Recent Presentations, Keynotes and Guest Lectures 

  • 17th -19th July 2025 'Critical Theory in an Age of Social Disintegration' Institute for Critical Social Theory Annual Conference, University of Bristol 

  • 14th-16th July 2025, 'Exploring Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Relations' British Sociological Association, Sociology of Religion Annual Conference, University of Durham

  • 27th June 2025 'Pahari language development in Britain', Bradford Literature Festival, Guest Lecture by invitation

  • 2nd May 2025 'British Muslims in Numbers' Session Chair and Discussant, Muslim Council of Great Britain at Al Manaar, London, by invitation

  • 25th February 2025, 'Colonial Legacies and Official Categories' Refugee Action UK, Guest Lecture by invitation

  • 18th February 2025, 'Anti-Racism in Practice: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable' British Academy, Keynote Speaker by invitation

  • 3rd December 2024, 'Divided Across Borders: Identity Movements in Jammu and Kashmir' Politics of Bordering: The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe Conference, University of Brighton

  • 9-11th September 2024, 'Exploring British South Asian Community Relations', at British South Asian Studies Annual Conference, Kings College, London

  • 5-6th September 2024, 'Exploring Transcultural Capital among Migrant Youth in Birmingham, Melbourne and Toronto' at Institute for Research into Superdiversity Annual Conference, University of Birmingham

  • 7 - 9th July 2024 'Navigating Labour market discrimination: The experiences of Migrant Youth from Three Anglophone Cities' at The Migration Conference, Mexico City, Mexico (online)

  • 8 -10th July 2024 'Muslims in the Census: The need for statistical visibility vis-a-vis surveillance concerns' presented at the British Sociological Association Annual Sociology of Religion Conference, Northumbria University

  • 13 -14th June 2024 'Losing Territorial Autonomy in an intractable conflict: A case study of Jammu and Kashmir' at Navigating Change: The resilience of Territorial Autonomy, European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany

  • 7th June 2024 'Towards developing a British Kashmiri Studies' Panel at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Birmingham

  • 20th May 2024, 'Kashmir Conflict and Role of Diaspora: Challenges and Opportunities Round Table' at the Institute for Regional Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, by invitation

  • 17th May 2024 Guest Lecture 'Society and Politics of Jammu and Kashmir', Centre for International Peace and Security, National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan

  • 16th May 2024 Guest Lecture 'Applying Demographic Engineering as an analytical frame for examining post-Abrogation policies in Jammu and Kashmir' Institute for Regional Studies, Islamabad

  • 14th May 2024 Guest Lecture 'The Pahari language movement within the Diaspora' National Institute for Research on Culture and History, Pakistan

  • 1st-3rd May 2024, Member of the delegation for forum reporting, World Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, Baku, Azerbaijan, by invitation

  • 17 – 19th April 2024 'British Kashmiri Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Recognition' at the 15th Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Conference: Between Canisters and Containers, Geopolitics and Transnational Imaginaries Shaping Pakistan’s Future, Lahore University of Management Science, Pakistan

  • 21st April 2024 Keynote Lecture 'The Kashmir conflict and its legacy for collective action' Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Punjab, Lahore

  • 3rd-5th April 2024 'Special Event: Critical Sociology in Practice - Crisis as a Catalyst for Change in Jammu and Kashmir' British Sociological Association Annual Conference: Virtual Conference on Crisis, Continuity and Change

  • 6 – 8th September 2023 'Minority Experiences of Majoritarian Approaches to Development in Jammu and Kashmir' at the International Institute for Promoting Political Economy Annual Conference: The Chronicles of Multiple Crisis Unfold. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain