JOURNAL PAPER

• Ferdous. Sayeed. Intimation of revolution: global sixties and the making of Bangladesh: by Subho Basu, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2023, xiii+ 401pp., US $130.00 (hardback). The Global Sixties 18 (1) (2025) 87-89.
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “partition oddhoyoner je paathgulo amader bhulte hobe” (Lessons we need to unlearn in Partition studies), Aneek, Special Issue on deshbhaag(Partition) 75, 59 (2023):7-8, Kolkata.
• Ferdous. Sayeed. satyasatyer bhedrekha muchhe Nuruldeen-er talash: Rangpur-er doshokjora bidroho” (Search for Nuruldeen transcending the boundaries of truth-false: The decade-long revolt of Rangpur), Monon Rekha, Special Issue on Nuruldeen and Peasant Revolt of Rangpur 6 (2022):11, Dhaka.
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “Passage through the Partition: Stories of five families,” Journal of Migration Affairs 4:1, https://migrationaffairs.com/passage-through-partition-stories-of-five-families/ (2021)
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “Partition Prolonging Along the Bengal Borderlands.”Partition Studies Quarterly, (2020), Issue 03, Partition Prolonging Along the Bengal Borderlands - Partition Studies (partitionstudiesquarterly.org)Partition Prolonging Along the Bengal Borderlands - Partition Studies (partitionstudiesquarterly.org)
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “‘Surgery’ in rush and affected lives: Make-Believe stories in understanding History” in The Journal of Social Studies 146 (2015), Dhaka University, Dhaka.
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “On Remembrance/Forgetting: Issues Related to Partition Memories”, in The Jahangirnagar Review XXXVI (2015), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “‘Onno’ Jatirashter Kechcha: Uttor-Ouponibeshik Prekkhapote Itihash, Shomproday ar Porichiti Proshongo” (Stories from the ‘Other’ nation-states: History, Community and the Issue of Identity in a Post-Colonial Context), Nrivijnana Potrika 11 (2006), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “Poshchimer Udarnoitik Hegemony te Boshobash: Genealogies of Religion-er Path Protikria” (Living under the liberal hegemony of the West: A response to Genealogies of Religion), Nrivijnana Potrik 9 (2004), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka
• Sumon. M. H. & Sayeed Ferdous. “Exploring the "Indigenous": Dilemmas of Academics in Bangladesh,” Jahangirnagar Review Part II, Social Science XXV-XXVI (2002), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka
• Sultana, M. T. & Sayeed Ferdous. “Paththakrom o Gayan Utpodoner Rajnoitic Baebostha” (Political system of production of syllabus and knowledge), Nrivijnana Potrika 7 (2002), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka
• Naher. Ainoon & Sayeed Ferdous. “Ongshogrohon: Unnoyon Rajnitir Ekti Bohul Uchcharito Prottoy ke Phire Dekha” (Participation: A buzzword of development politics revisited), Bangladesh Unnoyon Shomikhsha, Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2001.
• Islam. S. N. & Sayeed Ferdous. “The Gendered Construction of Language,” The Journal of Social Studies, Special Issue: Language and Society 90 (2000), Dhaka University
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “Nribigyane Totto Alochonar Prarombhika”(An introductory note on anthropological theories), Nrivijnana Potrika 4 (2000), Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “Jatiotabaad ebong Attoshondhaner Tagid” (Nationalism and urge of self-investigation): in Samaj Nirikkhon 72 (1999), Dhaka University
• Ferdous. Sayeed. “Shongskritir Boyan: Didhannito Shotto Nirman?” (Writing culture: Construction of confused truth?), Nrivijnana Potrika 3 (1995), Jahangirnagar University

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BOOK

• Ferdous. Sayeed. Partition as Border-Making: East Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh (London & New York: Routledge, 2022)

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EDITED BOOK

• Sultana. Mirza.Taslima., Parsa Sanjana Sajeed, & Sayeed Ferdous. A Bangladesh Reader: Beyond Nation and State (London & New York: Routledge, 2026)

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BOOK CHAPTER

1. Ferdous. Sayeed. Bangalee-Musalman: Configuration and Contestation of Identities in A Bangladesh Reader: Beyond Nation and State (London & New York: Routledge, 2026) 
2. Ferdous. Sayeed. “sonar pathor bati”: Crafting identity beyond the binary of Bangalee and Musalman in Islamization in 'Secular' Bangladesh: Beyond Bipolar Opposition, (Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2026)
3. Ferdous. Sayeed. “Passage Through Partition: Stories of Five Families” in Migration, Memories, and the “Unfinished” Partition, (London & New York: Routledge, 2024) 
4. Ferdous. Sayeed. “1947-er bangla bhag, bharot kendrikotar poropare” (Bengal Partition of 1947: Beyond Indocentrism), in Danga, Deshbhag O Udbastu Shomoy: Poshchim theke Purbobongo, (Kolkata: Mandas, 2024) 
5. Ferdous. Sayeed. “kolpolok hotey nojordarir rashtro” (From utopia to the state of surveillance), in Dui Banglar Sanskriti: Porbantorer Kotha (Burdwan: Bharat Viddya Charcaha Kendra, 2023) 
6. Ferdous. Sayeed.“The Living Labyrinth of ‘Prolonged Partition’” in Revisiting Partition: Contestation, Narratives and Memories (Delhi: Primus Books, 2022) 
7. Ferdous. Sayeed. “‘Surgery’ in rush and affected lives in borderland: East Bengal experiences of Partition” in The 1947 Partition in the East and North-East: Trends and Trajectories (London & New York: Routledge, 2021) 
8. Ferdous. Sayeed.“Baad Porader Itihash” (History of the Left-out), in Probol O Prantik Series 1 (Dhaka: Public Nribiggyan, 2011) 

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KEYNOTE SPEECH

2026

• Invited Speaker “'subversive' er romantikikoron: prekkhit bangladesh-bharot shimanto” (Romaticizing the 'subversive': Context Bangladesh-India border), organized by the Department of Anthropology, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, and the SUST Anthropological Association.

2025

• Panel Speaker,  “History, Memory, and Politics in South Asia,” Panel Discussion, Dacca Institute of Research and Analytics.
• Keynote Address "Listening to the Partitioned 'Others': An Awkwardness of Illegibility" MEMORYSCAPES: Historiographies & Methodologies around the 1947 Partition, organized by the Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University.

2024

• Guest Lecture, “Subaltern Studies” History, Memory and Narratives, Department of Anthropology, Jagannath University.
• Keynote Speaker “Bangladesh Studies Beyond Hegemonic Narratives” plenary speech in the Bangladesh  Conference 2024, titled New Directions of Bangladesh Studies. The conference was jointly organized by the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies and the South  Asian Institute @ UT Austin. 
• Invited Speaker “Partition As Border-Making: East Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh” discussion on my research at the Subir and Malini Center for  Bangladesh Studies, ISAS, University of California, Berkeley.

2023

• Keynote Speaker “deshbhager hegemonic akkhyan: oporer osrutopray swor” (Hegemonic narrative of Partition: Unheard voices of the Other) keynote speech at the annual seminar organized by the Department of Bangla, Jahangirnagar University.
• Invited Speaker, “Bangladesh oddhoyoner ishtehar” (The Manifesto of Bangladesh Studies) invited lecture organized by the Department of Anthropology, Rajshahi University.
• Public Lecture “Beyond A Hegemonic Understanding of 1947 Partition” public lecture organized by the Department of English, Stamford University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.  

2022

• Invited Speaker, 4th ULAB Literary Salon on the theme of “Partition and and its Aftermath” organized by the Department of English and Humanities, University of Liberal Arts.
• Keynote Speaker, “Lessons We Need to Unlearn in Partition Studies,” International Conference on Partition organized by the Department of Sociology and the Department of English, North Bengal Saint Xavier's College, Siliguri, India.
• Plenary  Speaker, “desh chhere jaoa manush ar je manushke chhere gelo desh: 1947-71” (People who had left the country and the people, abandoned by the country: 1947-71,” International Webinar on Literature and Culture of India on Patriotism versus Angst of Partition, Tripura University, India          

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