Invited Talks/ Panels
May 2023 Part of the panel "Language and Ethics of Climate Change" Harvard Climate Symposium: Raising to the Climate Challenge, The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard Radcliff Institute at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University.
May 2023 Part of the panel “Culture, Climate, and Health”at the annual Cambridge Symposium at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University.
May 2023 "Prospects for South Asian Nuclearism, Disarmament, and Peace Politics" by Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University.
May 2023 “Dialogue on Climate Justice in South Asia and Beyond” organized by David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada.
May 2023 “Framing Climate Justice in South Asia: Caste, the Adivasi question and Changing Cliamte in India”, oranaised by the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Canada.
October 2022, "Can Nuclear Energy & Democracy Co-exist? Citizen Struggles in India", Department of Asian Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada.
May 2019, “Why do people oppose nuclear power projects in India? The story of protest movements at Jaitapur and Kudankulam” Environmental Studies Colloquium, Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, India.
Conference Presentations
August 2023 “Can there be Ethical Geoengineering? Doing Solar Radiation Modification in an Unequal World”, Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, USA.
June 2023 " “Caste in the Anthropocene”, Development Studies Association annual meeting 2023, University of Reading, UK.
June 2023 "The challenges for Managed Retreats in South Asia: Evidence from India". At What Point Managed Retreat: Habitability and Mobility in the ear of Climate Change, Columbia Climate School, Columbia University, New York.
April 2023 "Climate Justice in South Asia: Dalits, Adivasis and Climate Change in India in Climate Change" in South Asia Symposium by Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Hawai, USA.
March 2023, “What is different about Climate Justice in South Asia? Caste, the Adivasi question, and Climate Change in India” South Asia Institute, Harvard University.
March 2023, “Caste of the Climate Change; Climate Justice in Kuttanad, South India” at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers on March 25, 2023, Denver, Colorado, USA.
February 2023, “Nuclear Culture in South Asia: Protest Movements Against Nuclear Power Projects in India” at the UCLA Center for Korean Studies, February 25, University of California Loss angles, California, USA.
September 2022, “Sinking Rice Bowl and Climate Justice in South India: The Case of Dalits communities in Kuttanad” conference on Climate Change and Agrarian Justice, convened by the Journal of Peasant Studies, Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South, and the Transnational Institute.
June 2022, “People’s opposition to nuclear power projects in Kudankulam and Jaitapur,” in research workshop by the University College London’s Anthropocene Research Group, University College London, UK.
June 2022, “Why people are opposing nuclear power projects in India: The Story of Kudanakulam and Jaitapur “at the South Asia Institute, SOAS University of London, UK.
September 2017. "State violence against the anti-nuclear movements in India; Narratives from Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu and Jaitapur in Maharashtra" at the annual conference of the Australian Political Studies Association at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
January 2017, "Muslim question on Indian campuses: Identity, Assertion and Crisis" at the joint workshop on Cities, Identity and Question of Democracy: Critical Reflections from South Asia and Beyond organized by University of Westminster, UK and Centre for Urban Policy, TISS, Mumbai, India.
April 2016 "Migration of Muslims from Kerala to Gulf Countries, Evidence for forced migration from the villages of Malappuram in Kerala, India" at the Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, 2016 at Washington DC, USA.
May 2016, "State of Democracy in India: Narratives from the people's movements in Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu and Jaitapur in Maharashtra" at the conference on Narratives of Indian Democracy at India Institute, Kings College, London, UK.
October 2016, "State, modernity, nuclear energy and Muslims in India: A case study of protest movement against the Japitapur Nuclear power plant in Maharashtra, India" at the workshop on 'Negotiating Technologies' workshop by Muslim South Asia Research Forum at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK.
November 2014, “Changing nature and character of the Indian state in the post liberalization era, State's responses towards the people's movements in Koodankulam and Jaitapure" at the International South-South Institute held in Bangkok, Thailand organized by The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and the International Development Economic Associates (IDEAs).