Arnab Banerji

“Finding the avant-garde in contemporary Bengali theatre” at Psi#20 (Shanghai, China, 2014)

“Achieving the Political through ‘play’: a case study of Theatre Formation Paribartak” at the South East Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (Durham, NC, 2014)

“The Extra Ordinary: The Story of Bengali Theatre, as told by the people who ‘build’ it” as part of the "Everyday Life: Histories of the Ordinary, Persistent, and Repeated" working group convened by Robin Bernstein and Kyla Wazana at the annual conference of the American Society for Theatre Research (Dallas, TX, 2013).

“Finding Comfort in Silence? The Absence of Partition Narratives from the Contemporary Group Theatre in Kolkata” at the Partition Narratives and South Asian Diaspora pre-conference (Madison, WI, 2013).

“Vasantasena and Aparna in New Brunswick: Towards a Global Performance” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Orlando, FL, 2013).

“Being Playfully Hindu: A study of digitized Hinduism” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Orlando, FL, 2013).

“Ushering Change: The ‘playful’ theatre of Theatre Formation Paribartak, Kolkata” at the Annual conference of the Association for Asian Performance (Orlando, FL, 2013).

“Munni Badnam Hui: The Consumable Female Body in Bollywood Item Numbers” at the International Federation of Theatre Research annual conference (Barcelona, Spain, 2013).

“Kolkata’s Street Corners as Public Sphere” at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society (IACS) annual conference (Singapore, 2013).

Invited presentation, “General Tso Meets Colonel Sanders: The Story of Asian-American Theatre” at the seminar on “Performance as Interpretation in Reading American Drama Texts" organized by The Jadavpur University Society for American Studies (Kolkata, 2012).

Panel Chair, "Cholche, cholbe: A study of the interaction between politics and performance in Asia" at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Washington DC, 2012).

“Hum Aapke Sath Hain – Anna Hazare, India Against Corruption and Bollywood” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Washington DC, 2012).

“Performing culture: An enquiry into the next generation participation in diasporic cultural events” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Washington DC, 2012).

“Farley Richmond – The pioneer in Indian theatre scholarship in the United States” at the Annual conference of the Association for Asian Performance (Washington DC, 2012).

“Making Theatre: The Work of the Designer in Post-Independence Bengali theatre” at the 33rd Mid America Theatre Conference (Chicago, IL, 2012).

“Dancing Bhagvathi: A study of Ritual Female Performance and the Feminine Exclusion” at the University of Georgia Institute of Women’s Studies Student Research Symposium (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2012).

“Rehearsing for a Revolution: The Political Theatre of Utpal Dutt” at the 51st Southeast Conference –Association for Asian Studies meeting (Greenville, SC, 2012).

“Occupying the Public Sphere: The Case of Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and Anna Hazare” at the University of Georgia Department of Philosophy Interdisciplinary Conference on Pop Culture (University of Georgia, Department of Philosophy, Athens, GA, 2011).

“The Kutiyattam Project: A Presentation on the Virtual Koothambalam” at the annual conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Chicago, IL, 2011).

“Material Analysis of Teyyam and the Brahminical Imposition” at the Annual conference of the Association for Asian Performance Emerging Scholars’ Panel (Chicago, IL, 2011).

“Dancing Down the Memory Lane: Teyyam as a Memory Machine” at PSi# 17 (Utrecht, Netherlands, 2011).

Chaired a panel discussion featuring Amal Allana (Chairperson, National School of Drama, New Delhi, India), Richard Schechner (Professor, New York University) and Dr. Mohan Agashe (Prominent Indian stage and screen actor) at the South Asian Theatre Festival held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Newark, NJ, 2011).

“Je Jan Ache Majkhane (One Who Lies at the Centre): Women Performers and Contemporary Bengali Group Theatre” at the Annual Conference of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (Los Angeles, CA, 2010).

“Jab Chod Chale Lucknow Nagari: Making National of a Local” at the Annual Seminar of the Department of English, Calcutta University (Kolkata, India 2009).

“’…from outer shadow to inner shadow’: an Attempt to Understand and Evaluate the Role of Lights in Beckett’s short plays” at the Student Seminar of the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland, 2008).

“Breaking Monologue: The Anxieties of Discourse – Caryl Churchill and the Co-existence of Multiplicities” at the National Student’s Seminar organized by Jadavpur University Department of English (Kolkata, India 2008).