Stay tuned for upcoming book events and online panels!

June 12, 2021. “Bombay Talkies: The Shaping of a Cinema City,” Khaki Lab, Mumbai.

May 25, 2021. “Symptoms and Submergence: A Media History of Shipwrecks,” Kracauer lectures in Film and Media Theory, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt. Video recording.

April 20, 2021. “Cinema and Sonic Individuation,” colloquium on “Listening In: Sounds of South Asian Histories,” organized by Dr. Kama Maclean, Heidelberg University.

March 25, 2021. “Bombay Hustle: Labor and Ecological Entanglements in 1930s Cinema, ” online book talk hosted by students of the South Asian Political Thought seminar series, Oxford University. Respondent: Dr. Nayanika Mathur.

February 26, 2021. Book talk and conversation with Dr. Daisuke Miyao. Part of NYU Cinema Studies book series, “New Voices in Trans-Asian Film & Media Studies.” Register here.

February 03, 2021. “Impassioned Speech: Cinema & Sonic Individuation in Colonial India.” Online book talk hosted by the Cinema & Media Studies Colloquium at the University of Pennysylvania.

December 17, 2020. Book discussion with film historian and journalist, Sidharth Bhatia. Asia Society Mumbai. Dec 17. Video recording.

December 3, 2020. Book discussion with Dr. Ranjani Mazumdar (JNU) and Dr. Tejaswini Ganti (NYU). Columbia Global Centers, Mumbai. Video recording.

November 13, 2020. Book discussion with Dr. Gyan Prakash (Princeton), Dr. Neepa Majumdar (Pittsburgh), and Dr. William Elison (UCSB). 10am ET/8.30pm IST. Organized by the South Asia Institute at Columbia. Video recording.

October 23, 2020. Book Panel with Dr. Nitin Govil (USC) and Dr. Jennifer M. Bean (University of Washington). 12pm-2pm EST. Organized by “Sites of Cinema” University Seminars.

October 15, 2020. “Film History as an Ecology of Energy Relations.” Online book talk at the Center for South Asia, Stanford University. 12pm EST, 3pm EDT, 9.30pm IST.

August 25, 2020. “South Asia from Afar” webinar, University of Oxford. Video recording.

April 28, 2020. “Digital Futures and the Revival of Film Histories in Contemporary India,” online panel discussion, Serendipity Arts Festival.

March 4, 2020. “From Dispositif to Ecology: Writing a History of Film Production in Colonial India,” Cinema Studies lecture series, University of Lausanne.

February 27, 2020. “Between Human, Nonhuman, and Woman: An Actress Theorizes Exhaustion,” Institute of Ideas & Imagination, Paris.

November 11, 2019. “Impassioned Speech: Talkie Cinema in Colonial Bombay,” South Asia Institute, Columbia University. Video recording.

November 4, 2019. “Film History as an Ecology of Energy Relations,” Colby College. Series on Energy/Exhaustion.

October 31, 2019. “Labor and Ecological Entanglements in 1930s Cinema,” MacMillan Center, Yale University.

October 11, 2019. “Speculative Futures: Cinema, Cotton, and Contingency in Colonial Bombay,” South Asia Program Seminar Series, Cornell University.

October 25, 2018. "Progressive Media and the Bombay Left: An Untimely Topos," symposium on The Progressive Genealogy: Art and Culture in Modern India, Asia Society. Video recording.