3 August 2024
Plenary talk, ‘Lenin’s Contributions to political economy’, at the World Association of Political Economy conference in Athens, Greece
20 June 2024
‘Mainstream methods in social science research: Why must we go beyond them and how?’, an online lecture for a 10-day Research methodology course in social science organized by Public Policy Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala (India)
30 March 2024
‘Capitalism and Democracy in India’, an online talk delivered at National Seminar on Electoral bonds and cronyism in India: implications for democracy’, organized by Public Policy Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) & P. Sundarayya Memorial Trust, New Delhi
21 February 2024
The Communist manifesto for the 21st century, an online talk organized by Mana Manchi Pustakam and Red Books, Hyderabad, India
07 September 2023
‘The Political Economy and Politics of the Necessity for the Worker-Peasant Alliance in India Today’, an online talk delivered at National Seminar on the Crisis of the Natural Rubber Sector in India, organized by Public Policy Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram & P. Sundarayya Memorial Trust, New Delhi
17 March 2023
‘Theoretical Perspectives on the Dialectics of Urbanization and Industrialization’, An online talk at the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University. India.
01 March 2023
‘Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State’. Book launch. Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
30 November 2021
‘Educators need to be educated: What questions must university students ask their teachers, and Why?’, Nottingham University (on Zoom)
10 November 2021
‘Is identity politics conducive to achieving sustained social justice?’, invited paper presented at the Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences at Yucatan, Mexico (held online)
08 October 2021
‘India: The nation of the poor, or a poor nation?, keynote address delivered at the International Webinar organized by the Department of Commerce, Vyasanagar Autonomous College, Odisha, India
25 October 2019
A Critique of Political Economy’, Syracuse University
4 October 2019
‘Marxist Class Theory and Politics for a Skeptical World’, Brock University
27 March 2019
‘The Maoist Landscape of Development: A Critique’, presented as part of a roundtable discussion—Planning, Popular Democracy and Alternatives to Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives—Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
1 February 2019
‘Asia in/and the World: A Dialectical Standpoint’, an invited talk presented at the inaugural conference of the Korean Office for Research and Education, York Centre for Asian Research, York University
26 November 2018
‘Fascistic Tendencies in India and What is to be Done?’, an invited talk presented as part of a roundtable discussion—The Hard Right Populist Insurgency—Department of Political Science, York University
19 October 2018
‘Marx’s Politics’, invited talk presented at A Bicentenary Conference: Karl Marx at 200, Brock University.
June 2018
‘Marx, Marxism and Class theory’, presented as part of a roundtable discussion—Marx: 200 Years Later—with Alexander Buzgalin, David Laibman, David Kotz, and David Harvey, Left Forum, John Jay College.
February 2018
‘Theorizing Capitalism as a Social Class Relation’, Capitalism workshop series lecture, Centre for Social Justice, Toronto
12–16 June 2017
Three lectures on Class Theory and the State as a part of a temporary lecturer program, Beihang University, PRC
28 January 2017
‘Neo-liberal Capitalist Industrialization: Its Class and Geographical Dynamics’, keynote lecture at the Odisha Research Network Conference, Angul, Odisha
16–20 January 2017
Five lectures on Capital vol 1, as part of a week-long workshop, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
10 January 2017
‘Theory of Capitalism as a Class Relation and its Implications for Understanding Geographically Uneven Development’, lecture given at the Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
7 January 2017
‘The State and the Poor’, lecture presented at Utkal University, India
5 January 2017
‘Why Do Some Regions Develop More than Other Regions?: Theorising Geographically Uneven Development’, lecture presented at Ravenshaw University, India
12 August 2016
‘The State of Indian Democracy’, lecture presented at an event organized by the Forum of Odisha research scholars for social justice, Hyderabad Central University
11 August 2016
‘Theorizing Uneven Development’, invited lecture presented at the Center for Regional Studies, Hyderabad Central University, India
26 May 2016
‘Fascism in India’, invited public talk presented at the Social Justice Center (Beit Zatoun), Toronto
10 March 2016
‘History of Capitalism, Class Struggle and Geographical Unevenness’, keynote lecture presented at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay
February 2015
‘Why do Rural Protests Happen?’ invited talk presented at a session on Protest in Progress: Resistance in the 21st Century at the Ninth Annual Peace, Conflict and Justice Conference, University of Toronto
10 May 2012
Discussant on the Marxist theory of internal relations in a panel at the Internal Relations symposium, York University
4 December 2010
‘Re-conceptualizing Capitalism’, presented at a meeting of the Editorial Board of Science and Society
December 2009
‘Development of Capitalism and Capitalist Development’, invited paper presented at the Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India
November 2009
‘The Maoist Problem’, invited talk presented as part of a roundtable at the University of Texas, Austin.
March 2008
‘Social Solidarity and Social Development’, invited paper presented at the Conference on Population Studies, Fakir Mohan University, India
December 2005
‘Towards a Historical-geographical Materialist framework for the Understanding of the Post-colonial Indian state’, keynote address to the National Association of Geographers of India (NAGI), at the NAGI Annual conference, Bangalore, India
March 2002
Chief Guest at the Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India, Silver Jubilee Celebration; Gave a talk on ‘Critical Knowledge and Intellectuals’
November 2000
‘The State and Poverty Alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Department of Economics, University of Dundee
2000
‘State Theory and Poverty Alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Center for Development Studies, Bhubaneshwar, India
OTHER TALKS
13 August 2019
‘Politics of Marx as Non-sectarian Revolutionary Class Politics’, Association of American Sociological Association Conference, New York
8 August 2018
‘Karl Marx and Theorizing the Global South’, International Geographical Union Conference, Quebec City
20 July 2018
‘Fascistic Tendencies, Neoliberal Capitalism, the United Front, and the Struggle for Socialism: Some Reflections on the Indian Conjuncture’, International Workshop on Rethinking United Fronts and the Far Right, York University and OCAD University, Toronto
18 July 2018
‘Marx’s Capital, Class Theory, and the Global Periphery’, International Sociological Association Conference, Toronto
7 April 2017
‘The Theory and Politics of David Harvey’s ‘Accumulation by Dispossession’: A Marxist Critique’, Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston
15 May 2016
‘Violence Against the Human Body: Brief Comments From a Marxist Standpoint’, Theorizing Violence workshop, York University
May 2016
‘David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist Critique’, Historical Materialism Conference, York University
April 2015
‘David Harvey’s Theory of Uneven Geographical Development: A Marxist Critique’, at the Association of American Geographers conference, Chicago
May 2015
‘Neo-liberal Capitalist Industrialization: Its Class and Geographical Dynamics’, co-presented with Professor Deepak Mishra (JNU), York Centre for Asian Research, York University
October 2014
‘David Harvey and his Theory of Uneven Development’, panel presentation at the conference of CAGONT (the Canadian Association of Geographers – Ontario Division)
May 2014
‘Imperialism, the Reserve Army, and the Subsumption of Labour’, Toronto Historical Materialism conference, York University
April 2014
‘Agrarian Crisis as the Crisis of Small-scale Property-ownership in Globalizing Capitalism’, Association of American Geographers conference, Tampa
April 2014
‘Hegemony, Ideology and Discourse’, invited panellist with Michael Eckers, Matt Hannah, Saed Engel-Di Mauro and Dick Peet, Association of American Geographers conference, Tampa
November 2013
‘Analyzing farmers’ suicide in India’, co-presented with Mohanakumar S (Institute of Development Studies), York Centre for Asian Research, York University
April 2013
‘Accumulation and Economic Class Struggle’, Association of American Geographers conference, Los Angeles
April 2013
‘Class Struggle and Legal Scale’, panellist with Nathan Clough, Jamey Essex, Jamie Gough, and Reecia Orzeck, Association of American Geographers conference, Los Angeles
11–13 May 2012
‘Marx’s Theory of Accumulation, Wages and Economic Class Struggle’, Historical Materialism Conference, Toronto.
February 2012
‘India’s new economic policy’, invited panellist with Waquar Ahmed, Ipsita Chatterjee, Vinay Gidwani and Saraswati Raju, Association of American Geographers conference, New York
February 2012
‘The State, the Poor, and Just Development’, Association of American Geographers conference, New York
December 2011
Two lectures on the commodity and commodity fetishism, XIMB, India.
April 2011
‘Appearance and Content: A Study of a Political Movement in India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Seattle
18–19 December 2010
‘Low-wage Capitalism: Capital, Conditions of Rural Labourers, and Commodity Fetishism in Orissa’s Aquaculture’, Neoliberalism and Rural Labour conference India
May 2010
‘Development of Capital and Capitalist Development: Bringing Marx's Capital to the Third World’, Historical Materialism Conference, York University
May 2010
‘Introduction to Marx’s Capital, 2: Labour, Exploitation and Surplus Value’ (as a part of the three-part series of lectures/discussion on Marx's Capital), Historical Materialism conference, York University
April 2010 ‘
Working Long Hours for Low Wages: The Case of Aqua-laborers in Orissa, India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C.
April 2010
‘Geography of Post Fordism – Theory of Class’, invited panellist with Jamie Peck, Richard Peet, Richard A. Walker, Neil Smith, David Featherstone, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C.
September 2009
‘Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, Class Struggle, and Uneven Development’, Department of Geography, York University
June 2007
‘The Class Character of Social Capital’, lecture at the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID) conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2005
‘Radical Social movements, Development, and the State: Investigating India’s Naxalite Movement’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Denver
2004
‘State-society Synergy’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
2002
‘Social Capital of the Working Class’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New Orleans
2001
‘The Social Capital Theory of Global Development: A Critique and Reconstruction’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York
2001
‘India in the global economy, panellist at the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York
2000
‘The State and Poverty’, 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh
1998
‘The State and Rural Change’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Boston
1997
‘The Political Economy of the Indian State: Does India’s Integrated Rural Development Program Work?’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth
1996
‘The Green Revolution, Socio-spatial Development, and the State’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Charlotte
1995
‘The State and Uneven Development in India’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Chicago
