CONFERENCES
Below you will find brief details of the presentations I had the opportunity of giving at various international conferences in different parts of the world on a range of
socio-legal and criminological issues.
2022
Lisbon
(Portugal)
Teaching ‘Good-Touch-Bad-Touch’ in a caste society: legal aesthetics & child sexual violence in India
Law & Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting
2022
Birkbeck, University of London, London
(UK)
Misunderstandings and In/Justice
London Conference in Critical Thought
2021
Bangkok
(Thailand)
Prosecutors, Child Witnesses and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012: Access to Justice and Prosecution of Child Sexual Violence Cases in India
Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA) Conference
2021
Chicago
(USA)
Access to Justice and the many lives of emotions in the Criminal Process: Reimagining healing through legal reforms in the cases of child sexual violence in India
Law & Society Association (LSA) Annual Meeting
(Awarded a fee waiver)
2021
Cardiff University
Cardiff (UK)
Access to Justice and Sexual Violence against Children in India: Reforms under the POCSO Act 2012
Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference.
(One of the 22 PGRs & Scholars to be awarded a bursary)
2021
Osgoode Hall Law School
York University
Toronto (Canada)
Child sexual violence survivor as a legal subject and the courtroom trial space in India: Adversarialism, architecture, and access to justice
Osgoode GLSA’s (Virtual) Graduate Student Conference on ‘Laws Topologies’
2020
Birkbeck, University of London
London (UK)
Neither Numbers, Nor Outcomes: Fostering Dignity through Courtroom Spatiality & Linguistics in Cases of Sexual Violence against Children
CHASE Virtual Encounters
2019
Washington, D.C. (USA)
Courtroom Architecture and Vulnerable Victims: Conflicting Ideals of Judicial Dignity and Constitutional Dignity
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
2019
International Graduate Center for the Study of the Culture
Justus Liebig University
Gießen (Germany)
Villain State and Juvenile (In)justice: Deconstructing the Demonisation of Children
International Conference on ‘Villains! Constructing Narratives of Evil’
2018
London (UK)
Carceral State, the Marginal Communities, and Visualising Prison Obsolescence in India
International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA)
Abolitionist Futures: Building Social Justice, not Criminal Justice
2018
Toronto (Canada)
Spatial Artefacts as Legal Artefact: An Observation from India
Annual Meeting on Law and Society (joint meeting of the LSA and the CLSA)
2018
University of Bristol
Bristol (UK)
Gender and the Epistemic Shifts in the Indian Juvenile Justice System
Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference
2017
Institute of Law,
Nirma University
Gujarat (India)
Courtroom Architecture as Victims’ Access to Justice: Ensuring victim’s participation in the Criminal Justice System through ‘just’ Judicial Space
6th International and 10th Biennial Conference of Indian Society of Victimology
2017
Mexico City (Mexico)
Visualising Justice through Architecture: Exploring Law’s Semiotics and Symbolism in the Supreme Court of India
International Meeting on Law and Society, jointly sponsored by LSA and RCSL
2016
India Habitat Centre
New Delhi (India)
Scales of Justice: The Architecture of the Supreme Court of India
4th LASSnet (Law and Social Sciences Research Network) International Conference