Academic Outreach
INSTITUTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL COLLABORATIONS
2026: Co-editing a book on pandemics and mobilities together with Amrita Datta, Bielefeld University and Jonathan Ngeh, University of Cologne for Brill (Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series)
12, 2021: Convened and moderated a book discussion of Dev Pathak, Sociologist at South Asian University, hosted at Krea University details: krea.edu.in/event/an-virtual-book-discussion-on-in-defence-of-the-ordinary/
2019-2021: Curriculum development and syllabus making of Social Studies Major, Krea University details: krea.edu.in/sias/social-sciences-at-krea/
INVITED TALKS
February 14, 2025: Panelist at "Self Representation and Communication in the context of Migration and Emerging Digital Diaspora Communities" to speak on "Indian Digital Diasporas in Germany and their 'Hometown Associations'", organized by Berlin South Asia Studies, Humboldt University https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/region/suedasien/gesellschaften/11.pdf
July 3, 2023: Social media use in the diaspora: Practices among the Indian immigrants in Germany, at the OBERSEMINAR VORTRAGSREIHE DES INSTITUTS FÜR ETHNOLOGIE, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/oberseminar/os-sose-2023.pdf
June 9, 2023: Indians in Germany: Media, Politics and Religion, at GAMS Research Colloquium Season 6 – summer term 2023, Research Colloquium of the Department of Gender and Media Studies for the South Asian Region, Humboldt University Berlin, https://v.hu-berlin.de/?stat=show&vk_id=9195
April 18, 2023: Skilled Labour Migration from India to Germany, at Sachverständigenrat für Integration und Migration (SVR) gGmbH, Berlin
SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS
July 4, 2024: Long distance nationalism through digital media in migration practices: Tracing the fifth wave of the Indian migrants in Germany at IMISCOE Annual Conference 2024, Lisbon
July16, 2019: Indigenous People in India: Relevance and Consequences of “Progress” and Development; International Congress of Asia Scholars (ICAS11), International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden www.eventscribe.com/2019/ICAS11/fsPopup.asp?Mode=sessioninfo&PresentationID=562802
August29-September1,2017: Social Inclusion of Indian Punjabis in Germany: From Refugees to Citizens; 13th Conference of the European Sociological Association (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities, Athens, Greece esa13thconference.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/ESA-2017-Athens_Programme-Book_Detailed-Version.pdf
June2, 2017: Progress and Development: Indigenous People of India; Public Lecture, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
May25, 2017: From Spencer to Orwell: The Idea of Progress and Social Inclusion of Indian Indigenous People in “Mainstream” Society; 16th Annual Conference: International Social Theory Consortium, University of Innsbruck, Austria
May9-11, 2017: Visuals as the Message: Political Cartoons in Social Media as Propaganda: Visual South Asia: Anthropological Explorations of Media and Culture, SAU, New Delhi, India and University of Dhaka, Bangladesh vsa2017blog.wordpress.com/participants/
April20, 2016: Role of Media in Electoral Politics in India; Summer Colloquium Series, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
February,11,2016: Understanding Manufacture of News through Mediated Buzzwords; Weekly Lecture Series, Centre for Media Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
July5, 2014: Media Campaign, Voting Decision of the Electorate, and Change of Long Political Regime: A Study on Assembly Elections 2011 in West Bengal, India; 5th ECPR Graduate Student Conference in Innsbruck, Austria