Non-Scholarly
Conversations on Nuclear Waste and Science Fiction, Long Tai Tou 龍抬頭 event at 6018|North, March 2025
“South Asian Voters and Electoral Politics in the U.S,” The Jasmine Collective and APIAVote, October 2024
“Dismantling South Asian Fascism in America” (with The Subcontinent Project), The Jasmine Collective, May 2023
Scholarly
“Structures of Caste, Waste, and Power in Postcolonial Indian Science Fiction,” British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (BCPS), February 2026 (presenter)
“Toxic Waste, Toxic Caste: Transnational Contaminations in
Indian and Chinese Science Fiction,” Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE), July 2025 (panel co-chair and presenter)
“Aliens, Outcast(e)s, and Villains: Contemporary South Asian American Science Fiction and the Global Anti-Caste Movement,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), April 2025 (presenter)
“Abandon Hope All Ye?: Hellish Infrastructures in Russian Dystopia,” American Association of Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), November 2024 (presenter)
“Supercharged: Cataloguing the Nuclear Body in Science Fiction of the Global South,” Northeast Modern Literature Association (NeMLA), March 2024 (presenter)
“Subterranean Asias: Extraction in South Asian and Russian Science Fiction,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), March 2023 (presenter)
“Ecological Homelands: Grieving in a Time of Africanfuturist Posthumanism,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), April 2021 (presenter)
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