Keynotes and Major Addresses (not all recent work is included)

• ## Keynote and Addresses Invited/Major Lectures 2023 Keynote speaker in ‘Justice in the transition away from coal: Planning for a decarbonised India’ conference organized in January by The International Institute of Information Technology, Council for Social Development and The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU).

2022 Invited lecture on ‘Of mines, women and men’ organized by Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada in November.

2022 Invited lecture on ‘Translocal householding by women FIFO workers in an Indonesian mining site‘ in Mining the Connections Conference: an International Multi-Network Hybrid Conference on Mining organized in Quebec, Canada.

2022 Webinar on ‘Understanding Informal Coal Workers and Economy: Approaches for a Just Transition’ organized by the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST) in April.

2021 Invited lecture to Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, on ‘Social coal: In search of life in the fossil fuel’ in March.

Invited lecture in the conference on ‘Enabling Just Transition in India’s Power Generation Sector’ organized by CUTS in December.

2020 Webinar on ‘Just Transition in India’ organized by the International Forum for Environment, Sustainability & Technology (iFOREST) in December.

2019 Invited lecture on ‘coal in India’s informal economy’ at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

2018 Plenary speaker at the ‘Gender and Oil, Gas and Mining: New Frontiers of Progress, Challenges and Solutions’ international conference held 26-27 June at the World Bank Group, in Washington D.C.

2018 Plenary speaker at the 7th ANGIS (Asian Network of GIS-based Historical Studies, University of Tokyo, Japan) Conference held 29 November-1 December at The University of Burdwan, Burdwan, India.

2017 Key presenter at a ‘Roundtable’ on ‘Silicosis: a global history’ on the contemporaneity of this dreaded miners’ disease at GIS ASIE, the French Network of Asian Studies International Conference (FNASIC) in Sorbonne University, Paris, June 26-28.

2017 Present at a Conference on ‘Extraction and exclusion’ in St Anthony’s College, Oxford University, 19-20 October.

2017 Invited lecture at a Workshop on ‘Women’s rights in mining’ at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, 26-28 October.

2016 Keynote address on the role of the community in the conference on Community Mining in Indonesia: Minimising Harm, Maximising Benefits, funded by Australian Government and organised by Charles Darwin University and the Indonesian stakeholders in Jakarta, 2-3 November.

2016 Keynote address on coal, energy and development in India in the Fourth Annual Conference of the New Zealand India Research Institute, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, on 1-3 April.

2014 Keynote address on extractive industries in Otago Foreign Policy School, Dunedin, New Zealand, 27-29 June, 2014.

2014 Invited lecture on ‘Mining and social movements’ in the Summer School, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, 1-15 September, 2014.

2013 Professor Satyesh Chakrabarti Memorial Lecture on ‘What is nature? What is resource?’ at The University of Burdwan, India, on 23rd December.

2013 Invited Public Lecture, on ‘Dancing with the River’, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 25 July.

2012 Plenary Lecture on ‘Mining, Nature and Society: A New Feminist Perspective’ in 9th International Mining History Congress, 17-20 April, Johannesburg.

2012 Special Lecture on ‘Researching Natural Resources through a Feminist Lens’, the Institute of Indian Geographers’ conference, 11-14 December, Centre for Earth Science Studies, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

2011. Plenary Lecture on ‘New Geographies of Water Resources for 21st Century India’s Development’, at the 33rd Indian Geography Congress of the National Association of Geographers India, 11-13 2011, Burdwan.
2012. Keynote Address: ‘The “People” Dimension of Mining’, in the 1st International Mining Conference: Staking a Claim for Cambodia, Organised jointly by the UN and Royal Government of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 26-27th May, 2010.
2013. Keynote Address: ‘Dancing with the River: An exploration of river, land and river islands’, Tenth International River Symposium, Perth 11-14th October, 2010.
2014. Community Engagement in Mining: What India Can Do, Asia-Pacific Partnership Workshop on Mine Closure organized by DITR, 18-19th April, 2008, Kolkata, India.
2015. Extractive Industries and Community Livelihoods, 21st April, 2008, PetroBangla, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2016. Gender Mainstreaming in ASM, 7th CASM ACC, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia.
2017. Social and Environmental Consequences of Coal Mining in India, November, New Delhi, India.

• Gender Mainstreaming in ASM, 7th CASM ACC, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia, 2007.

• Social and Environmental Consequences of Coal Mining in India, November, 2007, New Delhi, India.