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TALKS

SELECT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Sustainable Development and Eco-Fiction: Lessons from Amitav Ghosh's The Living Mountain.” International Conference on Research and Innovation for Sustainable Development, 4–5 May 2024, Maharshi Dayanand U, Rohtak, India.

  2. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Conceptualising Dalit Fragility in the Twenty-first Century.” Fragility Online International Conference, 9–10 May 2024, U of Zadar, Croatia.

  3. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Nāṭyaśāstra and Medical Humanities: Revisiting Rasa Theory in the Context of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.” Anubhuti: A Journey through the Indian Knowledge Systems, Faculty of Management, Vivekananda Global U, Jaipur, in collaboration with Rashtriya Samaj Vigyan Parishad, sponsored by ICSSR, 26–27 Apr. 2024.

  4. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste in the Context of Contemporary Caste Atrocities.” Facets of Social Justice in the Vision of a Developed India @ 2047: Harnessing Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Legacy, Hidayatullah National Law U, Raipur, online, 14 Apr. 2024.

  5. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Transcending Diasporic Casteism: Reflections on Caste Discrimination in the Indian Diaspora.” Rethinking Transcendental Approaches in Science, Technology and the Humanities: Revisiting the Problems of Human Existence in the 21st Century, Dept. of English, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur U, Maharashtra, 12–14 Jan. 2023.

  6. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Provincializing the Bard: William Shakespeare – Natural Genius or Imperial Product?” Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now, North South U, Bangladesh, 4–5 Nov. 2022.

  7. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Religion as Anti-Caste Politics? An Ambedkarite Critique of the Egalitarianism of the Matuas of Bengal.” PSA Annual International Conference 2022, Political Studies Association, UK, online and offline, 11–13 Apr. 2022.

  8. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Dalit Resistance in Times of Bengal Renaissance: Five Untouchable Thinker-Reformers from Colonial Bengal.” International Conference on Anti-Caste Thought: Theory, Politics and Culture, U of Wolverhampton, UK, online, 30 Oct. 2021.

  9. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Hijra as an Uncanny Other: A Psychosocial Reading of Transgender Autobiographies from India.” The Uncanny in Language, Literature, and Culture, Birkbeck College, U of London, UK, 17 Aug. 2019.

  10. Mandal, Mahitosh. “‘Holocaste?’ Holocaust and the Caste Question.” Actors of Transnational Memory, Bergen-Belsen International Summer School 2019, Gedenkstätte Bergen-Belsen, Lohheide, Germany, 9 Aug. 2019.

  11. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Academic Pedagogy vs. Clinical Praxis: A Critique of the Concept of ‘Teaching’ in Lacan.” 2018 Lacan Écrits Conference, Ghent U, Belgium, 28 Sept. 2018.

  12. Mandal, Mahitosh. “‘Eyes a man could drown in’: Disguise and Falsehood in Fowles.” The Marginalised Mainstream: Disguise Conference, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, U of London, UK, 28 Nov. 2014.

 

SELECT INVITED TALKS

  1. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Anticaste Movements in Colonial Bengal: Claims of Recognition and Redistribution.” Association for Social and Economic Equality, Nagpur, 17 July 2022, Online.

  2. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Why Hamlet is a Tragedy of Desire.” Dept. of English, Malda College, West Bengal, 2 July 2021, Online.

  3. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Was Joyce Psychotic?” Dept. of English Language and Literature, Adamas U, Kolkata, 16 June 2021, Online.

  4. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Ten Features of Dalit Literature.” Ghumusur Sahitya Sansad, Odisha, 23 May 2021, Online.

  5. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Dalit Literature vis-à-vis Persistence of Caste.” Dept. of English, Jadavpur U, 30 Mar. 2021, Online.

  6. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Importance of Lacan’s ‘The Family Complexes.’” Dept. of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, 23 Feb. 2021, Online.

  7. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Was Marx Wrong? Rethinking Marxism and Persistence of Caste in India.” PG Dept. of English, S N College, Chempazhathy, Kerala, 15 Dec. 2020, Online.

  8. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Theorizing Regressive Progressivism: Caste and Modernity in Bhimayana and Beyond.” Dept. of English, Krishnagar Government College, West Bengal, 28 Sept. 2020, Online.

  9. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Žižek Contra Miller: Remarks on the Hermeneutic Challenges of Lacanian Psychoanalysis.” Seminar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, West Bengal, 29 Nov. 2019.

  10. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Psychoanalysis and the Question of Language: Revisiting Jacques Lacan’s ‘Rome Discourse.’” Winter School, Dept. of English, U of Calcutta, West Bengal, 3 Jan. 2019.

  11. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Aspects of Modernism.” Dept. of English, Haringhata Mahavidyalay, West Bengal, 29 Feb. 2016.

  12. Mandal, Mahitosh. “Aspects of Structuralism.” Dept. of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur, 10 Aug. 2010.

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