• Under the grant of a UKIERI 'Faculty Exchange' programme’, 2011-2012 two academics from the Centre for Victorian Studies (CVS), Dr. Sucheta Bhattacharya (Associate Professor, Dept. of Comparative Literature) and Smt. Saswati Halder (Assistant Professor, Dept. Of English), visited the School of English and Victorian Studies Centre of the University of Leicester(VSC), UK, in March 2012, to facilitate cementing the connections between the Victorian Studies Centres of the two institutions and of bringing an Indian perspective to Victorian studies.
• The visit was reciprocated by a similar one in April 2012 by Professor Joanne Shattock (Professor Emeritus, Dept of English, University of Leicester), Dr Felicity James (Dept of English, University of Leicester) and Dr Gowan Dawson (Dept of English, University of Leicester). Members of CVS had a workshop with the colleagues of School of English and Victorian Studies Centre at Leicester, to explore the nature of the term ‘Victorian’ from a global perspective and discussed the ways in which the category of ‘Victorian’ might be extended beyond national boundaries and instead be used to encompass a set of cultural, intellectual and political attitudes that have shaped and continue to shape India as much as the UK. Ideas were exchanged on the continuing legacies of the Victorian in India as well as in the UK. Discussions were also held on developing the links between the Victorian Studies Centres and the departments of English at both universities. Topics included honorary visiting fellowships, research collaboration, teaching research methodology and innovations in interdisciplinary teaching.
• Talk by Professor Deborah Logan (Western Kentucky University& visiting Fulbright scholar) on Harriet Martineau's responses to the 1857 Uprising entitled ‘The Reluctant Imperialist: Assessing the Civilizing Mission in India, 1857-1858’ in April 2012.
• International Conference organized by the Centre of Advanced Study and Centre for Victorian Studies, in December 2012, on ‘The Dickens World: Post-Imperial Readings’ with support from the British Council and the University’s Merged Grant.
• Talk on ‘One walked of course with one’s eyes greatly open (Henry James): London Sights in Henry James and Alvin Langdon Coburn’ by Douglas Tallack, Professor of American Studies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities & Law, University of Leicester, UK, in January 2013.
• Talk on ‘Raising Doubts: Challenging the Victorian Maternal Ideal and 'Unnatural' Mothers in Thomas Hardy's Short Stories’ in August 2013, by Dr. Oindrila Ghosh, Assistant Professor and Head, Department of English, Naba Ballygunge Mahavidyalaya.
• In collaboration with Hiralal Bhakat College (P.O. Nalhati Dist. Birbhum Pin 731 220), convened a two-day UGC National Seminar on ‘Revisiting the Late 19th Century in English Literature,’ in September 2013.
• Talk in collaboration with the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of English, Jadavpur University on ‘Keats, India and the Veil of Soul-Making’ in November 2013, by Professor Deirdre Coleman (Robert Wallace Chair in English), Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Art, University of Melbourne.
• Talk on ‘Connected Histories, Connected Literature: Aspects of Indian Women’s Writing and Agency, 1860-1918 in January 2014, by Dr. Barnita Bagchi, Comparative Literature Section, Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication. Utrecht University, Netherlands.
• Inter-Departmental Students’ Seminar in February 2014, on ‘Victorian Intimacies: States, phases and forms of the intimate in Victorian literature and culture.’
• Talk on ‘Neo-Victorian Histories and Representations: The Afterlife of Victorianism,’ in August 2014, by Dr. Sneha Kar Chaudhuri, Assistant Professor, Department of English, West Bengal State University, Kolkata.
• Talk on ‘Rabindra-Jeeban O Sahityo : Unish Shatok-er Nabobongo Dampoti-r Premalap’, in December 2014, by Dr. Rakhi Mitra, Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College, Kolkata.
• The Confidential Clerk, broadly concerned with scholarship, new research and a keen understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and theory, is an online journal to be published annually from March 2015 by the Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University. Interdisciplinary, international and innovative, the journal is committed to providing a forum for original and unpublished research papers from students, young researchers and established authors. Articles will not only explore and integrate theories and methods of various fields of inquiry - gender, art, history, music, anthropology, psychology, military studies, urbanism, literary criticism, religious studies, social history, economics, popular culture studies, and the history of science, among others - but also test and open up the very limits of disciplinary boundaries. The first issue of The Confidential Clerk, scheduled to come out in March 2015, is based entirely on academic articles in Victorian Studies contributed by postgraduate students enrolled in M.A./M.Phil/PhD programs at Jadavpur University.
• Special Lecture on ‘Religion or Science? The dubious stance towards Mesmerism in the works of Harriet Martineau and Swarnakumari Devi,’ in May 2015, by Shreya Chakravorty, Assistant Professor, Budge Budge College.
• Special Lecture on ‘Unish Sataker Bangla Vasha: Banijyo O Parjyataner Chokh Diye ’, in July 2015, by Dr. Ballari Ray Chaudhury, Assistant Professor, Department of Bengali Language and Literature, Gokhale Memorial Girls' College, Kolkata.
• Special Lecture on ‘ Thomas Hardy-r Juddho-Natak ebong Amiya Chakravarty-r Kabita-Bhavna’, in August 2015, by Dr. Sumita Chakrabarti, Retired Professor, Department of Bengali, Burdwan University.
• The second issue of The Confidential Clerk is a collection of original and unpublished research papers on ‘Realizing the Unreal: Victorian Speculative Fiction in Context’, from young researchers and academicians all over the world. The issue focuses on Victorian speculative fiction and its generic, thematic, historical, and cultural contexts. Victorian speculative fiction is usually described as ‘a flight from the real’; but we have selected submissions that go beyond this understanding to show how the Victorian imagination engages with the unreality of the real or creates alternative realities of the unreal in different forms of speculative fiction.
• Special Lecture on Idols of Anxiety in Late-Victorian Fiction: The Case of F. Anstey in February 2017, by Dr. Shuhita Bhattacharjee, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Presidency University, Kolkata.
• Special Lecture on Darwin and Photography: Queries about a Profitable Relationship in February 2017, by Sagar Taranga Mandal Assistant Professor Department of English, University of Kalyani.
• Special Lecture on Remembering Peary Chand Mitra, the novelist in June 2017 by Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, Former Faculty, Department of English. Anandamohan College and Calcutta University.
• Special Lecture on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and J.H. Green: In Search “Of Science, freedom, and truth in Christ” by Dr. Suchandra Chakravarty, Associate Professor of English and Teacher-in-Charge, The Bhawanipur Education Society College, Kolkata.
• The third issue of The Confidential Clerk is a collection of original and unpublished research papers on Victorian Material Culture from young researchers and academicians all over the world.
• Special Lecture on Feminism, Public Sphere and Universal Salvation in Anne Bronte in February 2018, by Dr. Madhumita Majumdar, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bhangar Mahavidyalaya.
• Special Lecture on Visible Work, Invisible Women: Status of and Attitudes to Victorian Professional Women in February 2018, by Dr. Syeda Ayesha Ali, Assistant Professor Department of English, St. Paul’s Cathedral Mission College.
• The fourth issue of The Confidential Clerk is a collection of original and unpublished research papers on In Retrospect: Ellis Bell, Emily Bronte and their Wuthering Heights from young researchers and academicians all over the world.
• A one-day symposium on A gauntlet with a gift isn't": Female Suffrage and the Woman Question in 19th Century Britain was organized by the Centre for Advanced Study, Department of English and the Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University on 20 March 2018.
• Special Lecture on How We Presume To Know: Illegitimacy, Doubt And Certainty In Victorian Realist Fiction by Dr. Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Chair, Department Of English, University Of Haifa
• Special Lecture on From Hippodrama To Melodrama: Victorian Popular Theatre by Dr. Sarika Bose, Chair, Ubcfa Contract Faculty Committee, UBC Faculty Association, Department Of English, University Of British Columbia
• The Centre for Victorian Studies collaborated with the Department of English, Diamond Harbour Women’s University for a one-day Symposium on ‘The World Within I Doubly Prize ...’: Reassessing Emily Bronte at 200, on 16 November 2018 to celebrate the bicentenary of Emily Bronte’s birth
• The fifth issue of The Confidential Clerk is a collection of original and unpublished research papers on A gauntlet with a gift isn't": Female Suffrage and the Woman Question in 19th Century Britain.
• A two day International Conference on The Brontës and their Contemporaries: Texts and Contexts (1816-1855), was organized by the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of English and the Centre for Victorian Studies, Jadavpur University on 13-14 March 2019.
• The sixth issue of The Confidential Clerk is a collection of original and unpublished research papers presented at a two day National Dissemination Workshop on ‘Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change’ held on 5-6 March 2020 at Jadavpur University, under RUSA 2.0 Major Research Project ‘Literary Ecology in Nineteenth-Century Bengal’..
