2018 “Early Women Sociologists in India: Community in the Making.” First Irawati Karve Memorial Public Lecture, Inauguration of the Centenary Year Celebrations, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, October 16, 2018.
2017 “Cultural Identity and the Politics of Language: Insights from the Tamil Diaspora.” Keynote Address, Department of English, University of Hyderabad, Seminar on English, Diaspora & Indian Literatures, 2017.
2016 “Special Lecture on Indian Diaspora Studies.” Conference on Migration, Diaspora and Development, India International Centre, New Delhi, Global Research Forum for Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), February 20, 2016.
2016 “Valedictory Address.” Global Migration: Rethinking Skills, Knowledge and Culture, International Conference organized by GRFDT, New Delhi, November 27, 2016.
2015 “Victims and Agents: Reorienting Diaspora Studies through a Case Study of Tamils in Exile.” Public Lecture, Department of Sociology, University of Pune, January 22, 2015.
2014 “Feminist Questions in Sociology: Reflections from a Complex Research Journey.” Public Lecture at National Seminar on Genders, Feminisms and Sociology: Towards a State of ‘Altered-ness’, Department of Sociology, University of Mumbai, January 31, 2014.
2013 “Gender and Ethnicity: Considered Separately and Jointly.” Keynote Address, Rajasthan Sociological Association 20th Anniversary Conference on Contemporary Issues of Ethnicity and Gender Sensitization, Chittorgarh, October 3, 2013.
2013 “Indian Diaspora: A Mosaic of Multiplicities and Pluralities.” Keynote Address, International Seminar on Indian Diaspora in Various Perspectives, Centre for Indian Diaspora, Department of Sociology, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, March 11, 2013.
2012 “Transnationalism of an Asylum Diaspora: Tamils in Germany.” Public Lecture, Institut für Ethnologie (Institute of Social Anthropology), University of Münster, May 21, 2012.
2012 “Empowerment of Women from Within and Without: Some Reflections.” Keynote Address, National Seminar on Challenges to Women Empowerment: Role of State, Religion and Good Governance, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism & SVKM’s Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai, March 16, 2012.
2011 “The Cancer Institute at Adyar: Through a Feminist Lens.” Special Lecture, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai, December 20, 2011.
2011 “Balancing between Tamilness and Hinduness: Reflections on the Sri Lankan Asylum Diaspora in Europe.” Faculty Lecture, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, May 19, 2011.
2011 “Some Thoughts on the Conceptual and Methodological Dimensions of the Study of Women in Ancient India.” Keynote Address, Prof. P.V. Kane Memorial Seminar on The Position of Women as Understood from Various Smritis, Inscriptions and Other Historical Records (300 B.C.–1300 A.D.), The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, April 19, 2011.
2011 “No Shri Ram in Lanka: Hinduism, Hindutva and Diasporic Tamils in Exile.” 21st Smt. Nabadurga Banerji Endowment Lecture, The Asiatic Society of Mumbai, March 3, 2011.