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Conferences

  • “The Empire Laughs Back: Black Humour and Trauma in Ahmed Masoud’s The Shroud Maker, special panel on “Humour and Conflict in the Global South,” 33rd Conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, University of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 3-7 (Forthcoming)

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  • “Loss of a homeland as a loss of a way of life: Deconstructing trauma and suffering in Dalia Taha's Fireworks” Seventh International BAKEA Conference: “Home,” the Faculty of Science and Letters, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey, 15 -17 September 2021.

 

  • “Building an Anti-Racist Glossary,” Anti-Racism Workshop for TDS faculty and staff, Sheridan College, Mississauga, 24 February 2021.

 

  • “Staging resistance still matters! Deconstructing structures of power and violence in the theatre of Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Femi Osofisan.” ASA - African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Nov 19-21 2020.

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  • “Testing the Limits of Jesting: Merry Politics of Trickster/Servants in Plautus and Shakespeare's Comic Repertoire," 65th Annual Conference of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, March 2019. 

 

  • “Dissident Carnival Laughter: Dario Fo and the Commedia dell’ Arte.” HUMOUR Conference, Australasian Humour Studies Network, Melbourne, Australia, Feb 2019. 

 

  • “Dissident Humour Traditions and the Carnivalization of post war Italian Politics.”  International Summer School and Symposium on Humour and Laughter, Purdue University, Indiana, July 2017.

 

  • “Scourging Sacrosanct Authority through Parody: Cultural ‘Othering’ in Dario Fo’s Mistero buffo, “Blasphemous Translations” Comparative Literature panel, 47th NeMLA Convention Baltimore, USA, March, 2017.

 

  • “Better to be a witty fool than a foolish wit”: The Development and Distortion of the servus callidus from Plautus to Shakespeare,” 16th MELOW International Conference on “Facts, Distortions and Erasures: Literature as History, History in Literature” Chandigarh, India, March, 2017.

 

  • “Decolonizing Canonic Autonomy: Humor as Resistance in Dario Fo’s Mistero Buffo,” GSP Conference “Power and Identity, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, Jan 2017. 

 

  • “Attic to Commedia: Dissident Humour Traditions in the Popular Theatre of Dario Fo” ‘Still Laughing: Ancient Comedy and its Descendants’ Comparative Literature Panel, 46th NeMLA Convention, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, March 2016.

 

  • “Unmasking Cultural Imperialism: Proletarian Arrogation in Dario Fo’s Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!” 15th MELUS-MELOW International Conference at Indraprastha University, Delhi, India, Feb. 2016.

 

  • “Dario Fo’s Proletarian feast: A Study of Satire, Farce and the Carnivalesque in Accidental Death of an Anarchist,”Fourth International BAKEA Symposium on Humour, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey, Oct. 2015.

Invited Lectures

  • “The Medieval Age Drama” – Invited Lectures, Certificate course on History of English Literature, Department of English, Ram Lal Anand college, University pf Delhi, 14th & 21st January 2023.

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  • Invited speaker at the “Research Symposium” - The English & Drama Students Society, 10th Feb 2022

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  • “The Medieval Age Drama” – Invited Lectures, Certificate course on History of English Literature, Department of English, Ram Lal Anand college, University pf Delhi, 9th & 13th January 2022.

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  • “Nostalgia in Geopolitically Conflicted Discourses in Palestinian Culture with special reference to Dalia Taha’s Fireworks”- Panel Speaker, Shakespeare Annual Festival, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, 13 April, 2021. 

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  • “Africa in Performance”- Panel Chair, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Nov 19-21 2020

 

  • “Relevance of Shakespeare today”- Guest lecture, Department of English, Shoolini University, India, 30 April 2020.

 

  • “The Trickster, Scourge and Harlequin: Carnivalesque Arrogation in European Comedy” – Guest lecture at the Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto, 30 October 2019.

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  • “Dissident Carnival Laughter: Dario Fo and the Commedia dell’ Arte.”  Guest Lecture at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, 18 March 2019. 

 

  • “Dissident Carnival Laughter: Dario Fo and the Commedia dell’ Arte.”  Guest Lecture at the Centre for Drama and Theatre and Performance, University of Toronto, 12 March 2019

 

  • “The Trickster, Scourge and Harlequin: Carnivalesque Arrogation in European Comedy”- Guest lecture at the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, York University, Toronto, 9 Jan 2019.

 

  • “Modernist Poetry with special emphasis on Wallace Stevens’ ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” Invited Lecture - Poetry Society, St. Stephen’s College, Sept. 2017.

 

  • Panel Chair, “Satire in the works of Stoppard” Fourth International BAKEA Symposium: Humour at Pamukkale University, Turkey, Oct 2015.

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  • Session Chair, South African Poet Ari Sitas, Centre of Translation at St. Stephen’s College, Feb. 2015. 

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  • Lecture Series, Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Theatre of Farce, Society and Politics in Postwar Italy, and Fo and the Commedia Dell’arte,’ Dept. Of English, Stephen’s College, University of Delhi. (Apr. 2007- 2017) 

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  • “Degeneration in the Plays of Henrik Ibsen,” Shakespeare Society, Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Jan. 2011.

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  • Panel Chair, for Gauri Vishwanathan’s talk - Subaltern Voices’ English Literary Society, St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, Feb. 2009

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