Conferences and Workshops
Conferences
2024
“Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges” at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Paper:Narrative modalities and the ethics of storytelling: Analysing Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak and Speak: The Graphic Novel
South Asian Literary Association Conference 2024.
2023
Comics Studies Society Conference
Paper Title: From margins to centre: Reading the revisionist architecture of Sita’s Ramayana
HistorioGRAPHICS: Framing the Past in Comics, Munich
Paper Title: The Woman Question: Analysing Historical Ruptures through Graphic Narratives by Indian Women
Comics and/as Resistance Conference at Oxford University
Paper Title: Resistant visuality in comics: Analysing depictions of workplace harassment in "Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival"
2022
Rethinking Resistance: Graduate Conference at Oxford University
Paper Title: Graphic Protest: The Poetics and Politics of Resistance in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories
International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference at Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Paper Title: Graphic Justice: Analysing the Female Vigilante-Superhero in Indian Comics
NeMLA 53rd Annual Convention, Baltimore, Maryland
Paper Title: Graphic Activism: #MeToo and the Graphic Representation of Sexual Abuse
Locating the Public Sphere in Contemporary India: Theory and Practice, Motilal Nehru College, Delhi University
Paper Title: Feminist Counterpublics in the Neoliberal City: The Local Train as a Subversive Space in Diti Mistry’s “Mumbai Local”
2021
COM-IN 2021 “International Conference on Indian Comics” (2021) at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Paper Title: Resilient Comics for Troubled Times: Reading the Indian Comics Anthology Hope On
Two-day Virtual International Conference on Postcolonial Studies in Comics and Graphic Narratives from South Asia (2021)
Paper Title: The Postmodern Graphic Narrative: Epic Retellings and. 'Other' Voices in Amruta Patil's Parva Duology
2020
International Conference on Languaging and Translating: Within and Beyond (2020) at IIT Patna in association with CIIL Mysuru and YCC (Royal University of Bhutan)
Paper Title: "Can you please speak English please?”: Exploring the 'other' India through the language of addiction in Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis.
2019
4th Interdisciplinary Conference titled “Indian Popular Fiction: Redefining the Canon” at Maharaja Agrasen College, University of Delhi (2019)
Paper Title: Literary Fiction as Popular Fiction: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies as a bridge between high culture and mass society.
International Conference on Performing the Nation: Memory and Desire in Contemporary Literature (2019) at Berhampur University, Odisha.
Paper Title: The Nation as a symbol of Resistance, Loss and Tragedy in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun: Reading the personal as the political in narratives of war and wartime memories.
5th National Language Conference by Institute of Odia Studies and Research, Bhubaneswar, Odisha & Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha(2019) at Ravenshaw University
Paper Title: Revisiting Oral Tales and Folkloric Tropes as Registers of Subversion and Social Critique: Reading Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana as a contemporaneous version of folklore.
Workshops
International Workshop on Utopias: Imagining Other Worlds (2018) at the Department of English, Jadavpur University.
Paper Title: #MeToo as an intermediary between utopia and dystopia: Reading Sultana’s Dream and The House of Bernarda Alba.
Attended International Workshop titled “Decolonial Practices in the Spanish Speaking Borderlands: Latinx Poets against Colonisation and Neoliberalism” at the Department of English, Jadavpur University (2020).