Conference Presentations & Talks

Invited to speak on my book on a Panel on Global Implications of 9/11, Theresa Lang Center, New School, September 12, 2011. "Rights in an Age of Science: Emerging Contours of the Liberal Security State." American Political Science Association Meeting, Seattle, September 2011.

'"Scientific Truths": Emerging Contours of the Liberal Security State.' Law and Society Association Meeting, San Francisco, CA, June 2011.

"Terror within an Art of Government: Lie Detectors, Narco Analysis, and Brain Scanning in India." Western Political Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 2011.

Organizer of Panel on Affective Leadership: Balagopal and the Reimagining of Judicial Activism, Human Rights, and the State and Presented a paper on "Paradoxical State Killings: Encounters and the Death Penalty," Second Law and Social Sciences Research Network Conference titled Siting Law, Pune, India, December 2010.

Invited to talk and discuss my work on Torture, Legal Anthropology Class, Hunter College, November 22, 2010.

"Being Civilized Keeps us at the Mercy of the Beast: Torture in Liberal

Democracies," Symposium on Legal Subjection: Conversations on Law, Power and Govermentality, Law and Social Sciences Network, Delhi Chapter, India, July 2010.

"Post Colonial Governmentality: Body, Pain, and Truth (Serums) in India," Law and

Society Association Meeting, Chicago, May 2010.

Discussant and Panel Co-Organizer for Panel on The Rule of Law in Comparative and

Historical Perspective, Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities, Providence, RI, March 2010.

Panelist, "Six Months of Obama Administration," Summer College for High School Students from Newark, Drew University, August 3, 2009.

Panelist and Chair, Political Economy of Contemporary India, Left Forum, New York, April 2009.

Panelist, "After Mumbai, Which Way Forward? A Public Dialogue." CUNY Graduate Center, December 15, 2008.

Panelist, "Mumbai Attacks: A conversation on Peace and Unity in South Asia." Hunter College, December 11, 2008.

Panelist, "Violence in Mumbai: Understanding the Religious and Political Significance of the Recent Terrorist Attacks." Center on Religion, Culture & Conflict, Drew University, December 4, 2008.

"Interrogations at Guantánamo Bay: Gender, Culture and Religion in Imperial

Encounters." American Political Science Meeting, Boston, September 2008.

Invited Talk on Torture at Farleigh Dickenson University. Advanced Criminal Justice Class, April 7, 2008.

Invited Talk at a Panel on The Cycle of Torture. Center for Global Affairs, New York

University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, April 3, 2008.

'"Liberal" Torture: Race, Gender and Colonial Distinctions in Abu Ghraib (2004) and Madras (1855).' Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities, Berkeley, March 2008.

"Torture in Postcolonial India: A Liberal Paradox?" 2nd Global Conference on Evil, Law and the State: Issues in State Power and Violence, Salzburg, Austria, March 7-9, 2008.

"A Postcolonial Notion of Torture: Race, Gender, and Power in Abu Ghraib and Madras Commission Report." Law and Society Association Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July, 2007.

"A Rose by another Name: Definitions, Sanitized Terms and Imagery of Torture in Liberal Democracies." Law and Society Association Meeting, Berlin, Germany, July 2007.

Panelist, Roundtable on "A rose by any other name: Torture as a Tactic in the War on Terror," MidWestern Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, April 2007.

Revisiting the Debate on "The Politics of Recognition and the Politics of Redistribution:"

Reproductive Rights in India and the United States," Western Political Science Association Meeting, Las Vegas, March 2007.

Discussant for Panel on Care and Justice, American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, August 2006.

"Reconceptualizing State Power in the War on Terror: Torture as Governmentality or Sovereignty?" American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 2006 & Western Political Science Association Conference, Albuquerque, March 2006.

'"Being Helplessly Civilized Leaves Us at the Mercy of the beast," Post 9/11 Discourses on Torture in the United States: A Tale of Exception and Continuity,' Emerging Paradigms: Residual Issues, Women's Caucus for Political Science - APSA Pre-Conference, Washington DC, August 2005.

"Legal Discourses on Torture in Contemporary Liberal Democracies: Case of the United States," Law and Society Association Meeting, Las Vegas, June 2005 & Western Political Science Association Meeting, Oakland, March 2005.

"Post 9/11 Discourses on Torture in United States: Abu Ghraib and the State of Exception," Association for the Study of Law, Culture and Humanities Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2005.

"Rape as Torture: The Case of India," American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, September 2004.

"Legality of Torture in Contemporary Democracies: Case of United States," Association of Law, Culture and Humanities Meeting, Hartford, Connecticut, March 2004.

"Revenge and the Spectacular Execution: The McVeigh case," Guilt: A Conference on Law and Humanities, University of New England, Portland, Maine, June 2003.

"Lumpen Proletariat and the Black Panther Party Experience," Western Political Science Association Meeting, March 2002.

"Politics of Redistribution and Recognition," Thinking Gender conference, UCLA, March 2001.

"Land Rights of Women," Seminar on Human Rights organized by Daulat Ram College and Developing Countries Research Centre, Delhi University, India, December 1998.

"Women's Empowerment: Redefining the agenda," Centre for Political Studies, JawaharLal Nehru University, February 1998.