Conferences and Invited Lectures

Invited Lectures:

2022
“Text Theory and Conceptualization: A Systematic Journey Towards New Knowledge.” Resource Person. UGC–Human Resource Development Centre, Bharatidasan University. 15 May 2022.

2021
"
Two ‘Uses’ of Poetics: Sanskrit Literary Theory Beyond the Canon." Thinking Global South Lecture Series. S.H College Thevara 2021

"Indian Literary Theory: Past Present and Future”. Resource Person. UGC–Human Resource Development Centre, Bharatidasan University. 08 September 2021.

2020
“Space and Play: Reader Beyond the Borders of Convention” (Keynote Address) –Two-Day National Seminar on Space, Place and Textuality: Reading Spatial Codes organized by the Postgraduate and Research Department of English at New Man College, Thodupuzha in Collaboration with Kerala Higher Education Council, Thiruvananthapuram” on 7 February, 2020.

“Systematization of Creativity: Mapping Sanskrit Kāvyaśāstra in its Spatio-temporal Locations” (Keynote address)— One-day National Seminar on “New Aspects of Creativity in Contemporary Literature” at Dayanand College of Arts and Science, Solapur, Maharashtra on 10 June 2020.

“Tradition in the Post-colonial World: What to Do with the Past?” Department of English, St. Thomas College Pala, Kerala, on 11 July, 2020.

“Language, Literature and Education Policies”. International workshop on “National Education Policy 2020 and its Different Aspects”. Ayan Arnab Sikshan Sanstha on 23 August, 2020.

“Literature and Theory: Origin and Evolution in Indian Context”. St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Kerala on 19 November, 2020.

“Theories of Dhvani, Aucitya and Vakrokti”. Soundarya and the Sahridaya: Aesthetic Discourses organized by Research and Development Cell, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit- Kalady and Sahapedia on 25 November 2020.

“Literature and Theory: Origin and Evolution in Indian Context”. St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Kerala on 19 November, 2020.

“Theories of Dhvani, Aucitya and Vakrokti”. Soundarya and the Sahridaya: Aesthetic Discourses organized by Research and Development Cell, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit- Kalady and Sahapedia on 25 November 2020.

“Literature and Theory: Origin and Evolution in Indian Context”. St. Dominic's College, Kanjirappally, Kerala on 19 November, 2020.

“Theories of Dhvani, Aucitya and Vakrokti”. Soundarya and the Sahridaya: Aesthetic Discourses organized by Research and Development Cell, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit- Kalady and Sahapedia on 25 November 2020.

2019
“Revisiting the Reader in Sanskrit Poetics: Beyond the Borders of Canonical Readings.” Department of English Studies, Central University of Tamil Nadu. September 2019.

Conferences:

  • “The Concept of Aucitya and the Subjugation of Subordinate Knowledge Systems,” presented at the Annual Academic Conference on Subjugated Knowledges held from 1-3 February 2018 at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.

  • “Resistance to Svabhava: An Anti-canonical Reading of Kuntaka’s Theory of Vakrokti”, presented at the International Conference on Indian Literature as World Literature: Past, Present, Future, held at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, from 18-20 January 2018.