1Presented a Paper titled “Rewriting of History and Culture in
Maria Campbell’s HalfBreed†in the National Seminar on
“Future Directions for The New Millennium: Canada and
India†held at Berhampur University in Dec 2001.
2Presented a Paper titled “Creation of Myth in Maria Campbell’s
HalfBreed†in the III Asia-Pacific and XIX Indian Association for
Canadian studies International Conference on Globalisation and
Consumerism “Canadian Studies in the Context of Asia Pacificâ€
held at University of Mysore, Mysore from 9-13 January 2003.
3Presented a Paper titled “The Impact of Globalisation: A Study
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of Jeannette Armstrong’s Slash†in the National Seminar on
“The Pros and Cons of Globalisation: Canada and India†held
at Berhampur University from 26-29 March 2003.
4Presented a Paper titled “Traditional Sources and New
Techniques of Narration: A Contrastive Study of Mythic
Rituals in Maria Campbell’s HalfBreed and Leslie Marmon
Silko’s Ceremony†in the XXI Indian Association for Canadian
Studies International Conference on “Society, Environment and
Technology: Canada and India†held at Osmania University,
Hyderabad from 24-26 February 2005.
5Presented a Paper titled “Present Past and Absent Future:
Recreating a Lost Identity and Native Fiction†in the Sixth
MELUS-India 2005 International Conference on “Landmarks in
the American Scene: Then and Now†held at Panjab University,
Chandigarh from 28-29 March 2005.
6Presented a Paper titled “Writing to Right? The Myth of Red
Earth in N.Scott Momaday’s The Ancient Child†in the
International Conference on Commonwealth Literature 2005
held at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian
Institute of Technology, Roorkee from 23-25 October 2005.
7Presented a Paper titled “Stimulating Dialogues across Cultures:
Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist and Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
in the wake of 7/7 Britain†in the Seventh MELUS-India and First
MELOW-India 2006 International Conference on “Dialogues
across Cultures: India and U.S.†held at Inter-University Centre
for International Studies, Hyderabad from 5-7 January 2006.
8Presented a Paper titled “Stories are All That We Have: Leslie
Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and the Native American Tradition
of Storytelling†in the USEFI sponsored Seminar on “New
Direction in American Studies†held on 20 July 2006 in the P.G
Department of English, Berhampur University.
9Presented a Paper titled “To Teach or not to Teach: Culture in
the ESL Classroom†in the International Symposium on
“Towards improvements in English Language and Literature
Teaching: Communicating across the Curriculum†held at
D.A.V College, Chandigarh from 22-25 September 2006.
10Presented a Paper titled “Wordplay: The Idea of India in Salman
Rushdie’s Shalimar, the Clown†in the National Seminar on
“Recent Trends in Indian Writing in English†held at the P. G.
Department of English, Khallikote (Autonomous) College,
Berhampur from 9-10 February 2007.
11Presented a Paper titled “We Came Here First: Native
Cosmology in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water†in
the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, New Delhi sponsored
National Seminar on “Identities and Representations: Indo-
Canadian Perspectives†held at Centre for Canadian Studies,
Berhampur University, Berhampur from 23-25 March 2007.
12Presented a Paper titled “The Sacred Feminine: Women as
Healers in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony†in the UGC
sponsored National Seminar on “Treatment of Women in
Contemporary Women Writings in English†held at the P. G.
Department of English, Khallikote (Autonomous) College,
Berhampur from 1-2 March 2008.
13Presented a Paper titled “Family First: Portrayal of the Métis
Family in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed†in the Shastri Indo-
Canadian Institute, New Delhi sponsored National Seminar on
“Indo-Canadian Families: Challenges and opportunities in the
Pluralistic Canadian Society†held at Centre for Canadian
Studies, Berhampur University, Berhampur from 22-23 March
2008.
14Presented a Paper titled “Alcohol, Pink Blouses, and the Prices to
Pay for These: The Neither-Nor People in Leslie Marmon
Silko’s Ceremony†in the MELUS-MELOW International
Conference on Literary Transactions in a Globalized Context:
Multi-ethnicity, Gender, and the Marketplace†held at
Vishwabharati, Shantiniketan on 28-30 November 2008.
15Presented a paper titled “Corporate Communication: An
Essential Tool for Modern Management Practices†in an
International Seminar on Emerging Trends in Corporate
Communication held at Siva Sivani Institute of Management,
Hyderabad on 11-12 February 2009.
16Presented a Paper titled “Living Through Future: Shakespeare in
the Management Classroom†in the UGC-Sponsored National
Seminar on Reconstructing Shakespeare held at Annamalai
University, Chidambaram on 2-3 March 2009.
17Presented a Paper titled “The Punjab of Bollywood vs the Punjab
of Newspapers: Taking Stock of Contemporary Image of
Punjab in Different Media†in the National Seminar on
“Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and
Haryana†held at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla from
27-29 September 2010.
18Presented a Paper titled “The Essence of Being in Viramma’s
Viramma: Life of an Untouchable†in the National Seminar on
Indigenous Rights: India and Canada organized by Centre for
Canadian Studies, Berhampur University, Berhampur from 10-11
January 2014.
19Presented a Paper titled “An AlterNative Perspective —
Reconfiguring Mainstream Media in Thomas King’s Truth
about Stories: A Native Narrative†in the 13th International
MELOW Conference held at University of Jammu, Jammu, India
from 21-23 February 2014.
20Presented a paper titled “Indigenous Humor in Thomas King’s
The Back of the Turtle: an Ecocritical Perspective†in the
Golden Jubilee/UGC International Conference on Re-Thinking
Environment: Literature, Ethics and Praxis held at Berhampur
University, Berhampur from Dec 28-30, 2016.
21Presented a paper titled "Cultural displacement and the Search
for a National Identity through Stories: A Contrastive Study of
Salman Rushdie’s The Enchantress of Florence and Thomas
King’s Green Grass, Running water" at the conference on 'Decentring
English Studies: Studying Literature in the Global South'
held at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from 20-21 January 2017.
22Presented a paper titled “Resistance through Writing: A
Comparative Study of two Marginal Women’s Debut Novels†in
the International Conference on Advances in English Studies,
Women Empowerment, Business, Humanities & Social Sciences
2017 : Dec 28-30, 2017, Carmel College for Women, Nuvem, Goa,
India.
23Presented a Paper titled “The Local/Global Dichotomy and the
Breaking of the Stereotype: A Study of Leslie Marmon Silko’s
Ceremony†in the Second Biennial International Conference on
Race: Examining Race in the 21st Century at Monmouth
University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA held from 11-
13 November 2010.
24Presented a Paper titled “In Search of the Self: The Pangs of
Identity in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children†in the
International Conference on “Sites of Memory, Anamnesis and
Representation of Identity (SMARI 2011)†at Paris IV Sorbonne
University held from 21-23 September 2011.
25Presented a Paper titled “Mapping the World: Thomas King’s
Green Grass, Running Water as a Cartographic Novel†in the 4th
International Conference on “Language and Communication
(ICLC2012) †held at National Institute of Development
Administration, Bangkok, Thailand from 13-14 December 2012.
26Presented a Paper titled “The Marginal Female body in the
Public Sphere: Mary Crow Dog’s Lakota Woman and Bama’s
Karukku†in the International Conference LLL 2013 held by ICRD
at the Grand Oriental Hotel Colombo, Sri Lanka from 2-3
December 2013.
27Presented a paper titled “Contested Terrains: Thomas King’s
Green Grass, Running Water†in the Contested Property Claims
Conference at Aarhus University, Denmark from 10-11 December
2015.
28Presented a paper titled “Memory, Empathy and Narrative in
Meena Kandasamy’s The Gypsy Goddess†in the “East/West:
Ruptures and Convergences International Conference†held at
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University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 1-2 December
2016.
29Presented a paper titled “Transcultural Memory as a Leitmotif
in Jennette Armstrong’s Whispering in the Shadows†in the
Memory Studies Association Conference held from 25-28 June
2019 at Complutanese University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
