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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
CARITAS VERA NOBILITAS

St Berchmans College
College with Potential for Excellence. NAAC Reaccredited College at A+ level

CHANGANASSERY

C A Sheppard (1921 - 1979)

Born in Bangalore in 1921, Colin Antony - Stuart Sheppard was educated at St Bede's School, Loyola School, and Presidency College, Chennai. He joined St Berchmans as Lecturer in English in 1943, and became the Head of the Department in 1949 when Prof M P Paul retired from service. He left St Berchmans in 1961 for St. Joseph's College, Devagiri. He passed away on 11 May 1979. He has his final rest in the West Hill Cemetery on the outskirts of Calicut. Lectures in Grammar and Idiom, Towards Better English, and A Sense of English are some of his important works. Prof. Sheppard was an inspiring teacher, and helped others shape themselves as good teachers. By dint of hard and steady effort he developed into an authority on English Grammar and did all he could to help his colleagues master the language. He was a writer of books, and taught others how to write them. He was a delightful speaker, and inspired quite a few to become good speakers. He directed Shakespeare's plays and helped many to become good actors. An erudite and inspiring teacher, Prof. Sheppard was a noble and dignified human being as well, whose memory is ever fresh in the hearts of his students and colleagues.

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C A SHEPPARD MEMORIAL LECTURE

Arjun Appadurai (Goddard Professor of Media, NYU)

10.30 am Monday, February 4, 2013 Cardinal Padiyara Hall

Department of English St Berchmans College Changanassery

January 15, 2013

Dear Sir/ Madam, We are very glad to inform you that the 26th C A Sheppard Memorial Lecture will be held in the Cardinal Padiyara Hall at 10.30 am on Monday, February 4, 2013.

Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, will speak on Cinematic Dreams and the Politics of the Real in Contemporary India You are most cordially invited. Yours sincerely Head of the Dept & the Staff

Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. He is a prominent social-cultural anthropologist. He has held various professorial chairs and visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Yale University and The New School University. He is a founding editor of Public Culture, one of the most influential cross - disciplinary Journals. He has served on several scholarly and advisory bodies in the U S, Latin America, Europe and India. Prof. Appadurais books include Fear of Small Numbers (Duke UP, 2006), Globalization (Duke UP, 2001), Modernity at Large (U.Minnesota, 1996), The Social Life of Things (Cambridge UP, 1986) and Worship and Conflict Under Colonial Rule : A South Indian Case (Cambridge UP, 1981). He is married to Gabika Bockaj of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.