taught others how to write them. He was a

delightful speaker, and inspired quite a few to become good speakers. He

directed Shakespeare's plays and helped many to become good actors. An

erudite and inspiring teacher, Prof. Sheppard was a noble and dignified

human being as well, whose memory is ever fresh in the hearts of his

students and colleagues.

Department of EnglishSt Berchmans CollegeChanganassery

January 15, 2013

Dear Sir/ Madam,thWe are very glad to inform you that the 26 C A Sheppard

Memorial Lecture will be held in the Cardinal Padiyara

Hall at 10.30 am on Monday, February 4, 2013.

Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and

Communication at New York University, will speak on

Cinematic Dreams and the Politics of the Real in

Contemporary India

You are most cordially invited.

Yours sincerely

Head of the Dept & the Staff

Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture

and Communication at New York University. He is a

prominent social-cultural anthropologist. He has held

various professorial chairs and visiting appointments at the

University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Yale

University and The New School University. He is a

founding editor of Public Culture, one of the most

influential cross - disciplinary Journals. He has served on

several scholarly and advisory bodies in the U S, Latin

America, Europe and India. Prof. Appadurai’s books

include Fear of Small Numbers (Duke UP, 2006),

Globalization (Duke UP, 2001), Modernity at Large

(U.Minnesota, 1996), The Social Life of Things (Cambridge

UP, 1986) and Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule :

A South Indian Case (Cambridge UP, 1981). He is married

to Gabika Bockaj of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.