Receiving memento in the hands of Prof. Vinay Kumar Srivastava for the invited lecture on “Anthropology of Cardiometabolic Adversities” in the Department of Anthropology, Delhi University, Delhi on 26th September 2015

SEMINARS, SYMPOSIUM, CONGRESS, WORKSHOPS

1. Invited Lecture at Anthropos India Foundation (online) on 23rd May 2026, "Evolving terminologies and expanding scope of Biological Anthropology". 

2. Invited Lecture on "Climate Change as a Bio-Cultural Phenomenon: An Anthropological Perspective on Adaptation, Inequality, and Human Future" at National Seminar on ‘The Planet as Political: Climate of History, Planetary Responsibility, and the Question of Viksit Bharat’ on March 13, 2026 and  13th to 14th March 2026, Central University of Odisha, Koraput. 

3. Attended INCAA 2026 and convened one personal panel on Ageing and One official Panel on the project EHSAS. 

4. Paper presented as Official Delegate in the 46th Annual Conference of the Indian Association for the study of Populations (IASP) from 27th to 29th of November 2025. The title of the paper "How happy am I? Reflections on the perceptions among the elderly in Mysuru" at AnSI, Kolkata.

5. Invited Lecture "From Classroom to Community: Paradigm Shifts in Physical Anthropology for Vikshit Bharat under the PM-USHA Scheme" at the National Seminar on "Frontiers in Anthropological debates" from 12th to 14th November 2025 at Kannur University. 

6. Attended INCAA 2025 as invited lecture in the Round Table Discussion and also presented one paper. 

7. Convened one panel and presented a paper on “Human Genome Editing and its Ethical Dilemma for Social Justice, Sustainability and Global Peace" at World Anthropology Congress-2023 at Bhubaneswar, India from 9th to 14th August 2023. 

8. Participated in panel discussion on Triple Burden of Malnutrition at World Anthropological Congress on 10th August 2023 at KISS, Orissa. 

9. Paper presented (online) in Pre Congress International Seminar Delhi University under UIAF 11-13 January 2023. 

10. Invited Lecture: Russian-Indian Workshop “Children’s Growth and Health” on 17th October 2022. Organiser : Bose, Kaushik Sankar [Vidyasagar University] & Godina, Elena [Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology]: Topic of the lecture: “Impact of perennial flood condition of Assam on Physical Growth and nutritional status of Mising children”.

11. Invited Lecture in International Workshop in Scientific Application of South Asian Archeology from 14th to 16th June at International Center, Goa. 

12. Invited for participation in the international “MAHE – AIST Workshop on Epigenomics” at the School of Life Sciences, Manipal Academy of Higher Education from 20th to 22nd February 2019.

13. Invited Lecture presented in the 13th International Congress of Human Growth and Clinical Auxology from 17th to 20th September 2014 at Congress Center Habakuk, Maribor, Slovenia. 

14. Paper accepted and invited for presentation in Commission for Urban Anthropology on 17th IUAES World Congress from 5th to 10th August 2013 at Manchester, UK. Paper titled “Urbanisation and thrifty phenotypes: a burden or relaxation of natural selection”. (Couldn't join Physically due to official obligation). 

15. Paper presented tiled “Peaceful versus noisy environment: An experimental study within classroom situation” in 6th International Conference on Management and Behavioural Sciences (ICMBS-6) from 1st to 2nd December 2012 organized by Society of Management and Behavioural Science (SMBS), Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

16. Paper presented titled “The socio-economic transition: A new impediment for tribal development in health sector” in an International Seminar on Tribal Development on 1st June and 2nd June 2012 in Pacific Institute of Tribal Development, Pacific University, Udaipur, Rajasthan.

17. Paper presented in Indian Science Congress titled “Opportunity for natural selection and its socioeconomic variability: a study among the Misings of Upper Assam, India” held at Chennai, India from 3rd to 7th January 2011.

18. Participated in the SPSS 16.0 Faculty Development Program organized by SPSS South Asia in the department of Statistics, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh on 19th and 20th September 2009.

19. Paper accepted and invited for presentation in the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES 2009, Kunming, China). (Couldnot join physically due to official obligation).

20. Presented a paper "Hemoglobin E in Northeast India", in the International Symposium on Newer Frontiers in Biomedical Research held on 28-29 June, 2008, organized by Regional Medical Research Centre, NE, (ICMR) Dibrugarh.

21. Presented an invited lecture on Ethical issues for the Research on Cardiometabolic Adversities: An Anthropological Perspective in the National Seminar on “Anthropology of Cardiometabolic Adversities” in the Department of Anthropology, Delhi University, Delhi from 25th to 26th September 2015.

22. Presented a paper titled Epidemiological Transition among a semi-nomadic population of Rajasthan in the National Seminar on Anthropological Research in India: Tradition and Transition in the Department of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh from 10th -11th March 2015. 

23. Presented a paper (joint) titled Metabolic syndrome and age in the National Seminar on Status of senior citizens: issues and challenges held in the Mohonlal Sukhadiya University, Udaipur (Rajasthan) on 22-23rd December 2013.

24. Participated in Orientation Course on Hands-on-Training Laboratory Procedures and Techniques (From DNA extraction upto sequencing) from 22nd to 31st July 2013, at Anthropological Survey of India, Southern Regional Centre, Mysore. 

25. Presented a paper titled ‘Nutritional status among the Gadia Lohar children of Udaipur, Rajasthan” in the XXXVIII All India Sociological Conference on Contemporaty Indian Society: Challenges & Responses held in Department of Sociology, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur (Rajasthan) on 27th to 29th December 2012.

26. Presented a paper titled ‘Women empowerment: its concept and realization” in the National Seminar on Women Empowerment : A Challenge of 21st Century held in Rajasthan Mahila Teachers’ Training College Udaipur (Rajasthan) on 4th and 5th February 2012.

27. Presented a paper titled ‘Physical Growth and distribution of malnutrition in the two sexes of Mising children’ in the National Seminar on Frontier Areas of Research in Social Sciences with special emphasis on Anthropology in Northeast India, held in the Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University on 30th and 31st March 2009.

28. Presented an Invited Lecture on ‘Effect of age, sex and economic condition on the prevalence of malnutrition among the Misings of Upper Assam, India’ in the Symposium cum Training programme for developing Capacity building of young scientists for Carrying out Basic, Clinical and operational research in the field of nutrition held from 21st to 23rd March, 2009 at National JALMA institute of Leprosy and other Micobacterial Diseases, Agra (U.P.) under Indian Council of Medical Research.

29. Presented a paper in the National Seminar on Tai-Mongoloids of Northeast India: Emerging biosocial trends, held in the Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University on February 20 & 21, 2009.

30. Participated in the Workshop on ‘Statistical and Computing Methods for Life Sciences Data Analysis’ organized by the Biological Anthropological Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, during 9th to 14th February 2007 at Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University.

31. Presented a paper in the National Seminar on Anthropology of Tourism with Special Reference to North East India held in the Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University on November 23 and 24, 2006.

32. Presented a paper titled “Fertility and Educational status among the Sonowal Kacharis of Assam” in a National Seminar on Status of Tribal Women with Special Reference to North East India held in the department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University on February 24th and 25th 2006.

Convenor of Seminar/ Webinar/ Workshop

1) Convened two national and one international webinar and one workshop under International School of Anthropology, Mysore. 

2) Convened three seminars as Head of Office, Anthropological Survey of India

3) Convened different workshop as Head of Office, Anthropological Survey of India, Mysore. 

4) Convened one panel in World Anthropology Congress (2023, Bhubaneswar).