Interviews
Liberal Arts and the Power of Change. SRM University, AP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px53gc48Ep0.
Insights into the Nexus of Humanities and Technology. IIT Tirupati. https://udaaniitt.in/editions/2024_Winter/interview/.
Poetry and Climate Change. Azim Premji University. https://www.academia.edu/130146771/Poetry_and_Climate_Change_A_Conversation_with_Neeraja_Sundaram
2025
1. Re-reading Literature in the Age of Climate Crisis: Poetry and the Planet. Inaugural Lecture, ‘Re-examining Voices and Narratives in English Literature’, SAHITYAVITHI 2024, Dept. of English, Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, 15 Jan. 2025.
2. Vulnerability in Literature and Culture. Preconference Talk, IIT Madras Conference on Risk, Precarity, Vulnerability, 18 Jan 2025.
3. ‘Artificial Beings and the Literature of Robot Servitude’. Towards a Human-Centered Digital Future: Converging Perspectives from the Arts, Social Sciences, Technology and Health Care: International Conference on Digital Humanities. Department of English, VNR VJIET, Hyderabad. 22 Jan 2025.
4. Poemaps and the Language of Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Poetry. International Conference on ‘Role of Language, Literature, and Culture in the Contemporary World’. Department of English, Symbiosis College of Arts and Commerce, Pune, 27th Jan 2025
5. Geological Posthumanism. Short Term Program. ‘Critical Humanities and the Futures We Imagine’. MMTTC in collaboration with the Centre for Theory & Criticism, Central University of Kerala, 3 Feb 2025.
6. ‘Touching (Upon) the Earth: Multiscalar Planetarity and Hydropoetics in Postcolonial Poetry. ‘Ecologies of the Future: Environmental Humanities for Global Sustainability’, International Conference, Department of English and Cultural Studies at CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR Campus, 6 Feb. 2025
7. Roundtable. "The Future of Migration Literary Studies". 10 Feb. 2025
8. The Arc of the Moral Universe Bends: Towards Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Poetry. Humanities Seminar, Azim Premji University, 19 Feb 2025.
9. The Planetary Body, Precarity and Postcolonial Poetry. Plenary Talk. Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture, IIT Hyderabad, 28th Feb 2025
10. Reimagining Existence: Posthuman Perspectives in the Anthropocene. ‘Reimagining Existence: Emerging Perspectives in World Literature and Language’. International Conference, Department of English, XIM University, Bhubaneswar, 10 March 2025.
11. Globalization and Environmentalism: From Biodiversity to the Post-natural. Invited Lecture. FDP.Swami Vivekananda University, Kolkata. 9 April 2025.
12. Icy Poetics: The Poetry of Glaciers in the Age of Climate Emergency’. BITS Pilani, Hyderabad. 22 March 2025.
13. The Postnatural Public Humanities: Wild, Wilding, Rewilding, Inaugural Lecture. Public Humanities Initiative. Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Hyderabad, 26 Mar. 2025.
14. Renewing the Republic: Nonhuman Publics in Indian Poetry in English. Republic Revisited: Exploring the Nation in 21st Century Indian English Literature, Aloysius College, Thrissur, 12 April 2025.
15. What’s Yours, is Mine(d): Geognosy and Environmental Justice in Postcolonial Poetry. Climate Justice: Exploring Climate Narratives for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future, AMET University, Chennai, 4 April 2025.
16. Deep Time: Geology, Biodiversity and Literature. Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities. Theory/Praxis Course. Forum on Contemporary Theory, EFLU, 23 May 2025
17. Ecological 'Plots': Evolution, Demography and Literature. Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities. Theory/Praxis Course. Forum on Contemporary Theory, EFLU, 27 May 2025
18. Liberal Arts and Storytelling in the Age of AI. Keynote. Conclave, “Liberal Arts Education in the AI Age”, Faculty of Humanities & Liberal Arts, Chandigarh University, Unnao. 16 June 2025.
19. English Travellers to India: From Discovery to Domination. Tamil Heritage Trust. 21 June 2025.
2024
Humanities as a Public Good: Pedagogy, the ‘Doomed’ University and Planetary Precarity. FDP, Implementation of NEP 2020 in Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches, ICFAI Tripura, 12 July 2024
Anthropocene Reading: The poetry of planetary precarity’. Special Bicentennial Lecture. Sanskrit College and University. 9 Aug 2024.
‘Postcolonial Ecopoetics and Reading for the Planet’. PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, 20 Aug. 2024.
Researching Vulnerability Studies: Methodologies. Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore. 21 Aug 2024.
Posthumanism. Department of English. Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore. 21 Aug 2024.
Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Fiction of Extinction. ‘Extinction’. International Online Symposium. SRM University. 30 Aug 2024.
Ichnopoiesis and Planetary Memory: Geotrauma and Postcolonial Ecopoetics. Plenary Lecture. International Conference on ‘Memory, Security and Sustainability’. Indian Network for Memory Studies and Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras, 16-18 September 2024.
Posthumanism and Precarity. VIT, 21 September 2024
Historical Methods in Literary Research: Literary, Historical, Visual and Digital Texts. FDP, NIT Calicut. 25 Sept 2024.
Ex/Evo: The Literature of Deep Time. FDP. Kristu Jayanti College. 28 Sept. 2024.
Moulding Methods. Panel. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies,O.P Jindal Global University. 29 Sept. 2024.
Writing for Journals. MLR Institute of Technology. 2 Oct 2024.
Astray in a New World: Representations of Madness in Indian and Irish Literature. Panel. Bounce Arts Festival, University of Atypical for Arts and Disability, Belfast, Ireland. 4 Oct. 2024.
Research, Writing, Publishing: Some Good Practices. L.A.D and SMT. R.P College, Nagpur. 5 Oct. 2024.
Ethics in Research/Ethical Research: Humanities and Social Sciences. Keynote. Young Researchers’ Workshop. 'Understanding Intersectionality in Educational Contexts’, Indira Mahindra School of Education (Mahindra University, Hyderabad)
16 Oct. 2024.
Environmental and Social Injustice, Vulnerability and Rights: Reading Bhimayana. Department of English, George Washington University, USA. 24 Oct. 2024.
Panel Discussion. ‘Graphic histories in/about South Asia’. American Historical Review. 5 Nov 2024.
Humanities and the Global. ‘Integrating Humanities in STEM: Suggestions from NEP 2020 for S&T Institutes’.NIT Trichy. 10 Nov 2024
Ethics in Humanities Research, Writing for Journals, Methods versus Methodology. Lectures. IITDM, Jabalpur, 18-19 Nov 2024
‘Bogs, Swamps and Much Verse: Poetry and/from Wetlands’. Keynote. International Conference. ‘Precarious Wetlands in the Anthropocene’. Woxsen University, Hyderabad. 12 Dec 2024.
Critical thinking and Research Methods. Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Education for Women, Coimbatore. 20-21 Dec 2024.
Environmental Humanities: An Introduction. FDP. GITAM, VSP 9 July 2024
Reading Environmental Vulnerability in Literature: Methodologies. FDP. GITAM, VSP 10 July 2024.
Humanities as a Public Good: Pedagogy, the ‘Doomed’ University and Planetary Precarity. FDP, Implementation of NEP 2020 in Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches, ICFAI Tripura, 12 July 2024
The Humanities. Induction Program. GITAM, Hyderabad. 7 Aug 2024
Anthropocene Reading: The poetry of planetary precarity’. Special Bicentennial Lecture. Sanskrit College and University. 9 Aug 2024.
Postcolonial Ecopoetics and Reading for the Planet’. PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, 20 Aug. 2024.
Researching Vulnerability Studies: Methodologies. Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore. 21 Aug 2024.
Posthumanism. Department of English. Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore. 21 Aug 2024.
Evolutionary Nostalgia and the Fiction of Extinction. ‘Extinction’. International Online Symposium, SRM University. 30 Aug 2024.
Ichnopoiesis and Planetary Memory: Geotrauma and Postcolonial Ecopoetics. Plenary Lecture. International Conference on ‘Memory, Security and Sustainability’. Indian Network for Memory Studies and Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras, 16-18 September 2024.
Posthumanism and Precarity. VIT, 21 September 2024
Remembering Waste/Wasting: The Poetry of the Global South. St. Teresa’s College. International Conference Scavenging the ‘Material’ and the ‘Metaphoric’: The Poetics of Discard Studies. 19 June 2024
Historical Methods in Literary Research: Literary, Historical, Visual and Digital Texts. FDP, NIT Calicut. 25 Sept 2024.
Critical Thinking. Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing. 8th June 2024.
Biopower, Biocapitalism and Precarity: Contemporary Literature in the Era of Neocolonialism. Central University of Punjab, 27th May 2024
New (Bio)Art for the Anthropocene: The Aesthetics of Biotech Pan-NIT Humanities and Social Sciences Conclave, Department of HSS, NIT Warangal. 29 May 2024.
Doing Environmental Humanities. Government J. Thankima College & Department Of English Bawngkawn, Aizawl, Mizoram. 13 March 2024.
Pandemic Precarity and Photography: Images from Covid-19 Prof.B.Balaswamy Memorial Lecture, Osmania University. 30 April 2024.
2023
1. Introducing Vulnerability Studies. GITAM University, Hyderabad, 24 April 2023.
2. Posthumanism: From Origins to the Anthropocene Theme. Dept of Cultural Studies, Tezpur University. 10 May 2023.
3. Fluid Precarity and the Planet: The Global Hydronovel. Faculty Enrichment Program. Kerala University, 14 May 2023.
4. Retrieving Planetary Memory: De-extinction and the Afterlives of (Some) Animals. National Conference on Mediations on Memory: Aesthetics and Poetics of Forgetting. Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. 26-27 July 2023.
5. The Environmental Humanities. Akal University. 10 Aug. 2023.
6. Planetary Ecoprecarity: The Texts and Themes in the End-times. Keynote. ICSSR National Seminar on Revamping Indian Tradition and Culture through Multilingual, Multicultural & Multidisciplinary Modes of Education. Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee. 18-19 Aug 2023.
7. Literary Research Trends: Doing Environmental Humanities. Short Term Capacity Building Program on ‘Research Ecosystem and Technology’, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore. 30 Aug. 2023.
8. Environmental Justice Literature: From Toxic Dumping Memoirs to Neo-slavery Fiction. First Annual Alexander D’Souza Memorial Endowment Lecture, Department of English, St Aloysius College, Mangalore. 9 Sept 2023.
9. Extinction Memories. ‘Memory, Ecology, Sustainability’, International Conference of the Indian Network of Memory Studies. HSS, IIT Madras, 21-23 Sept. 2023
10. Reading Environment, Writing Disaster. Plenary Lecture, International Seminar, ‘Earthy Echoes in English Literature’, Department of Languages and Literature – English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, 30thSept 2023
11. Introducing Vulnerability Studies. Keynote. National Conference on Vulnerability Studies, NIT – AP, 6 Oct. 2023.
12. Caring Posthumanism. Distinguished lecture. Department of English, Jamia Milia Islamia, 25 Oct. 2023.
13. The Literature of Climate Crisis. Special Talk. Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Tirupati, 27 Oct. 2023.
14. Eco/social Justice and the Contemporary Novel. FDP, National PG College, Lucknow. 8 Nov. 2023.
15. Creaturely Texts: Multispecies Encounters in the Posthuman Era. Keynote. 5th ASLE-ASEAN Ecocritical Conference: Posthuman Southeast Asia, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand, 23 Nov 2023.
16. Biopolitics and Precarious Lives in Contemporary Literature. Refresher Course. Allahabad University, 29 Nov. 2023.
17. ‘Toxified Bodies: Reading Waste Memoirs’. Symposium. ‘Un-bordered Futures: Deconstructing and Reimagining Borders’, Centre for Studies on Borders & Movements, Kolkata, and Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University. 14-15 Dec. 2023.
2022
UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies...speaks on Literature, Language and King Lear. EdExLive. New Indian Express 11 Oct. 2022.
‘Posthumanism and its Moral Imperatives’. Conference on ‘Stepping into the Future’, Science, Technology, Future. 23 April 2022.
The A-List: Atomic Scientists and the Nuclear Humanities’, Keynote, Conference ‘Cultural Trajectories through Language, Literature, and Media’, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, 29 April 2022.
‘Photography and the Pandemic: Covid-19, V.2’, International Conference on “Reconnaissance of Pandemic Societies”, The Department of English Language and Literature, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, 5 May 2022.
‘Imagining, Inquiring, Imaging: “Discoveries” of India. Roundtable', “Legacies of the Eighteenth Century in India, The Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, Ireland. 27 May 2022.
‘Whither Higher Education?’ Faculty Induction Program, IIS (Deemed) University, Jaipur, 1 Aug 2022.
‘Research, Writing, Publications: Some Good Practices’. Workshop on ‘“Post NAAC Quality Enhancement in Higher Education Institutions”, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women and NAAC, 24 Aug 2022.
‘Persona, Personification and Precarious Lives: Orijit Sen’s ‘Making Faces’. Plenary Talk. “Tryst With Destiny”: Literary Portrayal of the Partition of India School of Social Sciences And Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, 10-11 November 2022.
2021
The New Cultures of Learning: Pedagogy Online. ‘’Teaching and Learning in the Post-Covid Era’, FDP, St Joseph’s College, Irinijalkuda, Kerala, 16 Jan. 2021.
Posthumanism. National Workshop on “Recent Trends in Literature”. NIT Andhra Pradesh. 3 March 2021.
Postcolonialism. 5 March 2021. GITAM School of Humanities & Social Sciences. 5 March 2021.
Growing Up - Digitally, Undying – Digitally. National Symposium, Dept of Women’s Studies, University of Madras, 9 March 2021.
23. Vulnerable Ecosystems: Biosecurity and the Invasion Narrative'. Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Uttarakhand, 10 March 2021.
24. Approaches to Teaching Nationhood, History and Nativism/Nationalism'. Teaching Learning Centre, Central U of Punjab 23 March 2021.
Evaluating Journals [Literature and Humanities]. Centre for Publication Ethics, SPPU, Pune National Workshop : 'Literature Search, Reference Management Tools, Scholarly Journals, & Research Metrics'. 7 April 2021.
The Human Rights Graphic Novel. Symposium on “Migration and Rights in Comics and Literature from South/Asia/Asian America”, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University, USA. 15 April 2021.
Memorializing Life in Covid Times, Memory Studies Workshop, IIT Madras, 30 April 2021.
Research Ethics in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Centre for Publication Ethics Savitribai Phule Pune University, 20 June 2021.
Research and Publishing. Faculty Development Program, NIT Trichy, 12 July 2021.
Postcolonial Flights: The Avian Imaginary in Poetry. John Hewitt International Summer School, Belfast, Ireland. 26 July 2021.
Cultural Trauma, Biopolitics and Precarious Lives in the 21st Century. Dept. of English, SIES College, Mumbai. 7 Aug. 2021.
‘The Postcolonial Author as Celebrity'. English Teachers’ Forum, Himachal Pradesh, 16 Aug. 2021.
'Postcolonialism”, “Marxism”, “New Historicism” Dept. of English Language and Literature, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, 27-28 Aug. 2021.
“Cultural Studies”. National Webinar. Cultural Studies: A New Approach to Explore Cultures, Cultural Texts and Artifacts. Mudhoji College, Sattara. 27 Sept. 2021.
Indian Travel Writing in the 19th Century. Sahitya Akademi Symposium on Indian Prose Writing in English. 21 Oct. 2021.
“Ecodystopias, Spectral Landscapes and the Ecological Uncanny”. International Webinar. “Imagining Catastrophe: Literary and Cultural Representations of Environmental Disaster”. Department of English of Seva Bharati Mahavidyalaya. 23 Oct. 2021.
2020
Forget/ting Poetry: Alzheimer’s Disease and Much Verse, In ‘En-Countors’, National Seminar, Naipunnya College of Management, 5 Nov 2020.
2. Critical Posthumanism, Department of English, Chungbuk National University, Korea, 12 Nov. 2020.
3. Publications Practices Humanities and Arts, Faculty Development Program, HRDC, JNU, 23 Nov 2020.
4. Literary Gerontology: Ageing and the Huntington’s Disease Memoir, SD College, Allapuzha. 5 Dec 2020.
5. Science-Fictional Scenarios: Critical Posthumanism, Precarious Lives and Biocapitalism, 19th Annual/5thInternational Science Fiction Conference 2020, Bangalore University, 9 Dec. 2020
6. The Researcher's View: On Posthumanism. Cosmia 2020. U of Huddersfield, UK. 23 Oct. 2020.
7. On Posthumanism. Interview. Science, Technology and the Future. 25 July 2020.
8. The Environmental Humanities: An Introduction. Lecture. Midnapore College. 26 June 2020.
9. The Postcolonial Global Celebrity Author. Lecture. Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia & BTM College. 5 June 2020.
10. The Pandemic Crisis, Forms-of-Life and Social Death. Lecture. SA Jain College. 4 June 2020.
11. Changing Paradigms In Teaching Humanities. Lecture. Fatima Mata College. 20 May 2020.
12. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Neurochemical Selves, Immunities and New Meme-ory Cultures. Lecture. Bharat Mata College. 19 May 2020.
13. On The Indian Graphic Novel: Conversation with Frederick Luis Aldama.
14. On Celebrity Studies. Lecture. Celebrity Studies.
15. Refugee Graphics: Staging Vulnerability and Biopolitical Governmentality. Litt Crit Webinar Series - Inaugural Lecture. 13 Aug. 2020.
16. Narrating the Alzheimer's Self. Centre for Excellence, Rama Devi Women's University 11 Aug 2020.
17. Hegemonic Masculinity: An Introduction to Masculinity Studies. Refresher Course in Gender Studies. HRDC, Gauhati University, 17 Dec 2020.
18. ‘Toxic Nature and Biocultural Precarity’, International Conference on ‘Ecocriticism: Theory and Practice’, Dept of English, RKM College, Narendrapur, WB. 6 Jan. 2020.