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
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