# Conference Select: **“Becoming of a Dalit: State perspectives on citizenship of the outcastes”** South Asia Without Borders Seminar: Citizenship of the Outcastes, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 3, 2018 **“A New Genre of Neo-Dalit Identity”** Caste and Social Justice Panel, South Asian Studies Association 2018 Conference, Claremont McKenna College, California, March 24, 2018 **“The Rhetorics of Caste and the Dalit Question”** UConn Caste Workshop, March 3, 2018 **“Thinking Caste, Thinking Race: Du Bois, Ambedkar and Fanon”** Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Harvard University, February 9, 2018 **“Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism: Coalitions and Solidarities”** Human Rights: Adapting to the Challenges of Our Times, Harvard Kennedy School, January 27, 2018 **“Imagining Race/Caste: Du Bois/Ambedkar,”** DSA-II Special Lecture, University of Hyderabad, August 21, 2017 **“Ambedkar’s Foreign Policy and the Ellipsis of the Dalit from the United Nations,”** Quest for Equity, GKVV University, Bangalore, July 21-23, 2017 “**Being a Dalit in a casteist society: The Heideggerian beingness**,” Re-imagining Caste, Religion and Social Justice Conference, Brandeis University, Waltham April 29, 2017 **“Oppressed Caste Capitalism,”** Caste Oppression Today, Socialist Studies Conference, Congress 2016, University of Calgary, June 3, 2016 **“Dalit Diaspora in Africa,”** Caste, Inequality and Economic Growth in South Asia: Challenges of Tradition and Modernity, Brandeis University, May 1, 2016 **“positioning/unearthing/re-locating subordinate subalterns,”** Caste, Inequality and Economic Growth in South Asia: Challenges of Tradition and Modernity, Brandeis University, April 30, 2016 **“DAfrican moment: DuBois, Ambedkar, Fanon,”** Ambedkar 125th years, Barnard College, Columbia University and AIM, April 23, 2016 **“Permitocracy—the politics of permits,”** Political Anthropology and Political Economy Working Group, Harvard University, March 25, 2016 **“Asylum Politics,”** South-South Migration, Refugees & Diasporic Communities, National University of Singapore, February 16-17, 2016 **“South-South Migration: A Case study of contemporary Indian labour migration to South Africa,”** Capital, labor and south-south development Conference, The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, Ithaca, October 9-11, 2015 **“Jumping the border: An Indian labour migrant’s clandestine journey to South Africa,”** School of Social Sciences, Postgraduate Project Seminar Series, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, August 14, 2015 **“Indian activism in the first decade of apartheid: case study of the most controversial Group Areas Act and Indian response in refuting the discrimination,”** Indian Diaspora in Development of Home and Host Countries: A Comparative Perspective Conference, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Kadi University, Gandhinagar, January 10-11, 2015 **““Please comment in the section below.” Usage of social media space to advocate ideological message: case study of Indian elections 2014,”** Democracy and Dalit Politics in Neoliberal Times, University of Edinburgh and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, December 5-6, 2014 **“Negotiating permits—deferring asylum: Indian labour migration to Johannesburg,”** Poster presentation, 6th Postgraduate Symposium, University of the Witwatersrand, October 24, 2014 **“Economic aspects of South-South migration: A case study of contemporary Indian labour migration to Johannesburg, South Africa,”** 17th Nordic Migration Conference, University of Copenhagen, August 13-15, 2014 **“Fordsburg, Flea Market & Foreigners: Ethnographic study of Indian migrants in South Africa,”** India in Africa: New Frontiers in South-South Relations Conference, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, March 15-16, 2013