A writing workshop: Finding Your Voice| Ashoka University, September 15, 2025|
Conversation: Politics, universities, performance, gender and sexuality and the freedom and peril of thinking and speaking in the world today-Saikat Majumdar conversation with theatre scholar Sanjay Kumar at Central European University, Vienna. |Central European University, Vienna-June 6, 2025|
Conversation: Saikat Majumdar in conversation with K. Vaishali on challenges of queer writings. |Dibrugarh University International Literature Festival, February, 6, 2025|
Event: Saikat Majumdar spoke at the 10th Literary Activism on the mischievous subject of “The Non-Peer Reviewed Essay”. Friday and Saturday, March 28 & 29, at the India International Centre, Delhi. Watch the session recording, here!
Podcast: ‘The scariest thing is the chance to live by your own convictions.’ | In this episode of Frontline Conversations, Saikat Majumdar speaks to Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay about his latest novel ‘The Remains of the Body’, reflects on his entire body of work down the years, and more. |Frontline Conversations, Frontline Magazine, February 17, 2025|
Lecture: Talk on The Amateur, University of Free State, South Africa |September 25, 2024|
Bangalore Literature Festival: Love in All Colours-Saikat Majumdar, Kadir Özdemir, R Raj Rao and Ranbir Sidhu with Unmana |December14, 2024
Interview: Unconventional realities and intense friendships: Nabilah Khan interviews Saikat Majumdar | The Daily Star, October 12, 2024|
Panel Discussion: The Write Circle Kanpur with Saikat Majumdar and hosted by Prabha Khaitan Foundation: The guest author, Saikat Majumdar, was in conversation with Aarti Gupta, Ehsaas woman of Kanpur. Their discussion entailed a fascinating account of the author’s life, his work, and writings. |August 9, 2024|
Humanities in a Post Truth World, 2024 COMMENCEMENT LECTURE: Jindal School of Language and Literature, O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) , August 6, 2024
WORLD UNIVERSITIES SUMMIT: The Role of Universities in the Age of Disinformation/Misinformation), February 20, 2024
India’s Best Cities: Kolkata Safest City, The Hindu, January 04, 2024
“I’m an ethnographer of memory”, with Manjira Majumdar, The Statesman, October 15, 2023
Tell me your story, with The Mask Factor
Coming of Age in Bengal, with Ananya Dutta Gupta
Contemporary challenges in US and Indian Higher Education, with California State University, Long Beach
Understanding English as a language of World Literature, with The Ashoka Research Quest (watch the video, here)
Writing the City, with Orient Blackswan
Is Home Where the Hurt is?, at the Rainbow Literature Festival, 2020
A Discussion on The Scent of God, with Tell Me Your Story
The Invention of Creative Writing, with the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh
A Conversation on The Firebird, with Professor Anjali Prabhu (Wellesley College)
The Writing Process, with Mona Sen Gupta (Founder, AHAVA Communications)
Sexuality under the Scanner: Narratives from South Asia, Belongg Online Literature Festival
Bildungsromans: Coming-of-age Novels in India, Times Litfest, Bengaluru
LGBTQ Pride and Much Prejudiced, Times Litfest, Bengaluru
On Creative Writing, Author’s Corner by Simon and Schuster
International Education Post-Covid Regime, Outlook
Discussion of College organised by members of the Committee on New Education Policy, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India
Representation of Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Calcutta, Kolkata, Kalkatta: Jaipur Literature Festival
India from the Outside: Kolkata Literary Meet
Literature as Sin: The UEA Seminar in Literary Activism
Stories and Modern Indian Literature: : Udaya Kumar & Saikat Majumdar
Writing Across Border: The University of Chicago Symposium on Creative Writing
On Cultural Appropriation: Zee JLF at Boulder
On Cultural Appropriation: Bangalore Literature Festival
Bratya Basu, Anjan Dutt and Saikat Majumdar at Kolkata Literature Meet
“I’m an ethnographer of memory”