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

  • Book Talk and Panel discussion on “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives” at Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore. Date: 29th January 2024.

  • Book Talk on “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives” at NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York. Date: 10th January 2024.

  • Keynote lecture on “Debating Development: Shaking the Ivory Tower.” Topic: Reimagining the University: Alternative Spaces of Education. Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Date: 5th December 2023.

  • Guest lecture at P.G. Department of English, N.S.S. College, Pandalam. Topic: Learning from Below: Graveyards as Methodological Sites.” Date: 17th November 2023.

  • Plenary lecture at the ICSSR Sponsored three-day international conference titled “In Search of Creative Commons: Crisis, Catastrophe and Responsive Literature in India.” Organized by Abid Ali Khan Centre for Digital Archive and Translation of Cultures, Gour Mahavidyalaya Malda, India. Topic: Archive as Literature: A Case Study on Documenting Narratives of Cultural Catastrophes in India.” Date: 1st September 2023.

  • Guest lecture at The Office of Transformation in the College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa. Topic: Performing Decolonization: Transforming curriculums and pedagogies through praxis-based teaching-learning techniques. Date: 30th August 2023.

  • A series of guest lectures at COM Research Lecture Series, Department of Mass Communication, Mizoram University, India. Topic: “Decolonizing Social Research in India.” Dates: 22nd, 26th and 28th August 2023.

  • 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: 20th 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: 25th 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: 17th 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: 1st October 2022 – 24th 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: 4th 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: 27th 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: 11th February 2023.

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

  • Keynote Lecture. Organized by Literary Club, Institute of Integrated and Honors Studies, Kurukshetra University, India. Topic: Research Perspectives in Indian Science Fiction (7th December 2022).
  • Guest Lecture. Organized by the School of Health and Medicine, Bielefield University, Germany. Topic: Decolonization and Global Health (10th November 2022).
  • Lecture at “Decolonizing Academia” Symposium. Organized by Maynooth University, Ireland. Topic: Fractured Pedagogies: An intersectional repertoire of stupidity, common sense and silence (27th 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” (24th 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: 29th 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: 25th 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: 26th 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: 25th 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: 26th 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: 13th 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: 8th 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: 27th 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: 18th 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: 28th 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: 30th 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: 18th 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. 14th September 2018.