PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
International Conferences Held Outside India:
“To Fish or Cut Bait, That is the Question,” The 19th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature & Language Studies (ACLALS) on “Ruptured Commons,” Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11-15 July 2022
“The Gift and Curse of English in India,” Conference on “Entangled Englishes in Translocal Spaces,” University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, 2-4 September 2021
“Alter(n)ation: The Life and Afterlife of Gandhian Gastropolitics,” The 18th Triennial Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Conference on “The Uncommon Commonwealth,” The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 15-19 July 2019
“Performing Madness: Bauls in the Digital Age,” Research Symposium 2018 “Changing World, Challenging Boundaries: New Frontiers of Creative Arts and Humanities,” University of the Visual and Performing Arts, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 5-7 December 2018
“Accounting for Taste: Culinary and Alimentary Reconfigurations in Colonial Bengal,” Conference on “Writing/Righting Wrongs/ Agravious del pasado, re-creaciones del presente”, Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies and the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i de Germanistica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 29 November - 01 December 2017
“A Poet of/for India,” Asian Translation Traditions Conference 7, Monash Asia Institute and the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University Melbourne, in partnership with the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, and hosted at the Monash University Malaysia Campus in Kuala Lumpur, 26-29 September 2016
“Universities at the Crossroads and the Humanities at a Dead-End: What is the Way Forward?” The 17th Triennial Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) Conference, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 10-15 July 2016
International Conferences Held in India:
“Tradition, Counterculture, and the Nation,” Conference on “Translation Studies: New Directions,” Department of English, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 23-25 January 2018
“Answering Back: Western Dissident Literature and Indian Anticolonial Resistance,” Conference on “Politics and Letters: The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” Department of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 23-25 January 2018 [In Absentia]
“Humanities Education and the Search for ‘Self’,” Conference on “De-centring English Studies: Studying Literature in the Global South,” Postgraduate Department of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, 19-21 January 2017
“Tagore and the Global Environmental Crisis,” Conference on “Re-Thinking Environment: Literature, Ethics, Praxis,” Postgraduate Department of English, Berhampur University, Odisha, 28-30 December 2016 [In Absentia]
“Food, Hindu Bourgeoisie, and Cosmopolitan Imagination in Colonial Bengal,” Conference on “Materialities: Objects, Matter, Things,” Forum on Contemporary Theory, Vadodara and the Department of English, Doon University, Dehradun, 18-21 December 2016
“The ‘Fictions’ of Fatima Bhutto and Temsula Ao: Epistemologies of Violence,” Seminar on “Politics, History and Fiction in South Asia with Special Focus on Pakistan and North East India,” Department of English, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, 25-27 February 2016
“Gastronomy and the Making of the Bengali Bhadralok,” Conference on “The Culture of Food: Literature and Society,” Departments of English and Travel & Tourism, M.E.S. College of Arts and Commerce, Goa University, 25-27 February 2016 [In Absentia]
“The Enigma of Nirad C. Chaudhuri,” Conference on “Landmarks in Indian and World Literatures,” Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies (ISCS) in collaboration with the Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (OUCIP, formerly the American Studies Research Centre), Hyderabad, 26-28 November 2015
“A Poets’ Poet: Revisiting Kabir through the Translations by Rabindranath Tagore and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra,” Conference on “Words Words Words: The Future of Literary Writing,” Department of English Literature, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 25-27 November 2015
“‘Critical’ Humanities: A Report on the Health of University Education in India,” Conference on “New Directions in English Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives,” Osmania University Centre for International Programmes (formerly ASRC) in collaboration with the Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, and Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, 4-6 January, 2011
National Conferences:
“Translating Dissent, Imagining the Nation,” UGC-SAP-DSA-I Sponsored Conference on “India in Translation, Translation in India,” Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 7-9 March 2018
“The Poet and the Princes: Cultural and Historical Connections between Tagore and Tripura,” Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) on “Location, Identity, Solidarity: Hegemonic Formations and Contestations (With a Special Focus on the Northeast),” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, 15-17 February 2017
“Culturing Nature: West’s ‘Gift’ to the Orient (?),” Annual Conference of the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) on “New Postcolonial Paradigms: Literary and Cultural Perspectives,” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, 27-29 January 2011
“Contested ‘Natures’: Situating the Mahabharata in the Ecocritical Canon,” Spring School on “Mahabharata Today,” Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 14-28 April 2010
“Never at Home: The ‘Strange’ Case of Sasthi Brata,” Conference on “Conflict, Belonging and ‘Multiculturalism’,” Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 5-7 November 2009
“Politics, Religion and Creativity: The ‘Green Poetry’ of Seamus Heaney,” All India Seminar on “Representations of Science, Religion and Politics,” Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 18-19 March 2009
“Journalism and Literature: Beyond the Borders,” All India Seminar on “Changing Worlds/Changing Words: Literature and Literary Studies,” Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 31 March-01 April 2008
INVITED TALKS/RESOURCE PERSON
Keynote Address & Resource Person: National Seminar on 'Mapping Literary and Cultural Imaginings: Indian English Literature from Colonial to Global' organized by the PG Department of English, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, in collaboration with Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala on March 2, 2022
Resource Person: ICSSR sponsored 14-day Capacity Building Workshop on Research Methodology organized by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Regional Centre Panaji, in collaboration with the Directorate of Higher Education, Government of Goa, from 8 to 21 January 2018
Resource Person (Language and Communication): Intensive Teaching Workshop (ITW) conducted by the Teaching Learning Centre (TLC) for the newly-recruited faculty at BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, February-March 2018
TECHNICAL SESSIONS CHAIRED
"The Impact of Pandemic on Learner Motivation and Engagement," International Conference on "Education Outside the Classroom," Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, in collaboration with Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 29-30 July 2022
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Faculty Training Programme on “Text and Context in Translation,” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, in collaboration with the National Translation Mission (Government of India) and Tamil Nadu Textbook and Educational Services Corporation (TNTB&ESC), 18-23 July 2022
Faculty Development Programme on “Literature and Environmental Humanities,” School of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology Calicut, 25-30 October 2021
Faculty Development Programme on “Literary Studies in the New Millennium,” Department of English, Pondicherry University, 18-24 October 2021
“Workshop on Short Filmmaking,” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 19-20 March 2016
“Effective Teaching and Learning,” Teaching Learning Centre, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 4-6 January 2016
“Workshop on MOOCs,” BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, 11 July 2015
“Poetry Workshop by Gieve Patel,” Toto Funds the Arts and the British Council, Bangalore, 15-16 September 2012
“Understanding Social Exclusion: Concepts and Contexts,” Department of Social Exclusion Studies, School of Inter-Disciplinary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 29 October 2010
PARTICIPATION IN SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, ETC.
International:
“Film Cultures: Historical Perspectives”, Conference organized by the Department of Cultural Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 21-22 October 2011
National:
“Desiring Bharat, historicizing the ‘postcolonial’,” Symposium organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 28-30 September 2018
“Digital Humanities: Perspectives and Challenges,” Symposium organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 9 September 2016
“Contemporary Ways and Voices of Resistance/Resilience,” Seminar organized by the Research Scholars’ Forum of EFLU, Alam Khundmiri Foundation, and the Indian Council for Social Science Research at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 29-30 June 2012
“National Seminar for Research Scholars on Theatre Studies,” Department of English, University of Hyderabad, under the UGC-ASIHSS programme, 28-29 March 2008
“Sanskrit in the Modern Context,” Department of Sanskrit Studies, University of Hyderabad, 11-13 February 2008
“National Seminar on Translation and Transformation,” Department of English, University of Hyderabad, in collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, and the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 4-5 October 2007
“Study of Aesthetics: An Indian Perspective,” Department of English, University of Hyderabad, 24-25 February 2006
CONFERENCE/SEMINAR/WORKSHOP/SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZATION
International:
Member, Organizing Committee, Annual International Conference (Online) on "Circulations, Mediations, Negotiations: New Perspectives on Translation from South Asia,” organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) in collaboration with Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, 2-5 March 2022
Member, Organizing Committee, Annual International Conference (Online) on “Utopias and Dystopias in Our Times,” organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) in collaboration with Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi, 18-20 March 2021
Coordinator, "Region, Nation, Trans-Nation: Literature-Cinema Interface," organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, and supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) & the Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, 31 January – 02 February 2019
Member, Organizing Committee, “Unveiling a Secret Agreement: Revisiting the Contours of English Studies,” organized by the Department of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 19-21 November 2012
National:
Coordinator, National Symposium on "Digital Humanities: Perspectives and Challenges," Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 9 September 2016
Coordinator, "Workshop on Short Filmmaking," Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 19-20 March 2016
Coordinator, "tiNai Ecofilm Festival 2015 and National Conference on Ecocinema: Celebrating Landscapes and Waterscapes," Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 8-10 October 2015
Coordinator, ICLALS Annual Conference 2015 on “Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile,” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, 12-14 February 2015