Shanker, Priyadarshini
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Presentation
ContemporaryContemporary Configurations of Black and Brown Motherhood: Disrupting the Maternal Melodrama ,
SCMS 2025 Annual Conference 2025-04-01
Charulata: A Woman’s Gaze ,
An Eye for the World: The Cinema of Satyajit Ray, Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt 2024-06-01
Mapping the networks of Gendered Performance, Labor and Mobility ,
India as Method: Challenges and Perspectives in the Study of Media and Politics in Contemporary South Asia, Goethe University 2024-06-01
Gendered Transformations via Streaming: Female Stardom through an Anti-Ageist Lens ,
SCMS 2024 Annual Conference 2024-03-01
Teaching Caste via Contemporary Dalit-centric Indian Film and Media ,
ACSA 2023 Annual Conference 2023-10-01
Decentering the auteur via considerations of gender and labor: A New Historiography of the Indian New Wave ,
SCMS 2023 Annual Conference 2023-04-01
Gender and Indian Cinema ,
Women on Wednesday Series 2023-04-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Ebony Blanding ,
Racial Justice Learning Community Film Series 2023-04-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Jacqueline Olive, ALWAYS IN SEASON ,
Racial Justice Learning Community Film Series 2023-04-01
Conversation with Dr. Usha Iyer, “A Pedagogy of Reparations: Notes towards Repairing the Film and Media Studies Curriculum ,
Guest Speaker Series 2022-11-01
Conversation with Sean Baker ,
Entrepreneurs in the Industry 2022-10-01
Madhabi Mukherjee Performs the Modern: Satyajit Ray’s Wondrous Woman ,
Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder, UCSB 2022-10-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Maya Cueva, ON THE DIVIDE ,
IFML Meet the Filmmaker Series 2022-10-01
Performing the Indian New Wave: Analyzing Smita Patil’s Gendered Labor ,
ACLA 2022 Annual Conference 2022-06-01
Gendered Transformations via Digital Distribution ,
UNC English and Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2022-03-01
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Film Studies and Production: The Importance of DEI in Film Education ,
Visions 10 Film Festival & Conference 2021-02-01
The Alchemy of Shah Rukh Khan’s Star Body: Modes and Mobilities ,
SCMS 2019 Annual Conference 2019-03-01
Post-screening conversation with film scholar Shekhar Deshpande, CITIES OF SLEEP ,
Cinema Playhouse Film Screening Series, MoMI 2019-01-01
Post-screening conversation with film scholar/curator Radhika Subramaniam, TALES FROM PLANET KOLKATA; I AM MICRO; EVENTS IN A CLOUD CHAMBER ,
Cinema Playhouse Film Screening Series, MoMI 2019-01-01
Post-screening conversation with scholar Parag Amladi, THE CINEMA TRAVELLERS ,
Cinema Playhouse Film Screening Series, MoMI 2018-12-01
Conversation with photographer Nandita Raman ,
Do Not Forget Me, Sepia EYE Gallery 2018-11-01
The Myth of SRK’s Stardom: Demystification or Re-mystification? ,
ACLA 2018 Annual Conference 2018-03-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Bobby Sarma Baruah, THE GOLDEN WING ,
India Kaleidoscope Film Festival (IKFF) 2017 2017-11-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Prakash Kunte, CYCLE ,
Indian Kaleidoscope Film Festival (IKFF) 2017 2017-11-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmakers Anushka Meenakshi and Iswar Srikumar, UP, DOWN, and SIDEWAYS ,
India Kaleidoscope Film Festival (IKFF) 2017 2017-11-01
Chaitanya Tamhane’s COURT: A Brave, New Bombay Cinema ,
SCMS 2017 Annual Conference 2017-03-01
Post-screening conversation with filmmaker Mangesh Joshi, LATHE JOSHI ,
India Kaleidoscope Film Festival (IKFF) 2016 2016-12-01
Why Study Shah Rukh Khan’s Film Acting? The Cultural Politics of SRK’s Performances in Karan Johar’s cinema ,
SCMS 2016 Annual Conference 2016-03-01
Manufacturing Female Identities in Nisha Pahuja’s THE WORLD BEFORE HER ,
Visible Evidence 21 Conference 2014-12-01
The Last Hunger Season (Roger Thurow): Film Preview and Panel Discussion ,
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives, UIUC 2013-11-01
Cinephile Filmmakers, Multiplexes, and Corporatization: The Rise of a ‘Counter-Bollywood’ Cinephilia in Contemporary Bombay Cinema ,
SCMS 2012 Annual Conference 2012-03-01
Waris Hussein’s SIXTH HAPPINESS (1997, UK) ,
Cabaret Cinema, Rubin Museum 2011-12-01
Gender in Bollywood ,
OUT in the Himalayas, Rubin Museum 2011-11-01
Performance and Display: A Rockumentary Called "The Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan" ,
Visible Evidence 18 Conference 2011-08-01
The Cinephiliac Film Culture in Contemporary Bombay Cinema ,
What's New? The Changing Face of Indian Cinema: Contemporary and Historical Contexts Conference, Univ of Westminster 2011-07-01
Star Gazing via Documentary: Shah Rukh Khan’s Stardom in The Inner/Outer World of Shah Rukh Khan ,
SRK and Global Bollywood Conference, Univ of Vienna 2010-10-01
Documentary as “Transnational Travelogue:” The Transnational Movement of Stardom ,
Cinema South Asia Conference, U Penn 2010-04-01
Hindi Cinema meets Hitchcock: WOH KAUN THI as a Case-Study ,
ACLA 2009 Annual Conference 2009-03-01
Research
Research Overview
South Asian Film and Media, South Asian Diasporic Public Culture, Intersectional Feminist Media Histories, Gender and Sexuality, Class and Caste, Creative Performance and Labor, Film and Media History and Historiography, Transnational, Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches, Social Justice Film and Media Pedagogy.
Teaching
Teaching Overview
History of Indian Cinemas, Bollywood, New Bombay Cinema, History of South Asian Women Filmmakers, History of Black Women Filmmakers, Contemporary Cinefeminisms, Introduction to Film Studies, Film Historiography, Cinephilia.
