Date: March 2, 2026
Registration: 10:30 AM
Venue: Conference Room, Darjeeling Hills University (ITI Campus)

Coordinator
Debraj Ghatak
Department of History
Darjeeling Hills University
Email: history@dhu.edu.in

Lecture I : Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya

Time: 11:00 AM

Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, a Senior Academic Fellow at the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS), University of Göttingen, Germany. An expert in the socio-economic history of modern and contemporary India. Her recent book titled Much Ado Over Coffee: Indian Coffee House Then And Now was published from Social Science Press in 2017.

Moderator
Debraj Ghatak, Department of History Darjeeling Hills University

Lecture II: Dr. Victor van Bijlert

Time: 1:00 PM

Dr. Victor van Bijlert is a Retired Lecturer from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. A renowned scholar of Indian philosophy, literature, and the works of Rabindranath Tagore. His expertise ranging from world literatures, Classical Philology and Other Religions. His recent book is Vedantic Hinduism in Colonial Bengal: Reformed Hinduism and Western Protestantism (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).

Moderator
Dr. Upasna Chettri, Department of History, Darjeeling Hills University