Conferences and Invited Talk

Selected Conference Presentations/ Invited Talks

2019

• ‘Bringing Frugal innovations in Healthcare: A Case Study of Nano-enabled Diagnostic Start-ups in India’ at School of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London on 20^th November 2019.

• ‘Valuing Innovation: A View from Global South’ at Technical University Berlin, Germany on 14^th May 2019.

• ‘The many lives of Green Revolution in India’ at Workshop on South-South collaborations in Agriculture on 26-28 March 2019 at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

• Caring for Whom: Contested Values and Bioenergy Futures in India at Lorentz Centre Workshop on RRI, Values and Energy Systems on 8^th January 2019, Leiden, Netherlands.

2018

• RRI in Global South: Etymology of Modern Science and Technology in India, SAMS workshop, 12-13 October 2018, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

• Visual Manifestation of a Civilizational Crisis: Rice Straw Burning and Vulnerabilities of Agricultural Systems on 14th December 2018, Lunch Seminar at Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

• What Values Drive Innovation: A case of Academia Industry Interaction for Nanobiotechnology in India, 16^th Globelics conference, 24-26 October, Accra, Ghana.

2017

• From Rice Straw Burning to Biogas: Project’s Perspective presentation at the Brainstorming session on science and policy on Rice Straw Burning to Biogas, 14 February 2017, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

2016

• Fractured Visions: Nanotechnology in India and the Missing Discourse on Risk and Governance. Paper presented at Society for New and Emerging Technologies (S.Net) conference, held between 12-14 October 2016, Bergen, Norway.

• Contested Knowledges, Divergent Practices and Ascending Adoption of Bt cotton in India: Is There a Need for Public Engagement? Paper presented at Contested Agronomy Conference, held between 24-26 February 2016, Sussex, UK

2015

• Envisioning Nano-Targeted Drug Delivery in India, paper presented at S.Net Conference, held between 18-21 October 2015, Montreal, Canada

• Visions and Practices of ‘Technology for the Poor’ in the Case of Diagnostics Development using Nanobiotechnology in India, papers presented at Globelics Conference, held between 23-25 September 2015, Havanna Cuba

2014

• Sociotechnical imaginaries and the changing context of ‘doing’ science: A case of nanobiotechnology in India. Paper presented at the Technologies for Development conference, held on 15-17 December 2014, Maastricht University, Brussels campus, Brussels.

2013

• Understanding responsible innovation through the lens of sociotechnical imaginaries: a case study of nanobiotechnology in India. Poster Presentation in Ph.D and Early carrier workshop at S.Net Boston, MA.

• Responsible Innovation: Is it the way forward? at Corporate, Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) research group on 31 May 2013 at School of Business, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland.

• Pandey, P. 2013. The ‘Social’ and the ‘Responsible’ in Innovation: An STS perspective. Invited lecture in seminar on Social Innovation: Concepts and Case Studies on 14^th May 2013 at Inter-University research centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ), Schlogelgasse 2, Graz, Austria.

• Zeitgeist in Geisterstadt: Nanoimaginaries and Indian Agriculture. Paper presented at the 12^th Annual IAS-STS Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies 6-7 May 2013, Graz, Austria.

• Nanotechnology in India and the Idea of Responsible Innovation. Paper presented in II work-in-progress workshop on 15 March 2013 at Institute of Advanced Studies for Science Technology and Society (IAS-STS) Kopernikusgasse 9, Graz, Austria

2012

• Talking of Responsible Innovation: A look at Ten Years of Nanotechnology Development Initiatives in India (2002-2012). Paper presented at 2^nd Responsible Innovation Conference held on 13-14 December 2012 at Den Haag, Netherlands.

• The 'Framing' of Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India: Some Critical Reflections. Paper presented at the International conference on Public Policy and Governance held on 4-6 September 2012 at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.

• Agribiotechnology and the Politics of Participation. Paper presented in the STEPS summer school held on 14-25 May 2012 at STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.