Recent International Conferences:
Presented two papers titled “A polycentric framework to understand small-scale irrigation in Andhra Pradesh, India” and “Understanding the Relationship Between Sustainability and Ecofeminism in an Indian Context” at the IASC 2023 - XIX Biennial IASC Conference on 'The Commons We Want: Between Historical Legacies and Future Collective Actions' held at Nairobi, Kenya from 19 Jun 2023 to 24 Jun 2023.
Presented a paper titles, “Climate justice and India’s sustainable future”at the international conference on “Justice in the transition away from coal: Planning for a decarbonised India” in IIIT Hyderabad from 11th to 12th Jan 2023
Presented a paper titled, “India’s Sustainable Future: Critical Questions and Challenges” at the BITS Pilani-Hiroshima University Workshop on Sustainable Life and Sustainable Planet on 2nd Nov, 2022
Presented a paper titled “Understanding Polycentricity and Intersectionality in small scale irrigation systems in water-stressed regions of India” at the Ostrom Workshop Research Series organised by Ostrom workshop, Indiana University, USA on 21st Sept, 2022.
Was selected through a competitive process to participate in the Ostrom Summer Academy organised by the Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, USA from 20th May 2022 to 24th June 2022.
Presented a paper with Mousami Prasad (Australian National University), titled “Industrial accidents and environmental degradation: Exploring the Linkages and Responses in India” at the INSEE-IIITD International Conference 2021 from December 15-17, 2021.
Presented a paper titled “Environmental Justice and Ecological Alternatives” at the 26th International Political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress of Political Science held virtually from 10th to 15th July, 2021.
Presented a paper titled “Who Wants to Conserve the Western Ghats? The Politics of Conflict and Conservation in Idukki district, Kerala” at the 7th International Degrowth and 16th ISEE Joint Conference on Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis hosted by The University of Manchester from 5th of 8th July, 2021
Presented a paper titled “A Search for Ecological Alternatives: A Case Study of the Politics of Water and Scarcity in Andhra Pradesh, India” at the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC) 2021 - Water Commons Virtual Conference hosted by Arizona State University, USA from May 19 to May 21st, 2021
Co-presented a paper titled “When I Looked, There She Stood” with Ms. Anwesha Mohanty at the Rural Women’s Studies (RWSA) Triennial Conference hosted by University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada from May 11-15, 2021
Presented a paper titled “The Search for Alternative Irrigation Practices and the Politics of Water and Scarcity” at the third biennial conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) organized by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK from 22nd to 25th Sept, 2020.
Presented a paper titled A Policy Review of Environmental Governance in India at ‘Unpacking the Complexity of Regulatory Governance in a Globalising World: An International Conference’ held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 4-6 July 2019.
Presented a paper titled ‘Rural social movements and emancipatory possibilities in India’ at the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) South Asia Collective Workshop on 12 and 13 January, 2019, University of Jaffna, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Presented a paper titled “The Political Economy of Decentralisation and Forest Resource Management (FRM): A Study of the Effectiveness of Decentralised FRM Institutions” at the Asia Region Biennial International Association Study of the Commons Conference on “Redefining Diversity and Dynamism of Natural Resource Management in Asia”, on 13-16, July, 2018, AIT, Thailand.
Presented a paper titled “Ecological Romanticism and Farmer’s Protest in Tamil Nadu, India: The Bull and The River” at the international conference on Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World, on 17-18 March, 2018. The conference was organized by Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University, The Hague.
Recent National Conferences:
Presented a paper titled “A Polycentric Understanding of the Relationship between S&T CSOs and the State” at the National Workshop on Making of an S&T-Enabled Rural India: State-Civil Society Shared Engagements, 1980-2010 ,co-organisers by Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad and Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence, Delhi NCR Supported by Ford Foundation, New Delhi, Hosted at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru on May 27-28, 2023.
Presented a paper titled“Framing Relationships: State and Actors in the Civic Space” at the National Workshop on Civil Society, State and Science: Transformative Initiatives in/for Rural India, 1980s-2010s held at the India International Centre, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi on 22nd and 23rd Jan 2023
Presented a paper titled “Social Resilience: The Role of Local Institutions in Addressing Vulnerability in Times of Crisis in the Context of the COVID Pandemic” at the International Webinar on Rethinking the Role of Local Governments in a Post Covid-19 World organized by the Centre for Gandhian Studies, Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, Kerala (India) & Centre for Rural Management (CRM), Kottayam, Kerala (India) from December 10 to 14, 2020.
Presented a paper titled “A Search for Ecological Alternatives: A Case Study of the Politics of Water and Scarcity in Andhra Pradesh, India” at the conference on Collective Action in The 21st Century: Reimagining The Public And The State organized by the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University from 21st to 23rd October 2020.
Was an invited Panelist on the theme "The Environment & the Indian Constitution" at NALSAR, Hyderabad on 4th March, 2020 and presented a paper on “Environmental Justice: A Political Ecology Perspective” for the NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism
Presented a paper titled Who Wants to Conserve the Western Ghats? A Study of Resistance to Conservation and its Undercurrents in Karunapuram panchayat, within the Cardamom Hill Reserve in Idukki district at the Research Unit on Local Self-Government Seminar at The Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala on 25th November 2019.
Presented a paper titled Alternative ways of understanding ecological conservation practices to enable environmental justice for all at the INSEE-CESS International Conference on Climate Change and Disasters: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses, the Tenth Biennial Conference of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) held from 6-8 November 2019 at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad
Presented a paper titled Paper Forests in the City of Hyderabad, India at the conference on Entangled Natures: A Conference on Human Ecology from 14th to 17th February 2019 at the School of Human Ecology (SHE) Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD).
Recent - Invited to deliver lectures:
Delivered a Seminar Series on “Political Ecology” to 4th year students at NALSAR in Aug-Sept 2022
Moderated a panel on “Interrogating Sustainability” in a colloquy organized by the Orissa Economics Association on 4th Sept, 2022
Organised and conducted a session in a workshop on Teaching Climate Change organized by Teachers Against the Climate Crisis on 3rd Sept, 2022
Was part of a panel on “India's Sustainable Future” during the winter school on 'Society, Nature and Sustainability' organised by Tata Institute for Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad from 24th to 27th Jan, 2022.
Delivered a lecture on “Research Design" at Tata Institute for Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad on 20th Oct, 2021
Delivered a lecture on “The Politics of Water and Scarcity in Andhra Pradesh, India” at the Seminar Series of The Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi on 9th April, 2021
Delivered a lecture on “Literature Review for Dissertation writing” by Tata Institute for Social Sciences (TISS), Hyderabad on 11th March, 2021
Delivered a lecture on “Political ecology and environmental law: Approaches for Teaching and Research” as part of the panel on “Multidisciplinary methodology in the teaching and research of Environmental Law” for the Strengthening Capacity for Environmental Law in the Asia-Pacific Developing Environmental Law Champions-Train-the-Trainers Program, India from 22ndto 28th November 2020 hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India and GNLU Centre for Environment, Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Gujarat National Law University, Gujarat.
Invited speaker for a Webinar panel on “The draft EIA Notification 2020” held on 23rd Oct, 2020 by the Center for Development Studies (CDS), Kerala.
Delivered a lecture on “Environmental Justice and Ecological Alternatives: A Case Study of Traditional Irrigation Practices in Andhra Pradesh, India” in the Grameen Talk Series organized by Rural Development & Governance MA program, School of Livelihoods and Development, TISS Hyderabad on 1st Oct 2020. Recording of talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsGCHmrvuhg
Was an invited speaker on the panel on "The Environment & the Indian Constitution" at NALSAR, Hyderabad on 4th March, 2020 and spoke on the topic “Environmental Justice: A Political Ecology Perspective”
Delivered a Seminar series of 10 lectures at NALSAR University of Law on the topic ‘Political Ecology' to LLB students both in 2019 and 2020
Invited to deliver a lecture on ‘Strategies to improve the political participation of women in local, district, and state levels’ by the Planning Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh and National Foundation for India who co-hosted a conclave on “Improving economic participation of women in Andhra Pradesh: Towards achieving SDG 5”, on 19th and 20th of December 2018, at Hotel Fortune Murali Park, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh.
Was invited as a resource person to the Urban Action School on ‘Urban Commons and Right to the City’ on the 25th of November, 2018 organized by Action Aid at the Institute of Public Enterprises, Osmania University, Hyderabad. I conducted a one-day session on ‘Urban Political Ecology: Disasters and Development’.
Invited by the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram to speak at the national seminar on “Persisting Pollution in Periyar: Industrialisation and Limits to Environmental Governance” held on 12th Nov, 2018.
Was invited by the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad to conduct a two-day workshop on ‘Research Design’ for their LLM and PhD students. The workshop was held on the 26th and 27th of Oct, 2018.
Was invited by the Department of Political Science, Hyderabad Central University to deliver a lecture on ‘Environmental Resource Governance’ on 11th September, 2018
Was invited by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA) to be a part of the National Conference on ‘Twenty-Five years of Panchayati Raj’ held on 24th and 25th April 2018 in Trivandrum, Kerala.
Was invited to deliver a talk on ‘Understanding Decentralisation Through a Natural Resource Lens: A Study in The State of Tamil Nadu, India’, on 6th April, 2018 at IIT Hyderabad to the Department of Liberal Arts.