• Academic Visit to inaugurate Language Resource Centre at MGI, Mauritius, 2008;
  • Tagore Memorial Lecture at IIT, Kharagpur in December 2009;
  • Prof. Shantibhai Desai Memorial Lecture at Kuvempu University, Shimoga, April 2011
  • Invited lectures, Institute of Post-Colonial Studies, Melbourne, Australia, 2011
  • Special Lecture at the Joint Bangladesh-India Tagore 150 Celebrations, Dhaka, May 2011
  • Inauguration Invited Lecture at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington May, 2011;
  • ICCR lecture, Moscow, Russian State University, Moscow; 2011
  • ICCR Lecture, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 2011
  • Keynote at the World Bengali Convention, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 19-21 February, 2012
  • Inaugural Lecture at the European Hindi Conference at the University of Valladolid, Spain and
    also in Casa de’la India, in March 2012
  • Plenary lecture in the International Forum for US Studies Conference at UIUC on 5-7 April, 2012
  • Inaugural Lecture at the 18th Himalayan Languages Symposium, BHU, Varanasi, 18-19th Oct 2012
  • Panel lecture at ‘Samanvay’: Bharatiya Bhasha Mahotsava organized by the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (Nov 4-5, 2012)
  • Inaugural talk,‘Melbandhan Festival’, Mumbai for Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi & Bangla Literature, Nov 2012
  • Panel Lecture at the Curtain Raiser Indo-Chinese Symposium on 100th Year of the First Asian Nobel Prize, Visva-Bharati-JNU-Beijing University, 19th Dec 2012;