June 4, 2021, 7:30-10:30 pm
Keynote Address : Pankaj Sekhsaria, Associate Professor, Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas (CTARA) & Associate Faculty, Centre for Policy Studies (CPS), IIT-Bombay.
“At the tri-junction of fragility and vulnerability: The Andaman and Nicobar story”
1st Panel – Post-Anthropocentrism
| Name of the Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| Soumili Das | The influence of Gandhi’s stand on the Harijan Question in Gandhi’s environmental doctrines: a Posthumanist reading |
| Ishtiaque Ahmed Levin | Decolonizing the Anthropocene: Perspectives from South Asia |
| Chitrangada Deb | Indra’s Web and the Return to the Posthuman |
| Trishala Dutta | The Things We Leave Behind: Thinking Through The Body and Its Discards |
June 5, 2021, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Keynote Address : Arka Chattopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT, Gandhinagar.
“Can the State be Posthuman?”
2nd Panel – Nation-State and Neoliberalism
| Name of the Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| Sukanya Maity | Posthumanist Interpretations of Surveillance through the Introduction of Multiple Choice Questions and the Need to Fit in |
| Debarshi Arathdar and Amit Mandal | Tracing the ontic of Singularity: from Brahman to Big Brother |
| Subhadeep Paul | Bio-Denials and the Billboard Religious Imaginary: Posthuman Defeatism in Present-day India |
| Nisarga Bhattacharjee and Ananya Chatterjee | Cyber-Community Formation through Pokémon Go and the Question of Posthuman Private Spaces in India |
June 5, 2021, 7.30PM-10.00PM
Keynote Address: Anirban Das, Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Title – TBA
3rd Panel – Alternative Humans
| Name of the Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| Nabanita Karanjai | Posthumanist Strategies of Storytelling: “Metaphoric Connections” in A.K. Ramanujan’s A Flowering Tree |
| Mahasweta Sikdar | Almost Humans: A posthuman study of the creatures in the short stories of Satyajit Ray |
| Malgorzata Kowalcze | Posthuman Magical Corporeality in Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” |
| Souvik Kar | The Sacrilegious Goddess: Giti Chandra’s “The Goddess Project” and the intersection of Postcolonial and Feminist Posthumanism |
June 11, 2021, 7.00 – 10.00 pm
Keynote Address : Anindya Sinha, Professor and Head, Academics, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)
“Being Macaque: Nonhuman Ethnographies of Urban India”
4th Panel – Animal Studies
| Name of the Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| S. Vignesh | Facing the Animal: Transcendent Pain and Immanent Grace |
| Susan Haris | The Posthumanist Cow: Decolonizing the ideological and the radical |
| Sriram Natarajan | Sacred Cows: The Fleshy Materiality of Religious Symbolism |
June 13, 2021, 9.30 am – 12.00 pm
Keynote Address : Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University.
“Yoga in a Post-humanist Era”
5th Panel – Yoga and Tantra
| Name of the Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| Shubham Dutta | The Abject Body and the Eternal Consciousness: the Human and the Non-Human Interface in Sri Aurobindo’s Karakahini |
| Alicia K. Gonzales | The New Nature: Perfecting Ecology Through the Integral Yoga of the Posthuman |
| Asijit Datta | The Posthuman in the Burial Ground: Unraveling the Headless and the Crematorial Kali |
| Jonathan Kay | Becoming-Raga: North Indian Raga Music as a Technology of Integral Posthuman Becoming |
June 13, 2021, 7.30PM-10.00PM
Keynote Address : Ritu Sen Chaudhuri, Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, West Bengal State University
“Some Observations on Feminist Post-Humanism”
6th Panel – Queer Subjects
| Name of the Presenter | Title of the Paper |
| Abhishek Vikas Lakkad | Queer Terror! Techno-science and the Heteronormative Nation in Iru Mugan |
| Jaya Sarkar | Indian Supercrip Cyborg: Deconstructing Normativity through Feminist Posthumanism |