Category research presentations
Cities and Climate Change Workshop III
I was invited to share my research at the Cities and Climate Change Workshop: Edition III at the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) in Bengaluru from January 8-9, 2026 which was co-organised by the Center for the Advanced Study of India-University of Pennsylvania and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development. Many thanks To […]
Kerala Council for Historical Research
I was invited to present my research at the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) Webinar Series on November 6, 2025. Many thanks to the organisers for this opportunity and to the Project Assistant, Pooja Priyadarsini, for organising the same. Below are some promotional materials from the webinar.
Indian Ocean Urbanisms
Dr. Smriti Srinivas and I organised a panel on “Indian Ocean Urbanisms” at the 54th Annual Conference on South Asia in Madison, Wisconsin on October 24, 2025. Many thanks to the participants for making this an engaging session (CFP below). Indian Ocean Urbanisms Organizers: Smriti Srinivas, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC-Davis & Siddharth Menon, Assistant Professor […]
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 […]
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