The Department regularly organizes seminars and conferences, including a major national or international conference every year.
PAST CONFERENCES
2022-23 International Conference on English Studies in India: Centenary Perspectives
2019-20 Gandhi in the Private and the Public Sphere: Image, Text, and Performance
2019-20 Culture and Aesthetics in Indian Folklore
2018-19 Machiavelli: In his times, and Ours
2017-18 World Literature: Postcolonial Perspectives
2017-18 Interrogating Disability Studies: Literature, Culture, Performance
2016-17 The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances
and Histories
2015-16 The Indian Vernacular: Languages, Literatures and Histories
2013-14 The Futures of American Studies
2012-13 Rethinking the Novel
2011-12 The Dalit Experience and the Question of Marginality
2010-11 Postfeminist Postmortems? Gender, Sexualities and Multiple Modernities
2009-10 Inhabiting This Hour: John Milton, His Bequest, 1608-2010
2008-9 Non-Metropolitan Modernisms
2007-8 Renaissance and Renaissances: European Renaissance and Bengal Renaissance
2006-7 Nature and Time in Literature and the Visual Arts
2005-6 Past the Post: New Literatures in English in a Globalized World
2004-5 Mediations: Literature Across Media
2003-4 Reflexions: Literature, Film and Culture
2002-3 English Language Studies
2001-2 Women and Literature
OTHER CONFERENCES
2016-17 Modes, Motives, Motifs, and Conditions in Intra-Asian Travel
2016-17 Culinary Roots/Routes
2008-9 New Areas of Research
2007-8 Marriage in Shakespeare: A Community Affair
2006-7 Seminar on Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan
2005-6 Angles: Film Seminar and Festival
2004-5 After Edward Said: Colonialism, Knowledge and Culture
2004-5 Mourning Jacques Derrida
OTHER EVENTS
2018 – 19 A Three Day Workshop on Romanticism and the New Political
2018 -19 A One Day Workshop on United State of Utopia: American Utopian Fiction
2017-18 Kuch Ishq Kiya Kuch Kaam: Revisiting Faiz Ahmed Faiz
2016-17 The Ghazal Convention: Theory and Practice
SEMINARS ORGANIZED IN COLLABORATION WITH UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGES
2016-17 History, Culture and Literature: Reading the Margins (Swami Shraddhanand College)
2009-10 Conflict, Belonging and Multiculturalism (with Sri Venkateswara College)
2009-10 Constructions of the Self: Theories, Contexts, Practices (with Hans Raj College)
2008-9 The City and its Cultures (with Hindu College)
2008-9 Literature and Revolution (with Janaki Devi Memorial College)
2008-9 Text, Pedagogy, Discourse (with Shyam Lal College)
2006-7 Literature and the Visual Arts (with Ramjas College)
2005-6 The Long Eighteenth Century (with Janaki Devi College)