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Latest Release

Tune into Maya Dodd’s newest podcast appearance, where she reflects on digital archives, public history, and the evolving relationship between technology, memory, and democracy in India.

Episode Description
In the inaugural episode of Humanities in the World, a podcast from the University of Rochester Press, scholars Maya Dodd (Flame University, India) and Erika Pani (El Colegio de México, Mexico) explore how the humanities shape national narratives, public memory, and cultural identity in India and Mexico—two nations deeply marked by colonial legacies and vibrant postcolonial transformations.

Public Recordings & Outreach

This YouTube channel brings together Maya Dodd’s public talks, interviews, panel discussions, workshops, and media engagements—documenting ongoing conversations on digital humanities, archives, technology, and public history in India. Curated as a growing playlist, these recordings extend classroom learning into wider publics, offering open access to research, collaborations, and community outreach initiatives.

Public Talks & Available Recordings

Teaching the Digital: Scrolling, Remixing and Sampling. Kenyon College, 2023.
Digital Archives for a Digital Commons: University of Hyderabad, 2024.
Open access to archives, to support humanities research in India: Digital archives and open access. A Symposium held by Azim Premji University on Feb 3. Uploaded on March 30, 2021.
Access for the Archived, Community Archives, Milli Sessions for International Archives Week, June 8, 2021 Who’s Afraid of an Emergency: Archive and Access, NCBS Public Lecture Series November 13, 2020 Five Things Liberal Education Students Must Know, June 4, 2020
Building Digital Archives: The Public Right to Record, July 18, 2020
Learning Through Archives, Milli Sessions for International Archives Week, June 14, 2020
Archives, Databases and Timelines: Introducing Digital Humanities in India, May 2020.

Articles and Media

Economic Times, Accessing Democracy: Rethinking Civics Education in Indian Universities from Passive Learners to Active Citizens, May 8, 2025.
The Intersection of Data Privacy, Multilingual Accessibility, and Economic Strategy in India. Feb 13, 2025
“Querying Info-Solutionism”. Biblio: A Review of Books.Vol. 27 Nos. 10 –12 October-December 2022
The Right to Internet is a Human Right: Rethinking Digital Access, Jan 12, 2022
The Paradox of Open: How To Build A Better Internet. Oct 12, 2021 Scroll.in
“As Indians Turn to Social Media For Help. May 19, 2021.Scroll.in
Book Review of Asha Sarangi, Language and Politics in India, in “Contributions to Indian Sociology,” September/December 2011. DOI: 10.1177/006996671204700110
“Liberalizing Education: The Quantity and Quality Debate.” Tomorrow Today (UNESCO and Tudor Rose)

Podcast: Prison Diaries and the Indian Emergency: The Swaddle Interviews

Video: Humanities Commons: Uploaded from the presentation on “Towards a Decolonial Indian Digital Humanities” (2020)
Video: Webinar: Archives, Databases and Timelines, Exploring Digital Humanities in Connexions: A series on interdisciplinarity at FLAME University (2020)
Audio and Transcript: Digital Humanities and Food Studies, Centre for Internet and Society Researchers at Work (RAW) Conference, (2019)
Poster: Re-thinking Regions: Comparative Food Studies in Digital South Asia. Bryn Mawr. (2017)
Recorded Presentation:Blended Learning in the Liberal Arts, Bryn Mawr, 2016