SELECT RECENT ACTIVITIES:

Organizational Roles in Conferences, Sessions and Workshops:

2011, Organizer and Chair of Discussion Panel on “The Right to Water: Theory and Practice” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, USA, 12-16 April 2010.

2011, Co-organizer of workshop “Water and Climate Change”, Cornell University, Spring 2011.

2010, Co-organizer and Chair of two Paper Sessions on “Gender and Climate Change” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010, Chair and Organizer of Two-day International Conference on “The Right to Water”, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA, 29-30 March 2010.  Further details at: www.maxwell.syr.edu/waterconference

2010,  Host and Moderator of Discussion Sessions with Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Grameen Bank founder) on “Creating a World without Poverty”, Syracuse University, 23 February, 2010.

2009, Organizer and Chair of two Paper Sessions on “Water, Power and Politics in South Asia” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 22-27 March 2009.

2009, Organizer and Presenter at Film Screening and Discussion Session for “Climate change and Bangladesh: Who will pay?” Department of Geography, Syracuse University, USA, 27 January 2009.

2008, Co-organizer and Co-chair of three Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on “Water and Development: A Fluid Relationship” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, USA, 15 – 19 April 2008.

2007, Co-organizer and Co-chair of two Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on “Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, USA, 17 – 23 April 2007.

2007, Co-organizer and Co-chair of five Paper Sessions and one Discussion Panel on “Socio-ecological Nature of Water” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, USA, 17 – 23 April 2007.

2006, Organizer of Discussion Panel on “Gender and Water” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  Chicago, IL, USA, 7 – 11 March 2006.

2006, Co-convenor and Co-chair of two Paper Sessions on “Participatory Ethics for Human Geography” Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August – 2 September 2006.

2005, Chair and Organizer of Paper Session on “Gendered geographies of water: Trends and challenges” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, USA, 4 – 9 April 2005.

2002, Co-organizer of Workshop Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, USA, 5 – 6 April 2002.

2002, Chair and Organizer of Panel on “Water and Security” Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, USA, 5 – 6 April 2002.

Select Conference Presentations:

2010, Paper Presented: “Gender, climate change and the politics of adaptation” Session on ‘Gender and climate change’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010, Invited Panelist: Session on ‘Gender and Environment: Critical Tradition and New Challenges’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington D.C., USA, 14-18 April 2010.

2010, Invited Discussant: Session on ‘Green Development? Revisiting Environment and Food Systems’ Development Geographies Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 13 April 2010.

2009, Paper Presented: “Gendering climate change: Debates from South Asia” MaGrann Conference on Climate Change in South Asia: Governance, Equity and Social Justice, Rutgers University, NJ, USA, 16-17 April 2009.

2009, Paper Presented: “Of Purity and pollution: Negotiating socio-spatial-ecological-embodied subjectivities in contaminated waterscapes” Session on ‘Water, power and politics in South Asia’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 22-27 March 2009

2009,  Invited Panelist: Session on ‘Democratizing Water Technologies’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 22-27 March 2009

2009,  Invited Discussant: Session on ‘Hydrosocial Cycles’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 22-27 March 2009

2008, Paper Presented: “Poisoning the Well of Development? Arsenic, Accountability and (Un)anticipated Development in Bangladesh” Re-Engaging Development in a Post- Development Era? Developing Areas Specialty Group Conference, Clark University, USA, 13 – 14 April 2008.

2008, Panelist: Session on ‘Water and Development: A Fluid Relationship?’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, USA, 15 – 19 April 2008.

2008, Paper Presented: “Fluid Lives: Gender, Subjectivity and Water Management” Session on ‘Advancing Environmentality: the Materiality of the Environmental Subject’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, USA, 15 – 19 April 2008.

2007, Invited Plenary Speaker: “Sustainability: A Post-Mortem?” Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August – 2 September 2007.

2007, Paper Presented: “‘Sorry, I can’t give you money’: Positionality, Reflexivity, and Ethics of Fieldwork in Third World Contexts.” Session on ‘Giving Back: Ideas for mutually beneficial research’ Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August – 2 September 2007.

2007, Paper Presented: “Suffering for Water, Suffering from Water: Gendered and Classed Dimensions of Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh” Session on ‘Arsenic in the Natural Environment: The Geography of a Global Problem’ Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August – 2 September 2007.

2007, Invited Chair: Session on “Wellbeing, Relatedness, and Collective Action” Wellbeing in International Development Conference, University of Bath, UK, 28 – 30 June 2007.

2007, Invited Panelist: “People of Color Negotiate the Academy (Part II): Women of Color Geographers and the Crisis of Under-representation” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, USA, 17 – 23 April 2007.

2007, Paper Presented: “Watery Discourses: Participation and Community in Water Resources Management” Session on ‘Global Perspectives on Gender-Water Geographies’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, USA, 17 – 23 April 2007.

2007, Panelist: “The Matter of Water: Water, Materialities, and Development” Session on ‘Socio-ecological Nature of Water I’  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  San Francisco, CA, USA, 17 – 23 April 2007.

2006, Panelist: “Feminist Political Ecology of Water – Wither Geography?” Session on ‘Gender and Water’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,  Chicago, IL, USA, 7 – 11 March 2006.

2006, Paper Presented: “Gendering Natural Hazards Research: A Feminist Analysis of the Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in Bangladesh” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, USA, 7 – 11 March 2006. [Winner of the 2006 Kasperson Student Paper Award of the Hazards Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers]

2005, Paper Presented: “Women, Water, Welfare: Debating Development and Water resources management in Bangladesh” Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August – 2 September 2005.

2005, Invited Panelist: “Discourses of Participation and the Development Industry” Session on ‘Participatory Geographies’ Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, London, UK, 31 August – 2 September 2005.

2005, Paper Presented: “Drops of life, Drops of death: Gendered Geographies of a Drinking Water crisis in Bangladesh” Session on ‘Gendered geographies of water: trends and challenges’ Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, USA, 4 – 9 April 2005.

2005, Paper Presented: “Sociology of an Escalating Disaster: Gender, Water and Arsenic in Bangladesh” Midwest Sociological Society Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 31 March – 3 April 2005.

2004, Paper Presented: “Gendered Waters, Poisoned Wells: Understanding the Social Geographies of the Drinking Water Crisis from Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh” MacArthur Consortium Workshop Gender in an International Context, University of Minnesota, USA, 16 – 17 April 2004.

2004, Paper Presented: “Water, Water Everywhere, But Not a Drop to Drink: Analyzing the Drinking Water Crisis in Bangladesh”  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 15 – 19 March 2004. [Winner of the 2004 Best Student Paper Award of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers]

2003, Paper Presented: “Managing Water for Sustainable Development: The Importance of Gender, Class and Environment in National Water Policies in Bangladesh” MacArthur Consortium Workshop Gender in an International Context, University of Minnesota, USA, 11– 12 April 2003.

2002, Paper Presented: “Political Ecology of the Ganges River: High Modernism, River Politics, and the Farakka Barrage” Annual meeting of the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, University of Minnesota, USA, 17– 19 October 2002.

2002, Paper Presented: “Water Resources, Water Security and the ‘Rio Plus Ten’ Process: An Overview” Session on ‘Water and Security’ at  Rio Plus Ten: Environment, Development, and Security Workshop at the University of Minnesota, USA, 5 – 6 April 2002.

2002, Paper Presented: “The Farakka Barrage and the Ganges River Dispute: High Modernism, River Politics and Socio-ecological Implications” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 18 – 23 March 2002.

2000, Paper Presented: “Water Allocation and Gender – An Analysis from Bangladesh” Berkeley Water Working Group Speaker Series, University of California – Berkeley, USA, 4 May 2000 (with Ben Crow).

Recent Invited Lectures

2011, University of Maryland  – The Annual Korenman Lecture Speaker 15 March 2011.

2010, University of Bristol (UK) – Keynote Speaker, ESRC Seminar Series “Feminism and Futurity: New Times, New Spaces” 3 December 2010.

2010, Royal Holloway University of London (UK) – “Contaminated Identities, Polluted Waters, and Disrupted Development” Colloquium Series, Geography Department, 30 November 2010.

2010, University of Minnesota – Invited Speaker at International Research Workshop on Water, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), 14-15 November 2010.

2010, Syracuse University – “Negotiating the Job Market” Nature-Society Geography Workshop, 2 October 2010.

2010, University of Delaware – “Poisoned Waters: The Making and Unmaking of a Public Health Success Story in Bangladesh” Research Seminar, Geography and Geology Departments, 23 September 2010.

2010,  University of Buffalo – Keynote Speaker, “Gendered Waters: Negotiating and Experiencing the Contradictions of Nature and Society in the Development Process” Gender Across Borders IV: Gender and Globalisms Conference, 2-3 April 2010.

2010,  Colgate University – “Watery worlds: Power, politics and socio-ecological transformations in South Asia” Brown Bag Lecture Series, Environmental Studies Program, 5 March 2010.

2010,  Syracuse University – “Job Searches in Academia and Beyond” Future Professoriate Program, Geography Department, 18 February 2010.

2009, University of Vermont – “Gender, Participation and Community: Rethinking Development in Contentious Waterscapes” Research Seminar, Geography Department and Women’s Studies Program, 1 December 2009.

2009, Cornell University – “Of purity and pollution: Watery Geographies of Development in the Bengal Delta” South Asia Program Lecture Series, 2 November 2009.

2009, International Center of Syracuse – “Dammed Rivers, Damned Lives:  Water and Politics in South Asia” Global Lecture Series, 16 October 2009.

2009,  Syracuse University – “Adapting to Climate Change: Who Pays the Price?” Focus the Nation Teach-in on Climate Change Solutions, 21 April 2009.

2009, Community Folk Art Center of Syracuse – “Brick Lane: A Transnational Feminist Critique” Film critique and discussion, 14 March 2009.

2008, Syracuse University – “Shared Waters, Divided Peoples: Water, Conflict and Socio-ecological Transformations in South Asia” Conversations in Conflict Studies Series, Program for the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (PARC), Maxwell School, 5 November 2008.

2008, Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey) – “Transboundary River Disputes and Implications for Sustainable Development: The Case of the Ganges River in South Asia” Seminar Series, Department of International Relations, 5 May 2008.

2008, Action Against Hunger (UK) -“Water and HIV: Working for Positive Solutions” World Water Day Seminar, King’s College London, 19 March 2008.

2008, University of Minnesota – “Suffering for water, suffering from water: arsenic, water and development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 14 March 2008.

2008, University of California at Berkeley – “Suffering for water, suffering from water: arsenic, water and development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 29 January 2008.

2007, Syracuse University – “Suffering for water, suffering from water: political ecologies of water resources management and development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 27 November 2007.

2007, Tropical Agriculture Association (UK) – “Social Dynamics of Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water: Issues for Policymakers” Arsenic Seminar, 24 October 2007.

2006, University of Manchester (UK) – “Political ecology of Water: Gender, Arsenic, and Development in Bangladesh” Research Seminar Series, Department of Geography, 10 May 2006.

2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – “Gender, Water, and Arsenic: Political Ecology of Development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 1 May 2006.

2006, University of Oxford (UK) – “Watery Discourses: Community and Participation in Water Resources Management” Research Seminar Series, Oxford Centre for Water Research, 26 April 2006.

2006, University College London (UK) – “Political Ecology of Arsenic: Gender, Water, and Development in Bangladesh” Department of Geography, 22 March 2006.

2006, University of Texas at Austin – “Gender, Water, and Arsenic: Political Ecology of Development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, South Asia Institute, 1 March 2006.

2006, King’s College London (UK) – “Political Ecology of Arsenic: Gender, Water, and Development in Bangladesh” Department of Geography, 31 January 2006.

2006, University of Colorado at Boulder – “Gender, Water, and Arsenic: Political Ecology of Development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 27 January 2006.

2005, Texas A&M University – “Gender, Water, and Development: Arsenic Contamination in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 12 December 2005.

2005, Colgate University – “Political Ecology of Water: Gender, Arsenic, and Development in Bangladesh” Research Colloquia, Department of Geography, 1 December 2005.

2002, University of Minnesota – “Working in the Field: Perspectives from Managing the Largest Environment Program of UNDP in Bangladesh” Macarthur Brown Bag Research Seminar Series, 21 February 2002.