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2025 (5 November). India and Pakistan: Two Nations Divided by the Same Language and Different Language Ideologies about Urdu. NWAV-53<\/a>. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025. (July 25-27). Combating Islamophobia: English in the Linguistic Landscape of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. International Association of World Englishes. University of Giessen, Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (with Melanie van Den Haven).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023. Printing Local Identity on Street Signs. American Anthropological Association(AAA) Annual Meeting<\/strong>. Toronto. Canada. 15-19 November. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023. Teaching with an accent<\/em>: ideology, identity, and communication in the Gulf countries. ELT Professional and Pedagogic Challenges in Qatar. <\/strong>Symposium Organized byLusail University, Doha, Qatar, May 4, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022. How to Achieve Effective Communication in a Crisis Situation. Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, India<\/strong>. July 12, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020. Language and social justice: Urdu during the Hindu majoritarian rule in India. Talk delivered at Queen\u2019s University, Belfast, UK<\/strong>. October 27, 2020 (Delivered Online).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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<\/strong> 28-Feb-1 March, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017. Representation of Arabic dialects in tweets: an examination of ideologies. Poster. To be presented at \u201c11th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy\u201d Aug 29-31, 2017. Organized by the Association of Written Language and Literacy at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016. Rise of Khaliji<\/em> dialect in the Arabic entertainment media. 3rd<\/sup> International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation.Sultan Qaboos University<\/strong>, Masqat, Oman, 3-5 November 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015. From Rajjal to Rayyal: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar<\/em>. 21st<\/sup>Sociolinguitic Symposium, University of Murcia<\/strong>, Spain, June 15-18, 2016. (Co-author).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2014. English in GGC countries: status and features. Paper presented at the Language and Society Conference, University of Waikato, New Zealand<\/strong>. Nov 23-25, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/strong>. Regal Riverside Hotel, Hong Kong. May 1-2 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014. Urdu in Bollywood: Shifting Canons. Association of Asian Studies Conference<\/strong>. Philadelphia, PA, USA. March 29, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012. Polyphony of Urdu in India. Paper presented at The Annual Conference on South Asia<\/strong>, University of Wisconsin<\/strong>, Madison, USA. October 11-14, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

2009. Multilingualism in a monolingual country: a case of Kuwait. Paper<\/strong> presented at Linguistics in the Gulf-2<\/strong>. Qatar University, Qatar. March 11-12, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008. Semiotic complexity of Urdu in India. Paper<\/strong> presented at Symposium about language and society (SALSA-XVI)<\/strong>. University of Texas at Austin<\/strong>. April 11-13 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007. Old Wine in a new bottle: Urdu in Nagari. Paper <\/strong>presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2007 <\/strong>Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. Jan 5, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006. Ideology of change and change of ideology: shifting conceptions of Hindi. Paper <\/strong>presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16<\/strong>, University of Limerick, Ireland July 6-8, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

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

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