Courses/Contents Designed and Lectures Delivered

Courses/Contents Designed

• Developed content for the School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi for MA English in American Drama (Block IV, Unit 13: T.S. Eliot’s Contribution to Poetic Drama. 2021.

•  Developed content for the School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi for MA English in American Drama Block VII, Unit 29: Background of Contemporary American Poetry). 2021.

• Co-developed syllabus for Postgraduate Diploma in Critical Diversity Studies with the University of Mumbai, India in 2022.

Lectures Delivered

• Invited Lecture at The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada. Topic: “Afro-Indian Creole Cultures in Gujarat: A Case Study on the ‘Zikr’ Songs and ‘Dhamaal’ Dances of the Siddi Community.” Date: 20^th April 2023.

• Guest Speaker at Tuesday Seminar Series. Organized by the Faculty of Education, University of Western Cape. Topic: “Ecology, Class and the Classroom: An Entangled Pedagogical Vision.” Date: 11th April 2023.

• Guest Speaker at a workshop titled “From Where I Stand: A Living Archive.” Organized by the Rumman Collective, Jordan in collaboration with the British Council, UK; Flow India; National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; National Museums, Scotland; The University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh Napier University; and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Date: 25^th March 2023.

• Valedictory lecture at the Sixth International Conference on Media and Technology. Organized by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. Topic: Creating Independent Cultural Archives on Digital Platforms: A Case on “Roots and Routes: A Living Archive.” Date: 17^th March 2023.

• Mentor at a workshop titled “Naming the Elephant in the Room: Developing a decolonial lens in the German Global Health Research Context.” Organized by the School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld; University of Education; GLOHRA; and Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Dates: 1^st October 2022 – 24^th March 2023.

• Guest Lecture. Organized by the Department of Culture Studies, Tezpur University, Assam. Topic: Afro-Indian Musical Creoles: A Study of the ‘Zikrs’ of the Siddi Community in Gujarat. Date: 4^th March 2023.

• Conducted “Master Class” for the students and faculties of Critical Food Studies Project at the Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bengaluru. Topic: Archipelagoes of Tastes: Creole Culinary Cultures in India. Date: 27^th February 2023.

• Book Talk on “Green Academia” at Bankura University, India as a part of an International symposium titled “Humanities at the Crossroads: Re-configuring (post)human ethics, aesthetics and politics.” Organized by the Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University. Date: 11^th February 2023.

• Guest lecture. Organized by the University of Texas at Austin (Qatar Campus) for undergraduate students. Topic: African Science Fiction: An Introduction (20^th January 2023).

• Keynote Lecture. Organized by Literary Club, Institute of Integrated and Honors Studies, Kurukshetra University, India. Topic: Research Perspectives in Indian Science Fiction (7^th December 2022).

• Guest Lecture. Organized by the School of Health and Medicine, Bielefield University, Germany. Topic: Decolonization and Global Health (10^th November 2022).

• Lecture at “Decolonizing Academia” Symposium. Organized by Maynooth University, Ireland. Topic: Fractured Pedagogies: An intersectional repertoire of stupidity, common sense and silence (27^th October 2022).

• Lecture at the Online Lecture Series. Organized by North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus. Topic: “How to De-Racialize Research Works? Critical Race Study as a Methodological Framework” (24^th August 2022).

• Panelist at the Food and Drinks Project. Organized by Tell Me Your Story (TMYS), York Centre for Asian Research, New York and Readomania. Topic: “Religious Practices/Beliefs and their Influence on Food.”

• Keynote address at the online International Conference on “Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-modern Society.” Organized by All India Forum for English Students, Scholars and Trainers (AIFEST). Topic: “Guesthood: Mapping Affective Postmodernities.”

• Lecture at Online Lecture Series. Organized by Cotton University, Assam. Date: 29^th October 2021. Topic: “‘Are Universities in India Racist?’ Systemic racism in the higher education systems in India.”

• Food Dialogues: Sayan Dey in conversation with Kashyapi Ghosh. Organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati, India. Date: 25^th October, 2021.

• Panelist at the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development. Organized by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) and the Center for Regional Research and Sustainability Studies (CRRSS), India. Topic: “Moving Away from COVID-19: Transitional Recovery of the Informal Sector in India.” Date: 26^th March 2021.

• Lecture in the Hauntology Webinar Series organized by Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, Iwalewahaus and Bayfink. Topic: “’Cemetery Narratives’: Unraveling the silenced voices of the Scottish Women from the Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata. Date: 3rd March 2021.

• Lecture in a webinar organized by Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam and Government College, Tripunithura. Topic: “Corona-logy and #Covidjihad in Contemporary India. Date: 22nd February 2021.

• Lecture in an International Webinar at Don Bosco Arts and Science College, India. Topic: Provincializing the Post Colonies. Date: 29th January 2021.

• Panel discussant in a Panel Discussion on “Gender and Displacement.” Organized by the Center for Regional Research and Sustainability Studies, India. Topic: ‘Role of Women in Trafficking’. Date: 13th December 2020.

• Lecture in an International Webinar on “Global English: A transformative tool in the age of crisis.” Organized by Languages and Literature Unit, Leyte Normal University, Philippines. Topic: ‘Pedagogy of Common Sense’. Date: 25^th November 2020. Link: .

• Lecture in an International Webinar on “Mahatma Gandhi 150”. Organized by English and Foreign Language University, Shillong. Topic: ‘Revisiting Hind Swaraj: Towards a Decolonial Turn.’ Date: 26^th September 2020.

• Lecture in an International Webinar Lecture Series. Organized by Web platform 4 dialogue. Topic: ‘Alu-Sheddho-Daal-Bhaat: A Collective Journey into Our Mnemonic Roots’. Date: 13^th September 2020.

• Lecture in an International Webinar Lecture Series. Organized by All India Forum for English Students Scholars and Trainers (AIFEST). Topic: “Colonisation of Food Habits and Culinary Practices in Contemporary West Bengal. Date: 5th August 2020.

• Panel discussant at a Panel Series titled “Fanon at 95”. Organized by Caribbean Philosophical Association, Memphis. Topic: “Frantz Fanon and Border Intellectuality in Contemporary India”. Date: 8^th July 2020.

• Lecture in an International Webinar Lecture Series. Organized by the Department of English, Gobinda Prasad Mahavidayala, Bankura. Topic: “Armchair Narratives: Solidarity, Resilience and Resurrection in the time of Covid-19″. Date: 27^th July 2020.

• Plenary lecture in an International Webinar on “Teaching and Learning: Shifting Paradigms in Pedagogy Post Covid-19”. Organized by Arya Mahila PG College, Varanasi. Topic: “Green Pedagogy”. Date: 25th June 2020.

• Panel discussant in an online discussion session on “Reimagining Solidarity: Navigating Fissures in the Time of Crisis”. Organized by Convivial Thinking Collective, Germany. Date: 12th June 2020.

• Lecture in GNOSIS Online Lecture Series – 2020. Organized by GNOSIS: An International Journal of English Language and Literature, India. Topic: “Postcolonization v/s Decolonization: Theory and Praxis in India”. Date: 18^th May 2020.

• Lecture at the School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, UK. Panel Topic: “Digitising Critical Pedagogies Amidst Covid-19”. Date: 6 May 2020.

• Lecture at the Department of Studies and Research in English, Rani Channamma University, Karnataka. Topic: ‘“Post” in Postcolonialism: A Re-Introduction’. Date: 28^th April 2020.

• Lecture on ‘”Killing with Kindness”: Colonial Icons, Socio-cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis in India.’ Organized by the Department of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa. Date: 20 January 2020.

• Lecture on “Burden of the Colonial Gastronomy: Hegemonization of Food Habits in/of Contemporary India.” UNISA Decolonial Summer School, University of South Africa. Date: 13 January 2020.

• Conducted a two-day workshop on “Research Writing” at the Postgraduate Department of English, Yonphula Centenary College, Bhutan. Date: 22-23 October 2019.

• A talk on “In search of decolonial turn in Indian academia: Decolonizing the philosophies of knowledge production: A multiversal shift.” ALADAA Online Talk Series. Organized by the Latin American Association of Asian and African Studies (ALADAA), Argentina. Date: 30^th March 2019.

• A talk on “Zone of Every being: Transcontinental decolonization and Border thinking.” A workshop entitled: “Academic and non-academic networks in South-South Cooperation” with the University of Palermo, Argentina Main Event: “Second United Nations High-Level Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA +5).” Date: 18^th March 2019.

• A talk on “Colonial Detoxification and Celebrating ‘In-betweenness’: The Anglo-Indians of Bow Barracks, Calcutta.” A Webinar Series on Post- and Decolonial Perspectives on Development. Organized by Convivial Thinking, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Bonn, Germany. 14^th September 2018.