Seminar and conference presentations

  • “Putting the Vehicle in Context: An Agenda for Mobility Transitions in Megacities” AAG Annual Conference, Denver, USA, March 2023.
  • “Urban Experimentation as Solutions: Case of Urban Living Labs in India”, Sreelakshmi Ramachandran* and Govind Gopakumar, AAG Annual Conference, Denver, USA, March 2023.
  • “Coproducing Sustainability Transitions (ST) as a Global Climate Knowledge” 4S Annual Conference, Cholula, Mexico, December 2022.
  • Panel Organizer: (Im)mobilizing transitions: How can a critical mobilities approach contribute to low-carbon urban mobility transitions in the global South? International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Padua, Italy, September 2022.
  • “Solutions on the Street & the Politics of Automobility in the global South”, International Roundtable Workshop on Infrastructures as Urban Solutions? Critical Perspectives on Transformative Socio-technical Change, Limburg, May 2022 (with Sreelakshmi Ramachandran*, Yogi Joseph*).
    • “Mobile citizenship as performed, negotiated and contested on transforming Indian streets” International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Lisbon, 4 November 2021 (with Sreelakshmi Ramachandran*, Stuart Macdonald*, Yogi Joseph*).
      •  “Automobility and the challenge of transport planning in post-COVID Global South” RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, 1 September 2021 (with Yogi Joseph*).
  • “Bussing: Locating encounters with buses and public transit”, International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Paris, 18 October 2019.
  • Studying Urban Street Re-Engineering – Towards A Visual (And Political) Methodology” 3rd International Conference on City Streets – Transitional Streets, Beirut, 2 November 2018 (with David Sadoway and Yogi Joseph).
  • Panel Organizer, Southern mobilities, T2M Annual Conference, Montreal, October 27, 2018
  •  “Automotive Occupation on urban Indian streets: Looking towards a ‘usable past’”, International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Montreal, 27 October 2018.
  • “Shifting bussing, encountering power: Re-organization of urban mobilities in Bengaluru, India,” C-MUS Conference on ‘(em)Powering Mobilities – Cities/Architectures/Justices, Aalborg, 30 August 2018.
  • “Dystopia to Dystopia: Congestion and the installation of automobility in Indian cities,” International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Lancaster, 4 November 2017.
  • Panel Organizer, Dystopic Immobilities, T2M Annual Conference, Lancaster, November 4, 2017.
  • “The need for a social studies of politics,” 4S Annual Conference, Sydney, 1 September, 2018 (with Nicholas Rowland and Jan Passoth). 
  • Panel Organizer “State Affect,” 4S Annual Conference, Boston, August 31, 2017 (with Nicholas Rowland and Jan Passoth).
  • “Interrogating the ‘congested Bengaluru’ narrative: instrumentality, congestion, and history.” Nagara Workshop, Bengaluru, 1 July 2017.
  • “Reviewing a decade of research on Engineering Leadership,” CEEA 17 Annual Conference, Toronto, 5 June 2017 (with Hami Yousefdehi, Artur Alves, and Brandiff Caron).
  • Panel speaker, Imperative for Global Engineers, Engineers without Borders Canada Annual Conference, Edmonton, January 14, 2017.
  •  “The traffic of the ‘congested Bengaluru’ narrative: instrumentality, congestion and history,” International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, Mexico City, 30 October 2016.
  • “Transition pathways for smart grid initiatives: A strategic choice within Iran’s economy of resistance,” International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Wuppertal, 7 September 2016 (with Hami Yousefdehi*, Raymond Paquin, Peter Stoett, and Catherine Mulligan).
  • Panel Organizer, Viewing films and cultures of technoscience, 4S Annual Conference, Denver, November 13, 2015.
  • “Technocultures of Bussing” 4S Annual Conference, Denver, November 13, 2015
  • “Noticing the Materialities of Infrastructure in a Congested Bengaluru” Infrastructures – Provocations towards an Inter-disciplinary Dialogue, National University of Singapore, August 29, 2015 (with David Sadoway)
  • ‘Social Life of a Bus’ – a panel discussion,’ International conference on Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru, August 4, 2015
  • “Leveraging Networks: Online Network Based Learning for 21st Century Engineering Education and Practice,” Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, Vancouver, June 10, 2015 (with Alexandra Meikleham, Patrick Miller, and Deborah Dysart-Gale)
  • “Implementing Experiential Education on Engineering and Society,” CEEA Annual conference, Hamilton, June 3, 2015 (with Matthew Harsh, Brandiff Caron, Deborah Dysart-Gale and Ketra Schmitt).
  • “‘Social Life of a Bus’ – an Annotated Screening” Urban Studies Seminar McGill University, Montreal, April 15, 2015.
  • “‘Social Life of a Bus’ – an Annotated Screening” Colloquium, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, March 11, 2015.
  • Contingent Designs: Governance of Infrastructures in Urban India.” Publics, Politics, and Technoscience in Contemporary Indian Contexts, Jindal Global University, Sonepat, November 18th, 2014.
  • “(Un)bundling street infrastructurescapes in Bangalore: The dream of seamless infra-integration versus real world ruptures.” International Conference, Tutzing, June 12th, 2014 (David Sadoway primary author).
  • “Enrolling the global: Transnational mobilities in the renewing of Indian cities,” International Conference on Global STS, Nanyang Technological University, March 14th, 2014 (with David Sadoway).
  • “Infrastructure as Statecraft: Power politics and unfolding of urban infrastructure in Urban India” Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, February 28th, 2014 (David Sadoway primary author).
  • “Seeing the state in a bus,” 4S Annual Conference, San Diego, October 11th, 2013
  • “How are Indian cities being speeded up? Methods to gauge renewing cities and mobilized infrastructures,” Mobility Futures Conference, Lancaster University, September 6th, 2013 (with David Sadoway).
  • “Dissassembling Infrastructure Sites: Tracing the links between infrastructure, space, and governance,” International RC21 Conference, Berlin, 30th August, 2013 (David Sadoway primary author).
  • “Assembling Infrastructure Decongestion: An Overview of Critical Issues in and about Urban Infrastructure and JNNURM in India,” Seminar at National Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, August 1st, 2013 (with David Sadoway).
  • “Bussing in contemporary Bengaluru: A preliminary study of its social and political elements,” Seminar at CiSTUP, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, July 26th, 2013. (same talk given on August 3rd, 2013 to the Bengaluru Bus Commuter Forum).
  • “Creating Faculty Buy-in: Leadership Challenges in Implementing CEAB Graduate Attributes,” CEEA Annual conference, Montreal, June 18th, 2013 (with Deborah Dysart-Gale and Ali Akgunduz).
  • “Critical Urban Infrastructure(s): Launching a research network on critical issues in urban infrastructures,” at Shastri Indo-Canada Institute Conference on Engaging Canada: Emerging Priorities for Sustainable Partnerships, June 1st, 2013 (presented by David Sadoway).
  • “Rhythming a Fast Life: Inscribing Reform on Infrastructure Technologies and Flows,” Water & Waste: The Future of Water and Sanitation in India, Rutgers University, February 8th, 2013
  • “Complementary Studies & Global Engineering: A Synergy,” Global Engineering Symposium, EWB Annual Conference, Calgary, January 13th, 2013 (with Deborah Dysart-Gale).
  • “Acting from a distance: States and urban infrastructures,” EASST-4S Annual conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 18th, 2012.
  • “A Constitutional Moment? The Challenge of Graduate Attributes in Canadian Engineering Education,” INES 2012 Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 16th, 2012 (with Brandiff Caron and Deborah Dysart-Gale).
  • “Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization,” CTARA Seminar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, August 23rd, 2012.
  • “Models for Leadership in Curricular Innovation: Concordia’s Centre for Engineering in Society,” CEEA Annual conference, Manitoba, June 18th, 2012 (with Brandiff Caron, Deborah Dysart-Gale and Robin Drew).
  • “Manufacturing Flatness: A recent history of “mobiles” and their entanglements with urban infrastructure in Bengaluru,” at Engaging India: Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology organized by the Shastri Indo-Candian Institute, Calgary, June 3rd, 2012.
  • “Decongesting Infrastructure, Depoliticising Cities: Governing Democracy and the Politics of Urban Renewal,” CASID Annual conference, Waterloo, May 29th, 2012.
  • “Unclogging Bengaluru: Imagining Decongested Infrastructurescapes,” GLOB-AL and Technologia y Sociedad seminar organized by the National University of Colombia and the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, April 27th, 2012.
  • “Decongesting Infrastructures, Assembling Cities: Emerging Circulations of Knowledge and Infrastructure Work in Urban India,” AAG annual conference, New York City, February 28, 2012.
  • “Knotty and Naughty: Seeing the Indian State through a Technoscientific Lens,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual conference, Cleveland, November 4, 2011.
  • “Clogged and Cluttered: The Intrinsic Logic of Infrastructure Congestion,” International Conference on the Distinctiveness of Cities – Modes of Re-Production, June 17, 2011, Darmstadt, Germany.
  • “Public Leadership Framework: Approaches to Diversify Engineering Education,” Canadian Science Policy Conference, Montreal, Ocotber 21, 2010.
  • “Infrastructure & Metropolitanization: Comparing the Relationship in Cities of Africa and India,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Washington DC, September 4th, 2010.
  • “Reforming Water Supply Infrastructure Regimes in India: Do PPPs have a role to play?” CASID Annual conference, Montreal, June 1, 2010.
  • “Decongesting Infrastructure: Shahri Navikaran, politics & policy,” STS & South Asia conference, Austin, TX, May 14, 2010.
  • “Archipelagos & Tendrils: the Civics of Water Supply Partnerships in India,” AAG annual conference, Washington D.C., April 17, 2010.
  • “Predatory Impulses in Water Supply Regimes in urban India,” Gary Gaile Development Geography pre-conference, Washington D.C., April 13, 2010.
  • “Designing for Sustainability: Essential Infrastructures for Developing Communities,” Faculty of Engineering, Architecture & Science, Ryerson University, January 28, 2010.
  • “Engineers & Community Infrastructure Projects,” University of Toronto’s Citizen Engineer student chapter, January 28, 2010.
  • “Constructing Technological Recesses, Politicizing Places: Resisting the Commodification of Water Supply,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference, Washington D.C., October 30, 2009.
  • Constructing Water Infrastructure, Territorializing Justice: Resisting the commodification of water in Bengaluru. Panel on Water and Justice: Global and Local Perspectives, University of California, Davis, June 2, 2009.
  • “Sociotechnical Transition Theory: A framework for multi-level, political analysis of infrastructure partnerships in urban India,” Annual Conference of American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28, 2008.
  • “Urban territories, political and infrastructure dynamics” at Annual conference of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Montreal, October 12, 2007.
  • “Purposive Transition Analysis: Dynamics Of Indian Sanitary Regimes,” at Politics and Governance in Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions, September 20-21, 2007 – Berlin, Germany.