The Department regularly organizes seminars and conferences, including a major national or international conference every year.

2022-23     International Conference on English Studies in India: Centenary Perspectives
2019-20     Gandhi in the Private and the Public Sphere: Image, Text, and Performance
2019-20     Culture and Aesthetics in Indian Folklore
2018-19      Machiavelli: In his times, and Ours
2017-18      World Literature: Postcolonial Perspectives
2017-18      Interrogating Disability Studies: Literature, Culture, Performance
2016-17      The Mahabharata and Inter-Asian Cultures: Transmissions, Adaptations, Performances  
                    and Histories

2015-16       The Indian Vernacular: Languages, Literatures and Histories
2013-14       The Futures of American Studies
2012-13       Rethinking the Novel
2011-12       The Dalit Experience and the Question of Marginality
2010-11       Postfeminist Postmortems? Gender, Sexualities and Multiple Modernities
2009-10       Inhabiting This Hour: John Milton, His Bequest, 1608-2010
2008-9         Non-Metropolitan Modernisms
2007-8         Renaissance and Renaissances: European Renaissance and Bengal Renaissance
2006-7         Nature and Time in Literature and the Visual Arts
2005-6         Past the Post: New Literatures in English in a Globalized World
2004-5         Mediations: Literature Across Media
2003-4         Reflexions: Literature, Film and Culture
2002-3         English Language Studies
2001-2         Women and Literature

2016-17     Modes, Motives, Motifs, and Conditions in Intra-Asian Travel 
2016-17      Culinary Roots/Routes 
2008-9         New Areas of Research
2007-8         Marriage in Shakespeare: A Community Affair
2006-7         Seminar on Raja Rao and R. K. Narayan
2005-6         Angles: Film Seminar and Festival
2004-5         After Edward Said: Colonialism, Knowledge and Culture
2004-5         Mourning Jacques Derrida

2018 – 19   A Three Day Workshop on Romanticism and the New Political
2018 -19    A One Day Workshop on United State of Utopia: American Utopian Fiction 
2017-18     Kuch Ishq Kiya Kuch Kaam: Revisiting Faiz Ahmed Faiz 
2016-17     The Ghazal Convention: Theory and Practice

2016-17        History, Culture and Literature: Reading the Margins (Swami Shraddhanand College)
2009-10        Conflict, Belonging and Multiculturalism (with Sri Venkateswara College)
2009-10        Constructions of the Self: Theories, Contexts, Practices (with Hans  Raj College)
2008-9          The City and its Cultures (with Hindu College)
2008-9          Literature and Revolution (with Janaki Devi Memorial College)
2008-9          Text, Pedagogy, Discourse (with Shyam Lal College)
2006-7          Literature and the Visual Arts (with Ramjas College)
2005-6         The Long Eighteenth Century (with Janaki Devi College)