Guest Lecture
Feb. 2024 (forthcoming)
Invited as a guest lecturer by the South Asia Program at Cornell University to give a talk on the book projects on wireless broadcasting in Bengal as part of the SAP Lecture Series at the Einaudi Center at Cornell. The event is taking place on February 18, 2024.
Paper Presentations
Dec. 2022
Talk on my book project, ‘Africa in the Bengali Imagination from Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973’, Department of English and Humanities, The British Library, early December
Mar. 2021
Talk on my book project, ‘Africa in the Bengali Imagination from Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973’, Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Jan. 2021
Talk on my first monograph, ‘Africa in the Bengali Imagination from Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973’, Department of English, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Talk on my first monograph, ‘Africa in the Bengali Imagination from Calcutta to Kampala, 1928-1973’, Department of English, Notre Dame University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dec. 2020
‘Stories of Persistence from Bangladesh’, at the 2021 MLA Annual Convention, Toronto,
Canada
Webinars in the UK and India on South Asian Muslim Culinary Culture with Claire Chambers, Tabish Khair, et al.
Apr. 2018
‘The air we breathe, a forgotten colour’: A surrealist reading of Rajat Neogy’s early poems’, at the symposium organized by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley.
Dec. 2017
‘“Subodh” Calling: Contemporary Street Art in Dhaka and the Case of Urban Dislocation’, at the ‘Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourses on Dislocations and Displacements’, hosted by the Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, 22nd-23rd December 2017.
Jun. 2014
‘Akiki Nyabongo and Rabindranath Tagore: Literary Encounters and Exchanges, 1936 - 1937’, at the 2014 Global Studies Association Conference, ‘Cultural Encounters and Global Connectivity’, hosted by York St. John University, 26th-28th June 2014.
Nov. 2013
‘Textual Cannibalization: Early 20th Century Bengali Adventure Fiction of Hemendrakumar Roy and Bibhutibhusan Banerjee’, at the King’s College London Programme in Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference, ‘Cannibal Modernisms’, hosted by Kings College London, 7th-8th November 2013
Dec. 2011
‘Masticating and Uttering: Gastronomic Affirmations of Power and Cultural Identity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Ayi Kwei Armah’s Two Thousand Seasons’, at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACSS) Conference, ‘Cultural Transformations’, hosted by BRAC University, Dhaka, 17th-18th December 2011.
Panel Organization
Jul. 2023
Chaired panel on ‘Culture, Social Identity and Development’ at the Young Scholars' Seminar (GenEdYSS) at the School of General Education, Brac University. The theme of YSS 2023 was ‘Bangladesh Beyond 50: Quest for Inclusive Development’.
Dec. 2017
Chaired panel on ‘Rootlessness and Displacement’ at the ‘Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourses on Dislocations and Displacements’, hosted by the Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, 22nd-23rd December 2017
Nov. 2012
Chaired panel on ‘Postcolonial Ekphrases’ at the Comparative Literature International Conference ‘Reframing Ekphrasis’ hosted by Kings College London, 8th November 2012
Workshops
Aug. 2021-Sep. 2023: British Academy Writing Workshop: Pakistan to Bangladesh 1947-1970’
Developed a paper on the history of wireless broadcasting during the Pakistan era. My Paper went through several rounds of reviews, and two presentations.
Jun. 2021: Kings College London
Paper on ‘Multilingualism in Bangladesh’, Workshop on ‘National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia’, organized by Kings College, University of London, 24th-25th June 2021.
April 2018: UC Berkeley
‘Faculty training workshop on writing and publishing in the US’ organized by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) and the Subir and Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley.
January 2018: National University, Bangladesh
Organized and conducted the ‘Teaching African Literature’ workshop for English literature teachers from colleges and universities across Bangladesh.
Administrative Responsibilities
Affiliated with OSUN (Open Society University Network), a global network of institutions designing and teaching courses for international and multi-campus projects in the humanities.