“Religion-Culture or Religion X Culture? In Search of an Epistemology". Silver Jubilee Lecture at Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad. Hyderabad. 23 Sep 2013.
“Citations: What it Tells or Doesn’t”. An invited talk as a resource person at the ICSSR-sponsored Capacity Building Workshop for Management and Social Sciences (CBWFMSS 2016) organized by NIT, Rourkela. 26 February 2016.
"Citation and Bibliography". An invited talk at TEQIP -II Sponsored Short-term course on Thesis and Scientific Writing organized by NIT, Rourkela. 19 October 2016.
"Three Debates on Aesthetics of Realism". Invited talk at UGC- Sponsored national seminar entitled "Reflections of Reality in Literature" on 25 Feb 2017, organized by Murshidabad Adarsha Mahavidyalaya, Islampur, Murshidabad
“Placid Violence or Violent Peace: Arthur Koestler's The Birth of a Myth”. One-day national seminar Negotiating Peace in the Study of Literature and Culture. Department of English, University of Calcutta. 28 March 2018.
“The Lonely Middle Path: Bankim’s Search for a Nationalist History in the Mahabharata”. National-level conference The Epic of the Moment: Exploring the Narrative Cultures of the Mahābhārata. Department of Bengali, Presidency University. 3 April, 2018.
“Our Religious Modernity: Texts and Social Reform in Bengal”. Winter School on Defining Modernity: Issues in Contemporary Literature and Culture organized by Department of English, University of Calcutta. 8 January 2019. Under the aegis of UGC HRDC, University of Calcutta.
“The Spectacle at Close Quarters: The Public Sphere (fear?) in Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrta” Plenary talk at two-day national seminar Home and Beyond: Belonging, Unbelonging and Nostalgia. Organised by Santipur College, Santipur, Nadia and North East India Company, Silchar. 26 February, 2019.
“Our Victorian Period”. Plenary talk at Exploring the Victorian Era. Santipur College, Santipur. 28 Feb 2020.
“The Craft of Daily Writing”. An invited talk at a Writing Workshop organised by Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta. 23 March 2021.