Selected Conference Presentations
Listening on The Move: Sunday Suspense and the Association with Urban Sound | June 2025
AAS-in-Asia 2025
Bhadramahilas Performing: Rabindra Sangeet, Embodiment and Space-Making in Modern Bengali Migrations | April 2025
University of Wisconsin Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Annual Conference
The Future of the ‘Bhoot’ In the ‘Dying City’: Death, Mediation and Pariah in Contemporary Calcutta | March 2025
Global Asias 7 Conference, Penn State University
(Supported by the Asian American Studies Graduate Travel Grant, 2025)
How We Feel in Museums: Disabled Bodies, Neurodivergent Movement and Sensorial Experience of Art
Pratiti Ketoki, University of Minnesota, and Yichen Li, University of California | November 2024
Sensorial Encounters: Haptic and Non-Visual Access in Art | The Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History
Problematising the Object Turn: Partition Histories and Politics of Remembering
Pratiti Ketoki, University of Minnesota, and Ipsa S., University of Wisconsin | October 2024
Objects. Between Absorption and Isolation | Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
Queer Coding as Queer Theorization: Rituparno Ghosh and the Possibilities of Chokher Bali | April 2024
University of Wisconsin Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium Annual Conference
The Globe Trotters of Satyajit Ray: Critical approaches to travel as adventure | March 2024
54th Annual Popular Culture Association and American Culture National Conference
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2024
(Also organised and chaired the panel in which the paper was presented: The Embodied Methodology: The Body at the Forefront of Asian Studies)
Traveling with Feluda: Mapping Memory and Literature through New Media | October 2023
Annual Conference on South Asia 2023
Narrating the ‘Hippie’: Bengali Perceptions of the Trail | September 2023
The Midwestern Conference for Asian Affairs 2023
Ghosts (of) in Calcutta: Viewing the Cities ‘Dead’ | April 23
British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2023
(Supported by the BCNM Conference Grant and Centre for Contemporary India Rapid Response Grant, Uc Berkeley)
How is Fiction Responding to the Science of the Periphery? | Dec'22
4S ESCOCITE 2nd Joint Meeting, Cholula, Mexico
How Tintin became Bengali: (Herge)’s After Work in India | May’22
After Work / Après le travail, Post Graduate Conference 2022, Society for French Studies
(Supported by the UC Berkeley Graduate Division Conference Grant Summer 2022)
Snakes and Their Poison: A Microhistory of Snake Research in the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine | Dec’21
Animals and South Asian History International Symposium, Ashoka University
Tintin in Asia: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Colonial Gaze | Nov’ 19
23rd Biennial New Zealand Asian Studies Society International Conference, Victoria University, Wellington
(Awarded full travel grant from Ashoka to go and present the paper in New Zealand)
Mapping the Colonial Gaze in the Adventures of Tintin | Apr’ 19
Third Undergraduate Research Conference, O.P. Jindal Global University