Folio · Talks
Lectures & panels.
Recent invited lectures, conference presentations, and workshop talks. Slides and recordings available on request for most.
Oct 2025
“Caste, Libraries, and Public Finance”
IFLA webinar
Aug 2025
“Infrastructures of IntraStatecraft: Digital Public Finance and the Mediation of Fiscal Federal Relations in India”
IIIT-Delhi (invited)
Apr 2025
“Rethinking the Emergence of the Poverty Line: The 1961 Census and Technopolitics of Governmentality in India”
CSAS, U of Toronto Scarborough
Oct 2024
“Digital Infrastructures and the Mediation of Development”
Center for Ethnography, UTSC
Apr 2024
“‘Can We Really Do It?’ The Promise of a Guerrilla Data Practice”
Cultures of Data Workshop, Penn
Feb 2024
“Politics and Poetics of a Formula”
Cornell University (invited)
Jun 2023
“Maximum Data, Minimum Insights: Indian Bureaucracy’s Tryst with Digital India”
University of Lucerne (invited)
Apr 2023
“Participant-Observation Tactics for Studying Up Among Elites”
Flame University, Pune (guest)
Dec 2022
“‘Can You WhatsApp It to Me?’ Mobile Data Dashboards and Evidence-Based Policy”
4S Conference, Cholula
Jul 2021
“Surveying the MISes: Building Infrastructures to Monitor ‘Outcomes’ in India”
New Sciences New States Collective
Mar 2021
“Shoveling Data? Monitoring Outcomes in the Indian Public Sector”
Data & Society Institute, NY