Sourav Saha

November 2025 - “Guns and Sermons: The Canonical Noise of Western Modern Science” at the SOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural Conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound, organized by the Sound Environment Centre, Lund University.

June 2025 - “Impure Hearts and Invisible Purifiers: A Story of Sacred Vibration, Tuning  and Environmental Purification in India,” at the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference titled Religiosities, Ecologies, and Environmentalisms In the Age of the Anthropocene, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

May 2025 - “Sacred Energies and Environmental Purification in India” at the conference titled “Ethnographies of Energy” organized by the Asian Dynamics Initiative, University of Copenhagen.

December 2024 - “Sanctified Hearts and Invisible Purifiers: A Story of Vibration, Tuning and Sacred Resonance in India”, at the Listening Academy, Delhi, jointly organized by the Listening Biennial and Sarai-CSDS.

October 2024 - “From Ivory Towers to Earbuds: Rethinking the Limits of Learning in India,” at ISS-IIITD Young Scholars' Workshop 2024: Doing Sociology in the Technological Contemporary, organized by the Indian Sociological Society and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi.

March 2024 - “Acoustic Shrines and Chaotic Cafes: A Study of Spiritual Podcasts and Urban Mobility in India,” at Urban Topologies of the Digital Symposium, organized jointly by Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), India, Department of Architecture, Department of Social Sciences, and the Southern Center for Digital Transformation, University of Naples, Federico II.

February 2024 - “Where is the Field? An Anthropological Reflection on Noise, Technical Disturbances and Digital Media” at the Research Scholars Colloquium, organized by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University.

November 2023 - “Noise and Noisification: A Study of Online Religious Congregations in Satsang-Deoghar during COVID-19” at the 6th International Mass Communication Research Conference on “Mediating the Everyday: Popular Culture in South Asia,” organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calicut.

September 2023 - “Jaantrik Golojog: A Study of Noise and Technical Disturbances in a Post-Pandemic Spiritual World” at the Sociology Scholars Forum, Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence.

June 2019 - “The ‘Hallyu’ Fandom in and around Kolkata: An Ethnography of Listening Among K-Pop Fans,” presented at the International Seminar on Korean Cultural Wave in India, organized by the Korean Culture Center, New Delhi, India, and the Center for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

September 2018 - “Politics of Music in the Twentieth Century Bengal,” presented at the 5th International Congress of Bengal Studies, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• November 2025 - “Guns and Sermons: The Canonical Noise of Western Modern Science” performance-presentation at the SOUND+PURPOSE: Inaugural Conference of the SOUND+ Network for Transdisciplinary Research in Sound, organised by the Sound Environment Centre, Lund University.
• 2024 - Noise and Other Things (Podcast) Link: https://tinyurl.com/4wp237y3
• 2023: Internet: A song about the Internet and its ramifications in the world. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmGCn3sxwM
• 2024 - Shiuli Kishori: A song about gender and politics in India. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asAa2njwI5k
• 2020 - Intimate Concerts: An Arts-Research Initiative Link: https://tinyurl.com/3a7x7au4
• 2019: Bhashar Daridro: A song about the poverty of language. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1CO-7aBsmo
• 2019: Song-Bidhan: A song about the Indian Constitution. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qKRaNXk0uQ
• 2018 - Jatiyo Songbaad: A song about the Indian National Anthem. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RjaBydt490
• 2015: December’er Shohorey: A song about the city of Kolkata during December Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly7Z0IjQBd4