Where to Find Notices, Events, and Public Lectures on Presidency University's Website

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On presiuniv.ac.in, official announcements live under Notices / All Notices, while talks and gatherings are split between University Events and Departmental Events. Public lectures and colloquia appear as individual event entries — for example, an astrophysics colloquium and a life-sciences colloquium listed on the site. A separate online museum exhibit, Towards Swaraj, sits alongside these sections. The steps below show where each block sits and what to expect in it.

Notices and official announcements

The homepage carries a Notices block that links to an All Notices listing. This is the place for time-bound administrative items rather than general information. Examples visible on the site include:

  • Notification for Casual Enrolment for the session 2026–2027
  • New Admission Notice for One Year (two semesters) Master Degree Courses (Home Quota), Session 2026–2027
  • New PhD Admission 2026–2027 (Odd Cycle)
  • Application and Admission Portal, and an online application form for a migration certificate

If you are looking for an admission deadline, an enrolment window, or a form, start here rather than in the "About" or "Departments" pages.

Library notices are separate

Library-related announcements are grouped under Library Notices / All Notices, not in the main notice feed. Items listed there include:

  • Guidelines for Payment of Article Publishing Charges (APC) under One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
  • A bibliography of selected books from the old and rare section
  • ONOS access, and access to the Turnitin plagiarism detection platform
  • A notice on online payment of library fine
  • New access under the RUSA fund, plus e-access to the World e-Book Library and the South Asia Archive (SAA)

So if your query is about subscriptions, plagiarism checks, fines, or e-resources, check the library notices before the general notices.

University events and departmental events

Event listings are split into two feeds:

Section What it covers Example from the site
University Events Institution-wide events and public lectures Public lectures; the Towards Swaraj online museum
Departmental Events Events run by a specific department or school ICSSR-sponsored international conference on "Archives as Living Memory in the Indian Knowledge Ecosystem," 3–5 February 2027

The departmental feed is where you find colloquia tied to a single school. Two entries illustrate the format you should expect — each gives date, time, venue, speaker, and title:

  • School of Astrophysics colloquium — 7 October, 2:45 PM, Astrophysics Classroom 1. Speaker: Dr. Rudrani Kar Chowdhury (NPDF Fellow, TIFR). Title: "Exploring Black Holes and Host Galaxy Properties through Tidal Disruption Events."
  • Monthly colloquium jointly organized by the RNA India Kolkata Chapter Salon and the Institute of Health Sciences — Speaker: Prof. Biswadip Das (Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Jadavpur University). 7 October 2026, 4:00–5:00 PM, T1-307, Institute of Health Sciences, Presidency University (NewTown Campus). Title: "Killing messengers before they are born: A novel paradigm for the quality control and regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes."

Note that the two entries use different date formats and that the second specifies a campus (NewTown), so always read the venue line rather than assuming a single location.

The online museum exhibit

Presidency University, in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, presents Towards Swaraj: Presidency during the independence movement of India. It is described as an online museum exhibiting unpublished confidential government reports, letters, orders, and circulars. It is reachable from the events area of the site and is a viewing resource rather than a notice or a scheduled talk.

Practical notes

  • Check both notice feeds. Admission and enrolment items sit in the main notices; library, subscription, and e-resource items sit in library notices.
  • Events are not one list. A talk may appear under University Events or under Departmental Events depending on who organizes it.
  • Read the full entry. Date, time, venue, speaker, and title are given per event, and campus varies between entries.
  • Campus pages exist. The site references a Rajarhat Campus and a NewTown Campus, so confirm which one an event names before travelling.

The site also carries a Students area and Quick Links for academic calendar, library, research, and alumni, but those are navigation hubs rather than announcement feeds — use them to reach services, and use Notices and Events to track what is happening and when.