Former PU Professor to deliver keynote in Spain

Purnoor, Chandigarh July 4, 2019

            Professor Manju Jaidka, who superannuated from the English Dept, Panjab University, has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the 9th Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA) to be held at Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain, from 8 to 10 July 2019.  

            The theme of the Conference is New Challenges for American Studies in the 21st Century.Prof Jaidka’s presentation will be on “American Studies in a World of Flux”.  

            A former Chairperson at PU and the erstwhile head of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi, Prof Jaidka has travelled widely on professional assignments and on fellowships. She is an academician and creative writer who has published extensively, lectured at various international forums, been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from reputed institutions like the UGC, the Fulbright association and Rockefeller Foundation, and is on several national and international bodies.  

            IASA is an international association of academicians hailing from forty different countries. It meets over an international congress once in two years.