Ritual Performance, Indian Dance, Ethnography, Migration, Cultural Policy, Anthropology of Performing Arts, Area Studies (South Asia)
2018 |
“Conflict between Cultural Perpetuation and Environmental Protection: A Case Study of Ritual Performance in North Malabar, South India.” In Dance Matter Too: Markets, Memories, Identities, New Delhi: Routledge, pp. |
2018 |
“Reluctant Pedagogies: New Media, Dance, and the Indian Diaspora in Singapore” In Kyoko Matsukawa ed. International Workshop Proceedings "Globalization of Indian Performing Arts in New Media Situation: Dynamics of Cultural Gyre", pp.55-65, |
2017 |
“Good Life and Traditional Occupations: Gulf Money, Social Mobility, and ritual Practices in Kerala, South India” 2015 RINDAS International Conference, Rethinking Religion, Ethics and Political Economy in India and Sri Lanka: Critical Perspectives from Japan, pp. 15-25, |
2013 |
“The Evolution of Social Identity through Changing Perceptions of Traditional Performance in Kerala, South India.” In Young Researcher Overseas Visits Program for Vitalizing Brain Circulation: Triangulation Project for the Understanding of Asian and African Areas, International Seminar Program: Succession, Innovation and Transformation of Traditional Culture-Performing Arts and Oral Tradition in the Asia-Pacific Region Final Report, 163-170. Kyoto: Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. |
2021 |
“Challenging New Space and Representational Sound: The New Indian Drum Ensemble in Singapore”, Shiv Nadar University and Music Archive Monash University Online Symposium on Music and Social Affect: Building Genealogies of Music in Asia, Shiv Nadar University: Uttar Pradesh, India (online), March 11, 2021. |
2020 |
“The Lived Body and the Contact Zone at the Teyyam Ritual in Kerala, South India: Sound, Embodiment, and Experience”, Sounds, Bodied and Power: Politics and Poetics of Religious Sound, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore: Singapore, February 28, 2020. |
2019 |
“Tamilnness or Global Indianness?: Evolution of Bharatanatyam and Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in Singapore”, UVPA International Research Symposium - 2019 in Collaboration with ICTM Research Group - Harvard University, the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute: Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 12, 2019. |
2019 |
“Decline in Interest or Emerging New Platform Evolving?: the Transformation of Bharatanatyam among the Indian Diaspora Communities in Singapore”, The 3rd Asian Consortium of South Asian Studies Conference, South Asia in Context: Genealogies and Trajectories, National University of Singapore: Singapore, November 22, 2019. |
2019 |
“The Arts Power on!: the Development of Indian Performing Arts and the Germ of Cultural Policy in the early 1960s in Singapore”, The 48th Annual Conference on South Asia, Session 5 "Post-Development in Contemporary South Asia: Politics of Mediation and Association", the Center for South Asia at University of Wisconsin: Madison, USA, October 19, 2019. |
2019 |
“Identification of Traditional Values in the Performance of the Ramayana amongst the Indian Diaspora in Singapore”, The 45th International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) World Conference, Session: "Contemporary Development of Ramayana Theatre in Southeast Asia", Chulalongkorn University: Bangkok, Thailand, July 13, 2019. |
2018 |
“The Development and Dilemma of Indian Dance in Japan: Narrowness, Purity, and Buddhism”, Conflict and Convergence: Bharatanatyam Culture in Contemporary Asia 2018, National University of Singapore: Singapore, October 13, 2018.
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2018 |
“Performing Ramayana: Contact Zone, Singapore Indian Dancers and their Reflexivity” , The 5th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group On Performing Arts of Southeast Asia, Sabha Museum: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, July 20, 2018.
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2017 |
“Relating to One’s Homeland through Local Deities: Keralite Diasporas and Muthappan Worship in the Gulf”, The 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS10) Chiang Mai University: Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 20, 2017.
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2015 |
“From Unintended Settlement to the (Re)construction of Tradition: A Case Study of Malayalee Migrant Dancer and the Development of Indian Performing Arts under the Umbrella of Multiculturalism in Singapore”, World Dance Alliance (Singapore), Asia-Pacific Dance Bridge 2015: Connectivity through Dance, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts: Singapore, Singapore, October 16, 2015. |