Dr. Sayan Dey

Journal Articles

• “Gender Empowerment in Transoceanic Feminine Folklore and Shrines: A Kin Study of Siddi Women’s Participation in Mai Misra Worship in Gujarat, India” (Co-written with Tias Maity and Tanmay Srivastava). Journal of International Women’s Studies (Volume 26, Issue 1, ISSN: 1539-8706). Published by Bridgewater State University, US. Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol26/iss1/4/.
• “Cargo cultism and the whiteness syndrome: fake internationalization of private universities of India.” Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching (Volume 7, Issue 1, ISSN: 2591-801X). Published by Kaplan Business School, Singapore. Link: https://journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/view/1419.
• “Brewing Indigenisation, Filtering Westernisation: A Socio-historical Study of Locally Brewed Alcohols in Bhutan.” Research in Social Change (Volume 14, Issue 1, ISSN: 2463-8226). Published by De Gruyter, Poland. Link: https://doi.org/10.2478/rsc-2022-0001.
• “The Fanonian Turn.” Journal of Asian and African Studies (Volume 58, Issue 6, ISSN: 1745-2538). Published by Sage, UK. Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00219096231192191.
• “Baine Mara-Indu Mama-Siddi Dhamaal: Interwoven Performances of Epistemic Justice and Cognitive Freedom by the Siddis of Karnataka, India.” International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies (Volume:5, Issue: 2, ISSN: 2516-5518). Published by Pluto Press, London. Link: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/intecritdivestud.5.2.0017.
• “Translating Contexts, Transforming Cultures: Bengali Adapation of Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Wada Chirebandi” by Dr. Arti Nirmal and Sayan Dey. Edited by Mathew Pritchard, University of Leeds and Carola Lorea, University of Heidelberg. Published in Translation Impossible: The Ethics, Politics and Pragmatics of Radical Literary Translation in South Asia, a Special Issue of Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (September 2018, Volume 5, No.1 ISSN: 2349-8064). Link: https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/167.
• “Eco-centric Myths and Deep Ecology in Sangay Wangchuk’s Seeing with the Third Eye”. Journal of Contemporary Poetics (Volume: 6, Issue: 1, ISSN: 2521-5728). Published by International Islamic University, Pakistan, 2023. Link: http://irigs.iiu.edu.pk:64447/ojs/index.php/jcp/article/view/2688.
• “Pedagogy of Common Sense”. Tumultes Journal (Issue 58-59, Special Issue, ISSN: 1243-549X). Published by Editions Kime, France, 2022. Link: https://www.academia.edu/90095129/Pedagogy_of_common_sense.
• “Pedagogy of Performative Silence”. Philosophy and Global Affairs (Issue: 2, volume: 1, ISSN: 2692-790X). Published by Philosophy Documentation Centre, University of Massachusetts, 2022. Link: https://www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/pga_2022_0002_0001_0015_0040.
• “’Corona-logy’: A Re-Configuration of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary India”. Research in Social Change (Issue: 13, volume: 1, ISSN: 2463-8226). Published by De Gruyter Poland, 2022. Link: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/rsc-2021-0001.
• “’Covid Batch’: A case study on unethical assessment practices in selected higher educational institutions in Assam and West Bengal, India.” Published by Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, Kaplan Singapore (ISSN: 2591-801X, Voume 4, Issue: 2, Link: https://journals.sfu.ca/jalt/index.php/jalt/article/view/429/367.)
• “The Dis-Ease of Body-Politics: “Coronavirus” as a Racial Pandemic in Contemporary India.” Published by International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies, Pluto Press (ISSN: 2516-5518, Volume 3, Issue 1, Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/intecritdivestud.3.1.0069#metadata_info_tab_contents).
• “Decolonisation and Food: The Burden of the Colonial Gastronomy – Stories from West Bengal.” Published by Alternations Journal, UKZN Press, South Africa (ISSN: 2519-5476 Volume 33, Special Edition on Decoloniality and Decolonial Education, Link: http://alternation.ukzn.ac.za/Files/articles/special-editions/33/12-dey.pdf).  
• “Pedagogy of the Stupid”. Published in Philosophy and Global Affairs Journal, Philosophy Documentation Center, University of Connecticut, US (ISSN: 2692-790X Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Link: https://www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/pga_2021_0001_0001_0022_0045).
• “In Medias Res: Decolonial Interventions: Editorial Introduction” (Co-authored with Su-Ming Khoo and Anique Vered). Published in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, US (ISSN: 1539-8706 Volume: 21, Issue: 7, Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/).
• “Voices of the Dead: A Documentary on the Scottish Women of Calcutta”. Published in Journal of International Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, US. (ISSN: 1539-8706 Volume: 21, Issue: 6. Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss6/31/).
• Their Stories, Their Voices: The Orphans of the British Raj in Journal of International Women’s Studies. Bridgewater State University Press, Massachusetts, (ISSN: 1539-8706 Vol: 20, Issue: 2. Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol20/iss2/27/).
• De-linking Epistemology: Unlearning to Re-learn in Research in Social Change Journal published by School of Advanced Social Studies and Vega Press LTD., Slovenia (ISSN: 1855-4202, Volume 9, Issue 3 September 2017). Link: https://www.fuds.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/rsc_volume_9_issue_3_september_2017.pdf.
• Le the?a?tre marathi post-colonial – Contribution de Mahesh Elkunchwar a? son e?volution. Translated into French by Martin Chemana from the English original “Contribution of Mahesh Elkunchwar in the evolution of Post-colonial Marathi Theatre: Tracing the Theatrical History in Theatre/Public: Arts of the Contemporary Scene in India (Volume 219, Jan-Mar 2016), France (ISBN: 978-2-84260-708-1).
• ‘Bastuhara Nari’ or Feminine Homelessness: Women of the Streets in Knowledge Cultures: An International peer reviewed academic journal. Published by Addleton Academic Publishers, New York. (March 2018, Volume 6, Issue 1, ISSN-2375-6527). Link: https://www.academia.edu/36014840/BASTUHARA_NARI_OR_FEMININE_HOMELESSNESS_WOMEN_OF_THE_STREETS.  

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “Green Marxism, Ecocentric Pedagogies and De-capitalization/Decolonization.” In The Palgrave International Handbook on Marxism and Education, edited by Richard Hall, Inny Accioly, and Krystian Szadkowski. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York. Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-37252-0_18.
• “#Corona Jihad: Remanufacturing Islamophobia During Covid-19 in India.” In The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life, edited by Innocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Published by Routledge India, 2023. Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-COVID-19-Pandemic-and-the-Politics-of-Life/Moyo-Ndlovu-Gatsheni/p/book/9781032540993.
• “Zones of Every Being: Transcultural Decolonization and Border Thinking in Contemporary India” in Routledge Handbook of Transcultural Humanities in South Asia. Edited by Prof. Waseem Anwar and Nosheen Yosaf. Routledge. 2022. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Transcultural-Humanities-in-South-Asia-Critical-Essays-on-Literature-and/Anwar/p/book/9780367483715.
• ‘”Killing with Kindness”: Political Icons, Socio-cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis in Karnataka” in Political Communication as decolonisation and performance: Africa and the diaspora. Edited by Beschara Karam and Bruce Mutsvairo. Routledge, 2021. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Decolonizing-Political-Communication-in-Africa-Reframing-Ontologies/Karam-Mutsvairo/p/book/9780367544300.
• “‘Cargo-Cultism’ vs. ‘Everyday Decoloniality’ in 21st Century India: Reflectionson Multi-Racial Decolonial Practices of Anglo-Indians” in Living Theories and True Ideas in the 21st Century Reflections on Marxism and Decolonization. Edited by Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni and Prof. Morgan Ndlovu. Routledge, 2021. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Marxism-and-Decolonization-in-the-21st-Century-Living-Theories-and-True/Ndlovu-Gatsheni-Ndlovu/p/book/9780367708641?fbclid=IwAR3XD_K2-TDAAQZghPEFe11zziDrwvQV4wG6uHSmaVht32htHiySvyYzwpE.
• “De-linking Existence: From ‘Dasein’ to ‘Damne’ in Marginalized Voices in Post-colonial Literature” in Multicultural and Marginalized Voices of Postcolonial Literature. Edited by Dr. Varun Gulati from Delhi University and Dr. Garima Dalal from Jawaharlal Nehru University), Lexington Press, USA (ISBN: 978-1-49854-744-4), 2017. Link: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498547451/Multicultural-and-Marginalized-Voices-of-Postcolonial-Literature#:~:text=Works%20Poonam%20Pahuja-,Multicultural%20and%20Marginalized%20Voices%20of%20Postcolonial%20Literature%20is%20a%20rich,suppress%20and%20oppress%20theses%20voices.
• “De-indoctrination and Pluralization of Research Methodologies: A Case Study on the contextual-experiential approach in Cultural Studies” in Legal Research and Methodology: Perspectives, Process and Practice. Edited by Dr. B.C. Nirmal, Dr. Arti Nirmal and Dr. Rajnish Kumar Singh. Published by Satyam Law International, New Delhi. 2019.

News Paper Articles

• ‘The Burden of European Colonial Gastronomy in Contemporary West Bengal.’ Published by The Indian Hour Tabloid. Link: https://www.theindianhour.com/post/the-burden-of-european-colonial-gastronomy-in-contemporary-west-bengal.
• “Remnants of Anglo-Indian Calcutta in Bow Barracks” published by Kathmandu Tribune, Nepal (31st August 2018). Link: https://kathmandutribune.com/remnants-of-anglo-indian-calcutta-in-bow-barracks/.
• “The Decolonial ‘Wrong Turn’ in Indian Academia” published by Convivial Thinking, EADI, University of Bonn, Germany (8th December 2018). The link to the article is: https://www.convivialthinking.org/index.php/blog/.
• “‘Low Class’ People = ‘Low Class’ Treatment: Colonial Equations and Decolonial Counter-Equations” published by Educate.: NGO, Honduras (7th May 2019). The link to the article is: https://educate-ngo.com/category/development-philosophy-and-ethics/.
• “COVID–19: (Re)configurations of violent knowledge management, epistemic inferiorization and neo-colonial divisions”. Published by Real KM Magazine, Australia (22nd March 2020). The link to the article is: https://realkm.com/2020/03/22/covid-19-reconfigurations-of-violent-knowledge-management-epistemic-inferiorization-and-neo-colonial-divisions/. Also published in Convivial Thinking Collective, Germany (24th March 2020). Link: https://www.convivialthinking.org/index.php/2020/03/24/covid-19-reconfigurations/#more-1212.
• “De-racializing Taste Buds through Aesthetical Marketing: Food Hawkers of Kolkata”. Published by The Indian Hour (23rd March 2020). The link to the article is: https://www.theindianhour.com/post/de-racializing-taste-buds-through-aesthetical-marketing-food-hawkers-of-kolkata.
• “Is Ecological Crisis a Permanent Antidote against Future Pandemics?” Published by The Indian Hour (31st March 2020). The link to the article is: https://www.theindianhour.com/post/is-ecological-consciousness-a-permanent-antidote-against-future-pandemics.
• “Why Bhutan is an Outlier in the Fight Against Corona Virus?” Published by The Madras Courier (3rd April, 2020). Co-author: Malati Sunar. The link to the article is: https://madrascourier.com/opinion/why-bhutan-is-an-outlier-in-the-fight-against-coronavirus/.
• “Why a Pedagogy of the Stupid is smart and liberating”. Published by University World News (4th April, 2020). The link to the article is: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20200401114425376.
• “Covid-19 in India: Political Opportunism and Development”. Published by Discover Society, Social Research Publications, UK (13th April, 2020). The link to the article is: https://discoversociety.org/2020/04/13/covid-19-in-india-political-opportunism-and-development/.
• “How a Scottish graveyard in Kolkata revealed the untold stories of colonial women in India.” Published by The Conversation, UK (16th June 2021). The link to the article is: https://theconversation.com/how-a-scottish-graveyard-in-kolkata-revealed-the-untold-stories-of-colonial-women-in-india-161752#comment_2540687.
• “Countering intellectual sterilisation in the HE system." Published by University World News, UK, (25th September 2021). Link: https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20210922113720381.
• “How African communities preserve their ancestral knowledges through dance and culinary practices in India.” Published by Counter Currents, India (15th October 2021). Link: https://countercurrents.org/2021/10/how-african-communities-preserve-their-ancestral-knowledges-through-dance-and-culinary-practices-in-india/.
• “The Incredible Story of How East African Culture Shaped the Music of a State in India.” Published by The Conversation, Africa (2nd February 2023). The link to the article: https://theconversation.com/the-incredible-story-of-how-east-african-culture-shaped-the-music-of-a-state-in-india-198412.
• “Garbo-Imperialism: Towards a Planetary Empire of Wastes.” Published by The Companion, India (31st March 2023). The link to the article: https://thecompanion.in/garbo-imperialism-towards-a-planetary-empire-of-wastes.

Books (Published/Forthcoming)

• Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creole Cultures across the Indian Ocean. Anthem Press, UK, 2023. Link: https://anthempress.com/regional-and-area-studies/books/performing-memories-and-weaving-archives-epub
• Critically diverse perspectives on Covid-19: Interviews with a varied range of South African University of South Africa (UNISA) Press. 2023. Link: https://unisapress.africa/index.php/unisapress/catalog/book/133.
• Green Academia: Towards Eco-friendly Education Systems. Routledge India. 2022. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Green-Academia-Towards-Eco-Friendly-Education-Systems/Dey/p/book/9781032126043.  
• Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge: Writings of Lewis R. Gordon. Bloomsbury. 2023. Link: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/black-existentialism-and-decolonizing-knowledge-9781350343764/.
• Myths, Histories and Decolonial Interventions: A Planetary Resistance. Routledge India. 2022. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Histories-Myths-and-Decolonial-Interventions-A-Planetary-Resistance/Nirmal-Dey/p/book/9780367534561.
• Scars and Scratches: A Collection of Protest Artworks. Published by Convivial Thinking Collective. 2022. Link: https://convivialthinking.org/index.php/scars-and-scratches/#dearflip-df_1986/1/.    
• History and Myth: Postcolonial Dimensions. Vernon Press. 2021. Link: https://www.academia.edu/60490697/History_and_Myth_Postcolonial_Dimensions.   
• Decolonial Existence and Urban Sensibility: A Study on Mahesh Elkunchwar. Manipal Universal Press, Karnataka. 2019. Link: https://books.google.co.za/books?id=sa_MDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_atb&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false.  
• Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality. Published by Wordit CDE. 2019. Link: https://www.academia.edu/88445166/DIFFERENT_SPACES_DIFFERENT_VOICES_A_RENDEZVOUS_WITH_DECOLONIALITY.     
• The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia: The Various Perspectives of Text and Performance. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. 2018. Link: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-indigenous-voice-of-poetomachia.
• “‘Corona-Jihad’”: Remanufacturing Islamophobia During Covid-19 in India.” In The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Life. Edited by Innocent Moyo and Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Published by Routledge India, 2023. Link: https://www.routledge.com/The-COVID-19-Pandemic-and-the-Politics-of-Life/Moyo-Ndlovu-Gatsheni/p/book/9781032540993.

As Editor/Co-Editor

• Editorial Board Member of Journal of Contemporary Trends in Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Lahore, Pakistan.
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, Kaplan Business School, Singapore.
• Copy Editor. Journal of Ecohumanism. Published by Translational London Press. Link: https://ecohumanism.co.uk/joe/ecohumanism/about/editorialTeam.
• Book Series Co-editor of Routledge Book Series on Academics, Politics and Society in Post-Covid World. Co-edited with Lewis R. Gordon, Rozena Maart and Epifania Amoo-Adare. Link: https://www.routledge.com/Academics-Politics-and-Society-in-the-Post-Covid-World/book-series/APSPCW.
• Co-Editor of Special Issue titled: “In medias res – Decolonial Interventions”. Journal of International Women’s Studies, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, 2020. Co-edited with Su-Ming Khoo and Anique Vered. Link: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol21/iss7/.

Research Projects (As PI/CO-PI)

Major Projects

• Co-Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator. Topic: Reverberations Counter-Atlas Sub-Project. Funded by: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), United States and Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany. (Ongoing since June 2023 - 2024).

Minor Projects

• Principal Investigator. Topic: The Role of Siddi Women within the Indigenous Spiritual Spaces of Siddi Community in India: A Case Study on Women’s Participation in Mai Misra Worship in Gujarat. Funded by: JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. (Ongoing since September 2022 - 2024).
• Principal Investigator. Topic: Voices of the dead: A socio-historical documentary research on the untold histories of the 'Scottish Women's Group' of Kolkata at Scottish Cemetery, Sealdah. Funded by: JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. (February 2018-January 2019).
• Principal Investigator. Topic: Dismantling the Colonial Heteronormative (His)tories and establishing Decolonial Inter-racial (Her)stories: A Documentary Research on the Anglo-Indian Women of Bow Barracks, Calcutta. Funded by: JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. (February 2017 – January 2018).

Grants/Fellowships/Awards

• Full Scholarship to attend ‘Write for Change’ online Workshop. Organized by The OpEd Project. 25-26 April 2024.
• Visiting Scholarship to the School of Education, University of Western Cape. 26th May - 31st May 2023.
• Visiting Scholarship to the School of Education, University of Western Cape. 10th April – 15th April 2023.
• The United Nations Certificate of Awesomeness for Boosting the International Profile of WICDS. Awarded by Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WICDS), University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 2022.
• JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. The topic of the project: The Role of Siddi Women within the Indigenous Spiritual Spaces of Siddi Community in India: A Case Study on Women’s Participation in Mai Misra Worship in Gujarat. 2022.
• SarChi Chair and National Research Foundation (NRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wits Center for Diversity Studies, Witwatersrand University, South Africa (2021-2023)
• Volkswagen Foundation Scholarship, Humboldt University, Berlin, 2019.
• Humanities and Social Sciences Conference Travel Grant by Shahid Husain Foundation and Lahore Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan, 2019.
• Wordit Art Fund by Becomeshakespeare.com, India, 2018. For publishing the monograph Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality.
• JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. The topic of the project: Voices of the dead: A socio-historical documentary research on the untold histories of the 'Scottish Women's Group' of Kolkata at Scottish Cemetery, Sealdah. 2019.
• GAPS (Gesellschaftfür Anglophone PostkolonialeStudien / Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies) Conference Grant 2018, Germany.
• JIWS (Journal of International Women’s Studies) Fellowship by Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. The topic of the project: Dismantling the Colonial Heteronormative (His)tories and establishing Decolonial Inter-racial (Her)stories: A Documentary Research on the Anglo-Indian Women of Bow Barracks, Calcutta. 2018.
• Cambridge Scholars Press Publishing Grant 2017, UK. For publishing the monograph, The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia: The Various Perspectives of Text and Performance.
• Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow – Short Term Research Grant 2017, UK. The topic of research: An-other Postcolonial Narrative: A Socio-historical Study of the Anglo-Indians community of Bow Barracks, Calcutta. It was a library research conducted in British Library and Wellcome Collection, London.
• German Research Foundation Conference Grant in 2017, Germany.
• German Research Foundation Conference Grant in 2016, Germany.

Workshops Attended

• Digital Infrastructures & Urbanities Workshop held at NIT Silchar during 15th-16th September, 2023. Topic: “Digitalscapes and Discardscapes: What do digital discards teach us about digital infrastructures?”
• XIII Theory/Praxis Course of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda held at the English and Foreign Languages University, Shillong Campus during June 16-July 12, 2015.
• XIV Theory/Praxis Course of the Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda held at the Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad during 5th June-2nd July.
• Decoloniality, Being and Knowledge School, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, Muckleneuk Ridge Campus during 9-20 January 2017.
• Decoloniality, Being and Knowledge School, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, Mucklenuek Ridge Campus during 13-17 January 2020.
• Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Summer School on Crisis & Connectedness: Flashpoints of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Organized by University of Malaya, Malaysia during 9-18 August 2022.

Affiliations

• Faculty Fellow, The Tubman Institute of Research on Africa and its Diasporas, York University, Canada.
• Critical Research Studies Faculty, The NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York.
• Affiliated Member, Global Posthuman Network.

Invited Lectures

• Book Talk on “Performing Memories and Weaving Archives” at NYI Institute of Cultural, Cognitive and Linguistic Studies, New York. Date: 10th January 2024. Link: https://www.facebook.com/NYI.Linguistics.Cognition.and.Culture/videos/344342505154118.
• Keynote lecture on “Debating Development: Shaking the Ivory Tower.” Topic: Reimagining the University: Alternative Spaces of Education. Institute of Development Policy, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Date: 5th December 2023.
• Guest lecture at P.G. Department of English, N.S.S. College, Pandalam. Topic: “Learning from Below: Graveyards as Methodological Sites.”
• Plenary lecture at the ICSSR Sponsored three-day international conference titled “In Search of Creative Commons: Crisis, Catastrophe and Responsive Literature in India.” Organized by Abid Ali Khan Centre for Digital Archive and Translation of Cultures, Gour Mahavidyalaya Malda, India. Topic: Archive as Literature: A Case Study on Documenting Narratives of Cultural Catastrophes in India.” Date: 1st September 2023.
• Guest lecture at The Office of Transformation in the College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa. Topic: Performing Decolonization: Transforming curriculums and pedagogies through praxis-based teaching-learning techniques. Date: 30th August 2023. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vNWuOBqD5A&t=7s.
• A series of guest lectures at COM Research Lecture Series, Department of Mass Communication, Mizoram University, India. Topic: “Decolonizing Social Research in India.” Dates: 22nd, 26th and 28th August 2023.
• Invited Lecture at The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada. Topic: “Afro-Indian Creole Cultures in Gujarat: A Case Study on the ‘Zikr’ Songs and ‘Dhamaal’ Dances of the Siddi Community.” Date: 20th April 2023. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okRE9wfJFKM.
• Guest Speaker at Tuesday Seminar Series. Organized by the Faculty of Education, University of Western Cape. Topic: “Ecology, Class and the Classroom: An Entangled Pedagogical Vision.” Date: 11th April 2023.
• Guest Speaker at a workshop titled “From Where I Stand: A Living Archive.” Organized by the Rumman Collective, Jordan in collaboration with the British Council, UK; Flow India; National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad; National Museums, Scotland; The University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh Napier University; and Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Date: 25th March 2023.
• Mentor at a workshop titled “Naming the Elephant in the Room: Developing a decolonial lens in the German Global Health Research Context.” Organized by the School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld; University of Education; GLOHRA; and Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany. Dates: 1st October 2022 – 24th March 2023.
• Guest Lecture. Organized by the Department of Culture Studies, Tezpur University, Assam. Topic: Afro-Indian Musical Creoles: A Study of the ‘Zikrs’ of the Siddi Community in Gujarat. Date: 4th March 2023. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQIltKlJrXc&t=9s.
• Guest lecture. Organized by the University of Texas at Austin (Qatar Campus) for undergraduate students. Topic: African Science Fiction: An Introduction (20th January 2023).
• Guest lecture. Organized by School of Health and Medicine, Bielefield University, Germany. Topic: Decolonization and Global Health (10th November 2022).
• Lecture at “Decolonizing Academia” Symposium. Organized by Maynooth University, Ireland. Topic: Fractured Pedagogies: An intersectional repertoire of stupidity, common sense and silence (27th October 2022). Link: https://youtu.be/7fXM49geG8o.
• Lecture at the Online Lecture Series. Organized by North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus. Topic: “How to De-Racialize Research Works? Critical Race Study as a Methodological Framework” (24th August 2022). Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHA172qSGvmbPuqmypG-j3g.
• Panelist at the Food and Drinks Project. Organized by Tell Me Your Story (TMYS), York Centre for Asian Research, New York and Readomania. Topic: “Religious Practices/Beliefs and their Influence on Food.” Link:
• Keynote address at the online International Conference on “Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-modern Society.” Organized by All India Forum for English Students, Scholars and Trainers (AIFEST). Topic: “Guesthood: Mapping Affective Postmodernities.” Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDG0IQmXIlU.
• Lecture at Online Lecture Series. Organized by Cotton University, Assam. Date: 29th October 2021. Topic: “‘Are Universities in India Racist?’ Systemic racism in the higher education systems in India.” Link: https://youtu.be/QyVZexPWm5o.
• Food Dialogues: Sayan Dey in conversation with Kashyapi Ghosh. Organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati, India. Date: 25th October, 2021. Link: https://youtu.be/TrZn3H0i9s0.
• Lecture in the Hauntology Webinar Series organized by Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, Iwalewahaus and Bayfink. Topic: “’Cemetery Narratives’: Unraveling the silenced voices of the Scottish Women from the Scottish Cemetery, Kolkata. Date: 3rd March, 2021. Link: https://www.facebook.com/Iwalewahaus/videos/253042346316376.
• Lecture in a webinar organized by Maharaja’s College, Ernakulam and Government College, Tripunithura. Topic: “Corona-logy and #Covidjihad in Contemporary India. 22nd February, 2021. Link: https://www.facebook.com/339672447479965/videos/1364691130547493.
• L ecture in an International Webinar on “Global English: A transformative tool in the age of crisis.” Organized by Languages and Literature Unit, Leyte Normal University, Philippines. Topic: ‘Pedagogy of Common Sense’. Date: 25th November, 2020. Link: https://fb.watch/2g3_y3PW1b/.
• Panel discussant at an online panel series titled “Fanon at 95”. Organized by Caribbean Philosophical Association, Memphis. Topic: “Frantz Fanon and Border Intellectuality in Contemporary India”. Date: 8th July 2020. Link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=610738489846670.
• Lecture in an International Webinar Lecture Series. Organized by the Department of English, Gobinda Prasad Mahavidayala, Bankura. Topic: “Armchair Narratives: Solidarity, Resilience and Resurrection in the time of Covid-19". Date: 27th July 2020. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbYI9ecdrwA.
• Lecture in GNOSIS Online Lecture Series – 2020. Organized by GNOSIS: An International Journal of English Language and Literature, India. Topic: “Postcolonization v/s Decolonization: Theory and Praxis in India”. Date: 18th May 2020. Link: https://youtu.be/wmWdV6pdfus. Also archived in: https://stilet.digital/stilet-pods/?fbclid=IwAR0A091fZxZraut-Qjv8ZsaKICfsfwCw6Ef3YbzANwhVZvX_CPBZqGINufI.
• Lecture at School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, UK. Panel Topic: “Digitising Critical Pedagogies Amidst Covid-19”. Date: 6 may 2020. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-x8jqKf5jA&feature=youtu.be.
• Lecture on ‘”Killing with Kindness”: Colonial Icons, Socio-cultural Victims: Visual Coloniality of the Siddis in India.’ Organized by Department of Research and Graduate Studies, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa. Date: 20 January 2020. (https://www.facebook.com/1015655578451986/videos/513922226144490/).
• Lecture on “Burden of the Colonial Gastronomy: Hegemonization of Food Habits in/of Contemporary India.” UNISA Decolonial Summer School, University of South Africa. Date: 13 January 2020. (https://www.facebook.com/1015655578451986/videos/2693592204042777/).  
• A talk on “Zone of Every being: Transcontinental decolonization and Border thinking.” A workshop entitled: “Academic and non-academic networks in South-South Cooperation” with University of Palermo, Argentina Main Event: “Second United Nations High Level Conference on South-South Cooperation (BAPA +5).” Date: 18th March, 2019. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuKyVxAAqso&t=25s).  
• A talk on “Colonial Detoxification and Celebrating ‘In-betweenness’: The Anglo-Indians of Bow Barracks, Calcutta.” A Webinar Series on Post- and Decolonial Perspectives on Development. Organized by Convivial Thinking, European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), Bonn, Germany. 14th September, 2018. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJsmSz6hjkU).

Courses Developed

• Developed content for the School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi for MA English in American Drama (Block IV, Unit 13: T.S. Eliot’s Contribution to Poetic Drama. Link: https://egyankosh.ac.in/handle/123456789/81891.
• Developed content for the School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi for MA English in American Drama Block VII, Unit 29: Background of Contemporary American Poetry). Link: https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/81913/3/Block-1.pdf.
• Co-developed syllabus for the Postgraduate Diploma in Critical Diversity Studies with the University of Mumbai, India in 2022. Link: https://mu.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Vide-Item-No.-5.11-N11.07.2022-Postgraduate-Diploma-in-Critical-Diversity-Studies-Sem-I-II-CBCS.pdf.

Conference Presentations Abroad

• International Science Congress Association on International Science Congress (Topic Name: Questioning the fetish-‘ism:’ De-‘ism’ization of Theory from the Western Pages to the Practical World). Central Department of Chemistry. Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (8-11 December 2015).
• American Drama and Theatre: Genre, Mediality and Ethics at University of Augsburg, Germany (Topic Name: “Get the Guests”: Postmodern Gaming as Trauma and Tragedy in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf) (1-3 July 2017).
• Third Bremen Conference on Language and Literature in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts at University of Bremen, Germany (Topic Name: De-linking Epistemology: Unlearning to Re-learn) (13-16 March 2016).
• Bodies at Work: Performance Labor and ATHE@30 Conference organized by Association of Theatre and Higher Education (ATHE) at Paris Hilton Hotel, Illinois, Chicago (Topic Name: From Stage to the Streets: ‘Nukkad’ Theatre in India) (11-14 November 2016).
• Nationalism and Postcolonial Conference organized by GAPS at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Topic Name: Reverse Racism, Museumification and (Post)colonial Nationalism in Contemporary India: A Case Study on the Anglo-Indian Community of Bow Barracks, Calcutta) (10-12 May 2018).
• 13th Humanities and Social Sciences Conference organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan (Topic Name: Decoding the ‘Kala Angrez’ Myth: Racialization of the Anglo-Indian Community of Bow Barracks, Calcutta) (10-11 April 2019).
• 5th Annual Joint Faculty Research Meet (AJFRM) organized by Research and Industrial Linkages, Sherubtse College, Bhutan (Topic Name: Western Science v/s Humanitarian Science: Decolonization and Indigenization) (5-7 September 2019).
• Interdisciplinary Revisited: Workshop and Symposium organized by Humboldt University, Berlin (Topic Name: Performing Pedagogy: Decolonizing the Curriculum from Texts to Contexts in the Indian Academia) (2-4 October 2019).
• Panel Presentation for the panel titled Philosophical Thinking, Religion, and the Task of Decoloniality in the 21st Century for the PANL 2021 Conference: Philosophy and the Task of Decoloniality. Organized by Philosophical Association of Northern Luzon, St. Louis University and Philosophy Department, School of Teacher Education and Liberal Arts, Philippines (22-23 October 2021).
• Paper presentation at 2nd Postdoctoral Conference at Southern Africa. Organized by Stellenbosch University, South Africa (Topic name: “Go Corona, Corona Go”: Political Repertories of pseudo-science and intellectual blindness during Covid-19 in India) (10-12 November 2021). Link: https://youtu.be/6Bkryu38kHs.
• Paper presentation at Transatlantic Memories, Blackness, and African Diasporic Identity: Now and in the Future. Organized by The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diaspora, York University, Canada (Topic Name: From Liminal Diaspora to Flexible Diaspora: Creolized Socio-Cultural Practices as Forms of Cognitive Resistance and Decolonial Healing for the Siddis in Karnataka) (12 May 2022).

Conferences Attended in India

• International Conference on Literature, Language and Communication: ‘An Essential Trident’ (Topic Name: Communication through the Language of ‘Silence’ in Mahesh Elkunchwar’s Yugant Trilogy), Department of English, Amity University (Lucknow Campus) in collaboration with Shakespeare Society of Eastern India, Kolkata, 2013.
• International Seminar on Reading/Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times (Topic Name: Eco-criticism and traditionalism in Jim Corbett’s My India and Jungle Lore), Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 2014.
• National Seminar on Theory and its Pedagogical Implications (Topic Name: Re-contextualizing Mikhail Bakhtin’s Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics through classroom teaching: re-presentation of monological/dialogical conflicts in student-teacher communication), Department of English, IIS University (Jaipur) in collaboration with Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, 2015.
• Second International Conference on Anglo-Indian Studies on Researching the Anglo-Indians in India and the Diaspora. Organized by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras in collaboration with AngloInk Chennai & NZIRI New Zealand (Topic: From Written Texts to Oral Contexts: A Documentary Research on the Anglo-Indians of Bow Barracks), 2018.