In the News
My research on caste and care in WWI was cited in this Independent article on the Agnipath scheme in India:
Upcoming Events
INVITED ROUNDTABLE: At a panel with veteran journalist Polly Toynbee to discuss ‘Decolonising Healthcare in the UK’ at the National Liberals Club, London in October (exact date TBC).
INVITED LECTURE: “Writing Women, Writing War” at Thammasat University, Bangkok, July 16, 2024. Funded by United Nations Gender Equality Campaign and Thammasat University. I will also deliver a workshop on academic publishing for PhD students and colleagues at Thammasat on July 17, 2024 as well as a workshop on postgraduate research on July 18, 2024.
INVITED LECTURE: “Nursing the Lover’s Body or Prescribing the Personal Boundaries of Race” for ‘Love and War: 1914–2024’, Queen’s University Belfast, May 16, 2024.
KEYNOTE: “Colonial Debris, Postcolonial Ephemera” for ‘Researching War through Ephemera’ conference, Northumbria University, April 8, 2024.
Past Events
INVITED TALK: S. Bonnerjee, “Colonial Procedure and Anti-Colonial Rebellion in The Glass Palace: Irony, Mimicry, and Indian Participation in the Second World War” for ‘Words against War: Modern Literature and War’ seminar, University of Regensburg, November 15, 2023.
ROUNDTABLE (Organiser and Chair): ‘Women’s Bodies, Borders and Nation States’ for National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Annual Conference, Baltimore MD, United States, October 26–29, 2023.
PANEL (Organiser): ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’: Anti-Imperial Resistance in the Long Twentieth Century’ for British Association of South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, University of Leeds, April 3–5, 2023.
INVITED TALK: “Cosmopolitanism, Colonialism, and the Wartime Travels of Nurse Ida Smith,” Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings Seminar, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels, October 26, 2022.
PANEL (Organiser): INSIDE AND OUTSIDE NATIONAL BORDERS: WOMEN’S BODIES, WOMEN’S LIVES (Panel): National Women’s Study Association (NWSA), Minneapolis, MN, November 10–13, 2022.
INVITED TALK: “Game and bigger game”: The Settler Soldier, the Non-Human, and the First World War, Séminaire franco-britannique d’histoire, Sorbonne Université, November 17, 2022.
INVITED TALK: The Inaugural Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture for an Emerging Scholar, International Society for First World War Studies, March 3 2022. Livestreamed and uploaded on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=6qPDpiHwzPM&ab_channel=InternationalSocietyforFirstWorldWarStudies
LIFE-WRITING WORKSHOP: 5th May, 2021 (Workshop 2), Durham University and University of Leeds.
THE SECOND BATTLEFIELD: WRITING THE WOUNDED BODY AT WAR: 4th November, 2020 for Medical Humanities Research Seminar, University of Leeds.
DECOLONIAL MEDICAL HUMANITIES: CRITICAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH IN A TIME OF CRISIS (organiser): 26th June, 2020, University of Leeds (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIC)
LEGACIES: INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR FIRST WORLD WAR STUDIES CONFERENCE (co-organiser): 10–13 September, 2019, University of Leeds.
FIRST WORLD WAR: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE (co-organiser): 26–28 June, 2019, Craiglockhart, Edinburgh.
TROUBLESOME MODERNISMS, BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF MODERNIST STUDIES CONFERENCE (Panel Organiser): 20–22 June, 2019, London.
(POST)COLONIAL HEALTH: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES: 20–21 June, 2019, University of Leeds.
AILING EMPIRES: 31 May, 2019, IASH, University of Edinburgh.
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