PRESENTATIONS

■ “Literally But Not Really: The Politics of a Disavowed Imperialism” at the 21st Annual Historical Materialism London Conference (SOAS, Nov 2024) on ‘Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them’.

■ “Old Fantasies, New Realities: Hindu Nationalism in the Chinese Century” at the international research symposium (Uni of Nottingham, July 2022) on ‘The Global South in the Chinese Century’ at the University of Nottingham.

■ “Managing Minorities in Majoritarian Democracies: A Necropolitical Reading of Arjun Apparadurai’s ‘Fear of Small Numbers’” at the Global Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) annual conference (Frankfurt, May 2022) on ‘Contested Solidarities: Agency and Victimhood in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures.’

■ “Visibly Muslim: Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mané, and the Racialization of Religion” at the North-East Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference (Baltimore, 2022).

■ “The Staging(s) of an Encounter: Manu Joseph’s Miss Laila As/For/With Ishrat Jahan” at the IACLALS Annual Conference (Pondicherry, Pondicherry University, February 2019) on ‘Literature, Culture and Society in the Age of Post-Truth.’ This paper was shortlisted for the C D Narasimhaiah Prize for the best paper presented at the conference.

■ “Anatomy of a Provocation: Apostasy at the Limits of Intentional Fallacy” at the IACLALS Annual Conference (Aligarh, AMU, February 2018) on ‘Tolerance and Bigotry: Perspectives from Indian Writings in English.’ This paper was shortlisted for the C D Narasimhaiah Prize for the best paper presented at the conference.

■ “An Alternate Dastan of Hindustan: Reading Qurratulain Hyder’s River of Fire” at the International Conference on ‘History, Culture and Literature: Reading the Margins’ (February 2017) organised by the Department of English, University of Delhi.

■ “Not Khasi, Not Dkhar: Reading Anjum Hasan’s Lunatic in my Head and Neti, Neti” at the IACLALS Annual Conference (Guwahati, IIT, February 2017) on ‘Location, Identity, Solidarity: Hegemonic Formations and Contestations.’

■ “A Muslim Politician’s Guide to Indian History: Reading Salman Khurshid’s Sons of Babur” at the SAP Seminar on ‘Writing India: Revisiting Historiographies, Ideology, and Genre’ (January 2017) organised by the Centre for English Studies, JNU.

■ “Disability and the Call for Prayer: Translating Khalid Jawed’s Koobad” presented at The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Workshop on ‘Translating Disability Across Cultures’’ (September, 2016) at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, New Delhi.

■ “Of Khuloos and Khutoot: Rashid Jahan Angaareywaali and the Unholy Mix of Islam, Feminism, and Communism”, presented at the IACLALS (Warangal, Kakatiya University, January 2016) international conference on ‘Right to Write: The Culture of Literary Controversies and Controversial Literatures.’

■ “A Messiah Of Their Own: Appropriating the Liminality of the Short Story Form in Delimiting the Female Utopia in the Global South” at the international conference on ‘Other Spaces: Towards the Global South’ (October 2015) at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

■ “The Devil’s Surrogate: The Woman’s Defiance of the Mullah and his Muhalla in Questioning the Totalising Narrative of National Historiography” at the International Conference (2014) of Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu on ‘A Historical Appraisal of India’s Composite Cultural Ethos’, New Delhi.