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Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. "From Home to House: Traumatic Exile and Kashmiri Pandits." Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, IL, USA, March 19-22, 2020. (Accepted; conference ultimately cancelled due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
Sailaja Nandigama and Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Does Responsibilization of Forest Dependent People Lead to Better Forest Management? A Comparative Qualitative Case Study of the Politics of Forest Rights Recognition in two States of India.”. Jaipur National University, The National Seminar on Tribal Development, Jaipur 11th January, 2020.
Aayushi Malhotra, Sailaja Nandigama, and Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Food, Field and Forage- Articulating a culture change among Gaddis of Himachal Pradesh”. Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya, Bhopal. International Seminar on 'Ethnicity, livelihoods and cultural change among the Himalayan people- Anthropology and Beyond', September, 23-24, 2019.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Reading from Below: "Ravanayana" as an Alternative to "Ramayana" in Neelakantan's Asura: The Tale of the Vanquished”. 46th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, October 26-28, 2017.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. "Reclaiming the Unheard Voices of History: Indira Goswami's Thengphakhri Tehsildar". 16th MELOW International Conference on Facts, Distortions and Erasures: Literature as History, History in Literature, Chandigarh, March 3-5, 2017.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. "Grief for the Living and for the Dead: Draupadi's Lament as a Paradigm for an Alternative Reading of the Mahabharata." Harvard University, Annual Conference of American Comparative Literature Association, Boston, MA, USA, March 17-20, 2016.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. "Anatomizing Selfhood: Postcolonial Identity Politics in India's North East." 24th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, Savannah, GA., USA. February 13-14, 2015.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Reappropriating Agency within an Engendered Space: Swades – The Movie.” Delhi University, International Conference on Re-orienting Gender: Geographies of Resistance, Agency, Violence and Desire in Asia, Delhi, November 19-21, 2014.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Mnemonic Memory and Amnesia in Aruni Kashyap’s The House with a Thousand Stories.” Banaras Hindu University, International Conference on Reading/Understanding Fiction in Contemporary Times, Varanasi, UP, March 5-6, 2014.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Unhomed and Deterritorialized: Quest for National Identity in Indira Goswami’s the Ahiran.” 2014 South Asian Literary Association Conference, Chicago, IL. January 8-9, 2014.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Disnarrating the Events of 1857: Reading J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur.” Tufts University, 44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), Boston, MA. March 21-24, 2013.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “The ‘Other’ and its Representation in Kunal Basu’s The Yellow Emperor’s Cure.” Institute of Advanced Studies in English, International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, Pune, Maharashtra. December 10-12, 2012.
Key Note Address: "Revising the Normative: Using Postcolonialism to Readdress Culture, Literature and Performance." Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, November 30, 2012.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Nostalgia and British Women: Reading Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist.” Rutgers University, 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA), New Brunswick, NJ. April 7-10, 2011.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Controlled Reality and the Reality of Violence: Reading Sikh Pogrom in Indira Goswami’s Pages Stained with Blood.” 2011 SALA Conference on Transnational Realisms and Post Realisms in South Asian Literature and Culture, Los Angeles, CA. January 7-8, 2011.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “The Empire Writes Back” and the Politics of Comic Representation: Reading Anurag Mathur’s The Inscrutable Americans within a Framework of Colonial Discourse." Chaminade University, 2010 PAMLA Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. November 13-14, 2010.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Cathleen as Sakti: Rereading Yeats’ Cathleen Ni Houlihan”. Drew University, The American Conference for Irish Studies: Re-Viewing Ireland: Irish culture in words, music and images, Madison, NJ. October 1-2, 2010.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Relational Marginality in Indira Goswami’s Work.” Texas Tech University, Texas Tech Comparative Literature Symposium: American Studies as Transnational Practice, Lubbock, TX. April 8-11, 2010.
Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya. “Coding India through the lens of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger.” Seton Hall University, NJCEA Annual Conference, South Orange, NJ. March 27, 2010.

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