Lectures and Conferences

• Aug 2023 Panel: How to Conduct Research Internationally and Navigate the US Academy as an International Academic, SWS Summer Meeting, Philadelphia.
• Mar 2023 “Indian Women in Tech: Workplace, Communities and Unions.” Women’s and Gender Studies Lecture Series, International Women’s Day Panel: Gender and Technology: The Digital Divide and Women in Tech. Eastern Michigan University (virtual).
• Jan 2023 “Milestones in Graduate School.” Proseminar for the first-year graduate students in Sociology, University of Connecticut (Coordinator: Andrew Deener)
• Mar 2022 “Creating Bridges rather than Building Walls: Feminist Activism.” Mini conference organized by the Sociologists for Women in Society (East) at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting (virtual) 
• Feb 2022 “Tech Industry in India and Indian Tech Workers.” Undergraduate course on India Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut (Course coordinator: Manisha Desai)
• Oct 2021 “Doing Interdisciplinary Research: Opportunities and Challenges.” School of Liberal Arts and Culture Studies, Adamas University, Kolkata, India (virtual).
• Oct 2021 “Writing across Disciplines: Paradigms and Practices.” Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Benares, India (virtual).
• Apr 2021 “Human Rights for Posthumans: Social Media, Surveillance and Privacy.” Department of Mass Communication, St. Xavier’s University, Kolkata, India (virtual). 
• Feb 2021 “Tech Industry in India: A Tale of Hope and Resistance.” Undergraduate course on India Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut (Course coordinator: Manisha Desai)
• Feb 2021 “Social Media Surveillance: Who is Watching us in the Digital Age?” Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal, India (virtual). 

 Presenter

• Jan 2024 “Privilege as Evidence of Inequality: Queering the Methodologies of Studying High-Skilled and High-Wage Indian Tech Workers.” Roundtable at Sociologists for Women in Society, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
• Jul 2023 “Unseen by All: The Invisibility of High-Skilled Temporary Indian Immigrants in the US during Covid.” Loreto College, Department of Geography, Kolkata. (Second presenter: Bandana Purkayastha)
• Jun 2023 “‘Online is Just a Backup’: Shortcomings of Virtual Protests for Tech Workers’ Unions in India.” International Sociological Association (RC 44), World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne.
• Jun 2023 “To Wear or Not to Wear: Hijab, Feminists, and Fundamentalists.” International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne. (First presenter: Manisha Desai)
• Feb 2023 “Seeking Change for Dignity: High-skilled Indian Immigrant Women’s Activism in the US.” Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore.
• Jan 2023 “Expanding the Diversity Framework: High-Skilled Indian Women Immigrants Organizing in the US.” Roundtable at SWS Winter Meeting, New Orleans.
• Aug 2022 “Politics, Insularity and Comparative Precarity: Why Indian Tech Workers Tend to Avoid Unions” Paper Session at ASA Annual Meeting, Labor and Labor Movement Section, Los Angeles.
• Aug 2022 “Fighting Precarity with Politics: How Indian Tech Unions Mobilized during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Paper Session at Mini Conference, ASA Labor and Labor Movement Section, Los Angeles.
• Jun 2022 “The Local Turn in Transnational Movements: How Indian Tech Unions Organize.” Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, University of Manchester (Movements@Manchester) (virtual).
• May 2022 “Local Networks, Global Reflections: Solidarity in Indian Tech Unions.” Global South Graduate Student Conference. George Mason University (virtual)
• Mar 2022 “Retelling Precarity: Analyzing Indian and Asian Indian Migrant Worker Experiences during COVID-19 Pandemic across Space and Occupational structure.” Boston Migration Workshop, Boston University (Soma Chaudhuri [first presenter], Elizabeth Chacko, Deepa Ebenezer, Bandana Purkayastha, Rianka Roy, Paromita Sanyal, S. Anandhi and Jaita Talukdar) (virtual)
• Jan 2022 “Empowering Women the Neoliberal Way: Women’s Tech Groups in India.” Roundtable at Sociologists for Women in Society(virtual).
• Sep 2021 “Precarity, Marginality and Solidarity: Indian Women-in-Tech during the Pandemic.” Feminism(s) in the Age of Covid-19 and beyond. University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (virtual).
• Aug 2021 “Scholars Denied: The Theoretical Praxis of Savitribai Phule and the Women Activists of Satya Shodhak Samaj (Truth Seeker Society).” Scholar Activism and the History of Sociology: Celebrations, Critiques and Futures Past (sponsored by the ASA section on the History of Sociology and Social Thought) 
• (First presenter: Manisha Desai)
• Apr 2021 “Between Nations and Rights: Transnational Tech Workers in India through the Pandemic.” Session: Working for ‘America’: Transnational Workers during the Pandemic. Southern Sociological Society (virtual).
• Jan 2021 “Compliance, Resistance and Solidarity: Women-in-tech in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Roundtable at Sociologists for Women in Society (virtual).
• Aug 2020  “Social Distance and Digital Resistance: What Hyperdigitalization Brings to Indian Tech-Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Panel: South Asia Communication Association. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference (virtual).
• Jan 2020  “Women in Tech Jobs: Cultural Anxiety and Workplace Heteronormativity in India.” Roundtable at Sociologists for Women in Society. San Diego, U.S. 
• Jan 2020  “Colonial Crisis and Digital Dilemma: Encoding Bengali as a Second Language.” Panel: Digital Approaches to Second Language Writing, organized by Modern Language Association. Seattle, U.S. 
• Jan 2020  “Digital Biopolitics and Surveillance at Workplace: Indian Tech-workers’ Perspectives.” Panel: Being Human, Technology and New Media, organized by Modern Language Association. Seattle, U.S. 

Organizer & Presider

• Apr 2021 Paper session: “Working for ‘America’: Transnational Workers during the Pandemic.” Southern Sociological Society. (Virtual)
• Jan 2021 Paper session: “Persistence in the Digital World: Rights, Movements, Knowledge and Humanities.” Modern Language Association, 2021. (Virtual)
• (Session selected for inclusion in the ‘MLA Presidential Theme’ by Judith Butler.)

Discussant

• Aug 2021 Panel: “Women Empowerment and Gendered Communication in India.” South Asia Communication Association. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. (Virtual)
• Jul 2021 Talk: “Pan-Africanism.” Department of Political Science, Surendranath College for Women, Kolkata, India (Virtual) 
• Aug 2020 Panel: “Enhancing Media in South Asia and its Diaspora.” South Asia Communication Association. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. (Virtual)