2025: Course on Digital Religion, Institute for the Study of Religions, Tübingen University
2025: Course on Tantra Across Time, Institute for the Study of Religions, Tübingen University
2025: Course on Religion and Media, Institute for the Study of Religions, Tübingen University
2025: Course on Sonic Ethnography, Institute for the Study of Religions, Tübingen University (open to students of Religion, Anthropology, and Musicology Dep.)
2024: Course on Religious Sounds: Music, Silence and Noises. (open to students of Religion, Anthropology, and Musicology Dep.)
2024: Course on Religion and Society in South Asia Today (co-taught with Dr. Claire Maes, Indology Dep.)
2024: Master Thesis Supervision: Mukul Menon, Internet Remediations of Devotional Temple Music from Kerala. Erasmus Mundus ‘Media Art Cultures’ Master’s program, Krems, Austria.
2023: Course on the Anthropology of Sound, Department of Anthropology.
2023: Course on: Introduction to Bengali language and literature, Department of Linguistics
2022: Guest lecturer for PhD Course in Culture e Civilta’ dell’Asia e dell’Africa, Italian Institute of Oriental Studies.
2019-2021: Guest lecturer at National University of Singapore. Topics: Religion and gender in South Asia; Religion and media; traditional performance in Asia.
2020: Trainer for Methods and ethics of remote ethnography. Part of research project “Religion Going Viral”.
2019: Accompanying field-trip coordinator for NUS Global Classroom project in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
2019: Reading session leader of premodern Bengali Literature. “Middle Bengali Camp”, Morocco, Bab Zouina. Organized by University of Chicago Department of South Asian Literatures.
2018: Guest lecturer at National University of Singapore. Undergraduate course “Performance in Asia”.
2018: Guest lectures on religion, displacement and sound. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Centre for the Study of Social Systems.
2017: Guest lecturer at Südasien-Institut, University of Heidelberg. Topics: Bengali literature; methods for the study of oral literature; the 1947 Partition, migration and music.
2016: Lecturer of Bengali language and literature at the Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Rome La Sapienza (modulo semestrale per corso di laurea triennale).
2013-2014: Lecturer for the module “The study of folklore and oral traditions in South Asia”, open to undergraduate and graduate students of Anthropology and Asian Studies, University of Rome (ciclo di sette seminari).
“Faith in Immunity: Religions, Covid vaccines and Structures of Trust”, 27-28 October 2022. Synchronous + asynchronous online workshop via MSTeams and Zoom. Asia Research Institute, NUS.
“Mantras: Sounds, Materiality and the Body”, a three-day hybrid workshop I co-organized with Finnian Gerety (Brown University), Gudrun Buhnemann (University of Madison-Wisconsin) and Borayin Larios (University of Vienna), 12-14 May 2022. Co-funded by Asia Research Institute, ARI events grant.
“Ways of Listening, Ways of Knowing“ -- Communities of Sound: Caste, Religion, and Displacement Across the Bay of Bengal. St Louis University, 22 October 2021
“Covid-19 in South Asia: Ritual innovations and Religious Responses”. Indiana University, Dhar India Studies Centre distinguished lecture series, 10 March 2021.
Invited discussant for “Decolonizing Archive, Rethinking Canons”, Cambridge University, Discussant for panel on Global Intellectual History (26 March 2021).
Singing Knowledge: Sound, Seed and Siddhi Across the Bay of Bengal”. Colombia University. South Asia Seminar. Organized by Carla Bellamy. 16 November 2020.
“Songs as Method: The Epistemology of Singing in Bengal”. National University of Singapore, South Asia Seminar. 23 October 2020.
"An Avatara for Women? Mimesis and Counter-Narratives in the Bay of Bengal”. Concordia University, Montreal. 4 February 2020.
“Womanhood, Gender Identity and the Sexual Body in Baul Songs”. Concordia University, Montreal. 4 February 2020.
“Sounding the Bay of Bengal: Politics and Poetics of Religious Sound in the Matua Community”. Delivered at the conference Contemporary Caste, Gender and Minority Questions in West Bengal and Bangladesh. St Xavier’s College, Kolkata, 1 November 2019.
“Digital archives of folklore in South Asia: Ethical and practical issues”. Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 5 November 2019.
“Womanhood, Gender Identity and the Sexual Body in Baul Songs”. Concordia University, Montreal. 4 February 2020.
“How does a displaced religion sound like? Notes from research with the Matua community in the Bay of Bengal”. University Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2 October 2019.
“Sectarian scissions, Vaisnava deviancy, and trajectories of oral literature: A virtual dialogue between the Bengali songs of Bhaktivinod Thakur (1838-1914) and Duddu Shah (1841-1911)”. South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. 20 June 2018.
“Oral repertoires of religion and displacement: Performed homeland(s) around the Bay of Bengal” organized by the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 22 February 2018.
“Migrated traditions and oral repertoires: Performed homeland(s) around the Bay of Bengal” organized by the Centre of Advanced Study Programme (Phase III) of the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, 15 February 2018.
“Community and Culture in and Across Asian Borderlands”. With Dr. Erik de Maaker. Grand Opening of the Asian Library, Leiden, 14 September 2017.
Invited discussant for the panel "On the Meanings of Marginalization: Memories, Histories, and Strategies among South Asian Diasporas", for ICAS 10, July 2017 (Chiang Mai, Thailand).
"Bengali songs in the Andaman Islands: Imagined and Performed Homeland(s)". South Asia Institute Colloquium, University of Heidelberg, 7 July 2017.
“The Performance of Homeland and the Oral Traditions of the Bengali Settlers in the Andaman Islands". Lunch lecture series, International Institute for Asian Studies, IIAS, Leiden, 18 April 2017.
“Pregnant males, barren mothers and religious transvestism in Bengali heterodox lineages”. University of Leiden, Netherlands. Invited talk organized by Modern South Asia Seminar. 26 October 2016.
“Territory, loss and identity: a displaced Guru as cultural hero for displaced performers”. Vidyamandira College of Ramakrishna Mission, Kolkata. Invited lecture organized by Prof. Makbul Islam, Dept of Folklore. 8 September 2014.
