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[14] Conference Name: 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-47)
Venue: School of Languages and Linguistics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Date: 12-14 November 2025
Ms. Srija Deb [Junior Research Fellow], Ms. Simantini Dey [Project Linked Person] and Ms. Moomal Majee [Project Linked Person] presented three single-authored papers at the conference.
Papers Presented: "Examining switch cost and parallel language activation through the lens of coarticulatory cues in Bengali–English bilinguals: a pilot study" by Srija Deb, "Gender Influence on the Development of Plural Expression in Bangla-speaking Children" by Simantini Dey & "Acquisition of Honorifics in Bangla: A Case Study" by Moomal Majee.
[13] Conference Name: 47th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-47)
Venue: School of Languages and Linguistics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
Date: 12-14 November 2025
Dr Mendem Bapuji was invited as a discussant in the Round Table Discussion on Bharatiya Bhasha Pariwar. Alongside this, he also presented a co-authored paper with Dr. P. Phani Kishna.
Paper Presented: Field Insights into Indi/Ave: A Pilot Study of Language, Culture, and Identity in South Odisha.
[12] Conference Name: 52nd All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists Association (DLA)
Venue: Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu.
Date: 19-21 June 2025
Prof Niladri Sekhar Dash was invited as a plenary speaker at the symposium on NEP 2020
and Indian Languages. Alongside this, he was also invited to deliver the 1st Anvita Abbi
Endowment lecture and the Presidential Address at the Valedictory session.
Paper Presented: 1st Cuisine Corpus in any of the Indian languages; 'gastrolinguistics' term coined by Prof N S Dash.
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[11] Conference Name: 52nd All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists Association (DLA)
Venue: Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu.
Date: 19-21 June 2025
Paper Title: “A Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Study of Indi/Ave Janjati: A Case Study of Kalahandi District of Odisha”
Author(s): Dr Mendem Bapuji
Dr Mendem Bapuji was also honoured with the Award for the Best Monograph on Dravidian Tribes
for the monograph titled “A Descriptive Grammar of Ollari Gadaba”. The award was instituted by
the International School of Dravidian Linguistics (ISDL) and formally presented to Dr. Bapuji in
the 52nd All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists Association (DLA).
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[10] Conference Name: National Conference on Language, Culture and Identity (NCLCI)
Date: 7-8 February 2025
Venue: Department of Linguistics, Berhampur University, Odisha.
Paper 1: 'Creation of a Monolingual Dictionary for the Kheria Sabar Language'
(Puja Gorai, Asha Khatun & Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash)
Paper 2: 'The Present Status of Kheria Sabar Speech: A Linguistic Investigation'
(Asha Khatun, Puja Gorai & Prof. Niladri Sekhar Dash)
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[9] Conference Name: National Conference on Language, Culture and Identity (NCLCI)
Venue: Department of Linguistics, Berhampur University, Odisha.
Date: 7-8 February 2025
Keynote Address: “Society, Ecology and Language: An Eco-linguistic Labyrinth We Live In”
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[8] Conference Name: 11th International Conference on Endangered and Lesser-Known Languages (ELKL-11)
Organised by: Department of Linguistics, Berhampur University, Odisha, in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru & Society For Endangered And Lesser-Known Languages, Lucknow, India.
Date: 9-11 March 2023
Paper Title: "Challenges Faced in Developing a Dictionary for Kheria Sabar: An Indigenous and Endangered Tribal Speech Community of Eastern India"
Authors: Niladri Sekhar Dash, Meghna Majumder and Srija Deb
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[7] Conference Name: International Conference on "Language, Culture, Cognition: viability of Languages"
Venue: Centre for Endangered Language Studies & Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India
Date: 5-6 March 2023
Paper Title: "A Translator’s notes and observations: study based upon Hindi to Bengali Translation"
Author: Rakiba Sultana
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[6] Conference Name: International Conference on Language, Literature, and Folklore (ICOLLAF) in collaboration with Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore
Venue: Department of Linguistics and Literature, School of Humanities and Liberal Arts in Cluster University of Jammu, India
Date: 28-30 January 2023
Paper Title: "Looking into the nature of Linguistic Problems observed in Machine Translation while translating from Hindi Bengali : Some Case-based Analysis and Solutions"
Authors: Suvam Sen, Abhishikta Sadhu, Agnisha Majumder and Rakiba Sultana
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[5] Conference Name: IEEE sponsored Third International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Computing, Communications and Sustainable Technologies (ICAECT 2023)
Venue: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Shri Shankaracharya Technical Campus (SSTC), Bhilai, Chattisgarh, India
Date: 05-06 January 2023
Paper Title: "Developing an Online Platform for Multimodal Lexical Learning for the Bengali Learners"
Authors: Niladri Sekhar Dash, Srija Deb, Nirnoy Dutta, Meghna Majumder, Amrita Bhattacharyya, Subhadip Mondal and Alok Ranjan Pal
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[4] Conference Name: SALA-36 & LSN-43 International Conference jointly organized by Linguistic Society of Nepal and the Central Department of Linguistics, TU
Venue: MBM College, Kathmandu, Nepal
Date: 26-29 November 2022
Paper Title: "Upgrading the existing Bengali WordNet with New Content, Features and Functionalities to strengthen the digital lexical resource"
Authors: Srija Deb, Nirnoy Dutta, Meghna Majumder and Niladri Sekhar Dash
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[3] Conference Name: SALA-36 & LSN-43 International Conference jointly organized by Linguistic Society of Nepal and the Central Department of Linguistics, TU
Venue: MBM College, Kathmandu, Nepal
Date: 26-29 November 2022
Paper Title: “Developing a Digital Bengali Pronounciation Dictionary as a part of Online Bengali Language Teaching”
Author: Niladri Sekhar Dash
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[2] Conference Name: 15th ELSJ International Spring Forum
Venue: Chukyo University, Nagoya, Japan
Date: 14-15 May 2022
Paper Title: “Augmentation and Upgradation of the Existing Bengali WordNet with New Features and Contents”
Authors: Nirnoy Dutta, Srija Deb, Meghna Majumder, Bratati Dhar and Niladri Sekhar Dash
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[1] Conference Name: 43rd International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India
Venue: Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), India
Date: 21-23 December 2021
Paper Title: “Designing a comprehensive news text corpus of Indian Englishes to open up new areas of Investigation and Application”
Authors: Srija Deb, Meghna Majumder and Niladri Sekhar Dash
