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Prof. dr. B. (Barnita) Bagchi

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Engelse taal en cultuur

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  • Spuistraat 134
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  • Postbus 1641
    1000 BP Amsterdam
  • Profile
  • Barnita Bagchi

    Barnita Bagchi (she, her) is Chair and Professor in World Literatures in English at the University of Amsterdam. Educated at Jadavpur, Oxford, and Cambridge universities, she is a Life Member and former Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, a graduate college and centre for advanced studies at University of Cambridge. She comes to the University of Amsterdam from Utrecht University, where she was Associate Professor in Comparative Literature. 

    ORCID

    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0230-4716 offers a list of Barnita Bagchi's publications.

    She holds a  Senior Qualification in Teaching (Seniorkwalificatie Onderwijs, 2017), a Senior Qualification in Research (Seniorkwalificatie Onderzoek, 2017), a University Qualification in English-Medium Instruction (Basiskwalificatie Engelstaligheid, 2019),  and a University Teaching Qualification (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs, 2010).

    Teaching

    Barnita teaches across BA, MA, and RMA programmes, with courses that have focused on fictions of formation and education, modern South Asian literature and culture, speculative, utopian, and dystopian fiction, postcolonial and transcultural literatures, and situated cosmopolitanism in literatures. She supervises theses at all levels.

    Research

    She is considered an international authority on women's writing and the cultural history of women's education and on utopian studies, in transnational and transcultural perspective, with South Asia and Western Europe as nodes. Her academic work has been awarded prestigious grants and fellowships, inter alia by Jadavpur University in India, the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Germany, Heidelberg University in Germany, the Maison des Sciences de l' Homme in France, CNRS in France, York University in Canada, Trinity College, Cambridge, Clare Hall, University of Winchester, Lancaster University, and the British Academy in the UK. She has offered Keynote Lectures at prestigious international conferences at the universities of Helsinki, Geneva, Valencia, and  Winchester, among others. 

    Her articles have appeared in a wide array of journals, such as Utopian Studies, Religion and Society: Advances in Research, Mobilities, Paedagogica Historica, New Cinemas, Open Library of Humanities, Mobilities, and Women’s History Review, and she has published numerous chapters in edited volumes, with recent publications in Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures (2022), and Sultana's Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women's Fiction (Routledge, 2022). Her book-length publications include Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778-1814 (New Delhi: Tulika: 2004), a part-translation with introduction, Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias, by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (New Delhi: Penguin Classics, 2005; renewed Penguin USA edition, 2022), and the edited volumes, The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered (SAGE, 2012; republished by Atlantic, 2024), and Urban Utopias: Memory, Rights, and Speculation (Jadavpur University Press, open access, 2020).

    She was, from 2016 to the end of 2024,  when she completed her maximal terms, a member of the Board of the Stichting Praemium Erasmianum, which awards the Erasmus Prize, the Netherlands' foremost prize for social and humanistic thought, and which also awards the Research Prizes to some of the best Ph.Ds in the humanities, social sciences, and law, that are awarded by Dutch universities. She is a member of the Utopian Studies Society governance committee and a member of the Advisory Board of the journal Utopian Studies.

     Her academic work on the South Asian Bengali Muslim writer Rokeya S. Hossain's female and feminist utopias (articles, book chapters, and a Penguin Classics India critical edition and part-translation of two of Hossain's narratives) is widely used in courses globally. In August 2022, Penguin Random House USA published a fresh edition of Bagchi's part-translation, which was in the NY Times List of 6 new paperbacks to look out for: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/26/books/review/paperbackrow.html

    She was a holder of a British Academy Visiting Fellowship at Lancaster University, UK. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/visiting-fellowships-2018/barnita-bagchi

    Valorisation of academic knowledge 

    Bagchi is an invited speaker and panelist at a session on Jane Austen at 250 at the International Literature Festival Utrecht, in September 2025.

    Bagchi gave a lecture on feminist utopian and dystopian literature, followed by a discussion on the subject with Dr Lenore Todd (Leiden University), at the Kunstmuseum, Den Haag, in June 2025. This was part of the programme of public events round the art exhibition New New Babylon.

    She keynoted a session on Feminist Utopias at the International Literature Festival Utrecht in October 2024.

    She gave an introduction to the film version, released in 1984, of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, at the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, in October 2024.

    She appeared on the documentary Kalpavigyan, on science fiction from Bengal, produced by Cofutures, University of Oslo. One can watch the film at https://vimeo.com/522848003

    She coinitiated a series of events on Human Rights and Education convened by the Human Rights Coalition in Utrecht.

    On 21 May 2021, she organized a mini-symposium on Culture, Rights, and Social Dreaming, https://www.uu.nl/en/events/culture-rights-and-social-dreaming

    On 17 September, 2019, she appeared, at the invitation of the Groene Amsterdammer, in a panel discussion in Dutch on Het Nieuwe Feminisme & Literatuur: Wat kunnen moderne feministen leren van literaire klassiekers?", The New Feminism and Literature: What can Feminists Learn from Literary Classics?

    https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/het-nieuwe-feminisme-literatuur-17-09-2019/

    On 15 May, 2019, she organized a workshop on Human Rights and Social Dreaming in the City: What Feminists from Java, India, and the Netherlands Can Teach Us about Utrecht Today.

    Peer Review

    Peer review of academic articles for journals such as History of Humanities, Journal of Victorian Culture, Feminist Formations, Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, Postcolonial Studies, Women’s Writing, Itinerario, Utopian Studies, History of Education, Postcolonial Text, Journal of Post-Colonial Cultures and Societies, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, South Asian Review, South Asian Studies. She continues to peer review actively.

    Reviewer of book manuscripts and book proposals for presses such as Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Berghahn Books, and University of Hawaii Press.

    Reviewer of grant proposals for bodies such as the NWO (Dutch Research Council), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, British Academy, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Netherlands, and the European Commission Horizon Europe Programme.

    Book Reviews

    Bagchi has since 2002 been a regular reviewer of books, in India for The StatesmanThe Book Review IndiaIndian Journal of Gender StudiesThe Telegraph Calcutta, and Economic and Political Weekly, and in recent and current times for journals such as Paedagogica HistoricaHistory of Education,  American Historical ReviewUtopian StudiesHistory of Humanities, the International Institute of Asian Studies Leiden NewsletterThe Beacon, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

     

  • Photo, by Kirsten van Santen
  • Publications

    2025

    • Bagchi, B. (2025). Ageing in Indian Higher Education: Analysing Narratives of Post-Independence Women Writers, Educators, and Academics. Paedagogica Historica, 61(3), 368-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2024.2444215
    • Bagchi, B. (2025). Resonances and Influences of Pride and Prejudice in India: The Marriage Plot in Colonial and Postcolonial Indian Fiction. In T. Connolly, & K. Ogawa (Eds.), Austen in Asia (pp. 117-133). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1816-3
    • Bagchi, B. (2025). Utopie. In A. Castaing, N. Dejenne, & C. le Blanc (Eds.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique des littératures de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (pp. 943-945). Editions Classiques Garnier. https://doi.org/10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-18294-8
    • Bagchi, B. (in press). Mixing Memory and Desire: Considerations on Utopia, Partition, and Bengali Women’s Writing and Activism. In S. Basu, & S. Banerjee (Eds.), Partition, Belonging and the Birth of Bangladesh Routledge.
    • Bagchi, B. (in press). Shankari Chandran’s The Barrier (2017) and the Complex Stakes of Decolonizing Dystopian Writing. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS), 31(2).

    2023

    • Bagchi, B. (2023). Olive Schreiner and C. F. Andrews: Utopia and Paths to Anti-Racism and Decolonisation. In A. Van der Vlies, & J. Munslow Ong (Eds.), Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (pp. 85-98). University of Edinburgh.
    • Bagchi, B. (2023). Review of Suparno Banerjee. Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2020. Utopian Studies. Journal of The Society for Utopian Studies, 34(3), 586-590.

    2022

    2020

    2019

    • Bagchi, B. (2019). Analyzing Toru Dutt’s Oeuvre Today: How a Transnational Literary-Educational Case from Colonial India Can Enrich Our Conception of Transnational History. In Global Histories of Education (pp. 179-199). (Global Histories of Education). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17168-1_7
    • Bagchi, B. (2019). Satinath Bhaduri's Bengali Novels Jagari (The Vigil) and Dhorai Charit Manas as Utopian literature. Open Library of Humanities, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.407
    • Bagchi, B. (2019). Utopia. In Critical Terms in Futures Studies (pp. 327-333). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28987-4_50

    2018

    2016

    • Bagchi, B. (2016). Crooked lines: utopia, human rights and South Asian women's writing and agency. Australian Journal of Human Rights, 22(2), 103-122. https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2016.11910944
    • Bagchi, B. (2016). Many Modernities and Utopia: From Thomas More to South Asian Utopian Writings. In P. Guerra (Ed.), Utopía: 500 años (pp. 195-220). Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia. https://doi.org/10.16925/9789587600544
    • Bagchi, B. (2016). Rabindranath Tagore, Utopia, and Cosmopolitanism: Some Considerations. In S. Datta, & S. Dasgupta (Eds.), Tagore: The World As His Nest (pp. 61-73). Jadavpur University Press.
    • Bagchi, B. (2016). Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain: Padmarag. In C. Gallien, S. H. Al Zayed, P. K. Malreddy, D. Munos, M. Shamsie, & N. Zaman (Eds.), The Literary Encyclopedia. - Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture Article 35790 (The literary encyclopedia). The Literary Dictionary Company Limited. http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35790

    2015

    • Bagchi, B. (2015). Utopian and dystopian literature: A review article of new work by fokkema; prakash; gordin, tilley, prakash; and meisig. CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2743
    • Bagchi, B. (2015). “Because novels are true, and histories are false”: Indian women writing fiction in english, 1860–1918. In A History of the Indian Novel in English (pp. 59-72). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139942355.004

    2014

    • Bagchi, B. (2014). Connected and entangled histories: writing histories of education in the Indian context. Paedagogica Historica, 50(6), 813-821. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2014.948013
    • Bagchi, B. (2014). Connecting literature and history of education: Analysing the educative fiction of Jean Webster and Lila Majumdar transculturally and connotatively. In Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education (pp. 213-226). Berghahn Books.
    • Bagchi, B. (2014). ‘The Ironies of Bollywood’: Layered Fictions and Histories of Bombay Films in Filming and 'Cinema City'. In O. P. Dwivedi, & C. Gamez-Fernandez (Eds.), Tabish Khair: Critical Perspectives (pp. 87-97). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
    • Bagchi, B., Fuchs, E., & Rousmaniere, K. (2014). Connecting histories of education: Transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post)colonial education. Berghahn Books.

    2013

    2012

    • Bagchi, B. (2012). The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered. SAGE.
    • Bagchi, B. (2012). Ladylands and Sacrificial Holes: Utopias and Dystopias in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's writings. In The Politics of the (Im)possible: Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered (pp. 166-178). SAGE.
    • Bagchi, B. (2012). Writing Educational Spaces in Twentieth-Century Reformist Indian Discourse. HSE – Historia Social y de la Educación , 1(1). https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3904888

    2011

    • Bagchi, B. (2011). Between History, Fiction, and Biography: Narrating Migration, War, and Intercultural Relationships in Vikram Seth's 'Two Lives'. Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies, 101-110. https://www.academia.edu/23146351/Between_History_Fiction_and_Biography_Narrating_Migration_War_and_Intercultural_Relationships_in_Vikram_Seth_s_Two_Lives
    • Bagchi, B. (2011). Créer, jouer, et agir: Rabindranath Tagore et l’action politique. In M-C. Caloz-Tschopp (Ed.), Penser Pour Résister: Colère, Courage, et Création Politique (pp. 181-189). L'Harmattan.
    • Bagchi, B. (2011). La capacité d’agir des femmes dans la sphère publique en Asie du Sud: vers une histoire, des politiques et une poétique connotatives. In Politique, esthétique, féminisme. Les formes du politique, les ruses de la domination et le sens des luttes féministes. In I. Lacoue-Labarthe , & F. Sow (Eds.), Tumultes: Politique, esthétique, féminisme Mélanges en l’honneur de Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun (pp. 65-79). Editions Kime. https://www.cairn.info/revue-tumultes-2011-2-page-65.htm

    2010

    • Bagchi, B. (2010). Ramabai and Rokeya: The history of gendered social capital in India. In J. Spence, S. J. Aiston, & M. M. Meikle (Eds.), Women Education and Agency 1600-2000 (pp. 66-82). (Routledge Research in Gender and History; Vol. 9). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203882610
    • Bagchi, B. (2010). Two Lives: Voices, resources, and networks in the history of female education in Bengal and South Asia. Women's History Review, 19(1), 51-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020903444668

    2009

    • Bagchi, B. (2009). Carrying Over: Analysing Female Utopias and Narratives of Female Education Cross-culturally and Cross-historically. In M. Sanyal, & A. Ghosh (Eds.), Culture, Development, and Society in India (pp. 43-59). Orient Blackswan.
    • Bagchi, B. (2009). Cheery children, Growing Girls, and Developing Young Adults: On Reading, Growing, and Hopscotching across Categories. In R. B. Chatterjee, & N. Gupta (Eds.), Reading Children (pp. 163-181). Orient Blackswan.
    • Bagchi, B. (2009). Education, Women’s Narratives, and Feminist Civil Society Activism: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Feminist Utopias. In D. Sylvette (Ed.), Utopies Féministes et Experiments Sociales Urbaines (pp. 109-116). Presses Universitaires de Rennes.
    • Bagchi, B. (2009). Towards ladyland: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the movement for women’s education in Bengal, c. 1900–c. 1932. Paedagogica Historica, 45(6), 743-755. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230903335652
    • Bagchi, B. (2009). Voilà la femme forte: The Unusual Education of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. In M. Sarkar (Ed.), Moneta's Veil: Essays on the Nineteenth Century (pp. 34-50). Pearson.

    2008

    • Bagchi, B. (2008). Hannah Arendt, Education, and Liberation: A Comparative South Asian Feminist Perspective. Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics. https://doi.org/https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/8000/
    • Bagchi, B. (2008). L’Education, l’Action, et la Désobéissance Civile: Trois Femmes Écrivaines Indiennes en Dialogue avec Hannah Arendt. In M-C. Caloz-Tschopp (Ed.), (Re)Lire Hannah Arendt Aujourd’hui: Pouvoir, Guerre, Pensée, Jugement Politique (pp. 447-452). L'Harmattan.

    2005

    • Bagchi, B. (2005). "Instruction a torment"? Jane Austen's early writing and conflicting versions of female education in Romantic-Era "conservative" British women's novels. Romanticism on the Net, (40). https://doi.org/10.7202/012463ar
    • Bagchi, B. (2005). Gender, History, and the Recovery of Knowledge through Information and Communication Technologies. In Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to post-Colonial India (pp. 265-278). Manohar Publications.
    • Bagchi, B. (2005). Girls’ Education in Murshidabad: Tales From the Field. In U. C. Banimanjari Das (Ed.), Women’s Education and Politics of Gender (pp. 63-74). Bethune College.
    • Bagchi, B. (2005). ‘So Odd and So Stupid’: The Triumph of Fanny Price. In J. Austen, & S. Bhattacharji (Eds.), Mansfield Park: A Critical Edition (pp. 487-495). Viking Penguin.
    • Bagchi, B., Sinha, D., & Bagchi, A. K. (2005). Webs of History: Information, Communication, and Technology from Early to Post-colonial India. Manohar Publications.

    2004

    • Bagchi, B. (2004). Pliable Pupils and Sufficient Self-Directors: Narratives of Female Education by Five British Women Writers, 1778-1814. Tulika.

    2002

    • Bagchi, B. (2002). ‘No Truths, Only Ways of Seeing'? A Note on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Journal of the Department of English, University of Calcutta, 30(1-2), 13-17.

    2022

    • Bagchi, B. (2022). Book review of Insurgent imaginations: World literature and the periphery by Auritro Majumder, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 58(3), 432-433. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2022.2066802
    • Bagchi, B. (2022). Review of Sandeep Banerjee, Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-figurations of the Postcolony. New York: Routledge, 2019. Utopian Studies. Journal of The Society for Utopian Studies, 33(2), 346-349. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.33.2.0346

    2021

    • Bagchi, B. (2021). Ben Conisbee Baer. Indigenous Vanguards: Education, National Liberation, and the Limits of Modernism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. American Historical review, 126(1), 276-277. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhab127

    2020

    • Bagchi, B. (2020). Joep Leerssen, Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics 1800–2000. Studies in Comparative Literature 27. Cambridge: LEGENDA (Modern Humanities Research Association), 2019. History of Humanities, 5(2), 554-556. https://doi.org/10.1086/710299

    2018

    2014

    • Bagchi, B., Fuchs, E., & Rousmaniere, K. (2014). Introduction: Connecting histories of education: Transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in (post-)colonial education. In Connecting Histories of Education: Transnational and Cross-Cultural Exchanges in (Post)Colonial Education (pp. 1-8). Berghahn Books.

    2012

    • Bagchi, B. (2012). Review of Women Writing Gender: Marathi Fiction before Independence edited, translated and with an introduction by Meera Kosambi, New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2012. Economic & Political Weekly, 47(36), 27-29.

    2006

    • Bagchi, B. (2006). Review of Rinki Bhattacharya (ed.), Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India, SAGE: 2004. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 13(1), 121-123.

    2005

    • Bagchi, B. (2005). Review of Caroline Ramazanoglu and Janet Holland, Feminist Methodology: Challenges and Choices, SAGE: 2002. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 12(2-3), 464-467.
    • Bagchi, B. (2005). Review of Re-Visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal 1875-1915 by Malavika Karlekar; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2005. Economic & Political Weekly, 40(40), 4320.

    2002

    • Bagchi, B. (2002). Review of Banani Mukhia, Women’s Images, Men’s Imagination, New Delhi: Manohar 2001. Economic & Political Weekly, 37(7), 629-630.

    2025

    • Bagchi, B. (in press). Women’s Transborder Cinema: Authorship, Stardom, and Filmic Labor in South Asia. The Book Review India.

    2019

    2014

    2011

    • Bagchi, B. (2011). Ein einziges Land, welches die Erde ist: Rabindranath Tagores kreativer Kosmopolitismus. In Rabindranath Tagore: Wanderer zwischen Welten (pp. 33-38). Verlag Klemm+Oelschläger.

    2006

    • Bagchi, B. (2006). In Tarini Bhavan: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossains Padmarag und der Reichtum des südasiatischen Feminismus in der Förderung nicht konfessionsgebundener, den Geschlechtern gerecht werdender menschlicher Entwicklung. In G. A. Zakaria (Ed.), Wie schamlos doch die Mädchen geworden sind: Bildnis von Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (pp. 115-130). IKO - Verlag für Interkulturelle Kommunikation.

    Media appearance

    Journal editor

    Talk / presentation

    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (28-9-2025). Mini-lecture on Bride and Prejudice and participation in panel discussion on Jane Austen at 250, International Literature Festival Utrecht, Utrecht.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (3-7-2025). “They still had hopes for themselves and those they loved”: Ageing and Intergenerational Relationships in late 20th-century and Early 21st-Century Utopian/ Dystopian World Literature, Utopian Studies Society Europe Conference, Valencia.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (14-6-2025). Visions for Another Tomorrow: Feminist Utopia and Dystopia Across Continents, Kunstmuseum den Haag.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (11-6-2025). The Transcultural and the Translational: South Asian Women's Writing and Publishing from the Perspectives of a Scholar, Translator, and Educator, Feminism, Publishing, Futures, Stirling.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (27-5-2025). “A place of truth, discomfort and safety. A home where words and story reside”: Universality in Entangled Literary Worlds, ASCA Workshop 2025: Re-Imagining Universality in the Pluriverse, Amsterdam.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (25-4-2025). Key Speaker, Discussion on the Literary Oeuvre of Amitav Ghosh, Gandhi Centre, Indian Embassy and Indian Council for Cultural Relations, Den Haag.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (11-4-2025). Jane Austen at 250: Aspects of Austen's Fiction and Its Afterlives, Sarsuna College.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (7-11-2024). Worlds of Literature: Imagining Futures in the Now-here, Inaugural Lecture, Chair and Professorship in World Literatures: English, Amsterdam. https://www.uva.nl/content/evenementen/2024/11/oratie-barnita-bagchi.html
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (26-10-2024). Introduction on George Orwell's legacy, before film 1984 (1984), Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, Amsterdam.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (2-10-2024). Keynote Lecture on " Sultana's Dream", International Literature Festival Utrecht, Utrecht.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (4-7-2024). Shankari Chandran’s The Barrier (2017) and the Complex Stakes of Decolonizing Dystopian Writing, Utopian Studies Society Europe, Budapest.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (3-6-2024). Decolonizing the Mind: Utopian and Dystopian Fiction Entangled with South Asia, c.1900 to Contemporary Times, Dalarna University.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (26-4-2024). Decolonizing the Mind: Contemporary Female-Authored Anglophone Utopian and Dystopian Fiction Entangled with South Asia, Centre for the Novel, University of Aberdeen.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (23-4-2024). “The Stories We Reveal and Those We Hide”: Chai-Time at Cinnamon Gardens (2022), Everyday Utopia, Failure, Postcoloniality, and Fiction, University of Edinburgh.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (13-9-2023). De Mensenrechtencoalitie Utrecht: Sociaal Dromen tussen Lokaal en Globaal, Mensenrechtencafe Restorative City Utrecht, Utrecht.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (22-7-2023). “Along the Subarnarekha, the Golden Line: Revisiting the Stakes of Utopia and Dystopia in South Asian Modernisms in Literature and Film, c.1905-c.1962.”, Modernism and Its Continents, Berlin.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (12-5-2021). An Unfinished Song: Listening to Less Heard Voices in Utopia, Calliope International Conference, Helsinki.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (29-6-2012). Rooted Cosmopolitans: Internationalisation of Education and Aspects of the Innovations of Colonial Modernity in South Asia, International Standing Conference for the History of Education, Geneva.
    • Bagchi, B. (speaker) (9-9-2007). The history of women’s education in South Asia: Voices, resources, and agency, Collecting Women's Lives, 16th Annual Conference of the Women's History Network, Winchester.

    2025

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