Apsara Bala
PhD Scholar
About
Research Interests
Public space, Architecture, Digital Humanities, Spatial Humanities, Delhi, Accessibility
Publications
- Presented Paper titled “Spatial Denial and Displacement: Exploring the Literary Lineage of Protest Sites (Public Spaces)” at the SHSS Research Symposium 2023, organised by IIT Indore, India, on January 7, 2023. Promoted to present a poster under the same title at the Research and Industrial Conclave at IIT Indore (20th – 22nd January 2023) and secured the First Position at Poster Presentation in the ‘other category’.
Projects
Achievements
- Short-term Collaborative Research Grant (March 2025 – June 2025) at Newcastle University, United Kingdom.
- DH Awards 2024 for the DH Short Publication “Mukherjee, P. and Menon, N. “Digital Migration Infrastructure in return-writing: visualizing the migration landscape of India”, Front. Sociol. 9.
Workshops and Conferences
- Conference Presentations (oral/poster, international/national)
- Presented Paper (Virtual) titled – “Digital Labour in the Field of Digital Humanities in India – An Enquiry” by Apsara BalaÅ and Jyothi JustinÇ at the Dharthi 2022 Conference on 24 Feb 2022 as part of the panel “Digital Labour and Data Justice in Indian Academia” on the conference theme The Digital Divides: Discontents, Debates and Discussions, 21st -25th Feb 2022.
- Presented Poster titled – “Spatial Denial and Displacement: Exploring the Literary Lineage of Protest Sites” at The 4th Spatial Humanities 2022 Conference held by Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities organised by Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Quetelet Center for Quantitative Historical Research and Antwerp Cultural Heritage Sciences in collaboration with the Lancaster University Digital Humanities Centre and Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 7th – 9th September 2022.
- Presented Paper titled “Spatial Denial and Displacement: Exploring the Literary Lineage of Protest Sites (Public Spaces)” at the SHSS Research Symposium 2023, organised by IIT Indore, India, on January 7, 2023. Promoted to present a poster under the same title at the Research and Industrial Conclave at IIT Indore (20th – 22nd January 2023) and secured the First Position at Poster Presentation in the ‘other category’.
- Presented paper titled – “Functional Zoning and Habitat Fragmentation to Maintain Urban Organization: Tracing Colonial Architecture Through Literature in the City of Delhi” by Apsara BalaÅ and Nirmala MenonÇ at ICSSR 4th Young Graduate Meet 2024, organised by IIT Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
- Presented paper titled – “Will Teachers See a Future? Artificial Intelligence and the Anxiety Among Educators in the Country” at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Educational Communication, and Media Transformations, organised by the Consortium for Educational Communications (CEC), New Delhi, in collaboration with the Educational Multimedia Research Centre (EMRC-EFLU), and the Department of Communication at English and Foreign Language University (EFLU), Hyderabad (28th – 30th Nov, 2024).
- Presented paper titled – “Analog to Minimal Computing: A First-Generation DH Scholar Exploring Literary Lineage and Spatial Denial of Protest Sites in Delhi” at DHARTHI (Digital Humanities Alliance for Research and Teaching Innovations) Conference 2024, organised by IIT Jodhpur (10th-13th Dec, 2024).
- Workshops Attended
- “Building Digital Archives” – Online workshop organised by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, October 25th-29th, 2021.
- “Memory, Cognition and Literature” – An Interdisciplinary Workshop by the Centre for Memory studies, IIT Madras, November 9th to 12th, 2021.
- R for Humanities & DHARTI: Web Scraping workshop – By Arjun Ghosh (IIT Delhi), 28th Feb – 11th March, 2022.
- “Why Loiter-Yoda Press Workshop”, 5th – 26th March 2022.
- “Summer School for Literary Studies & Digital Humanities” by Leiden University Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, KU Leuven held from 20-23 June, 2022. (online)
- Hands-on training on Georeferencing Cadastral Maps, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine.
- “Urban Sketching Workshop” – Online training, attended during 25th – 31st Jan 2023.
- Any Other Digital Academic Contributions (e.g., invited talks, blogs, collaborative platforms, tools, etc.)
- Delivered a Talk (virtually) as a Guest Speaker at the ADHO SIG DH Wo-Gem Symposium on “Feminist Interventions: Digital Solidarity and Amplification of Shaheen Bagh Protests” (20h Nov 2024).