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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Conference in Dehradun: Intellectual dose in a scenic landscape


I attended and participated in a National conference entitled ‘Emerging trends in communication: Corporate and Academics’ on 3rd and 4th December 2010. The conference was organised by Centre for Communication, University of Petroleum and Energy studies,Dehradun. In the two days long seminar around 27 papers were presented in four parallel sessions. Most of the papers are scholarly writings, subjects ranging from academics to corporate. I presented a paper entitled“Self Organisation: A new model of teaching communication” which is based on the idea that ‘a learner can catch up more on their own self-disciplined way than that with the active intervention of an instructor’.

Apart from the intellectual experience of participating in the conference, the beautiful winter in Dehradun was something to be very happy about. Shivering cold coupled with windy weather was sort of never experienced before. So, Intellectual discussion midst of scenic beauty made the experience worth remembering. Inspiration was up high as my teacher Prof. Himansu S Mohapatra was kind enough to accompany us. His presence along with family added charm not only to the seminar but also to the trip we made to mussourie for sightseeing.

By mentioning the upcoming international conference in October 2011 by Centre for communication UPES, they try to console us and minimised our agony of leaving such a beautiful place.


Jayaprakash

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