Literary and cultural honours, keynote and resource-person lectures, international conference presentations, filmmaking workshops, film festivals, and institutional advisory roles.
Honours conferred for folklore scholarship, literature, and international cultural presentation.
Phiredekha — Rangpur Literary Festival 2025 (রংপুর সাহিত্য উৎসব-২০২৫)
Venue: Government Teachers' Training College, Rangpur, Bangladesh
Conferred on October 24, 2025 at the Rangpur Literary Festival in recognition of his English-language folklore research volume Pulse in Culture: Context Bangladesh.
View Honoured Book: Pulse in Culture: Context Bangladesh →Ta-Thai Dance Academy — Shrikshetra Jagannath Dham International Dance Festival 2022
Venue: Annapurna Theatre Hall, Puri, Odisha, India
Honorary recognition ('Nrityakalaratna Samman 2022') conferred by Ta-Thai Dance Academy at the Shrikshetra Jagannath Dham International Dance Festival 2022 in Puri, Odisha, India, where Ahasan Imam also served as festival host and presenter.
Invited academic addresses, resource-person lectures, and session chair responsibilities in Bangladesh and India.
Sahityer Adda (সাহিত্যের আড্ডা)
Sahityer Adda, Episode 45 — Commemorating the 202nd Birth Anniversary of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar · Bangladesh / Online
Department of Education, Jadavpur University
Academic Conference on Sustainable Development: Issues, Prospect and Challenge · Kolkata, India
Jadavpur University
Academic Session / International Workshop on Gender and Culture · Kolkata, India
Jadavpur University
Invited Lecture in Humanities Research · Kolkata, India
Ten international and national academic conferences across Sri Lanka, Lithuania, India, and Bangladesh.
8th International Research Conference (IRC-SVIAS 2025)
Organised by: Eastern University, Sri Lanka
Explores mass music, anti-colonial protest, and folk-revolutionary idioms in the songs of Hemanga Biswas.
13th International Conference of Young Folklorists: 'Dark Side of Folklore and Folkloristics' (Panel 15: Darkness in Beliefs and Customs)
Organised by: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore (LLTI)
Presented on October 11, 2024 in Vilnius; examines the fourteen-lamp threshold ritual, fourteen leafy greens (choddo shaak), ancestral spirits, and belief narratives surrounding Bhoot Chaturdashi on the eve of Kali Puja.
Book of Abstracts (PDF) ↗International Conference on Arts, Education and Social Science (ICAES)
Organised by: ICAES
Study of traditional Marma musical performance and dramatic structure.
International Conference on 'Literature of the World and the Future of Comparative Literature'
Organised by: International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
Comparative analysis of women's ritual vows (brata) across Bangladesh and India.
National Seminar on 'Music, Musicology, Art and Culture, Dance, Drama, Architectural Sculpture, Folk Art and Culture, Anthropology, History'
Organised by: Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Kolkata
Examines the regional performance history and musical idioms of Tangail's Ghatu song tradition.
International Seminar on 'Community And Cultural Multiplicity In North East India and South Asia: Ethnography, History and Society'
Organised by: North East India Council for Social Science Research (NEICSSR)
Presented at the NEICSSR international seminar in Shillong, Meghalaya.
National Seminar on 'Interpreting Folklore and Culture of Northeast'
Organised by: Folklore Research Department, Gauhati University
Presented at the Folklore Research Department, Gauhati University.
International Seminar on 'Cultural Exchange Through Narratives: On Folkloristic Overview'
Organised by: Kolkata Society for Asian Studies
Later published as a book chapter in Cultural Exchange through Folklore, Vol. 2 (New Delhi, 2022).
International Conference on 'Belief Narrative in Folklore Studies: Narrating the Supernatural'
Organised by: Anundoram Borooah Institute of Language, Art & Culture (ABILAC), Assam, in collaboration with Belief Narrative Network (BNN) of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR)
International folkloristics gathering organized by ABILAC and the ISFNR Belief Narrative Network.
National Young Scholars’ Meet
Organised by: Department of Political Science, Gauhati University
Interdisciplinary doctoral and young scholars' colloquium at Gauhati University.
Film Development Board Nepal & Human Rights Film Center (Kathmandu, Nepal)
Role: Participant
Jahangirnagar Cine Society (JCS) (Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka)
Role: Special Guest & Faculty Advisor (Workshop conducted by cinematographer Sumon Sarker)
Bangladesh Institute of Graphology (Bangladesh)
Role: Participant
Jadavpur University (Kolkata, India)
Role: Participant & Invited Resource Person (October 22, 2019)
University of Pennsylvania (Coursera), IBMI Berlin & Escils (Online)
Role: Course Participant
Department of Communication and Journalism, Gauhati University (Guwahati, Assam, India)
Role: Participant
Rainbow Film Society & Pathshala South Asian Media Institute (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Role: Participant
Quantum Foundation (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Role: Participant
Language Teaching Centre, University of Rajshahi (Rajshahi, Bangladesh)
Role: Participant
Shilpakala Academy, Tangail District (Tangail, Bangladesh)
Role: Student of Vocal Music
Festival Delegate & Participant
Festival Delegate & Participant
Festival Delegate & Participant
Festival Delegate & Participant
Festival Delegate & Participant
Festival Delegate & Participant
Jahangirnagar University Students' Organisation
Jahangirnagar University Students' Organisation
Dhaka, Bangladesh
International Academic Society
Jahangirnagar University Students' Cultural Organisation
Department of Bangla, Jahangirnagar University
Jahangirnagar University
