My conference presentations bring together ethnographic and interdisciplinary engagements with questions of caste, belonging, space, knowledge production, and everyday politics within higher education. Presented across academic forums in Europe and Asia, this work explores collective reading practices, student movements, institutional exclusion, and forms of intellectual and political resistance in contemporary India.
5 May 2026
Title: "The Circles of Resistance: An Ethnography of Collective Reading under Right-Wing Repression on a University Campus in India"
Conference: Academic Precarity/Academic Freedom
Panel: "Knowledge Production under Duress: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
4 December 2025
Title: “Embodied Reading: Space, Rituals, and the Everyday Performance of Resistance at the University in India”
Conference: Redrawing the Lines: Inequalities, Exclusion, and Resistance in Educational Settings
24 September 2025
Title: “Scripts of Dissent: Theorizing Study Circles and Intellectual Resistance in Indian Universities”
Conference: 42nd Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie – Transitionen
Panel: "Democratic Transitions? Social Movement Activism After Autocracies"
12–13 May 2025
Title: “Reading as Resistance: Study Circles and Changing Contours of Student Movements in Indian Universities”
Conference: Annual Joint PhD Conference in Historical Studies
1 February 2025
Title: “Reading to Belong: Exploring the Everyday Social Inclusion and Role of ‘Study Circles’ in Indian University”
Conference: Mitigating Inequalities in Higher Education
17 February 2023
Title: “Castplaining University Campuses as Neo-Ghettos: A Case Study of Two Central Universities in India”
Conference: International Seminar on Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education
10 January 2023
Title: “Space, Marginality and Everyday Negotiations in University Campuses: A Study of Two Central Universities of India”
Conference: Ninth Annual PhD Workshop
23 April 2022
Title: “Space, Belonging, and Everyday Learning Experiences: A Case Study of Indian Institute for Human Settlements”
Conference: Ninth Annual Education Studies PGR Conference
8 November 2019
Title: “Differentiated Caste and Segregated Spaces: Linkage Space to the Ideas of Ambedkar and Gandhi”
Conference: International Seminar on Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Vision of Socio-economic Transformation