Papers Presented in National/International Conferences:
- Heretics, Heathens and Christians; or How the Church of England produced the History of the Syriac Christians as part of the Ethics, Method and Transformative Justice conference Second City Anthropology Conference organised by the University of Illinois. 22nd April, 2022.
- The Littoral and the Non Literal: The Many Imaginations of the Syrian Christians of Kerala” as part of the SAGSC XVII Conference Reception, Tradition, Canonization: Pasts and Presents in South Asia organised by the University of Chicago, March 5-6, 2020.
- Suriani: Architecture and Narrative” at the Khoja Studies Conference organised by the Florida International University, CEIAS (EHESS) and the University of Mumbai, January 30-31, 2019.
- “Suriani Murals and the Act of Viewing” as part of the panel, ‘Anti-Colonial Text, Image, and Imagination’ at the conference: Creative Criticality in Colonial and Indigenous Archives organised at the University of Chicago Centre, by the University of Chicago, April 22-23, 2019.
- After the Last Sky and Reading the Photograph” as special discussant and speaker for International Colloquium on Translating/Transcreating Travel and Life ‘Writings’ from the Arab World in Visual Modes. (Organized by India Arab Cultural Centre and Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. 8th March, 2017.
- Translating the Exilic Condition: Edward Said as Writer and Self. UGC SAP-DRS Phase III, UGC National Seminar on Translating/Transcreating the Cultures of Existence, 24th and 25th November 2016. Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia.
- Edward Said: Writing as Performance. Annual International Conference at Shiv Nadar University: Habits and Practices of Writing, February 19th and 20th, 2016
Publications:
- Lecture delivered at the India International Centre on 17th November (2017) was published as Occasional Publication 89 under the title In Search of Ephrem the Syrian: Suriani and the Materiality of Faith. The monograph came out in December 2018.
Invited Lectures:
- Priest, Soldier, Spy: British colonial archive and the many lives of Gabriel de Vogt at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, 17 th April, 2023.
- Suriyani in the Age of Surveillance at the School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala. 22nd June, 2022.
- Documentation and Displacement: Revisiting Edward Said’s Palestine” as part of the International Conference Confronting Disaster: From Vulnerability to Resilience organised by the Department of Sociology, NSS HINDU College, Changanacherry, Kerala. 24th January, 2020.
- Narrativising the Suriani Church” at the School of Gandhian Thought and Development Studies, MG University, Kottayam. 21st January, 2020.
- In Search of Ephrem the Syrian: Suriani and the Materiality of Faith” at the India International Centre, 17th November, 2017
Others :
- Associate Doctoral Researcher at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi. (2021-2022)
- Doctoral Researcher at the Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS) of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. (2019 – Present)
Currently on Study Leave pursuing my PhD at the Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud of École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris
Email: jonathankvarghese@lsr.edu.in