Workshop participants, Towards Ecocritical Art History, University of Vienna, 2022 
UW-Madison Annual Conference on South Asia, 2025 
Lunch with ‘Ecological Imaginaries’ Panel Members, Madison 2025 
UW-Madison, Annual Conference on South Asia, 2022 
The Future of Visual Culture, TEDx x History of Art Society, University of Edinburgh, 2020 
Presentation for International Women’s Association (IWA), India, 2024 
Presentation for International Women’s Association (IWA), India, 2024 
Best Paper Award, Early-Career Researcher Category, ‘Thinking Other-Wise’ Conference, 2024 
Talk at Department of Fine Arts, Sarojini Naidu School, University of Hyderabad, 2024 
Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 2022
Invited Talks
Human Sciences Research Centre (HSRC), International Institute for Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H), Hyderabad, India, August 2025 Paper title: How we look at Animals: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Frames
International Women’s Association (IWA), Chennai, India, December 2024
Paper title: All Creatures Great and Small: Animal Representations in Indian Art
Department of Fine Arts, Sarojini Naidu School, University of Hyderabad, February 2024
Paper title: Caste and Material Ecologies in the work of Kirtika Kain: Contemporary Art Practice in the Diaspora
Open Borders for Adivasi and Dalit Literature and Performing Arts, Online, April 2023
In Conversation with Anisha Palat and Kirtika Kain, Reflections on Caste and Art in the Diaspora
International Baccalaureate (IB) Students, KC High International School, March 2022
India Paper title: Street Art: A Brief Exploration
The Future of Visual Culture, TEDx x History of Art Society, University of Edinburgh, February 2020
Paper title: The Search for Identity: Representations of the Cow Image within Visual Culture in India
Conferences
The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, U.S.A., October 2025
Paper title: Tiger Hunts and Colonial Frames: Photography, Power, and Endangerment in India
Panel: Ecological Imaginaries
Panelists: Elizabeth Cecil, Divya Kumar-Dumas, Deepthi Murali, Tamara Sears, Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali, Krishna Shekhawat,
Discussant / Chair: Sylvia Houghteling
Just GLOBE Conference, Multispecies engagements and the more-than-human lens in environmental politics and governance, University of Helsinki, Finland, May 2025
Paper Title: Sacred Symbols, Political Animals: Rethinking Human-Animal Relations in Indian Art and Visual Culture
“‘Thinking Other-Wise: Posthumanism and Human-Animal Studies”, Bankura University, India, April 2025
Paper Title: The Cow-as-Image and More-than-Human Entity: Visual Histories and Posthumanism in India
Received Best Paper Award, Early-Career Researcher Category
Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, London, U.K., April 2023
Paper title: Embodied Performance in Sajan Mani’s Art will never die, but COW?
The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, U.S.A., October 2022
Paper title: Exploring the Body and the Cow in the work of Kirtika Kain and Sajan Mani
Association for Art History (AAH) Annual Conference, London, U.K., April 2022
Co-chair of Panel: Visual Cultures of Protest: Art and Resistance in South Asia
Paper title: Exploring Resistance through the Material Presence of the Cow in the Work of Kirtika Kain
British Association for South Asian Studies (BASAS) Annual Conference, Online, April 2021
Paper title: Depictions of the Cow in Indian Visual Culture
Workshops/ Symposia
Unfinished Visions: A Collaborative Research Series on South Asian Visual Culture, Univeristy of Edinburgh, March 2025
Paper title: Collaborative and Dialogical Approaches to Art
Extinct: Empire, Art, and Natural Histories, London Linnean Society, June 2023
Paper title: Symbolisms of the Cow in Art and Caste: An Overview
The Challenge of the Anthropocene, Towards Ecocritical Art History: Methods and Practices, Vienna Anthropocene Network, University of Vienna, and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network, University of Edinburgh, July 2022
Paper title: Methodological Considerations: the Cow, Caste and Visual Culture in India
Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Edinburgh, June 2022
Paper title: Methodological Considerations: the Cow, Caste and Visual Culture in India
ECA History of Art PGR Symposium, University of Edinburgh, Online, June 2021
Paper title: Depictions of the Cow in Indian Visual Culture
Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Edinburgh, December 2020
Paper title: Visual Interpretations: Oppression, Resistance and the Cow in Dalit Visual Culture
Anisha Palat 