Shoolini professor lectures at Malaysian university campuses

Solan, December 8

Prof. Manju Jaidka, Sr. Professor and Dean Faculty of Liberal Arts, Shoolini University, is on a visit to Malaysia, delivering invited lectures at different universities.

At a conference hosted by the University Sains Malaysia in Penang, she delivered a plenary talk titled “Belletristic to the Rescue: Transforming Crisis into Creativity in the Himalayan Foothills,” in which she expanded on the efforts made by Shoolini University to maintain a semblance of equilibrium during these trying Covid times. She also delivered a talk to the faculty and students of USM on creative writing, focusing on “The Stories of Our Lives.”.

At the University of Nottingham Selangor, Prof. Jaidka was invited to address the students and faculty on “The Magic of the Ordinary,”  speaking of the stories that are embedded in our everyday lives and how best we can use them creatively and write about them.

Prof. Manju, who has been a former professor and chairperson of the English department at Panjab University, is the author of approximately 25 books and more than 60 research papers. She has been the recipient of several national and international awards, including the Fulbright and two Rockefeller Awards, and has held assignments at universities like Harvard, Yale, Oxford, UPenn, Concordia, Dartmouth, Pittsburgh, and other places. In Chandigarh, as Chairperson of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi for 8 years, she organised regular literary programmes including six full-fledged literature festivals.

 At Shoolini, with the support of the management and colleagues, she continues to hold literary events regularly and has curated two Shoolini Literature Festivals, now preparing for the third.