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I wrote two magical functions to handle my problem. I want to share it so that other users can benefit, too.

I added a host object referring to my Form object to the engine.
            engine.AddHostObject("main", this);
I added two public functions to the Form class:
        public EventHandler AddEventHandler(object obj, string eventName, object callback) {
            var eventInfo = obj.GetType().GetEvent(eventName);
            if (eventInfo != null)
            {
                Assembly asm = typeof(V8ScriptEngine).Assembly;
                Type asmType = asm.GetType("Microsoft.ClearScript.DelegateFactory");
                MethodInfo mi = asmType.GetMethod("CreateDelegate", new[] { typeof(ScriptEngine), typeof(object), typeof(Type) }); 
                object[] parameters = { engine, callback, eventInfo.EventHandlerType };
                Delegate scriptHandler = (Delegate)mi.Invoke(null, parameters);

                EventHandler handler = delegate (object sender, EventArgs e) {
                    Console.WriteLine("Event triggered: " + eventInfo.Name);
                    new Thread(() =>
                    {
                        object[] args = new object[] { sender, e };
                        scriptHandler.DynamicInvoke(args);
                    }).Start();
                };

                eventInfo.AddEventHandler(obj, handler);
                return handler;
            }
            return null;
        }

        public bool RemoveEventHandler(object obj, string eventName, EventHandler handler)
        {
            var eventInfo = obj.GetType().GetEvent(eventName);
            if (eventInfo != null)
            {
                eventInfo.RemoveEventHandler(obj, handler);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
What solves my problem is calling the callback script in a new Thread.

This avoids the application from hanging when it hits a breakpoint in the callback. (Remember that my debugger is hosted in a web browser inside my application)

And this is how I register to the "Resize" event of the form in the script:
var handler = main.AddEventHandler(main, "Resize", function (sender, e) {
    Console.WriteLine("Resize triggered inside script");
    main.RemoveEventHandler(main, "Resize", handler); //unregister
});
The only restriction in this solution is that I can only register events whose method parameters match with the EventHandler delegate.

I would be happy to your feedbacks!

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