CURRICULUM
FORMAZIONE
2007 Dottore di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in Storia, University of Calcutta, con una tesi dal titolo, 'A Middle Indian Tribe in Transition: the Ho of
Singhbhum, 1820-1932' (tutor Prof. B.B. Chaudhuri).
1990 M.Phil in Storia con First Class, University of Calcutta.
1988 Laurea Magistrale (M.A.) in Storia con il massimo dei voti (First in the First Class), University of Calcutta
1986 Laurea Triennale (B.A.) con ‘Honours’ in Storia, Presidency College, India.
POSIZIONE ACCADEMICA
2013-presente Professore Associate, Storia dell’India (SSD: L-OR/17), Dipartimento ‘Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali – ISO’.
2014-presente Membro, Collegio di Docenti, Dottorato di Ricerca 'Civiltà dell'Asia e dell'Africa', Dip. ISO, Sapienza Università di Roma.
ABILITAZIONE SCIENTIFICA NAZIONALE
Ottenuto il 12/11/2020 (DPR n. 95/2016) l'ASN Prima Fascia nel settore 10/N3 – Culture dell'Asia Centrale e Orientale.
INCARICHI PROFESSIONALI
2011-13 India Chair Professor, Modern Indian History presso Sapienza Università di Roma (finanziamento dell'Indian Council of Cultural
Relations, New Delhi).
2007-11 Associate Professor, Department of History, Calcutta University.
2004-07 Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Calcutta.
1995-2004 Lecturer in History, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata.
1992-95 Lecturer, Department of History, Darjeeling Government College (West Bengal Education Service), India.
1991-92 Junior Research Fellow, Department of History, University of Calcutta.
2006-10 Professore a Contratto, Facoltà di Studi Orientali, Sapienza Università di Roma.
PREMI E RICONOSCIMENTI
2018 Rockefeller Research Award per ricercha presso il Rockefeller Archive Center, New York, USA.
2009 Research grant, Charles Wallace India Trust per ricerche presso la British Library, UK.
1997-99 Minor Research Project Grant della University Grants Commission, New Delhi.
1997 British Council Research Award per ricerche nella British Library, UK.
1996-1998 Research Award, Indian Council of Historical Research.
1988 Calcutta University Gold Medal, per la massima valutazione (First in First Class) ottenuta per il titolo di M.A. in History.
1988 Chandra Narayan Silver Medal, Presidency College, per la massima valutazione (First in First Class) in History.
1983-88 National Talent Search Scholarship, Governo dell'India.
1981 National Prize, Governo del West Bengal, India.
PROFESSORE VISITATORE E FELLOWSHIP
2022 Visiting Professor, Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility, Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, Universität Wien.
2022 Guest Researcher presso il Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Post-colonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Svezia,.
2021 Invited Guest Faculty presso l’Institute of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Polonia.
2018 Visiting Fellow presso il Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, Belgio.
2018 Visiting Professor presso il Dipartimento di Storia, Università Paris-Diderot.
2018 Visiting Professor presso il Department of History, Calcutta University.
2017 Visiting Professor, Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, Universität Wien.
2015 Visiting Professor presso il Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Nuova Delhi, India.
2013 India Chair Professor of Modern Indian History presso la Sapienza Università di Roma.
2005 Linnaeus Palme Visiting Fellow presso la Uppsala University, Svezia.
INCARICHI ORGANIZZATIVI E SCIENTIFICI
2020-presente Membro, Commissione Tirocini, Dip. ISO.
2020-22 Membro, Commissione Paritetica, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofie, Sapienza Università di Roma.
2017-2018 Membro della Commissione sito web del Dottorato di Ricerca in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa
PARTECIPAZIONE A COMITATI SCIENTIFICI INTERNAZIONALI
2022-presente Membro del Governing Body, Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR), Kolkata, India.
2018-23 Membro dell’Advisory Committee, European Association for South Asian Studies (EASAS).
2018-23 Series editor ed Membro del Comitato Editoriale: SAMAJ (South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal)–EASAS (European Association of South Asian Studies), e-ISSN 1960-6060.
2007-13 Membro del Comitato Editoriale, Calcutta Historical Journal, rivista del Department of History, University of Calcutta.
2000-2004 Membro, Editorial Board, Modern Historical Studies.
ACCORDI INTERNAZIONALI
2020 Titolare di General Agreement e Protocollo Esecutivo di Accordo Quadro tra Sapienza e North South University, Bangladesh, Accordo Interuniversitario Internazionale.
2015 Titolare di Protocollo Esecutivo di Accordo Quadro tra Sapienza e Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, Accordo Interuniversitario Internazionale.
PEER REVIEWER
2021 Peer Reviewer per la rivista Women’s Studies International Forum (editore Elsevier).
2020 Peer Reviewer per la rivista Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge), 2020.
2020 Peer Reviewer per la rivista Textus: English Studies in Italy (Napoli), 2020.
2018 Peer Reviewer per la rivista Glocalism, Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation (Milano), 2018.
2017-21 Manuscript Reviewer per Cambridge University Press (New Delhi).
2016-20 Manuscript Reviewer per Primus Books (New Delhi).
2016 Peer Reviewer per la rivista Archiv Orientalni (Praga).
2017 Manuscript Reviewer per Oxford University Press (Delhi).
2017 Peer Reviewer per la rivista SAMAJ: South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (Parigi).
2017 Referente per l’editore Stree Publishers (Kolkata).
2008-09 Peer Reviewer per la rivista Indian Historical Review (New Delhi).
SEMINARI / CONFERENZE / RELAZIONI A CONVEGNI (ultimi 5 anni)
28.07.23. ‘Land rights and crime: Adivasi women in colonial and post-colonial eastern India’, XXVII European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Università degli Studi di Torino.
23.06.23. ‘Looking for social justice: Adivasis in contemporary India’, convegno su ‘1 Hope: A Vision of One Humanity & One Planet as the Theoretical Framework for Worldwide Social Justice’, Università degli Studi di Sassari.
1.06.23. ‘Violence and Adivasi society: eastern India', convegno su ‘Shades of Violence in South Asia,’ Charles University, Czechia, e Jagiellonian University, Polonia, Praga.
16-18.3.23. Invited commentator, Ph.D. convegno su 'Regional Histories: Land, Space and Communities' organizzato dal Department of History and Archaeology, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi (online).
14.12.22. ‘Adivasi women’s movements in eastern India: 19th and 20th centuries’, Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde, University of Vienna.
13.0522. Presidente della sessione, ‘Colonialism, Nationalism and Adivasi Resistance in India’, Centre for Studies in Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi.
5.05.22. ‘Gender and tribe in eastern India: Customs and movements for rights’, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Torino.
27.02.22. ‘Marriage, Migration and National Identity: Hariprabha Takeda in Japan’, conferenza su ‘Birds Uncaged: Travel and Bengali Women’, Women’s History Conclave (online).
18.02.22. ‘Revisiting debates on Orientalism in South Asian Studies’, ‘Il dibattito sull’Orientalismo, ieri e oggi’, Dottorato in Civiltà dell’Asia e dell’Africa, Dipartimento "Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali - ISO.
26.01.22. ‘Storytelling at the margins: shifting identities among Adivasis of Jharkhand since the 19th century’, Academy of Folklore, Kolkata.
23.11.21. Intervento alla presentazione del libro Bombay Brokers a cura di Lisa Bjorkman, Università di Napoli L’Orientale.
16.11.21. ‘Adivasis and Historical Representations: Eastern India since the 19th century’, Department of History, Vidyasagar University, (online).
24.09.21. ‘Adivasi women and the movement for rights: Jharkhand during the colonial period and after’, Dipartimento di storia, Diamond Harbour Women’s University, India (online).
18.09.21. Presidente della sessione, convegno internazionale, ‘Why do we need to talk about caste?’, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, (online).
28.07.21. ‘The centre and the margin in Jharkhand Adivasi histories’, 26 European Conference for South Asian Studies (ECSAS), University of Vienna (online).
17.06.21. ‘Tagore nella vita culturale del Bengala contemporaneo’, convegno per il CLX della nascita del poeta Rabindranath Tagore, ‘La casa è il mondo’, organizzato dal Dip. ISO e ISMEO (online).
29.04.21. ‘Exploring indigenous pasts: Belonging and loss among Adivasis of eastern India’, Understanding Indigeneity in South Asia’, convegno su ‘Indigeneity’, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawai‘i (online).
24.02.21. ‘Reconstructing ‘tribal’ pasts: British colonial representations of Chotanagpur, India, during the 19th century’, Seminar Session 4, Colonial Knowledge Research Network, University of Manchester, (online).
5.09.20. ‘Adivasi Understandings of their Past’, Calcutta University History Students’ Association (online).
12.09.20. Presidente della sessione ‘The Songs and Prayers of Sapha Hors’, Centre for Studies on Borders and Movements, Kolkata (online).
20.05.20. ‘Reinterpreting tribal history in Jharkhand’, Dipartimento di Storia, Central European University, Wien (online).
15.05.20. ‘Patachitras of Bengal: Urban Transformations of a Rural Art Form’, International Institute of South Asian Studies (online).
29.12.19. 'Travels in Asia: Women’s writings in early 20th-century Bengal’, special panel, ‘Women in India: Reconstructing Women’s History’ organizzato dall'Aligarh Historians Society, Indian History Congress, 80th session, Kannur University, Kerala.
3.12.19. ‘Gandhi and Adivasis: Post-Independence re-imaginations’, convegno internazionale ‘Gandhi after Gandhi’, Università gegli Studi di Torino.
13.09.19. “Scarcity and Semiotics of Rice in Famine Survival: Tribes and Rural Migrants in Bengal Presidency, 1866-1945”, Rural History 2019, European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), EHESS Parigi.
17.07.19. “Proselytization through medicine: Christian missions among Savaras under British colonial rule”, panel ‘Bhakti, Reformation and the Christian Missionaries’, International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden.
18.07.19. “Bengali Travellers to ‘Greater India’: Indumadhab Mallik and Sarala Devi Chaudhurani in Burma”, tavola rotonda ‘The Bay of Bengal, Perspectives Across the Disciplines’, International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden.
12.06.19. Panelist per la tavola rotonda ‘Adivasis in 21st Century India: Invisibility, Progressive Inequality and Resilience’, Convegno ‘The Globalization Project: Falling Behind or Failing Forward, Università degli Studi di Torino in collaborazione con Alternate Routes: A journal of Critical Social Research.
20.09.18. ‘Adivasis and the State in India: Exploring Strategies of Resistance and Survival’, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
20.09.18. ‘Myth or History? Exploring Adivasi Pasts in Colonial Jharkhand, India’, Brooklyn College, City University of New York.
26.07.18. ‘The Mandir and the Mela: Changing face of Jayadeva’s Kenduli in West Bengal’, XXV European Conference for South Asian Studies, Parigi.
19.04.18. ‘Religion, adivasi identity and the politics of indigeneity in Jharkhand’, Convegno “Understanding radicalism” Rome, dip ISO.
14.03.18. ‘Bengal’s Asian Encounters: Translocal Imaginings in the 20th century’, Third Conference on One Asia Community in Europe: Migration in Asia’, dip. ISO e One Asia Foundation.
22.02.18. ‘Ethnology, History and Rights in Colonial Chotanagpur’, Department of History, University Paris-Diderot.
20.01.18. Presidente della sessione ‘Influence of Quit India Movement on Literature and Art’ alla Conferenza Internazionale, ‘Revisiting 1942’, Indian Council of Cultural Relations, Kolkata.
28.12.17. ‘Imagined Landscapes: British colonial writings on Jharkhand’, panel speciale su Ambiente e Impero, Indian History Congress, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
13.12.17. ‘India and Her Indigenous People: Religious Revitalisation Movements in 20th century Jharkhand’, Institute of Religious Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Polonia.
12.12.17. ‘The State and its Tribes: Post-Independence Imaginings and Praxis’, Conferenza Internazionale ‘India and Pakistan after 70 years of Independence: Reflections on Culture and Politics’, Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Polonia.
11.11.17. ‘Reaching for half the sky: Women’s movements in India since Independence’, Convegno ‘Voci della Libertà: Storia, Società e Cultura nel 70° Anniversario dell’Independenza dell’India’, Biblioteca Angelica, Roma.
27.10.17. ‘Looking East: Bengali women’s travel narratives in the early 20th Century’, Convegno e Assemblea dei Soci Dell’Associazione Italiana Studi Sanscriti (AISS), Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali (ISO), Sapienza Università di Roma.
5.10.17. ‘Gandhi and Adivasis’, Convegno ‘Bapuji: 148 anni dopo. L’eredità di Gandhi nel mondo contemporaneo’, Dip. ISO in collaborazione con la Fondazione Roma Sapienza.
22.07.17. ‘Celebrating swadesh in bidesh: Durga Puja in Rome’, ICAS 17 – Convegno della International Convention of Asia Scholars, Chiang Mai, Tailandia.
16.06.17. ‘Remembering “Tribal” India: British Accounts of Jharkhand’, Institut für Südasien, Universität Wien, Austria.
26.03.17. ‘The Famine of 1915-17 in Kolhan Government Estate’, Convegno 'Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision', Asian Development Research Institute, Patna, India.
31.03.17. ‘Land Rights and Adivasi Women: Colonial Eastern India’, Conferenza Speciale organizzato in collaborazione dal Department of History e il Women Studies Centre, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, India.
30.03.17. ‘Reinventing identities: Hos of Singhbhum in the 20th century’, Convegno ‘Identity Politics in India: Reflections from the Past and Present’, Calcutta University, India.
3.06.16. 'Law and "tribal" subjects: British colonial experiments in the Bengal Presidency', Annual Conference della Law and Society Association, ‘At the Delta: Belonging, Place and Visions of Law and Social Change’, New Orleans, Stati Uniti.
20.04.16. “Ambedkar and the ‘Annihilation of Caste’”, relazione su ‘B.R. Ambedkar: His Role in 20th century India’, seminario organizzato dall'Ambasciata dell'India a Roma e dal Dipartimento ISO.
6.04.16. Discussant, conferenza: ‘Nationalism, Civil Rights and Liberties: Challenges for Democracy in India’, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Sapienza Università di Roma.
11.02.16. “Environment and Adivasi Livelihood Practices in Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas”, Convegno ‘Environment and the Adivasi World’, Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
4.08.15. ‘An Economic History of the Indian Peasantry: A Discussion of B.B. Chaudhuri's Peasant History of the Late Pre-Colonial and Colonial India’, sessione ‘Economic history textbooks in comparative perspective’ della XVII World Economic History Conference (WEHC) 2015, Kyoto, Giappone.
28.08.15. ‘Travels in “tribal” India: British accounts of Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas in the nineteenth century’, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies (JNIAS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
30.07.15. ‘Remembering “Tribal” India: Landscape, Ethnology and Governance in Chotanagpur in the nineteenth century’, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
20.05.15. “Retelling Adivasi histories of Colonial India”, VI Conferenza ISO.
20.02.15. ‘Adivasis and dikus in Chotanagpur in the nineteenth century’, National Seminar ‘Revisiting Adivasi Autonomy: Self, Home & Habitat’, Department of History, Central University of Hyderabad, India.
16.02.15. ‘Marginalised Histories: Representations in British Colonial Writings on Tribes of Eastern India’, Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
24.07.14. ‘Tribes as tenants: Tenancy legislations and the creation of tribal subjects in colonial Chotanagpur’, XXIII European Conference on South Asian Studies, Università di Zurigo.
9.06.14. ‘Custom, Rights and Identity: Adivasi Women’s Land Rights in Eastern India’, Convegno 'Religious Pluralism, Cultural Differences, Social and Institutional Stability: What can we learn from India?’, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Sapienza Università di Roma
15.05.14. ‘Adivasi women and land rights in Jharkhand’, Convegno “Majority/Minorities: Which futures for democracy in South Asia?”, Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo e Dipartmento di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Dottorato AOM & CSB, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’.
KEYNOTE/ MEMORIAL LECTURES
21.11.22. 24th Ashin Das Gupta Memorial Lecture, ‘Bharater Purbanchaley Adivasi Samaj o Otitchetana: Ekti Mulyayan’ (Gli Adivasis dell’India orientale e la loro idea di storia), organizzata dal Paschim Banga Itihas Sansad e dalla Asiatic Society, Kolkata.
16.11.22. Plenary Lecture al convegno internazionale ‘Revisiting Janjatiya Gaurav: A Legacy of Language, Culture and Civilization’, Centre for Endangered Languages and Department of Anthropology and Tribal Studies, Central University of Jharkhand.
30.07.22. Keynote lecture intitolata ‘Kazi Nazrul Islam: the voice of dissent’ alla 1st Annual International Conference ‘Kazi Nazrul Islam: Bidrohi’, Nazrul Centre for Social & Cultural Studies, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India.
18.10.06. ‘Gender Issues in Higher Education in 20th century India’, Conferenza Nazionale di Svezia su ‘Equality! Myths and Realities’, Uppsala University, Svezia.
WORKSHOPS
22–28.08.22. Invited Resource Person, International South Asian Studies Summer School su ‘Conflict, Peace and Reconciliation in Contemporary South Asia, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
4-8.07.22. Invited participant e Presidente della sessione, India Summer School su ‘Adivasi issues in contemporary India: identity, resistance and environment’, Università di Torino.
5.05.22. Invited resource person al workshop internazionale su ‘Environment-making in Post/Colonial History: Perspectives from South Asia, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Svezia.
16-17.01.20. Relazione ‘Remembering Japan: Utopian Recollections in Bengali Travel Writings in Early 20th century’, workshop internazionale su ‘Time for Utopia: Youth and Islam between Past and Future’, Dip.SARAS.
12.12.18. Invited participant alla tavola rotonda internazionale sull ‘AfricaMuseum a Tervuren’, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven.
17.10.18. Invited participant al workshop internazionale su‘Indigeneity and Environmental Humanities’ Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies e il Department of Cultural Sciences, Linnaeus University, Swezia.
28.09.-1.10.17. Relazione ‘The Politics of Hunger: A Study of the Famine of 1915-17 in Kolhan Government Estate in Eastern India’, III COMPOT Workshop on ‘Famine Stories and Survival Legends: Legacies to the Following Generations’, Uppsala University, Svezia.
13-14.10.16. Invited participant al simposio ‘Power Structures, Conflict Resolution and Social Justice’, EU-India Platform for Social Science and Humanities (EqUIP), Sohna (India).
5.12.14. Resource Person alla Winter School su 'India Formazione Solidarietà Luoghi Lontani 2014-15', seminario ‘Aspetti culturali, geo-storici, socio-antropologici dell’India di oggi: un’introduzione’, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane per la Formazione “R. Massa”, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca.
23-24.06.13. Invited participant al workshop internazionale su ‘Mémoires dominées en Inde’ (Memorie soggiogate in India) alla Università di Tolosa Le Mirail, relazione ‘Oral Traditions in the Archive: Representations of the Ho Past’.
30.11-2.12.2012. Invited participant al workshop internazionale su ‘Asian Environments: Governing Nature, Negotiating Knowledge, Constructing Subjectivities’, relazione ‘Colonial Policies and the Transformation of Indigenous Production Systems in Bengal’s Western Frontier', Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Monaco di Baviera, Germania.
20.01.14. Resource person alla Winter School su 'Research Methodologies' organizzata dall'Academic Staff College, relazione ‘Writing Adivasi Histories in India’, Burdwan University, West Bengal, India.
28.01-18.02.09. Joint Co-ordinator del Corso di Formazione su “Writing Social History: Past Perspectives, Contemporary Concerns”, Department of History, Calcutta University.
11-12.09.06. Relazione su “Creating Identities: British Rule and the Hos of Singhbhum”, workshop internazionale ‘Rural India: Change, Institutions and Identities’, organizzato da Calcutta University e University of Rome, La Sapienza, Centre for Social Studies and Humanities, Calcutta University.
15.09-14-1.10.2002. Participant al workshop internazionale di tre settimane su 'Social History (Labour, Gender and Family)' organizzato dal SEPHIS, Amsterdam e da Codesria, Dakar, Dakar, Senegal.
TERZA MISSIONE
Panelist per una panel discussion su ‘Cultural Mis-appropriation of Tribal Rituals: Agency and Autonomy of People and Practices’, organizzato da ‘Tell Me your Story’, TMYS Review, 2 luglio 2023.
Resource Person, mostra calligrafica su ‘Fate and Immortality in Asia: a Cross-cultural Perspective’, Biblioteca Dipartimento Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, 24 maggio 2023.
Panelist per una panel discussion su ‘Tribal History & Tribal Representation in History’, organizzato da ‘Tell Me your Story’, TMYS Review, 7 febbraio 2023
Panelist per una panel discussion, ‘Confluenze, vecchi e nuovi sentieri tra Italia e India’, organizzato da ‘Good World Citizen’, Firenze, 19 marzo 2022.
Panelist per una panel discussion su Martyrs’ Day e International Mother Language Day, L’Ambasciata di Bangladesh, Roma, 21 febbraio 2022.
Panelist per una Panel Discussion su Rabindra-Nazrul Jayanti, L’Ambasciata di Bangladesh, Roma, 30 giugno 2021.
Resource Person: ‘Violence and Adivasi Identity’ al workshop su ‘Adivasis of Central India’, PRADAN, New Delhi, 14 gennaio 2021 (online).
Panelist per una Panel discussion su ‘Sustainable development: relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s messages today’, Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), Rome, 4 luglio 2019.
Intervento alla presentazione del libro In Quest of the Historian’s Craft: Essays in Honour of Professor B.B. Chaudhuri, voll. 1-2, a cura di Arun Bandopadhyay e Sanjukta Das Gupta, Delhi: Manohar, 2018, e cerimonia in onore del Prof. B.B. Chaudhuri, 18 September 2017.
Intervento alla presentazione del libro di Alessandro Duce, Storia della Politica Internazionale (1945-2013): Il tramonto degli imperi coloniali, Sala del Refettorio della Camera dei Deputati, 6 giugno 2017.
Relazione presso la Energia Per i Diritti Umani Onlus, Roma, 11 maggio 2017.
Panelist per una Panel discussion su ‘The Roots of the Periphery: A History of the Gonds of Deccan, India’, Centre for Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 12 aprile 2017.
Relazione al seminario ‘Mondi da Scoprire: India’, organizzato dal Comune di Rocca Priora, 21 marzo 2015.
Relazione su ‘The British Indian Army: Organisation and role in the world wars’ all'incontro commemorativo dei soldati dell'Asia Meridionale del Commonwealth britannico nella guerra di liberazione in Italia, organizzato da Fuorilinea e dall'Associazione Libera Intesa, Sala del Caroccio, Campidoglio, 16 aprile 2014.
Presentazione del volume Arcobaleno, traduzioni di testi di Rabindranath Tagore, a cura di M. Prayer e G. Gatteschi, Jouvence, Milano: 2014 (con M. Prayer, R. Torella, G. Milanetti, N. Sobhan Ahmed).
Relazione “Indo-Italian Relations in Historical Perspective”, panel discussion su ‘India Grows at Night’ organizzata da Zètema Progetto Cultura e dall'Ambasciata dell'India, Sala delle Colonne, Tempio di Adriano, 1 luglio 2013.
Relazione alla panel discussion su ‘Civiltà ferita, guerra alle donne’, Associazione Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Roma, 19 gennaio 2013.
Conferenza ‘Land Rights and Adivasi Women: Central and Eastern India in the 20th century’, organizzata dal Comune di Pisa all'interno del progetto ‘Spazi di Dialogo tra Culture: Trasformazioni, Mutuazioni, Ricomposizioni’ presso l’Associazione Casa della Donna, Biblioteca Universitaria, Pisa, 7 giugno 2012.
ORGANIZZAZIONE DI WORKSHOPS, CONFERENZE E PANEL INTERNAZIONALI
Co-Convenor del panel su ‘Interrogating Deviance and ‘Crime’ in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia’, XXVII European Conference for South Asian Studies, Università di Torino, 26-29 luglio 2023.
Co-convenor del panel ‘Interrogating Marginalities Across Disciplinary Boundaries: Perspectives from South Asia’, XXVI European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Vienna, 26-29 luglio 2021.
Co-convenor del panel 'Historicising marginality and development: alternative narratives in contemporary India' XXIV European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Vienna, 27-30 luglio 2016.
Co-convenor e Chair del panel ‘Subjects, Citizens and Law’, XXIII European Conference on South Asian Studies, University of Zurich, Svizzera, 23-26 luglio 2014.
Joint Convenor e Chair del panel ‘Narratives of the Margins: Representing Dalits and Adivasis of India in Literature, Art, Cinema and Music’, VIII International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 8), Macao, Cina, 24-27 giugno 2013.
Joint Co-ordinator, seminario internazionale ‘Facets of Nationalism and Nation Making in India’, Department of History, Calcutta University, 31 marzo 2011.
Joint Co-ordinator, seminario internazionale ‘Trends in the Economic History of India’, Department of History, Calcutta University, 11 febbraio 2010.
Joint Co-ordinator, Corso di Formazione UGC per Docenti di College e Università “Writing Social History: Past Perspectives, Contemporary Concerns”, Department of History, Calcutta University, 28 gennaio – 18 febbraio 2009.
Joint Co-ordinator, seminario finanziato dall’UGC “Communities and the Nation: Dalits and Adivasis in Colonial and Post-Colonial India”, Department of History, Calcutta University, 22-23 marzo 2006.
AFFILIAZIONI PROFESSIONALI
Membro dell’European Association of South Asian Studies
Membro dell'European Rural History Association
Membro di Law and Society Association, Massachusetts, Stati Uniti.
Membro permanente, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata
Membro dell’Indian History Congress