Talks

2021 - Roots and Changes: Gujarati Influences - Panel discussion, South Asian Heritage Month (July 23)

2021 -  Museums and Collections in the Pandemic and Beyond - Professional Development Day, Association for Art History (May 28)

2021 - From the mountains to the islands: collecting South Asia at the British Museum - French National Institute of Art History (May 20)

2021 - Museum directors’ roundtable: museums without walls. Panel discussion with Luke Syson, Nicholas Cullinan & Sushma Jansari. Chaired by Nicola Kalinsky - British School at Rome (May 18)

2021 - Audio described tour South Asia Collection January 2021 - British Museum, online (January 13)

2020 - Historical narratives of the Mauryan period - Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS (November 20)

2020 - Interview - MA course ‘The Museum: Critical Perspectives’ - UCL (October 5)

2020 - What is curating? - Roundtable discussion for MA Curating Collections and Heritage - Brighton University (September 30)

2020 - Experimenting with Museums’ Collection Histories - Keynote - 2020 - Keynote Lecture, The Society for the History of Collecting (September 21) - Cancelled because of Covid-19 and Furlough

2020 - South Asia(ns) and Decolonising the Dutch Museum - Workshop in collaboration with UCL/BM/Nationaal Museum Van Wereldculturen held at Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (February 21)

2020 - Archive After Hours: Sex, Romance, Erotica - HistFest Panel discussion alongside EL James & Dr Kate Lister - Museum of London (February 13)

2019 - Stories about Love. The Kama Sutra: Challenging the Stereotype - Museum of Fine Art, Houston (September 26)

2019 - Putting South Asia on Display - Rice University, Houston (September 25)

2019 - From shells to ivory: Hugh Nevill’s colonial collecting in Sri Lanka - IoA History of Archaeology Research Network, UCL (May 1)

2019 - Hugh Nevill: Colonial Collecting in Sri Lanka - Indian Art Circle, SOAS (March 6)

2019 -  Collecting Histories: Ancient South Asia - Gallery Talk, British Museum (March 8)

2019 - Panel discussion for UCL History Department careers event - UCL (January 22) 

2019 - Curating the Gandhara displays at the British Museum - ‘Collecting and Curating Buddhist Art in a Museum’ module @SOAS (January 16) 

2018 - Curating Empire - University of Lincoln (November 27th)

2018 - Highlights of ancient South Asia in the Hotung Gallery - Gallery Talk, British Museum (November 6)

2018 - Collecting histories and imperial critique - UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies / South Asia Institute - Putting South Asia on Display, British Museum (September 28)

2018How do you engage with ‘troubling’ histories in your work or collections? - V&A Research Institute Symposium - Troubling Objects: interrogating collecting and collections, V&A (September 11)

2018 - Rai Bahadur Hira Lal’s Gond Collection at the British Museum - ECSAS European Conference on South Asian Studies, Paris (July 26)

2018 - The Sophytes coins: from the Punjab to Bactria… and back again - EASAA European Association for South Asian Art and Archaeology conference, Naples (July 4)

2018 - Sophytes: Reappraisal of an enigmatic ruler and the Sophytes coins - Royal Numismatic Society (May 22)