"The Periodical as a Site of Cultural Politics: The New Left and the “Long 1970s” in Kerala". Paper presnted at the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025 on "Geo-Social Connection: The Continuing Journey of Critical Inquiry", held at Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, 23-25 July 2025.
The Politician as Star: Mediatization, Fandom and Celebritisation of Politics in Kerala". Paper presented at the 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference on "What is Asian Cinema?", organized by the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong, 22-24 May 2025
"The (Common) Grounds of Comparison: Contemporary Indian Popular Culture & the Question of Comparative Cultural Studies". Invited paper presented at the National Conference on “In-Comparative (Indian) Literatures”, organized by Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Hyderabad, 13-14 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 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 conference on "Stuart Hall: Positions and Trajectories", organized by the Stuart Hall Archive Project, University of Birmingham, 31 October -2 November 2024.
"The Politician as Star: Mediatization, Fandom and Celebritisation of Politics in Kerala". Paper presented at the Conference organized by the International Centre Goa on "Media: The Past and the Present", as part of the series on"India @75 & Beyond: New Ideas for the Present and Future". 17-18 July 2024.
“The Left and the Domain of the Popular”. Paper presented at the 6th International Mass Communication Research Conference on “Mediating the Everyday: Popular Culture in South Asia”, organised by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Calicut, 20-21 November 2023.
“Kabani Nadi Chuvannappol: Political Cinema and New Left Politics in Kerala”. Paper presented at the International Seminar on “Mrinal Sen and the Vicissitudes of Political Cinema”, organized by the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University , 7-8 November 2023.
“Politician as Star: Media and Politics in Kerala”. Paper presented as a part of the cluster on "Mediated Politics and Religion" at the 14th Inter-Asian Cultural Studies Conclave, held at Ahmedabad University, 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 5thPopulism 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.