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June 2024 ‘Urban Tech for Spatial Equity’, UNITAC Conference, Hamburg
April 2024 The Future of Postcolonial urbanism: From smart cities to automated urbanisation, GEONight Conference
Dec 2023 Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin.
Nov 2023 British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA) Annual UK Lecture
Nov 2023 RSA Winter Conference opening plenary
Sept 2023 British Science Association, President, Geography Section
May 2023 City Collaboratory Keynote, University of Lausanne.
May 2023 Inaugural lecture for Exeter Urban, University of Exeter
April 2023 UTA-Do African Cities Workshop keynote
March 2023 Asian Geographer Plenary at AAG, Denver
June 2022 ICT4S keynote, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
2021-2020
Sept 2021 — Geoforum Annual Lecture at the RGS-IBG annual meeting, London.
July 2021 — RC21 ‘Sensing the City’ Plenary in Antwerp, Belgium, 14-16 July 2021.
July 2021 — Media Architecture Biennale keynote.
June 2021 — RSA Regions in Recovery Plenary [Virtual]
June 2021 — RSA Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR) Conference.
May 2021 — EURA 2021 Conference, Oslo [Virtual]
April 2021 — TISS School of Public Policy and Governance, 4th International Graduate Seminar on “Quality of life in informal settlements”.
Feb 2021 — Bartlett International Lecture Series. Title: Distance. International Lecture Series Spring 2021: Distance
Sept 2020 — Arte-Polis8 International Conference - Day 1 (Part 3), Bandung, Indonesia
Nov 2020 — Futurium Plenary, Berlin Future Institute
Feb 2020 — UN-Habitat World Urban Forum 10 in Abu Dhabi, 8-13 February.
2019-2018
December 2019 — Annual Lecture of Finistera – Portugese Journal of Geography, Lisbon
September 2019 — Keynote speaker, Beyond Smart Cities Today Conference, Rotterdam
September 2019 — Keynote Speaker, Rethinking, Resisting and Reimagining the Creative City Conference, Bristol
April 2019 — Keynote speaker, ‘Aesthetics of Gentrification’ Conference, Portland OR
March 2019 — Keynote speaker, European Public Policy Conference, Madrid
January 2019 — Keynote Speaker at the Digital | Visual | Cultural Public lecture in University of Oxford. Visit Website
November 2018 — Plenary Speaker at the ‘Race for Space‘ event at the London Transport Museum
June 2018 — Keynote in Sociological Review journal conference, Newcastle. Visit Website
May 2018 — Keynote in the 50thIrish Geographers’ annual meeting, Maynooth, Ireland. Visit website
May 2018 — Speaker in UN Economic and Social Research Council (ECOSOC) Integration event in New York.
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2017-2016
Sept 2017— Keynote in Oslo Urban Arena, Oslo.
Sept 2017 — Keynote in AHRC Conference ‘Whose right to the smart city’ in University of Plymouth
August 2017 — Keynote in Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) meeting, University of Tampere, Finland
Oct 2016 — Keynote in “Smart and Green Cities, for whom?” conference in University of Oslo.
Sept 2016 — Keynote in Thoughtworks Away Day, Hyderabad. Click here for video.
June 2016 — Plenary speaker on ‘Sociologies of Urban Life’ in University of York.
May 2016 — Speaker in the UN Commission for Science Technology and Development 19th annual meeting in Geneva.
June 2016 — Keynote in ‘Sociologies of Urban Life’ Conference in University of York.
2015-2013
Oct 2015 — Keynote speaker on the ‘Debating development’ series in University of Antwerp. Title: “Building Smart Cities…From Scratch?”
Jan 2015 — Keynote lecture in the University of Freiburg, Institute of Advanced Studies interdisciplinary conference on ‘Translocal Practices, Urban Transformations: Migration and Mobile Urbanism in South and Southeast Asia’, from14-16 Jan 2015.
Title: ‘Translocal Cities: Utopian imaginations of migration and urbanization in India’.
April 2014 — Plenary Lecture at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL. Organized by Urban Geography Speciality Group and Urban Geography journal.
March 2014 — Plenary panelist in American University of Beirut. Click here for video.
Nov 2013 — Keynote in ‘Migration and Language’ Conference in Pennsylvania State University. Click here for video.
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Mumbai’s road to global city status has been marked by the construction of flyovers and roads. Apart from increasing the speed with which the city’s new arrivals travel from its domestic/international airport straight to the business district, these infrastructure projects also enable Mumbai as an aspiring global city to make its marginal spaces and citizens invisible to these new arrivals in the city.
City bypassed presents the story of Mumbai’s urban renewal as seen from Byculla, a multicultural inner-city neighbourhood symbolically and physically bypassed by road infrastructure projects along Mumbai’s journey to global city status.
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Is our understanding of urban infrastructure changing? Do we need to move beyond discussions about ‘smart cities’ and digital innovation? What pathways exist for the city of the future?
July 2021— RC21 ‘Sensing the City’ Plenary in Antwerp Belgium, 14-16 July 2021.
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Malegaon, a small town near Nashik, Maharashtra, is driven solely by the power loom industry and is forgotten by the state and private sector since the bomb blasts of 2006.
Through the eyes of its residents, local activists and civil society members, City Forgotten tells the story of Malegaon’s fall from the Manchester of India to a town in decline, where its women and minorities continue to aspire for and claim their constitutional rights to education despite the lack of any real prospects for its future generations.
July 2021— Media Architecture Biennale keynote.
podcast
2020-2019
26 February 2020 — Quoted in Devex ‘Are smart cities excluding marginalized groups?’
15 October 2019 — Research with participants on ‘Gendering the Smart City’ project and hip-hop song reported in National Geographic Magazine titled ‘How women in India demanded—and are getting—safer streets‘
30 August 2019 — Quoted in Geographical ‘Debating India’s smart city vision‘
8 March 2019 — Podcast on Smart Cities by Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG) #AsktheGeographer
6 March 2019 — Interviewed in BBC World Service ‘The Inquiry‘ on episode titled ‘Are Smart Cities Dumb?’
4th Jan 2019 – AHRC (PI) funded exhibition on Delhi Metro reviewed in Times of India – ‘Art in Delhi metro: Chronicles of commuting, photography projects on view’
2018-2014
May 2018 — Quoted in UN Report of the ECOSOC ‘Amid Climate Change, Rising Inequality, Priority Must Go to ‘Pro-Poor’ Policies, Under-Secretary-General Tells Economic and Social Council Integration Segment’
January 2018 — Mentioned in Reuters ‘Wi-fi but no Water: Can smart-tech help a city’s poor‘
March 2017 — In conversation with Mathew Gandy and Simon Marvin on ‘Habitat and Living in Plural Cities’, a British Academy film
10th February 2016 — Mentioned in LA Times ” Can U.S. businesses help India’s chaotic cities become ‘smart?”
28th January 2016 — Mentioned in the Guardian “Where are the world’s newest cities … and why do they all look the same?”
29th June 2014 — Mentioned in South China Morning Post “Megacities of Asia Part III: The rise of the ‘Megaregion’“
22nd June 2014 — Mentioned in The Economic Times “GIFT in Gujarat: Narendra Modi’s dream project offers vital learnings for 100 smart cities ambition“