Muscular Hindu Nationalism and Ancient Indian Vedic Modernity as Sci-Fi in the Ramayan 3392 AD comics

Her talk analyses Graphic India’s sci-fi comic book series Ramayan3392 AD (2007-2015), which is a reimagining of the Indian epic Ramayana in a dystopic, post-apocalyptic era. Graphic India was founded in 2005 as a transnational enterprise— it styled itself as a nexus between the “East” and “West” and emerged from the need to “modernize” and “internationalize” Indian comics.

Native American Creators and the Making of Super Indians: Indigenizing the Superhero Comics

The talk examines how Native American creators are reclaiming narratorial sovereignty and representational justice by using comics to create authentic Indian superheroes grounded in the Indigenous paradigm and to bring cultural and political depth to mainstream portrayals. By highlighting independent Indigenous comics, we discuss how Native American writers are transcending reductive imaginings in popular comics and revolutionizing the superhero trope by combining cultural authenticity and political reality.

Chakma Songs as a Portal of Indigenous Refugee Experiences and Collective Memory

The talk explores the role of Indigenous Chakma music and musicians in documenting refugee experiences and highlights how suppressed community artists leveraged creative expression to advocate for social justice amid state-induced displacement and disenfranchisement in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. The modern Chakma songs function as a cultural portal and a political springboard, cementing the emerging collective awareness and advocating for the community by archiving their collective history and struggles.