Talks, Panels and Lectures
‘Almaty-Colombo, The parallel histories of Central Asia and South Asia’, Art Dubai, March 2024
‘Research as Play’ - Afrah Shafiq in conversation with Dr Padmini Ray Murray, Experimenter Gallery, Hindustan Road, Kolkata, Feb 2024
DiGRA, “Your Game Is A Game If You Say So” - a 45 minute zoom lecture for Digital Games Research Association India.
Online presentation of Afrah Shafiq’s video game Nobody Knows for Certain Garage, July, 2023
“Reframing Histories Through Games”, Reverse Forward, Goethe-Institut New Delhi, Delhi, 2023
‘Narratives Retold: Emergence and Literary Transition into the Realm of Graphic Narratives,’ Raleigh Literary Society, Department of English, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Beyond Theory: Mapping Feminist Practices in the Contemporary, Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, 2023
Digital Literatures and Literatures in The Digital, Aligarh Muslim University, Online, 2022
The Kitchen Studio, Museum of Art and Photography, 2021
Milli Sessions: International Archives Week 2021, Artists and Archives, Online, 2021
Art x Technology: Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, Online, 2021
Mission Possible: WOMEN IN STEM, Godrej Cultural Centre and Point Of View, Online, 2020
How is a story simultaneously playful and dangerous? Projection Room: Asia Art Archive in India, online, 2020
The Past Reinterpreted, Museum of Goa, Goa, 2019
Making from Archives: Research as an Artistic Playground, Univeristy of Texas, Austin, 2019
Artist talk, Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, 2019
Updating Memory: a conference on digital cultural heritage, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, 2018
remixing, reinterpreting and reimagining the archive, Liverpool Biennial, Bluecoat Liverpool, 2018
‘Old Routes, New Journeys’, A conference on Archives and Museums, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi, 2018
IFA-CSSSC ‘Accessing the Archive’ by Hitesranjan Sanyal Memorial Archives - Three exploratory projects by Afrah Shafiq, Sujaan Mukherjee and Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Calcutta, 2016
