Invited Talks

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