Invited Talks
§ 02025-11: Invited to deliver the valedictory lecture at ICWA-IIMAD National Conference on Mobility for a New Era: Rethinking International Migration and Mobility Narratives and Frameworks at Trivandrum, Kerala, India
§ 2025-09: Panelist at Mandala Conversation on Indian Migration to Germany, organized by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin on Trends and drivers in recent Indian migration to Germany
§ 2025-04: Speaker at “Research Wednesdays (FG-Wednesday)” on Addressing Germany’s Labour Shortage: Skilled and Service Sector Migration from India”, Deutches Zentrum für Integrations-und Migrationsforschung (DeZIM), Berlin, Germany
§ 2025-03: Speaker at the workshop on “Skilled Migration into the EU: Trends, Motivations and Impacts”, European Public Policy Conference 2025, Brussels, Belgium
§ 2024-12: Panelist at Epistemologies/Ontologies of Mobility and Institutional Dynamics: Perspectives from the Global South, organized by transMID (DFG Scientific Community), University of Siegen, Germany
§ 2024-11: Speaker at the symposium “The Future of Migration: Issues and Challenges”, India Offices of Max Planck Gesellschaft and University of Göttingen, Hyderabad, India
§ 2023-03: Keynote Speaker on “Migration and Uncertainties” at the DFG Scientific Network: Migration and Mobility during a pandemic at Bielefeld University, Germany
§ 2022-05: Chair of a panel discussion on “Vaccination against the coronavirus: a civic or a health necessity for the migrants?” at international metropolis conference berlin pre-working group webinar series, Berlin, Germany
§ 2021-11: Panellist in the panel discussion on "Im/Mobility in times of covid-19", by International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2021, to speak on ‘mobility as survival and freedom: sociology of immobility and its implications for women and queer migrants', Yucatan, Mexico
§ 2021-03: Co-chair with Prof. Michaela Pelican on "Impacts of the Pandemic on Transnational Migration" at NIICE Global Conclave, 2021, Kathmandu, Nepal
§ 2021-03: Keynote Speaker on "Labour (in)visibility and Labour (im)mobility during the Pandemic: Reimagining the Usual Suspects of Globalization" at Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany
Conference Attendance (Convener, Chair, Presenter)
§ 8 October, 2025: Presenter on "I will stay back only if...": How do experiences of uncertainty and precarity impact the settlement decisions of the Indian Global Talent migrants in Germany?, at Shifting grounds: Rethinking and navigating the uncertainty of migration trajectories, governance regimes, and research, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany
§ 1-4 July, 2025: Convenor and participant at the Roundtable on “Academic Others” in European Academia: Positionalities and (In)visbilities of migration scholars from outside Europe, at IMISCOE Annual Conference in Paris-Aubervilliers, France
§ 18 June, 2025: Panelist in “Connections and Disconnections between Migration and Violence” to speak on Mobility, safety, freedom: How do the Indian women migrants in Germany experience power and agency within intimate relationships? At the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference, Belfast, Ireland
§ 4 September, 2024: Book discussion at BML Munjal University, Delhi-NCR, India
§ 2-5 July, 2024: Panel Convenor, Co-chair and presenter in “Practicing Decolonization through Migration Research Methods”, IMISCOE Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal
§ 26 June, 2024: Book discussion at the Institute of Sociology, Freiburg University, Germany
§ 15 June, 2024: Book discussion at Subkontinent Talks in Berlin, Germany
§ 31 May, 2024: Panelist at The Futures of International Student Mobility, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
§ 24 April, 2024: Panelist at Exit sentiments among migrants and academic refugees, organized by MoLab (Anthropology of Economic Experimentation), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
§ 16 April, 2024: Speaker at Book launch: Stories of the Indian Immigrant Communities in Germany: Why Move?, organized by Research Unit “Production and Reproduction of Social Inequalities”, Global South Studies Centre, University of Cologne, Germany
§ 2020-10 to 2021-03: Moderator of "Corona Conversations: Mobility in a (post)Covid Future", hosted by the GSSC, University of Cologne (in support of DAAD)
§ 2019-07: Panel Convenor of „South Asia in Flux: Development, Displacement and Migration“ at International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), Leiden, The Netherlands
§ 2019-07: “Indian Women Migrants in Germany: Practices and Habitat”, ICAS 11, Leiden, The Netherlands
§ 2019-05: “Media Consumption Practices of Indian Female Migrants in Germany“, Global Studies Program, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
§ 2018-06: “Heteronormative Practices and the Diaspora: Cases of Indian Female Migrants in Germany“, Weekly Seminar Series, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
§ 2017-05: “Indo-German Migration: Indian High-skilled labour in Germany“, Invited talk at University of Cologne, Germany
§ 2015-06: “Economic Globalization and International Migration of Labour: A Case of Indian Guest workers in Germany“, Summer Colloquium Series, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
§ 2015-06: “Indian Guest-workers in Germany: Experiences of Social Exclusion and Inclusion in the Host Society“, Public Lecture, Department of Sociology, Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria
§ 2014-10: “Guest-workers in Germany: Dynamic of Socio-cultural Exclusion and Inclusion“, Anjan Ghosh Memorial Workshop, Centre for Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
§ 2011-12: “Economic Globalization: Uneven Development and Social Exclusion“, Annual Conference of Indian Sociological Society, New Delhi, India
§ 2010-07: “Vision of a Global Civil Society: Paradigm of Exclusion and Inclusion“, Annual Conference of Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, India