Nairobi 2025, Aga Khan University 20th June : screening of Waseb [Nation] & panel discussion on climate justice at ‘Planet of the Slums: 20 Years on’, an event convened by Samuel Hall and AKU.

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Nairobi, 2024, 1st March: Statement on the Genocide in Gaza: (Link) 

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Nairobi, 2023, 28th August: ‘The Problem of Forced Evictions: Migration, Development, and Displacement in African Cities’, conference convened for Heinrich Böll Foundation): (Link) 

 

Munich, 2023, 24th February, Bellevue di Monaco, panel discussion on migration, asylum and the climate crisis (Link)​ , Youtube: Watch: (Link) 

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Webinar 2022, 15th November: ‘After Melilla: Racism and Migration in North Africa and the Euro-Mediterranean’, convened and moderated for African Arguments: (Link) 

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Banjul1, 2022, 10th-11th November: ‘Return Migration and Gender: Assessing the Gender Responsiveness of Return and Reintegration Programs of Migrants in West Africa,’ conference co-convened with Paolo Gaibazzi (University of Bologna) and Ismaila Ceesay (University of The Gambia) for the Heinrich Böll Foundation: (Link)

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Leipzig, 2022, 14th October GLOBE22: Concepts against Climate Injustice in Science, Documentary Film and Philosophy (Link)

 

2021 Berlin, Thursday 18th February: Book presentation: Climate Justice and Migration: Mobility, Development, and Displacement in the Global South (Link) 

 

Berlin, 2021, 21st July: Video statement featured in the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s ‘Indispensable: The Refugee Convention at 70’. (Artists, academics, refugees, and activists express support for the basic principles of the Convention):  (Link)

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London, 2019, 21st December, Tate Modern, screenings: Waseb and Lok Sath: (Link)

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Berlin, 2019, 26-27th November: Heinrich Boll & ZMO, Workshop/Panel discussion, ‘Climate Justice and Mobility’: (Link) Panel discussion: (Youtube Link)  

 

London, 2019, 23rd October: talk on ‘Film and Political Ecology in the South’, Stuart Hall Library Research Network, INIVA: (Link)

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Berlin, 2019, 15th September: Panel discussion, Berlin Literature festival: German Migration Policy in Practice (Link)

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Berlin, 2019, 29th June Silent Green:  screening of Lok Sath a ‘Tell me what matter was the ground’ (Link)

 

Paris, 2019, 20th April:  screening, Lok Sath (People’s Tribunal) at Ethnografia film festival (Link)

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Lahore, 2019, LUMS University 10-11th April:  ‘Cricket in the Age of Late Capitalism,’ paper co-presented with Ali Khan at Lahore University of Management Sciences, annual social sciences conference

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Brussels, 2019, Heinrich Boll Stiftung, 19th March: Panelist at expert exchange and launch of report ‘A Local Turn for European Refugee Politics’

  

Berlin, 2019, 31st January: “Gender, Sexuality and the Socialist Interlude: Pakistani Cinema’s Long 1960s and Turbulent Seventies” (Public lecture in Leibniz-ZMO’s Winter Colloquium, ‘Performing Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia,’ which I co-organized).  (Link)

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London, 2018, British Film Institute 10th August: “Between the Sacred and the Profane”: Illustrated talk exploring the cultural, artistic, and political background of Jamil Dehlavi. A recording of this talk is available as an extra on the DVD release: (Link)

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Minneapolis, 2018, 16th April:  Conference paper at ‘Prince from Minneapolis’ conference, University of Minneapolis

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Michigan, 2018, 14th April: Conference paper on the filmmaking of Jamil Dehlavi at ‘Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art,’ at the Helmet Stern Museum of Art, University of Michigan.

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Michigan, 2018, 6th April: A conference paper was presented on migration and human smuggling at the annual conference on Pakistan, University of Michigan.

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Berlin, 2017, 23rd September: ‘Politics and aesthetics in southern Punjab: Migration, displacement and urbanization in the hinterlands of Lahore’, paper presented at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin. Traveling Workshop on “Migration and Discrimination,” Cornell University.

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Berlin, 2017, 22nd September: film Screening, Waseb [Nation], Moviemento cinema, anthropoScene film festival (Link YouTube)

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Berlin, 2017, 27th May: ‘The Islamic Ethic and the Spirit of Neo-liberalism,’ paper presented at ZMO Moralities Workshop

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Karachi, 2017, 10-11th April: panelist on Art and Modernity at LSE Pakistan Summit (Link) (Youtube Link)

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University of Salford 2017, 21st March: Paper presented at Purple Reign: a conference on the life and legacy of Prince.

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Leiden, 2017, 14th March: film screening, Waseb [Nation], ‘Framing Asia’ University of Leiden, Asian Studies (Link)

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Oxford, 2017, 6th March: film screening, Waseb [Nation], Wolfson College, Oxford. 

 

Paris, 2017, Science-Po 1st March: ‘The Politics of Resources: Conflict and Resistance in Pakistan’s Southern Punjab,’ conference paper presented and screening of Waseb at ‘Crisis and Conflict in the Agrarian World.’

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Karachi, 2016, 5th February: Book launch (Cinema and Society), Karachi Literature Festival: (Link)

 

Singapore, 2016, 22nd November : film screening, Waseb [Nation]: Disastrous Pasts: New Directions in Asian Disaster history at the National University of Singapore. (Link)

 

Seattle, 2016, October: Film Screening, Waseb [Nation], Social Justice Film Festival www.socialjusticefilmfestival.org

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Paris, 2016, Film Screening, Waseb [Nation] at Ethnografilm Festival March, Paris https://www.ethnografilm.com/past-festivals/

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Bucharest, 2015, 18-20th June : New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania, “Flood-Causality and Post-Colonial States: The 2010 Disaster in Pakistan’s Southern Punjab” at the conference on “Floods, State, Dams, and Dykes in Modern Times: Ecological and Socio-economic Transformations of the Rural World.” 

 

Heidelberg, 2014, 3rd December: Film Screening, Waseb [Nation]: Heidelberg University: “Pakistan Parallel Narratives of the Nation-State”.  

 

Singapore, 2014, 15-18th October: “Urban Marginality in Pakistan’s Smaller Cities: Rethinking Disaster Through the 2010 Floods”, National University of Singapore (Paper at conference: ‘The Quotidian Anthropocene, Asia Research Institute’). 

 

Boston, 2014, 7th April: “Tamasha Politics: Journalism, Democracy and Illusory Dissent in Pakistani Media” Public Lecture at International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University (Link) 

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Boston, 2014, 7th March : “The dystopian dialectics of Illegal Migration”: at Brandeis University ‘Futures Imperfect: Utopias and Dystopias in South Asia’ (Workshop Paper)

 

Lahore, 2014, March: LUMS HSS Global War Centenary: paper at conference proceedings of LUMS 2014 annual social sciences conference (Global War Centenary) entitled “Conspiracy and Statecraft in Post-Colonial States: Theories and Realities of the Hidden Hand in Pakistan’s War on Terror”

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Lahore, 2013, 5 April: ‘Asian Ecologies: Capitalism, Modernity and the Environment’, conference co-convened by Ali Nobil Ahmad. (Link)

 

Leiden, 2012, 12-14th December: “The State in Asia”.  Conference paper, ‘War making and state-building in post-colonial states: Pakistan from the standpoint of its people,’ presented. 2011 Rotterdam, September 1-2nd, paper presented on piracy and Pushto teledrama/cinema at ‘Media Morphologies: Infrastructures and Technologies in Art, Cinema and Popular Culture’ workshop, ‘De Nieuwe Oogst’ urban culture platform.

 

London, 2008, May: UCL, Leverhulme Conference on Migration and Citizenship. Organised by Professor John Salt. Presented findings of research on smuggling and trafficking.

 

Barcelona, 2008, April: Paper on Pakistanis in Italy presented at international seminar at the University of Barcelona held by the CIDOB foundation: ‘Asians in the Mediterranean: Diaspora, transnationalism and ethnic entrepreneurship’

 

University of Sussex, 2008, 14-15th March: workshop paper presented at “Love, Sexuality and Migration” (LSM), held under the IMISCOE European Research Network.  

 

University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, 2007, December 6-8: paper on illegal migration and work in Europe at “New Migration Dynamics” conference. 

2007 Leiden University, January 18-19th, Conference paper on masculinity and irregular at “Borders, Irregular Migration, and gender in a global historical perspective”

 

Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure, 2006, 27-29th March : conference paper on masculinity and irregular migration at “History, Gender, and Migration.”

 

London Royal Geographical Society, 2006, 30th August-September: conference paper on illegal migration and work in London at “Global Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability.”