Invited Talks
2025
Invited to deliver a special lecture for the session on ‘Death and Care from a Global Perspective' as part of the Politics of Care course offered by Camille Allard to Dept. of Political and Social Sciences, University of Milan.
Invited speaker to the July iteration of NIAS Wednesday Discussion organized by National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore.
Keynote address for ‘Death in Transition’ at the Centre for Death and Society (CDAS) Annual Conference 2025 chaired by Naomi Pendle.
Invited speaker for a panel on ‘AI and Ethics in Practice’ as part of Ellipsis Annual Design Exhibition organized by School of Design and Innovation, RV University in Bangalore International Centre.
Online symposium titled Tackling emerging and complex health and resource base challenges of older adults in low and middle-income settings using innovative and interdisciplinary methods organized by BSG - Special Interest Group (SIG) on Ageing in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Speaker for a workshop on creating an impactful LinkedIn profile, effective networking strategies, and leveraging the platform for career growth organized by the Rotaract Club of RV University, Bangalore.
Plenary speaker for ‘Ageing well’ conference organized by Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta funded by National Institute of Social Defence Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Government of India, New Delhi.
For a 2-day workshop on “The Indian Care Debates: Taking Stock, Reimagining Work, Rights, and Social Reproduction” organized by The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and the School of Human Development, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS, Bangalore).
Invited speaker in a panel on ‘Ethical design in the age of AI’ as part of the Bangalore Design Week in association with Government of Karnataka at Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore.
2024
Human-artifice assemblage and more-than-human loss and memorialization for 'more-than-human loss' workshop organized by CDAS, University of Bath, UK.
Dis-ease, Distance, Fractures in Touchpoints: Trajectories of Care and Carework in Covid - 19 organized by the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy.
Ageing and Retirement' and 'Intergenerational Relations', Department of Sociology, University of Calcutta, India.
Guest speaker Warp and Weft: Urban as the Visual Catalyst for Benign Consumption on the topic of 'Contemporary Visual Cultures: Diversifying Teaching and Research Practices' for FDP organized by VIT-AP
Guest speaker Framing elder care through a care justice approach: Cleavages, conundrums and ethical future for a seminar on ‘Protection of rights of elderly people in India’ organized by Surendranath Law College and NSS Cell, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
Guest speaker for The Global South Hub, CSSR, George Mason University (GMU), USA.
Guest speaker for Centre for Care, UK (virtual
Plenary speaker for ‘Gender and Demography’ conference organised by Manipal Center for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India.
2023
Unpacking Care Poverty and Thanatopolics of the State for Roundtable and Discussion on “Care in Crisis" as a part of Covid in the House of Old Exhibit organized by the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, and the Montreal History Group.
2023
Threshold of care: Ayah-intervened ageing in contemporary India at The Ayah and Amah International Research Network, LSE.
2022
The Indian social fabric: Conversations on culture, community and identity at Jamshedpur Workers' College, Kolhan University, Jharkhand.
2020
Women in the Third Age: Older women, issues and challenges at Presidency University, Kolkata, West Bengal.
Paper presentations
2023
The Market of ‘Raising a Child’: Ayahs in Childcare and the Idea of Childhood, (’Cultures of Childhood in Contemporary South Asia’, Department of Sociology, South Asian University (SAU), Child Rights and You (CRY) – Delhi and ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research).
Bereavement support for in-home dying older adults in urban India at conference Innovation at the end of life organized by Centre for Death & Society, University of Bath, UK.
Intimate transactions in carework: Precarity, purpose and pleasure at conference Second Global South Students' Conference organized by Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University, USA.
Ayah-centered knowledge in home care practices and the South Asian perspective at Critical Medical Humanities, CRITICAL: NNMHR Congress 2023.
2022
Body as a locus of care: Embodiment, intimate labour, and old-age care in India at 'What Works South Asia - 2022', Manipal University, Manipal, India.
Selfhood of older Patients in Home-care and Care Practices of Ayahs in Urban India at Department of Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata, India.
2021
Cartographies of caring: Time, temporality and caring in pandemic at conference Covid, Crisis, Care and Change?; paper published in edited volume organized by Chair of Macro-Sociology, TU Dresden, Germany.
Care, caring and carers in a pandemic society at symposium Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present organized by Birkbeck & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, UK.
Doing research on later-life adults in the age of contagion at conference Resilient and Responsive Research in the era of Covid-19 organized by Department of Sociology, University of Sheffield.
2019
Globalization, gender & grey population: Reconceptualization of care and intimacy at Nirmal Kanti Majumdar Memorial Event organized by the Department of Political Science, Presidency University.
The everydayness of intergenerational solidarity: case studies of grandparents and grandchildren relationships at the Department of Sociology, Jadavpur University funded RUSA on the theme Sociology and the Everyday.
Gendering Care: The Gender question in Geriatric Care at IVth International Conference on Gender and Women’s Studies, Istanbul, Turkey.
2018
Reminiscing the field at the seminar ‘Questioning the Trends in Researching: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’ organized by the Department of Sociology, University of Gour Banga.
2017
The womb market: On the question of womb enslavement and female subjectivity at International Conference of Politics of Difference at Assam University.
Women with disabilities at the XVth IAWS, Chennai, India.
2016
Performing the wedding: A case study of Bengali middle-class wedding and the rise of wedding planning industry at Chikitsa - National student seminar organized by the Department of Women and Gender Studies, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India.
2014
Voices that reverberate within the walls - domestic workers in the gated estates of Kolkata at conference organised at University of Hyderabad - Student research symposium.