Presentations

UNED-LINHD Spring 2024 Seminar Series as an Exchange researcher of the CLS INFRA project of the European infrastructure DARIAH.EU. On 17April 2024.

“Indian Intersectional Ecofeminism and Sustainability: A Study on Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-Warrior and Jharkhand’s Save the Forest Movement” at the SPARC conference on "Navigating Sustainable Futures" hosted in hybrid mode by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Patna and School of Liberal Arts, Bennett University (Greater Noida) in association with the University of Toronto (Canada), University of Northampton (UK), Aarhus University (Denmark), and University of York (UK) from 24th-25th February 2024. 

“Seeing the Unseen: Where are the Women of Independent India’s Unheard Dalit Massacres?” at the SHSS Research Symposium 2023, organised by IIT Indore, India, on 7 January, 2023.

“Digital Place Making: A Feminist Geocritical Reading of Marichjhapi Massacre (India) through Digital Cartography” at “The 4th Spatial Humanities 2022 Conference” organised by Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Quetelet Center for Quantitative Historical Research and Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences in collaboration with the Lancaster University Digital Humanities Centre and Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 7th - 9th September, 2022.

“Cartographies of Caste and Gender in Dalit Massacres: A Proposal for Feminist Geocritical and Digital Cartographical Method” at “Virtual Feminist Digital Methods Conference” organised by the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11-13 August, 2022.

“Digital Labour in the Field of Digital Humanities in India – An Enquiry” by Apsara Bala¹ and Jyothi Justin² at the DHARTI 2022 Conference on 24 Feb, 2022 as part of the panel “Digital Labour and Data Justice in Indian Academia” on the conference theme The Digital Divides: Discontents, Debates and Discussions, 21-25 Feb., 2022.

 “Digital Cartography and Feminist Geocriticism in Literary Studies - A Proposal” at the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities held in conjunction with ACM SIGSPATIAL 2021 in Beijing, China. Also ACCEPTED for publication in Conference Proceedings of ACM Digital Library, 02 November, 2021.

“Decolonizing the Hanging Rocks: A Geocritical Approch to Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock and its Visual Adaptations” at the Virtual International Conference, "Who Started the Bushfires?": Australian Culture, Economy and Polity in the Post-Truth Era organized by the Postgraduate and Research Department of English, University College, Thiruvananthapuram, India and Centre for Australian Studies, University of Kerala, Littcrit and IASA (Indian Association for the Study of Australia), 15 September, 2021.

“Mansplaining Feminism: Man’s Take on Feminism based on Instances from Literature and Digital Media” (co-author Amrutha P. T.) at The Sahitya’s Interdisciplinary and International Conference on “Feminist and Gender Studies: Global Perspectives – Media, Literature, and Performance” organised by Namaste Educational Academy, Puducherry, 21-23 February, 2019.

“Serving the Caste, Gender and Identity on Plates” (co-author Goury Krishna) at the International Seminar “Mélange 2019: Culinary, Narratives, Representations and Discourses” organised by the Department of English, Christ (Deemed to Be) University, Bangalore, 8-9 March, 2019.

“Printing New Literary Genres: A Study on the Emerging Literary Genres in India” at the International Conference on “Convergence and Divergence: Indian Writing in a Global Context – Canadian and Indian Perspectives” organised by the Department of English, Pondicherry University and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi, 30-31 August, 2018.

“Translation as Propagation: A Comparative Study on Translating the Culture, Myth and Politics Based on the Translations of T. S. Pillai’s Chemmeen by Narayana Menon and Anita Nair” at the International Conference on "Translation: An Art of Examining Cultural Proximity and Political Transmission Across Boundaries" Organised by the Department of English of Sri S. Ramasamy Naidu Memorial College, Tamil Nadu and Sahitya Academy, New Delhi, 23-24 February, 2018.

“The role of digital media in creating a parallel culture: an enquiry based on the current cultural and socio-political scenario in Kerala, India” (coauthor Amrutha P. T.) at the International Conference on "Digitality and Communication: The Cultural Logic of Data Societies", organised by the Department of Communication, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad (EFLU), 5-7, September, 2018.

“Metamorphosis of the Representation of Indian Poetry in the Global Scenario Based on the Study of Kamala Das’ Selected Poems” (co-author Amrutha P. T.) at the International Conference on “Convergence and Divergence: Indian Writing in a Global Context” organised by the Department of English, Pondicherry University, 15-16 March, 2018.

“Confluence of Female Cultural Experiences in Dalit Literature: An Analysis of Female Dalit Literature of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana Through the Selected Works of Vijila Chirappad, Sukirtharani and Jupaka Subhadra” at the National Seminar on “Towards the Subaltern in Knowledge: Literature, Nature, Culture, Society, and Media” organised by the Department of English, Pondicherry University, 4-5 October, 2018.

“Delineation of Female Sexuality in Selected Malayalam Films: Counter Stereotyping of Female Roles across Centuries” (co-author Amrutha P. T.) at the National Conference on "Empowering Women to Revitalise India" organised by the Department of English, Marian College Kuttikkanam (Autonomous), Kerala, 03 August, 2018.

“Heroinism in Contemporary Storytelling: Reading Githa Hariharan’s The Thousand Faces of Night and Jaishree Misra’s Ancient Promises” (coauthor Goury Krishna) at the seminar "Towards Indica Literaria: The Contours of Indian Literature in English" organised by the Department of English, Fatima Mata National College (Autonomous), Kerala, 06 March, 2018.