Mursed Alam, alumnus of the 2017 UCSIA Summer School, recently shared a series of publications and initiatives reflecting his engagement with literature, religion, and interfaith dialogue.
Mursed Alam is actively involved in fostering interreligious dialogue. Together with his colleague Anindya Purakayastha, he is organising an Interfaith Dialogue Forum, featuring a series of lectures on Indian religions.
The opening series, dedicated to Hinduism, will consist of 11 open lectures delivered by Ankur Barua (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge). Each lecture will be followed by a response from an interlocutor from an Islamic background, creating a structured space for dialogue and exchange. The broader lecture series will also include sessions on Islam, Buddhism, and Jainism. Read more in the flyer…
The lectures are open to an international audience and can be attended online via Zoom. Those interested can register by contacting psagsindia@gmail.com, after which they will receive the access link.
Prof. Alam also recently published new work. In November 2025, The Grave Exhumers and Other Stories came out. It is a translation of a collection of short stories from Bengali into English. Through this work, Mursed contributes to making Bengali literary voices accessible to a wider international readership. In January 2026, he published a research article titled The Logic of Hatred and Textualisation of Cohesion: Revisiting Select Early Modern Bangla Sufi Texts in the journal Postcolonial Interventions. The article explores how early modern Bangla Sufi texts engage with themes of coexistence and reflects on their relevance in a contemporary global context marked by growing tensions between religious communities.
Dr Md. Mursed Alam teaches as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Gour College, University of Gour Banga, India. His PhD thesis was on remapping the subaltern in contemporary South Asia. He was awarded the RACE.ED Visiting Research Fellowship by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh in 2023. He received the Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship for research work at the British Library in 2018. He is a founding member of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS) and the managing editor of Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium.
The UCSIA Summer School warmly congratulates Mursed Alam on these diverse and impactful contributions.