GPISH (2018) alumna Semina Halani received a scholarship from Harvard University to attend a four-week Institute of World Literature SummerProgramme in July.
The programme, which took place online this year owing to the pandemic, includeda total of ten seminarstaughtby leading professors and researchers in world literature,together with outstandingguest lectures and the opportunity forparticipants to share their work in colloquia.
Even through the online mode of study, this course has helped me to analyse the impact and value of the field of literature in the current times by looking at different relationships that world literature has with capitalism, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. I am certain that this intellectually stimulating journey will form an important anchoring point for my PhD studies, Semina said.
Semina presented her thesis “Oral traditions in World Literature: Analysing the Bhagavad G蘋t and the Ginns” at the Harvard colloquium Premodern Literature and World Literature.
The opportunity to share my work in the colloquiumwith valuable and insightful feedback from professors and peers from diverse backgrounds has helped me to situate and broaden my understanding of literature and its values in the current times, she said.
We congratulate Semina on her scholarship and securing this unique and exciting opportunity.
