TALKS

Abhiram, AH and Jillet Sarah Sam. 2024. "Financial Practices Using Alternative Currencies: Cryptocurrency trading for Wealth Management within Kinship Relations." Digital Transactions in Asia V. Panel on Financial Transactions. ICISER, Vietnam. 

Sam, Jillet, Shriram Venkatraman and Rajorshi Ray. 2023. "Platform Exoneration or Multi-Homing? The case of WhatsApp as value networks. American Sociological Association Annual Conference. Digital Sociology & Social Media Session. 

Piergiorgio Degli Esposti, and Jillet Sam. 2023. “Emerging platform society: Analyzing prosumption and digital payments.” XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Session: Prosumption in post COVID-19 societies.

Rajorshi Ray, and Jillet Sam. 2023. “Financial actors in context: An ethnographic study on financial intermediation and its role in platform dependant entrepreneurship in India.” XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Session: Finance as a verb.

Abhiram AH, and Jillet Sam. 2023. “Understanding cryptocurrencies from the perspective of social institutions.” XX ISA World Congress of Sociology. Session: Finance as a verb.

Kalpesh Kumar Ambalal Chauhan, and Jillet Sam. 2023. “Dealing with credit scores: The work of microfinance officers in rural Gujarat, India.” XX ISA World Congress of Sociology.

Sam, Jillet. 2021. “The elderly platform user: Comparing the collaborative use of digital money in India and Italy.” (with Piergiorgio Degli Esposti) Annual Meeting of the European Sociological Association.

Sam, Jillet. 2021. “The elderly platform user: Comparing the collaborative use of digital money in India and Italy.” (with Piergiorgio Degli Esposti) VIII STS Italia Conference. Panel: What is a cashless society? Interrogating access, stakeholders and practices.  Watch  

Sam, Jillet and Anwesha Chakraborty. 2019. “Negotiating digital transformations and ‘geographies of cashlessness’.” 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference: Digital Asia. Lund University. Panel: Platform Society: Companies, Labour and ICT.

Sam, Jillet. 2018. “Folklore in a Digitalizing Asia: Connective Ethnographies through Intertextuality.” 10th Annual conference of the Asian Dynamics Initiative. University of Copenhagen. Panel: Researching Digital in Asia

Sam, Jillet. 2018. “Reinstating the nation-state in online familial intimacies: ‘good citizenship’ in India’s #Selfiewithdaughter campaign.” Intimacies Online, Online Intimacies conference. Roskilde University.

Sam, Jillet. 2017. “Gendered habitus and the digital self-as-citizen in India’s #Selfiewithdaughter campaign.” International Conference on Fear and Loathing of the Online Self organized by John Cabot University, Universita Degli Studi RomaTre and Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam.

Sam, Jillet. 2016. “Counting Caste through Gender on the Cyber Thiyyars of Malabar”. SASNET Modern Matters: Negotiating the Future in Everyday Life in South Asia. Session: Women and Gender in South Asian Modernity: Vulnerabilities and Violence.

Sam, Jillet. 2016. “Digital Caste Diasporas beyond National Boundaries”. Global Studies of North America Annual Conference. Session: Media and Digital Framing of Identities.

Sam, Jillet. 2015. “Reviving Malabar kavus through collective representations on a digital Thiyya caste group.” Indian Sociological Society Annual Conference. RC: Religion.

Sam, Jillet. 2013. “Spatial Imaginaries of Caste: Re-embedding Thiyya identity on Cyber Thiyyers of Malabar.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference. Session: Social Change in India.

Sam, Jillet. 2012. “Using Matrimonial Websites as Extended (Social) Space: Embeddedness, Emplacement and Reterritorialization.” Eastern Sociological Society Annual Conference. Session: Community, Collaboration and the Internet.

Sam, Jillet. 2010. “Globalization and Layered Spaces: The Case of Hitec City in India.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference. Community & Urban Sociology Session: "Transformative Developments in 21st Century Cities and Suburbs."

Sam, Jillet. 2010. “Global-as-spectacle: interaction between the Global and the Grocal in Hitec City, India.” March 19. Eastern Sociological Society Meetings. Roundtable: “Globalization - Cyberspace, Youth and Glocalization.” 

Sam, Jillet. 2022. “Rise of the Digital Economy: Ethnographic interventions” Economy and Society: Experiences and Experiments from India and Nepal. Roundtable organized by Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle.

Sam, Jillet. 2022. “Collaborative Money Work: Platforms in the care collectives of elderly Anglo-Indians.” (Presented with Brian Gomes). International Conference on Emerging Platform Society, UNIBO-IITK Research group. Track: Money in the Platform Ecosystem. Watch

Sam, Jillet. 2021. “Off-Platform Networks and the Platform Society: Gig-Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in India”. Lecture in the Virtual Seminar on Emerging Platform Societies, UNIBO-IITK Research group. Watch

Sam, Jillet. 2019. “Mobile Apps: A Structural Approach” Lecture at the Department of Sociology and Business Economics, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Sam, Jillet. 2019. “Sense-making of digital money among female informal workers in North India.” Second Advanced Macroeconomics Workshop on Money and the Economy. Workshop organized by Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Sam, Jillet. 2019. “Sense-making of digital money among female peripheral agents.” Seminar presentation (with Dr Anwesha Chakraborty) at the Department of Management, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Sam, Jillet. 2019. “Sense-making of digital money among female peripheral agents.” Lecture  (with Dr Anwesha Chakraborty) at the Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Sam, Jillet. 2018. “Travelling Folklore and Intertextuality.” Writing the Internet: Internet Lore in Asia. Workshop organized by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Session: Methodologies.

Sam, Jillet. 2015. “The Spatial Imaginaries of Caste.” Department of Sociology. Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati.

Sam, Jillet. 2014. “Representing Caste through Place.” Department of Sociology. University of Hyderabad. 

Sam. Jillet. 2011. “Caste Online: Social Geographies, Presence and Absence”. Department of Communication, SN School of Arts and Communication. University of Hyderabad.

Sam, Jillet. 2011. “Digitized Caste Endogamy: Spatial Considerations”. Theorizing the Web Conference. Session: Cyber Racism, Race and Social Media.