Read Darwin, Give Science a chance!

Please find the most literary of all scientists here and read sections (at least Intro,
Chap.1, Chap. 2) of the Origin of Species:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/origin.html

Thursday's class in ROOM NO. 2, First Floor, New Academic Block

Please make a note and pass on the information to others. We will meet in Room No. 2 for the next three classes, i.e., till the 8th.

Class in Room No.3 New Academic Block TOMORROW (28 Sep)

Please pass on this message to others.

Attention WUTHERING HEIGHTS presenters

Please prepare NON-POWERPOINT presentations.

Schedule for the coming weeks

September
28th - WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Student Presentations)
30th - WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Class discussion)

October
5th - Margrit Schildrick's EMBODYING THE MONSTER (Student Presentation + discussion)
7th - Charles Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Student Presentations)
12th - ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Class discussion)
14th - MIDDLEMARCH (Student presentations)
19th - MIDDLEMARCH (Class Discussion)
21st - Dr. JEKYLL and Mr.HYDE (Student Presentations)
26th - Dr. JEKYLL and Mr.HYDE (Class Discussion)
28th - FATHER DAMIEN (Student Presentations)

Instructions - Mid-term

Email your mid-term papers to shilpaa@efluniversity.ac.in
In case you have trouble sending it to that mailbox then do cc it to mfmw602@gmail.com

Hard copies - printouts as well as handwritten copies - can be submitted at Room No. 23, Ground Floor, Main Building at 9 am on Monday morning.

All of you need to enter your names and sign on the submission sheet that will be available on Lavanya's desk (Room No. 23) at some point on Monday.

All the best!

Mid-term Exam (17-20 Sep 2010)

*Note: Please affix your name, semester and roll number on every page of printed or hand-written sheet.

Answer any 2 questions:

1)      Discuss briefly Claude Frollo, Mr. Rochester and Victor Frankenstein as accidental masters to accidental slaves.

2)      Compare and contrast Sister Gudule (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) and Bertha Mason (Jane Eyre).

3)      Discuss refuge and learning with reference to Jane’s time in Lowood (Jane Eyre) and the monster’s time in the hovel near the cottage (Frankenstein).

Class in Conference Room (14 Sep.)

The MFMW class on Tues 14 Sep (tomorrow) will be held in the Conference Room on the ground floor of the main building (administrative building). Please inform everyone.

List of presenters for George Eliot's Middlemarch and Ian Hacking's Mad Travellers

Middlemarch
1) Aditya and Mahima
2) Jyothsna Phanija
3) Paulomi and Devaki
4) Abhinaya Devi
5) Anwesha and Vasumana
6) Ali and Elahe

*NOTE:  Abhinaya and Phanija please see if you can work together on one team.

Mad Traveller's (selected portion in Sai Xerox)
1) Monica and Smriti
2) Naina and Deepti
3) Sheeba and Paaban

* NOTE: Please make sure that there is no overlap between the teams in the sections/ chapters you are presenting.

Presenters for Freud and Stevenson's Father Damien

Freud/Breuer 
1) Sudha and Srishti
2) Moulee and Rupsa
3) Imam Emamdadi and Najma

Father Damien
1) Debashree and Amropali
2) Tenzin and Sonam
3) Bishal Chetry and Shail Jha

Texts AVAILABLE for presentation

As of today these are the texts that need presenters. Those who have sent me emails already about any of these texts need not do so again. Please remember that the presentation is graded and is part of your internal assessment along with the mid-term.

Theory:
Rewriting the Soul by Ian Hacking (select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 2/3 teams
Embodying the Monster by Margrit Shildrick (select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 2 teams
Mad Travellers by Ian Hacking (select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 1 team
Enforcing Normalcy by Lennard Davis(select chapters in Sai Xerox) - need 1 team

Fiction:
Middlemarch by George Eliot - need 2 teams