Talks

Where I've been, and where I'm headed next. This is the most reliable way to actually run into me. Everything else on this site is retrospective. A talk is a real time and a real place.

Upcoming

From Tags to Ontologies
Invited lecture · CHORDS 2026, IIIT Kottayam
15/07/2026
Anvay: A Bengali Topic Modelling Dashboard
Conference paper · ADHO Digital Humanities 2026, Daejeon, South Korea
29/07/2026
Talk details to be announced
Invited lecture · DH Summer School, Christ Lavasa, Pune / Online
05/09/2026
Talk details to be announced
Invited workshop · DH Winter School 2027, IIT Delhi
January 2027

Past

Keynotes & Plenaries

How Digital Scholarly Editions Change the Way We Read
Keynote · Digital Literature and Modern Storytelling, Department of English, S.G.N.D. Khalsa College
April 2026
Messy Data, Meaningful Questions
Plenary · Code Culture and Critique, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Trivandrum
June 2025
Mathematisation of the Arts
Plenary · DHARTI Biennial Conference, IIT Jodhpur
December 2024

Invited Lectures & Institutional Presentations

Procedural Authority and the Politics of Formalisation in Computational Literary Analysis
Invited presentation · Collective Action, Digital Technologies and the Self, ICAS:MP / Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
March 2026
Quantitative Methods and the Making of Literary Corpora
Invited lecture · LITMUS, Lady Shri Ram College
January 2026
The Labour of Quantitative Thinking in Literary Studies
Invited lecture · National Workshop on Digital Methods for Cultural Inquiry: Tools, Theory, and Praxis, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Andhra Pradesh
January 2026
What the Machine Reads
Invited lecture · Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence
November 2025
Distant Reading as Method
Invited lecture · Digital Humanities Workshop, Banaras Hindu University (BHU)
October 2025
What the Machine Reads
Conference paper · Japanese Association for Digital Humanities, Osaka University
September 2025
A Data Model for Performance
Invited lecture · Digital Archiving in Performing Arts: South Asian Context, Learning Labs South Asia Summer School, Presidency University
July 2025
The Challenges of Building a Topic Modelling Application for Bengali
Conference presentation · International Conference on Digital Humanities and AI, IIT-ISM Dhanbad
February 2025
On the Study of Generative (Computational) Art
Invited lecture · Intersections: International Conference on Digital Humanities, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES)
December 2022
On(line) Repositories and Disclosure
Invited paper · CSDS "Science, Technology, Democracy" workshop, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
December 2022
Easter 1916: An Interpretation of Correspondence Networks in Ireland
Conference paper · Cross-Disciplinary Applications of Complex Networks, Shiv Nadar University
March 2018
Serendipitous Moments: Building a Geo-located Mobile Application for the Letters of 1916
Conference paper · ADHO Digital Humanities 2017, Maynooth University, Montreal, Canada
August 2017
Notes from the Transcription Desk: Modes of Engagement Between the Community and the Resource of the Letters of 1916 (with Neale Rooney and Susan Schreibman)
Conference paper · ADHO Digital Humanities 2016, Maynooth University, Kraków, Poland
July 2016
Materiality and Metadata of Digitised Photographs: A Theoretical Inquiry
Conference paper · ADHO Digital Humanities 2016, Maynooth University, Kraków, Poland
July 2016
Readings of a Photograph: Cognition and Access
Conference paper · ADHO Digital Humanities 2014, Trinity College Dublin, Lausanne, Switzerland
July 2014

Panels & Workshops

Correspondence as Networked Data
Workshop instructor · DH Winter School, IIT Delhi
January 2026
From Campus to Corporate: The Future of Industry Integrated Learning
Panel moderator · Industry Academia Summit, Christ University, Delhi NCR
August 2025
DH and AI Futures: Pathways, Possibilities, and Perils
Panel discussant · DHARTI
August 2025
Data Cleaning Workshop
Workshop instructor · IIT Delhi Winter School on Digital Humanities, IIT Delhi
January 2025
Archives and Afterlives: Literary Studies Now
Panel discussant · CSDS, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
February 2021
Data-mining the Semantic Web and Spatially Visualising the Results
Workshop instructor · Workshop with Frank Lynam, funded by the Digital Arts and Humanities Programme, Ireland, Dublin
May 2015
XML, TEI, and Data Visualisation Workshop
Workshop instructor · Workshop with Roman Bleier, at DigiHUBB (The Transylvania Digital Humanities Centre), funded by NeDiMAH, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
April 2015
Data-mining the Semantic Web and Spatially Visualising the Results
Workshop instructor · Workshop funded by Queen's University Belfast and the Digital Arts and Humanities Programme, Ireland, Queen's University Belfast
March 2015