“From Divine Displeasure to Atrocity: Judicial Interpretation of Stripping and Parading of Women in India”, Paper presented at a workshop entitled Law and Human Rights in the Global South: The Role of the State and the Non-State organised by the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, and the Allard Prize for Integrity, UBC, Vancouver, 9-10 June 2015 “Care as Violence: Medicalisation of consent and force”, Comment on Sameena Mulla’s "The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention", Author Meets Reader (AMR) Session, Law and Society Association Meeting, Seattle, 30 May 2015 Book talk and discussion at the panel Public Secrets of Law: Gender, Courts and Sexual Violence Roundtable Session, Law and Society Association Meeting, Seattle, 29 May 2015 “Law teaching as a form of Madness”, Paper presented at the service panel entitled Undergraduate Law and Society/Legal Studies: Defining the Field, the Questions, the Outcomes, and the Method, Law and Society Association Meeting, Seattle, 28 May 2015 “Law, Visuality and Sexual Violence: Leslee Udwin’s India's Daughter”, Mukta Salve Lecture Series in the memory of Sharmila Rege organised by the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 14 March 2015 “The Politics of Bareness: Stripping and Parading of Women in India”, Paper presented at the plenary session entitled, Rape in Neoliberal Times: Caste, Community, Capitalism, at the international conference, 'Left' in the Dark? organised by the Jindal Global University, Sonepat at IHC, 17 October 2014. “Briefs of Justice: From Divine Displeasure to Atrocity” Paper presented at the ICSSR workshop entitled, Difference, Discrimination and Legal Justice in India, organized by Vidhu Verma, CPS, 14 October 2014, SSS1 Committee Room, JNU. “Teaching Law in an Interdisciplinary Place: Six Challenges”, Faculty Development Workshop, Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, 23 July 2014 “Public Secrets of Law: The Indian Rape Law and its Discontents”, LGD Colloquium at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK, 30 June 2014 “The Delhi Protests of 2012-3: Understanding Rape Law Reform”, Southall Black Sisters, Southall, UK, 27 June 2014 Panel Discussion on Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: 2014), organised by the Centre for Law and Humanities & Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal Global Law School, Jindal Global University, Sonepat, 28 March 2014 “Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India” presented at Indian Institute of Management (A), Ahmedabad, 19 March 2014 “Researching Sexual Violence: Ethnography of Rape Trials in Gujarat”, Paper presented at a conference on Gender, Sexuality and Politics, Central University of Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, 18 March 2014 Book Release and Panel Discussion, Pratiksha Baxi’s Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: 2014), Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU (co-organised with the Centre for Women’s Studies, JNU and Oxford University Press), 7 March 2014. “Rape as Atrocity: Notes on the Judicial Interpretation of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989”, Paper presented at the Kate Hamburger Kollege, Institute of Law as Culture, Bonn, on 28 June 2011. “Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence”, Paper presented at Siting Law, Second Edition, LASSnet Conference, Pune, 30 December 2010 “Adult Discourses, Children's Voices: An Ethnographic Account of a Rape Trial in India”, Paper presented at the Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Länggassstrasse 49a,3000 Bern 9, Switzerland, 24 November 2010 “Medicalisation of Consent and Falsity: The Figure of the Habitué in the Indian Rape Law”, Salle des Artistes, EHESS, 96 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6, 8 November, 2010 “Mock Trial: Hostile Witness and the Bearer of Contempt in aftermath of mass crimes in Gujarat 2002”, 28 October 2010, 105 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, organised by Programme ANR "Justice and Governance in Contemporary India and South Asia" (Just-India). “How to read a judgment: Brief Comments on the Indian Legal System”, Just-India Project Workshop at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 21 September 2010. “Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence” Paper presented at Transcultural Bodies – Transboundary Biographies. Border crossings in Asia and Europe, organised by the University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe, University of Zurich Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg, and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, IGNCA, 21-24 February 2010. “Rape as Atrocity: the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act”. LASSnet [Delhi Chapter] workshop entitled Ethnographies of Law, 19 February 2010 at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi “Adult Discourses, Children's Voices: Ethnographic Accounts of Rape Trials in Ahmedabad, Gujarat [1996-98]”, CPS, JNU, 1 April 2009 “The Hostile Witness and Public Secrecy in Rape Trials in India”, LASSnet Inaugural Conference CSLG, JNU, 7-11, January 2009. Re-viewing Feminist Pictures of Law, Plenary Panel on Knowledge production and critique of disciplines, IAWS Annual Seminar, 7-10 February, 2008, Presented in absentia by Professor Mary John. “Adult Discourses, Children’s Voices: Legal Ethnography of Statutory Rape in India”, presented at the SOAS Law School, London, November 13th, 2007. “Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence”, presented at Workshop Governing Communities, Polities and Sexualities: Perspectives on South Asian Women in India, Pakistan and Britain, University of Warwick, in conjunction with the South Asian Network on Gender, Law and Governance and the Political Studies Association, London, November 6th, 2007. Discussant on a session entitled Human Rights: Global Legal Pluralism Revisited and participated in the special featured Session entitled Roundtable – Gender, Violence and Human Rights at the Joint Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 25th-28th, 2007. Discussant in a workshop on the Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology for the chapter on the Survey of Research in Sociology of Law in the ICSSR, 8th-9th March 2007. “Engendering Access to Justice: Violence against Women, Law and Poverty”. Workshop on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, 26th February, 2007. “The Figure of the Hostile Witness: Notes on the Cultures of Compromise in Criminal Trials”. Presented at a seminar on “Rethinking on Responses to Violence against Women”, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and British Council, Mumbai, 20th December, 2006. “The Culture of Compromise in Rape Trials”. Presented at the National Conference on Women and Access to Justice, Partners in Law and Development, Delhi, December 10-11, 2006. “Habeas Corpus: Legislating Illegal Detention, and Legality of Custody in Marriages of Choice”. Presented at the Critical Legal Studies Conference, NALSAR, University of Law, Hyderabad, 2nd September, 2006. “Statutory rape: The testimony of a child witness” Presented at a seminar on “The women’s movements engagement with the law” at IIC, New Delhi organized by CWDS, March 20-21, 2006. “Mock Trial": Law, Violence and Governance in the aftermath of Gujarat 2002, Presented at the IDPAD-ISERDD panel at Conference on “Wounded History and Social Healing: South Asian Experience”, University of Delhi, Organised by DCRC and Vidyajyoti, February 23 - 25, 2006. Statutory Rape: The Testimony of the Child Witness in an Indian Courtroom, at the conference “Crossroads: Debating Women’s Rights, Racism and Religion” at the University of Oslo, May 30 – June 1, 2005. Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials - presented at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 28th January 2005. Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials - presented at the Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, 7th February, 2003. Children’s voices in the ruins of law, on behalf of CWDS at a citizen’s colloquium organised by Indian Child Alliance meeting, New Delhi, 14th November 2002. Sexual Harassment: The history of the struggles in Delhi University, available laws and the policy (DU), Coalition for Safe University workshop organised in Delhi University, 20th November 2002. The Indian Rape Law, at the Women’s Development Centre, Kirorimal College, Delhi University at a seminar on sexual violence, 19th December 2002. From Complaint to Testimony: Ethnographic Accounts of a Rape Trial - presented at the Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, 11th January 2002. On Troubled Silences and Silencing Trouble: Field, Transgression and Alterity - presented as Departmental Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, October 2000. On Troubled Silences and Silencing Troubles: Field, Transgression and Alterity - presented at a workshop on ‘Beyond Boundaries: Field, Self and Method’, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, February 2000. Rape, Retribution, State: On Whose Bodies? - presented at a seminar on ‘Death Penalty to Rapists’ organized by PUDR, Delhi, 3rd December 1998. A Sociological Study of ‘Bajirau Chhatrabas’ – presented at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, October 1992. Co-authored paper with Janaki Abraham: Bandit queen: Feminist debates on pornography and censorship – presented at a two day seminar on culture and censorship at Indraprastha College, Delhi University, March 1995.

✦“From Divine Displeasure to Atrocity: Judicial Interpretation of Stripping and Parading of Women in India”, Paper presented at a workshop entitled Law and Human Rights in the Global South: The Role of the State and the Non-State organised by the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, and the Allard Prize for Integrity, UBC, Vancouver, 9-10 June 2015
✦“Care as Violence: Medicalisation of consent and force”, Comment on Sameena Mulla’s "The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention", Author Meets Reader (AMR) Session, Law and Society Association Meeting, Seattle, 30 May 2015
✦Book talk and discussion at the panel Public Secrets of Law: Gender, Courts and Sexual Violence Roundtable Session, Law and Society Association Meeting, Seattle, 29 May 2015
✦“Law teaching as a form of Madness”, Paper presented at the service panel entitled Undergraduate Law and Society/Legal Studies: Defining the Field, the Questions, the Outcomes, and the Method, Law and Society Association Meeting, Seattle, 28 May 2015
✦“Law, Visuality and Sexual Violence: Leslee Udwin’s India's Daughter”, Mukta Salve Lecture Series in the memory of Sharmila Rege organised by the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University, 14 March 2015
✦ “The Politics of Bareness: Stripping and Parading of Women in India”, Paper presented at the plenary session entitled, Rape in Neoliberal Times: Caste, Community, Capitalism, at the international conference, 'Left' in the Dark? organised by the Jindal Global University, Sonepat at IHC, 17 October 2014.
✦“Briefs of Justice: From Divine Displeasure to Atrocity” Paper presented at the ICSSR workshop entitled, Difference, Discrimination and Legal Justice in India, organized by Vidhu Verma, CPS, 14 October 2014, SSS1 Committee Room, JNU.
✦ “Teaching Law in an Interdisciplinary Place: Six Challenges”, Faculty Development Workshop, Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonepat, 23 July 2014
✦“Public Secrets of Law: The Indian Rape Law and its Discontents”, LGD Colloquium at the School of Law, University of Warwick, UK, 30 June 2014
✦“The Delhi Protests of 2012-3: Understanding Rape Law Reform”, Southall Black Sisters, Southall, UK, 27 June 2014
✦Panel Discussion on Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: 2014), organised by the Centre for Law and Humanities & Centre for Women, Law and Social Change, Jindal Global Law School, Jindal Global University, Sonepat, 28 March 2014
✦ “Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India” presented at Indian Institute of Management (A), Ahmedabad, 19 March 2014
✦ “Researching Sexual Violence: Ethnography of Rape Trials in Gujarat”, Paper presented at a conference on Gender, Sexuality and Politics, Central University of Gandhinagar, Gandhinagar, 18 March 2014
✦Book Release and Panel Discussion, Pratiksha Baxi’s Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: 2014), Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU (co-organised with the Centre for Women’s Studies, JNU and Oxford University Press), 7 March 2014.
✦“Rape as Atrocity: Notes on the Judicial Interpretation of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989”, Paper presented at the Kate Hamburger Kollege, Institute of Law as Culture, Bonn, on 28 June 2011.
✦“Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence”, Paper presented at Siting Law, Second Edition, LASSnet Conference, Pune, 30 December 2010
✦“Adult Discourses, Children's Voices: An Ethnographic Account of a Rape Trial in India”, Paper presented at the Institut für Sozialanthropologie, Länggassstrasse 49a,3000 Bern 9, Switzerland, 24 November 2010
✦“Medicalisation of Consent and Falsity: The Figure of the Habitué in the Indian Rape Law”, Salle des Artistes, EHESS, 96 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6, 8 November, 2010
✦“Mock Trial: Hostile Witness and the Bearer of Contempt in aftermath of mass crimes in Gujarat 2002”, 28 October 2010, 105 Boulevard Raspail, Paris 6e, organised by Programme ANR "Justice and Governance in Contemporary India and South Asia" (Just-India).
✦ “How to read a judgment: Brief Comments on the Indian Legal System”, Just-India Project Workshop at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 21 September 2010.
✦ “Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence” Paper presented at Transcultural Bodies – Transboundary Biographies. Border crossings in Asia and Europe, organised by the University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe, University of Zurich Cluster Asia and Europe in a Global Context, University of Heidelberg, and Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, IGNCA, 21-24 February 2010.
✦ “Rape as Atrocity: the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act”. LASSnet [Delhi Chapter] workshop entitled Ethnographies of Law, 19 February 2010 at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
✦ “Adult Discourses, Children's Voices: Ethnographic Accounts of Rape Trials in Ahmedabad, Gujarat [1996-98]”, CPS, JNU, 1 April 2009
✦ “The Hostile Witness and Public Secrecy in Rape Trials in India”, LASSnet Inaugural Conference CSLG, JNU, 7-11, January 2009.
✦Re-viewing Feminist Pictures of Law, Plenary Panel on Knowledge production and critique of disciplines, IAWS Annual Seminar, 7-10 February, 2008, Presented in absentia by Professor Mary John.
✦ “Adult Discourses, Children’s Voices: Legal Ethnography of Statutory Rape in India”, presented at the SOAS Law School, London, November 13th, 2007.
✦“Pyar Kiya to Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence”, presented at Workshop Governing Communities, Polities and Sexualities: Perspectives on South Asian Women in India, Pakistan and Britain, University of Warwick, in conjunction with the South Asian Network on Gender, Law and Governance and the Political Studies Association, London, November 6th, 2007.
✦Discussant on a session entitled Human Rights: Global Legal Pluralism Revisited and participated in the special featured Session entitled Roundtable – Gender, Violence and Human Rights at the Joint Meeting of the Law and Society Association and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 25th-28th, 2007.
✦Discussant in a workshop on the Survey of Research in Sociology and Social Anthropology for the chapter on the Survey of Research in Sociology of Law in the ICSSR, 8th-9th March 2007.
✦ “Engendering Access to Justice: Violence against Women, Law and Poverty”. Workshop on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi, 26th February, 2007.
✦ “The Figure of the Hostile Witness: Notes on the Cultures of Compromise in Criminal Trials”. Presented at a seminar on “Rethinking on Responses to Violence against Women”, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and British Council, Mumbai, 20th December, 2006.
✦ “The Culture of Compromise in Rape Trials”. Presented at the National Conference on Women and Access to Justice, Partners in Law and Development, Delhi, December 10-11, 2006.
✦ “Habeas Corpus: Legislating Illegal Detention, and Legality of Custody in Marriages of Choice”. Presented at the Critical Legal Studies Conference, NALSAR, University of Law, Hyderabad, 2nd September, 2006.
✦ “Statutory rape: The testimony of a child witness” Presented at a seminar on “The women’s movements engagement with the law” at IIC, New Delhi organized by CWDS, March 20-21, 2006.
✦ “Mock Trial": Law, Violence and Governance in the aftermath of Gujarat 2002, Presented at the IDPAD-ISERDD panel at Conference on “Wounded History and Social Healing: South Asian Experience”, University of Delhi, Organised by DCRC and Vidyajyoti, February 23 - 25, 2006.
✦Statutory Rape: The Testimony of the Child Witness in an Indian Courtroom, at the conference “Crossroads: Debating Women’s Rights, Racism and Religion” at the University of Oslo, May 30 – June 1, 2005.
✦Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials - presented at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 28th January 2005.
✦Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials - presented at the Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, 7th February, 2003.
✦Children’s voices in the ruins of law, on behalf of CWDS at a citizen’s colloquium organised by Indian Child Alliance meeting, New Delhi, 14th November 2002.
✦Sexual Harassment: The history of the struggles in Delhi University, available laws and the policy (DU), Coalition for Safe University workshop organised in Delhi University, 20th November 2002.
✦The Indian Rape Law, at the Women’s Development Centre, Kirorimal College, Delhi University at a seminar on sexual violence, 19th December 2002.
✦From Complaint to Testimony: Ethnographic Accounts of a Rape Trial - presented at the Research Colloquium, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, 11th January 2002.
✦On Troubled Silences and Silencing Trouble: Field, Transgression and Alterity - presented as Departmental Seminar, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, October 2000.
✦On Troubled Silences and Silencing Troubles: Field, Transgression and Alterity - presented at a workshop on ‘Beyond Boundaries: Field, Self and Method’, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, February 2000.
✦Rape, Retribution, State: On Whose Bodies? - presented at a seminar on ‘Death Penalty to Rapists’ organized by PUDR, Delhi, 3rd December 1998.
✦A Sociological Study of ‘Bajirau Chhatrabas’ – presented at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, October 1992.
✦Co-authored paper with Janaki Abraham: Bandit queen: Feminist debates on pornography and censorship – presented at a two day seminar on culture and censorship at Indraprastha College, Delhi University, March 1995.