April 2010: Delivered the Mary Keating Das Memorial Lecture at Columbia University, New York on “No Longer Pakistani, Not Yet Indian: Migration and the Meaning of Citizenship”.

November 2009: Delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures at the University of Oxford, hosted by All Souls College and the Oriental Institute. This was a series of three lectures on the theme The Indian Idea of Citizenship: A Century of Contestation.

March 2009: Keynote Address at the conference Experiencing the State: Marginalised People and the Politics of Development at Cambridge University, UK.

October 2007: “Sixty Years of Indian Democracy: An Unfinished Project”.  Public Lecture hosted by Sydney Ideas, University of Sydney.

September 2007: “Sixty Years of Indian Democracy: An Unfinished Project” Public Lecture at University of Melbourne.

September 2007: Keynote Address: “The Limits of Representative Democracy” at the conference on Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India, at the University of Melbourne, Australia.