Engendering the Body: A Broad Review of the Body in Feminist Theory. Musings on the Body; Aug 13-14, 2020, Dept. of English; Assam University, Silchar.
John and Jane and their Ethnographic Counterparts. Seminar at KREA University; November 21, 2019.
The Ethnographic Turn in Indian Contemporary Art. RE-LOOK (43) – Lectures on Indian Art, 1Shanthi Road; curated by Pushpamala; November 11, 2019; Bengaluru.
Sexing the Body Multiple: CAH and the Category of Intersex; ‘The Performing Body’; Feb 1-2, 2019; IIT Hyderabad.
1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy; Depts. Of Anthropology, Sociology and Business and Economics; The International Studies Program; Southwestern University; November 29, 2018.
Navigating the Body Multiple; Seminar talk at The University of Texas at Austin; November 26, 2018
2017. Social Dimensions of Technology Transitions; Tandem Research – Policy Lab 03 for a workshop entitled “The Future of Work in India: Technology Foresight Group”; September 2017.
2017. Fixing Unruly Bodies: Practising Care for CAH patients, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, for a workshop entitled, “Framing Technology and Care in Asian Contexts”, May 2017.
Keynote Address: Working through Gender: A Performance in Three Acts. Social Issues in Global India; Nov 16-17, 2017, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities.
2017. Water-Worlds: Image and Representation in the Chennai floods of 2015,The University of Texas at Austin, and The Center for International and Regional Studies/Georgetown-Doha, for a workshop entitled, “Climate Vulnerability in South Asia’s Coastal Cities”, January 2017
2013. 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the New Indian Middle-Classes; Seminar at the Centre for South Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh, June 2013.
New Technologies, Old Divides: The political economy of technology and outsourcing; September 25, 2008; CSL Colloquium, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Paper Presentations
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Embodiment, Figuration and Experience; Association of Asian Studies (AAS)-in-Asia Annual Conference, July 1-4, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ethnographic Attunements; Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 15-19, 2018, New Orleans, LA
How to do things with Bits and Bytes; Media Morphologies: Infrastructures and Technologies in Art, Cinema and Popular Culture, September 1-2 2011, De Nieuwe Oogst Rotterdam
The Management of Sleep; Association for Asian Studies and International Convention for Asia Scholars Joint Conference, March 31-April 3, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii
Waking Life/Working Life: The Sleepless Subjects of the Indian Call Center; Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 17-21, 2010, New Orleans, LA
Engendering the Body: A Broad Review of the Body in Feminist Theory. Musings on the Body; Aug 13-14, 2020, Dept. of English; Assam University, Silchar.
John and Jane and their Ethnographic Counterparts. Seminar at KREA University; November 21, 2019.
The Ethnographic Turn in Indian Contemporary Art. RE-LOOK (43) – Lectures on Indian Art, 1Shanthi Road; curated by Pushpamala; November 11, 2019; Bengaluru.
Sexing the Body Multiple: CAH and the Category of Intersex; ‘The Performing Body’; Feb 1-2, 2019; IIT Hyderabad.
1-800-Worlds: The Making of the Indian Call Centre Economy; Depts. Of Anthropology, Sociology and Business and Economics; The International Studies Program; Southwestern University; November 29, 2018.
Navigating the Body Multiple; Seminar talk at The University of Texas at Austin; November 26, 2018
2017. Social Dimensions of Technology Transitions; Tandem Research – Policy Lab 03 for a workshop entitled “The Future of Work in India: Technology Foresight Group”; September 2017.
2017. Fixing Unruly Bodies: Practising Care for CAH patients, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, for a workshop entitled, “Framing Technology and Care in Asian Contexts”, May 2017.
Keynote Address: Working through Gender: A Performance in Three Acts. Social Issues in Global India; Nov 16-17, 2017, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities.
2017. Water-Worlds: Image and Representation in the Chennai floods of 2015,The University of Texas at Austin, and The Center for International and Regional Studies/Georgetown-Doha, for a workshop entitled, “Climate Vulnerability in South Asia’s Coastal Cities”, January 2017
2013. 1-800-Worlds: The Making of the New Indian Middle-Classes; Seminar at the Centre for South Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh, June 2013.
New Technologies, Old Divides: The political economy of technology and outsourcing; September 25, 2008; CSL Colloquium, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
Paper Presentations
The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Embodiment, Figuration and Experience; Association of Asian Studies (AAS)-in-Asia Annual Conference, July 1-4, 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
Ethnographic Attunements; Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 15-19, 2018, New Orleans, LA
How to do things with Bits and Bytes; Media Morphologies: Infrastructures and Technologies in Art, Cinema and Popular Culture, September 1-2 2011, De Nieuwe Oogst Rotterdam
The Management of Sleep; Association for Asian Studies and International Convention for Asia Scholars Joint Conference, March 31-April 3, 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii
Waking Life/Working Life: The Sleepless Subjects of the Indian Call Center; Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Nov 17-21, 2010, New Orleans, LA