Recent Presentations, Keynotes and Guest Lectures 

Upcoming

• 22^th -23^th June 2026, 'Exploring Intergroup Perceptions among South Asian Heritage Britons by Faith Affiliation' at the Sixteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society: Indigenous Spiritualities in Global Perspective, Lima, Peru

• 25^th-27^th 2026, Panel 'Centring Political Precarity: Governance, Resistance, and Recharting Futures in Azad Jammu and Kashmir', Association for Asian Studies in Asia Annual Conference, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan

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

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

• 27^th 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

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

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

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

• 5^th -6^th 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^th -9^th July 2024 'Navigating Labour market discrimination: The experiences of Migrant Youth from Three Anglophone Cities' at The Migration Conference, Mexico City, Mexico (online)

• 8^th -10^th 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^th -14^th 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

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

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

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

• 16^th 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

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

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

• 17^th _19^th April 2024 'British Kashmiri Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Recognition' at the 15^th Humanities and Social Sciences Annual Conference: Between Canisters and Containers, Geopolitics and Transnational Imaginaries Shaping Pakistan’s Future, Lahore University of Management Science, Pakistan

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

• 3^th -5^th 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^th -8^th 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