Conferences, Workshops and Invited Lectures (Selection)
“Visualizing Literary Worldliness in the Hindi Print Sphere of the Early 20th Century. A Case Study of Ganga Pustak Mala and Sudha” Canadian South Asian Studies Association (CSASA-ACESA) @ Congress annual meeting, York University (May 27-29, 2023)
"Double lives and mistresses exposed: vernacular fiction beyond discourses of honor." European Conference on South Asian Studies (panel co-convenor), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (July 24-27, 2018)
"Gendered Lives in Vernacular Fiction: Claiming Fatherhood and Redefining Family in Hindi Short Stories of the Early 1940s."2nd International Workshop on Literary Sentiments: Telling Gendered Lives in the Vernacular. Northwestern University, Evanston (organizer with Laura Brueck, Charu Gupta, Hans Harder) (Oct. 13-15, 2017)
"Towards a Global History of Ganga Pustak Mala Press." Globalizing Book History and Bibliography Working Group of the Bibliography Among the Disciplines conference, Philadelphia, PA (Oct. 12-15, 2017)
"Music and the Nationalization of Hindu Culture in a Hindi periodical (1927-1931)". Rethinking the dynamics of musical nationalism: An international conference, University of Amsterdam, Department of European Studies (September 26-29, 2017)
"Absent mothers and nurturing fathers: Unconventional family constellations in Hindi short stories". Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto (May 27-29, 2017)
Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies panel: Curtains of Truth: Determining Scientific Legitimacy in 20th century China and India. Chair and discussant, Toronto (March 16-19, 2017)
"Benevolent Goddess and Devout Woman: Gender and Visuality in a Mainstream Hindi Literary Periodical". Gender Issues in India Symposium. York University and the University of Guelph (Oct. 5-6, 2016)
"Nationalist Imaginations: Gender and Visuality in the Hindi Advertising Campaign of the Indian Tea Market Expansion Board (1940s)". 1st International Workshop on Literary Sentiments: Telling Gendered Lives in the Vernacular. Ruprecht-Karls Universitaet Heidelberg (organizer with Hans Harder) (July 13-14, 2016)
"Cumin, Capsules, and Colonialism: Medical Encounters in the Hindi literary sphere". Indian medicine: Between state and village. International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University (Netherlands) (June 23-24, 2016)
Talk: "Women and the nationalization of literature: Text and image as parallel narratives in a Hindi periodical." Heidelberg University, Germany (July 21, 2015)
"The All-Asian Women’s Conference (Lahore, 1931) and the Unification of Asia". Asian Research Working Group conference on Asia and Globalization. McMaster University, Hamilton (11 May, 2015)
"Women and the Nationalization of literature: Text and image as parallel narratives in a Hindi periodical (1927-1941)". Contemporary Hindi/Urdu Literature and Arts. Princeton University (Dec. 6-7, 2013)
"The Idea of Asia: Pan-Asian Feminist Conversations on Oriental Civilization, Spiritual Superiority and Asian Womanhood". Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Canada (15-18 March, 2012)
"Modelling the modern girl in the Hindi public sphere (1910s - 1920s)". Transnational Approaches to Girlhood. University of Toronto, SSHRC workshop (25 May 25, 2012)
"Whither Colonial Hierarchies? Indian Women Writers and Global Modernity". The International Federation for Research in Women’s History Conference (in conjunction with the 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences), Amsterdam University (22-28 August, 2010).
"'A World of Difference' - Travels in the Colonial Neighborhood". 41st Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, McGill University, Montreal (7-11 April, 2010)
"Courageous Girls and Intelligent Women: Writings for Children and their Parents". Society for the History of Children and Youth Biennial Conference: Children at Risk/Children Taking Risks: Historical Inquiries in International Perspective, University of California at Berkeley (July 10-12, 2009)
"Global (?), Modern and Colonized: Indian Women Writers’ and Activists’ International Networking in the Early Twentieth Century". York 50 Symposium: The Global Modern: Transnationalism and the Media in Asia
York Center for Asian Research, York University (May 15, 2009)
"In the name of national honor and self-respect. Elite women’s campaigns against indentured labor". European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, University of Manchester (July 8-11, 2008)
Invited Lecture: "Of National Concern: Children’s Hindi Periodicals and Nationalist Discourse". Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University (November 7, 2007)
"Feminist agendas and the Indian Independence struggle". Feminist Pre-conference at the South Asia Studies Conference: South Asian Feminisms: Subjects, Audiences, Agendas. Madison (October 11, 2007)
"Responses to Colonial Discourses on Indian Womanhood".European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden University (June 27-30, 2006)
Paper: "An Indian Affair: Green Cards, a Marriage Proposal and the Multi-Ethnic Divide in the German TV-Serial Lindenstrasse". Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhine, University of Toronto (May 24-26, 2006)
"Cumin, Capsules, and Colonialism: Encounters with natural and allopathic medical practices in Hindi literature". Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Francisco (April 6-9, 2006)
"Gendered Citizenship? Feminist-Nationalist Questioning in Hindi Women’s Journals (1920-1930)". Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago (March 31-April 3, 2005)
"In the Neighborhood of the Colonial Present: Burmese Women in a Hindi Feminist Ethnography". European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden (July 6-9, 2004)
"Redefining Gender Roles: The Politics of the Hindi Women’s Journal Stri Darpan". Annual Conference on South Asia, University of California, Berkeley (February 15-16, 2002).
Conferences and Workshops on Teaching Languages, Literature and Culture (selection)
“Evaluation and Feedback in Blended Online Learning Environments Classroom Assessment Techniques and Specifications Grading in South Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures Courses”. South Asian Languages Teachers Association University of Wisconsin–Madison (June 23-24, 2023)
"The institutional structure and status of South Asian Studies as academic discipline and program". Engaging India: A Multidisciplinary Conference. Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, Carleton University, Ottawa (17-18 June, 2011).
"Translation, Authenticity and Analysis of Literary Voices from South Asia and the Diaspora". Symposium on Innovations and Challenges in Second Language Pedagogy. University of Toronto (May 13-14, 2011)
"From Drill to Thrill: Innovative and Pedagogical Approaches to Language Acquisition". Heritage Language Workshop, University of Toronto (May 7, 2009)
"Can the Heritage Student Speak? Linguistic and Cultural Competency in the Grip of Academic Culture". Cultures and Languages across the Curriculum. Frankly Speaking: Challenges in Integrating Languages and Cultures into a Post-Secondary Curriculum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (October 15-17, 2008)
“'I got the point across and that is what counts'. Transcultural versus (?) linguistic competence in language teaching". Shades of Brown: Challenges, Myths and Promises. International Educational Conference, Toronto (July 8-12, 2007)
"Of Gender, Postpositions and the Past Tense: Seasoning Languages Courses with Technology". Annual TEL@York Conference, York University, Toronto (Mai 1-2, 2007)
"Technology-Enhanced Learning: The blended course Introductory Hindi". Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison (October 19-22, 2006)
