Talks/Interviews

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

1. UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies...speaks on Literature, Language and King Lear. EdExLive. New Indian Express 11 Oct. 2022.

2. ‘Posthumanism and its Moral Imperatives’. Conference on ‘Stepping into the Future’, Science, Technology, Future. 23 April 2022.

3. 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. 

4. ‘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.

5. ‘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. 

6. ‘Whither Higher Education?’ Faculty Induction Program, IIS (Deemed) University, Jaipur, 1 Aug 2022.

7. ‘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.

8. ‘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

1. 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.

2.  Posthumanism. National Workshop on “Recent Trends in Literature”. NIT Andhra Pradesh. 3 March 2021.

3. Postcolonialism. 5 March 2021. GITAM School of Humanities & Social Sciences. 5 March 2021.

4. Growing Up - Digitally, Undying – Digitally. National Symposium, Dept of Women’s Studies, University of Madras, 9 March 2021.

5. 23.  Vulnerable Ecosystems: Biosecurity and the Invasion Narrative'. Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Uttarakhand, 10 March 2021.

6. 24. Approaches to Teaching Nationhood, History and Nativism/Nationalism'. Teaching Learning Centre, Central U of Punjab 23 March 2021.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Memorializing Life in Covid Times, Memory Studies Workshop, IIT Madras, 30 April 2021.

10. Research Ethics in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Centre for Publication Ethics Savitribai Phule Pune University, 20 June 2021.

11. Research and Publishing. Faculty Development Program, NIT Trichy, 12 July 2021.

12. Postcolonial Flights: The Avian Imaginary in Poetry. John Hewitt International Summer School, Belfast, Ireland. 26 July 2021.

13. Cultural Trauma, Biopolitics and Precarious Lives in the 21st Century. Dept. of English, SIES College, Mumbai. 7 Aug. 2021.

14. ‘The Postcolonial Author as Celebrity'. English Teachers’ Forum, Himachal Pradesh, 16 Aug. 2021.

15. 'Postcolonialism”, “Marxism”, “New Historicism”  Dept. of English Language and Literature, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, 27-28 Aug. 2021.

16. “Cultural Studies”. National Webinar. Cultural Studies: A New Approach to Explore Cultures, Cultural Texts and Artifacts. Mudhoji College, Sattara. 27 Sept. 2021.

17. Indian Travel Writing in the 19th Century. Sahitya Akademi Symposium on Indian Prose Writing in English. 21 Oct. 2021. 

18. “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

1. 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.