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ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

2025       Presentation on “A Hindu Toolkit of Wisdom & Practices for Interreligious Dialogue”| St. Xavier's College Mumbai & West Zone Jesuit Higher Education Association of South Asia| Department of Interreligious Studies| Mumbai | March 12

2024       Presentation on “Intro to Shakta Yoga and Theology”| Women's Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (WICCI)| Karnataka Yoga Sector Council |  Sowmya Ayyar | Karnataka | April 30

2024       Presentation on “3 Principles of Shakta Tantra”| Thinking Thursdays | Trupti Jayin | Mumbai | March 2024

2024       Book Interview “A Shakta Method for Comparative Theology”| New Books Network | Raj Balkaran | Canada | March 8, 2024

2024       Presentation on “Shakta Yoga”| Shashwat Yoga Sabha | Indranarayan Raman and S Ranjan | Delhi | February 2024

2023       Presentation on “ Śakti in Women’s Spiritual Leadership”| Women’s Spiritual Leadership: Transforming Lives, Leading Change| GTUs Sustainability 360 Initiative in collaboration with Women’s Studies of Religion| Berkeley | September 9, 2023
 
2023       Presentation on “Hindu Scriptures”| Scriptures of the Great Traditions: Hinduism | St. Joseph’s College of Maine | Christopher Fuller| Maine | February 2023
 
2023       Presentation on “Contemplative Arts and the Aesthetics of Flowers in Hindu Worship (Śākta Pūja)”| Soul Forum | Our Savior's Lutheran Church | Lafayette, California | St. Joseph’s College of | April 2

2023      Book Launch Conversation with Lenny Duncan on “Dear Revolutionaries: A Field Guide for a World beyond the Church”| Book Passage | San Francisco | March 2
 
2022     Panelist “Healing and Contemplative Practices,”panel | Paper title “Evocative Mantras and Their Healing Benefits”| Highway to Healing: Understanding the Ocean of Oneness | California State University | Fresno, CA | September 2022
 
2022    Panelist “Multi-Religiosity in the United States: Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim Perspectives” | Starr King School for the Ministry | Oakland, CA | April 28 
 
2021    Four Episode Podcast Series, “The Glory of the Great Goddess in the Hindu Tradition” | Our Saviors Lutheran Church (OSLC, Lafayette, CA) in collaboration with the GTU, Berkeley, CA | January 8, 15, 22, 29
 
2019    Respondent to two papers, “A Theo-ethical Inquiry and Restorative Approach to the Sexual Abuse crisis in South Asia,” and “Moving from Interreligious to Eco-Interreligious Dialogue: The Ignatian Trinitarian Vision Re-imagined for the Context of India,” | GTU Asia Project | GTU Berkeley, CA | March 18
 
2019     Panelist “Kabbalah and Tantra”panel | Paper titled “The Semiotics of Sefirot and Śrīcakra: A Reflection on Sacred Geometry” | Hindu-Jewish panel on Kabbalah and Tantra | American Academy of Religions (DANAM) | San Diego, CA | November 2019
 
2018     Panelist “Semiotics of Visual Culture and Textual Hermeneutics in Indian Traditions” | Paper titled “Inaction in Action and Action in Inaction: Hermeneutics of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras-A Hindu Theology of the Body”| Center for Dharma Studies| GTU Berkeley, CA | November 10
 
2018      Panelist “Kindness: Interdisciplinary Explorations in Hindu Approaches to Ecology” | Paper titled “Kindness to Self, Society, and the Earth in Yoga: Ethical and Mindfulness Considerations from the Yoga Sūtras of Patañjal”| American Academy of Religions | GTU Berkeley, CA | March 23
 
2017      Panelist “Interreligious Spiritual Hospitality” | Paper titled “Complete Communion As Means To A Symbiotic Religious Identity”| Towards Sustainable Societies: Interreligious, Interdisciplinary Responses | GTU Berkeley, CA | April 29

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