Publications

Journals & Book Chapters

• Ovla, Arman. Crafting Resistance: Kalpourgan Pottery as Gendered Expression and Cultural Identity among Baloch Women in Iran. Journal of International Women’s Studies. Special issue, Family Formation, Gender Equality, and the Gendered Division of Labor in the Global South. Volume. 28. Iss. 3, Article 5. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol28/iss3/5
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa. Design and Development of the Cross-Draft Pottery Kiln with Normal Bricks for Local Potters in India. Responsible and Resilient Design for Society, Edited by In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V., Onkar, P.S., Shahid, M. Volume 8.ICoRD 2025. Springer Nature,Singapore.October 2025.Online ISBN 978-981-96-7316-2 Print ISBN 978-981-96-7315-5 Dio: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-7316-2_44
• Ovla, Arman. Dots of Memory: Women's Decorative Practices in Kalpougan & Lodai Pottery. Mrin. Issue 6, 2025 Here
• Ovla, Arman. Kllash, A Uniquely Designed Footwear. Responsible and Resilient Design for Society, Edited by In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V., Onkar, P.S., Shahid, M. Volume 4.ICoRD 2025. Springer Nature,Singapore.September 2025.Online ISBN 978-981-96-5495-6 Print ISBN 978-981-96-5494-9 Dio: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5495-6_5
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa. Khatoozin – a naïve woman sculptor from Bagbasi village, Kurdistan. Cogent Arts & Humanities, Volume 12, 2025 - Issue 1. Taylor & Francis online: 13 Mar 2025 Dio: 10.1080/23311983.2025.2473137
• Ovla, Arman.The Women Tradition Bearers of Kalpourgan in Iranian Baluchistan. Design for All Institute of India, Volume 17, 2022- No 4. Page 159-176, New Delhi, April 2022 ISSN: 2582 8304
• Ovla, Arman. Myth and Mythology Related to Water in Indian and Iranian Culture: Connections and Continuity. “Art and Architectural Tradition of India and Iran: Communality and Diversity, Edited by Nasir Raza Khan, Routledge, London. November 2021, eBook ISBN9781003229421 Dio: 10.4324/9781003229421-8
• Ovla, Arman. Analysis of Khatuzin's Sculptures Based on the theory of Carl G Jung. Katoozin Pazhohesh haye Zagros,Volume 2, 2014- No 2. Page 17-23, Tehran, Iran. July 2014 Here
• Ovla Arman. Women Potters in the World. Almas Season Journal. Volume 4, 2012- No 6. Page 20-25, Tehran, Iran. Feb 2012

Conference Proceedings

• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Heritage in Black A Study of Nizamabad Black Pottery Techniques, Traditions, and Sustainability in Modern India. 14th International Conference on Design History and Studies (CDHS14) IIT Delhi, India, October 2025
• Ovla, Arman, Kllash, a Uniquely Designed Footwear. 10th International Conference on Research Into Design (ICoRD’25) IIT Hyderabad, India, January 2025 | Video
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Design and Development of the Cross-Draft Pottery Kiln with Normal Bricks. 10th International Conference on Research Into Design (ICoRD’25) IIT Hyderabad, India, January 2025
• Roy, S.,Ovla,A.,Thakurta Roy,S, Design Improvement for Value Addition in Local Terracotta Pots. Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principle & Practices, Portugal March 2023
• Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Black Pottery of Nizamabad, India. Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices, Portugal, March 2023 | Video
• Ovla, Arman & Roy, Satyaki, The Pottery of Pahari Village in Rajasthan. Seventeenth International Conference on The Arts in Society, Spain, July 2022 | Video
• Ovla, Arman & Roy, Satyaki. Women Potters from Kalpourgan in Iranian Baluchistan. “Three-day Online International Conference on Cross-Cultural Innovations in Art, Design and Animation" organized by School of Fine Arts, Amity University, Kolkata. September 2021
• Ovla, Arman. Myth and Mythology Related to Water in Indian and Iranian Culture: Connections and Continuity. International Conference on “Art and Architectural Tradition of India and Iran: Communality and Diversity, at Jamila Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India. December 2018.
• Ovla, Arman. Using the Jar As a Symbol in the Popular Culture of the People of Kurdistan Province. The First National Conference of Symbology in Persian Art with a Focus on Native Art, University of Bojnord. Iran. November 2017
• Ovla, Arman. Women Potters from Prehistory to the Present Day. 3rd International Conference of Science and Engineering. Istanbul. June 2016
• Ovla, Arman and Shler. Women Potters, Eighth National Women's Literature Conferences Sardasht, Iran, March 2016

Seminars Presented

• Conducting one week Clay Workshop, Design Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 4th to 11th May 2025 | Video
• Crafting Connections A Cross-Cultural Journey Through the Craft Heritage of Kurdistan, Iran and India, Plenary Speaker at the National Seminar on "Craft Culture of Odisha: Handicraft Heritage through Oral History," organized by Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha, and sponsored by ICSSR, 11-12 February 2025
• The Native Pottery in Pahari Village of Bharatpur, Rajasthan, Research Scholars’ Day 2020 Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 18-19 January 2020
• Indian and Kurdish Mythology on the Water Culture, Research Scholars’ Day 2020 Humanities & Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, 2 -3 March 2019
• Women Potters, Eighth National Women's Literature Conferences (Sardasht), March 2016
• Sculptures of Khatoozin, Women’s Day: Khatoozin's Commemoration, Saghez, Kurdistan, March 2015
• Kurdish Native Pottery, Tenth National Biennial of Contemporary Ceramics in Iran: Tehran, Imam Ali Art Museum, October 2011

Patent

• A Gas burner with multiple adjustment parameters. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Sandeep Bajrangi Bari. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, South African Patent Application No. 2025/00787, Republic of South Africa, 2025
• Gas -Fired Cross-Draft Pottery Kiln. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Indian Design Registration, No:438139001,Intellectual Property India. Date:22/11/2024
• Adjustable Gas Burner. Inventors: Ovla, Arman.Sandeep Bajrangi Bari. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, Indian Design Registration No. 439297-001, Intellectual Property India. Date:03/12/2024
• A Gas burner with multiple adjustment parameters. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Sandeep Bajrangi Bari. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, German Utility Model Patent, Date:31/01/2025, No:202024107087, No:202024107087
• A low Budget Gas, Cross- Draft Kiln with Normal Bricks for local potters. Inventors: Ovla, Arman. Roy, Satyaki & Shatarupa, German Utility Model Patent, Date:31/01/2025, No:202024107086, No:202024107086