Conferences (National and International)


1. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Comics and COVID-19: Bridging the Social/Physical Distancing through Superhero in the Post-Infection India.” The 2021 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society, University of Cambridge, 21-25 June 2021. 

2. Bhattacharjee, Partha. “Gutter Speaks: Comics as an Instructional Tool for Sex Education in Indian Classroom.” 11th Annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, 1st – 3rd July 2020, London. 

3. Pal, Bidisha, and Partha Bhattacharjee. “Where Language Meets Culture: Studying the Cultural Aspects from Select Translations of Smritikana Howladar’s Poems.” International Conference on “Languaging and Translating: Within and Beyond,” (21st - 23rd February 2020), organized at Indian Institute of Technology Patna. 

4. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Bidisha Pal. “Bridging the Gutter, Re-living the Massacre: Comics, Colour, and History in Toni Patel’s Jallianwala Bagh (Amar Chitra Katha).” IIT Madras, 2-4th October 2019. 

5. Pal, Bidisha, and Partha Bhattacharjee. “Revisiting the Trauma, Reviving the Memory: Reflections of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Select Bollywood Films.” IIT Madras, 2-4th October 2019. 

6. Bhattacharjee, Partha. “Comics and Gender Sensitization: Reviving Indian Hindu Myths in “Transmedial” Narratives.” 10th Annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 24th-28th June 2019. 

7. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Going beyond Narrative: ‘Retelling’ of Mahabharata in Amruta Patil’s Sauptik: Blood and Flowers.” “Telling & Retelling Stories: (Re)imagining Popular Culture,” organized by The Pop Culture Consortium, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1st – 2nd March, 2019 (via Skype). 

8. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Pragmatic Intelligence and Graphic Narratives in ELT Classroom.” National Seminar on Communication and Technology in Education: The Recent Trends in Teaching and Learning Process, organized by Amity Institute of English Studies & Research in collaboration with Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Patna, 18th – 19th January, 2019. 

9. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Re(th)inking the Silence(ing) of the Voice(s): Crossing the Cultural Barriers in Graphic Kaleidoscopes.” “Graphic Texts and Visual Rhetoric: The Cultural Kaleidoscope” panel under Rita D. Costello at South Central Modern Language Association 2018, San Antonio, Texas, 11th - 14th October 2018. 

10. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Going Beyond Illustrations: Silhouetting the Contours of Augmented Reality in Print Comics.” 15th Annual Conference, “ImageTech: Comics and Materiality.” Graduate Comics Organization at the University of Florida, 6th - 8th April, 2018. 

11. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “‘Disease’ and Visual Rhetorics of Disability: Comics and Autopathography in the Works of Alison Bechdel.” “International Conference on Interrogating Disability Studies: Literature, Culture, Performance,” Dept. of English, University of Delhi, 8th – 10th March, 2018. 

12. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Comics for Gender Sensitization: India’s Pathbreaking Priya Series.” International Conference on Gender Issues: Possibilities and Challenges, Centre for Gender Studies, Patna, Bihar (India), 17th – 19th November, 2017. 

13. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Life in a Refugee Camp: Analysing the Trauma of Partition in Syeda Farhana’s “Little Women” and Maria M Litwa’s “Welcome to Geneva Camp”.” A Two-Day International Conference on Women and Sectarian Violence in South Asia: Fiction and Reality, 9th - 10th November, 2017, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar. 

14. Bhattacharjee, Partha. “Trauma in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Are You My Mother?”: “Doing Graphic Stories: A Comics Festival” organized by the Department of English (CAS Programme III), Jadavpur University and Longform Collective, 12th - 14th January 2017, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. 

15. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Quest for Peace: Eco-criticism and Postcolonialism in Barbara Gowdy’s The White Bone”: UGC Sponsored International Conference on “Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis” (ICRTE-2016), 28th – 30th December, 2016, organized by Post Graduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha, India, 

16. Bhattacharjee, Partha, and Priyanka Tripathi. “Glorified Nation to No Man’s Land: Reflections of Partition in Saadat Hasan Manto’s “Toba Tek Singh””: UGC Sponsored National Seminar, Remapping History and (Con)Textualising Literature: The Tragedy of Partition and the Fictional Narratives of Indian Subcontinent. 26th – 28th November, 2016, organized by Department of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand in collaboration with PG Department of English & Cultural Studies Kolhan University Chaibasa, Jharkhand. 

17. Bhattacharjee, Partha. “Maqbool – Where Vishal Bhardwaj meets William Shakespeare”: National Conference on Revisiting Shakespeare in the 21st Century, 15th – 16th September, 2016, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna. 

18. Bhattacharjee, Partha. “Representation and Re–presentation: Gender Identity in Rituparno’s Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish and Tagore’s Chitrangada”: A Three-Day National Level Seminar on Stage and Screen: Representations and Self Discoveries. 24th – 26th March 2014, DRS, SAP III, Phase III, Department of English, University of Calcutta. 

19. Bhattacharjee, Partha. “Female Gaze” and Binodini in Rituparno Ghosh’s Chokher Bali”: National Conference on Cultural Representations: Race, Class, Gender and Caste, 3rd - 4th September, 2013, Department of English, The University of Burdwan.