Invited Talks:
2020 Discussant for the plenary session on Migration and the Politics of Borders; Sociologist for Women in Society (winter meeting), on Feb 1st, San Diego.
2019 Invited Speaker at Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study on The Disruptors – Returnee Transnational Entrepreneurs in India, on Mar 12th. The talk was organized by Diaspora, International Migration Program (CAS) and Organization for Diaspora Initiatives (ODI), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
2019 Invited Speaker at University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India on The Disruptors – Returnee Transnational Entrepreneurs in India, on Jan 29th, and Escaping Gender roles or Seeking Compromise? Changing the Narrative of Womenpreneurs on Jan 30th. The lectures have been organized by UGC Center for the Study of Indian Diaspora and Center for Women’s Study.
2017 Invited Speaker at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India on Migration of Chin-Refugees from their homeland to the US, July 13.
2009 Invited speaker at Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, on Social and Human Capital at Work – A case of Transnational Asian Indian Entrepreneurs in the Global Economy. March 26.
2008 Invited speaker at Global Urban Studies Program Workshop, Michigan State University, East Lansing on Rethinking Identity in Transnational Spaces, November 25.
2004 Invited speaker at United Nations Day. 59th Year Anniversary Celebration. Michigan State University International Center, East Lansing, on The Role of Women’s Rights and Empowerment in Global Economic Development, October 24.
Conference Presentations:
2023 Social Mobility in Transnational Spaces: Subjective Perceptions of Indian Women Entrepreneurs, for the session on ‘Social and Spatial Mobility: New Entanglements of Class and Migration’ XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia June 25-July 1, 2023. Forthcoming
To Flee or Not to Flee? Im/Mobility Among Ukrainian Glass Artists and Entrepreneurs, for the session on ‘The Social Economy of Migrant Labor — Improving Social Protections to End Exploitation’ XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia June 25-July 1, 2023. Forthcoming.
2021 Ambiguities and Complexities of Selective Adaptation Among Transnational Indian American Entrepreneurs for the session on ‘Diversification in Migrant (Non)adaptation’ IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Feb 23-27.
Not to be ‘Outpaced’ Nor ‘Underestimated’: Transnational Lives of Indian Women Entrepreneurs for the session on ‘Gendered Resistances in Postcolonial and Transnational Context’ at IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Feb 23-27.
2018 Reproducing Inequalities or Promoting Upward Mobility? A Case of Transnational Asian-Indian Entrepreneurs for the session on ‘International Mobility and Social Stratification’ at ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, Canada. July 15-21.
2016 What we eat makes us who we are! The food practices and transnational identity of Burmese refugee families in Battle Creek, Michigan at Food in Social Life: Mini Conference on Sociology of Food, Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, March 17-20.
2014 Navigating the Myanmar–Thailand–Malaysia border: The escape strategies of Burmese refugees from Chin State, Myanmar, to Battle Creek, Michigan at the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan. July 13-19.
2012 The latent power of Networks: the routes of re-migration of returnee entrepreneurs from the United States to India in the 21st century. Invited Workshop Participant at “Diaspora and Development: South Asian Diaspora Engagement in South Asia” at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) National University of Singapore, Singapore, Sept. 27-28.
How did I get here? – The cultural and social moorings of business behavior among Asian Indian women entrepreneurs in the 21st. century. Individual Paper Presentation on panel “Work/Life Balance” at the Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York. Feb 23-26.
2011 A Balancing Act! – The World of Transnational Indian Women Entrepreneurs. Individual
Paper Presentation on panel “South Asian American Female Consumptions” at the Asian American Studies Annual Conference, New Orleans. May 18-21.
Is Accessing Global Markets easier than ever in the 21st century? A comparative study of U.S based returnee and non-migrant transnational Indian entrepreneurs in India. Invited Individual Paper Presentation on panel “Highly Skilled Migration in the 21st. Century” at the Eastern Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. February 24-27.
2010 Transcending National Borders for Global Markets: A comparison of Immigrant and non-migrant transnational Indian entrepreneurs in high tech and consumer goods sectors. Individual Paper Presentation on panel “Transnational Entrepreneurs: Old and New” at the 22nd Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. June 24-26.
Negotiating Identity as ‘Transnationals’: The contextual intersection of multi-state membership and identity among the immigrant and returnee entrepreneurs in the U.S. and India. Individual Paper Presentation on panel “Religion and Ethnicity in India” at the 38th National Association for Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, Washington D.C. April 8-10.
2008 I can talk Baseball with an average American and Cricket with an Indian! – The Construction of Symbolic Identity by Professional Asian Indian Immigrants in the United States. Individual Paper Presentation at the Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Chicago. April 16-20.