2024. (Aug 15) Reconceptualizing working languages in multilingual high-risk industries: a linguistic ethnography of the first nuclear power plant in the Arab world. AILA-2024. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (with Melanie van Den Haven).

2023. Printing Local Identity on Street Signs. American Anthropological Association(AAA) Annual Meeting. Toronto. Canada. 15-19 November. 

2023. Teaching with an accent: ideology, identity, and communication in the Gulf countries. ELT Professional and Pedagogic Challenges in Qatar. Symposium Organized byLusail University, Doha, Qatar, May 4, 2023. 

2022. How to Achieve Effective Communication in a Crisis Situation. Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India. July 12, 2022.

2020. Language and social justice: Urdu during the Hindu majoritarian rule in India. Talk delivered at Queen’s University, Belfast, UK. October 27, 2020 (Delivered Online).

2019. Renaming during the Hindu nationalist rule: Marginalization of Dalits and minorities. Paper presented at American Name Society, Annual meeting, New York City. 3-6 January 2019.

2018. Indexicality, identity, and language change: Colonial and postcolonial imaginaries of Urdu. Pleanary talk. Talk and Silence: Language in Colonial Contexts. American University of Cairo, Egypt 28-Feb-1 March, 2018.

2017. Representation of Arabic dialects in tweets: an examination of ideologies. Poster. To be presented at “11th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy” Aug 29-31, 2017. Organized by the Association of Written Language and Literacy at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.

2016. Rise of Khaliji dialect in the Arabic entertainment media. 3^rd International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation.Sultan Qaboos University, Masqat, Oman, 3-5 November 2016

2015. From Rajjal to Rayyal: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar. 21^stSociolinguitic Symposium, University of Murcia, Spain, June 15-18, 2016. (Co-author).

2015. (with DivakaranLiginlal et al) The richness of metaphor and the metaphor of richness in Arabic ecommerce. International Business Conference, University of Ajman, UAE. May 12-14, 2015.

2014. English in GGC countries: status and features. Paper presented at the Language and Society Conference, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Nov 23-25, 2014.

2014. (with DivakaranLiginlal et al) Localization for a High Context Culture: An Exploratory Study of Cultural Markers and Metaphors in Arabic E-Commerce Websites. E-commerce, e-business, and E-service Conference. Regal Riverside Hotel, Hong Kong. May 1-2 2014.

2014. Urdu in Bollywood: Shifting Canons. Association of Asian Studies Conference. Philadelphia, PA, USA. March 29, 2014

2012. Polyphony of Urdu in India. Paper presented at The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. October 11-14, 2012.

2012. Language change in a multilingual setting: Urdu in India. Paper presented at Symposium about language and society (SALSA-XX). University of Texas at Austin. April 14, 2012.

2009. Disjoint between the Public and Private: Use of immigrant languages in Kuwait. Paper presented at MIDP Colloquium, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Sep 14-16, 2009.

2009. Multilingualism in a monolingual country: a case of Kuwait. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Gulf-2. Qatar University, Qatar. March 11-12, 2009.

2008. Semiotic complexity of Urdu in India. Paper presented at Symposium about language and society (SALSA-XVI). University of Texas at Austin. April 11-13 2008.

2007. Old Wine in a new bottle: Urdu in Nagari. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. Jan 5, 2007.

2006. Ideology of change and change of ideology: shifting conceptions of Hindi. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Ireland July 6-8, 2006.

Representations of Hindi in the Dalit resistance movement. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation NWAV-34. New York University. Oct 21, 2005 (with Sai Samant)

2005. Hindi is perfect; Urdu is messy: the sociolinguistic construction of Hindi and Urdu in the nineteenth century. Paper presented at South Asian Linguistic Analysis (SALA-25), University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Sep 16-18 2005.

2005. Scripting a new identity: the battle for Nagari in 19thcentury India. Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingualism(ISB), Barcelona, Spain, March 21, 2005.