Nishant Batsha

I've been an invited speaker at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University, Syracuse University, the New York Historical, and many more. I particularly enjoy engaging with audiences on craft connections between history and fiction. To book an event, please get in touch with me via my contact page.

Events

January 26, 2026
12:00pm
Columbia University
A conversation with Columbia University's Heyman Center for the Humanities Fellows
January 27
6:00pm
The New York Historical (virtual)
Past Possibilities: Engaging History Through Fiction

Past Events

July 9, 2025
6:00pm
New York City
In conversation with Jafreen Uddin (Executive Director, Asian American Writers' Workshop)
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway
July 15
7:00pm
Buffalo, NY
In conversation with Noah Falck (Literary Director, Just Buffalo Literary Center)
Black Rock Books
July 19
1:00pm
Lakewood, NY
Book Signing
Good Neighbor Bookstore
Sept 14
2:00PM
Menlo Park, CA
South Asian Literature & Art Festival
Sept 26
7:00pm
Naples, NY
Reading and Wine Tasting (co-sponsored by Glen Hollow)
In conversation with Alison Meyers, Executive Director of Writers & Books
Sept 27
12:00pm
Naples, NY
Must Historical Fiction be Historical?
Seminar at Gell, a Finger Lakes Creative Retreat (with Writers & Books, Rochester)

Archived Events →

JUNE 8, 2022
7:00pm
New York City
In conversation with Kanishk Tharoor, and in collaboration with the Asian American Writers Workshop.
McNally Jackson, South Street Seaport (map)
JUNE 17
6:00pm
Toronto
In conversation with Denise Balkissoon
Queen Books (map)
JUNE 30
8:00pm
Buffalo
In conversation with Laura Marris
Just Buffalo Literary Center (map)
SEPT 6
12:00pm
UIUC (virtual)
In conversation with Professor Rebecca Oh
Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
OCT 11
4:00pm
Syracuse University
In conversation with Chanelle Benz
The South Asia Center and the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Eggers Hall, 341
OCT 12
4:45pm
Cornell University
In conversation with Professor Durba Ghosh
The South Asia Program at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Physical Sciences Building, 401
JAN 5
7:00pm
Rochester
In conversation with Joshua Dubler
Writers & Books Literary Center (map)
JAN 19, 2023
12:00pm
Stanford University
In conversation with Professor Roanne Kantor
Stanford Global Studies and the Center for South Asia
123 Encina Commons
FEB 27
12:00pm
Duke University
Reading, sponsored by International Comparative Studies
Cosponsored by Asian & Middle Eastern Studies; Asian American and Diaspora Studies; and the Franklin Humanities Institute
Friedl - Fredric Jameson Gallery
MAR 21
7:30pm
Unerased Book Club (virtual)
Conversation with Unerased Book Club
Instagram Live
APR 18
6:00pm
University of Chicago
In conversation with Professor Kaneesha Parsard
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore (in partnership with the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, the University of Chicago International House, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
JUN 01
7:00pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Conversant for Siddhartha Deb's The Light at the End of the World
Central Library, Dweck Center
APR 24, 2024
11:00am
St. Bonaventure University
Reading and conversation on campus
APR 26
3:00pm
Writers & Books Literary Conference (virtual)
Conversation with Executive Director Alison Meyers on the novel and history