2024 Sixth Social Change Annual Lecturer, Council for Social Development, (IIC) New Delhi, India; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX6xfTY07f4, Council for Social Development Hyderabad.
2023 Norwich Institute for Sustainable Development: Public Lecture https://nisd.ac.uk/event/why-agricultural-markets-are-not-boring/?fbclid=IwAR3DA77jSr4moXq-lAqV3Ua-S950S9C2VXLaTL9mLCo_U7Z7XKSU-Yumo6M
2023 First Sharit Bhowmik Memorial lecturer, TISS, Mumbai https://zoom.us/rec/share/fNykOr50D7ix-5n8C9jebaimqCeDujftNpHTA2sFXWILehko1ZfEHoEUlO35F32E.xRj29G5ySCNbFhEU
2022 First Bhabatosh Datta Memorial Lecturer, Presidency University Kolkata, India. See 2.c.131 for publication.
2021 Plenary lecture NE Indian Economics Association Conference, Itanagar, Arunachal; 2021 Foundation lecturer, IDSK, Kolkata; https://www.facebook.com/idsklibrary/videos/386008302888779
2021 Distinguished lecturer, 40th anniversary, Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi; 2021 Plenary lecturer 53rd Annual Conference of Orissa Economics Association
2020 Plenary lecturer 1. Rajiv Gandhi University Arunachal; 2. Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
2018-19 Gold Award for paper ‘Waste, social order and physical disorder in small-town India’, Journal of Development Studies ; Emerald Award for paper ‘Formality and informality in an Indian Urban waste Economy’, ‘Internat J. Sociology and Social Policy’.
June 2018 Otto Neurath Memorial Lecturer, Asian Development Research Institute, India; 53rd Annual Conference of Orissa Economics Association
December 2017: Harvard, Kennedy School, Opening lecture for WIEGO 20th anniversary conference;
December 2016: Lahore School of Economics, Keynote: International conference on the social production of nature. December 2016 Centre for Modern Indian Studies, workshop on BHW’s research. January 2016 : Indian Institute of Science, Keynote lecturer, Indian Society of Ecological Economics Biennial Conference; Azim Premji University, Inaugural keynote lecturer International Workshop on Regions and Political Economy; Madras University, Department of Economics: Centenary Celebration Inaugural keynote lecturer.
October 2015 : Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh, Inaugural lecturerr (with the Chief Minister) and keynote lecture for the Association of North Eastern Economists of India
May 2015: EU / Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / University of Latvia. Riga, International Scientific Network: India-EU: Opening Keynote address
2015 (March 2nd) SOAS Globalisation lecturer: ‘Globalisation, development and the metabolic rift’https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z06hDPb0fU&index=1&list=PL1z_PGhPjwcoB-SNqs0n413sS2X1LZ8Gb http://www.southasia.ox.ac.uk/sites/sias/files/documents/GENERAL-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z06hDPb0fUSOUTH%20ASIA%20WP21%20SOAS%20Globalisation%20lecture.pdf
2014 International Institute for Dalit Studies, Valedictory Lecture, Decennial Conference
2013 British Association of South Asian Studies, Annual Lecture. ‘Comparisons are Odious! On comparing India and China’ https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/basas/episodes/2016-09-22T00_28_21-07_00?utm_source=web-player&utm_medium=episode-link
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/basas/episodes/2016-09-22T00_28_21-07_00
2013 Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
2012 Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, First S R Sankaran Memorial Lecturer
2011 Establishment of a prize in BHW’s name for the best dissertation in the MSc in Contemporary India, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford University
2010 Invited Co-Organiser: British Academy Major Conference on India-China: Paths of Economic and Social Development, British Academy, November 2010 invited co-editor of the proceedings
2010 Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland, Annual Lecturer
2009 (Joint) Winner of the Edgar Graham Book Prize for original scholarship in development in Asia and Africa for ‘Rural Commercial Capital : Agricultural Markets in West Bengal’ (OUP, 2008)
2008 Inaugural lecturer, India in the World Research Centre, Liverpool University
2006 : Lecturer: Alice Thorner Memorial, EHESS, Paris, France
2005: Plenary lecturer: Global Labour Forum and Conference of the Indian Society for Labour Economics, New Delhi, India
2004 – 09 Foundation Fellow, Human Development and Capability Association, Harvard, USA
2003 Radha Kamal Mukherjee Memorial Lecturer, Indian Society of Labour Economics, Kolkata, India
2002 Asian Development Institute, Foundation Lecturer, Patna, India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvUMTlscWg
2001/2002/2003/2004/2006/2008 Visiting Lecturer: Cambridge University Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics
2001, Inaugural Lecture, Open University’s Development Research Centre.
1998 - 9 Cambridge University Smuts Memorial Commonwealth Lecturer, elected Visiting Scholar at New Hall, Cambridge for this period
1994-5 Awarded an Oxford University Special Lecturership
1980 Annual Lecture, CRESSIDA, Kolkata
1969 Cambridge University, School of Agriculture – A.J. Keith Bursary and Drapers’ Award for graduate study
Conferene and Workshops: From 1988
1988
WIDER/STICERD London School of Economics, London: Conference on Social Security in the Third World
discussant
1988
Society for the Study of Human Biology, Oxford: Symposium on Diet and Disease
paper presented on Food Distribution and Sharing in relation to Nutritional Requirements
1988 International Rural Sociology Association Congress, Bologna, Italy
paper presented on Merchants' Capital and Class Formation in India
co-chair theme session on Famine and Food Crises
1988
Development Studies Association, Oxford: Workshop of the Grain Group
convenor
1989
United Nations Development Programme, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Conference on the Bangladesh Agricultural Sector Review
participant
1989
Development Studies Association, Oxford: Workshop of the grain Group
convenor
paper presented on Agricultural Exchange, Markets and Marketing Policy in India
1989
World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland: Conference on Rural Poverty, Social Change and Public Policy
discussant
1989 CIRAD, Montpellier, France: Conference on Economie des Filieres en Regions Chaudes
presented paper on Agricultural Merchants and Agricultural Change in India (in French)
1989 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Congress, New Delhi,
presented paper on Intrahousehold Nutrients Allocations in India
1990
Workshop on Locality Based Fieldwork in Developing Countries, Queen Elizabeth House
presented paper on Talking about Trade with Traders
1990
Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences, USSR, Moscow: Conference on Agrarian Perestroika
co-organiser of session on Agricultural Marketspresented paper on Actually Existing Markets and Market Reform
1990
Socialist Group of the European Parliament, EEC Brussels, Conference on Social Democracy in East and West Europe
participant
1991
Development Studies Association Grain Group: Workshop on Analytical and Field Methods for the Study of Agricultural Markets, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford
Convenor and organiser
Presenter of Paper: Power in Peasant Markets
Discussant, editor
1992
International Sociological Association: Conference on Poverty, Population Migrations and Food Crises, New Delhi
Discussant of paper on Social Security in India
1992
DSE, Feldafing, Germany: Workshop on Traditional Rural Markets
Presenter of Paper
1992
CIRAD, Montpellier, France: Workshop on Commercial Exchange in Developing Countries
Presenter of Two Papers, Discussant, Chair
1993
Food Studies Group. Oxford Workshop on Public and Private Sectors in Reformed Food Markets in Africa
Discussant and presenter: Private Marketing: Regulation and Development
1993
CIP, Peru Conference at the International Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, Delhi, India on Methods for Agricultural Marketing Research
Paper presented: Markets within Markets and No Markets at All
Session Chairman and Reviewer of papers for proceedings.
1993
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Conference on the Development of Poor Mountain Areas
Keynote Paper Presented: Poverty in India: Micro Level Evidence
1993
Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Sussex
paper presented: Poverty in India: Micro Level Evidence
1993
Madras Institute of Development Studies, Madras, India: Workshop on the Research Project: Adjustment and Development: Agrarian Change, Social Welfare and Markets in South Indian 1973-1993
Convenor and Paper Writer
1995
January QEH , Tufts University and the Centre for the Study of the Social Sciences, Calcutta West Bengal: Sonar Bangla: Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in Contemporary West Bengal and Bangladesh : convened by Ben Rogaly, QEH
(Co-director with Prof Sugata Bose (Tufts Univ. Mass.), Prof Nripen Bandhyopadhyay (CSSS: Calcutta)
paper presented: Agricultural Market Structure and Agricultural Growth in West Bengal
1995
January Delhi Univ/ CAS, Amsterdam/ CDS Tiruvananthapuram Kerala: The Village in Asia Revisited
paper presented: A Town in South Indian Revisited: 20 Years of Change
1995
ESRC Development Economics Conference, Leicester Univ. Invited speaker: The Political economy of disability and development
1995
Development Administration Group Birmingham University Conference on New Public Sector Services to Agriculture
paper presented: The Legal Regulation of Markets in India
1995
July Queen Elizabeth House 40th Anniversary Conference: The Third World after the Cold War
plenary paper presented: Free Market Romanticism in an Era of Deregulation
also helped to sum up the conference
1995
September Development Studies Association Annual Conference, Dublin:
convenor with Gordon White of 2 special sessions: 'Taking it sleazy: corruption and development'
paper presented 'Primary Accumulation and Corruption under Deregulation: a Discussion based on South Indian Material'
1995
October Secretariat d'Etat a la Recherche ( Carre des Sciences) / CIRAD ( Ministere de al Co-operation ( French Government) Paris : Colloque sur la Globalisation des Economies Agricoles at Alimentaires
1996
March Madras Institute of Development Studies, Madras. India, Adjustment and Development Project : Dissemination Workshop
Co-organiser
1996
April Madras Institute of Development Studies Silver Jubilee Celebrations
Invited speaker: Social Development and the Deterioration of Female Life Chances in Tamil Nadu
1997
January Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences: one of a 7 member international team to the International Colloquium on Informal/Expolary Economies
presented paper: The State and Informal Economic Order: A Discussion based on South Asian case material
1997
May Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, Workshop on Corruption and Development, paper presented : >Feeling the Elephant: Corruption in India=
1997
May Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University Panellist on the one day >Reconsideration= of India=s 50 years of Independence and contributor to book based upon oral presentations.
1997
September Sussex: India: Identities, Nation State and Global Culture panellist for Poverty and Economic Development
1997
September UEA DSA Conference: paper >From Green Revolution to Rural Industrial Revolution in S. India=
1997
November , Centre for Development Studies, Trivandum, India: Workshop on >Gender, Poverty and Wellbeing: Indicators and Stretagies= invited paper on The Gender Sensitivity of Conventional Well-being Indicators
(written with Ruhi Saith)
1998
UK Agricultural Economics Society Symposium on Rural Diversification, Reading University, March, invited speaker:=Heavy Agriculture and Light Industry in S India= (cancelled owing to illness of parents)
1998
Wageningen European Association of Agricultural Economics= Conference on >Agricultural Markets beyond Liberalisation
on Organising Committee and Invited Plenary Speaker : (cancelled for same reason)
1998
Economic History Conference Madrid invited paper giver (cancelled for same reason)
1999 March
>From Green Revolution to Rural Industrial Revolution= British Agricultural Economics Society Symposium, Belfast
1999 April
All Souls College, Symposium on the East Asian Financial Crisis and Social Sector Policy
> Policy Elites and Field Research=
1999
April IDS Sussex, Gordon White Memorial Conference
with Elisabetta Basile >Corporative Capitalism: Civil Society and the Politics of Accumulation in Small Town India=
1999
Sep Bath Univ. Development Studies Association Conference
written with Susan Erb : Adult Disability, Poverty and Downward Mobility: the Macro and Micro Picture from India
2000 March International Labour Organisation
Workshop on Globalisation and Decent Work (one of five scholars invited worldwide to brainstorm for two days with European representatives of UNCTAD, the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO and in-house economists)
2000 September Mumbai
Workshop on Corporate Governance and the Indian Private Sector (reporting to stakeholders on a DFID funded research project directed by BHW)
Chair and Introductory Address
2000 September Stockholm
UNRISD Workshop on Global Social Policy (one of 25 brought to brainstorm)
>Informal work and social security obligations=
2000 November Geneva ILO Brainstorming Workshop with the Director-General and his Cabinet on the theme of the Conference of Nations 2001: >Making Markets work for Everyone=
2001 March Global Tensions Conference at Cornell University, USA
Panellist with Martha Nussbaum at Session on New Perspectives on Gender, in memory of Ester Boserup
2001 March DEV/UEA South Asian Studies Workshop on Social Development and Welfare : presented paper on Family Business and Business Families: Paradoxes of Development
2001 CAPORDE: Cambridge Advanced Programme on Research in Development Economics: Lecturer: Social Institutions and the Underdeveloped Economy
2001, September 11th.. DFID Workshop, Downing College, Cambridge: Demography Welfare and Development; presented paper on >The economic impact and developmental implications of disability and incapacity in adulthood - village studies from S. India.=
2001 November, Open University, Development Research Centre, Inaugural Meeting, Inaugural Lecture:
>Informal Work and Informal Social Security=
2002 January, National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, India Inception Workshop on Trade Reforms and the Informal Sector in India. Presented >Introduction=.
2002 January ILO/DfID Brainstorming on the Informal Sector and Social Welfare, New Delhi, Discussant
2002 March, Centre for Globalisation and Regionalisation, Warwick University
paper >Global Informality and Rights to Security=
2002 April. National Council for Applied Economic Research , New Delhi, workshop on >Alternative Realities, Dimensions of Poverty= gave the Introductory lecture and presented > A Note on Destitution=
2002 April, Cornell University, USA, The Indian Economy Conference, paper= The Indian Informal Economy in the 1990s=
2002 May International Labour Office,Geneva, Workshop for the 2003 Declaration
paper giver; >Equality at Work - in the Informal Economy=
2002 September Centre for the Study of African Economies, Conference on Poverty, discussant
2003 Lund, Sweden, Annual Conference of Swedish Development Studies, Keynote address >Informal Globalisation=
2003 March Institute of Development Policy and Management, Manchester University Conference on Chronic Poverty, keynote address on >Disability and Chronic Poverty= (Chair session on Disability)
2003 Helsinki, WIDER , Conference on Poverty and Inequality
Paper on Destitution and Poverty.
2003 September, LSE, Annual Conference of South Asian Anthropologists, discussant.
2003 December, Kolkata, Indian Society of Labour Economics, Radha Kamal Mukherjee Memorial lecture
2004 January, QEH/NCAER, New Delhi Workshop on Trade Liberalisation and the Informal Economy : co-organiser and paper presenter.
2004 Paris Conference on Democratisation and Conflict in S. Asia Maison des Sciences de l=Homme, Discussant
2004 April Political Studies Association, Annual Conference Lincoln Special Session on my book India Working
2004 April British Association of S. Asian Studies, UEA, Norwich Presented paper on >Rural Commercial Capital and West Bengal=s Left Front
2004 August MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, Conference on Gender in the Rice Economy - paper presenter
2004 September Historial Materialism Conference, Birkbeck College London, Seminar on >Locked in Place= by Vivek Chibber, commentator along with Sumit Sarkar and Robert Wade.
2005 February School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies Oxford University Workshop on Ageing in Asia - invited discusssant.
2005 April BASAS Annual Conference, Leeds, Session Organiser : On Writing the South Asian Economy AnOther Way : subaltern and post-colonial perspectives
2005 June St Antony’s College QEH/Asian Studies Centre International Conference on the Tsunami - Relief Reconstruction and Peace - co- organiser
2005 June Oxford University Dept of Social Work and Social Policy Workshop on Social Policy in Developing Countries : Introductory Address and Discussant
2005 June Univ of Hertfordshire Annual International Conference on Institutions : Institutions and Economic Development, Invited Co-organiser with Geoff Hodgson, paper presenter
2005 July New Development Threats and Promises : QEH=s 50th Birthday Internatioal Conference
Organiser
and Session Organiser: New Perspectives on Markets. Commodification, Clusters and the Regulation of Capitalism
2005 July Institute for Chinese Studies Oxford University : Population, gender and well-being in China, Discussant.
and India rapporteur.
2005 New Delhi December
Second Global Labour Forum – plenary speaker: ‘Capitalism and Poverty’
Annual conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics Plenary speaker ‘Labour Market Discrimination’
Institute of Human Development: workshop on Dalits and Development
Paper presenter DALIT ACCUMULATION AND THE ROLES OF DALITS IN THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF ACCUMULATION : WITH REFERENCE TO A SMALL TOWN ECONOMY IN SOUTH INDIA IN THE LATE 1990s
2006 February QEH Oxford The Ecological Challenge and its Political economy (International Conference funded by British Academy, Lipman Miliband Foundation, Wolfson College and QEH)
Organiser
and paper: Undermining Sustainable Capitalism: the Politics of Renewable Energy
2006 March (in absentia) Hyderabad, India : International Conference on Agrarian Change and Village Studies, Dept of Sociology, Hyderabad University : discussant of a paper: ‘Economic Reforms, Institutional Retrogression and Agrarian Distress’
2006: Leipzig – April - Max Planck Institute - Pastoralism and Markets - keynote address
2006 Hertford – June International Workshop on Institutional Economics: Health and Social Policy – paper presented ‘The informal economy and informal social security’
2006 – Halle/Saale –September - Max Planck Institute -workshop on ‘Artifices of Government ; on the appropriation, the use and the formation of states’ – presented paper with Amrita Jairaj: ‘Social Structure, Tax Culture and the State : Tamil Nadu, India’
2006 Sep - Reading University Keynote address at conference on Institutions and Development ‘WORK AND WELLBEING: INSTITUTIONS IN INFORMAL ECONOMIES: The regulative roles of institutions of identity and the state’
2006 September Keynote speaker at IDS40 - - the 40th anniversary conference
2006 September Keynote speaker at the OPI Tenth Anniversary Event – India’s tax culture and development policy
November 2006 Galway Social Structures of Accumulation Conference Ireland.
Session Chair and Paper presenter ‘Social Structure, Tax Culture and the State : Tamil Nadu, India’
2007 February Brussels General Conference : ‘Assessing Crime, Deviance and Prevention in Europe’ Workpackage 5, Brussels 8 – 10 February 2007 Commentator: CRIME, DEVIANCE AND THE INFORMAL ECONOMY: (COMMENTS ON SHAPLAND AND PONSAERS (SP))
2007 April Harvard University USA Workshop on the Informal Sector in India and China
Keynote, discussant (twice), after dinner speaker.
May 2007 Oxford University (QEH) South Asia Day Workshop on Caste, Politics and the Economy’. Co-organiser, Paper presented ‘Towards an Atlas of Dalit Discrimination in the Business Economy’
June 2007 Bath University WeD Keynote address. ‘ Globalisation and Insecurity’
July 2007Manchester IDPM/CPRC Poverty and Capitalism Conference keynote speaker
: ‘Poverty and Capitalism’
July 2007, Bristol Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics: key note speaker ‘INFORMAL CAPITALISM : SOCIAL ORDER, AGENCY AND DEVIANCE
September 2007 Oxford RURAL DEVELOPMENT RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT : A WORKSHOP FOR JUDITH HEYER Organiser.
Paper ‘Towards an Atlas of Dalit Discrimination in the Business Economy’
October 2007 Paris, IEDES Quels Savoirs sur le Developppement
Panellist : Instituts Europeens d’Etudes sur le Developpement
November 2007 UN, New York, Expert Group Meeting, Committee for Development Policy, Strengthening International Co-operation for Development to address the Climate Change Challenge.
Paper : The Significance of Market Politics and Discourse for Climate Change Policy
January 2008, LSE/Goldsmiths ESRC Conference Series on ‘Rethinking Economies’: Rethinking Economic Anthropology’ Plenary Paper
Informal Capitalism Social Order Agency and Deviance
March 2008 BASAS annual conference, co-organiser panel on dalits paper presented ‘Towards an Atlas of Dalit Discrimination’
May, 2008, SOAS. Agrarian Studies Conference. General Rapporteur
May 26 th Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Johannesburg ‘ Democracy and the Developmental State : Possibilities and Limitations in the 21st Century’
Paper presented by dvd : Market driven politics and Climate Change’ – attended by skype.
May 2008 South Asia Institute Heidelberg University ‘ EU Excellence Initiative : ‘Asia and Europe in Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows’, Kick-off Conference: Citizenship as Conceptual Flow : Asia in Comparative perspective’ presenter: 5th research Project: Economic Citizenship and Inclusive Development
June 2008 Liverpool University – Conference on ‘Agency’ paper presenter
Informal Capitalism Social Order Agency and Deviance
June 2008 Said Business School / Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry; Conference on Globalisation and Developing Economies: Concerns of Inclusion
Paper; GLOBALISATION, ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT : INDIA
September 2008 Canadian SSRC International Conference on Globalisation and Employment: China and India Vancouver/Price George, paper presented Informal Capitalism and Social Order
October 2008 Turin CESMEO and Dept of Law University of Turin workshop on A PLURALISTIC SOCIETY: LANGUAGES, RELIGIONS AND JURIDICAL TRADITIONS IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA - keynote presented - ‘India’s Religious Pluralism and the Economy’
November 2008 Historical Materialism Conference SOAS Plenary speaker, session for launch of Socialist Register volume on Violence Today : Actually Existing Barbarism ‘Indian Girls as Disposable Commodities’
November 2008 Paris – IEDES Mots en Developpement. – Organising committee and final panellist
December 2008 TISS conference – by DVD – paper on informal economy
December 2008 Golden Jubilee Conference Indian Society of Labour Economics, organizing committee, panel organizer, ‘Adverse Incorporation in the Market Economy –India’s Dalits’, panel chaired by Chair of India’s UGC. paper presented. STIGMA AND REGIONS OF ACCUMULATION: MAPPING DALIT AND ADIVASI CAPITAL IN THE 1990s
December 2008 Cornell University and Inst of Human Devt New Delhi ‘Development Wellbeing and Freedom’ (Amartya Sen’s 75th Birthday Event) discussant
2009 March Cambridge – Research student’s conference (CRASSH) on Experiencing the State: Marginalised people and the politics of development in India – public lecture ‘Globalisation, Economic Citizenship and India’s Inclusive Development’
2009 March - Said Business School Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship – paper: dalits in business economy
2009 March-April BASAS Annual Conference, Edinburgh – session organizer :climate change; paper on energy politics in India
2009 June - SIAS/ Wolfson College, Oxford: International workshop on ‘Market town, market society and development’ Organiser; Papers on Method, on Credit and agro-capital; discussant of paper on food security.
2009 July Assocation of Heterodox Economics – French panel on socio-economics of informal economy – keynote paper ‘Globalisation, the financial crisis and petty production in India’s socially regulated informal economy’
2009 September Paper for the Conference – Overcoming persistent inequality and poverty – in honour of Frances Stewart, Oxford with Sunali Rohra and Nigel Singh REVISITING ‘TECHNOLOGY AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT’: CLIMATE CHANGE, POLITICS AND THE ‘D’ OF SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
2009 November New Delhi IHD-Oxfam India Oxfam’s Five Year Plan
2009 –December IEDES Paris ‘Overindebtedness’ : paper CREDIT, FINANCE AND CONTRACTUAL SYNCHRONY IN A SOUTH INDIAN MARKET TOWN
March 2010 IIT Chennai International Conference on Ageing
Paper presenter
April 2010 IEDES Paris, Books in Development seminar : presented paper on ‘Rural Commercial Capital’
June 2010 Sussex University ESRC workshop on Tirupur, Labour and Value Chains, discussant
September 2010 CSASP Oxford International Workshop on Mobility among Dalits,
Discussant
September 2010 KITLV, Leiden International Conference on ‘Middle Indonesia’. Conference Rapporteur
October 2010 Graduate Institute Geneva ‘Workshop on Women and Grain Production’ : paper presenter
November 2010 British Academy major international conference on ‘China and India: Economy and Society’ co-organiser, chair, discussant
December 2010 British Council/ CSASP learning Workshop on ‘Banking for Climate Change: Finance and ecological Services’ co-organiser
December 2010 Goa IHD Workshop on Human Development, paper presenter: ‘Markets and Human Development’
February MIDS conference on India’s Development in honour of C.T. Kurien, paper presenter
February 2011 Pune WISE/ Oxford University CSASP Learning/brainstorming workshop on The Materiality of Rice : Technology, Work and Policy - co-organiser
March 2011 CapeTown University, S Africa ‘Informal Economy Research Agenda Conference. Plenary speaker.
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March 2011 Oxford CSASP British Academy workshop on the Persistence of Poverty in S Asia – paper presenter
July 2011 Oxford CSASP/ ESRC Workshop on ‘The Agrarian Question and Non-Parliamentary Politics’ co-organiser/host
September 2011 York University, UK, EADI/DSA Conference : Panels on India and China’s capitalisms – and – India’s Regions: co-organiser
November 2011 Warsaw University/ Hyderabad University Conference ‘India as a Global Power’ Plenary presentation; and second presentation.
February 2012 University of Geneva/ ILO Conference on the Vulnerability of Workers in the Informal economy; inaugural plenary
February 2012 Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University, Conference: Greening the Economy ; paper co-presented
February 2012 Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 40th anniversary celebrations of the School of Social Sciences, Discussant.
March 2012 Chennai, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (Observer/member of advisory council)
May 2012 Oxford University St Antony’s College: Colloquium on Rural-Urban Relations in China (inaugural discussant)
May 2012 National Climate Caravan – Million Jobs Campaign – Final stage in London – Friends Meeting House – Westminster - subsidies on fossil fuels worldwide (Panellist).
July 2012 Oxford University International Conference on Capitalism and Development in the 21st Century: panellist on agriculture, honorand.
November 2012 NIRD, Hyderabad; MSE, Chennai; Anthra, Pune three workshops on GHGs, rice, informal and policy, co-organiser
November 2012 JNU Long term village studies conference, Centre for Informal Labour Studies/ IDRC presented paper
February 2013 Oxford Food Security Conference (with Alfred Gathorne-Hardy)
March 2013 Jindal Global University : Higher Education Reform in India
Presented paper: Science-Policy Interfaces in an Era of Global Commodification
June 2013 Institute of Human Development/ IIC New Delhi Conference: Technology Jobs and a low carbon future (co) organizer: papers
1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxCJ4ew7uk
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypnxg4tsb22zk3l/Barbara%20Cornell%20talk%20Nov%2018.MP3
(with Gilbert Rodrigo) ‘PUDUMAI’ - INNOVATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHURNING IN INDIA’S INFORMAL ECONOMY: a report from the field
3. EVALUATING ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND POLICIES: MULTICRITERIA MAPPING
September 2013 ClimUrb Conference, Manchester University chaired session and presented paper PUDUMAI’ - INNOVATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHURNING IN INDIA’S INFORMAL ECONOMY: a report from the field
October JNU 1. 17.10.13 Centre for the Study of Regional Eeconomics, Workshop on Dalits and adivasis in India’s business economy – paper – launch of my book with that title.
18.10.13Terrains of Change: City, Citizenship and Inequalities in Emerging India (Felicitation Seminar for Professor Dipankar Gupta) paper on emerging regional inequalities for dalits and adivasis.
November 2013 SOAS Historical Materialism conference: session on agrarian change and left politics in India – paper on petty production and its politics
November 2013 University of Pennsylvania International Conference on Innovation in India – paper on innovation in India’s informal economy
December 12-14 South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, Sud Asien Institut, Heidelberg Germany, conference on ‘Cultivating Futures:paper: EXPERT KNOWLEDGE AND SITUATED KNOWLEDGE – A MULTI-CRITERIA MAPPING OF TRADE-OFFS IN TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS IN RICE PRODUCTION IN INDIA’S SEMI ARID TROPICS
Jan 2014 Pondicherry University international workshop on agrarian change: MCM and valedictory lecture on Agrarian Question and the Earth
Feb 2014 JNU New Delhi Franco-Indian workshop on Labour: inaugural lecture: petty production and disguised wage labour
March 2014 Bath University MC mapping
March 2014 Institute of Human Development Towards a desirable future for India in an increasingly globalized society in honour of Prof Yoginder Alagh : paper on policy and informality
March 2014 Oxford University Society of India IIC New Delhi : paper on environment and informality
March 2014 CRASSH: Cambridge: Informal Economy and Entrepreneurship
March 2014 Somerville College Oxford : co-organiser: workshop: caste and waste
March 2014 IDS Sussex: Environmental resources and India’s Informal Economy
June 2014 Reading U Doctoral Research conference keynote address : Materialities of food.
June 2014 Oxford |Brookes U: keynote address : Trans and Multi-disciplinary International Research
June 2014 Open University 30th anniversary conference: development policy and practice http://stadium.open.ac.uk/stadia/preview.php?whichevent=2428&s=1&schedule=3140&option=&record=0
June 2014 Gottingen University: conference on Informal Business in India; paper: Local capitalism in N Tamil Nadu 1973-2010
August 30th, Royal Geographical Society/ Institute of British Geographers: panel presentation: Innovation in the informal economy
September, Cambridge Univ, Democratic cultures conference, paper: India’s un-natural resosurces; crimes and party politics
September Manchester Univ: JDS@50 conference – invited speaker – climate change agriculture and jobs.
September 24-25th: JNU New Delhi: Juxtapose conference – on comparing China and India (keynote lecture on comparisons being odious; discussant, chair)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjni1BhIx8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-PnuBkn6Aw
September 27th: International Institute of Dalit Studies Tenth Anniversary Celebrations – ‘special valedictory lecture’: ‘Caste and markets in India’
November 7-9th SOAS, London, Historical Materialism Conference: panel on the Agrarian Question: paper presented on Towards A Lower Carbon Agriculture : An
Experiment In Expert And Situated Knowledge In India
December ICRIER, New Delhi India: Jobs for Development: Challenges and Solutions”
(1-2 December 2014, Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi).paper-giver: The social structure of India’s workforce http://icrier-jobs.org/
December 10th , Wolfson college Oxford: Democratic cultures Research Programme meeting on , Economic crime: land and politics – organizer – paper on A century of subterranean fire – who benefits from what crime?.
February 23-28th 2015 LSE Poverty and inequality workshop, Palolem, Goa: paper presented ‘An urban waste economy and discrimination against its waste people’
March 4th 2015 JNU (by skype) workshop on the political economy of cross class alliances (CISLS): paper presented ‘Why a small town disorganizes its waste economy’.
March 19th 2015 All Souls College, Oxford, international conference on the Political Economy of Development in India Redux. Paper: ‘Malgudi on the move - Bardhan’s political economy and the rest of India’
April 2015 Manchester University, Urban Informality Workshop: Paper The Indispensibility of Informality in an Indian Urban economy – narratives of waste
April 2015 UCL, London Workshop: ‘Energy-using people & energy-using things’
Paper: Towards a lower carbon agriculture: an experiment in expert and situated knowledge
May 2015 Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs / University of Latvia . Riga, International Scientific Network: India-EU: Opening Keynote address The low carbon transition: International, cross-generational and multidisciplinary research
June 2015 Sheffield University International Law Conference: the Informal Economy: Global and Local A political economy of informality with special reference to the economy of waste in India
Sep 27 2015 Jawaharlal Nehru University conference on Open defecation and untouchability – Reflections at conference end - > OP Ed for Hindu newspaper.
January 2016 Bangalore Indian Society for Ecological Economics; ‘Urbanization and the Environment’ - keynote lecture
January 2016 Bangalore Azim Premji University international workshop on ‘Regional Political Economy’; inaugural keynote lecture
JAnuary 2016, Chennai Economics Department, Madras University, Centenary Conference, Inaugural lecture
January 2016 Chennai, MSSRF, Retirement Conference for Prof Venkatesh Athreya, ‘Agriculture and Rural India after the Reforms’ ; paper presented
February 2017 International workshop on Relational Agency Pathways Into and Out of Poverty, during Green Revolutions in South India and Kenya, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India, Paper presented. THE GREEN REVOLUTION AND POVERTY IN NORTHERN TAMIL NADU – A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH IN THE LAST HALF CENTURY
February 2017 Sinha Institute, Patna India, International conference on Cohesive Development: An Alternate Paradigm? Keynote lecture
March 2017 International Conference on solidarity/moral economic practices of women in India. Jindal Global University, Keynote and valedictory lecturer
WIEGO 20TH ANNIVERSARY RESEARCH CONFERENCE, Opening keynote
May 2018 Sussex-India Conference: valedictory lecture on ‘India’s Waste Economy and Sorrows of Ecology’
June 2018 ADRI, Patna India, International Conference on ‘Karl Marx @ 200’. Paper (with Ali Jan) on ‘Petty production and India’s development’; von Neurath memorial lecture on ‘ Science and Policy in the Era of Commodification’
July 2018 Wolfson College Oxford international workshop on ‘The Marginal as Mainstream’ co-organiser with Dr Ali Jan
October 2018 University of Hyderabad CESS, retirement conference for Professor R Radhakrishna, paper presented on policy processes for waste.
November 2018 North-west Agriculture and Forests University: International Agri-science Forum, Keynote paper’ Agricultural development and poverty in S India’, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
November 2018 China Agricultural University:
April 2019 TIGR2ESS, Clare College Cambridge : Global Food Security Symposium, Opening Keynote lecture ‘Rice in India: environment economy and society: mashing and meshing disciplines’
September 2019 IIT Kanpur (india International Centre, New Delhi) ‘The many Lives of Gold’ Keynote
September 2019 Delhi University ICSSR workshop on ‘Economic Development of Indian States’ - keynote
Nov 2019 HM Conference SOAS: 1. Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize Panel discussant : Kohei Saito’s ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’ 2. Socialist Register Launch lectures : ‘Ecological restitution and restoration’
January 2020 Jesus College Cambridge Intellectual Forum on Food, Agriculture and Nutrition https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/node/4578, invited participant
June 2020 International Webinar on COVID 19 and the Global Economy
, Rajiv Gandhi University Arunachal. Keynote address ‘COVID-19 and the UK’
April plus 2020 Food systems economics commission workshops (zoom) (PIK/FOLU) – participant
August 2020 International Conference for Public Administration and Management, IIMBangalore, Keynote conversation with Mekhala Krishnamurthy : ‘Public policy for Food and Agriculture - Macro-Micro’ (1k views <24h) https://www.iimb.ac.in/indian-policy-imagination-economic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a2CJwBap9A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIlM1cr6xyQ
September – October 2020 People, Animals and Waste Systems Network (PAWS) - zoom
workshops – participant
October 2020 Somerville-Wolfson Food and Nutrition remote seminar – lecture on the Farm Bills./ Somerville-Wolfson India Climate Change remote seminar – lecture on ideas evidence and policy.
2021 Jan 29th Wolfson College SARC international workshop on Agricultural Markets in South Asia : Research frontiers (zoom) (co-organiser with Ali Jan and Maryam Aslany) lecture on category errors in the study of India’s agricultural markets
2021 February 53rd Annual Conference of Orissa Economics Association, virtual Plenary lecture: Agrarian Urbanisation and Urban Agrarianisation (zoom) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YbthfGS2AQ.
2021 February Somerville-Wolfson remote seminar with Madhura Swaminathan and R Ramakumar: Food Security and the Farm Bills (co-organiser) (zoom) https://www.crowdcast.io/e/food-security-and-farm-laws
2021 September WIDER-WIEGO Conference: Covid recovery and beyond; Panellist – Covid and waste – before, during and beyond.(zoom)
2021 October Asian Studies Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Session chair: Agrarian Urbanisation, Farm Laws and Hindutva – the question of regions? (canopii)
2021 November Itanagar Arunachal, India North east Economists Association Keynote lecture
2022 February, Forces for Renewal, SouthEastAsia – Cambodia – India Genocide Warning paper on Communal Relations in India’s Economy
2022 February S Asia Alternatives Forum, Oxford Breaking the Caste Census Deadlock, co-sponsor SARC Wolfson.
2022 March, Asian Political Economy Circle UMass Amherst Farmers’ Protests and Political Economy in Modi’s India paper: ‘Several kinds of Agrarian Protest’
2022 June ifad international conference on jobs, innovation and rural value chains in the context of climate transition: bridging the gap between research and policy, fsec panel - paper - Jobs in the transformation to regenerative agriculture: micro level evidence from rice in India
2022 September – New Delhi, Max Weber Stiftung paper: ‘White Noise? Messy markets and messy regulative law in South Asia’.
2022 September, Wolfson College, SARC conference: Capital in South Asia – co-organiser ; paper: Petty Commodity Production
2023 March, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal, Indian Society of Labour Economics conference – two papers. Arunachal’s transformation, work and labour; Jobs in the low carbon transition
2023 March, Max Weber Forum, New Delhi OPUS Workshop Agricultural Market Transformation: Past, Present, Future,retrospective on BH-W’s research on agricultural markets 1973-2021
2023 September South Asia Anthropology Group, SOAS, London, Annual conference, paper discussant/introducer: Nika Soon Shiong ‘Outsourcing Violence’.
2023 October, Beijing: China Agricultural University / Journal of Peasant Studies conference on Critical Agrarian Studies in the 21st Century’. Session chair ‘Agrarian Debt’ Plenary panelist: ‘Awkward classes in Marx and the real world – commercial capital and petty production’.
2024 April, Sonepat, India, Ashoka University / Max Weber Forum symposium Markets in Society: Meeting and Network - Valedictory keynote lecture : ‘Agricultural Markets: their Importance, their Allure, their Difficulties’.
2024 July Cambridge, UK, Keynote, Gold, its quiddity and India’s social development
2024 August MSSRF, Chennai (remote) MS Swaminathan Memorial Conference. Plenary panellist: Prof Swaminathan and rural markets