International Workshop Conducted
- A workshop titled “Ethnographic Sensibility for Acting” conducted by me in collaboration with my department’s colleagues wherein NSD and other Asia Pacific region’s theatre School’s students were participants that was held in 9th Asia Pacific Bureau Theatre School Meet New Delhi from 19-25 October 2016 organized by National School of Drama, India.
- In 35th ITI World Congress at Segovia in Spain, I have conducted two workshops on the new phase of Ethnographic Sensibility for Acting in cooperation with my department’s colleagues wherein Euro-American-Asian students-teachers-artists were the participants.
International Workshop Participated
- A 7-day long workshop on Acting and Ritual conducted by Dr. Juri Alshitz in Nauruz Festival at Kamal Galiasgar Tatar Theatre, Tatarstan, Russia in 2014.
- A workshop on the idea of Home in contemporary theatre which was conducted by Dr. Derek Goldman, Professor at Georgetown University, USA in 35th ITI World Congress at Segovia in Spain.
International Theatre Residency
A one month long residency with Indian, Japanese and Korean performers to create performances based on “Asian possibilities in performing arts” hosted by Theatre Minduelle , Seoul, South Korea in 2014.
International Forum Speech
Delivering speech on meta-language in the event of language festival organized by Westmere Postgraduate program 2020, University of Birmingham, UK.
Award and Fellowship
In youth mobilization category I have been awarded for Charles Wallace Visiting Fellowship 2014/2015 from Charles Wallace Trust and British Council. For this I have been visited Queen Marry University of London and working with Ali Campbell who is a Reader in applied performance of the School of English and Drama at QMUL.
Tours
Participated international theatre workshops, talks, seminars, and festivals held in India, South Korea, Dubai and Sharjah (UAE), Tatarstan and Moscow (Russia), UK, China, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal and Italy.
Seminar Papers Presented
- A co-authored paper Dhaka University and reformation of Education System presented a seminar at Mujaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium organised by Dhaka Bishwabidyalay Shikkhoksamaj at 9 September 2024.
- A paper on Critiquing Syed Jamil Ahmed’s reading of Zia Hayder presented at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
- A paper on Political Shakespeare, Diaspora and Adaptation presented in British Graduate Shakespeare Conference in 2022 at Stratford-upon-Avon, England, UK.
- A paper about Harold Pinter and his works was presented at the seminar as an adjunct event of Pinter Festival in 2006 organized by the Department of Theatre in collaboration with British Council Bangladesh.
- A paper about social action and aesthetic action in applied theatre was presented in an annual conference organized by BITA (Bangladesh Institute of Theatre Arts) in 2011.
- A paper on “Curriculum of Bengali literature and performing arts in higher education in Bangladesh” was presented at School of South Asian Studies in Yunan Minzu University, Kunming, China, 2016.
- I have presented a paper on dramatist Sayeed Ahmad in the closing session of a 9 daylong seminar organized by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (Bangladesh National Academy for Fine and Performing Arts) in 2016 in Dhaka.
- Two papers titled “Asian strength in Contemporary Performance Culture” and “the Role of Text in Contemporary Theatre Practice” presented by me in 9th Asia Pacific Bureau Theatre School Meet New Delhi from 19-25 October of 2016 which was organized by National School of Drama (NSD), India.
- The paper titled “Phenomenology of Ecological Performance in Bangladesh: The Interplay of Imaginative and Intervening Acts at the Intersection of Green Aesthetics and Politics” presented in the 3rd International Symposium (funded by the Harvard University South Asia Studies Department) of International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance, 11-13 July 2024, hosted by the University of Dhaka.
