Conferences, Workshops, Symposia and Talks
2024. “What philology from below, philology by the other, and philology in the colonies, reveal about the Queen of the Sciences in the 19th century?” Paper for a seminar organized by Paul Michael Kurtz and Martina Palladino for their ERC project PhiSci: Philology of Science in 19th-century Europe, Sarton Centre for the History of Science, University of Ghent, Belgium, May 24. Weblink.
2024. Book-Objects at the Crossroads of Bibliography and Philology. A virtual roundtable coorganized with Jeremiah T. Coogan (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, Berkeley) and funded by the Programs Committee of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, US, January 15–31.
2024. Book-Objects at the Crossroads of Bibliography and Philology. A virtual roundtable coorganized with Jeremiah T. Coogan (Assistant Professor of New Testament, Jesuit School of Theology, Santa Clara University, Berkeley) and funded by the Programs Committee of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, US, January 15–31.
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2024. Interreligious Interactions in South Asia. Second virtual colloquium co-convened with Ankur Barua (Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge) and Hina Khalid (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge), January 8–15.
2024. “The Early Modern in Persian Purāṇas.” Paper for the annual meeting of the Early Modern South Asian Network, co-convened by Rosalind O’Hanlon (Retired Professor of Indian History and Culture, University of Oxford) and Roy S. Fischel (Lecturer in the History of South Asia, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), January 5. 2023. “Unorthodox Printing: A Brief History of Maithili Chapbooks in Colonial South Asia.” Paper for a symposium on Printing Religion in South Asia at the 51st Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, US, October 18. Weblink. |
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2023. Printing Religion in South Asia. A symposium co-convened with Megan Eaton Robb (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania) at the 51st Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, October 18. Weblink.
2023. “A Reckoning with Persian Purāṇas: Exploring the Ethos of Textual Production in Early Modern and Colonial South Asia.” Paper for a symposium on “Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, Responsibility,” co-organized by Elizabeth A. Cecil and Sonia Hazard, hosted by the European Research Council’s PURANA Project, at Leiden University, Netherlands, October 5–7. Weblink.
2023. “The Ethos of Friendship and Literary Imagination in Akhsitān Dihlavī’s Basātīn al-Uns (The Gardens of Fondness, 1325-26).” Paper for a workshop titled, “Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds,” co-organized by Laura Banella, Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Guisti, and Nicolas Longinotti at Christ Church Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK, June 20–21. Weblink.
2023. Interreligious Interactions in South Asia. First virtual colloquium co-convened with Ankur Barua (Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge) and Hina Khalid (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge), April 3–12. Weblink.
2023. History of the Book in South Asia. A workshop on early modern manuscripts organized at the British Library, London, under the curatorship of Maria Chellini, for students and researchers specializing in the study of classical Hindi literature, February 8. Weblink. Weblink.
2023. “A Reckoning with Persian Purāṇas: Exploring the Ethos of Textual Production in Early Modern and Colonial South Asia.” Paper for a symposium on “Material Texts: Religion, Mobility, Responsibility,” co-organized by Elizabeth A. Cecil and Sonia Hazard, hosted by the European Research Council’s PURANA Project, at Leiden University, Netherlands, October 5–7. Weblink.
2023. “The Ethos of Friendship and Literary Imagination in Akhsitān Dihlavī’s Basātīn al-Uns (The Gardens of Fondness, 1325-26).” Paper for a workshop titled, “Rethinking Lyric Communities in Premodern Worlds,” co-organized by Laura Banella, Irene Fantappiè, Francesco Guisti, and Nicolas Longinotti at Christ Church Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK, June 20–21. Weblink.
2023. Interreligious Interactions in South Asia. First virtual colloquium co-convened with Ankur Barua (Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge) and Hina Khalid (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge), April 3–12. Weblink.
2023. History of the Book in South Asia. A workshop on early modern manuscripts organized at the British Library, London, under the curatorship of Maria Chellini, for students and researchers specializing in the study of classical Hindi literature, February 8. Weblink. Weblink.
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2023. “A Reception History of ‘Ishqnāma (1301): Notes on Textual Transmission and Literary Historiography.” Research Conversation at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, UK, June 16.
2023. “A Ghazal by Ḥasan Sijzī of Delhi.” Paper for a workshop titled “Translating Silence,” organized by Adriana X. Jacobs and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, at Harris Manchester College and Schola Musicae of the Old Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, UK, June 9. 2023. “An Introduction to Nastaʿlīq Calligraphy.” Workshop co-organized with Megan Eaton Robb (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania) for the Annual Meeting of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, Rare Book School, University of Virginia, US, May 24-25. Website. 2023. “A Cowherd's Chapbook: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Literary Historiography," Research paper presented for the South Asia Seminar at St. Anthony's College, University of Oxford, UK, February 28, 2023. Weblink. |
2022. “The Ethics of Literary Historiography: As Revealed by a Cowherd Playwright's Chapbook." Paper for the symposium Critical Contours of Maithili Studies at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 19, 2022. Weblink.
2022. Critical Contours of Maithili Studies. A symposium co-organized with Coralynn V. Davis (Professor, Bucknell University) and Christopher L. Diamond (Leturer, Australian National University) at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 19. Weblink.
2021. “Colophons and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of 19th century scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to Mughal elites." Paper presented for the symposium "Material Texts in Post-Print South Asia: Approaches to 'History of the Book” at the 49th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 21, 2021. Weblink.
2021. Material Texts in Post-Print South Asia: Approaches to “History of the Book.” A symposium co-organized with Megan Eaton Robb (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania) at the 49th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, October 19. Weblink.
2020. “Interweaving Indian Tales and Persian Genres: Akhsitān Dihlavī's Basātīn al-Uns (c. 1325–26).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington DC, October 10–13, 2020. Conference program and weblink.
2022. Critical Contours of Maithili Studies. A symposium co-organized with Coralynn V. Davis (Professor, Bucknell University) and Christopher L. Diamond (Leturer, Australian National University) at the 50th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 19. Weblink.
2021. “Colophons and Scribal Communities in South Asia: The case of 19th century scribe copying Sanskrit panegyrics dedicated to Mughal elites." Paper presented for the symposium "Material Texts in Post-Print South Asia: Approaches to 'History of the Book” at the 49th Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct 21, 2021. Weblink.
2021. Material Texts in Post-Print South Asia: Approaches to “History of the Book.” A symposium co-organized with Megan Eaton Robb (Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania) at the 49th Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, October 19. Weblink.
2020. “Interweaving Indian Tales and Persian Genres: Akhsitān Dihlavī's Basātīn al-Uns (c. 1325–26).” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington DC, October 10–13, 2020. Conference program and weblink.
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2019. “Weaving Indian Tales in Persian Genres: The Gardens of Fondness (Basātīn al-Uns) of Akhsitān Dihlavī.” Paper presented at the Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS9), Freie Universitāt, Berlin, Germany, September 12, 2019. Conference program and weblink.
2019. “Healing and History at the Tomb of a Sufi Poet: The Legacy of Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī in Khuldabad.” Lecture delivered for a seminar on Histoire et anthropologie des sociétés musulmanes dans l’Asie du sud contemporaine [History and Anthropology of Muslim Societies in Contemporary South Asia], organized by Prof. Michel Bovin, Prof. Delphine Ortis and Prof. Fabrizio Speziale, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, February 6, 2019. 2018. “Reimagining Sufi Poetics in South Asia: Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī (1253-c.1337) and the Masnavī Tradition.” Lecture delivered for a seminar on Asie du Sud et culture persane. Productions savantes, traductions, interactions [South Asia and Persian Culture: Intellectual production, Translation and Interaction], organized by Prof. Fabrizio Speziale at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, December 11, 2018. |
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2018. “Re-envisioning of Genres and Social Criticism in Ḥasan Sijzī Dihlavī’s The Book of Love.” Paper presented for a panel entitled “AIIS Showcase on New Research: Texts in Contexts: Genres as Socio-Cultural Agents in South Asia” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies in Washington, D.C., US, March 22-25, 2018. Conference program and weblink.
2017. “Notes on the Political Origins of Maithili Literary Histories: Critical Reflections on Decolonization and Democratization in South Asian Historiography.” Paper presented at History and Democracy: A Workshop organized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and International Center for Advanced Studies at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, December 11-12, 2017.
2017. “Literary Genre, Humour, and Politics in a Mithilā Nāṭak.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision (In Memory of Arvind Narayan Das), organized by the Asian Development Research Institute for its Silver Jubilee Celebrations in Patna, Bihar, India, March 24-28, 2017. Conference program and website.
2016. “Kamāl-i Khujandī in Bodleian Tazkirahs.” Paper presented at an international conference entitled “Kamal Khujandi: Development of Literary Study and Literary Relations” at the Khujand State University named after Bobojon Gafurov, Khujand Tajikistan, October 28-29, 2016.
2015. “Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite.” Paper presented in the preconference on “Sanskrit in Persianate India” at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia organized by the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, October 22, 2015. Website.
2014. “The Pathology of Texts: S. M. Katre and Indology.” South Asian Studies Program Seminar Series, International Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US, November 17, 2014. Website.
2017. “Notes on the Political Origins of Maithili Literary Histories: Critical Reflections on Decolonization and Democratization in South Asian Historiography.” Paper presented at History and Democracy: A Workshop organized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and International Center for Advanced Studies at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India, December 11-12, 2017.
2017. “Literary Genre, Humour, and Politics in a Mithilā Nāṭak.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Bihar and Jharkhand: Shared History to Shared Vision (In Memory of Arvind Narayan Das), organized by the Asian Development Research Institute for its Silver Jubilee Celebrations in Patna, Bihar, India, March 24-28, 2017. Conference program and website.
2016. “Kamāl-i Khujandī in Bodleian Tazkirahs.” Paper presented at an international conference entitled “Kamal Khujandi: Development of Literary Study and Literary Relations” at the Khujand State University named after Bobojon Gafurov, Khujand Tajikistan, October 28-29, 2016.
2015. “Rudra Kavi and the Mughal Elite.” Paper presented in the preconference on “Sanskrit in Persianate India” at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia organized by the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, October 22, 2015. Website.
2014. “The Pathology of Texts: S. M. Katre and Indology.” South Asian Studies Program Seminar Series, International Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US, November 17, 2014. Website.