2016, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge seminar series: "Space of the mohalla: political mobilisation of and in Delhi's urban communities"

2016, February, Department of Geography school seminar, University of Sheffield "Space of the mohalla: political mobilisation of and in Delhi's urban communities"

2015, November, SOAS: "Space of the mohalla: political mobilisation of and in Delhi's urban communities

2015, October, University of Madison, Wisconsin. Annual Conference on South Asia: "Space of the mohalla: political mobilisation of and in Delhi's urban communities"

2015, September, University of Oxford, Planned Violence: Post/colonial Urban Infrastructures and Literature workshop: "The space of the mohalla: political mobilisation of and in Delhi's urban communities"

2015, July, International Conference of Critical Geographers, Ramallah, Palestine: "Congress and Communist Discplines: the roles of routine and violence in Delhi’s Anti-Colonial Movements"

2015, July, International Conference of the Historical Geographers, London, session convened on Ethics, Self and Historical Geography: "Care for the Subaltern Self? Disciplining and Caring for the Urban Masses in Delhi’s Anti-Colonial Movements"

2015, June, British Academy, London, Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and Contemporary World Conference: "Geographies of Non-Violence: Spaces of Anti-Colonialism in Interwar Delhi"

2015, June, Development Studies Seminar Series, University of Portsmouth: "Geographies of Non-Violence: Spaces of Anti-Colonialism in Interwar Delhi"

2015, March, UCL, Institute of the Americas, Public Health, Public Order and Public Morality: Historical and Methodological Perspectives on the Spatial Politics of Prostitution in London, Delhi and Lima, paper and discussant

2015, February, Kings College, London, India Institute Seminar Series: "Dyarchy: Democracy, Autocracy and the Scalar Sovereignty of Interwar India"

2015, January, Keynote Address, Practices of Order: Colonial and Imperial Projects Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

2014, December, Nottinghamshire Hate Crime Conference, Nottingham Trent University, "Nottingham Citizens: No Place for Hate"

2014, December, Jesus College, University of Cambridge, Indian History and Space Workshop

2014, December, University of Nottingham, Urban Culture Network Postgraduate Workshop

2014, September, University of Bristol, Postcolonial Governmentality conference, paper and roundtable discussant

2014, September, presented, launch of Nottingham Citizen's Hate Crime Commission Report: No Place for Hate, Nottingham Trent University

2014, August, Annual Conference RGS-IBG, London: two sessions organised with Tariq Jazeel on "Subaltern Studies, space and the geographical imagination" and one session organised discussing Stuart Eldens The Birth of Territory

2014, June, Urban Mapping two day conference co-organised and chaired (poster)

2014, June, Chair of Nottingham Citizens Hate Crime Commission launch event, St Nic's Church, Nottingham

2014, April, Law, citizenship and democratic state building in India
between 1910-1960s workshop, University of Nottingham: "Dyarchy: Democracy, Autocracy and the Scalar Sovereignty of Interwar India"

2014, February, School of Geography & the Environment, University of Oxford, "Subaltern space: power, autonomy and action in the subaltern archive"

2013, September, University of Oxford, Gender and Justice in South Asia since 1757 conference, "Sexual Subalternity and theSpaces of the Colonial Archive"

2013, August, Annual Conference RGS-IBG, London: three sessions organised with Mike Heffernan and Jake Hodder on "Historical Geographies of Internationalism (1900s-1960s)"

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi: UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro; graduate workshop) "Colonial governmentality"

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi: UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), "Carl Schmitt, interwar internationalism and governmentalities"

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi: UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro; graduate workshop), "Biography and (post)colonial practice"

2013, August, São Paulo, Brazil: USP (State University of São Paulo), "Sexual Subalternity and the Spaces of the Colonial Archive "

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi:

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi: UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro; graduate workshop), "Beyond the European Province"

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi: UFF (Federal University Fluminense), "Anti-Vice Lives: Peopling the Archives of Prostitution in Interwar Indian"

2013, August, Rio de Janeiro, Brazi: UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro), "An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations, and India's Princely Geographies"

2013, May: "City as a Site of Nationalism Movements" presentation at workshop on Envisioning the Indian City, University of Liverpool.

2013, April: Chair of "Spaces of Material Lives" panel at the "Histories of Material Life in South Asia, 1500-1900" conference, University of Cambridge.

2013 April, BASAS Annual Conference: chair of two sessions on constitutionalism and urban violence, and individual paper on "Sexual Subalternity and the Spaces of the Colonial Archive"

2013, February: Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event, SOAS, London: WGeographies of colonial Indian (non)violence"

2013, February: Space and Spatiality in South Asia, British Academy, London: Roundtable concluding discussant and paper "Scale and sexuality"

2012, December: Rethinking the urban in late 19th and early 20th century India/South Asia, SOAS, University of London: Chair and discussant

2012, November: Postcolonial Sexualities: Emerging Solidarities workshop, University of Sheffield: Working through transnational and international legal frameworks, and workshop discussant

2012, October: 'What makes a good society: Insights from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences', Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham: organiser and chair of panel on "Cohesive Cities: Past, Present, Future"

2012, June: Genealogies of Colonial Violence, University of Cambridge: chair and roundtable discussant

2012, May: Towards a Global Intellectual History Seminar, University of Cambridge: "Interwar Internationalism"

2012, May: Transnational Humanities Lecture Series, Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea: "An international anomaly: trafficking, the League of Nations, and India’s princely geographies"

2012, April: Fighting Drink, Drugs and venereal disease: Global anti-vice activism 1870-1940, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich: "Trans-scalar regulations of prostitution: Delhi, India, Empire, League" and concluding round-table discussant

2012, April: Urban Cultures Network, University of Nottinghm:Twentieth Century South Asian Colonial Urbanism: Scale, Nationalism and Democracy conference, coorganised with Prashant Kidambi. For a workshop report see here.

2012, March: South Asian Governmentalities workshop, British Academy, London. For a workshop summary see here.

2012, March: Urban History Seminar Series, University of Leicester: "Spatial Histories and Affective Geographies: Forms and Narratives of Nationalism in Colonial Delhi”

2012, February: Contemporary South Asian Studies, Univesity of Oxford: "An International Anomaly? The League of Nations, India, and it's Princely Geographies"

2012, February, Seminar, School of Geography, Arcaheology, and Palaeoecology, Queens University, Belfast: "An International Anomaly? The League of Nations, India, and it's Princely Geographies"

2012, February: CRASSH, University of Cambridge, Nationalism and the City Conference: "Spatial Histories and Affective Geographies: Forms and Narratives of Nationalism in Colonial Delhi”

2012, January: School of Geography, University of Durham: Street bodies and materials workshop

2012, January: SAXO-Institute, Copenhagen Workshop "Sovereignty-discipline-government: Exploring analytical strategies": panelist and presenter on "scale and governmentality"

2011, December: JNIAS Fellows' Seminar Series, JNU, New Delhi: "Scale, Governance and the Colonial State: Geographies of Dyarc hy in Interwar India"

2011, November: Centre for Historical Studies Seminar Series, JNU, New Delhi "An International Anomaly? The League of Nations, India, and it's Princely Geographies"

2011, November: South Asian Governmentalities workshop, coorganised with Deana Heath, JNIAS, JNU, New Delhi: "Scale and Governmentality: Nature, Networks and Nominalism”. For a workshop summary see here.

2011, September: three sessions organised at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference co-organised with Dr David Lambert entitled "New Imperial Geographies?" and a pre-conference on the same topic

2011, August: Towards a New History of the League of Nations Conference, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva: "Indian Exceptionalism: Colonialism and the Comparative Geographies of Trafficking in Women and Children"

2011, May: Leeds South Asian Studies Seminar, School of History, University of Leeds: "Scalar Geographies of Dyarchy: sexuality, morality, and the Government of India 1919-1935"

2011, April: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle: Scalar Geographies of Dyarchy: sexuality, morality, and the Government of India 1919-1935 (three sessions co-organised with Michael Brown on Scaled and Networked Historical Geographies of Moral Regulation

2011, April: Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver: "Geographies of Dyarchy: prostitution, sexuality, and the Government of India 1919-1935"

2011, April: Department of History, University of Concordia, Montreal: "Geographies of Dyarchy: prostitution, sexuality, and the Government of India 1919-1935"

2011, March: Queen Mary, School of Geography Research Seminar: "'Scale, Governance and the Colonial State: Prostitution and the Geographies of Dyarchy in Interwar India"

2011. March: Queen Mary, London: Postcolonial Positions roundtable discussion with Chris Campbell (Queen Mary) and Swati Chattopadhyay (University of California, Santa Barbara)

2011, February: School of Geography Research Semianar, University College, London: Segregation, Stimulation and Scandal: Geographies of Prostitution Policing between the Eras of Registration (1888) and Abolition (1923) in British India

2011. January: School of Geography, Queen Mary College London: Research Framework seminar

2010, October: Centre for Studies in Social Science, Kolkata: Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities and Interwar India

2010, August: Processes of Subjectivation: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: Moral and social hygiene campaigns for conduct in interwar colonial India

2010, July: International Planning History Society Conference, Istanbul Technical University: Planning Moral and Social Hygiene: Venereal Diseases, the Regulation of Prostitution, and Interwar India

2010, June: Nottingham Contemporary, Uneven Geographies: New Geographies of Globalisation (with Prof. Louise Crewe and Dr Alex Vasudevan)

2010, April: Wellcome Centre, London: "Locating the 'medical' in histories of 19th and 20th century South Asia" Conference: Planning Moral and Social Hygiene: Venereal Diseases, the Regulation of Prostitution, and Interwar India

2010, March: Tufts University, Boston, Centre for the Humanities: The Practices of Transnational Studies: The State of the Field: Transnationalism and the scalar politics of imperialism

2010, March: University of Nottingham Symposium on Sexuality & South Asia: New Directions co-organised with Dr Srila Roy. Paper presented entitled: Stimulation, Segregation, Scandal: the spatial politics of protitution in colonial Indian (1888-1923)

2010, March: The Long Room Hub Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin: Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities and Interwar India

2010, March: Kings College London, Department of Geography , Research Seminar Series: Assembling Colonial Development: the abolition of red light districts in interwar Indian cities

2009, December: "Imperial Contagions: Medicine and Cultures of Planning in Asia, 1880-1949" conference, University of Hong Kong: Planning Moral and Social Hygiene: Venereal Diseases, the Regulation of Prostitution, and Interwar India

2009, November: Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series, University of Cambridge: Scales of Prostitution: International Governmentalities and Interwar India

2009,September: Royal Academy: Chair of "Landscape and Memory" forum

2009, June: School Seminar and graduate workshop, Open University: International governmentalities and the European nomos: interpreting the League of Nations’ campaign against trafficking in women and children in colonial India.

2009, April: Department of Geography seminar, Durham University: International governmentalities and the European nomos: the League of Nations and "development" biopolitics in colonial India

2009, February: Queer Midlands Seminar Series: Sexual Geographies: a roundtable (with Gavin Brown)

2009, January: University of Cambridge, Comparative Colonialisms: An Interdisciplinary Workshop: Intra-Comparative Colonialism: trafficking and regulating prostitutes in interwar India

2008, December: Nottingham Contemporary, The Impossible Prison: co-chair and respondent to Eyal Weizman's presentation entitled: The Architecture of Occupation in Israel/Palestine

2008, November: University of Liverpool, Human Geography Seminar Series: Civil Abandonment: the inclusive exclusion of colonial Delhi's prostitutes, 1912-47

2008, November: University of Edinburgh , HGRG Postgraduate Conference: Archival research: investigative impulses and instincts

2008, June: University of Nottingham, Centre for Urban Culture: New Approaches to Researching the Past Workshop: Discussant

2008, June: University of Nottingham Symposium on Gender & South Asia: New Directions, co-organised with Srila Roy

2008, April: Lecturer exchange, School of Geography, University of Kentucky: Of Scales, Networks and Assemblages: the League of Nations Apparatus and the Scalar Sovereignty of the Government of India

2008, March: World Seminar Series, School of Geography and Geosciences , University of St Andrews: Scales of prostitution: international governmentalities and interwar India

2008, January: Imagining and Practising Imperial and Colonial Medicine, 1870-1960, University of Oxford: Social and Moral Hygiene: Meliscent Shepard’s Sexual Health Campaigns in 20th Century Colonial India

2007, November: Identities in a South Asian Context, SASIN Workshop, University of Sheffield: Racial intimacy and imperial feminism: Meliscent Shephard's anti-brothel quest in colonial India

2007, October: Ambivalent Geographies: Empire and Histories of Architecture, University of California, Riverside: The tolerated brothels debate in interwar India: architectural, national, imperial and international spaces of sex

2007, October: School of Geography seminar, University of Exeter:

Imperial feminism and social hygiene: the anti-brothel campaign in colonial India

2007, September: Knowledge and Space: Cultural Memories Symposium, Geographisches Institut, University of Heidelberg: Violent Memories: Nationalism and Indian Spaces of Postcolonial Recollections

2007, September: RGS-IBG Conference, three sessions co-organsied on Negotiating Postcolonial Distance: Scale, Hierarchies, Networks with Colin McFarlane and Dan Clayton

2007, April: Cultural and Historical Geography Research Group seminar, University of Aberystwyth: Scandalous sites: the tolerated brothels debate in 20th century colonial India

2007, April: The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality, New Delhi: Prostitutes and Politics: The Tolerated Brothels Debate in Colonial India (summary)

2007, March: Cultural and Historical Geography Research Group seminar, University of Cambridge: Scales of prostitution: the tolerated brothels debate in 20th century colonial India

2006, June: "Political Infrastructures" conference at the Open University: Infrastructural security: governmental rationalities in colonial Delhi

2006, April: "Ambivalent Geographies: Architecture and Urban Planning in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic in a Global Context" confernence at the Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey: Formal and informal imperial space: Delhi and Istanbul

2006, March: Cities and Imperial Spaces symposium in the Cities and Empire symposia series hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre, University of East London, and the Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, University of London: Imperial Spaces in Delhi

2004, March: Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, two sessions co-organised on Worlds of sex work: historical and contemporary parallels with Philip Howell

2005, January: "Rethinking governmentality" seminar at the University of Durham: Beyond the European Province: Foucault and Postcolonialism

2004, November: "Governing geographies" theme, London Group of Historical Geographers seminar series, University of London: Colonial governmentality and critique: the Delhi Improvement Trust and colonial urban planning

2004, February: Institute for Romance Studies, University of London: Contesting and Surviving Memory: Space, Nation and Nostalgia in Les Lieux de Mémoire

2003, May: Martin Centre of Architectural Research, University of Cambridge: Spaces of Imperialism & Nationalism in India's New Capital, Delhi 1911 - 47

2003, November: Sarai, Centre for Studying Developing Societies, Delhi: "Delhi Seminar Series":Re-building and Re-theorising Colonial Delhi: Governmentality and the Delhi Improvement Trust

2001, May: Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi: Delhi 1911-47: ambivalence and resistance in the Indian capital