Publications

M S, Sree Lekshmi, and Aratrika Das. "Mental healthcare spaces, ambivalence of caregiving, and Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients." Literature Compass, e12765, vol. 21, no. 7-9, Jul. 2024. Read More

M S, Sree Lekshmi, and Aratrika Das. “Navigating the Burden of Care.” Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), vol. 59, no. 10, Mar. 2024. Read More

M S, Sree Lekshmi, and Aratrika Das. “Mental Health Memoirs in the Indian Medical Humanities Classroom.” The Polyphony, 29 Feb. 2024. Read More

Tiwari, Nimisha, and Aratrika Das. “Patient’s Consent and Autonomy in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol. 15, no. 4, Dec. 2023. Read More

Dey, Shrishti, et al. “Munnabhai MBBS (2003) and the Germination of Medical Humanities in India.” The Polyphony, 31 Oct. 2023. Read More



Conferences and Workshops

Ananya Chatterjee attended an online workshop titled “Modern Health and the State”, organised by The National Archives, U.K, on May 02, 2024.

Abhay Bangari’s application has been accepted for the Summer Institute of the School of Materialist Research in Olympiada, Greece, September 15-22, 2024.

Sree Lekshmi M S’s application has been accepted for the Medical Humanities International Summer School in Vadstena, Sweden, September 9-11, 2024, Bursaries are provided by the Wellcome-funded Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) at Durham University and are administered by the Institute for Medical Humanities at Durham University.

Sree Lekshmi M S’s abstract “Remembering as Violence and Repair: Trauma, Memory, and Imagination in Indian Memoirs of Psychiatric Patients” has been accepted for presentation in the twelfth Mnemonics summer school hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and its Working Group in Memory Studies from July 9-11, 2024.

Sree Lekshmi M S presented a paper titled “Story-ing of Bipolar Disorder: Metaphors of socio- emotional Health in Indian Memoirs of Psychiatric Patients.” at the 2024 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, held at Creighton University Health Sciences Campus from April 10 - 13, 2024.

Shrishti Dey presented a paper titled “Spaces as Breeding Ground of Human Connection” at the 2024 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, held at Creighton University Health Sciences Campus from April 10 - 13, 2024.

Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper titled “The Socio-Parasite in Room 000: Narratives of the Bombay Plague (2015)” at the International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science, held at the University of Birmingham, U.K., on April 10, 2024.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper titled “Intractable Waters: Examining Dams and Cartography in River of Stories (1994)”, organized by stsing e.V., Tu Dresden, Germany, on March 20, 2024.

Ananya Chatterjee presented a paper titled “Lakshmibai Tilak’s Smritichitre (2017): Postmemory Through An Autobiography” at the 5th Postmemory and the Contemporary World: International Interdisciplinary Conference, held in Gdansk, Poland, on February 23, 2024.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper titled “Decolonizing Growth: Sustainable Alternatives of Affect and Care in Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019)”, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Patna, and School of Liberal Arts, Bennett University with University of Toronto, University of Northampton, Aarhus University and University of York on February 25, 2024.

Anandita Saraswat presented a paper titled “Colonial Legacy of Climate Crisis: Exploring Indigenous ecologies in Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean (2012)”, organized by the Centre of Australian Studies, Bankura University on February 07, 2024.

Shrishti Dey, Sree Lekshmi MS, Ananya Chatterjee and Anandita Saraswat attended a One Week Online Training Programme titled “Reading and Researching the Literature of Crisis”, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Trichy, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Vulnerability Studies, University of Hyderabad from January 22-28, 2024.

Shrishti Dey, Sree Lekshmi M S, Ananya Chatterjee and Anandita Saraswat attended a One Week intensive, in-person workshop on “Research Methodology and Publication”, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Kharagpur on December 04-10, 2023.

Nimisha Tiwari presented a paper, “Mental Illness and Dislocation of Geographical Spaces in Jerry Pinto’s Em and the Big Hoom.” (which is now accepted to be published as a book chapter) at the ICSSR-sponsored National Conference, Third Young Graduate Meet at IIT Mandi from October 10-12, 2023.

Sree Lekshmi M S presented a paper titled “Spaces of care and caregiving: Insights from Indian memoirs of psychiatric patients” at the ICSSR-sponsored National Conference organized by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Mandi from October 10-12, 2023.

Dr. Aratrika Das organised a series of five lectures by eminent speakers under the Critical Thinking and Writing Lab IIT Indore, with the support of JP Narayan Center of Excellence in the Humanities between September- November, 2023.