Invited Talks, Conferences, and Presentations

Problems of Coastal areas in Historical and international comparison: Media, Technical, and Policy Issues - CAHC2025. International Conference organized by the University of Sciences, Hue University Vietnam in collaboration with Justus Liebig University Giessen and the German Research Foundation. Venue: University of Sciences, Hue University, Vietnam (March 13-16, 2025).

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Communities of Practice: Transforming Universities for Climate Action. The Indian Journal of Social Work (IJSW) Round Table Series at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Supported by TISS & Climate-U: Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate project. (December 5, 2023).

Climate change, Disasters, and Health risks seminar. College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, China. (October 24 – 27, 2023).

Ecologies of Labour symposium and workshop at the Center for Policy, citizenship and Society, Nottingham Trent University, UK. (June 15 – 16, 2023).

Disaster Management and Risk Reduction Certificate Program. Organized by XIM University, Bhubaneswar with United States Consulate General, Hyderabad. Venue: XIM University. (July 24, 2023).

5th International Symposium on the Effect of Climate Change on the World's Ocean. Bergen, Norway. (April 17-21, 2023).

Environmental Policy Discourses since the 1960s: Politics, Problems and Narratives of Environment Policies in Europe and Asia. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. (November 24 – 25, 2022).

People's Forum on BRICS. Panel: The BRICS Amplification of the Climate Crisis. Panellist. Prof. Patrick Bond. (October 21, 2021. Online).

6th Meeting of the Expert Committee to examine and recommend "Guidance for Documenting Oral Traditional Knowledge: Prior Informed Consent – An Essential Aspect" Organized by CSIR-Traditional Knowledge Digital Library Unit, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, India. (June 12, 2021. Online).

OceanObs19 – An Ocean of Opportunity, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (September 16 – 20, 2019).

The Future Oceans2 IMBeR Open Science Conference 2019. Integrated Marine Biosphere Research, Brest, France. (June 17 – 21, 2019).

OceanVisions2019 – Climate Summit - Successes in resilience, adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability. Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. (April 1 – 4, 2019).

Conference on Water Security & Climate change. University of Kenyatta, Nairobi, Kenya (December 3 – 5, 2018).

Workshop on Democracy, Devolution and Climate Policy. Organized by TUM Mumbai in cooperation with the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin & the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. (October 2 - 4, 2018).

Sustainability and Development Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. (November 9-11, 2018). DSA 2018: Global Inequalities conference, University of Manchester, UK (June 27 – 29, 2018).

São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Ocean Interdisciplinary Research and Governance, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil. (August 13- 25, 2018).

Adaptation Futures 2018 conference. Cape Town, South Africa (June 18 – 21, 2018).

4th International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans (ECCWO). Washington, DC, USA (June 4 - 8, 2018). Two presentations.

19th Odisha Bigyan ‘O’ Paribesh Congress, KIIT Bhubaneswar, India (November 25 - 26, 2017). Awarded the best presentation prize.

ICAHD 2017 – Agriculture and Human Development in India: Indigenous Practices, Scientific views and Sustainability, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India (September 8 - 9, 2017).

MARE conference: People and the sea IX Dealing with Maritime Mobilities. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (July 5 - 7, 2017).

Doctoral School 2017, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (June 1 - 4, 2017).

Two-day National Conference on Health, Public Policy and Human Development: A Way Forward to Address SDGs (HPPHD 2017), National Institute of Technology Rourkela. (March 30 - 31, 2017).

Land alienation and food insecurity among depressed classes in India. Central University of Karnataka. (March 10 - 11, 2017).

National seminar on Participatory Decentralized Planning at the Grassroots: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities. NIRD, Hyderabad, India (February 9 - 10, 2017).

Two-day International Seminar on Poverty, Environment and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Asia-Pacific. Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore (December 8 - 9, 2016).

KILA's International Conference Series- 5 Marginalization, Poverty and Decentralization. Kerala Institute of Local Administration, Kerala. (November 19 - 22, 2016).

Second International Conference on Contemporary Debates in Public Policy and Management. Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. (January 15 - 17, 2016).