Invited Presentations

Plenary lecture on ‘Decolonial Pedagogies and Gendered Intellectual Herstories’ in National Seminar on Challenges and Opportunities in integrating Indian Knowledge System with Modern Knowledge System, organised by Sariya College, Vinoba Bhave University, Giridh, Jharkhand, 12th September 2025.
Plenary Lecture on ‘Being Human: Tracing the historical Indian Women thinking’ in International Conference on ‘Women Thinkers and Thoughts in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Ideas, Histories and Methodologies’, organised by Kailashbashini Devi Centre for Women Studies, University of North Bengal, 18th March 2025
Plenary Lecture on Social Scapes in the Literary: Tracing the Political in Mahadevi Varma, Contemporary Trends in Indian Literatures, Organised by the Department of Indian Languages at Banaras Hindu University. 4-8th March 2025.
Talk on Hindi Cinema and Shaping of Gender: Politics and Praxis on 14th Sept, as part of the workshop, “The Language of Cinema: Workshop on Film Theory and Practice,” organised by the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, BHU, 10th -17th September, 2024.
Lecture on ‘Mahadevi Varma: The Political, Moral and the Ethical’, The Neem Collective and Alice Boner Institute, Varanasi on 27th April 2024.
Lecture on ‘Pandita Ramabai and her views on Gender and Education’, Department of Political Science, DAV College, Varanasi, on 2nd April 2024.
Lecture on ‘Recovering the Organic: Women Thinking in Modern India’, Department of Philosophy, University of Paderborn, Germany, on 25th January 2024.
Lecture on ‘Women Philosophers and the Question of Self-Esteem and Dignity: Tarabai Shinde’, Department of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim, Germany, on 18th January 2024.
Lecture on ‘Women Philosophers and the Question of Religion: Pandita Ramabai Saraswati’, Department of Philosophy, University of Hildesheim, Germany, on 11th January 2024.
Lecture on ‘Gendering Research Methods’, Research Methodology Course in Social Sciences, Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Bihar, on 13th August 2023.
Lecture on ‘Women Rethinking Intellectual History of Ideas in South Asia’ at Pavate Foundation and Department of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, India on 28th Jan 2023.
Lecture on ‘Engagements with Annie Beasant: Education, Nation and the Self’, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya Archives, Malviya Anushilan Kendra, Banaras Hindu University, 1st Oct 2022.
19th Manoranjan Jha Lecture on ‘Making of the Political: Gendered Intellectual History of Modern India 1850s-1940s’ at Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, BHU, 18th June 2022.
Lecture on ‘Engagement with the Self: Indian women Ideation’ at Centre for South Asian Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), University of Cambridge, 28th April 2022.
Lecture on ‘Negotiating Thresholds: Cornelia Sorabjee’s Contributions in shaping Gendered Intellectual History in Modern India’, at Ancient Iran and India Trust (AIIT), Cambridge, 11th March 2022.
‘Engagements of a Pedagogue: Teaching Women Thinkers’ at Kailashbhasini Centre of Women Studies, Dr MeghnadSaha College, University of Gour Banga, West Bengal, on 8th March 2022 (Online)
Lecture series on ‘Dr B. R Ambedkar: The thinker, Philosophy and Politics’, Malviya Centre for Peace and Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, BHU on 13th Oct, 13th Nov, and 13th Dec 2021.
Lecture on ‘Bharat: Manthan of Ideological streams’, organised by Centre for Heritage Management, Department of History, Banaras Hindu University, Oct 2021. (Online)
Lecture on ‘Kamaladevi Chattopadhayaya’ as part of the Lecture Series on Women in Modern Indian Political Thought, organised by Dayanand Anglo Vedic College, Varanasi, on 21st July 2021. (Online)
Lecture on ‘Thinking on Gender and Women in the Temporalities and Tropes of Buddhism’, School
of Human Studies, Ambedkar University, India, on 2nd March 2021.
Special Lecture on ‘Decolonising Feminism: Transnational Feminism and Third World Feminism’ as part of the course ‘Kønsteorierihistoriskogpolitiskkontekst’, University of Aarhus, Denmark, on 3rd November 2020 (Online)
Lecture delivered on ‘Emancipation and Political Buddhism(s)’ at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, 11th Feb 2020.
Departmental Lecture on ‘The thick and the thin: South Asia’ in the Department of Strategic and
Security Studies, School of International Relations, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, on 24th Nov 2019.
Guest lecture on ‘Tropes of Political Buddhism(s): Tracing the Genealogy’, Department of Political Science, Jamia Milia Islamia, Delhi, on 11th April 2019.
Talk on ‘Normativity & the Indian Self: Reflections from Political Buddhism’ at IIIT Hyderabad, 1st April 2019.
Guest lecture on ‘The Indian Political Self: Buddhism as the Foundation’ on June 19th December 2018, Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt, Germany.
Guest lecture on ‘Reason in Traditions of Emancipation’ on 10th December 2018, Willy Brandt School of Policy, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Talk and Masterclass on ‘History of Ideas: Positioning Arts and Crafts in Kamla Devi Chattopadhyay and Ananda K Coomaraswamy’ for doctoral researchers at National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 29th August 2018.
Lecture on ‘Reclaiming India Through its Art forms: Coomaraswamy and his writings,’ as part of the Architecture and Society Series, organised by GREHA in collaboration with India Habitat Centre, in Amaltas, IHC on 16th August 2018.
Talk on ‘Buddhist Thinkers of Modern India’ in Ambedkar University on 6th April, 2018.
Talk on Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy and the invocation of West, organised by the Intellectual History Research Group, Department of Political Science. University of Delhi, on 11th Sept 2017.