Lectures and presentations (Select)

• “Cold War Print Cultures: An Alternative Genealogy of Literary Activism in India”, The Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Colloquium, NYU, April 2024 & Southern Asia Seminar, University of Chicago, March 2024.

• “Postcolonial Periodicals from India: Minority as Resource”, Seminar ‘The Periodical and Method, the Periodical as Method’, American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), March 2024, Montreal.

• “Worldliness as Critique: the ‘cut-and-paste’ activism of The Indian PEN (1930s-1950s)” Print Cultures Before the Postcolonial, 18-19 janvier 2024, University of Chicago Center in Paris.

• “ Worldly Modernisms : Indian Little Magazines and the Transnational Traffics of the 50s / 60s ”, Workshop S. H. Raza et son temps, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023.

• “On the International Research Network on Postcolonial Print Cultures and the Indian Writer as Archivist-Activist”, The Archive as Knowledge Site: The Experience of Europe and India, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, 2023.

• “’Editorial policy / open as hell’ : The Dissent and the Worldliness of Indian Little Magazines”, as part of the exhibition Crafting Subversion: DIY and Decolonial Print, University College London (UCL), 2022.

• “Materials & Methods: Postcolonial / World Studies”, Opening the PEN Archive, 1921-2021, (TORCH, Oxford), 2022.

• “Listening to Indian Poets: Explorations into Modernism as Struggle”, Workshop organized by Amit Chaudhuri, On Not Mentioning the Modern: the 7th Symposium on the Literary Activism Series, Ashoka University (virtual) 2022.

• “The Cultural Cold War and the Poetics of Postcolonial Modernism in India”, Modernism Seminar: Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, 2021.

• “PEN and Literary Activism: Colonial / Postcolonial / World” (with Peter D. McDonald and Rachel Potter) Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar, University of Oxford, 2021.

• “The Writers’ Activism of PEN” (Panel with Jennifer Clement, Carles Torner, Margie Orford, Rachel Potter, Peter McDonald), Art & Action: Literary Authorship, Politics and Celebrity Culture, University of Oxford, 2020.

• “Eating Away the Corners of (World) Literature: The Littleness and Worldliness of Indian magazines of the 50s-70s,” The Magazine and World Literature Webinar Series (organized by Francesca Orsini and Patricia Novillo-Corvalan), 2020.

• “’How do we Stop Being Somebody Else’s Image?’”, The Forms of Ideology and the Ideology of Form: Local Debates, Internationalisms and Print Cultures between Decolonisation and the Cold War, SOAS, University of London, 2019.

• ‘The Coffee-Brown Boy Looks at the Black Boy’ : Guerre froide, Lutte pour la liberté Culturelle et solidarités littéraires transnationales en Inde, Colloque Circulations Littéraires afro-asiatiques : écrire, publier, traduire après Bandung, Université Paris-Nanterre, 2019.

• “’What Filters through the Curtain’: Reconsidering Indian Modernisms in the Cold War”, Publishing the Postcolonial: Politics and Economics of Postcolonial Print Cultures, Newcastle University, 2018.

• “Thinking Modernisms from India”, Déplacements et créations sémantiques: Chine-Inde-Japon, École normale supérieure, Paris, 2017.

• “‘Eating the Corners of Literature’: Bombay Archival Research from the PEN All-India Center to Arvind Krishna Mehrotra”, The Bombay Poets’ Archive, An Inaugural Symposium, Cornell University, 2017.

• “Defamiliarizing India: Cosmopolitanism as Aesthetic and Political Survival”, Cosmopolis and Beyond: Literary Cosmopolitanism after the Republic of Letters, University of Oxford, 2016.

• “Bhakti Beatniks and Drop-out Poets: the Making of a Bombay Counter-­‐culture in the 60s”, Counter-­‐Culture and Indian Arts, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, 2015.

• “The Language and Performance of Censorship: Hurt and Injury in Practices of Cultural Regulation in India”, Workshop Emotions and Political Mobilisations in the Indian Subcontinent, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi, 2015.

• “Translation as Literary Activism: on Arun Kolatkar and the Little Magazine Conspiracy”, Literary Activism: an Inaugural Symposium, Presidency University, Calcutta, 2014.

• “’Writing in the Presence of World Literatures’: Translation and the Cosmopolitan Local”, European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECSAS), Zurich, 2014.

• “’We, the Artist Community of India are Deeply Pained’: On Communities of Sentiments and Competing Vulnerabilities”, Workshop When Books and Art Hurt: Censorship, Emotions and Cultural Regulation in South Asia, EHESS, Paris, 2014.

For a full list of lectures and presentations please consult CV.