On the 9th November 2016, Professor Firdous Azim, the Chairperson of ENH, was invited to give a lecture at a daylong seminar, entitled ‘Formation and Reformation: Women in 19th and 20th Century Bengal’ organized by the Dhaka University History Research Centre. The lecture was based on her research on the writings of Nawab Faizunessa Chaudhurani and Taru Dutt. The English department had a luminous participation at the Dhaka Lit Festival 2016, held on the 17th -19th of November. On November 18, 2016 Professor Firdous Azim was a discussant at a panel, ‘Birunghana’ where she along with Nayanika Mookherjee and Shireen Huq was in conversation with Sadaf Saaz. On the same day, Professor Azim was in conversation with writer and journalist, Bee Rowlatt on her book, In Search of Mary: The Mother of All Journeys.