Papers in SCOPUS/WoS enlisted journals

Dr. Anushyama Mukherjee

• Mukherjee, A. (2025). From Hyderabad to the Gulf: A Journey of Social Mobility Across Generations, Sociological Bulletin.

Mr. Rahul Singh

• Singh, R. (2025). POLYCRISIS AND ‘UNNATURAL RAIN’ IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS OF BENGAL: The Twin Cities and Issues of Peripheral Centrality. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 49 (2), 337-357. 

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• Roy, R., Purkayastha, B., Choudhury Lahiri, S., Rajak, D., & Ebenezer, D. (2025). Relational counterpublics: Media discourses on the COVID Delta variant surge in India. Current Sociology. 

Papers in other peer-reviewed journals

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• Lahiri, S. C. (2025). Democratising Science? The People’s Science Movement and the Pandemic. Vantage: Journal of Thematic Analysis, 6(1), 24- 28.

Dr. Sohini Saha

• Saha, Sohini (2024). The Poetics and Politics of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Poetry. Urdu Studies. Vol 4 (1). pp: 84-97.

Conference Presentations

Dr. Sohini Saha

• Saha, S. (2025) ‘Decolonizing Masculinities Studies in India: Towards an Embodied Approach’ presented for the American Men’s Studies Association’s (AMSA) digital conference, launched from 31st May 2025. 

• Saha, S. (2025). “The Paradox of the Male Body: Power and Vulnerability in the Practice of Byayam” presented at the Two Day National Conference on “Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture” at IIT Hyderabad, organized by the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in collaboration with The Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). 

• Saha, S. (2025). “The Politics of Physical Cultures in 20th Century Colonial Calcutta” presented at the PHYSICAL CULTURES OF THE BODY V Conference at the The University of Texas at Austin. 

• Saha, S. (2024). "Ghoul and the Politics of Horror as Resistance" for the International Conference on Disruptive Frames in Post-Colony: Locating South Asian Cinema Beyond Global Cosmopolitanism, organized by the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous) on 10th August 2024, at Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

Other Book Chapters

Dr. Sohini Saha

• Saha, S. (2025). ‘Gandhi and the Question of Masculinity’ in Nibedita Bayen and Swapan Sarkar (Eds.) Searching Genealogy of Riot, Death and Truth in Subcontinent: Reinterpreting Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Kolkata: Progressive Publishers. ISBN: 934967129-8

Session chaired

Dr. Sohini Saha

• Moderated a panel discussion on “'Desire, Pleasure, and Body Politics” at Jadavpur University Women's Conclave (JUWC) in collaboration with the Jadavpur University School of Women's Studies held on 28th March 2025 at Jadavpur University. 

• Chaired a post film screening discussion with Dir. Kasturi Basu on ‘A Bid For Bengal’ (Dir. Kasturi Basu, Dwaipayan Banerjee) at Lifeworld 2024, organized by the Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University, held on 19th September 2024 in Kolkata. 

• Moderated ‘Dialectique: A Paper Presentation Event’ at Verstehen 2025, organized by the Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, (Autonomous) Kolkata held on 13th February 2025 in Kolkata. 

Resource Persons

Dr. Sarbani Bandyopadhyay

• Seminar titled 'Dr. BR Ambedkar and the Making of Modern India', at Khudiram Bose Central College, Kolkata. on 16th April 2025. 

• MA Programme in Woman and Child Abuse Programme, Guest Lecture on SS7058 Radicalisation and Counter-radicalisation Strategies London Metropolitan University, UK. 7th March, 2025.

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• A lecture at Guest lecture on ‘New Social Movements: A Sociological Overview’ delivered as part of the Department Special Lecture Series at the Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University, Barasat, on 27th May 2025. 

• A Lecture (Online) titled “Gender and Intersectionality” at the Department of Bengali, Haldia Government College (in association with IQAC), on 11th August 2024.

Dr. Sohini Saha

• A lecture on “Gender and Crime” as part of the Special lecture series at the Department of Sociology, Sister Nivedita University on 11th April, 2025.

• Judged ‘Social Commentary - Creative Writing Event’ at Verstehen ’25, organized by the Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, (Autonomous) Kolkata, held on 13th February 2025 in Kolkata.

Dr.SarbaniBandyopadhyay

• Invited Lecture titled 'Being refugee Dalit: The dynamics of caste in post-Partition West Bengal' at the Workshop on Caste and Identity in Contemporary India, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, on 19 June 2024.

Dr.Sohini Saha

• Delivered a Talk on "Situating Identity and Emotions in Research Methods: The Practice of Ethnography Today" as a Guest Speaker at the Department of Sociology, Rani Indira Debi Government Girl's College, on 1 March 2024.
• Delivered a Lecture on Antonio Gramsci at the Department of Sociology, Sister Nivedita University, on 24 November 2023.
• Delivered an Online Talk on The Place of Pain in Everyday', organized by Research Committee 28: Sociology of Everyday Life, Indian Sociological Society, on 30 September 2023.

In Scopus/SCI/ICI/ UGC-CARE enlisted Journals

Dr. Anushyama Mukherjee

• Pradhan, I., Mukherjee, A., & Rayaprol, A. (2022). Women and the Changing Nature of Work in Hyderabads HITEC City, Sociological Bulletin, 71(1):80-95.

Book Chapters

Dr. Anushyama Mukherjee

• Chatterjee, S. & Mukherjee, A. (2023). Re-making the City for Women: A Case of "˜New Kolkata, in Urban Poetics and Politics in Contemporary South Asia and the Middle East, IGI Global, ISBN: 9781668466506.

Dr. Sarbani Bandyopadhyay

• Bandyopadhyay, S. (2022). But Hindu Still:  Muslims, Hindus, Reservation and the Caste Question in West Bengal. In Sekhar Bandyopadhyay and Tanika Sarkar (Eds.). Caste in Bengal, Histories of Hierarchy, Exclusion and Resistance (pp. 573-600). Permanent Black Publishers.

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• Lahiri,  C.  S.  (2023).  Addressing  Precarity?  Social  Movements,  Public Policy and Social Transformation. In Dominic Savio, Samrat Roy, SaswatiChaudhuri (Eds.) Transforming Our World Together: Towards Sustainable Development. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle. ISBN: 978-1-5275-8995-7.

Conference Presentations

Dr. Zaid Al Baset

• Al Baset, Z. (2023). Investigating Indian Muslim Citizenship: A Discourse Analysis   of   Memes   of   APJ   Abdul   Kalam   (Paper   presentation). International Scientifc Conference: Communication Culture, New Media- New  Opportunities  -  New  Perspectives (University  of  Toruo,  Poland); online.

Dr. Anushyama Mukherjee

• Mukherjee,  A.  (2023).  Negotiations,  Claims  and  Urban  Spaces  and citizenship: A Study of Street Vendors in Kolkata (Paper presentation). Policy Conflux, School of Commerce, Finance and Accountancy, Department of Professional Studies and Institute of Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru (hybrid mode).
• Mukherjee, A. (2023). Shaping and Reshaping Transnational Religious Process in the 21st Century: A Study of Hyderabad (Paper presentation). International Interdisciplinary Series of Conferences, The Global Indian Diasporas: Literary, Culture and Socio-Economic Perspectives the 21st Century, Centre for Diaspora Studies, Central University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar, India.
• Mukherjee,   A.   (2022).   Floating   on   Hope:   The   Politics   of   Urban Rehabilitation Projects in the global South, 21st N-AERUS (Paper presentation). International Conference on Transforming Role of State in Addressing Inclusive Urban Development, Urban and Rural Planning Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh and University of Kassel, Germany, Khulna, Bangladesh.
• Mukherjee, A. (2022). Idea of Homeland/s and Identities: A Study of Barkas in Hyderabad (Paper presentation). 2nd Biennial International Conference  of  Indian Association  for  South  Asian  Studies,  Centre  for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences, Department of History, Benaras Hindu University, Indian Association for South Asian Studies, Benaras, India.

Dr. Sohini Saha

• Saha, S. (2023). The Bio-Moral Politics of Semen (Paper presentation). Manipal Centre for Humanities' National Conference on "Health, Science and Society", Manipal, Karnataka, India.
• Saha, S. (2022). The "˜Poetics and Politics of Love and Resistance in Faiz Ahmad Faizs Poetry (Paper presentation). International Seminar of Department   of   English,   Avadh   Girls   Degree   College   and   Indian Association  for  Commonwealth  Literature  and  Language  Studies  on "˜Angarey and The Progressive Writers Movement, Lucknow, India.
• Saha, S. (2022). Embodied Interdependence: Covid 19 and the Shared World (Paper presentation). Seminar of Indian Sociological Society RC 24 and Sister Nivedita University, Department of Sociology on 'Negotiating the Pandemic: Voices of the Youth, Kolkata, India.

Resource Persons

Dr. Zaid Al Baset

• Delivered a Sociology Master Class on "˜Womens Movement(s) in India on 10th August, 2023 at Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata.
• Panelist on Girl Up Kavach discussion on "˜'Men and Feminism: Embracing A Shared Vision" on 10th June, 2023.
• Speaker at EPW Twitter Spaces on "Towards Same Sex Marriage" held on 6th June, 2023.
• Delivered a Special Talk on Gender Sensitization at the Department of Women  Studies,   Hiralal  Mazumdar  Memorial  College  for  Women, Kolkata on 8th May, 2023. 
• Delivered a Special Online Lecture, for a course titled "˜Anthropologys Method, titled 'Ethnography at Home in the City' on 25th April, 2023 at Ashoka University.

Dr. Anushyama Mukherjee

• Lecture on "Understanding Homeland/s and Social Remittances: A Study of  Barkas  in  Hyderabad",  NIAS,  Urban  Mobility  lecture  series,  online mode, on 23rd February, 2023.
• Lecture on "Global Siblings: Similarities and Differences among Middle Class Indians", Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, Special Lecture Series, on 14th February, 2023.

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• Lecture on "Understanding India: Exploring Institutions and Identities" at the Department of Education, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata on 12th April,
  2023 as part of Foundation Course.
• Lecture   on   "Sticking   with   Ethnography   through   Thick   and   Thin: Reflections on the Ethnographic Practice in Sociology" on 5th April, 2023 at Muralidhar Girls College, Gariahat, Kolkata in a Certificate Course on "Quality Enhancement Workshop: Methodologies of Social Research" organised jointly by P.N. Das college, Palta; Bijoy Krishna Girls' College, Howrah; Muralidhar Girls' College, Gariahat and Indian Association for Asian and Pacific Studies, from 29th March 2023-11th April 2023.
• Lecture     on     "Understanding     Marginalization:     An     Intersectional Perspective" delivered on the occasion of All India Catholic University Federation (AICUF) Day on 26th November, 2022 at St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata.
• Reviewed  a  book  "Unsustainable  Inequalities:  Social  Justice  and  the Environment" by Chancel Lucas, published by The Bellknap Press of the Harvard University Press (2020) in Contributions to Indian Sociology 56 : 22, 234-236.

Dr. Sohini Saha

• Lecture   in   PORICHOY,   a   Webinar   on   "What   is   gender"   as   a Guest  Speaker  organized  by  Rotaract  Club  of  Calcutta  West  Ridge and Rotaract Club of Calcutta North East, Kolkata, India, on 29th October, 2022.

In Scopus/SCI/ICI/ UGC-CARE enlisted Journals

Dr Anushyama Mukherjee

• Pradhan, Ipsita, Mukherjee, A. and Aparna, Rayaprol (2022). Women and the Changing Nature of Work in Hyderabads HITEC City, Sociological Bulletin, 71(1):80-95.
• Kundu, Ratoola, Aradhana, Paralikar and Mukherjee, A (2021). Imagining Kamathipura: Creating Value from Waste, Mumbai Reader 20/21, Urban Research Design Research Institute, ISBN 978-93-81444-09-2.
• Rayaprol, Aparna, Mukherjee, A. and Pitheli, K., Jimo (2021). Reverse Migrations and Womens Role in Shaping Religious Identities in Hyderabad, Contemporary South Asia, Routledge International, 29(2): 271- 280.

Book Chapters

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• Lahiri, C. S. (2022). Performing Tradition, Constituting Heritage: Work, Life and Social Transformation among the Kumbhakars in Kumartuli in Samir Kumar Das and Bishnupriya Basak (ed) The Making of the Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public. Springer Nature, Singapore. 113-128. ISBN 978-981-16-0262-7.

Dr. Shaoni Shabnam

• Shabnam, S. (2022). Doing Good, Being Political: Middle Class Bhadralok Narratives from Neoliberal India. In Manish K. Jha & Pushpendra (Eds.), Beyond Consumption: Indias New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times (pp. 187-202). Routledge.ISBN 9780367565718

Conference Presentations

Dr. Sweta Chakravorty

• Chakraborty, S., Bagchi, S. (2021). Baam to Jai Shri Ram: Shift from an Ideological aim to an Identity Based Claim in West Bengal. Elections and violence: new research on actors, targets, and strategies. Amsterdam University, Netherlands.

Session Chair

Dr. Sweta Chakravorty

• Chair for Panel 'Gender and Religion'. Annual South Asia Conference 2022 (April, 26-29). Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

Editorial responsibilities

Dr. Shoma Choudhury Lahiri

• Member, Editorial Board. Sikh Research Journal (an international, open access, peer-reviewed online journal) for the Special Issue on Farmers Movements, 2021-2022, Volume 6, No.s 1, 2 & 3.