TALKS & PRESENTATIONS
Using GIS in History (Or, How I Learned to Stop Mapping and Love Robert Moses)
Presentation with Charles Loeffler at the Harvard University Department of History and American Studies, October 2009
Ethnohistories of the Global City
Presented at the worskshop on Citizenship, Civility, and Environmental Sustainability Across Urban Asia, Yale University Department of Anthropology, January 2009
Bombay Cotton: Share Mania in the Colonial City
Presented at Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism, Harvard University Department of History and Harvard Law School, April 2008
Mumbai in a World of Cities
Presented at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Boston, March 2008
Bombay Time: Clock Time in the Colonial City
Presented in the MIT History Anthropology and STS Graduate Student Writing Workshop, March 2008
Labour Space and Politics: Rajnarayan Chandavarkar and the History of Modern South Asia
Co-Organizer with Prof Douglas Haynes of roundtable at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, March 2007
Geographies of Resistance: Urban Housing as Social Practice
Presented at the Roundtable on Asian Cities and Cultural Change at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, July 2005
Public Knowledge and New Institutional Forms
Presented at Networks and Collaborations workshop organised by the Alternative Law Forum, Waag Society and SARAI, Bangalore, November 2004
Ideas and Institutions in Contemporary Mumbai
Presented at Emerging Urbanism workshop organised by SARAI at the School of Planning & Architecture (SPA), New Delhi, October 2004
Urbanism Before Nationalism
Presented at the City as Target Workshop at the National University of Singapore (NUS), August 2004
Historical Ecology of Ideas and Institutions in Mumbai
Presented at Urban Imaginaries Workshop at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, May 2004
The Geneaology of Civic Sensibility in Bombay
Presented with Nikhil Rao at The City as Archive workshop organised by the Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, May 2004
The City as Extracurricular Space
Presented with Anirudh Paul at Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference on New Pedagogic Possibilities organised by the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) and Christ College, Bangalore, February 2004
The Spaces of Post-Industrial Mumbai
Presentation at CITY ONE organised by SARAI at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, January 2003
The Murder of Phoenix Mills
Presented at the annual conference of the Indian Association of Labour Historians at the V.V. Giri National Labour Institute, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, March 2000
WORKSHOPS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Beyond Colonial Urbanism: Urban History in South Asia
Panel Organized at the Annual Conference of the Urban History Association (UHA), Houston, November 2008
Comparative Ecological Nationalism Workshop
Discussant and Participant, Yale University Department of Anthropology, May 2008
Writing Cities MIT-Harvard-LSE Graduate Student Conference
Co-Organizer and Chair, Cambridge, MA, April 2008
Collaborative Urbanism and New Media Practice *
RE-Activism, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, October 2005
Academies of the Future
Presented at the Future Academy Symposium at the Edinburgh College of Art School of Architecture, Edinburgh, U.K., March 2005
Packaging the City
Presented in Conversations series at the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, Mumbai, February 2003
Post-Industrial Landscapes in Mumbai
Presented with Sudhir Patwardhan at the Visual Arts Forum of the Mohile-Parikh Centre National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai, November 2002
Action Research and the City
Presented at the Urban Designs workshop organised by Profs Vyjayanthi Rao and Arjun Appadurai, The Globalization Project, University of Chicago, May 2002
