Alok Amatya presented a paper at the official MELUS panel of MLA 2017 in January, entitled “Inheritance of Resource Struggles: Framing Indigeneity within Natural Resource Conflicts in Native American Novels.” He also presented a paper at the annual convention of Society for Cinema and Media Studies in March 2017 (Chicago, IL) titled “Cinematic Itineraries of Conflict: Tracing Indigenous Ecological Struggles in East-Central India.” He presented a paper at the annual meeting of SAMLA in November 2016, entitled “‘The War Tried to Kill Us in the Spring’: Dystopian Spaces-in-Conflict of Occupied Iraq.”
