CONFERENCES
Niyati Bhat’s writing spans film criticism, cultural analysis, and long-form essays that engage with cinema, media, conflict, and visual culture. Her articles bring together close reading, historical context, and critical insight, with a particular focus on South Asia and its cinematic and cultural imaginaries.
Her work has been published in leading Indian and international platforms, including India Today, The Hindu, Scroll.in, Asymptote, Critical Collective, and SummerHill Journal. Across these publications, she writes on cinema, music, politics, and cultural memory, examining how narratives are shaped, circulated, and contested.
Her articles reflect a sustained engagement with questions of representation, marginality, and the ethics of storytelling, addressing both specialist and wider readerships.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI, INDIA
Contemporary Cinema, Televisual and Digital Cultures: Part I
“No Place to Call ‘Home: Refugees of Sri Lankan Civil War in Cinema”
AAS-in-Asia, ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES AND THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC FORUM (IAFOR), KOBE, JAPAN
‘Searching for Kasturi: The Essence of India Through Bollywood Films Set in Varanasi’ presented as part of the panel: ‘Bollywood’s Regional Turn: Investigating Hindi Cinema’s Shift to Non-urbanity’
AMITY UNIVERSITY, KOLKATA, INDIA
INTERNATIONAL WEB CONFERENCE ON RETHINKING HUMANITIES AND ITS ENTANGLEMENTS
‘Kashmir 2.0: Koshur Rap, Kashmiri Folk and the New Kashmiri Musician’
JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA, DELHI, INDIA
JTACON-2020: JTA MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE
‘Kashmir 2.0: Koshur Rap, Kashmiri Folk and the New Kashmiri Musician’
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, USA
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC (GMF)
“EX-CENTRIC MUSIC STUDIES”
LMU, GERMANY + IIIT, DELHI, INDIA
“DIGITAL POLITICS IN MILLENNIAL INDIA”
“Kashmir 2.0: Kashmiri Music”
