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Conferences, Podcasts, Invited Lectures.

Invited Lectures

  • 2025 NIT Warangal, Faculty Induction on NEP 2020. Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (MMTTC)-GURU-DAKSHTA. A talk on "Teaching in the AI Era,” on 12th December

  • 2025 IIT Bombay Alumni Association, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. Career Talk series on Teaching at Public Institutions in India. 21st November

  • 2025 VIT-AP, School of Social Sciences and Humanities (VISH). A talk on "Performing the Self: Communication as Everyday Theatricality.” 28th November

  • 2025 NIT Warangal, Faculty Development Programme. Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre (MMTTC)-Insights into Integrated Teachers Education Program (ITEP): Exploring Synergies for Excellence in Teacher Education. A talk on "Performative Pedagogy: From Monologue to Dialogue in Higher Education,” on 17th Sept

  • 2024 IIIT Guwahati, HSS PhD Forum. Conference on Environmental Humanities and the Global South: Perspectives for Ecological Justice. A talk on "Performance and the Ritual Dramaturgy: Sawng Poems and Tarjaa Songs in the Gajan (Hook-swinging) Festival of Bengal,” on 3rd May

Podcasts

Conference Presentations

  • 2025 IIT Bombay. Conference on Performance Studies Conclave. Presented a paper titled “Theatricality and the Mora Khela (Playing with the Corpse): Where Life and Death Dance Together in Ritual Enactments,” on 2nd March

  • 2025 Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Conference on Realms of Performance: On Theatricality and Performativity in Contemporary Culture. Presented a paper titled “Spatial Temporalities and Performance: Looking into the Dramaturgy of Hook-Swinging Festival in Bengal,” on 9th March

  • 2024 Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. Conference on Environmental Humanities and the Global South: Perspectives for Ecological Justice. Presented a paper titled “Ecological Practice as/is Ecological Justice: Ritual Practices as a Token of Environmental Sustainability and Community Co-existence in the Hook-Swinging Festival” on 22nd June.

  • 2023 European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS) Annual Conference, University of Turin, Italy. Presented a paper titled “The Biography of a Temple: Space, Ritual, and Meaning-Making in the Gajan (Hook Swinging) Festival” on 25th July. 

  • 2023 World Anthropology Congress, KISS & KIIT Bhubaneswar. Presented a paper titled “A Community in the Making: Transmission of Collective Identity and a Sense of Community in the Gajan (Hook-Swinging) Festival of Bengal.” From 09th to 14th August.

  • 2023 IIT Jodhpur Graduate Research Meet on Emergent Trends for a World in Transition. (Hybrid). Presented a paper titled “The Making and Un-making of the Embodied Self: Rituals and Performing Bodies in the Gajan (Hook-Swinging) Festival of Bengal,” on 25th March.

  • 2022 Leiden University (Netherlands) PhD Conference on Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty, Possibility, and Responsibility (Virtual). Presented a paper titled “From Anonymity to Familiarity’: Ethnography, Pandemic, and the New Lessons,” on 14th Oct.

  • 2021 UCLA Asian American Studies Research Colloquium (Virtual). Presented a paper titled “Religious Negotiations and Social Reforms: Governance, Resistance, and the Critical Dilemma around the Hook Swinging Festival of Bengal.” 15th May

  • 2021 The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting (Virtual). South Asian Disasters in 20th and 21st Century Literature, Film, and Culture. Presented a paper titled “Disaster and Deity: Framing the Narratives of Disaster and the Construction of Deity in the Hook Swinging (Gajan) Festival.” 11th April

  • 2021 California State University, Long Beach. The Comparative Literature Conference: Outcasts and Outliers in Literature, Music, and Visual Arts (Virtual). Presented a paper titled “The Politics of Accommodation: Hinduisation and Negotiations around the Performance of the Hook Swinging (Charak) Festival.” 8th April

  • 2021 Manipal University, Jaipur. International Conference on Contemporary Issues in South Asian Literature and Culture Studies (Virtual). Presented a paper titled “Bringing the Inside Out: Domesticity and Life of Babus in Kaliprasanna Singha’s Hutom Pechar Naksha (Sketches by Hutom, The Owl, 1862).” 31st March [Awarded the best paper of the session] 

  • 2020 Indian Anthropological Society, Kolkata: Golden Jubilee Annual Conference on 100 Years of Indian Anthropology: History, Progress, and Challenges. Presented a paper titled “Anthropology, Governance, and Resistance: The Critical Dilemma around the Hook Swinging (Gajan) Festival of Bengal.” 28th December.

  • 2020 NIT Meghalaya: International Conference on Interdisciplinary Interpretation of Literature (COIN-2020). Presented a paper titled “Text, Production, and Performance: Re-animating the Author through the Actor’s Voice.” 17th December. 

  • 2020 Indian Association of South Asian Studies (IASAS) and Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Science (CASSS-Delhi): International Conference on Rethinking South Asia: Alternative Paradigms, Practices, and Discourses. Presented a paper titled “Performing Community: Organisation of Deity and Socio-Cultural Stratification in the Hook Swinging Festival (Gajan) of West Bengal.” 10th November

As Organising Member

  • 2022 Organising member and session chair of the 3rd International Conference on Gender, Culture, and Society organised by New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.

  • 2021 Organising member of the 2nd International Conference organised by New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities.

  • 2020 Organising member of the International e-Conference on Re-thinking the Postcolonial: Texts and Contexts. Organised by New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. In collaboration with the Department of English, Assam University (A Central University), Silchar, India.

  • 2020 Organising member of the 1st Rupkatha International Open Conference on Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities (Virtual), In collaboration with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna and Siksha O Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Bhubaneswar.

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