2025
2024
From mother tongue to other tongue: Understanding the medium of instruction (MOI) transition in Afghan Refugee Village (ARV) schools in Pakistan. Presented online at the 5th Symposium of Southern Ontario Universities titled ‘Reimagining Language and Literacies Education,’ at the Western University, Canada and Online, held on 4-5 October, 2024, sponsored by University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, and York University, Canada.
To translanguage or not to translanguage?: Pakistani private English language teachers’ perspectives. Presented at the 10th International Conference of Linguistic Association of Pakistan in collaboration with University of Balochistan, Quetta, on 3-5 October, 2024.
Seeking pictorial justice: Are the Pakistani English textbook “innocent”?. Presented online at the XVIII World Congress of Comparative Education Societies titled ‘Fostering Inclusive Ecologies of Knowledge: Education for Equitable and Sustainable Futures,’ at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA held on 22-26 July, 2024, sponsored by World Council of Comparative Education Societies (UNESCO).
2023
Is Chinese becoming the OTHER English in Pakistan?. Presented as a guest speaker at the Symposium and Book Launch Ceremony themed ‘Embracing Chinese as a second language’ organized by the China Study Center at Balochistan University of I.T, Engineering & Management Sciences (BUITEMS) on July 23, 2023.
Understanding the transition to Pakistan National Curriculum in Afghan Village Schools of Balochistan. Presented at the ‘Central Asia Language and Education (CALE 2023)’ conference held at the KIMEP, Almaty, Kazakhstan on May 18- 19, 2023.
2022
Why mother languages acts fail in Pakistan? The challenges in the implementation of the Balochistan Mother Languages Act 2014. Presented at the TEACup Conference (2022) on ‘Making Plurilingual/pluricultural education accessible: International perspectives held in the University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany on September 13-15, 2022.
Teachers’ agency and the gatekeeping of the language policy: The appropriation of the policies in classrooms of Pakistan. Presented at the fourth ‘Sociolinguistics Symposium (SoSy 2022)’ held in the University of Illinois, Illinois, USA on February 24, 2022.
2021
Dialectical preferences: A mixed methods study of ESL students’ attitudes towards Englishes in Pakistan. Presented at the ‘2nd International Symposium on Applied Linguistics Research (ALR 2021)’ held in the College of Humanities and Applied Linguistics Lab at the Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia on November 6-7, 2021.
From assembly to schools: Understanding the implementation of ‘Balochistan Mother Languages Act 2014’. Presented at the ‘Multidisciplinary Approaches in Language Policy and Planning Conference (LPP 2021)’ held in the Faculty of Education at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada from August 26 to August 28, 2021.
Opening spaces for students’ languages in English medium classrooms: Insights from university teachers in Pakistan. Presented at the ‘Conference on Multilingualism 2021 (COM2021)’ held at the Department of Linguistics, the project The Multilingual Mind, and the Center of Multilingualism in the Universitat Konstanz, Germany on June 23-25, 2021.
Translanguaging and Multilingualism: Multilingual teachers’ perspectives about translanguaging in Pakistani multilingual higher education context. Presented at the Conference on ‘Multilingualism on My Mind: Exploring Multilingualism in Education 2021’ held at the Department of Foreign Languages in the University of Bergen, Norway on March 18-19, 2021.
Opening ideological and implementational spaces for multilingual pedagogies: An insight into the monoglossic ideologies in the universities of Pakistan. Presented at the Conference on ‘Multilingualism on My Mind: Exploring Multilingualism in Education 2021’ held at the Department of Foreign Languages in the University of Bergen, Norway on March 18-19, 2021.
To translanguage or not to translanguage? Pakistani private English language teachers’ perspectives. Presented at the Conference on ‘Multilingualism on My Mind: Exploring Multilingualism in Education 2021’ held at the Department of Foreign Languages in the University of Bergen, Norway on March 18-19, 2021.
2020
Translanguaging in English medium classes: Exploring teachers’ practices and perspectives in the Universities of Pakistan. Accepted to be presented at the Conference on ‘Beyond Multilingualism—Translanguaging in Education’ 2020 scheduled to held at the University of Basel, Switzerland on November 2-3, 2020. (Postponed due to COVID-19)
Preserving heritage languages: Problems and prospects. Accepted to be presented at the Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology (CALA) 2020 held at the University Putra Malaysia on February 5-8, 2020. (Accepted; funding provision issue; was not possible to be presented).
Gender representation in Balochistan textbooks. Accepted to be presented at the 2020 Global Conference on Women and Gender to be held at the Christopher Newport University USA on March 19-21. (Accepted; funding provision issue; was not possible to be presented).
Developing dynamic language policy: Pakistani primary school teachers’ perspectives. Accepted to be presented at the 2020 Language Policy Forum to be held at the University of Cambridge, U.K. on May 7-8, 2020. (Accepted; cancelled due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic).
Gendered politics of pictures and English textbooks of Pakistan. Accepted to be presented at the 11th International Gender and Language Association (IGALA) to be held at the Queen Mary University of London, U.K. from June 29- to July 2, 2020. (Accepted; cancelled due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic).