Who Speaks and Acts?

Talks

Individual Paper Presentations
  • “Queer Making,” A Research-Creation Episteme? Practice-based Research and Institutional Critique, Trent University, October 2023
  • “Biographical Critiques as Critical Feminist DH Pedagogy” with Anne Cong-Huyen, Aditi Bhat, Gayatri Shanbhag, and M. Nithya Kirti, Global DH Symposium, Michigan State University, March 2023.
  • “Care Matters and Justice Dreams: Design Studio Framework, Works, and Insights for Anti-colonial Digital Humanities Praxis” with Sai Vidyasri Giridharan and Shamanth Joshi, Critical Digital Humanities International Conference, CDHI, Digital Humanities Network, University of Toronto, October 2022
  • “Defining the Transnational through Anti-colonial Digital Humanities Pedagogy” with Ashley Caranto Morford and Arun Jacob, DHARTI, February 2022 and Global DH Symposium, Michigan State University, March 2022 
  • “Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Pedagogy as Care Work” with Ashley Caranto Morford and Arun Jacob, Making the Net Work, The Canadian Society of Digital Humanities/La Société Canadienne des Humanités Numériques (CSDH/SCHN), June 2021
  • “Framing Justice, Framing Survival: Questions of Safety in Design Pedagogies,” Just Environments: Transdisciplinary Border Crossings, Environmental Design Research Association 52 Detroit, May 2021
  • “Queer Disclosures, Queer Refusals: Notes on Survival Praxis in Architecture Academia,” Gender and Academic Leadership in Architecture in India, Research Symposium, Avani Institute of Design, Calicut, March 2020
  • “Digital Humanities Pedagogy for Whom?” DHARTI Twitter Conference 2020, Digital Humanities Alliance for Research, Teaching Innovations, India, January 2019
  • “Studio as Critique, Collectivity, and Connection: Caring for Infrastructural Lives in Vizhinjam, Kerala” with Nimisha Hakkim, and students: Ankitha Arun, and Nirupama KS, Beyond the Given: What? Organizing for Critical Pedagogy, Practice, and Institution Building in Architecture, Connected Collaborations Meeting, Avani Institute of Design, Calicut, September 2019
  • “Pedagogies of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial Critiques and Transnational Collaborations within #OurDhIs Organizing” with Ashley Caranto Morford (University of Toronto) and Arun Jacob (McMaster University), Global DH Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 2019
  • “Practicing Digital Pedagogy Librarianship at U-M: Critical Feminist Engagements” with Anne Cong-Huyen, Digital What? Building Digital Research and Making Communities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2018
  • “The Plot Beneath the Garden: Engaging the Community, Informing an Archive” with Natosha Tallman and Zoe Kaufman, UM3Detroit Conference, University of Michigan, Dearborn, May 2018 (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpSRwedXScA)
  • “Configuring Space, Configuring Expectations: Lucien Kroll and the Participatory Design of La Mémé, Brussels,” Streitsache: Architecture as Matter of Contention, 2nd Candide: Journal of Architectural Knowledge Conference, RWTH Aachen, Germany, January 2015
  • “Seeking Participation, Seeking Change: Lucien Kroll and the Architecture of La Mémé, Brussels,” Environmental Design Research Association 45, New Orleans, LA, May 2014
  • “Human Factors and Social Research: Discussing Multiple Understandings of Social Space,” Environmental Design Research Association 44 Providence, RI, May 2013
  • “Locating softness in the program-oriented architecture of Bernard Tschumi,” Environmental Design Research Association 43, Seattle, WA, May 2012
  • “Social Space, Spatial Practice,” Environmental Design Research Association 42, Chicago, IL, May 2011
  • “Outlining the Relationship between Space and Social Agency in Architecture,” Michigan Social Theory Conference, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2010
  • “Ecology as Lived: An Inquiry into the role and meaning of lived space in architectural design,” Theory Forum ’09: Sheffield School of Architecture, Sheffield, UK, November 2009
  • “Between the ideal and real: An inquiry into definitions of space in the works of architect-theorist, Bernard Tschumi, social-theorist, Henri Lefebvre, and spatial-theorist, Bill Hillier,” 5th Annual Research Student Symposium – Architectural Humanities Research Association (UK), Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, December 2008
  • “Spatio-Functional Analysis of an Indian Colonial Imprint, Calcutta: Core and the Center,” Conference Poster, ACSA 96th Meeting: Seeking the City: Visionaries on the Margins, Houston, TX, March 2008
Conference Organization and Presentation
  • Conference co-convenor and presenter, “Gender and Academic Leadership in Architecture in India” with Madhavi Desai (CEPT) and Anuradha Chatterjee (Avani Institute of Design), Calicut, March 2020
  • Conference co-convenor and presenter, “Beyond the Given: What? Organizing for Critical Pedagogy, Practice, and Institution Building in Architecture,” Connected Collaborations Meeting with Anuradha Chatterjee (Avani Institute of Design) and partners from SEA, Mumbai, C.A.R.E., Trichy, and WCFA, Mysore, September 2019
Workshop Design and Lead
  • “Introduction to Anti-colonial Digital Humanities Virtual Workshop” with Ashley Caranto Morford and Arun Jacob, Faculty Development Program, Office of the Provost, Columbia College, May 2022
  • “Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Practicing Anti-Colonial DH Pedagogy and Research” with Ashley Caranto Morford and Arun Jacob (University of Toronto), DH2020 Ottawa, June 2020, 2021
  • “Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Anti-Colonial DH Methods and Praxis” with Ashley Caranto Morford (University of Toronto) and Arun Jacob (McMaster University), DHSI Victoria, BC, June 2019
  • “Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed: Reprogramming Wikipedia to Decolonize Classroom Learning” with Ashley Caranto Morford (University of Toronto) and Arun Jacob (McMaster University), HASTAC Conference: Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education,” Vancouver, BC, May 2019
  • “Practicing Digital Pedagogy Librarianship: Building Critical and Queer Feminist Communities” with Anne Cong-Huyen, Critical Librarianship and Pedagogy Symposium, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November 2018 (archived in the University of Arizona repository).
  • “Organizing Against Violence: Community-Engaged Pedagogies and Liberatory Futures” with Mallika Bose, 2018 Imagining America National Conference, Chicago, IL, October 2018
Roundtable Organization and Participation
  • “The Anti-Colonial DH School,” Critical Making and Social Justice, HASTAC 2023, Pratt Institute, NYC; Participants: Anne Cong-Huyen, Kush Patel; Ashley Caranto Morford, Arun Jacob, Latoya Lee, Michelle Lee Brown, Palashi Vaghela, June 2023 
  • “Digital Threads: Anti-colonial Storytelling and Community Building Through Twine,” DH Unbound 2022 (Online); Participants: Natalia Toronchuk (University of Toronto), Zeinab Farokhi (University of Toronto), Anna Maria Kalinowski (University of Toronto), Arun Jacob (University of Toronto), Ashley Caranto Morford (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), Kush Patel (Srishti Manipal Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education) May 2022
  • “Precarious Labor and Radical Care in Digital and Public Humanities,” 2019 HASTAC Conference: Decolonizing Technologies, Reprogramming Education,” Vancouver, BC; Participants: Anne Cong-Huyen (University of Michigan), Nicola Andrews (NC State University), Dhanashree Thorat (University of Kansas), Kush Patel (University of Michigan), May 2019
  • “Re-Envisioning Graduate Education for Public Work Inside and Outside the University,” 2016 Imagining America National Conference, Milwaukee, WI; Participants: John Saltmarsh (New England Resource Center for Higher Education, NERCHE), Malcolm Tariq (U-M English Language & Literature), Kush Patel (U-M Architecture), October 2016
  • “Public Scholarship and Graduate Education: Strengthening Connections, Delineating Futures,” 2015 Imagining America National Conference, Baltimore, MD; Participants: Matthew Countryman, Laura Schram, Kush Patel (University of Michigan); Bruce Burgett, Miriam Bartha, Monica De La Torre (University of Washington), October 2015
Panel Organization and Participation
  • “Inclusive Digital Pedagogy: Theory and Praxis” with Katherine Walden, Anelise Hanson Shrout, Lisa Tagliaferri, Anne Cong-Huyen, Simon Appleford, Rebekah Walker, Danica Savonick, Tiffany Salter, and Joe Bauer, The Association of Computers and the Humanities (ACH), Pittsburgh, PA, July 2019
  • “En-Compassing Latitudes: Methodologies, Pedagogies, and Trajectories of Global DH” with Anne Cong-Huyen (University of Michigan), Viola Lasmana (University of Southern California), Global DH Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, March 2019
  • “Nurturing Citizen Scholarship: Civic Education and Digital Learning in the Neoliberal University” with Brandon Locke (Michigan State University), kynita stringer-stanback (University of California-Santa Barbara), Chelsea Heinbach (University of Nevada), and Rikk Mulligan (Carnegie Mellon University), DLF 2018 Forum, Las Vegas, October 2018
  • “Turning to PAGE,” Closing Plenary Session on Intergenerational Justice: Community Engaged Teaching and Learning from the Central Valley to the National IA Network, 2017 Imagining America National Conference, UC-Davis, CA, October 2017
  • Session chair, “Exploring Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks of Environmental Design Research for Advancing Social Change,” Environmental Design Research Association 45 New Orleans, LA; Speakers: David Seamon, Julia Robinson, Kush Patel, May 2014
  • Session chair, “Enriching Environmental Design Research,” Environmental Design Research Association 44 Providence, RI; Speakers: David Seamon, Linda N. Groat, Kush Patel, May 2013
  • Session chair, “Hard Space, Soft Space Architectures of Appropriation,” Environmental Design Research Association 43, Seattle, WA; Speakers: Karen Franck, Peter Aeschbacher, Kush Patel, June 20122011
  • Session chair, “Space, Everyday Life, and Architectures of Control,” Environmental Design Research Association 42, Chicago, IL; Speakers: Peter Aeschbacher, Aleksandar Vujkov, Kush Patel, May 2011
Invited Talks
  • “Care Work as Method, Pedagogy, and Praxis,” To Experiment, In The Present: School of Environment and Architecture (SEA) Mumbai Symposium, November 2023
  • Respondent, A Collective Reading on Care by Shveta Sarda and students, School of Environment and Architecture (SEA), Mumbai, September 2023 
  • “Queer Scaffolds,” University Arts London (UAL) FUEL4Design: Future Education and Literacy for Designers (convened by Betti Marenko, Silke Lange, Pras Gunasekera), June 2022
  • “Freirian Futurities: Notes on Critical Pedagogy and Anti-colonial Digital Humanities,” Srishti Colloquium Season 5, November 2021
  • “Caregiving as Method,” Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Panel and Workshop organized by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, and co-presented with Jay Cephas, Lilian Chee, Elis Mendoza, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Itohan Osayimwese, Peg Rawes, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, and Delia Wendel, September 2021
  • “Becoming Precarious: Critiques and Positionings in Public Scholarship and the Digital Humanities,” Architecture Doctoral Studies, The Taubman College, University of Michigan, October 2020
  • “Learning Through Archives,” International Archives Week 2020, Milli Consortium, India, June 2020
  • “Vanishing Identities In and From Public Spaces: Outlining Possible Sites of Transformational Politics,” Kerala Literature Festival, Calicut, January 2020
  • “Materialities of Resistance: Closing Remarks,” Radical City: Second Conference on Research in Art, Design, and Culture, Srishti Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bangalore, December 2019
  • Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Career Diversity Workshop, Chicago, July 2019 (declined)
  • “Practitioners Speak: Working for Social Justice Inside and Outside Academia,” Institute for Social Change Panel Discussion and Practitioner Roundtable, Rackham Program in Public Scholarship, University of Michigan; Presenters: Natalie Holbrook, Tracy Hall, Brenda Tindal, Kush Patel, May 2018
  • “Critical Pedagogy,” Brownbag Discussion, Instructor College, University of Michigan Library; Presenters: Maura Seale, Anne Cong-Huyen, Meredith Kahn, Kush Patel, May 2018
  • “Education and Teaching in Diverse Settings,” PhD Career Conference Panel Discussion, Rackham Graduate School and University Career Center, University of Michigan; Panelists: Neeraja Aravamudan, Karishma Collette, Tonya Matthews, Kush Patel, February 2018
  • “Turning to PAGE,” Closing Plenary Dialogue on “Intergenerational Justice: Community Engaged Teaching and Learning from the Central Valley to the National IA Network,” Imagining America National Conference, UC-Davis, October 2017
  • “Scholarship, Pedagogy, and Public Humanities Programming,” Guest Lecture in Alternative Practices, Instructor: Linda N. Groat, The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 2016
  • “History of Public Scholarship at the University of Michigan,” Moderated panel discussion (with Amanda Healy), celebrating the role and importance of public scholarship at U-M, as well as the launch of program’s new name, Rackham Graduate School, September 2016
  • “Humanists of the Future: Exchange on Public and Collaborative Humanities,” Group Conversation with NEH Chair on Engaged Teaching in the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, February 2016
  • “Positioning Design Studies: Interstitial Relationships in Architecture,” Session Moderator, Doctoral Colloquium, The Taubman College, University of Michigan, November 2015
  • Selected to represent Imagining America’s PAGE program and share a testimonial to honor IA’s “Key of Excellence” Award from Phi Beta Kappa Society’s National Arts & Sciences Initiative, Imagining America Annual National Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2015 (Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roRQuQdN-Sg)
  • “Building Awareness, Enacting Change,” Engaged Pedagogy Symposium Presentation, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, April 2015
  • “Human Factors and Social Research,” Guest Lecture in Research Methods, Instructor: Elizabeth Keslacy, College of Architecture, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, MI, November 2013