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Invited Lectures
- “Progress of the World's Women: Conceptualizing Feminist Climate Justice”, Expert Group Meeting, UN Women, New York, USA. July 2023.
- “Grounded Conversations”, Sydney Environmental Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. May 2023.
- “Understanding the biophysical limits to growth to build an economy that respects planetary boundaries”, Beyond Growth 2023 Conference: Pathways towards Sustainable Prosperity in the EU, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. May 2023.
- Keynote, “Feminists Decolonizing Climate Politics”, International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), Humboldt Universitat, Berlin, Germany. May 2023.
- “Confronting Climate Coloniality”, Science & Technology in Asia seminar series, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. March 2023.
- Keynote, “Decolonizing Climate Coloniality and the Importance of Cultural Praxis”, 19th Conference on Cultural Geographies / Neue Kulturgeographie (NKG), Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany. January 2023.
- Keynote, “Confronting Climate Coloniality”, Conference on Climate Coloniality: Mechanisms, Epistemologies, Spaces of Resistance, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. November 2022.
- “Confronting Climate Coloniality”, Environmental Studies Program, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, USA. October 2022.
- “Decolonizing Climate Coloniality”, Center for Climate Justice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. September 2022.
- “Decolonizing Climate Coloniality”, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. September 2022.
- Keynote, “Just sustainable futures and knowledge production”, Annual Conference of the Development Studies Association (DSA), Development Studies Association, London, UK. July 2022.
- “Drowned Out: Water, Climate, and Justice”, Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series, Water Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. April 2022.
- “Water Politics and Climate Justice”, Clark Center for Global Engagement Speaker Series, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, USA. April 2022.
- “Urban Climate (in)Justice”, 50th Anniversary, Department of Geography, Planning & Sustainability, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, USA. April 2022.
- Keynote, “Virtually Undisciplined: Diversifying Higher Education and Research through Interconnectivity”, Inaugural Conference of the WIASN, Women in Academia Network, UK. April 2022.
- “Climate Change and Labor: Media Landscape”, Pulitzer Center, Pulitzer Center, Washington DC, USA. March 2022.
- “Climate Justice, Gender, and Challenges in a Fractured World”, Women and Gender in International Development (WGD) Discussion Series, Center for International Research, Education and Development, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, USA. March 2022.
- “Global Inequities and Climate Change: What a Feminist Climate Justice Approach Teaches Us”, Center for Peace and Development, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. March 2022.
- “Critical Climate Justice”, Center for Contemporary South Asia (CCSA) Speaker Series, Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. March 2022.
- “Climate Justice, Water Governance, and Feminist Scholarship”, RSA Regions Cities Industry Webinar Series, Regional Studies Association, UK. March 2022.
- “Critical Climate Justice”, International Development Seminar Series, University of Reading, Reading, UK. March 2022.
- Keynote, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Climate Coloniality”, Political Geography 40th Anniversary Plenary Lecture, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, American Association of Geographers, USA. February 2022.
- “Roundtable with new US Ambassador to Bangladesh”, US-Bangladesh Advisory Council, US-Bangladesh Advisory Council, Washington DC, USA. February 2022.
- Keynote, “Power Up for Climate Justice”, AMP Global Youth conference, AMP Global Youth, USA. February 2022.
- Panelist, “Integrating Environmental Justice into Extreme Weather Preparedness and Response in Texas and Beyond”, Presidential Panel on Extreme Weather, 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, American Meteorological Society, Houston, TX, USA. January 2022.
- “The Future of the Environment”, Institute for Research on Women (IRW) Distinguished Lecture Series, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. November 2021.
- “Climate Justice in a World of Crises”, Environmental Studies Seminar Series, Colby College, Waterville, ME, USA. October 2021.
- “Sustainability in a Time of Climate Crisis”, Annual Presidential Sustainability Lecture, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY, USA. October 2021.
- “Reckoning with Research Methods and Ethics”, College and University Fund for the Social Sciences Conference, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, NY, USA. October 2021.
- “Feminist climate justice in a world of crises”, Radical Climate Justice for the Global Commons, University of California Center for Climate Justice, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. October 2021.
- “Feminist climate justice in a world of crises”, Climate Change, Justice, and Health Series, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA. September 2021.
- “Critical Climate Justice”, Annual Environmental Security Summit, National Intelligence University (NIU) and Environmental Security Working Group (ESWG), Washington, DC, USA. September 2021.
- Keynote, “Climate Change in Geographical Research”, Climate Change Research Group (CCRG) Annual General Meeting, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK. September 2021.
- “Household Water Insecurity and Climate Disruptions”, HWISE NOW Virtual Coffee Hour, Building a Community of Practice for Household Water Insecurity (HWISE) Research Coordination Network, USA. July 2021.
- “Critical Climate Justice”, Speaker Series of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, USA. July 2021.
- Keynote, “Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-production of Injustices”, IV Tarragona International Environmental Law Colloquium, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. June 2021.
- “Whose Water is it? Environmental Justice and Water Privatization”, Center for Environmental Justice & Colorado Water Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. April 2021.
- Keynote, “Why Geography Matters”, Induction Ceremony of the Gamma Theta Upsilon Geographical Honor Society, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, USA. April 2021.
- “Decolonising Europe in International Politics”, Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. December 2020.
- “Ethics and Politics of International Field Research”, Yale School of the Environment Community Conversations, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. December 2020.
- Keynote, “Climate Change, COVID-19 and the Co-production of Injustices: A Feminist Reading of Overlapping Crises”, New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. November 2020.
- “Ten Years to 2030 -- What is The Global Starting Point for the Climate Countdown?”, World Summit AI, Inspired Minds, London, UK. November 2020.
- “Ethics and Praxis of Collaboration in Environmental Research And Beyond”, Transregional Planning Grants Development Workshop Series, Social Science Research Council (SSRC), New York, NY, USA. November 2020.
- “Global Water Crises and How We Can Envision Just & Sustainable Futures”, Fourth Annual Distinguished Hopke Lecture, Institute for Sustainable Environment, Clarkson University, Clarkson, NY, USA. October 2020.
- “Intersectionality and Climate justice: Towards an Emancipatory Climate Research Agenda”, Center for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland. September 2020.
- “Climate Change, Cities and Violence in the Time of Covid-19: Perspectives from South Asia”, Climate Change and Urban Violence Global Engagement Network (CCUVN), Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi Urban Lab, Karachi, Pakistan. June 2020.
- “Digitising Anti-Racist & Anti-Imperialist Teaching Amidst COVID-19”, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. April 2020.
- “Environmental Humanities Lecture”, Environmental Humanities Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. April 2020.
- “Drought and Deluge: How Shifts in the Water Cycle Are Impacting the Environment and Society”, Princeton Environmental Forum, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. October 2019.
- Keynote, “Human Right to Water and Water Justice”, Humanities Center Public Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. September 2019.
- Keynote, “Decolonizing Development and the Pursuit of Social Justice”, Inaugural Lecture for Critical Hope: Acting in a Challenging World, Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough, ON, Canada. March 2019.
- Keynote, “Urban Water Politics: Towards Emancipatory Governance and Social Justice”, Exploring Urbanization: Events, Resources And Movements, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands. June 2018.
- “Critical Questions for Policy Engagement: Accountability, Representation, and Power”, Polson Symposium on Bridging Science and Policy in the Sustainable Development Era, Polson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. May 2018.
- Keynote, “Decolonizing Academia: On Responsibility, Accountability, and Ethics in Academic Publishing”, Whose Free Speech?, SUNY-New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, USA. April 2018.
- Keynote, “Fluid Citizens: Embodiments and Intersectionalities in Constructing Urban Citizenship Through Water”, Dimensions of Political Ecology Annual Conference, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. February 2018.
- Keynote, “Contemporary Controversies: Diversity, Freedom of Speech, and the University”, Workshop of the Taskforce on Knowledge and Place in the Humanities, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. February 2018.
- “Mediating (Im)Materialities: A Workshop on the Methods and Methodologies of Natural Resource Industries Fieldwork”, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada. December 2017.
- “Politics and Power in Water Governance: Citizenship Struggles of the Urban Poor in the Global South”, The New Geographical Thought Speaker Series, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. April 2017.
- Keynote, “The Human Right to Water, Gender Justice, and Sustainable Development: Exploring Connections and Possibilities”, International Workshop 'Human right to water: An interdisciplinary focus and contributions on the central role of public policies in water and sanitation management', Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican City, Italy. February 2017.
- “Social Dimensions of Climate Change -- Understanding Climate Research More Comprehensively”, International Center for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) Seminar, Independent University, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 2017.
- “Water, Climate Change, and Development in Bangladesh”, Seba Library, Seba Library, Atlanta, GA, USA. November 2016.
- Keynote, “Water Justice”, Imagine What's Next (NEXT16), General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, Atlanta, GA, USA. November 2016.[Link]
- “Laboring for Water, Laboring for Life”, Feinberg Family Fund Speaker Series, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, USA. October 2016.
- “Gender and Water”, Gender, Agriculture and Environment Initiative (GAEI) Inaugural Symposium, College of Agricultural Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA. June 2016.
- Keynote, “Environmental Vulnerabilities in the Globalizing World: How to Adapt and Manage Change?”, Helsinki University Centre for Environment, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. May 2016.
- “Understanding the Global Water Crisis”, Turkish Coffee Night Lecture Series, Turkish Cultural Center, Syracuse, NY, USA. November 2015.
- “Climate Change and Human Rights: Mitigation, Adaptation and Vulnerable Communities”, New Politics of Human Rights, University of Wisconsin Law School, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI, USA. November 2015.
- “Ecology”, Prophetic Voice and Making Peace: Theological Reflection on United Methodist Collegiate Ministries, Hendricks Chapel, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, Syracuse, NY, USA. August 2015.
- “Water and Citizenship: Politics of Development and Democracy in Water Governance in the Global South”, Seminar Series, Development Sociology Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. April 2015.
- “Water Access, Equity and Resilience in the Global South”, International Center for the study of Global Change (ICGC) Roundtable, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. April 2015.
- “The Right to Water and Water Justice”, World Water Week, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. March 2015.
- “Urban water crises, informal settlements, and water for the urban poor”, From SAARC to Slums: Urban Water Challenges in South Asia, South Asia Institute Annual Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. April 2014.
- “Gender, Water and Citizenship: Politics of Development and Democracy in Water Governance in the Global South”, The World Water Day Speaker, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA. March 2014.
- “Gendering climate, gendering justice”, Research Colloquium, Department of Geography, Program in Environmental Studies, Franklin Environmental Center, & Program on Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, USA. October 2013.
- Keynote, “Gendering water, earth and sky: Feminist political ecologies of climate change”, Nature-Society Geography Workshop, Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA. September 2013.
- “Climate change as hydro-social change: Rethinking Water Crises in the Global South”, Research Colloquium, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and the Environment, & Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA. September 2013.
- “The Social Impacts of Changing Water Patterns”, Water: The Looming Crises, Yale Climate & Energy Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. April 2013.
- “Social and Policy implications of Drinking Water Contamination in Asia”, Cross-Disciplinary Seminar in Hydrological and Biogeochemical Processes, SUNY School of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, USA. February 2013.
- “Human Right to Water versus Water Rights: Ownership and Rights as Contested and Negotiated Terms”, The Human Rights to Water & Sanitation: From Theory to Practice, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. December 2012.
- “Gender, Water and the Politics of Development: Rethinking Social Justice and Citizenship in the Global South”, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. September 2012.
- “Making a Difference”, Faculty Convocation Speaker, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA. May 2012.
- “Climate Change and Water Management: Policy Options for the Future”, Climate, Resource Security, and the Struggle for Water and Land, The Transatlantic Academy, The Transatlantic Academy, Washington, D.C., USA. January 2012.
- “Negotiating Contaminated Identities: Gender, Water, and Development in Altered Waterscapes”, The Fourth Annual Joan S. Korenman Lecture, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA. March 2011.
- Keynote, “Negotiating Rights, Experiencing Development, Managing Water: Gender-Water-Development Nexus in a Changing World”, ESRC Workshop on Feminism and Futurity: New Times, New Spaces, Department of Geography, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. December 2010.
- “Contaminated Identities, Polluted Waters, and Disrupted Development”, Research Seminar Series, Geography Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK. November 2010.
- Keynote, “Water Struggles in a Changing World”, International Research Workshop on Struggling for water: Dams, Pipes and Urban-Rural Transformations in the Global South, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. November 2010.
- “Poisoned Waters: The Making and Unmaking of a Public Health Success Story in Bangladesh”, Research Seminar Series, Departments of Geography, Geology, Women's Studies, & Delaware Environment Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. September 2010.
- Keynote, “Gendered Waters: Negotiating and Experiencing the Contradictions of Nature and Society in the Development Process”, Gender Across Borders IV: Gender and Globalisms Conference, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA. April 2010.
- “Watery Worlds: Power, Politics and Socio-ecological Transformations in South Asia”, Brown Bag Lecture Series, Environmental Studies Program, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA. March 2010.
- “Gender, Participation and Community: Rethinking Development in Contentious Waterscapes”, Research Seminar Series, Departments of Geography, Global Studies, & Women's Studies, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. December 2009.
- “Of Purity and Pollution: Watery Geographies of Development in the Bengal Delta”, South Asia Program Lecture Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. November 2009.
- “Dammed Rivers, Damned Lives: Water and Politics in South Asia”, Global Lecture Series, International Center of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY, USA. October 2009.
- “Brick Lane: A Transnational Feminist Critique”, Film Critique and Discussion, Community Folk Art Center of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY, USA. March 2009.
- “Transboundary River Disputes and Implications for Sustainable Development: The Case of the Ganges River in South Asia”, International Seminar Series, Department of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. May 2008.
- “Water and HIV: Working for Positive Solutions”, World Water Day Seminar, Action Against Hunger & King's College London, Action Against Hunger, London, UK. March 2008.
- “Social Dynamics of Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water: Issues for Policymakers”, Arsenic Seminar, Tropical Agriculture Association, London, UK. October 2007.
- Keynote, “Sustainability: A Post-Mortem?”, Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK. August 2007.
- “Development and Wellbeing”, Discussion Seminar, Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. July 2007.
- “Political Ecology of Water: Gender, Arsenic, and Development in Bangladesh”, Research Seminar Series, Department of Geography, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. May 2006.
- “Watery Discourses: Community and Participation in Water Resources Management”, Research Seminar Series, Oxford Centre for Water Research, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. April 2006.
- “Water and Development”, Speaker Series, Rotary Club of Dhaka Central, Rotary International, Dhaka, Bangladesh. June 2005.
- “Working in the Field: Perspectives from Managing the Largest Environment Program of UNDP in Bangladesh”, MacArthur Brown Bag Research Seminar Series, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. February 2002.
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