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Presented a paper titled ‘Spice Wars, Explorers and Pirates in the Indian Ocean as represented in Comic Books for Children’ in IGU Conference Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought (Session 5- "Images and imaginaries of the Sea") in University of Milan, Italy on 6-7th June 2023.
Presented a paper titled "Representation of Violence: Women and Maritime Attacks in Indian Ocean in Comic Books for Children" at the two-day National Conference Women, Narrative & Agency: Enhancing Women’s Empowerment in India by Probing Violence, Gender Discrimination and Recuperation & Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature organized by the Department of HSS, IIT Roorkee, on April 12 & 13, 2023
Presented a paper titled Representation of Hydrocolonialism and Spice Feuds in Popular Culture and Literature in an International Seminar on Popular Culture and Contemporary Literature in Pondicherry University, November 10-11, 2022.
Presented a paper titled The Ambivalence of ‘belonging’ and ‘un-belonging’ to the Jew Street: A Critical Analysis of Sethumadhavan’s novel Aliyah in a conference titled The Street and The City- Moments organized by School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal, September 7- 9, 2022.
Presented a joint paper with Ms. S. M Mithuna titled Re-Presenting the Hinterland: Chenkalchoola and the Reconfiguration of Social Imaginary at the International conference Hinterlands: Cultural and Literary Perspectives organized by the University of Wroclaw, Poland, March 18-20, 2022.
Presented a paper titled Recalibration of the Colonial and Gender Paradigms by Pooradam Thirunal Sethu Lakshmi Bayi during 1921- 1934 in a National Conference Celebrating Unheard Voices of Charismatic Women in Indian writing in English organized by IIT Roorkee on 3^rd December, 2021.
Presented a joint paper titled Conditional Kinship: Mahe and Muziris remembering their Overseas Visitors with Ms. Revathy Hemachandran in the National Conference Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation organized by GITAM University, Hyderabad held between Jan 6-8, 2020.
Presented a paper titled Maritime Politics along the Pepper Highways of Malabar: Revisiting the Representations of Arab-Portuguese Spice feud in Literary works in Re-calibrating Diasporas Conference at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia held between 27- 28^th June, 2019.
Presented a paper titled Inducing ‘Precarity’ through Cultural Stereotypes: Interrogating the popular stereotypes of the Parsi community in an international conference titled “Challenging Precarity” organized by AURO University, Surat in collaboration with the University of Northampton (UK) and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) between January 27-29^th 2019.
Presented a paper titled The propensities of being a Gulf Wife: Re- Examining the fictional narratives of Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People in a national conference titled “Language and Literature: Transgressing Boundaries” organized by The Foundation for the Study of Literature and Environment (FSLE- India) and Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies, Delhi on 31^st Jan 2019.
Presented a paper titled Defying the ‘Difference’: Understanding the Scamper for Space amongst the Migrant Middle class in Mumbai through literary representations in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang in the ICL 2018 on 26^th July 2018.
Presented a paper titled “Unravelling the spice politics & Cosmopolitanism of Kochi: Emerging alternate representations in N. S Madhavan’s Litanies of Dutch Battery” at national conference on Comparative Humanities: Re-Configuring Humanities across cultures at EFL University, Hyderabad from 5^th to 7^th April 2017.
Attended and presented a paper titled “Beyond Spice trade and temple conquests: Palimpsest memories of colonial regimes along the Malabar coastline in the native imagination” at a conference organised by South Asian Literary Association (SALA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U.S.A from 2^nd to 4^th January 2017.
Presented a paper titled Gauging the role of Socio-cultural events in selection of themes in Temple Art Forms like Krishnanattam and Koodiyattam in a National Conference on " Epic in India" held in Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad (HCU) held from 24- 26th August 2016
Presented a paper Negotiating faith and culture: Lives and world-view of boatmen in Banaras in a seminar titled “Framing India through Perspectives from Elsewhere” in Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla on 27-29 July.
Attended and presented a paper titled Challenging Matrilineal Identities Lost in Space and Time: A cross examination of Kerala women through the representations from selected Indian English Fiction in a two day National Conference organized by IIT-Roorkee and Sahitya Academy 21-22 March 2015.
Presented a paper titled Re-Imagining the narratives of the Gulf Diaspora in Literature at the 15th Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Conference, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, 6-8th Jan 2015.
Presented a paper Mapping Madness: A Critical Analysis of Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom at the International Conference on “Globalism and The New Literatures” organized by Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies at OUCIP, Hyderabad, 3-5 February, 2014.
Presented a paper titled Trauma Narratives in the works of Parsi writers, UGC sponsored National Conference, St Thomas College, Kozhencherry, Kerala in Sep 2013.
Presented a paper titled Globalization of Cuisines: Rethinking the role of Food in the recent Indian of English Fiction in International Seminar on South Asian Literature & Culture, Pune in Sep 2013.
Participated in International Conference as a delegate on Corporate Culture and Spirituality, Bangalore. (Feb 2013)
Presented a paper titled Diasporic consciousness in the works of Anita Nair at the National Conference on "The Frontiers of English Literature & The Patterns of English Language Teaching" organized by the Discipline of English Studies, Department of M & H, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad on 9 - 10 November 2012.
Presented a paper on Stereotyping in the works of Parsi writers in an International Conference on Diversity in New Literatures organized by Indian Society for Commonwealth studies, 16-18 December, 2010.

Workshops Attended:

Participated in a National Workshop on Understandings Social exclusion Concepts and Context Organized by Department of Social Exclusion Studies, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 29th October, 2010.
Participated in the "Memory Studies Workshop" organized by IIT Madras on 26th- 30 April 2021.
Participated in the "Food, Memory Machines" Workshop organized by IIT Madras on 17- 20 August, 2021.

Sessions chaired

Chaired a panel "Women, Domesticity, and the Ecosystem" at the two-day National Conference Women, Narrative & Agency: Enhancing Women’s Empowerment in India by Probing Violence, Gender Discrimination and Recuperation & Voices Unheard: An Approach to Indigenous Indian Literature organized by the Department of HSS, IIT Roorkee, on April 12 & 13, 2023
Chaired a panel in an International Seminar on Popular Culture and Contemporary Literature in Pondicherry University on 10th November 2022.
Chaired a session titled Literary Interpretations in an International Conference English Language and Literature: Readings and Reflections, GITAM University, Hyderabad on 8th August, 2015
Chaired a session titled Migration and Memory in the National Conference Contextualizing Migration: Perspectives from Literature, Culture and Translation organized by GITAM University, Hyderabad on 7 January 2020.

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