2015

With Esther Pujolràs, “Re-membering the Forgotten Others: South African Indians and the Apartheid Years”, Re-membering the Struggle: South Africa, Apartheid and After – Mémoire des luttes: Afrique du Sud, l’apartheid et après,  Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès, France,  April 17th 2015

“Settling the Score on the Victimisation Trope in the Works of Ronnie Govender” Memory Frictions: Conflict-Negotiation-Politics, Universidad de Zaragoza, May 6th– 8th

with Esther Pujolràs, “Home, Nation and Space in Shamim Sarif’s The World Unseen and Aziz Hassim’s The Lotus People”, 41st Annual Conference of the African Literature Association, University of Bayreuth, Germany, June 3rd – 6th 2015

“Women Sleuths Against Patriarchy in Twenty-first Century Indian Crime Writing”, Captivating Criminality 2: Crime Fiction, Traditions and Transgressions. Bath Spa University 25-27 June 2015

“Narrative Tensions in Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s Life Writing”,  2nd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. 20th-22nd August 2015

“Exploring Indian Ocean Ethnoscapes: the Case of South African Indians”,  Other Spaces: Framing the Study of Literary Cultures of the Global South, University of Tübingen, Germany, 6-8 October 2015

“Indian Ocean Identities in Mauritius and Kenya”,  New Typologies of (E/Im)Migration: Transcultural Spaces 20th Culture and Power International Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 8 – 10 October, 2015

with Esther Pujolràs,”Healing Scars with Words. African Literature as Therapeutic Tool”, International Symposium ‘Life Writing as Empathy: A Symposium on Narrative Emotions’, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, October 15th-17th 2015

2014

“Laying Ghosts To Rest: Aziz Hassim’s Revenge of Kali“, Writing the Rainbow Nation? Examining 20 Years of Post-Apartheid Literature,  University of Regensburg, Germany,  3rd- 4th April 2014

“Aziz Hassim’s Casbah: Community and Survival in the Indian Ocean World”, 40th Annual Conference of the African Literature Association,  University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa,  9th – 13th April 2014

“The Power of Playing White in Renesh Lakhan’s The Puppeteers“, 15th Triennial Conference of EACLALS, University of Innsbruck, Austria, 13th – 18th April 2014

“Nine Moods and a Dam of Emotions: Sohan Roy’s Dam 999”, III International Conference of the AEEII. Oceans, Seas, Rivers: Crossings in Indian Societies and Cultures.  University of Salamanca, 29th – 31st October 2014

with Esther Pujolràs,  “Healing Scars with Words. African Literature as Therapeutic Tool”,  First International Conference on Researching African Literatures,  Pwani University, Kenya,  11th – 13th December, 2014.