“The (Common) Grounds of Comparison: Contemporary Indian Popular Culture and the Question of Comparative Cultural Studies”. Invited Paper. National Conference on “In-Comparative (Indian) Literatures”. Centre for Comparative Literature, School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad, 13-14 February 2025.
“Periodicals and Left-wing Culture in Kerala in the 1970s”. Annual Research Conclave, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. 7 February 2025.
“Telling Better Stories, Making another Future Possible: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Question of Utopia”. Invited Paper presented at the International Seminar on “Future of Marxism, Democracy, and Socialism”, organized by the EMS Chair for Marxian Studies and Research, University of Calicut. 18-20 December 2024.
“Stuart Hall’s Relevance for the Study of the “Culture of Politics” in Contemporary India”. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories”, organized by the Stuart Hall Archive Project, University of Birmingham. 31 October to 2 November 2024.
“The Politician as Star: Mediatization, Fandom and Celebritization of Politics in Kerala”. Invited Paper presented at the third Annual Conference on "India @75 & Beyond: New Ideas for the Present and Future", organized by the International Centre Goa. 17 July 2024.
"Kabani Nadi Chuvannappol: Political Cinema and New Left Politics in Kerala". Invited Paper presented at the International Seminar on “Mrinal Sen and the Vicissitudes of Political Cinema”, organized by the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. 7-8 November 2023.
"The Left and the Domain of the Popular in Kerala". Invited Paper presented at the 6th International Mass Communication Research Conference on “Mediating the Everyday: Popular Culture in South Asia”, organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calicut. 20-21 November 2023.
"Politician as Star: Media and Politics in Kerala". Paper presented as part of the cluster on "Mediated Politics and Religion" at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Biennial Conclave on "Post- Pandemic Futures: Re-Mapping Inter-Asian Routes", held at Ahmedabad University on 27-29 July 2023.
“National-popular, Popular Politics and the Left Popular: The Left Movement in Kerala and the Reinvention of Left-wing Populism”. Paper presented at the International Conference on Populism in Asia: The Same or Different Story?, organized by the Department of Social Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, 25-26 February 2022.
“Between ‘Failure’ and ‘Refusal to be Realistic’: Amma Ariyan and Radical Left Politics in Kerala”. Paper presented at the 2nd Rupkatha International Open Conference on “Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities”, held between August 28-30, 2021 on the virtual platform.
“‘We’ are Doing Better”: Local Pride, Collective Identity, and the Question of Populism in Kerala”. Paper presented at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2021 on “Culture in the Pandemic Age”, hosted by National University of Singapore, 28-30, July 2021.
“The Production of Collectives and Politics of Future: Amma Ariyan and Radical Left Politics in Kerala”. Paper presented at the I World Cinema International Conference, University Compultense of Madrid, 15-16 June 2021.
“Cinema and the Production of a Popular Identity: Melodrama and the Left Developmental Aesthetic in Puthiya Akasam Puthiya Bhoomi”. Paper presented at the 5th Populism Specialist Group (PSA) Workshop on “Populism: New Perspectives”, 10-11 June 2021.
“Melodrama and the “People’s Hero”: Visual Imagery and Populist Politics in Kerala, South India”. Paper presented at the Second Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP), held online on 4-8 May 2021.
“Cinema and the (Re)construction of the Left Popular in Kerala”. Paper presented at the Conference on Populism and Populist Politics in South Asia, organized by Calcutta Research Group in collaboration with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung on 31 August 2019-1 September 2019
“Face to Face with the Communist Real: Mukhamukham and the Critique of the Left Popular in Kerala”. Paper presented at the National Workshop on Re-viewing Parallel Cinema: Continuities, Discontinuities, Influences, organized by the Department of Film Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad on 29 January 2018.
“The ‘Public University’ and the Articulation of Precarious Identities in Contemporary India”. Paper presented at the 2017 Taiwan Experience Education Programme (TEEP) Winter Camp Workshop on Conflict and Justice: Precarious Bodies in Inter Asia Societies under the seminar group Social Movements, Contestation, and Political Change in Asia, organized by the International Institute of Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan from 16 January 2017 to 20 January 2017.
“The ‘State’ and the ‘Nation’: The Formation of Kerala and the Question of a Malayali Nation”. Paper presented at the Students’ Workshop from 28 August 2014 to 30 August 2014, as part of the two-months long course Researching the Contemporary conducted by CSDS, New Delhi.
“Who Speaks for our Present: The Political Implications of ‘Theorizing our Present’”. Paper presented at Researchers at Work Conference (Raw.Con 2013) on Vernacular Modernities, held at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad from 25 September 2013 to 27 September 2013.
“Children’s Magazine for Ideological Purpose: The Case of Eureka”. Paper presented at a National Seminar on Children’s/Young Adult Books and Films conducted by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad from 28 Feb 2011 to 2 March 2011.
Three-day workshop on Global Southern Epistemologies, organized by the School of Languages, Cultures, Art History & Music, University of Birmingham and the Department of Comparative Literature, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad from 12 December to 14 December 2018.
The 2016 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Summer School on Creativity and Social Movements, jointly organized by the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society and the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme of Lingnan University, Hong Kong on Lingnan University campus from 21 June 2016 to 5 July 2016.
Three-day workshop on Indian New Wave Cinema Revisited: Workshop and Screenings, organized by The University of Chicago Center in Delhi from 27 August 2015 to 29 August 2015.
Two-month course on Researching the Contemporary at CSDS, Delhi during July-August 2014.
Keynote address on "Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Politics" at the National Seminar on "Innovations in English Curriculum Design", organized by District Centre for English, District Institute of Education and Training, Kozhikode on 20 February 2024.
Panelist in a Panel Discussion on "Malabar and Popular Culture", at Malabar Literature Festival, organized by Book Plus publishers, Kozhikode on 30 November 2023-3 December 2023.
Invited Talk on “Thinking with Stuart Hall, one Conjuncture at a Time” as a part of the workshop on “Reading Stuart Hall in Contemporary India”, organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calicut, on 24 November 2022 (Online).
Invited Talk on “Translation, Cultural Politics and Contemporary Indian English Fiction” as a part of the 8th Graduate Research Meet (GRM) of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati on 24 November 2022 (Online).
Invited Talk on “Cultural Studies in Asia and the Question of Comparative Framework” at the online faculty development programme on Recent Trends in English Literature organised by Scheme for Trans-Disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy-STRIDE (UGC-MHRD), Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam and Department of English, Mar Thoma College for Women, Perumbavoor, from 09 to 15 November 2021.
Invited Lecture on “Ephemera as Archive: Researching the Popular” at the Faculty Development Programme on “Research in Literature: Emerging Trends and Approaches” organised by the Department of English, Kristu Jayanti College, Bengaluru from 9-16 August 2021.
Invited Lecture on “‘Asia as method’ and the Question of Comparative Cultural Studies” at the 5-Day National Webinar on “Comparative Literature: History, Methodology and New Perspectives”, organized by Department of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Calicut, from 1 to 5 March 2021.
Invited Talk on “Cultural Studies: A Theoretical History” at the National Webinar on “Shifting Paradigms in Cultural Studies”, organized by the Department of English, Government Arts and Science College, Thrithala on 20 February 2021.
Invited Talk on “Gender and Popular Culture” at the National Workshop on Gender and Research Writing, conducted by the UGC Centre for Women Studies, Vimala College, Thrissur on 6 February 2021.
Invited Talk on “The Politics of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Studies” as part of Bridge Course Lecture Series conducted by the Department of English, Government College, Tripunithura on 16 January 2021.
Invited Talk on “Thinking Conjuncturally: The Gramscian Turn in Cultural Studies” in the Three Days E-Workshop on Cultural Studies, organized by the Department of English Studies, Central University of Tamil Nadu, from 21 September 2020 to 23 September 2020.
Invited lecture on “Cinema and the Production of Popular Identities” at the One Day Workshop on “Media, Technology and Textuality”, organized by Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Central University of Gujarat, on 26 February 2020.
Invited lecture on “Cinema and Politics in Kerala: Mukhamukham and the Left Popular” at the UGC sponsored refresher course in Media Studies, conducted by the Human Resource Development Centre, University of Calicut on 27 January 2020.
Curated and moderated a panel discussion on “Dining Out and New Spaces of Sociability” at Kerala Literature Festival 2018, held at Kozhikode beach from 8 February 2018 to 11 February 2018.
Panelist at a book discussion Writing the First Person: Literature, History and Autobiography in Modern Kerala(Permanent Black, 2016) by Udaya Kumar, organized by the Department of Cultural Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, on 30 November 2016.
Chaired a session at the Naonal Level Research Seminar on "Urban Labyrinths: Cultural Perspecves on City Spaces", organised by the Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Bangalore Yeshwanthpur Campus, on 15-16 March 2024.
Chaired two sessions on "Visual Culture in South Asia" at the 1st International Conference on "Modernities Redefined: Perspectives from South Asia", organized by GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences, GITAM University, Bengaluru on 22-23 February 2024.
Chaired a session at the "Young Researchers’ Conference on Indian Literatures" organized (online) by the Department of Languages, Presidency University, Bengaluru in collaboration with Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi and Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru on 21-22 January 2022.