Recent & Upcoming Events
“Ethnographic Fictions and Colonial Gaze,” Dept of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, April 30, 2026.
“Occupation after 30 years,” NYU Law, April 24, 2026.
Selected Events
“Kashmir and the India-Pakistan War of May 2025,” Global Studies and Davis Center, Williams College, May 8, 2025
“Regions: why the rhetoric of ‘New India’ does not percolate down,” panel on Politics of Dissent in India, Law School, Harvard University. April 17, 2024.
“Abrogation of Article 370: what Kashmiris said with their silence.” Tufts University, April 27, 2024.
“Logo Maps and Geo-Bodies: The New Hindutva State in India.” Works-in-Progress Series, Minds Eye. MCLA, Apr 18, 2023.
“Surveillance as a Colonial Modality of Terror.” Keynote: Society for Cultural Anthropology, AAA, June 2022, 2022.
“Land in the Settler Colonial Imaginary.” Funambulist and Social Theory Center, University of Warwick. May 23, 2022.
“Researching South Asia: Kashmir” South Asia Seminar, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, Jan 18, 2022.
“Towards Freedom, Justice, Peace,” UMass Amherst, Feb 19, 2020.
“Indian Colonialism: Gender, Nation, and Occupation in Kashmir,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Feb 14, 2020.
“Kashmir: From Military Occupation to Settler Colonialism,” Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University, Feb 5, 2020.
“South Asia on the Precipice: Human Rights, Inequality and Political Repression in Kashmir.” Colorado College, December 9, 2019.
“The Crisis in Kashmir: History, Evolution and Prospects.” Florida International University, November 4, 2020.
“Visible/Invisible: Disaster, Occupation, and Politics of Images in Indian-controlled Kashmir.” Political Violence and Its Legacies Workshop, Macmillan Center, Yale University, October 3, 2019.
“Kashmir in Crisis.” Public Panel. Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University, September 18, 2019.
“Thinking Beyond Borders.” Symposium. Columbia University, April 26, 2019.
“Resisting Occupation.” NYCAASC 2019: Collision. New York University, April 27, 2019.
“Countermaps of the Ordinary.” Williams College. April 18, 2019.
“Resisting Occupation: A Teach-in on Kashmir.” The People’s Forum, New York, March 18, 2019.
“State and Political Subjectivity in Kashmir.” South Asia Seminar. Watson Institute. Brown University, May 11, 2018.
“The History and the Present in Kashmir.” Panel. Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada, January 12, 2017.
“Tehreek History-writers of Kashmir: Reconstructing Memory at the Margins of Postcolonial Empire.” CPS, Columbia University, NY, April 21, 2016.
“Kashmir: A Hundred Years of Subaltern Struggle.” Institute of Advanced Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, March 28, 2013
“Kashmir: The Case for Freedom.” With Arundhati Roy, Pankaj Mishra, and Philip Oldenburg. Asia Society, New York, Nov 11, 2012.
“Death and Life under Military Occupation: Space, Violence, and Memory in Kashmir.” The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April, 2010