Selected Paper Presentation

Presented (Online): ‘Reading the Skies: exploring the intersection of ethnometeorology, folk traditions and meteorology’, 26^th International Congress of History of Science Technology and Medicine, Prague, July 30, 2021.

Presented (Online) Akhther, S. and Dash, B. ‘A Framework of Pandemic-Risk Assessment and its Applicability to Reduce the Pandemic’s Adversity’ in the Second International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development (DRSD) held at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 24-25 June 2021

Presented 'Disaster Management: From Science Technology Studies (STS) Perspective” Seminar at the Central University, Gujarat, 16 August 2017 

Presented 'Last Mile Connectivity' at the Second World Conference on Disaster Management, Anna University, Visakhapatnam, 20 November, 2015. 

Presented 'Imagination of Disaster and its Response: Scenarios, Exercise and Drills” at the seminar ‘To repeat: Logic of Exercise, Drills and Simulation’ held at the Goldsmiths University of London, 5-7 Nov. 2014.

Presented “Analysis of Response to Cyclone Warnings: Meteorology in Perspective” in the seminar-Concepts,  Theories and Practices : Changing Relationship between Science, Society and State, held at the Indian Institute of Advanced  Studies, Shimla, 26-27 Nov. 2012.

Presented “Early Warning for Disaster” at International Program on Disaster Management for African Countries, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, 2011.

Presented “Institutional Mechanism for Disaster Management in India” at the International Conference on Mass Casualty Management, AIIMS, New Delhi, 6-7 May 2010. 

Presented “Cyclone Warning and Disaster Management” during the Meeting of Regional Panel (North Indian Ocean) on Tropical Cyclone by WMO-ESCAP, New Delhi 2008

Presented “Multi-Hazard Warning System” in the first ‘India Disaster Management Congress’ held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, 29-30 November 2006. 

Presented “Tsunami Warning System in India” in the International Workshop on Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System by the USAID, NOAA, USFS held at Bangkok, 6-7 December 2007

Presented “Indicators for Preparedness” in the conference “Global Hazard Risk Reduction” held at the World Bank, Washington, July 24-26, 2004

Invited Talks  

Delivered a talk on Coastal Hazards in the Govt. of Telangana program held at MCR HRD Institute Hyderabad on 9th Dec. 2015

Delivered a talk on Coastal Hazards in the Govt. of Telangana program held at MCR HRD Institute Hyderabad on 9th Dec. 2015   

Resource Person for the Workshop on "Incident Response System" organized by the UNDP and Govt. of Himachal Pradesh Hamirpur and Bilaspur, HP in June 2016

Delivered a talk “Disaster Management in India: Policy Dimension” at the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) Mumbai on 5 th April 2017

Training workshop organized by the Govt. of HP and UNDP on IRS at Shimla 3-5th July 2017

     Delivered a talk on ‘Coastal Resilience” and on “Last Mile Connectivity” at the National Institute of Disaster Management, South Campus Baptala, Andhra Pradesh on 6th and 7th Feb. 2018.

Conducted a training program for three days on “Incident Response System” at Regional Centre for HRD Institute, Govt. of AP, Visakhapatnam, Sep 17-19 Nov. 2019

Delivered a talk "Multi-hazard EWS at District Level" as part of the Workshop conducted by Srikakulam District Administration, Andhra Pradesh, 27 Dec. 2019

Co-authored for the paper “Disaster Risk Assessment in Social Vulnerabilities” delivered at the Int. conference on Earth and Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development conducted at Dhaka University, Bangladesh Jan 2020.

• UGC Academic Staff College, Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi
• SRM University, Chennai
• Indraprastha University, Delhi
• National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad
• Indian Institute of Public Administration, N. Delhi
• INCOIS, Hyderabad
• APHRDI Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, Baptala
• VigyanPrasar, New Delhi etc.

Participation in International Workshop

Participated in the Second Expert Group Meeting on “Lessons to be Learned from Great Earthquake and Mega Tsunami-Japan” organized by ESCAP and Cabinet Office Japan, 16-18^th Dec. 2011, Tokyo, Japan.

Participated in the “Coastal Community Resiliency Workshop” Bangkok 23-25^th May 2006 organized by USAID to develop a Guidebook on Resilience at Bangkok, Thailand