Seminars and Conferences

Two seminars have been organised by the institution. 
A UGC funded two day national seminar on ‘Madhyakalin Bharata mein Bhakti Andolan aur Vartaman Sanskritik Chunautiyan (The Bhakti Movement in Medieval India and Present Cultural Challenges)’ was organised in the college during 26-27 February 2011. Dr Santosh Kumar Chaturvedi was the convener of the seminar. The seminar was organised to discuss the values and long term influence of the Bhakti movement in India and to revisit the ethos and the dynamics of the Bhakti movement in the shadow of the rise of a retrogressive and revanchist culture in present times. The struggle of a society to establish new systems and its history and culture can be a resource in this struggle. Culture has undergone so many transformations in history and analyses of such transformations constitute a prominent theme in cultural history. Each transformation has played some constructive part in the history of culture. For instance, in recent history Capitalism had played a role in liberating society from outworn ideas. The seminar explored the bhakti movement as a crucial resource of ideas in the formation a pluralistic, tolerant and progressive society in the immediate context of a politics of divisiveness and hate. The seminar was organised into four sessions: Medieval society, history and culture; medieval bhakti literature and society; the present cultural challenges and the bhakti movement; and, Indian tradition of thought and Mahamati Prannath. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Mohan Priyacharya of the Pranami sect. Professor Prakash Udaya (Varanasi), Dr Kiran Sharma (Gyanpur), Savita Kumari Srivastava (Gyanpur), Dr Anil Kumar Mishra (Baram, Rajasthan), Dr Chitragupta (Jhansi), Kranti Bodh (Ghaziabad) and Dr Ramakant (Jaunpur) presented papers in the first session which was chaired by Professor Satyadeo Tripathi (Varanasi). Presentations including those by Dr Mahesh Chandra (Bokaro), Dr Namrata Prasad (Allahabad), Dr Archana Srivastava (Allahabad), Dr Sapna (Allahabad), Dr Surendra Singh (Mirzapur), Dr Ajaya Khare (Bhopal), Professor Kusum Singh (Chitrakoot), Dr Lalit Kumar Singh (Chitrakoot), Dr Avaneesh Mishra (Chitrakoot) and Dr Mahendra Upadhyaya (Chitrakoot) comprised the second session, chaired by Dr Kshama Shanker Pandey (Gyanpur). Professor Rampal Gangawar (Allahabad), Brijbhushan Dwivedi (Chitrakoot), Anshuman Kushwaha (Allahabad), Mahendra Tripathi (Mau), Sakathu Kureel (Mau), Dr Murali Manohar Dwivedi (Mau), Dr Shiv Mangal Ram (Mau), Ramayan Ram (Allahabad) presented papers in the third session with Professor Lal Bahadur Verma (Allahabad). The fourth session was chaired by Professor Rajendra Kumar (Allahabad) with presentations from Jayapal Singh Prajapati (Korba), Sandhya Pandey (Korba), Rama Murti Tripathi (Chitrakoot), Dr Saroj Gupta (Chitrakoot), Dr Aparna Singh (Chitrakoot), Himangi Tripathi (Chitrakoot), Vachaspati Mishra (Allahabad), Bharati Dwivedi (Allahabad), Shailaendra Tripathi (Allahabad), Dr Arun Kumar Gupta (Moradabad). Professor Lal Bahadur Verma (Allahabad) and Professor Rajendra Kumar (Allahabad) made the valedictory presentations. The valedictory session was chaired by Professor Om Prakash (Vice-Chancellor, Rohillkhand University, Bareilly).
A two day Seminar on ‘Climate Change: Economic Growth and Sustainable Development, and Challenges and Opportunities before India’, was organized during 30-31 March, 2013. It was sponsored by the Uttar Pradesh Higher Education Council, of the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Dr Murali Manohar Dwivedi was the convener of the seminar. The seminar attempted to explore from a contemporary Indian economic perspective the dynamics of climate change, and the special challenges posed by the phenomenon to economic policy makers. It relatedly tried to probe the opportunities, which are emerging from the changed ecological scenario, of evaluating and repositioning the principles, objectives and the institutions connected with economic development in India. Issues regarding the political will needed to effect fundamental policy changes, the realism of alternate economic models, the relevance of thinkers like Gandhi, and the reflections of such concerns in literature and the arts were also discussed in the seminar. Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sharma (Allahabad), Ramayan Ram (Allahabad), Dr. Vivek Tripathi (Kaushambi), Dr. Sumit Saurabh Shrivastava (Allahabad), Janki Sharan Tripathi (Chitrakoot), Dr. Satish Kumar Tripathi (Banda), Dr. Satish Kumar Srivastava (Banda), Dr. Anoop Kumar Singh (Varansi) Dr. Amit Kumar Singh (Varanasi), Rajneesh Kumar Singh (Kanpur Dehat), Dr. Sharad Dixit (Kanpur Dehat), Dr. Satish Chandra (Chitrakoot), Dr. Dharmendra Singh (Chitrakoot), Dr. Lalit Kumar (Chitrakoot), Deepa Dwivedi (Kanpur), Sitara Bano (Kanpur), Ashwini Singh Parihar (Kanpur), Rajeev Kumar (Mau), Deen Bandhu (Karwi), Brij Bhushan (Mau), Himangi Tripathi (Chitrakoot) presented papers in the seminar.