"Orality and A Colonial Literate Elite: The Case of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrta." A World Elsewhere: SHARP Conference on Manuscript Orality and Postcolonial Cultures. Centre for the Book, Cape Town. 2 Apr 2007.
"History of a Biography, Biography of a Nationalist Rhetoric: SriSri Rāmakrishna Lillāprasanga." Published Words Public Pages – SHARP Copenhagen: a Nordic Conference of International Print Culture. Royal School of Library and Information Science, Copenhagen. 12 Sep 2008.
“A Jetsetter's Pilgrimage: Pico Iyer's Four Seasons in Kyoto”. On the Road: Writing Travel and Travellers. Centre for Advanced Study in English. Jadavpur University. 6 Nov 2008.
“Hind Swaraj to Copenhagen: John Ruskin’s Lasting Legacy”. The Expanding Universe: Science and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. Centre for Advanced Study in English. Jadavpur University. 7 Feb 2010.
“Sri Ramakrishna and Colonial Encounter: Reinterpreting Ecology in Tirtha, Kshetra and Vana”. 37th Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions: Merton College, University of Oxford. 24 Mar 2012.
“Secularization of a Sacred Nationalist Discourse”. ‘Secularisms’: UCSIA Summer School on Religion, Culture and Society: University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium. 28 Aug 2012.
“Prophet in the Sin City: Revisiting Ramakrishna’s Calcutta”. 39th Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions. Luther King House, Manchester. 25 Apr 2014.
“Elision and Ambiguity: Recalibrating the Relationship Between Industry, Government and the Global University”. International conference on Conceptualizing the Global University. American University of Sharjah. 3 May 2014.
“Dweepa. An Ecofeminist Critique of Development”. International Interdisciplinary Conference on Ecocriticism, Environmental Justice and Literature. Association of Study of Literature and Environment [ASLE] , Bangladesh and EMK Centre, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 7 August 2015.
“A Prophet’s Sin City: Revisiting Materiality in Nineteenth-century Calcutta”. Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present. XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions. Max Weber Center, Universitat Erfurt, Germany. 23-29 August 2015.
“Narrative Complexity of Ambient Knowledge: A Contrarian Case-study of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties”. International and interdisciplinary conference Concepts of Simultaneity, University of Erfurt, 3 – 5 December 2015.
“Widening the Canon of Partition Narratives: The Case of Hasan Ajijul Haque’s Agunpakhi.” Presentation at the international conference “Mass Violence and Memory”. Organized by O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, New Delhi and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.18-19 May 2016.
“Matter beyond Minds: Revisiting Materiality of Nineteenth-century Religious Practices of Calcutta”. Presentation at the International Workshop 'Beyond the Written Word: Doing History with Non-Traditional Sources' organized by the Martin Buber Society of Fellows at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel on May 31st - June 1st, 2016.
“Touching Matters: Spiritual Knowledge, Tactility and Material Culture of Nineteenth-century Calcutta". Paper at the international conference "Religion: Bridging Gaps and Breaking Paths", held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on 2nd - 4th February 2017.
"In Deference to the Public Taste: Philip Meadows Taylor's Indian Romances". Paper presented at the 11th annual conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association. University of Greenwich, UK, 8-10 July, 2019.
"Polite Merchants: The Crisis of Politeness and the British East India Company". Paper presented at ISECS 2019 International Congress on the Enlightenment, Edinburgh University, UK, 14-19 July 2019.
“Castes of Mind: The Brahmo Ambivalence on the Authority of Caste”. Association for the Sociology of Religion Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, USA, on 7 August 2022.