The department keeps on holding seminars, invited lectures and various academic and cultural activities around the year in order to facilitate teaching, learning, and research. The department started the Swaminathan Memorial Lecture series in the year 2015. In it, renowned academicians and intellectuals in different spheres are invited every year for addressing the students and the teaching staff on various research-oriented topics with a view to widening the horizon of knowledge of the students and the faculty every year. Cultural competitions and play performances are also organized regularly to give exposure to the talents and potentials of the students and to ensure their all-around development. During the last five years the Department has organized the following events in order to promote teaching, research and development:

Events - Seminars, Workshops, Refresher Courses and Training Programmes:

Seminars/Workshops/Conferences

 (1) UGC Sponsored two Days National Seminar entitled on theme “Narratives of violence in Postmodern Literature” organised by the Department of English and other European Languages, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya Sagar,  M. P. from 27-28 February 2014.

Outstanding Participants: Prof. GJV Prasad, Centre for English Studies, JNU and Prof. Anita Singh, BHU, Varanasi, UP

(2)  One week Workshop entitled Literary Cultural History of South Asia organized by the Department of English, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, from 16th March to 22nd March 2015

(3)  UGC Sponsored two Days National Seminar on theme “Philosophy and Aesthetics” organised by the Department of English and other European Languages, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University)Sagar, M. P. on 19-20th February 2018. Outstanding Participant: Prof. Kapil Kapoor, Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha  and Concurrent Professor, JNU.

(4)  ICSSR sponsored two Days National Seminar on theme “Nationalism, Identity and Sanskrit: Text, Context and the Contemporary Agenda” organised by the Department of English and OEL, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University) Sagar, M.P. on 22nd and 23rd October 2019. Outstanding Participants: Prof. Kapil Kapoor, Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi International Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Wardha and Concurrent Professor, JNU and Prof. Indranath Choudhary, Former Secretary to the Sahitya Akademi, ICCR First Tagore Chair at the Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK.

  Invited Lectures:

1. 19 February 2015, First Swaminathan Memorial Lecture by Professor Amitava Roy, President and Co-Founder, Shakespeare Society of Eastern India; Director, Shakespeare Centre for Advanced Studies; Shakespeare Professor of English, Rabindra Bharti University, Kolkata; Visiting Professor, University of Calcutta; Visiting Professor, Burdwan University on Shakespeare, Tagore and World Theatre.

2. 15 February 2016, Second Swaminathan Memorial Lecture by Prof. M. Asaduddin, Professor of English and Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Languages, Jamia Millia Islamia ( A Central University), New Delhi on Indian Literature- Translating Premchanda.

3. 21 November 2016, Third Swaminathan Memorial Lecture by Professor Makarand Paranjape, Professor of English, Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on ‘Nation(al), Literature, Culture’

4. 20 March 2017, Prof. Mohan Lal Memorial Lecture by Prof. Kapil Kapoor, former Professor of English, Centre for Linguistics and English (from 1996) and was designated as Concurrent Professor, Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi on English Studies in India: Contemporary Situation and the Agenda for Future.

5. 24-25 July 2017, Two day’s Lecture by Prof. Indra Nath Choudhary, Former Secretary to the Sahitya Akademi, ICCR First Tagore Chair at the Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK, Minister Culture and Director, The Nehru Centre, Indian High Commission, London, from 1997 to 2000 on Philosophy and Aesthetics.

6. 20^th November 2017, Fourth Swaminathan Memorial Lecture by Professor Awadesh Kumar Singh, Vice Chancellor, Auro University, Gujarat on Reign of Religion and Ethics of Literature

7. 15 July 2019, Fifth Swaminathan Memorial Lecture by Professor Margaret Ch. Zama, Professor of English, Department of English, Mizoram University, Aizawl 796004, Mizoram on Literatures of the North East.
8. Student seminars, Debate competitions, Film shows, and Invited lectures by Teachers and Scholars of other Departments.

Cultural Events:

 1. Workshop on Theatre, entitled ‘From Text to Performance’ from 19 to 25 September 2015 by Ms. Abanti Chakraborti, Director, Kolkata Alchemy, winner or the prestigious Ustad Bismilla Khan Yuva Award by Sangeet Natak Academy, Government of India. Students of the department participated in the Workshop and presented Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in the Valedictory function of the workshop.

2. Drama- Fire and the Rain by Girish Raghunath Karnad performed by the students of the Department of English and OEL in the Valedictory function of the Workshop entitled Literary Cultural History of South Asia organized by the Department of English, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar, from 16^th March to 22^nd March 2015.

3. Creative Adaptation- Rasa Niṣpatti, by the students of the department in the Valedictory function of the National Seminar on Philosophy and Aesthetics organised by the Department of English and other European Languages, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University)Sagar, M. P. on 19-20^th February 2018

3. Creative Adaptation- ‘Rasa in Shakespeare’ performed by the students of the department in the Valedictory function of the National Seminar on “Nationalism, Identity and Sanskrit: Text, Context and the Contemporary Agenda” organised by the Department of English and OEL, Dr. H. S. Gour Vishwavidyalaya (A Central University) Sagar, M.P. on 22^nd and 23^rd October 2019

5. Aksharkulam, one week mega cultural festival from 25^th February to 2^nd March 2019. The event constituted of competitions like Poetry Writing, Poem Recitation, Debate, Story Writing, Graffiti, Poster Making, Solo Song, Group Song, Solo Dance, Group Dance and Short Film Making.

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10.  Drama Mṛcchakaṭikā of Śūdraka was performed by the student of the department on the eve of the Valedictory function of the Aksharkulam festival on 2^nd March 2019.

11. Weekly Literary Activities under the auspices of the Literary Association of the department:- open - Lectures, Debate Competitions, Film Shows and Group discussions etc. Students enthusiastically participate in all activities.

• Impersonate a character from the drama prescribed in the course or any other work of the prescribed author.
  • Students of the department impersonated characters from Macbeth, Paradise Lost, The Rivals, Abhigyansakuntalam, Uttaramacarita and the like.
• Drama/ Play Adaptation:
  • Students of the department in groups presented short adaptations and skits based on Kalidasa’s ‘Abhijnana Shakuntalam’, Bhavabhuti’s, ‘The Uttarramcharita’, Ilango Adigal’s ‘The Book of Banci’, in Cilappatikaram: The Tale of an Anklet, Mṛcchakaṭikā of Śūdraka, Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Chaucher’s, Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Samson Agonistes’, Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, and Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’, Vijay Tendulkar’s ‘Ghasiram Kotwal’ etc were performed.
• Translation as an Art.
  • Students of the department compared, assessed and critically analysed translations and their originals in order to experience the problems and prospects of literary translations. Students studied different translations of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and poems, Srilal Shukla’s ‘Raag Darbari’, Munib-ur-Reman’s ‘Tall Buildings’, Kedarnath Singh’s ‘On reading a love poem’, Ananthamurthy’s ‘Samskara’, Vijay Tendulkar’s ‘Ghasiram Kotwal’ and the like.
• Creative Adaptation review.
  • Students of the department compared, assessed and critically analysed onscreen adaptations of literary classics like, Homer’s The Illiad, Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Samson Agonistes’, Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, Eugene O'Neill’s ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ and the like.Short skits on the dramas prescribed for reading.