ACCEPTED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (2023):

1.       UAA Annual Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, USA,  2023. 

2.       Chemnitz University of  Technology, Chemnitz, Germany, 2023. 

3.       CAAS Annual Conference. Canada. Hosted by Mount Saint Vincent University & University of Saskatchewan. Conference:  2023.  

 

 

1.                  November 2021 (Nilak Datta & Neha Yadav) “Pandemic Woes, Undead Foes: A Case Study of the CDC’s Zombie Pandemic Graphic Novel” 21^st MELOW International Conference 2021. “Illness, Healing, and the Literary Imagination” (In Collaboration with Shoolini University) (Webinar Presentation due to Pandemic)

 

2.                  October 2020 –“ Tourist vs. Traveler: The Legacy of Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad (1869)” Mini- MELOW 2020. (In Collaboration with Dept. of English. Shoolini University, Solan, H.P.) (Webinar Presentation due to Pandemic)

 

3.                  May 2020- "Orwell's "doublethink" as Post-Industrial Post-Truth". Presented in International Seminar on A Century in Retrospect: Literary Signposts and Watersheds of the Last Hundred Years. (Organized by Shoolini University, HP, India). (Webinar Presentation due to Pandemic).

 

4.                  February 2020 –“ Masculine Nationalism and the American Frontier: Sight-marking Literature on Daniel Boone in the Long Nineteenth Century”. International Conference on Tourist Imaginaries and Mobility in the United States. University of Versailles Saint-Quentin  en Yvelines, Guyancourt, France. (PHYSICAL MODE)

 

5.                  March 2019- “Habitable Utopias and Their Preservation: The Case Study of Daniel Boone”. 18th International Conference on Sunny Pleasure Domes and Caves of Ice: Utopias and Dystopias in World Literature. Organized by The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World (MELOW) in association with Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi.

 

6.                   February 2019- “Post truth” and “Doublethink”: The Curious Cases of Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and     Peepli Live (2010).” International Conference on “Literature, Culture, and Society in the Age of Post- Truth.” Organized by Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) and Department of English, Pondicherry University.

 

7.                   March 2018- “The Call of the Wilderness: The Linnaean Classification of Spectacular Cityscapes in Dave Prager’s Delirious Delhi and Sarah MacDonald’s Holy Cow”. 17^th International Conference MELOW Conference.The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World (MELOW) and the Central University of Himachal Pradesh.

 

8.                  February 2018- “Stereotype Print and Contemporary Affective Nationalism: Making India in the Age of Globalization”. International Conference on Media, Culture, and Ethics (MCE). Organized by BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus.

 

9.                  January 2017 –“Manufacturing the Marvels and Wonders of Hindoostan in the Gilded Age: The 1893 Chicago Exposition and the Parliament of Religions”. South Asian Literary Association. Jan 2-4, 2017.Philadelphia, PA, USA.

 

10.              December 2015 – “Postmodern Exhibitive Space and Touristic Social Identity in Don DeLillo’s White Noise” (International Conference “Post-Modern Trends in Language and Literature”, University of Mumbai, Vidyanagari Campus, Santa Cruz East, Mumbai, India)

 

11.              February 2015 – “Rethinking ‘exile’, ‘travel’, ‘space’, and ‘place’ in recent Postcolonial Fictions” (Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, BITS Pilani, K.K. Birla Goa Campus, India)

 

12.              February 2014 – “Under Western Eyes: Tourist Gazes in recent Postcolonial Indian Fictions” (IACLALS, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India)

 

13.              October 2011 –“Tourist Nightmares: Dystopian Narratives in Total Recall (1990) and WALL- E (2008).”(The Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present, Pittsburgh, PA)

 

14.              June 2010 – “The Post-Tourist Gaze in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” (Futures of American Studies Institute, Hanover, NH)

 

15.              April 2009 –“Temporary Reconciliations: The Presence of Embodied Subjectivity and   Cartesian Dualism in Theorizing Mass Leisure.” (Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City, MO

 

16.              March 2009 –“Authentic Losses: Postmodern Protagonists and Tourists.” (Realisms- ResearchConference, Graduate Students Panel with Dr. Fredric Jameson, Carnegie Mellon University English Department, Pittsburgh, PA)

 

17.              May 2008 –“The Leisured Citizen: The Politics of Staged Visibility in Postmodern Society.” (CulturalStudies Association, NY)

 

18.              April 2007 – “‘Terrorist’ and ‘Consumer’: The Twin Spectacles of 9/11.” (Cultural Studies Association,Portland, OR)

 

19.              April 2006 –“From Consumer Culture to consumer cultures: A Study of Self-care practices inPostmodern Cultures.” (Cultural Studies Association, Washington D.C.)

 

 

International Conferences (Canceled due to Covid-19 pandemic)

 

1.                  Nilak Datta (2020) “ Haussmannized Paris: Urban Modernity as the Experience of Exhibitive Space in the Second Empire.” UAA Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.

 

2.                   Nilak Datta (2020) “Urban Tourism and Urban Reform in Paris: Touristy Citizens, Monumental Tourism, and the Experience of Modernity, 1852 – 1872” EAUH, Antwerp.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

 

·                     Organizing Secretary of Annual IACLALS Conference in BITS Goa. Theme: “Space, Place, Travel, Displacement, Exile.” February 12-14, 2015. Hosted by Department of Humanities and Social Sciencesand Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.