Public Lectures and Talks

Previous Talks

Rethinking Hannah Arendt for the Present
Conversation with Arvind Narrain
Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, March 2024

Bhagat Singh’s Atheism
Interview for Ramblings of a Sikh

New Book Network: World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Interview with Gargi Binju

B.R. Ambedkar's Sociophilia and Other Anti-Caste Sciences
University of Oxford, February 2022

The Commitments of Anticolonialism
with Ajay Skaria and Shruti Kapila
Orient BlackSwan Discussion Series, August 2021

Aesthetics for the Wretched of the Earth
Information Technology University (Lahore), May 2021

Empire and its Afterlives
with Maryam Wasif Khan, Ali Raza, and Aamir Mufti
LUMS & HKU, March 2021

On World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
NYU, February 2021

New Book Network: World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Interview with Kelvin Ng and Zifeng Liu, January 2021

Book Launch for World Literature for the Wretched of the Earth
Daniel Elam and Shruti Kapila in conversation
University of Hong Kong (Zoom), December 2020

Some Authorities in Gandhi’s Library
North Orissa University, September 2020

Protests & Pandemics: Karen Cheung and Daniel Elam in Conversation
University of Hong Kong, June 2020

Crisis of Empire in Hong Kong
University of Manchester, June 2020

Bhagat Singh of Lahore
Afkar-e-Taza Lahore, January 2018

The Martyr, the Moviegoer: Bhagat Singh at the Movies
University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 2016