Category research presentations
Summer Institute in Urban Studies
I was selected to participate in the sixth Summer Institute in Urban Studies in Brussels, Belgium from July 7-11, 2025. It was jointly organized by the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp), Brussels Centre for Urban Studies (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Stadsacademie (Ghent University), KU Leuven Urban Studies Institute (KU Leuven) and The University of Manchester. Many thanks to the local organizing committee, Dr. Kevin Ward, […]
Labor Geographies and the State
I had the opportunity to participate in the double panel session titled, “Labor Geographies and the State“, at the Global Conference on Economic Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA on June 6, 2025. Many thanks to the organizers, Dr. Madhumita Dutta (Ohio State), Dr. Siobhán McGrath (Clark), and Eunyeong Song (Clark), for organizing it […]
Remittance and Resilience: New Geographies of Transnational Urbanism in the Global South
Below is the conference panel that Dr. Andre Ortega and I co-organized at the 2025 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Detroit. Many thanks to Dr. Michelle Buckley for serving as discussant and to the participants for engaging in thoughtful discussions on transnational urbanism in the Global South. Organizers: Siddharth Menon, University of […]
New Directions in the Study of the Arab World
I was selected to participate in the fourth Annual Graduate Student Research Workshop under the theme “New Directions in the Study of the Arab World” at the Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World at NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE. My thanks go to Dr. Erin Pettigrew, Dr. Nathalie Peutz, and Raya Lakova for […]
Ordinary Places: Thinking about Space, Scale, and Region in South Indian Cities
Thomas Oommen and I organized a paper session at the 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia. Below is the abstract and the list of participants for the session. Many thanks to Stephen Young for serving as a discussant for the session. Ordinary Places: Thinking about Space, Scale, and Region in South Indian Cities Organizers: Siddharth […]
Antipode’s 9th Institute for the Geographies of Justice
I was selected to participate in Antipode’s 9th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ): “Radical Geographies of Social Reproduction” in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA from June 3-7, 2024. Many thanks to Kate Derickson and Marion Werner for organizing the meeting and to the invited faculty fellows, Kiran Asher, Beverly Mullings, Bradley Wilson, Diana Ojeda, and […]
Global Development, Speculative Urbanism, and Infrastructure: Critical Approaches to Capital and Difference
I had the opportunity to participate in the panel titled, “Global Development, Speculative Urbanism, and Infrastructure: Critical Approaches to Capital and Difference“, at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Honolulu, HI on April 18, 2024. Many thanks to the organizers, David Fernando Bachrach and Naomi Hazarika, for organizing it and to the […]
MATERIAL AS METHOD-New Histories of the Built Environment
I had the opportunity to participate in the Symposium titled “Material as Method: New Histories of the Built Environment” at the Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in October 2023. Many thanks to Ateya Khorakiwala (Columbia University) & Curt Gambetta (Dartmouth College) for organizing and facilitating the same. Please find the […]
AIIS Junior Fellows Annual Conference
I had the opportunity to participate in American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) Junior Fellows Annual Conference at New Delhi in December 2022. Many thanks to AIIS for organizing the same and faculty mentors Prof. Geeta Patel, Prof. Sanjam Ahluwalia, Prof. Sumathi Ramaswamy, and Prof. Radhika Govindrajan for their insightful comments and feedback on participant’s […]
M-Sand, Metal, and the “More-than-Urban” Political Ecology of Urban Development in Kerala
I was invited to present my latest research paper, titled M-Sand, Metal, and the “More-than-Urban” Political Ecology of Urban Development in Kerala, at the Center for Development Studies (CDS) in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 28 April 2023. Many thanks to Prof. J. Devika for her support and guidance through the research project. Please find details of […]
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