2021. Digital Intimacies and Gendered Surveillance in the lives of Cross-border Marriage Migrants in Rural North India. Paper presented at Digital Intimacies #7, University of Queensland.
2021. Domestic Workers, Precarious Labour and Amplified Risks under COVID-19: Biopolitics of Contamination, Caste and Control in India. Paper presented at the British Sociological Association Work, Employment and Society Conference.
2021. (with Gayatri Nair and Anindita Majumdar). Risky Lives and Amplified Precarity: Labour Configurations under COVID-19. Invited Seminar Lecture at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.
2020. North Indian Rural Husbands in Cross-regional Marriages: Negotiating Masculinity in the Context of Skewed Sex ratios. Paper presented at the International Conference on Reproduction, Demography and Cultural Anxieties in India and China in the 21st Century at IIT, Delhi.
2020. Interrogating Agency and Marital Mobility in Cross-regional Marriage Scapes in India: A Case Study of Haryana Kalyanams. Paper presented at the Annual Economy and Society in India Seminar organized by Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala.
2019. Mobile Phones, Family Connections and Family Conflicts: Ethnographic Realities from the Lives of Cross-region Migrant Brides in North India. Paper presented at the International Conference on Mobile Phones, Gender and Society: Emerging Empirical Realities and Feminist Perspectives organized by Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2018. Demographic Imbalance, ‘Surplus’ Men and Threatened Masculinities. Presentation at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali.
2018. Demographic Transition, ‘Surplus’ Males and the Challenge to Inter-Generational Contract in North India. Paper presented at the International conference on Reframing the Biological Clock: Exploring Ageing and Reproduction in Contemporary Ethnographies, organized by Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.
2018. Becoming 'apni' (One's Own): Demographic imbalance, cross-cultural families and belonging in north India. Paper presented at the RC06-41 joint conference on “Changing Demography, Changing Families” of the International Sociological Association (ISA), organized by Centre for family and Population Research, Asia research institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.
2016. The moral panic of trafficking: Deconstructing the popular discourse around cross-region marriage in India. Invited lecture Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
2015. Cross-region marriages in North India: Negotiating caste practices in inter-caste unions. Paper presented at the Young Scholar’s Seminar, Centre for the study of Discrimination and Exclusion (CSDE), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
2015. Discussant for the paper titled ‘From son-preference to daughter-preference? Changing gender relations among Vellala Gounders in villages in western Tamil Nadu’ at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS), Netherlands, Europe.
2014. Being ‘molkibahu’: Cross-border trafficking and identity experiences of trafficked brides in North India. Paper presentation at 113th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., USA.
2014. Being ‘bare branches’: Demographic imbalance, marriage exclusion and masculinity in North India. Paper presented at 43rd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
2014. Being ‘mol ki bahu’: Identity experiences of trafficked brides in Haryana. Paper presented at the National Seminar on Migration, Poverty and Social Justice: Perspectives, Policies and Experiences, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
2013. Men, marriage and masculine identity: What being unmarried means. Paper presented at the 35th Annual conference of the Indian Association for Population Studies (IIPS), Mumbai held at Maharishi Dayanand University (MDU), Rohtak, Haryana.
2012. Bride import in Haryana: Issues and challenges. Paper presented at the Workshop on Mapping the Adverse Consequences of Imbalanced Sex-ratios in India and China, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies (RGICS), New Delhi.