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    On Documenting Indigenous Food Cultures
    Kikon, D ( 2020-08-23)
    What do we think of when we refer to ‘Indian Food?’ This discussion will explore food cultures in parts of India where spiced curries are not as common as one might believe. Anthropologist Dolly Kikon will be in conversation with filmmaker Nilanjan Bhattacharya about their documentary films Seasons of Life: Foraging and Fermenting Bamboo During Ceasefire and Johar: Welcome to Our World. Both these documentaries illustrate indigenous food cultures and practices, which are often overlooked in the mainstream discourse about Indian cuisine and food habits. In collaboration with Science Gallery Bengaluru
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    Wayfinding: A Photoethnography of Indigenous Migration
    Kikon, D ; Karlsson, B ( 2016-11-01)
    This exhibition is concerned with the lives and lifeworlds of indigenous migrants who have travelled from the faraway Northeastern frontier to the expanding cities of South India. This movement does not involve the crossing of any international border, yet both geographically and culturally it is a movement into a very different place.
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    In their Voices: Migrant Narratives and Voices
    Kikon, D (Global Migrants Festival, 2020-11-26)
    How do we ensure that migrants’ perspectives, concerns, and histories have their rightful place in our collective understanding – and how do we remake our maps and archives to represent their knowledge?
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    During the Pandemic
    Kikon, D (http://www.dollykikon.com/projects/during-the-pandemic, 2020-11-25)
    During the Pandemic presents art works of children from violent homes in Nagaland (India). As a collaborative exhibition with children, guardians, social workers, researchers, and grassroots organisations, this project presents art made by vulnerable children to share their experiences of the pandemic. Curated by anthropologist Dolly Kikon, in partnership with Sisterhood Network and Prodigal’s Home, the project is part of an ongoing campaign to address gender violence in Nagaland.
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    SEASONS OF LIFE AND SEASONS OF LAW: LAW, ANTHROPOLOGY, AND EATING BAMBOOSHOOT AND DOGMEAT
    Kikon, D (Jindal Global University, 2020)
    Dolly Kikon in conversation with the Jindal Law and Humanities Review Editorial Team on her recent documentary Seasons of Life.
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    Taste so Good! Celebrating Bambooshoot
    Kikon, D (RAIOT, 2020-09-18)
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    Toxic Ecologies: Assam, oil, and a crude future
    Kikon, D (The India Forum, 2020)
    The ecological destruction from the Baghjan gas well blowout is part of the story of Assam’s economic development. Resource extraction has been foundational to the logic of politics in Assam but has marginalised local communities.