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Digital Humanities and Publishing Studies Research Group

Vandana Govindani

PhD Scholar

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Marginalized Narratives, Sindhi Hindus and 1947 Partition, Digital Archives, Minority Language and Literature, Migration and Displacement, Cultural Preservation
  • Govindani, V., & Menon, N. (2024). "Sindhi literature in post-partition India: marginalization, challenges, and digital interventions." Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2024.2344815
    • Research Associate – “Digital Preservation of Rare Historic Sindhi Books into Audio Books: An Initiative to Revitalize Sindhi Language and Literature in India”, funded by Department of Science and Technology (DST) under its SHRI initiative at IIT Indore.
    • National Sahitya Akademi Travel Grantee (2023-2024).
    • Worked as a lead researcher and interviewer for the Sindhi Partition Gallery “The Lost Homeland of Sindh” at Ambedkar University, Delhi. Worked with CAMP Mumbai and Sindhi Cultural Foundation for collecting and curating Sindhi Partition narratives (2023-24).
  • Papers Presented
    • “Redefining Empowerment” at the Seminar Feminist Empowerment organized by Vikram University on Feb. 10-11, 2020, Vikram University, Ujjain.
    • "Digital Labor in Digitization of Sindhi Literature (Marginalized Indian Languages)" at the Dharti 2022 Conference on February 24, 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, 21-25 Feb. 2022.
    • "Sindhi Literature and Research in India" on July 29, 2023, at the ACH 2023 Virtual Conference held between June 29 to July 1 under the broader theme of Multilingual D.H.
    • "Digital Diaspora: Navigating Sindhi Cultural Preservation in the Age of New Media" at IIT Indore Research Seminar on April 29, 2024.
    • Revitalizing Sindhi Literary Heritage: Digital Preservation of Rare Historic Sindhi Books into Audio Books at DARIAH Annual event 2025 Gottingen, Germany.
    • Digital Preservation of Rare Historic Sindhi Books into Audio Books : An Initiative to Revitalize Sindhi Language and Literature in India at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association Annual Event 2025 at the University of Glasgow, U.K.
  • Workshops and Conferences Attended
    • “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).
    • Workshop entitled “Digital Heritage Workshop” by Lancaster University & IIT Indore (16-31 March 2021) (online).
    • Two-Day Workshop on Working with ArcGIS, organized by the Department of Civil Engineering in association with ESRI at IIT Indore, 8th-9th April 2024.
    • Indo-French Interdisciplinary Workshop “Sufi Culture in the Indus Valley: The Making of a Vernacular Cosmopolitan Paradigm”, between July 22-27, 2024, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur under SPARC.
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