Invited Talks

Dr. Sukhendu Das has been consistently invited by universities and academic institutions across India to speak on posthumanism, literary theory, urban and digital culture, and settler-colonial critique. His fourteen invited lectures—delivered between 2016 and 2024—reflect a sustained engagement with contemporary theoretical debates, ranging from the Anthropocene, posthuman condition, and surveillance cultures to poetics, modernism, and deconstruction.

With a major concentration of talks in West Bengal and a growing national presence in Tamil Nadu and Assam, Dr. Das’s contributions span plenary lectures, workshop sessions, postgraduate engagements, and international seminars. His invitations notably cluster around three core areas of expertise: Posthumanism, Literary Theory, and Settler-colonial Studies, underscoring his evolving scholarly footprint and interdisciplinary reach.

1. Invited to deliver a talk on "Is Deconstruction Dead in Literature Departments?" at Kanyashree University, India on 28.05.2024

2. Invited to deliver a talk on “'You Feel Real to Me, Samantha': Cartography of (Post)urban Space and (Post)digital Romance in Spike Jonze’s Her (2013)" at the workshop on Digital Infrastructures and Contemporary Urbanities at NIT Silchar, India during 15-16 September 2023.

3. Invited to deliver a talk on "Prufrock (is) Walking in the City" at the Department of English, Gobinda Prasad Mahavidyalaya on October 6, 2023.

4. Invited to deliver lectures to the PG Students of Dakshin Dinajpur University on 14.03.2023.

5. Invited to deliver a talk on “Silence: A Cultural History” on 16.12.2022 at SBM, Jhargram.

6. Invited to deliver a talk on "Research Methods in the Humanities" on 14.05.2022 at Kaliyaganj College.

7. Invited to deliver a talk on " 'What matter who's speaking': Barthes and Foucault on the Question of the Author" on 25.04.2022 at Biswa Bangla Biswabidyalay

8. Invited to deliver a talk on “Re-figuring the Anthropos in the Anthropocene” at the Department of English, Narajole Raj College, Paschim Medinipore, India on July, 2021

9. Invited to deliver a talk on “The Anthropocene and New Fictions” in an international seminar on New Waves in Language and Literature:A Pragmatic Approach on April 12th & 13th 2021 at Department of English, Sri Krishna Arts and Science College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

10. Invited to deliver a talk on “ ‘Myself must I remake’: W. B. Yeats and Poetics of Aging” on 1 August, 2020 at Gobinda Prasad Mahavidyalaya, Amarkanan, Bankura.

11. Invited to deliver a talk on “Politics, Surveillance and Violence in Pinter’s The Birthday Party” at Barjora College, Bankura on 23 July 2020

12. Invited to deliver a talk on “Thinking Planetary Crises in the Anthropocene” in Web- Lecture Series, hosted by the Department of English, GGDC, Salboni, Paschim Medinipur, India on 28th June, 2020

13. Invited to deliver plenary talk on “‘Colonizing the Body’: Colonialism, Pandemics and Public Health” in National Interdisciplinary Web Conference on "Pandemic history, Literature, Cinema and Social Psychology", at G.K.S. College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Khadavali, University of Mumbai, India on 19, 20 and 21 June, 2020

14. Invited to deliver a talk on “The Anthropocene and the (Post)human Condition” in One Day International Seminar on "Rethinking Environmental Issues: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" on February 17, 2020 at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar College, Nadia, India

15. Invited to deliver a talk on “Re-structuring the Gaze: A Study of Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves” in National Seminar on “‘Off the Mark’: Marginality, Narratives and Reclaiming History”, organized by Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University on 07-08 December, 2016

• Consistent focus on:

• Posthumanism (7 talks)

• Literary theory (4 talks)

• Settler-colonial critique (3 talks) 

• Geographical Spread:

• 10/14 talks delivered in West Bengal institutions

• National reach: Tamil Nadu (Coimbatore), Assam (Silchar)