Presentations
“Socialisation
in the 21st Century: Possibility of Democracy in a Digitised Society”
at the conference on 'Socialism for the Twenty-first Century' at the
University of Havana, 19-21 November 2014.
“Digital
Relations: A Study of Media Wiki” at the Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi on 11
November 2014.
“Continuing
Counterfactual from Orientalist Narratives to the Wikipedia” at
Annual Conference of Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature
and Language Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh in February
2014.
“2014: Digital
Reproduction: A Case of Missed Opportunity” at Interrogating
English Studies in India, Bharati College,
University of Delhi 5-7 February 2014.
“Cute
Cats and Talking Mice: Theatre, Social Media and Intellectual
Property: Thinking of property in theatre and the internet”
at
'Theater
and Civil Society: Politics, Public Space, and Performance'
at the Brown
International Advanced Research Institutes
at
Brown University,
Providence, Rhode Island, USA between 9-23 June 2012.
“In
a different hue: An adaptation of Chaturanga”
at
the Australasian
Association for Theatre Drama and Performance Studies Conference
at
Monash University, Clayton Campus, Victoria, Australia between 29
June – 1 July 2011.
"Theatre, Sharing, Change' at the Indian Institute of
Advanced Study, Shimla 15 July, 2010.
"'Not
in My Name’: Who Benefits from Copyright?" at the Indian
Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 5 November, 2009.
“Making Space for Change: The Spectator’s
view of Proletarian Theatre” the Ninth CLAI (Comparative
Literature Association of India)
Biennial International Conference held at Hyderabad between
28-31 January 2009.
" Political Theater of India- History, contemporary
characteristics, and challenges in the Globalised era" at the
first International Theater Festival of Kerala, (ITFoK) Asian
chapter, 2008, held at Thrissur, Kerala from 22 to31 December 2008,
convened by Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy with the support of
various Kerala government departments and organisations.
“Comparative Perspectives on Politico-Cultural Performances
in Contemporary India” (coauthored with Dr. Dibyesh Anand) at the
20th European Conference for Modern South Asian Studies at University
of Manchester between 8-11 July, 2008.
“Theatre for Development/ Theatre of Resistance: Augusto Boal
and Safdar Hashmi in Theory and Practice” at the International
Seminar on “Development Paradigms and Cultures of Resistance: A
Comparative Perspective on India and Latin America” jointly
organized by the Centre for European and Latin American Studies and
the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia at New
Delhi between 14-16 February, 2008.
“The Legacy of Nabanna”
at the Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Commonwealth
Literature and Language Studies (IACLALS) at Udaipur in January 2008.
“The ‘Liberal’ Babu, the ‘Good’
Peasant and the ‘Bad’ Sahibs: Violence and Political Strategy in
Dinabandhu Mitra’s Neeldarpan”
at the Annual Conference of the IACLALS held at the Banaras Hindu
University in January, 2007.
“Challenges Before Cultural Resistance:
Methods of Intervention” at the International Young Scholar’s
Seminar organized by the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia
Millia Islamia and Leftword Books, in April 2006.
“Part(y)cipation in Culture” at a Conference on ‘Politics of
Culture in Contemporary China and India’, organized by the
Institute of Chinese Studies, Centre for Studies in Developing
Societies (CSDS) in October 2005.
“Revolutionary Terrorism and Non-Violent
Nationalism in Bengal of the Early 20th Century” at the 13th
Triennial Conference of the Association of Commonwealth Literature
and Language Studies (ACLALS) at Hyderabad in August 2004.
“Valiant
Self and Pernicious Foreigner: The Use of History for Nation Making
in the Literature of 19th Century Bengal” at the Annual Conference
of the Indian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language
Studies (IACLALS) held at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in January,
2003.
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