Recent Talks/ Presentations

"Awaz de Kahan Hai? (Call out to me, where are you?): The Entangled Histories of Gender, Music and Media in India (1902-1947)," presented at “Music and Media in the Empires of the Twentieth Century”, 15-17 April 2026, Royamount Abbey, France. Invited Paper Presentation, travel and funding support by ERC Advanced Grant Project, The Sound of Empire in Colonial Cultures of the Twentieth Century: Rethinking History through Music (MusiCol).

Round Table (Hybrid), 'Entangling Past and Present', Ethnomusicology and the Present, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 2026, King’s College London, 9-12 April 2026. (Attended Online)

Speaker, Online Workshop, "Infrastructures of Courtesanship: Material Histories of Performing Women in South Asia, 1700–1900", 06 April, 2026. Organised by Radha Kapuria and Parshati Dutta, University of Durham.

"Tawa'if Travels: Courtesans in the Archives", Online Chat with Radha Kapuria and Jennifer Howes, University of Durham, 02 March, 2026.

“The Travelling Tawa’if: Mobility and Performance in India from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century”, International Seminar on Tryst with Travel: Historical and Literary Perspectives. Invited Paper Presentation, organised by Departments of English and History, Gargi College, University of Delhi, 4-5 February, 2026.

ChLA (Children's Literature Association) Global South Speaker Series: "Remembrance of Forgotten Pasts and Childhoods in Biksu: Memory and a Hindi Graphic Memoir in Contemporary India", Invited Online Presentation, Children's Literature Association, 23 September, 2025.

 “Feminist Archiving: Conversations on Gender, History & Practice in Miranda House Archiving Project”, Workshop on Rethinking The Trajectory: From Women's Archives to Feminist Archiving. Organised by RCWS, SNDT Women’s University and Department of Women and Gender Studies at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune 7-8 February, 2025 (Funding Support, RCWS, SNDT and DGWS, SPPU)

"Tawa'if Performers and Trajectories of Travel and Music from the 1850s to 1930s in India", Presentation for Collaborative Research and Workshop at Keio University (Tokyo, Japan), 14-25 March, 2024. Invited and supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) project

“The Home with a View: Hijab Imtiaz Ali and her Uncanny Fiction” Paper presented at Experiencing Experiencing Home: Domestic Architecture in Urban Writing, An international conference by the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai in collaboration with the Association for Literary Urban Studies, 22 - 23 February 2024 (Funding Support by IIT Bhilai)

“Women in the Archives: Conversations on Gender, Genre and History” (Online), Presentation as Resource person for International Faculty Development Programme on New Frontiers in Literary Research, organised by the Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College, Autonomous, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 9-17 October, 2023

 “Unfulfilled Love, ‘Corpses’ and The Talented Mrs Hijab Imtiaz Ali” (1908-1999). Online Presentation at Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction International Conference, Birmingham (UK), 5-9 September 2023

Nautch Girls as Travellers Beyond South Asia: Histories of Transport and Performance”, Paper presenter and Co-convener,  Panel 13: The Travelling Female Performer: Mobility and Agency in and beyond South Asia, c. 1760-1940 at the 27th European Conference of South Asian Studies (ECSAS Congress), Torino (Italy), 26 – 29 July, 2023. 

‘Tracing Lives: Baghdadi Jews and the 1947 Partition of the Indian Subcontinent’, Paper presented at Remaking the World in the Shadow of the Cold War: Migrants, Workers, Soldiers, Spies in Post-1945 Reconstruction Conference, Central European University, Vienna, 1-2 June, 2023 (Travel bursary and Accommodation Support provided by CEU)