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Design History Society Meeting 2015

I am grateful for the Design History Society Student Conference Bursary Award which gave me the opportunity to attend the Design History Society Conference held this year in San Francisco. My report on my presentation at the conference is on the Design History Society blog here.

UCD Indian Ocean Imaginaries symposium (10/16/15)

The Mellon Research Initiative in “Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds” that I am part of is hosting a symposium tomorrow from 9 – 6pm at 126 Voorhies Hall, UC Davis. Invited speakers include Gaurav Desai, Allen F Roberts, Martha Savaadra, Nidhi Mahajan, May Joseph, Polly Roberts, Ketaki Pant, and Neelima Jeychandran, our Mellon Visiting Professor. TheContinue reading “UCD Indian Ocean Imaginaries symposium (10/16/15)”

Presenting at the Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) Fall Reception 2015

Thanks to the HArCS Dean’s Summer Fellowship this year, I managed to conduct some fieldwork in London and Singapore. I will be presenting a poster titled “Imageable Futures of the Sustainable City” on my summer of research at the DHI Fall Reception, along with my illustrious colleagues from the Cultural Studies Graduate Group. (Many thanksContinue reading “Presenting at the Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) Fall Reception 2015”

The Art of the Archive, ICIS workshop at UC Davis, 21st May 2015

[updated: A link to the CASTAC blog coverage of the event here] I am excited about the prospect of presenting with my colleague and friend, Xan Chacko, the ideas we are engaging with in our respective dissertation projects at The Art of the Archive, an Innovating Communication in Scholarship workshop, held on the 21st of May, 9.30Continue reading “The Art of the Archive, ICIS workshop at UC Davis, 21st May 2015”

Paper Machines

I had the privilege of attending historian Jo Guldi‘s workshop on Paper Machines, a Zotero plug-in that can ‘read’ through scores of online archived texts (as long as they are OCR PDFs), and pull out key trends in word usage and geographical positions from the aggregated data. The plug-in is extremely useful for scholars engagedContinue reading “Paper Machines”

From Jeremy Gilbert’s Stuart Hall obituary on ‘Radical Philosophy’

“How many of the conceptual fads that have excited aspiring young radical intellectuals in recent decades (from Agamben to Žižek) have ended up having any actual political purchase whatsoever? Isn’t the lack of historical consciousness and clear, patient analysis an endemic feature today of activist culture, just as a certain anti-intellectualism was the phenomenon againstContinue reading “From Jeremy Gilbert’s Stuart Hall obituary on ‘Radical Philosophy’”