Close the talk with Clozapine: Resurgence of the medical in community mental health programmes in India, Joint Congress of PRCP (Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists) and WACP (the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry) Tokyo 25-28 September, 2025.
State run mental health institutions in India post-IPC 377 verdict: Examining queer-phobic space-attitude-administrative complex, 6th International Sexuality & Social Work Conference University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, July 1-4, 2025.
Diagnosing disorder, Sugarcoating Suffering: Exploring the space-attitude-administrative complex of community mental health programmes in Kerala, held at the Schloss, University of Munster, 12 June 2025
Chaired the panel on Research Developments in Queer-Trans Mental Health in the symposium titled Care in Practice and Policy: Dialogues in Queer-Trans Mental Health in India held at Board Room, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, 28 February 2025.
Campus counselling centres as cisgendered and heteronormative organisations: Examining invalidation and its implications for mental health in India at the two-day conference Counter-Narratives: The MHI Conference on Mental Health of Marginalized Communities: Perspectives from India organized by Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) in collaboration with School of Performing Arts and Liberal Studies, HSNC University (State Public University) & Departments of Sociology and Psychology, Kishinchand Chellaram College (Constituent college of HSNC University) Mumbai, 7-8 February 2025.
"Counselling centres as cisgendered and heteronormative organisations: Examining invisibilization and disenfranchisement at the ICSSR sponsored two-day National Seminar Discussing Issues and Prospects Around the Spectrum of Gender in India: In the Context of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, Dikhowmukh College, Moglow, Sivasagar, Assam.
Estrangements ‘at home’ and familiarities in ‘the foreign’: Reflections from multi-sited fieldwork in India at the workshop (Un-)Familiar Grounds: Reflections on Anthropology, Fieldwork and Home at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale 2023, 30 November, 2023.
“Maathaa bethakoriche…, shorir bethakoriche…” (“Head aches…, body aches…”): Psychiatry, state and the case of psychopolitics of emotion in Assam, India, in the panel Anthropology of Emotions in South Asia at the 19th IUAES-WAU World Anthropology Congress 2023 Marginalities, Uncertainties, and World Anthropologies: Enlivening Past and Envisioning Future, New Delhi, 14th – 20 October 2023
"Indentured labour, intergenerational trauma and mental health of Indian descendants in Malaysia” in the Global Conference on Slavery, Indentured Labour, Migration, and their impact on present societies, Organised by the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities in collaboration with the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR), the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Social Sciences Research Institute (IMWO) of Anton de Kom University of Suriname, and the Directorate of Culture, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Government of Suriname at Anton de Kom University of Suriname, Paramaribo, June 6-9, 2023
"Queer rights, mental health praxis and knowledge production in postcolonial India: Critical examination”, Institute for Critical Social Inquiry (ICSI) Summer Seminar on Transsexual Exceptions: Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality, New York, June 10-17 2023
“Mirroring” the world v/s “world-making”: Crisis in clinical psychology in India”, Afro-Asian Psychology Conference, 5-7 May 2022
"Sex and sexuality in community mental India: The violence in 'care' and 'cure'" in international workshop organized by the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad & Centre for Writing and Pedagogy, Krea University, 27-28 April 2022.
"When there are only 'psychopharmaceuticals' and 'counselling': COVID-19, migrant workers and the politics of mental health" in the Biennial Conference, American Anthropological Association, 6-10 April 2021.
"Migrant workers’ crisis and the programmatic response of mental health systems during the COVID-19 pandemic: A critical appraisal" in the National Academy of Psychology Annual Conference organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, 19-21 March 2021.
""Mentally ill are like rusted knives, they will never be the same again": Changing perspectives about care and chronicity in community mental health services in Kerala" in the National Academy of Psychology Annual Conference organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, 19-21 March 2021.
“When ‘care’ leads to ‘chronicity: Exploring the changing contours of care of homeless people living on the streets in Kolkata and Assam as a poster presentation in the seminar on The Performing Body: Conversations on Healing with Medical Humanities, organized by the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. (01-02, 2019).
“The ‘global’ engulfs the ‘local’: Voices from community mental health organisations in Kerala, India” as a poster presentation in the 39th Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Society and Culture (SSPC), at the Joan B Croc Institute for Peace and Justice, University of San Diego, California, USA. (19-21 April 2018)
“Sugarcoating suffering: Excluded voices from community mental health clinics in Kerala” as an oral presentation in the 42nd National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists organized by the Department of Clinical Psychology, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal, Manipur. (24-27 February 2016)
“Inculcating democratic policing in India: A need-based approach” as an oral presentation in International Youth Conference 2012 on Youth for Integral Humanism hosted by G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. (12-13 January 2012)
“India-Pakistan-Bangladesh relations in a psychological perspective” as a poster presentation at the Indian Science Congress hosted by KIIT University, Bhubaneswar (3- 7 January 2012)
“Cultural parenting and ego-strength-A theoretical framework on Homosexuality” as a poster presentation at the Indian Science Congress hosted by SRM University, Chennai (3- 7 January 2011)
“Psychological roots of criminal behaviour: A need-based interventional approach” as an oral presentation in the 37th National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists organized by Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Gujarat Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar (21-23 January 2011)
“Effectiveness of multiple psychotherapeutic interventions in the treatment of adjustment disorder with prolonged depressive reaction in a teenage girl- A case study” as an oral presentation at the National Seminar on Current trends and challenges in Applied Psychology organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Calicut (14- 15 October 2010)