Below you'll find links to some of the talks and panels I've been a part of.
On the BBC's The Forum, discussing the long history and the future of magazines: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct712v
At the Hyderabad Literary Festival, talking about my debut novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGqt62dD7kw&list=PLwUi4ieBhWk5I9Op-XUWddHfPVCi5HdwM&index=47&pp=iAQB
Dr Rituparna Patagiri spoke to me for the Doing Sociology web site, about children and the digital media landscape. https://doingsociology.org/2025/02/25/children-adolescents-and-mediascape-in-india-an-interview-with-usha-raman/
In conversation with Prof Mohan Dutta about my journey to and inside academia and thoughts about what it means to be a media scholar in the Global South, https://interventionfromgs.transistor.fm/episodes/interventions-from-the-global-south-usha-raman-feminist-approaches-to-work
A conversation about feminist politics and the internet, with The Swaddle's In Perspective podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IPuWu4AGDQUyzchPZaUBs?si=8fa9822f01964e80
Invited lecture as part of the Guru-Manthan series on education: The Classroom as a Transformative Space. May 2021
Keynote address at the conference on 100 years of Media Education in India, hosted by Bangalore University, December 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIw_UdfVD-8
The Discussion Forum for Online Teachers talks about student engagement in online teaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osfgMDiVz58&t=20s
A dialogue with Trine Syvertsen of the University of Oslo at the IAMCR2020 Unclosing Plenary: https://iamcr.org/tampere2020/unclosing-plenary
My latest research interest, laid out in a position paper, Deconstructing the Data Gaze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw-AKc4VnP8&t=169s
Discussing my friend Sumana Kasturi's new book on women bloggers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyuKdEnOIdY
An exchange about writing with journalist Teresa Rahman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCul3Mw42I
At the Hyderabad Literary Festival, 2020, with writer Jerry Pinto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng5lgGANtbs
Also at HLF 2020: talking about podcasts, with Rakesh Kamal and Padma Priya of Suno India: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpcr8V5JV1M
and with Paromita Vohra, exploring the digital turn in dating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ap3WU2PvM
I've also been in conversation with many writers and thinkers, as part of a series on the UoH Campus Community Radio Station, Bol Hyderabad, including Noam Chomsky, William Dalrymple, Robert Kanigel, Arundhati Subramanian, Ranjit Hoskote, Siddharth Varadarajan, and Ammu Joseph.