June 27, 2008 - Seminar on ‘The Rise and Decline of Indian Trading Community in Central Asia’ by Prof. Sanjay Pandey, Centre for Russian & Central Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
June 11, 2008 - Seminar on ‘India-Greater Central Asia Linkages’ by Prof. Gulshan Sachdeva, India Central Asia Foundation and Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
May 12, 2008 – Seminar on ‘Analyzing Identities and Institutions in Central Asia within a Postcolonial Framework’ by Dr Bhavna Dave. Chair, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
February 13, 2008 - ‘Towards a historical anthropology of the Uyghur of Xinjiang in the 19th and 20th centuries’ by Dr. Ildiko Beller-Hann, Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum der Martin-Luther-Universität HalleWittenberg, Germany.