Conference Presentations/ Lectures

Invited Lectures

ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE hosted by the Reproductive Sociology Group, University of Cambridge, 2019 titled: 'Whose Biological Clock? Temporal Inevitability and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary India', 5 December 2019.

'Conceptualizing Declining Reproduction: Exploring old and new fertilities within assisted reproduction in India', Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, 9 December 2019.

'Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)making of Kin in India', SOAS South Asia Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 10 December 2019.

KEY NOTE 'The pregnant body in political and social thought in India', XI AFIN International Conference organized by the University of Barcelona in association with the University of Granada titled TOWARDS REPRODUCTIVE (IN)JUSTICE? MOBILITIES, TECHNOLOGIES, LABOURINGS AND DECISIONS, 4-6 September 2019, Granada, Spain.

'Infertility as Inevitable: The Nature of Chronicity in Assisted Reproduction in India', Public Lecture, Tata Institute of Social Sciences- Hyderabad, 6 July 2017.

‘Match-making Genes: Conflicted Kinship in Commercial Surrogacy in India’, Public Lecture, Research Group for Family and Kinship, Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, Sweden 10 May 2016.

‘Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World’, Swedish South Asian Network (SASNET)-Gender Studies Seminar, Department of Gender Studies, Lund University, Sweden 27 April 2016.

'Conflicted Kinship in a Transnational World: Commercial Gestational Surrogacy in India’, Public Seminar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, 12 April 2016.

‘Match-making Genes: Conflicted Kinship in Commercial Gestational Surrogacy in India’, Guest lecture, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 18 March 2015.

‘In No-Man’s Land: The Dilemma of Identity and Personhood in Transnational Commercial Surrogacy Arrangements’, Public Lecture at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, 24 February 2015.

Conference Presentations

‘Conceiving Dekinning: Practices of Pre-Birthing in IVF Clinics in India’, 11^th INDAS International Conference on Living and Dying in South Asia, Kyoto, 14-15 December 2019.

'Conceptualizing Declining Reproduction: Exploring Old and New Fertilities within Assisted Reproduction in India', BRICS Dialogues on Fertility Industry: New Reproduction and (Old) Stratification, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town, 4-5 October 2018.

'Infertility as Inevitable: The Nature of Chronicity and Assisted Reproduction in India', European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS), 24-27 July 2018, Paris.

' "The Rogue Doctor": Imagining Legitimacy in Assisted Conception in India', Remaking Reproduction: The Global Politics of Reproductive Technologies, Reproductive Sociology Group, University of Cambridge, 27-19 June 2018.

‘De-kinning in the IVF Clinic: Files, Screens and the Making of Embryos’, Visualizing Kin: Representing Kinship and Family in Contemporary Asia, Contemporary India Study Centre Aarhus (CISCA), Department of Global Studies, University of Aarhus, Denmark 20 May 2016.

‘Majburi: Or what Makes a Surrogate Mother’, Redefining Labour Roles in a Globalizing India, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, 28-30 January 2016.

‘Informing the Contemporary through the Mythic: The Bizarre World of Assisted Conception’, Non-State Legal Practices in India, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, 5–7 December 2015.

‘In No-Man’s Land: The Stateless “Citizen” in Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India’, International Medical Travel and the Politics of Transnational Mobility in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 26-27 August 2015.

‘Match-making genes: Assisted reproductive technologies and clinicians in commercial surrogacy in India’, International Conference on Historical Trends and Contemporary Challenges in Medicine in India, IIT-Madras, 29-30 January 2015.

'The Womb as Biocapital in the Surrogate Pregnancy', 5^th National Bioethics Conference, Bangalore, 11-13 December 2014.

‘The Culture of Anonymity: Information, Technology and Kin’, Lives of Information, SARAI-CSDS (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies), New Delhi, 21-22 February 2014.

‘The Fertile Poor and the Infertile Rich: The Politics of Choice and Access in the Transnational Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement in India’, Well-being at the Margins: Seeking Health in Stratified Landscapes of Medicine and Healing, Department of Anthropology, Freie University, Berlin, 21-27 July 2013.

‘Reclaiming Fatherhood: The Masculine Ideal in the Transnational Commercial Surrogacy Arrangement in India’, Transnationalism, Gender Hierarchies and Masculinities in Asia, held at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 13-14 March 2013.

‘Selecting the Selected Few: An Analysis of the Policies and Laws Surrounding the Use and Regulation of Specific Reproductive Technologies in India’ (with Ravinder Kaur), Selective Reproductive Technologies: Routes of Routinization and Globalization, held at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 13-15 December 2012.

‘In No-Man’s Land: The Dilemma of Identity and Personhood in Transnational Commercial Surrogacy Arrangements’, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in San Francisco, 14-19 November 2012.

‘Waiting for the Womb: The Representation of Reproduction in an Infertility Clinic Waiting Room’, Annual International Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists, UK held in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 4-6 April 2012.

‘The Ethnographic Bind: Fieldwork in an Infertility Clinic’, Research Students’ Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, 31 March 2011.

‘Technological Parenting: Medicine and Kinship in India’, Ethics and Medical Anthropology, GB Pant Institute, Allahabad, Society for Indian Medical Anthropology (SIMA) and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) at Allahabad, 10-11 February 2011.

‘Love in the Time of Disease: An Analysis of the Relationship between Media, Health and the Nation’, Conference on Media, Culture and Ideology, Osmania University Centre for International Programs, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 29-30 January 2009.