Presentations

National Conferences/Workshops/Public lectures

  • Public Lecture: “Old Tales through New Images, and New Tales through Old Images: Ethnography of a Jambavantaru katha (narrative) performance in Telangana”, Manipal Centre for Humanities, August 2018
  • Examining the ‘New’ in Kinship and Family in South Asia: Paper presented “Practice-through-Relatedness and Related-through-Practice”: performance of craft and kinship in a Telangana artisanal household”, Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, February 2018
  • Public Lecture: Paper presented “Communicating craft knowledge: Dialogue and pauti tatvam within an artisanal household in Telangana”, Manipal Center for Humanities, September 2017
  • Cultural Studies Workshop: Law, Culture and Social Justice: Paper presented “Legal Ownership vs. Cultural Authority: How does the artist ‘claim’ her work?", Center for the Studies of Social Sciences, Kolkata, March 2014

International Conferences/Workshops

  • 3rd Annual University of Canterbury Feminist Conference: Paper presented “Crafting Objects, Crafting Selves: How do artists talk about gender and skill” University of Canterbury, New Zealand, September 2016
  • Contemporary Asian Craft Worlds: Paper presented “Authenticating the Craft: Geographical Indications as the new history of the Telangana murals”, 102nd Annual College of Arts Association Conference, New York, February 2015
  • Cosmopolitan Anthropologies: Paper presented “Craft and the State: Constructing the ‘traditional’ in a knowledge economy” Anthropological Association of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2014
  • Reading Craft: Knowledge, Culture and Power in the Global Ecumene: Paper presented ““Legal Ownership vs. Cultural Authority: How does the artist ‘claim’ her work?", Summer School Workshop, Chiang Mai University and International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, August 2014
  • Onstage/Offstage? Historicizing performance cultures in text, society and practice: Paper presented “New Imageries for New Publics: Oral-visual narratives of Telangana", 23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies, Zurich, July 2014
  • Heritage, Pilgrimage, Tourism and the Arts: Paper presented “Claiming Knowledge, Claiming Entitlement: The construction of the Telangana artist as a political subject”, 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 2013