International Conferences

Prof. Gurudas Das

1. (with Ujjwal K. Paul and Tanuj Mathur ) ”, “Making “Act East Policy’ to work for the Development of Northeastern Region of India” in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2016, Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast, Routledge, London
2. “India’s Myanmar Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast”, in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2016, Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast, Routledge, London
3. (with Subodh Chandra Das and Ujjwal Paul) “ Look East Policy: Economic engagements with ASEAN and East Asian countries”, in Das, Gurudas and C Joshua Thomas, (eds), 2016, Look East to Act East Policy: Implications for India’s Northeast, Routledge, London
4. 1. “Indo-Bangladesh Relations: Issues in Trade, Transit and Security”, in Das, Gurudas, (ed), 2008, Indo-Bangladesh Border Trade:Benefiting from Neighbourhood, Akansha publishing House, New Delhi
5. 2. "Trade Between the North Eastern Region and Neighbouring Countries: Structures and Implications for Development", in Gurudas Das and R.K. Purkayastha, (eds), Border Trade : North East & Neighbouring Countries, 2000, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi
6. 3. “Sino-Indian Border Trade for Frontier Development: The Case of India’s Northeast and China’s Southwest”, in Jayanta Kumar Ray and Prabir De, (eds), 2005, India and China in an Era of Globalization: Essays on Economic Cooperation, Bookwell, New Delhi.

Dr. Reena Sanasam

1. Presented a paper entitled Rediscovering the Monolith in Digital Worlds: 2001:A Space Odyssey (1968) and Ready Player One at the Two Day Workshop on Digital Infrastructures and Contemporary Urbanities, organised by Humanities and Social Science Department, NIT, Silchar during 15 to 16th September 2023
2. Presented a paper entitled Indian Travel Writings on Territorial Decentralization: Analyzing Across the Chicken Neck by Nandita Haksar at the One Day International Conference on Negotiating Lives: Migration, Displacement, And Resistance in Post Colonial Nation-State, organised the Department of English , Midnapore College, India on 26th August 2023.
3. Presented a paper entitled "Life Post-Pandemic: An Ecofeminist Reading of Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood" at the two day International Virtual Conference on "Post Pandemic Perspectives: Reflections and Realities", organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT,Agartala, during 5-6 August 2022.
4. Presented a paper entitled "Policing the Border Amid Pandemic: Perspectives from Media on Cross Border Immigration in Assam and Tripura Border" at the two day International Virtual Conference on "Post Pandemic Perspectives: Reflections and Realities", organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Agartala, during 5-6 August 2022
5. Presented a paper entitled "Women in Low Context Culture: A Scandinavian Perspective" at the three Day International Virtual Conference on Gender Studies and Women Empowerment, organised by the Department of Management, Humanities and Social Sciences during April 16-18 2021. Also Chaired two technical sessions.
6. Delivered a Lecture entiled "Reading of novels as History: An Interdisciplinary Perspective" --as a special invited speaker-- at the TEQIP sponsored online International Conference on Interdisciplinary Interpretation of Literature organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Meghalaya from 14th to 18th December, 2020
7. Delivered a keynote lecture entitled "Social Constructions and Women: Towards a New Awakening" at the two day International Webinar on Women Empowerment in the Digital Age organised by the Department of HSS, NIT, Silchar during 30th and 31st January 2021.
8. Literature and Ecocriticism: Towards Understanding the Relevance of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies: Redefining Boundaries of Humanities, Science and Social Sciences during 22-23 November 2019 organised by English Literary Circle, Manipur and the Manipur University Students’ Union.
9. Human Identity in the Age of Technology: A Study of Select American Science Fiction at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinary Studies: Redefining Boundaries of Humanities, Science and Social Sciences during 22-23 November 2019 organised by English Literary Circle, Manipur and the Manipur University Students’ Union
10. A Study of Lai Haraoba as a Cultural and Historical Text of the Meiteis of Manipur at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinarity: Intersections of literature and History for Social and Cultural Change during 19-20th October 2019 organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT, Meghalaya. Chaired a technical session too.
11. Native culture, colonization and its ramifications in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” at the Two Day International Conference on Multiculturalism during 24-25th January 2018 organised by English Literary circle in collaboration with college development council, Manipur university.
12. Identity Crisis and the Contemporary Literature at A Two Day International Seminar on Social inequality and Literature ( 16-17 January 2014) held at Tripura university
13. The Colonial Agenda in Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’ at the International Conference on Literature to Cinema: Appropriation, Adaptations, Adulteration ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd June 2013) organised by NIT Durgapur, West Bengal,India
14. The changing perceptions of Meetei culture: Resistance through rituals at the International seminar on Ethnicity, Identity and Literature (11-14 October 2012) held at Sibsagar, Assam
15. Immigrant Dilemma and Feminist Sensibilities in Chitra Divakaruni’s Arranged Marriage at the seminar on English Literature in Translation (10-12 January 2011) organised by IAES and AIETA at JKC College Guntur
16. Women and War: A Comparative Study of Khaled Hosseini’s ‘A Thousand splendid Suns’ and Margarett Mitchelles’ 'Gone With the Wind’at the Two Day International Conference on Interdisciplinarity: Contemporary Research in Humanities, Social Science and Management Studies during 21-22July 2017, organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT,Meghalaya. Chaired two technical sessions-- Social Sciences I and Literature V
17. English as a Global Language at the seminar on Innovative Approaches and Techniques of Teaching (13-14 July 2007) organised by NCIATTE at PSG College Coimbatore
18. Postmodernism as an Attitude: Towards a Global Culture at the seminar on Globalization and Industrial Relocation (27- 28 October 2006) organised by DONER and NEC Shillong at NIT Silchar

Prof. N. B. Singh

Dr. Avishek Ray

1. International Workshop on Living in the Age of Convergences - Affect, Affordance, Agency, National Library of Singapore, 9 -10 December 2019
2. Goethe Society of India’s International Conference on The Universal & the Particular: Contemporary Perspectives on an Old Dispute, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India, 14-16 Nov 2019
3. International Conference on Destruction/Re-Construction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in Conflict, organized by Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA) in collaboration with the Orient Institut Beirut (OIB), Beirut, Lebanon, 30 September-3 Oct 2019
4. International Conference on Us and Them: Diasporas for Others in the Indian Ocean, Centre for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther University, Halle (Saale), Germany, 16-17 September 2019
5. International Workshop on Cinema and the City, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Germany, 12-13 September 2019
6. AAS-in-Asia Conference on Asia on the Rise?, organized by Association for Asian Studies & Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 1-4 July 2019
7. 2019 Penn State Global Asias Summer Institute on Digital Asias, Penn State University, State College (PA), USA, 3-7 June 2019
8. International Workshop on Mediated Campaigns and Unmediated Politics in Millennial India, organized jointly by Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) & Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), at CSH, New Delhi, India, 27 April 2019
9. International Conference on The Cultural Industries in Asia: Into the Digital Age, Hong Kong University, 30 Non-1 Dec 2018
10. International Workshop on Recalibrating Culture: Reconfiguring the (Trans-)Cultural, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, 22-23 Nov 2018
11. International Symposium on Digital Politics in Millennial India, organized jointly by the Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich & Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, New Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), at IIIT Delhi, India, 15-17 Mar 2018
12. International Conference on Transcending Cultural Boundaries: Studies of Foreign Languages, Literature & Culture in India, Gauhati University, India, 8-9 Mar 2018
13. Goethe Society of India’s International Conference on Cosmopolitanism, Globalisation and Literary Space: Perspectives and Narrations of a (new) World Citizenship, University of Delhi, India, 21-23 Feb 2018
14. International Conference on Contemporary Communication Cultures, Controls and Becomings, University of Madras, India, 16-17 Feb 2018
15. International Conference on Refugees in the Public Imagination: Discourse of (Dis)location and (Dis)placement, University of Liberal Arts (ULAB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 Dec 2017
16. International Seminar on Reinventing Nationalism: Secularisms & Plurality: Media Discourses & Deconstruction, Gauhati University, India, 11-12 Nov 2017
17. International Conference on Mahabharata & Inter-Asian Cultures, Delhi University, 6-8 April 2017
18. International Conference on Thinking Literature across Continents, North Bengal University, 25-27 March 2017
19. International Seminar on Indian Art Heritage in a Changing World, Banaras Hindu University, India, 27 Feb-1Mar 2017
20. Dynamic Borderlands: Livelihoods, Communities and Flows, 5th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12-14 December 2016
21. Comics Forum 2016, Leeds, United Kingdom, 3-4 November 2016
22. The Act of Media Workshop, SARAI-CSDS, New Delhi, 8-10 January 2016
23. International Conference of the Goethe Society of India, University of Delhi, Delhi, 18-20 February 2015.
24. Canadian Comparative Literature Association Conference, Canadian Social Science Congress, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada, 18-24 May 2014.
25. Graduate Conference on South Asian Religions, Dept. of The Study of Religion, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1-2 November, 2013.
26. International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) Conference, Paris, France, July 18-24, 2013.
27. South Asia Conference, Princeton University, USA, April 26-27, 2013.
28. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 4-7, 2013.
29. International Conference on Emerging Issues & Challenges in Education, Nayab Abbasi College, Amroha, India, 9-10 June, 2012.
30. Underhill Graduate Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, March 1-2, 2012.
31. International Conference on Intercultural Studies, Centre for Intercultural Studies, Porto, Portugal, May 25-27, 2011.
32. The International Conference: On Road Writing Travel and Travelers organized by the Centre of Advanced Study, Dept. of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, November 6-8, 2008.

Dr. Panchali Bhattacharya

1. Bhattacharya, P. 2023. Eco-sustainability through Green Lore: A Study of Contemporary North East Indian Indigenous Women’s Literature. 9th Annual Conference of the World Centre for Women’s Studies (World-CWS) on Women in the 21st Century, Environment & Sustainable Development, co-hosted by Central University of Odisha, Koraput.
2. Bhattacharya, P. 2023. Environmental Sustainability through Nature Worship: Understanding the Ecosophy of the North East Indian Indigenous Communities. World Bank-OHEPEE Sponsored International Conference on Sustainable Environments and Interspecies Ecologies: Literature, Creativity, Theory and Praxis, Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha
3. Bhattacharya, P. 2022. Exploring the Ecological Memory of the Nonhuman in "Rella Two Trees: The Money Chiefs". Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI) sponsored International Symposium on Mapping Memory in the Wake of the Posthuman: India and Canada, IIT Bhubaneswar.
4. Bhattacharya, P. 2022. Ecological Legends in Contemporary North East Indian Indigenous Literature: Lessons in Preservation and Sustainability. ICSSR Sponsored International Seminar on Environment Across Disciplines: Perspectives on the 21st Century, Bodoland University, Assam.
5. Bhattacharya, P., & Acharya, S. 2022. Retelling the Tale of the Peripheral: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading of Pratibha Ray’s "Yajnaseni". International Conference on Peripheral Writings: Reflections on New Power, Hierarchies and Norms, Arka Jain University, India.
6. Bhattacharya, P. 2022. Revisiting the Green Legends in North East Indian Literature: A Study of the Indigenous Perspective. International Conference on Myths, Legends, Folklores and Itihaas in Indian and Indenture Literature, Centre of Indian Diaspora and Cultural Studies, University of Lucknow.
7. Bhattacharya, P. 2021. Ecosophy of the Lotha Nagas: Analyzing the Folktales in Nzanmongi Jasmine Patton’s "A Girl Swallowed by a Tree: Lotha Naga Tales Retold". ICSSR Sponsored National Seminar on Fourth World Literature: Voices of the Marginalized with Special Reference to North East India, Tetso College, Dimapur, Nagaland.
8. Bhattacharya, P. 2021. Mapping the Changing Landscape of Shillong in Janice Pariat’s “Boats on Land”. Narrating the South Asian City: Critical Perspectives, Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai in collaboration with Association for Literary Urban Studies, London.
9. Bhattacharya, P., & Satapathy, A. 2020. Settler Colonialism and the Ecology of the Adis in Mamang Dai’s “The Legends of Pensam”. Rupkatha International Open Conference (Virtual).
10. Bhattacharya, P. 2019. Eco-myths and Indigeneity in Easterine Kire’s "When the River Sleeps" and Mamang Dai’s "The Legends of Pensam". 6th International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
11. Bhattacharya, P. 2018. Revival of Indigenous Naga Knowledge: Reading Easterine Kire’s “When the River Sleeps”. 7th Annual Academic Conference, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras, India.
12. Bhattacharya, P. 2017. Postcolonial Ecological Wisdom of the Adi tribe in Mamang Dai’s “The Legends of Pensam”. 6th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, IASE Pune, India.

Dr. Dinamani Biswal

1. Presented a paper titled ‘Enhancing Farmers’ Resilience Capacity to Climate Change in India: Analysing Intensification of Crop Insurance Adoption’ at the INSEE International Conference on SDGs and Climate Change: Understanding the Imperatives and Intersections organised by BML University, Haryana, India on 31 January to 03 February 2023.
2. Presented a paper titled ''Do Climate Risk Management Strategies Improve Farmers’ Wellbeing in India? Assessing Heterogeneous Impact of Crop Insurance'' in South Asian Conference organised by Ireland India Institute, DCU, Dublin, 19-22 April 2023
3. Presented a paper titled ''Risk Aversion, Adoption of Safety Nets and Food Security in India: Interlinkages between Crop-Insurance and Crop-Diversification'' 6th SANEM Annual Economists’ Conference (SAEC), Bangladesh, 4-5 February 2023
4. Presented a paper titled ''Do Climate Risk Management Strategies Improve Farmers’ Wellbeing in India? Assessing Heterogeneous Impact of Crop Insurance'' in Resilient Community Irrigation Management in Context of Climate Change and Multifunctional Rural-Urban Water Use Competition in Asia organised by AIT Thailand and Chiang Mai University Thailand, 24-27 June 2022
5. Presented a paper titled "Why Farmers in India are not Adopting Crop-Insurance? Insights from Behavioural Economics Literature" at the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development organised by the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 24 - 25 June 2021
6. Presented a paper titled ''Adoption and Impact of Crop Insurance in India: Evidence from India Human Development Survey'' at the 17th Globelics Conference held in Heredia, Costa Rica, 3-5 November 2021

Dr. Shashi Kumar G K

1. International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Text, Place and Agency held on 13th -15th June 2018, organized by the Leverhumle International Network, Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, and Transformation in Glasgow, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
2. II Annual International Conference of Caesurae Collective Society on Translation across Borders: Genres and Geographies held on 9th -11th October 2018, organized by the Centre for Advanced Research and Training-Translation & Multilingualism, Osmania University, Hyderabad and Caesurae Collective Society in collaboration with Department of English, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.
3. International Conference on Translation and Knowledge Society held on 7th-9th March 2018, at National Translation Mission, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru, India.
4. International Conference on "Theater and Other Performing Art: Aesthetics, Polity, Economy, History and Space” held on 29th- 31st March 2016 at Bangalore University.

Dr. Ujjal Protim Dutta

1. “Do Remittances have a Flip Side? A Panel Cointegration Analysis of Remittances and Real Effective Exchange Rate in South Asian Countries”, Regional Conference on External Vulnerabilities in South Asia, organised by the World Bank in Colombo, Sri Lanka from February 28- March 1, 2019
2. “Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Health Outcome: Panel Evidence from 30 Asian Countries”, International Conference on Advances in Healthcare Management Services February 16-17, 2019, organised by IIM Ahmedabad
3. “Migrant remittances and economic growth: empirical exercise from macroeconomic viewpoint”,International conference on recent multidisciplinary research (ICRMR-2018), SN Education society and URGEE, USA at TKP conference centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
4. " Exploring the nexus between remittances, mobile phone penetration and economic growth: Panel evidence from South-Asian countries” Annual International Conference on Social Sciences-2019, Institute of Business Management (IoBM), Karachi, Pakistan, January 28- 29,2019.
5. “Migrant remittances and its impact on poverty: Evidence from India”, 8th ECONference-2016(International Conference) on Inclusive and sustainable development,Department of economics,The university of Burdwan, sponsored by UGC-DRS (Phase-II), February, 2016
6. “Potential of the North East India’s trade with neighboring Countries: An assessment of the opportunities and constraints” International conference on Look East Policy: Perspective from the South –East Asian Architecture, North Eastern Hill University, Meghalaya, June 2015
7. “The challenge of Patriarchy in the achievement of Gender Equality in India” in the International Conference on engendering democracy in South Asia: Issues and Challenges, Sikkim University, Gangtok, India, May 2015
8. “Food security and Its Impact on human development-A Study of PDS and its impact on marginalized section of North East” in International seminar on Human development and the Marginalized sections in North east India: Issues, Challenges, Way Forward, Assam University, Assam, March 2013.

Dr. Sumallya Mukhopadhyay

1. Mukhopadhyay, S. (September 2023). Negotiating ‘Postcolonial Disaster’: From Rift to Recollection through Football in Post-Partition West Bengal. From Colonial Modernity to Decolonisation: The British Empire & Beyond. University of Auckland, New Zealand.
2. ---------------. (July 2023). Learning to Affectively Listen in a Digital Age. 22nd International Oral History Association Conference. The School of Social Sciences of the Getulio Vargas Foundation. FGV CDPOC, Brazil.
3. ---------------. (June 2022). ‘I Belong There’: Affective Geography of Space in Refugee Reminiscences from Bangladesh and West Bengal. American Comparative Literature Association. National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.
4. ---------------. (June 2022). Life, Loss and Longing: Performative Narration, Recollection and Memory of East Pakistani Refugees in West Bengal. University of Bamberg, Germany.
5. ---------------. (August 2021). ‘[A]ll Time is Eternally Present: Conceptualising Time in Oral History Narratives’. International Oral History Conference, The National Archives of Singapore, Singapore.
6. ---------------. (April 2021). Refugees in the Making: The National Register of Citizens and its Politics of Documentation. Fourth Ireland India Conference, Dublin City University, Ireland.
7. ---------------. (December 2020). ‘Remembering ‘Legacy’ and Establishing ‘Linkage’: The National Register of Citizens and Memory Politics in Assam. Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University, Sweden.