Visiting Scholar 2019
| Name | Title and Date of the Lecture |
| Ms. Smita Barooah Sanyal | ‘Youth and Addictions’ on 2nd April 2019 |
| Dr. Gopal Krishan Shah | Performed and delivered a lecture on “Time theory in Indian Raga System” on 08th April, 2019 |
| Dr. Ashima Sood | Speculative Urbanization in India? (30th April 2019) |
| Dr. Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda | “COLONIZATION OF ‘LAW’ IN NORTHEAST INDIA: TRADITION, CUSTOM, AND THE EMPIRE on 14 May 2019 |
| Dr. Jayanta Dutta | The Evolution of our Universe from Big Bang (an introduction to the First Source of light in the Universe)(17 May, 2019) |
| Professor Gita Dharampal | Mahatma Gandhi and Islam: A relationship defined by Affinity, Fascination, Crisis and Rupture (27 May, 2019) |
| Dr. Veena R. Howard | Queen Gāndhārī’s Mapping the Battlefield through the “Divine Eye:” Shifting the Gaze from Masculine Virility to Feminine Vulnerability (31 May, 2019) |
| Professor Anup Kumar, Ph.D. | Populism as a Political Practice: It is not Content, but Repertoire that Unites Shades of Populism on 5 July 2019. |
| Dr. V.J. Varghese | Making and Unmaking of a Kutiyettakkaran: Cultural Representations and the Migrant Subjectivity in Kerala on 17th July 2019 |
| Dr. Kamal Nayan Choubey | The Forest, Tribal Life and Intricate Legal Structure: From Subjecthood to Quest for Justice and Citizenship Rights” on 5th August 2019 |
| Shri Siddhartha | 'Eco-spirituality, Food sovereignty and Social justice' on 16th August 2019 |
| Professor Nachiketa Tiwari | MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PANINI’S CONSONANTS on 13th September 2019 |
| Shri Ayon Maharaj | “Swami Vivekananda’s Reconceptualization of Advaita Vedānta in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna” Guest of Honour was Lt Gen KJ Singh, State Information Commissioner, Punjab. (21 October 2019) |
| Professor Ananta Giri | “Social Sciences and the Regional Imagination of India: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Planetary Conversations" (2 December 2019) |
Visiting Scholar 2018
| Name | Title and Date of the Lecture |
| Dr. Alexander F. Scott | Economic Development and Indian Self-Determination: Cultural, Developmental, and Neurobiological Implications of India’s Cultural Shift toward a Nuclear Family Norm” on 10 April 2018 |
| Professor Nandini C. Singh | The Reading Brain” on 23rd April, 2018 |
| Professor Jagbir Singh | Inter-faith Dialogue and the Discourse of Guru Granth Sahib” on 18 May 2018 |
| Dr. Surjeet Singh Lee | “The Jangams: An Oral Epic in the Shaivite Tradition” on 21 May 2018 |
| Shri Mohit Bhardwaj | The Oral Veda Tradition” on 22 May 2018 |
| Carmel Christy K.J. | “The life of Caste, Gender and the Body: Boundaries of knowing” on 06th June 2018 |
| Ms. Neela Bhagat | “Musical Ethos: Traditional and Contemporary” on 31 August 2018 |
| Professor V.N. Jha | Classical Indian Theories of Error (25 September 2018) |
| Dr. Lakshmi Subramanian | “Articulating an Aesthetics: for Indian classical music in the 20th century: Revising the “theory-practice binary” on 05th October 2018 |
| Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan | “Friendship and Prudence: Insights from the Pancatantra” on 16th November, 2018 |
| Professor Shailendra Raj Mehta | “Freedom of Speech, Inquiry and Religion in India and in the West” on 06 December 2018 |
| Dr. Rahul Chaturvedi | "Mental Health and Literature: Towards a Poetics of Medical Humanities” on 25th March 2019 |
| Professor Pradeep Trikha | Diverse Voices & Alternative Traditions: Rajasthani Tales as Artifacts” on 26th March 2019 |
Visiting Scholar 2017
| Name | Title and Date of the Lecture |
| Dr. Nalini Persram | Thought Through Motility: Phenomenological and Somatic Studies of the Conceptual (17 March 2017) |
| Dr. Kathryn Hardy | Sounding out the Crowd: Cinematic signs and Embodies Politics in Regional Mumbai (05 May 2017) |
| Dr. Elizabeth Wilson | Be the Change: Gandhi and Human Rights (21 June 2017) |
| Professor Dinesh Prasad Saklani | Valmiki Ramayana & Gender Issue-Case of Sita (28 July 2017) |
| Professor Shekhar Pathak | Chipko Andolan: An Evaluation Leadership Organization and Participation (14 September 2017) |
| Shri Makarand Sathe | Nationalism and Cultural Freedom (06 October 2017) |
| Mr. Anant Mahapatra | Odia Theatre through Decades (12 October 2017) |
| Professor Gerard Huet | The Sanskrit Heritage Platform (26 October 2017) |
Visiting Scholar 2016
| Name | Title and Date of the Lecture |
| Shri P. Sainath | Rural India-a living journal, a breathing archive (The everyday lives of everyday people) (08 April 2016) |
| Professor Ananta Kumar Giri | With and Beyond Epistemologies from the south: ontological Epistemology of Participation, Multi-topical Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Challenges of Planetary Realizations (09 May 2016) |
| Professor Roy W. Perrett | Memory, Doubt and the Self (20 May 2016) |
| Professor Anirban Chakraborti | Physicists Approach to Studying Socio-Economic Inequalities: can Humans be Modeled as Atoms? (25 May 2016) |
| Professor Sreekala M. Nair | Releasing Theology from Epistemological Barriers: A Postmodern Narrative (19 August 2016) |
| Professor Narayani Gupta | The Hall of Nation as a Metaphor for our sense of History |
| Professor Uma Chakravarti | The Feminist Turn in Documentary Cinema: An Audio Visual Presentation (18 October 2016) |
| Shri Makarand Sathe | Political and Social Aspects of Theatre during 19th Century Colonial Rule-with reference to Marathi Theatre (15 November 2016) |
Visiting Scholar 2015
| Name | Title and Date of the Lecture |
| Professor John Russon | The Limits of Money: Phenomenological Reflections on Selfhood and Value (28 April 2015) |
| Dr. Harro Maat | Anti-commodities as a Concept for Rural History; Local Responses to Colonial Cultures and their Legacies (18 June 2015) |
| Satya P. Gautam | Doing Philosophy Through Literature: Excursions in Philosophical Terrain through Jostein Gaarder’s Novels (03 July 2015) |
| Dr. Chitralekha Zutshi | Narrating Paradise on Earth: Place-Making and History-Writing in Kashmir (10 July 2015) |
| Dr. Arupjyoti Saikia | Commodities, Citizens and Making of a Border,: Assam, 1947-50s (16 July 2015) |
| Professor Satendra Nandan Postal | Indian Diaspora in Australasia: 1879-2014 (13 August 2015) |
| Dr. M.G. Vassanji | The New (Asian) African: Politics and Creativity in the 1960s (18 August 2015) |
| Dr. V. Ravi Vaithees | Re-inscribing Caivam (Saivism) as Tamil Nation: Maraimalai Atigal and the Genealogy of Tamil Nationalism and the Dravidian Movement (13 November 2015) |
| Professor Gaurav Desai | ‘Ye Zindagi Usi ki Hai’: Illicit Desire and (Post)colonial Romance in M.G. Vassanji’s The Book of Secrets (04 December 2015) |