2025
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“Negotiating Space – Housing, Migration, and Segregation among Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in Frankfurt”. Invited lecture for the Housing and… Lecture Series, Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 22 Jan 2025.
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2024
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“The Commodification of Culture and the Concealment of Faith: Indian Spaces in Frankfurt”, Research Discussion Series, Network Urban Researchers (NUR), TU Darmstadt, Oct 2024.
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“Beyond Borders and Biases: Unpacking Structural Violence Among Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in Frankfurt”, TraCe Research Colloquium: Progress and Perspectives, TU Darmstadt, May 2024.
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2023
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“Hidden Heritage, Segregated Spaces: Uncovering socio-spatial negotiations of Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in Frankfurt a.M.”, ‘The 7th annual conference “WITH/OUT IDENTITY” of the DFG graduate school “Identity and Heritage”, Weimar, Bauhaus University, November 2023.
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„Social and Spatial Mobility of Indian Diaspora in Frankfurt: New entanglements of Class and migration”, Livable Cities Conference. New York City. June 2023.
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“Housing practices of Indian diaspora in Frankfurt: Welfare-state equity or nationally-bounded inequalities?”, RC 31 Sociology of Migration, XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia. June 2023.
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„Socio-spatial Negotiations of the Highly Skilled Indian Migrants in Frankfurt am Main”, Guest lecture at Humboldt University Berlin. June 2023.
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2022
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„Indian diaspora, housing practices and identity negotiations: A case of Highly skilled Indian migrants in Frankfurt am Main”, Seventh Conference on Migration Research in Austria, Donau University Krems ,Austria. September 2022.
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“Key global challenges and perspectives for urban spaces”, Keynote talk to a seminar – Inclusiveness and exclusiveness of urban social spaces, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Venue – Frankfurt am Main. June 2022.
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2019
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“Evolution of Elite high-rise condominiums in India: from global to neo-colonial?”, Werkstattgesprächen der AG Stadtforschung im Sommersemester 2019 am Fachbereich Architektur, TU Darmstadt. May 2019.
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2018
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“High-Rise Havens: a ladder for social mobility in Neo-liberal India”, Faculty of Architectural Engineering, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. January 2018.
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2017
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“Social and Spatial, the role of thresholds in elite identity production in neo-liberal India” – Seminar on Borders, Thresholds and Intersections, MSD, University of Melbourne, Australia. February 2017.
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2015
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“Negotiation of identities in the emergent cosmopolitan Indian landscape: analyses of the designs of new luxury high-rise apartments in neo-liberal India.” Living and Learning: Research for a Better Built Environment, 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Melbourne, Australia. December 2015.
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“Analysing Socio-Spatial boundaries in the designs of elite high-rise apartments in Neo-liberal India”, SAHANZ PhD Symposium on Architectural History, Brisbane, Australia. November 2015.
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2014
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“Identity issues in the context of globalisation- exploring the case of Indian elite housing models”, Guest speaker series- Globalisation and built environment, LAA, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris la Villette, Paris, France. June 2014.
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“New cosmopolitans: Gated Communities in India”, 8th International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, Vancouver, Canada. January 2014.
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