CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME: MAHUA SARKAR

DESIGNATION: PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

DEAN, FACULTY COUNCIL OF ARTS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

COORDINATOR, UGC DSA-I SAP, DEPT. OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST:

1.  SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO BENGAL,

2.  ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY - METHOD, HISTORIOGRAPHY, CRISES, ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS,

3.  SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH,

4.  CLIMATE AND POLLUTION,

5.  MAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES,

6.  HISTORY OF FORESTS AND LANDSCAPES,

7.  HISTORY OF DISASTERS, ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS,

8.  ENVIRONMENT AND THE TRIBAL WORLD, CRIMINALITY, DISPLACEMENT AND WITCHCRAFT.

9.  LIFE AND THOUGHT IN 19th CENTURY BENGAL

10.  JUDICIAL HISTORY OF BENGAL

11.  HISTORY OF RELIGION (VAISHNAVISM)

12.  GENDER HISTORY

13.  INDIGENOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

14.  HISTORY OF U.S.A

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

  PH.D

  M.A

WORK EXPERIENCE: 33 YEARS

1.  JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, DEPT. OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 1981-83.

2.  ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF HISTORY, RABINDRA BHARATI UNIVERSITY (PART TIME), 1983-91.

3.  ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF HISTORY, SHIBPUR DINABANDHU COLLEGE, HOWRAH, 1983-91.

4.  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 1991-2000.

5.  PROFESSOR, DEPT. OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2000-TILL DATE.

6.  DEAN, FACULTY COUNCIL OF ARTS, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2016-TILL DATE.

7.  COORDINATOR, UGC DSA-I SAP, DEPT. OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2014-TILL DATE.

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS/GRANT/RESEARCH SUPPORT:

1.  JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP for doctoral research, UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISSION, INDIA, 1982.

2.  AWARDED THE SHIKSHA RATNA PUROSKAR BY IIFS, NEW DELHI, FOR THE YEAR 2007.

3.  HONORARY FELLOWSHIP, FROM VIDYASAGAR CENTRE FOR INDOLOGICAL STUDIES, OF 6 MONTHS FOR RESEARCH, 2011-12.

4.  GRANT FROM MINISTRY OF CULTURE, SEMINAR TO BE ORGANISED ON NEHRU AND HIS VISION OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT, AUGUST, 2014.

PUBLICATIONS:

(BOOKS/EDITED BOOKS/ARTICLES IN EDITED VOLUMES & JOURNALS/REVIEWS/OTHERS)

2006-2007:

EDITED VOLUMES:

  1. ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY, NEW DELHI, KALPAZ, 2007.
  1. INDIAN VISTAS OF ENVIRONMENT (JOINTLY WITH PROFESSOR CHITTABRATA PALIT) NEW DELHI , KALPAZ , 2007.

RESEARCH ARTICLES:

1.  SITUATING ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: A SURVEY PUBLISHED IN THE VOLUME ON LECTURE PROGRAMMES 1-4, 2005-2006 , IAAPS, NOVEMBER, 2007.

2.  HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY IN C.PALIT AND M.SARKAR EDS. INDIAN VISTAS OF ENVIRONMENT,NEW DELHI, KALPAZ ,2007

3.  IMAGING THE GANGA : CULTURE AND ECOLOGY OF THE RIVER IN M SARKAR EDITED “ ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY’ , NEW DELHI , KALPAZ , NOV 2007

4.  REVIEW ARTICLE ON ‘ TRIBALISM TO CASTE’ IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY VOL 48, NO 4 , 2007

5.  ‘VIDYASAGAR AND HIS CONCEPT OF EDUCATION TO BE PUBLISHED FROM NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION IN DECEMBER, 2007.

6.  GURUDAS BANERJEE AS A EDUCATIONIST, TO BE PUBLISHED FROM NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATION, DECEMBER, 2007.

2007-2008:

BOOKS:

  1. CHITTABRATA PALIT & MAHUA SARKAR (ED), INDIAN VISTAS OF ENVIRONMENT, DELHI: KALPAZ PUBLICATIONS, 2007
  2. MAHUA SARKAR (ED), ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY: RECENT DIALOGUES, DELHI: KALPAZ PUBLICATIONS, 2008

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN EDITED VOLUMES AND LEARNED JOURNALS:

1.  ‘IMAGING THE GANGA: CULTURE AND ECOLOGY OF THE RIVER’ IN MAHUA SARKAR (ED) ENVIRONMENT AND HISTORY: RECENT DIALOGUES, KALPAZ PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 2008.

2.  ‘ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND HUMAN RIGHTS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE’ IN CHITTABRATA PALIT & MAHUA SARKAR (ED) INDIAN VISTAS OF ENVIRONMENT, KALPAZ PUBLICATIONS, DELHI, 2007

3.  REVIEW ARTICLE ON ‘TRIBALISM TO CASTE’ IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY VOL. 48, NO 4, 2007

2009:

  1. DEROZIO AND YOUNG BENGAL IN KALOTTIRNO, 2009.
  1. ENVIORONMENTAL DISASTERS AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT: A HISTORY OF NORTH BENGAL IN REFLECTIONS IN HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF AMALENDU DE, RAKTAKARABI, 2009.

2009-2010:

1.  ENVIORONMENTAL DISASTERS AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT: A HISTORY OF NORTH BENGAL IN REFLECTIONS IN HISTORY: ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF AMALENDU DE, RAKTAKARABI, 2009.

2011-2012:

2.  LIFE AND THOUGHT IN 19TH CENTURY BENGAL (IN BENGALI), IN ITIHAS ANUSANDHAN, ()A REFEREED JOURNAL OF THE PBIS), 2012.

3.  THE CALCUTT HIGH COURT AS A SITE OF COLONIALITY, IN THE BOOK ON 150TH YEAR OF THE CALCUTTA HIGH COURT, PUBLISHED BY THE KOLKATA CHAPTER OF THE CENTRAL LEGAL INSTITUTE, NEW DELHI, 2012.

4.  MIXED RELIGIOUSITY OF ISLAM IN BENGAL, IN THE FELICITATION VOLUME IN HONOUR OF ANIRUDDHA RAY, PROGRESSIVE PUBLISHERS, 2012.

2012-2013:

1.  UNIS SATAKER BANGLA JIBON O JIBONCHARYYA (IN BENGALI), (LIFE AND THOUGHT IN NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL), PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH OF MODERN INDIA SESSION, IN ITIHAS ANUSANDHAN 26, PASCHIM BANGA ITIHAS SAMSAD, KOLKATA, 2012, ISBN – 978-81-910874-2-0.

2.  JUSTICE, POLITICS AND THE CONTEMPORARY TIME: THE COURT AS A SITE OF COLONIALITY IN BENGAL-1862-1915, IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA:150 YEARS, AN OVERVIEW, THE INDIAN LAW INSTITUTE, WEST BENGAL CHAPTER, A GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PUBLICATION, 2012.

3.  CONTRIBUTED 4 ENTRIES IN RANJAN CHAKRABARTI ED., DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL PLACES: BENGAL, 1757-1947, NEW DELHI, PRIMUS, 2013, ISBN- 978-93-80607-41-2.

4.  CONTRIBUTED 4 NOTES IN THE DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL PERSONALITIES, TO BE EDITED BY RANJAN CHAKRABARTI.

5.  CONTRIBUTED 4 NOTES IN THE DICTIONARY OF HISTORICAL PERSONALITIES, TO BE EDITED BY RANJAN CHAKRABARTI.

2013-2014:

EDITED VOLUME:

  1. THE SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, MAHUA SARKAR, AMIT BHATTACHARYYA, ED., SETU, 2014.

ARTICLES:

  1. UNIS SATAKER BANGLA GAN O RABINDRASANGEET‖, IN RABIDRA-BIKSHA, 7TH AUGUST, 2013, (RABINDRABHAVAN, VISVABHARATI, SANTINIKETAN)
  2. UNITY AND PLURALISM: TAGORE AND HIS THOUGHTS ON MUSIC AND HISTORY, KARUNA PRAKASHANI, 2014.
  3. THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER IN COLONIAL INDIA IN GENDER AND MODERNITY, AMITAVA CHATTERJEE, 2014.
  4. WOMEN, LAW AND SOCIAL REFORM IN BENGAL IN GENDER SENSITISATION, EMPOWERMENT AND DISTANCE EDUCATION, NSOU, 2014.
  5. ISWAR CHANDRA VIDYASAGAR: A PRACTICAL VISIONARY FOR PROGRESS (1820-1891), IN C. PALIT, ED., BENGALI INTELLECT AND EDUCATION, PENMAN, KOLKATA, MARCH, 2014.
  6. GURUDAS BANERJEE: THE EDUCATIONIST (1844-1918) IN C. PALIT, ED., BENGALI INTELLECT AND EDUCATION, PENMAN, KOLKATA, MARCH. 2014.
  7. THE INDIGENOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SUNDARBANS, IN SCIENCE, SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND THE INDIGENOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SUNDARBANS IN CONTEMPORARY WEST BENGAL, AMIT BHATTACHARYYA, MAHUA SARKAR, ED. THE SOCIAL SYSTEMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, SETU, 2014.

8.  PUBLIC HEALTH AND SCIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE BENGALI BHADRAMAHILA: BAMABODHINI PATRIKA IN THE REFERRED JOURNAL OF PBIS, ITIHAS-ANUSANDHAN-28, 2013, ISBN-978-81-910874-3-7.

9.  “THE MIXED RELIGIOUSITY OF ISLAM IN BENGAL” IN ANIRUDDHA ROY FELICITATION VOLUME, 2014.

2016:

1)  REFLECTIONS ON POST-COLONIAL BENGAL, MAHUA SARKAR, NIRBAN BOSE, SUTAPA GHOSH DASTIDAR, ED. ET AL., BARRACKPORE PRESS, 2016.

2)  THE FLORA AND FAUNA AND THE HISTORY OF SURVIVAL IN THE SUNDERBANS, REFLECTIONS ON POST-COLONIAL BENGAL, MAHUA SARKAR, NIRBAN BOSE, SUTAPA GHOSH DASTIDAR, ED. ET AL., BARRACKPORE PRESS, 2016.

FORTHCOMING:

  1. A History of Pollution in Early Calcutta, In Rupkumar Burman, Subhasis Biswas, eds., Beyond Historical Time: Frames of Environmental History, Primus, New Delhi, (Forthcoming).
  2. The Other Backward Classes in Bengal: Exclusion, Exploitation and Empowerment, Govt. Of India, (Forthcoming).

3.  Environment and the Adivasi World, Mahua Sarkar, ed. (Forthcoming).

PAPERS PRESENTED IN SEMINARS/CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/INVITED LECTURES

2006-2007:

.

INTERNATIONAL:

  1. INVITED TO CHAIR A SESSION ON SOUTH ASIA IN THE THIRD BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ORGANIZED BY THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN & PACIFIC STUDIES ,AT JIWAJI UNIVERSITY, GWALIOR ,ON 13-15 OCTOBER, 2006 .
  1. LECTURE ON THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF THE SUNDARBANS :THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF IAAPS , GWALIOR, 2006.
  1. INVITED TO DELIVER A SPECIAL LECTURE ON PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF INDIA : THE COLONIAL CONTEXT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA , NORWICH , U.K. ON 5TH AND 6TH JUNE , 2007.
  1. PRESENTED A PAPER ON THE HISTORY OF STORMS :A CASE STUDY OF WEST BENGAL IN THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ONHISTORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTH ASIA ,HELD AT THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT ,JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY , MARCH 23-24 , 2007

NATIONAL:

  1. INVITED TO SPEAK IN A PANEL ON TILAK AND THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN BENGAL IN THE ANNUAL SESSION OF THE INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS ,KERALA ,MARCH ,2007.
  1. INVITED TO SPEAK ON THE ECOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SUNDARBANS IN A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN INDIA : IDENTITY ,EMPOWERMENT AND DISCONTENT ,ORGANIZED BY SEVA BHARATI MAHAVIDYALAYA , KAPGARI , PASCHIM MEDINIPUR , WEST BENGAL ,FEBRUARY, 2007. ALSO CHAIRED A SESSION IN THE SEMINAR .
  1. DELIVERED A LECTURE ON THE MEENDHARAS OF THE SUNDARBANS IN THE NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENT , DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY , JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY ON 8-9TH FEBRUARY , 2007 .
  1. INVITED TO SPEAK IN THE PANEL ON THE 60TH YEARS OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF INDIA IN THE ENSUING SESSION OF THE INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS TO BE HELD ON 28-30 DECEMBER 2007 AT NEW DELHI.
  1. SPECIAL LECTURE ON ‘REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF 1957’ IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY, ON 4TH DECEMBER 2007

STATE-LEVEL SEMINARS:

  1. ANNUAL KAIPANA DUTTA (JOSHI) MEMORIAL LECTURE ON WOMEN REVOLUTIONARIES IN BENGAL , ORGANIZED BY THE BETHUNE COLLEGE AND BIPLABTIRTHA CHATTOGRAM SANGSTHA ,2006-7.
  1. WOMEN AND POLITICS IN BENGAL IN BEJOYKRISHNA GIRLS COLLEGE , HOWRAH ,A SPECIAL LECTURE AS A SCHEDULE OF THE 150TH YEAR CELEBRATION OF CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY,ON 23RD AUGUT , 2007.
  1. CHAIRED A SESSION ON SITUATING TRIBALS IN INDIAN HISTORY, JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY LORETO COLLEGE AND CORPUS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ON 22ND JULY, 2006.
  1. INVITED TO SPEAK ON SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT IN INDIA AS A SPECIAL LECTURE IN THE U.G.C. SPONSORED STATE LEVEL SEMINAR IN GOBARDANGA COLLEGE, ON 21ST JANUARY, 2007
  1. INVITED TO SPEAK ON COMMUNALISM IN INDIA AS A SPECIAL LECTURE IN THE U.G.C SPONSORED STATE LEVEL SEMINAR IN MAHESTALA COLLEGE ,KOLKATA ON 18TH DECEMBER , 2006
  1. INVITED TO SPEAK ON THE CONDITION OF WOMEN IN 19TH CENTURY BENGAL AS A SPECIAL LECTURE IN THE LORETO COLLEGE ON 6TH JULY, 2007.
  1. PRESENTED A PAPER ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS IN THE SUNDARBANS IN THE ANNUAL SESSION OF THE PASCHIMBANGA ITIHAS SAMSAD IN CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY IN JANUARY, 2007.

PARTICIPATION /ORGANIZE/ RESOURCE PERSON IN SEMINARS:

  1. ONE OF THE JOINT COORDINATORS OF THE NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ENVIRONMENT , DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT HELD AT THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT , JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY,FEBRUARY 8-9 ,2007
  1. RESOURCE PERSON IN THE REFRESHER COURSE ON STATE AND SOCIETY IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIA 17TH NOVEMBER-8TH DECEMBER 2007 IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY.

2007-2008:

  1. PRESENTED A PAPER ENTITLED “RIVERS, TRIBES AND ECOLOGICAL CHANGES IN MAYURBHANJ, ORISSA” AT THE WORKSHOP ON “SELECT THEMES IN SOUTH ASIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY” HELD ON 4TH MARCH, 2008 AT JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY.
  2. INVITED TO SPEAK IN THE HISTORY CONGRESS ON “RECENT ISSUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: THE POST-COLONIAL PERSPECTIVE”, 28-30, DECEMBER, 2007, NEW DELHI.
  3. INVITED TO SPEAK ON “WOMEN & ENVIRONMENT” AT THE REFRESHER COURSE ORGANIZED BY ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, 7TH FEBRUARY, 2008.
  4. PRESENTED A PAPER ENTITLED “THE PRESENT STATUS OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENT IN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION” AND “WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT”, ORGANIZED BY THE INDIAN SCIENCE NEWS ASSOCIATION, HELD AT NATIONAL LIBRARY, KOLKATA ON 1ST MARCH, 2008.
  5. PRESENTED A PAPER ON “PARIBESH AND SUNDARBAN” IN THE UGC NATIONAL SEMINAR IN NAIHATI COLLEGE, 19TH FEBRUARY, 2008.
  6. PRESENTED A PAPER ON “SCIENCE, INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ENVIRONMENT” IN THE REFRESHER COURSE ORGANIZED BY CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY ON 27TH MARCH, 2008.

2009:

INTERNATIONAL:

  1. INVITED TO SPEAK ON ‘VOICES FROM COLONIAL BENGAL:SEARCH FROM WITHIN’, IN THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON WOMEN ININDIAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT, ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, 3-5TH OCTOBER, 2009.

NATIONAL:

  1. PAPER ON MEDICINE, PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUES, 1835-1935 IN THE INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS, 28-30TH DECEMBER, 2008.
  2. INVITED TO SPEAK ON LEONARD ROGERS AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN BENGAL IN THE UGC SPONSERED SEMINAR, RABINDRABHARATI UNIVERSITY, 26TH JAN, 2009.
  3. PAPER ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF LEONARD ROGERS TOWARDS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN COLONIAL BENGAL IN THE SEMINAR ON SITUATING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN INDIA, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2009.
  4. INVITED TO SPEAK ON URBANISATION AND THE HISTORY OF CALCUTTA, LORETO COLLEGE, 2009.
  5. PAPER ON THE MEDICINAL KNOWLEDGE OF TH EPEOPLE OF THE SUBDARBANS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PROGRAMME, INSA, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, APRIL, 2009.
  6. INVITED TO SPEAK ON LEONARD ROGERS AND THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL IN THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, MAY, 2009.
  7. INVITED TO SPEAK ON SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AND EDUCATION IN A UGC SPONSERED SEMINAR OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA CENTRE FOR TECHNICAL MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, SEPTEMBER, 2009.
  8. SPEAKER AT THE REFRESHER COURSE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BENGALI ON POPULAR CULTURE OF 19TH CENTURY BENGAL, 2009.
  9. SPEAKER AT THE REFRESHER COURSE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ON THOUGHTS OF THE MARGINALS IN 18TH CENTURY BENGAL, 16TH NOVEMBER, 2009.
  10. PRESENTED TWO LECTURES IN THE ORIENTATION COURSE OF THE UGC-ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2009.
  11. DELIVERED A LECTURE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE OUTREACH PROGRAMME OF THE ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, 2009.
  12. FORTHCOMING LECTURE ON WOMEN AND SCIENCE CONSCIOUSNESS IN BENGAL, IN THE INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS, 2009.

SESSIONS CHAIRED/ ORGANISED:

1.  COORDINATOR OF THE BIO-CENTENARY SEMINAR ON H.L.V. DEROZIO. DEROZIO SMARAN SAMMITI, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 13TH MARCH, 2009.

2.  COORDINATOR OF THE ANNUAL MEET OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PROGRAMME, INSA, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 13 -15TH APRIL, 2009.

3.  CHAIRED A SESSION ON THE LIFE AND WORKS OG H.L.V DEROZIO IN A NATIONAL SEMINAR OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, 9TH JULY, 2009.

2009-2010:

INTERNATIONAL:

1.  INVITED TO SPEAK ON VOICES FROM COLONIAL BENGAL: SEARCH FROM WITHIN IN THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON WOMEN IN INDIAN POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT, ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY, 3-5TH OCTOBER 2009.

NATIONAL:

  1. KEYNOTE ADDRESS ON WOMEN AND SPORTS IN BENGAL, LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA, MARCH 2009.
  2. PAPER ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF LEONARD ROGERS TOWARDS SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN COLONIAL BENGAL IN THE SEMINAR ON SITUATING THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN INDIA, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2009.
  3. INVITED TO SPEAK ON URBANISATION AND THE HISTORY OF CALCUTTA, LORETO COLLEGE, 2009.
  4. PAPER ON THE MEDICINAL KNOWLEDGE OF TH EPEOPLE OF THE SUBDARBANS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE PROGRAMME, INSA, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, APRIL, 2009.
  5. INVITED TO SPEAK ON LEONARD ROGERS AND THE ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL IN THE ASIATIC SOCIETY, MAY, 2009.
  6. INVITED TO SPEAK ON SWAMI VIVEKANANDA AND EDUCATION IN A UGC SPONSERED SEMINAR OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA CENTRE FOR TECHNICAL MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT, SEPTEMBER, 2009.
  7. SPEAKER AT THE REFRESHER COURSE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BENGALI ON POPULAR CULTURE OF 19TH CENTURY BENGAL, 2009.
  8. SPEAKER AT THE REFRESHER COURSE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY ON THOUGHTS OF THE MARGINALS IN 18TH CENTURY BENGAL, 16TH NOVEMBER, 2009.
  9. PRESENTED TWO LECTURES IN THE ORIENTATION COURSE OF THE UGC-ACADEMIC STAFF COLLEGE, JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY, 2009.
  10. DELIVERED A LECTURE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE OUTREACH PROGRAMME OF THE ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION CENTRE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, 2009.
  11. VALEDICTORY ADDRESS IN THE REFRESHER ON PRE-MODERN WORLD, DEPARTMENT, J.U., 2009.
  12. LECTURE ON SUKUMARI DEBI AND HER WRITING ON SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT, IN THE INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS, UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, 28TH DECEMBER, 2009.
  13. WOMEN AND SCIENCE CONSCIOSNESS IN BENGAL, IN THE INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS, 2009.
  14. INVITED TO DELIVER A LECTUREON ON WOMEN IN 19TH CENTURY BENGAL IN THE UGC SPONSRED NATIONAL SEMINAR ON EQUIPOLLENT ISSUES IN INDIA, GORAKHPUR UNIVERSITY, MARCH 2010. (ALSO CHAIRED A SESSION).
  15. PRESIDED OVER A SESSION IN A TWE DAY WORKSHOP ON THE UNDERGRADUATE SYLLABUS OF HISTORY, CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY, SCOTTISH CHURCH COLLEGE, KOLKATA, JUNE, 2010.

SESSIONS CHAIRED/ORGANISED: