Talks
Re-visioning clinical psychology: Critical reflections. Talk at the national seminar on Psychology of Everyday Life at School of Sciences, Rathinam College of Arts and Sciences, Coimbatore, 7 March 2024.
Sex, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in community mental health programmes in Kerala: The violence in care and cure at MFC Annual Meet, Sewagram, Wardha, February 23-25, 2024.
Writing/Righting mental health theory and praxis: Madness, Literature and Resisting Psychiatric normalisation. Plenary Speaker at the National Seminar on New theories and literatures: Contemporary turns and specialisations, PG Department of English, Government Arts and Science College, Kozhikode.
Against mental Health Day. Inaugural talk on the occasion of EUNOIA ’23-psychology festival, Department of Psychology, MES College, Valancherry, Malappuram, 27 October 2023.
Ethics and Politics in Mental Health: A critical examination. Talk on the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2023, Department of Psychology, University of Calicut, 10 October, 2023.
Cultivating mental health in the classroom. Talk at the Science Quest Residential Science Camp held at IIT Palakkad, 22 May, 2023.
Invitee at the Policy Dialogue on "Promising Practices in integrating Gender into Government Health Programs" at the Ramalingaswamy Centre, PHFI, Bangalore, 10-11 April, 2023
'LGBTQIA+ rights movement in India: Examining the crisis of care, values and ethics in psy disciplines and state mental health systems', Global Mental Health Series, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 2 February, 2023
Invited lecture on "Flooding: A bird's eyeview" at Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development (RGNIYD), Sriperumbudur, 31 January, 2023
Panellist at the webinar on 'Methods of Understanding Mental Health in India', Economic and Political Weekly, January 10, 2023
'Interrogating ‘Care’, ‘Chronicity’ and Expansion of Patienthood : Ethnographic encounters from community mental health programs in India', Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, 27 January 2022
'Excellence in Psychology' delivered at the Department of Psychology, Sahrudaya College of Arts and Sciences, Kodakara, Thrissur, Kerala, 18 May 2021
'Task-shifting in community mental health in India: Some questions and challenges' in the course titled Community based mental health interventions: Critical perspectives and innovative aproaches organised by the Division of Social and Cultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada, 06-09 April 2021
Panelist at the webinar on 'Managing Mental Health Care During and Post COVID-19 in India, Ramaiah Public Policy Centre, Bangaluru, 4 September, 2020
"When ‘care’ leads to ‘chronicity’: Exploring the changing contours of mental health ‘care’ of homeless people living on the streets in India" presented at Alternative Law Forum, Bangaluru, 22 November, 2019
“Community mental health in contemporary India: Interrogating ‘care’, ‘chronicity’ and expansion of patienthood” presented at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, 20 December, 2019
"When community care becomes community mental health: The disappearance of local voices in community mental health programmes in Kerala" presented at Institute of Public Health, Bangaluru, 31 January, 2020