Conference Activity - Presented Paper              

"Sustainable Filmy Costumes: The Rising Need of Sustainable Strategies in Bollywood’s Costume Departments,” to be presented at the Costume Society of America Southeast Region Symposium, Virtual, November 18, 2023.

“Unraveling the Threads: Exploring Indian Theatrical Costumes,” to be presented at the 2023 Global Symposium at AppState, November 15, 2023.

"Unveiling the Afterlife of Bollywood Costumes" (part of the "Climate Change: Implications for Dress and the Body" session), presented at the Dress & Body Association annual conference, Virtual, November 4-5, 2023.

"Unraveling the Threads: Exploring Indian Theatrical Costume" (part of the "Indian Culture, Greek Revolution & Masks" panel), presented at the Drexel University/Association of Dress Historians International Zoom Conference, Virtual, October 28, 2023.

"Costume Design in Indian Theatrical Traditions" (part of the "Mapping Literary and Performative Spaces through History" panel), presented at the New England Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (NEAAS 2023), Wellesley College, October 14, 2023. Received 2023 NEAAS Conference Graduate Student Prize.

"Performance of Memories, Markers, and the Moving Asian Body,” presented at The 13th Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2023), Virtual/ Japan, November 2022.

"Costume Designing for a Transgender Character Onscreen in India" (part of the "Visual Representation of Transgender Bodies in Film and Television" panel), presented at The 53rd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2022.

"Distinct Visual Aesthetics for the South Asian Audience" (part of the "Literature and Film of South Asia: Dialogues with the European Canon" roundtable), presented at The 53rd Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2022.

"Costume Designing for a Transgender Character Onscreen in India,” presented at the 8th T&D Graduate Research Symposium, UHM, Virtual, March 2022.

Conference Activity - Upcoming

Under review: “Bhanu Athaiya's Legacy: A Journey Through Her Career in Bollywood Costume Design,” to be presented at Critical Costume 2024, David Copley C. Copley Center for the Study of Costume Design, UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television , 6-9 March 2024.

Conference Reviewer, Moderator, and Organization Support

Organization Support:

TMYS Culture Identity & Ideology - IV, Virtual.

The Center for South Asian Studies Annual Symposium, UHM, 2023, Virtual.

8th Theatre and Dance Graduate Research Symposium, UHM, 2022, Virtual.

Abstract Reviewer:

The 22nd East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, 2023.

Moderator:

Chair: Indian Culture, Greek Revolution & Masks panel, Drexel University/Association of Dress Historians International Zoom Conference, 27 and 28 October 2023, Virtual.Moderator: School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Conference, UHM 2023, In-person. Moderator: The Center for South Asian Studies Annual Symposium, UHM, 2023, Virtual. 8th Theatre and Dance Graduate Research Symposium, UHM, March 2022, Virtual.

Panel: The Power of Data in Public Health and Politics, the Center for South Asian Studies Annual Symposium, UHM, April 2022, Virtual.