Dr Abhilasha Gusain

International Conferences

• “Drawing from the Margins: Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories and the Visual Documentation of the Past”. Comprehending Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to Comic Studies in History and the Social Sciences, Comics Lab at Palacký University, Czech Republic, September 8-9, 2024.
• “Graphic Histories: Comics as Counter-Archives of the Vietnam War”. Three-Day International Conference on Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges, EFLU Hyderabad, August 28-30, 2024.
• “Illustrating Memory: Clément Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories and the Visual Representation of the Past”. The 2023 Joint Conference of the International Conference of Graphic Novels & Comics and The International Bande Dessinee Society, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, July 3-7, 2023.
• “Personal, Cultural, and the Postmemory: Clément Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories and the Illustration of the past”. International Conference on ‘Explorations of Counter-Memory’, Memory Studies Association Nordic in association with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, University of Iceland, October 13-14, 2022.
• “Reader-Participation and Visual Dialogue: Understanding Ethics, Empathy, and Hospitality through Clemént Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories”. The 2022 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics and the International Bande Dessinée Society, Lexicon Library and Cultural Centre, Dún Laoghaire, Ireland, June 29-July 1, 2022.
• “Trauma and Alternate History: Vietnam War and the Graphic Response in Thi Bui’s The Best We Could Do”. International Conference on “Conflict and Literature - Narratives of Struggle”, Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi, March 10-12, 2022.
• “History, Memory, and Illustration: Truong’s Alternate Narrative in Saigon Calling”. 2-Day International Interdisciplinary Conference, School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Reva University, Bengaluru in collaboration with iSPELL (Indian Society for the Promotion of English Language and Literature) & Liverpool John Moores University, England, August 30-31, 2021.
• “Foregrounding the Personal Histories: Representation and Practices in Clement Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories”. The 2021 Joint Conference of the International Conference of Graphic Novels & Comics and the International Bande Dessinee Society, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, June 21-25, 2021.
• “A Visual Dialogue: Practising Hospitality through the reading of Graphic Narratives”. Comics Art Conference Education Series Panel titled ‘Comics Around the World’, Comic-Con International: San Diego June 2021 release. https://www.comic-con.org/museum/education.

National Conferences and Seminars

• “It’s the price we pay for freedom.”; Alternate History, Vietnamese Horror, and Memory in Truong’s Graphic Memoir, Saigon Calling”. Annual Graduate Conference, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi, January 14-15, 2021.
• “‘The Gandhi Brand’; Commercialisation, Commodification and Iconism”, Two-Day National Seminar on ‘Gandhian Thought and Philosophy’, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee in association with Ministry of Culture, Government of India, October 22-23, 2019

Journal Reviewer

• Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Taylor & Francis, Routledge
• Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Springer Nature