2024
Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) Houston Session Moderation
“Invoking the Muse: Poetry Hour with Fady Joudah and Cristina Rivera Garza with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan”
“The Writing Life: Alka Joshi and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in conversation with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan”
The Asia Society
September 7, 2024
"The Rise, or, Advance Notes on my Fifth Book"
Rice University English Department
"Half-Baked" Faculty Colloquium
April 5, 2024
"Reading with an Accent"
Duke University
International Comparative Studies Speaker Series
February 28, 2024
"Meta-Chaudhuri"
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia
January 5, 2024 [3:30-4:45pm, Franklin 2 (Marriott)]
"The Epistolary Memoir as Pandemic Genre"
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia
January 7, 2024 [1:45-3pm, Franklin 9 (Marriott)]
2023
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
"Teaching Asian and Asian Diasporic Literatures in Houston"
with Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Duy Nguyen, and Sunny Yang
University of Houston
November 3-4, 2023
A Conversation with Zadie Smith
Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series
Congregation Emanu El
November 13, 2023 at 7:30pm
"The Poetic Imagination: A Conversation with Aris Kian, Rohan Chhetri and Aruni Kashyap" [recording]
Jaipur Literary Festival Houston
Brown Foundation Theater, Asia Society
September 16, 2023 at 5pm
"We is a Method"
Humanities Lightning Talks
Rice University
September 11, 2023
South Asia and Accent
A conversation with Akshya Saxena, Pavitra Sundar, and Preeti Singh
Dartmouth College
May 2, 2023 (12:15-1:15pm ET)
Virtual Book Launch: Thinking with an Accent
April 28, 2003 (11am-12:30pm ET)
"Echolocation and the Critic"
Special Session: Distant Labor: Telecommunication and its Attunements
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, SF
January 6, 2023
2022
"Postcolonial Love/Hate Reading"
ASAP/13 Annual Conference, LA
Sept 15-16, 2022
"The Writer's Life: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni" [recording]
Jaipur Literary Festival Houston
Sept 10, 11am
"Points of Departure: A Conversation with Naheed Phiroze Patel and Sonal Kohli" [recording]
Jaipur Literary Festival Houston
Sept 10, 3pm
2021
"A Conversation on Literary Accent" (with Julie Beth Napolin)
UC Berkeley Sound Studies Working Group
Feb 26, 1pm PST (Online)
"Locations of Critique" (roundtable organized with J. Daniel Elam)
with Michael Allan, Nasia Anam, Anjali Arondekar, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Natalie Melas, and Avery Slater
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 9, 5:15-6:30pm EST (Online)
2020
"On Ling Ma's Severance" (in conversation with Tim Gauthier)
Severance Radio: A Nevada Reads Book Club, July 26
"American Accents, or, What was Multiethnic Literature?"
Thinking with an Accent (Online)
"1990 at 30: Theory, Interventions, Disciplines" (roundtable organized with J. Daniel Elam)
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, January
2019
"Eating the Poor, and Other Neoliberal Atrocities"
University of Arizona, Creative Interference Symposium, October
"Interview with Shashi Tharoor" (video)
The Paradoxical Shashi Tharoor, India Community Center, May 9
"Reading India's Rise: Genre, Neoliberalism, and Narrative Nonfiction" (abstract)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for South Asia, Spring Lecture Series, April
Seminar: "Genre and Neoliberalism" (convened with Paul Nadal)
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, March
2018
Roundtable: "Strategic Presentism" (discussed by Wai Chee Dimock in PMLA)
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York City, NY, January
Seminar: "The Fate of Character in the Long Twentieth Century"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, March
"Archives, Embodiment, and the Story of America's India" (watch)
iSchool Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April
2017
"Salman Rushdie, Chetan Bhagat, and the Call Center: New India and World Literature" (press)
Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana, India
"Teaching South Asian Literature to South Asian Students"
Asian American International Students, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Portland, OR
"The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonialism in Two Acts"
Global Asias 4, Penn State, PA
Roundtable: "Theory, Objects, Institutional Locations"
Boundary Conditions, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA
"Anglo-Phony: Expatriate Writers, Call Center Agents, and the New Indian Literature"
Anglophone Literatures Among Other Languages, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Roundtable: "Asian/American (Anti-) Bodies"
Home/Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO
Roundtable: "South Asia in English: From 'Postcolonial' to 'Global Anglophone'"
Decay, The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
"Out from Under: On the Literature of Redevelopment"
Literatures of Development, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA
"The Future of South Asian Literature in Comparative Literature"
Pre-Conference Workshop, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA
“India Calling: Return-Writing of the Emergence Genre”
The Cultures of New India, University of Brighton, UK
2015
“In Fidelity: Ventriloquism and Abstraction in Indian Anglophone Nonfiction”
Trust, The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
“The Smithsonian’s India: From the Festival of India to Beyond Bollywood” (BEST GRADUATE PAPER AWARD)
The Trans/national Imaginary: Global Cities & Racial Borderlands, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Chicago/Evanston, IL
“The Smithsonian Beside Itself: Exhibiting Indian Americans in the Era of New India”
Dissonance, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL
“The Rhetoric of Returns: V.S. Naipaul and the Genre of Emergence”
South Asian Mobilities, Twelfth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago
“An Excess of Feeling, or What is Return-Writing?"
Excess, UCLA Dept of Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2014
“India(ns) on Display: From the Festival of India to Beyond Bollywood”
Improvising South Asia, The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
“The Self-Help Novel and the Rise of Asia”
Whole Worlds: Systems of Capital, Affect, Aesthetics, University of Chicago Dept of English Graduate Symposium
“Is there a Call Center Literature?” (GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE)
The Nation and its Discontents, South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
2012
"Intercultural Encounters and the Transformation of a Kerala Arts Institution"
South Asia by the Bay, Stanford University, Center for South Asia Studies, Stanford, CA
2010
"Kalamandalam Calling: Intercultural and Intertextual Encounters in a Kerala Arts Institution"
Contingent Communities, University of Minnesota, Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Minneapolis, MN
Jaipur Literary Festival (JLF) Houston Session Moderation
“Invoking the Muse: Poetry Hour with Fady Joudah and Cristina Rivera Garza with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan”
“The Writing Life: Alka Joshi and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in conversation with Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan”
The Asia Society
September 7, 2024
"The Rise, or, Advance Notes on my Fifth Book"
Rice University English Department
"Half-Baked" Faculty Colloquium
April 5, 2024
"Reading with an Accent"
Duke University
International Comparative Studies Speaker Series
February 28, 2024
"Meta-Chaudhuri"
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia
January 5, 2024 [3:30-4:45pm, Franklin 2 (Marriott)]
"The Epistolary Memoir as Pandemic Genre"
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia
January 7, 2024 [1:45-3pm, Franklin 9 (Marriott)]
2023
Southwest Conference on Asian Studies
"Teaching Asian and Asian Diasporic Literatures in Houston"
with Alden Sajor Marte-Wood, Duy Nguyen, and Sunny Yang
University of Houston
November 3-4, 2023
A Conversation with Zadie Smith
Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series
Congregation Emanu El
November 13, 2023 at 7:30pm
"The Poetic Imagination: A Conversation with Aris Kian, Rohan Chhetri and Aruni Kashyap" [recording]
Jaipur Literary Festival Houston
Brown Foundation Theater, Asia Society
September 16, 2023 at 5pm
"We is a Method"
Humanities Lightning Talks
Rice University
September 11, 2023
South Asia and Accent
A conversation with Akshya Saxena, Pavitra Sundar, and Preeti Singh
Dartmouth College
May 2, 2023 (12:15-1:15pm ET)
Virtual Book Launch: Thinking with an Accent
April 28, 2003 (11am-12:30pm ET)
"Echolocation and the Critic"
Special Session: Distant Labor: Telecommunication and its Attunements
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, SF
January 6, 2023
2022
"Postcolonial Love/Hate Reading"
ASAP/13 Annual Conference, LA
Sept 15-16, 2022
"The Writer's Life: A Conversation with Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni" [recording]
Jaipur Literary Festival Houston
Sept 10, 11am
"Points of Departure: A Conversation with Naheed Phiroze Patel and Sonal Kohli" [recording]
Jaipur Literary Festival Houston
Sept 10, 3pm
2021
"A Conversation on Literary Accent" (with Julie Beth Napolin)
UC Berkeley Sound Studies Working Group
Feb 26, 1pm PST (Online)
"Locations of Critique" (roundtable organized with J. Daniel Elam)
with Michael Allan, Nasia Anam, Anjali Arondekar, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Natalie Melas, and Avery Slater
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 9, 5:15-6:30pm EST (Online)
2020
"On Ling Ma's Severance" (in conversation with Tim Gauthier)
Severance Radio: A Nevada Reads Book Club, July 26
"American Accents, or, What was Multiethnic Literature?"
Thinking with an Accent (Online)
"1990 at 30: Theory, Interventions, Disciplines" (roundtable organized with J. Daniel Elam)
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, January
2019
"Eating the Poor, and Other Neoliberal Atrocities"
University of Arizona, Creative Interference Symposium, October
"Interview with Shashi Tharoor" (video)
The Paradoxical Shashi Tharoor, India Community Center, May 9
"Reading India's Rise: Genre, Neoliberalism, and Narrative Nonfiction" (abstract)
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Center for South Asia, Spring Lecture Series, April
Seminar: "Genre and Neoliberalism" (convened with Paul Nadal)
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, March
2018
Roundtable: "Strategic Presentism" (discussed by Wai Chee Dimock in PMLA)
Modern Language Association Annual Convention, New York City, NY, January
Seminar: "The Fate of Character in the Long Twentieth Century"
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles, CA, March
"Archives, Embodiment, and the Story of America's India" (watch)
iSchool Colloquium, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April
2017
"Salman Rushdie, Chetan Bhagat, and the Call Center: New India and World Literature" (press)
Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana, India
"Teaching South Asian Literature to South Asian Students"
Asian American International Students, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Portland, OR
"The Anglophone and the Anthropocene: Postcolonialism in Two Acts"
Global Asias 4, Penn State, PA
Roundtable: "Theory, Objects, Institutional Locations"
Boundary Conditions, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA
"Anglo-Phony: Expatriate Writers, Call Center Agents, and the New Indian Literature"
Anglophone Literatures Among Other Languages, Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA
2016
Roundtable: "Asian/American (Anti-) Bodies"
Home/Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO
Roundtable: "South Asia in English: From 'Postcolonial' to 'Global Anglophone'"
Decay, The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
"Out from Under: On the Literature of Redevelopment"
Literatures of Development, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA
"The Future of South Asian Literature in Comparative Literature"
Pre-Conference Workshop, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, MA
“India Calling: Return-Writing of the Emergence Genre”
The Cultures of New India, University of Brighton, UK
2015
“In Fidelity: Ventriloquism and Abstraction in Indian Anglophone Nonfiction”
Trust, The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
“The Smithsonian’s India: From the Festival of India to Beyond Bollywood” (BEST GRADUATE PAPER AWARD)
The Trans/national Imaginary: Global Cities & Racial Borderlands, Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Chicago/Evanston, IL
“The Smithsonian Beside Itself: Exhibiting Indian Americans in the Era of New India”
Dissonance, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL
“The Rhetoric of Returns: V.S. Naipaul and the Genre of Emergence”
South Asian Mobilities, Twelfth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago
“An Excess of Feeling, or What is Return-Writing?"
Excess, UCLA Dept of Comparative Literature Annual Graduate Conference, Los Angeles, CA
2014
“India(ns) on Display: From the Festival of India to Beyond Bollywood”
Improvising South Asia, The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
“The Self-Help Novel and the Rise of Asia”
Whole Worlds: Systems of Capital, Affect, Aesthetics, University of Chicago Dept of English Graduate Symposium
“Is there a Call Center Literature?” (GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE)
The Nation and its Discontents, South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
2012
"Intercultural Encounters and the Transformation of a Kerala Arts Institution"
South Asia by the Bay, Stanford University, Center for South Asia Studies, Stanford, CA
2010
"Kalamandalam Calling: Intercultural and Intertextual Encounters in a Kerala Arts Institution"
Contingent Communities, University of Minnesota, Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Minneapolis, MN
