Giving talks outside disciplinary conferences and annual meetings is a way to put historical research into conversation with interdisciplinary theorists, activists, policy makers, creative writers, tech practitioners, and journalists. These lists are traces of some of the networks in which my work has grown. I am grateful to the hosts, funders, and participants who enabled each one.
Some talks were recorded: the DCRL digital media interview at Lüneburg; postcolonial piracy at the University of Toronto; jugaad political economy at the Center for 21st century Studies; intellectual property and the romance of the commons at UC Davis Law School.
• “‘Travel as Tripping’: Techno-scientific travel with Aliens, Gorillas, and Fiber-Optics, 1921-1996,” Keynote lecture, Critical Nationalisms and Counter-Publics conference at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, March 1-2, 2019.
• “The Pirate Function: Developmental lag, Illegitimate Generation, and Post-human Contingency” Post-Human Network Conference, Keynote Lecture, Arizona State University, February 2018
• “A dose of rum and a few rupees: Revisiting the Romance of the Commons” Keynote Lecture, Conference on “An Open Digital Global South: Risks and Rewards,” UC Davis Law School, May 25-26, 2017
• “Science Fiction and Technological Nationalism,” University of Copenhagen, Asian Dynamics conference (Denmark), Keynote Lecture, Sept 10, 2013
• “Proper Knowledge: Reflections on Postcolonial Technoscience,” Humboldt University (Berlin), 16 – 18 June 2011, Conference on “Contested Truths: Re-Shaping and Positioning Politics of Knowledge" Keynote Lecture.
• “Contesting Boundaries: Environments and Interdependence in Asian Perspectives,” September 17 – 19 2009, co-sponsored by the East-West Center and Belmont University, Plenary Address.
• “Technology and Tribe: Thinking Nature After Modernity,” Center for South Asian Studies Annual Symposium, University of Hawai’i, Manoa, Keynote Lecture, April 8-9, 2009.
• “STS In India: An Introduction to Themes,” at Technology, Governance, Citizenship workshop, Keynote Lecture, Bangalore December 12-14 2007.
• “Nature as Private Property: Environmental Conflict, Globalization, and Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary India,” Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Keynote Lecture for “Industrial Environments.” October 8, 2002.
• “Marxist Techné? Tactical Lessons from the History of Science and Technology,” May 22, 2018, Universität Trier (Germany), on the occasion of Karl Marx’s birth-bicentennary.
• “Tech Time: Re-framing a Long South Asian Twentieth Century,” The 2018 Thomas Gieryn Lecture, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 30 2018
• “How To Travel in a Digital Age: Geek Globalisms and the Digital Divide,” West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics Lecture Series, West Hollywood Public Library, Cal Arts Public Lectures, March 9 2018.
• “Tech Time Is Out of Joint: Stories from an Indian History of Technology,” at workshop “After Eurocentrism” at The South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, July 1-2, 2016.
• “The Zombie Figure and the Narratives of Climate Apocalypse, at workshop on "The Contemporary History of Historiography," German Historical Institute in London (presented remotely, due to visa difficulties), June 16-18 2016
• “The Pirate Function” Berkeley Center for New Media, 2016-2017 History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series
• “Pirate Technologies, Jugaad Economics,” at “Shift CTRL: New Perspectives on Computing and New Media, Stanford University conference May 6-7 2016.
• “Tribes and Castes in Technological India,” at Science Studies colloquium UC San Diego, May 9, 2016
• “Developmental Narratives of Technological Change,” at symposium on Writing Technology: (Un)disciplined histories of South Asia, UC San Diego, March 10, 2016
• “Piracy as Infrastructure,” Spaces of Technoscience conference, National University of Singapore, August 29 – 30 2015
• “India’s Urban Futures: Beyond the Scripts of Techno-utopia and Rural Backwardness,” University of California, Berkeley, Geography Colloquium, March 18, 2015
• “Pirate Technologies, Jugaad Economics,” Center for 21st-Century Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, March 6, 2015.
• “Databases and Politics: Some lessons from doing South Asian STS,” University of Virginia, STS Program, School of Engineering Colloquium Series, September 16, 2014.
• 2014 Invited talks at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore: (1) “Kalyan Sanyal, Political Economy, Policy Implications: Master Class led by Kavita Philip,” August 2 2014; (2) “Figures of Learning: A Collaborative Workshop with Kavita Philip,” May 6, 2014; (3) “Environmental History: Master Class led by Kavita Philip,” May 7, 2014.
• “Feminist Transnational Technoscience Studies,” University of Toronto Faculty of Information Colloquium Series, March 20, 2014.
• “Geographies of Desire,” University of Toronto Graduate Student Science and Technology Studies Workshop, March 21, 2014
• “Technoscience, Postcolonialism, & Area Studies : The political life of interdisciplinarity,” Invited Lecture, Critical Asian Studies symposium, University of Minnesota, September 20, 2013.
• “Forward to the Past? Post-colonial technologies of caste and tribe,” Invited Lecture, Leuphana University (Lüneburg, Germany), Center for Digital Cultures, September 11, 2013.
• “Technoscience, Postcolonialism, and the Return of Difference,” Center for Feminist Studies, University of Southern California, April 30, 2013.
• “Nature’s Futures and Technology’s Pasts,” Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, Wits University, South Africa, July 3, 2012
• “Technopolitics in the New Land of Opportunity,” Stanford University, Practice Meets Research: Workshop on Technology and Democracy in South Asia, May 24 2012
• Centre for Internet and Society, Dialogue Café: “Computation and the Humanities: Revisiting a Silent Revolution,” Bangalore, India, November 2011
• “Science, Technology and Society,” Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, Sept 16, 2011
• “Tracking Difference in Narratives of Globalizing Indian Techno-science,” lecture for Gender Research Group, Humboldt University, June 15 2011
• “Postcolonial Technopolitics,” Information Studies colloquium, UCLA, March 10, 2011
• Invited guest lectures (4) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, hosted by the School of Gender Studies and the Department of Anthropology: 2 faculty research seminars & 2 Public Lectures, February 21-26, 2011.
• "Technology and the new Natives: Notes from contemporary India," University of Melbourne, Australia, September 9, 2010
• "Stinking Hot: Technoscience, Development, Postcolonialism," University of Technology, Sydney, September 7, 2010
• “The Pirate Function: Notes on Sharing, Copying, and Creation in Former Peripheries,” CopySouth Research Group Conference, Rio de Janeiro, June 27 – 30, 2010
• “ICT for What?” Informática e Sociedade (Program in Informatics and Society), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), June 23, 2010
• “Health in Context: Gender, Environment, and Cultural Politics in India,” Asian Studies Development Program (East-West Center, Honolulu and Wake Forest University, North Carolina), Winston-Salem NC, October 8, 2010
• “Histories of Technoscience and Implications for Networked Futures,” invited lecture, Microsoft Research, Working Group on Technology for Emerging Markets, Bangalore, June 2009.
• “Technological Subjects,” Invited Lecture, Science Studies Network May 13 2009, University of Washington, Seattle
• Panelist, "Feminist Methodologies: A Cross-Disciplinary Conversation," May 13 2009, Women’s Studies, University of Washington, Seattle
• “Piracy and Technology,” May 12, 2009, South Asia Studies “Chai Series,” University of Washington, Seattle.
• “Postcolonial Conditions: Another Report on Knowledge,” Irvine Lecture in Critical Theory, UCI, March 18, 2009.
• “Computers and Social Change,” Madras School of Social Work, December 2008.
• “Against the Grand Sweeping Gestural Mode: Some collectivist interdisciplinary reflections on feminist postcolonial technoscience studies.” U. C. Berkeley Symposium, New Directions in Scholarship: Science/Gender/Race/Nation. May 5, 2008.
• “The Motherboard Awaits: Mutant Ninja Hackers Revisited,” Clayman Institute for Gender and Science, Stanford University, April 9, 2008.
• “Gender, Environment, Globalization: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” at Conference on Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, Stanford University, March 13-14 2008.
• “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Science Studies,” School of Humanities, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, Nov 23, 2007
• “Transnational Circuits of Technological Reproduction: Getting to Technoscience Studies via Gender, Race, History, & Theory,” at University of Wisconsin Holtz Center for Science and Technology Studies, October 15, 2007.
• “Feminist Technoscience Studies: Colonial and Postcolonial Analytics,” at UCLA Center for the Study of Women, February 23 2007
• “Property and Piracy: Notes on Software, Late Capitalism, and Technoscientific Modernity in India,” South Asian Studies talk, University of Toronto January 12 2007
• “Producing Technoscientific Knowledge and Gendered Subjects,” Women’s Studies, University of Toronto January 11 2007.
• “Introduction to the history and philosophy of science and technology,” at the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Trivandrum, India, August 31, 2006.
• “Technoscience, Feminism, Transnational Analytics: Critical Convergences,” Department of Feminist Studies Seminar, UC Santa Cruz, Feb 23, 2006
• "Authors, Borders and the Political Economy of Technical Knowledge" at Think Again: Exploring new work in feminist scholarship," Seminar organized by Duke University Women’s Studies Program and the Simpson Center, University of Washington, Seattle, October 7-8, 2005
• “Other Locations: Thinking Politically in Science and Technology Studies,” at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, August 17 2005.
• “Pirates, Authors, and Transnational Circuits of Technology,” at conference on Feminist and Queer Re-articulations of South Asian Studies, UC Davis, May 6-8, 2005
• “A Dose of Rum and a few Rupees: Profits and Perils in Colonial Historiography of Science” at workshop on Science and Technology Studies in India, MIT, Nov 23 2003
• "Reading Media, Popular Culture, and Information Technology in a Global Age," invited paper, Workshop in the History of Science, Princeton University, February 23, 2002
• “Environmentalism and Human Rights,” Georgia Tech “WCAR Parallel Conference on Racism,” September 4, 2001
• “Science, Nature, Globalization: What’s Feminism Got To Do With It?” California State University Humboldt, April 12, 2001
• “Environmental Analysis in an Age of Globalization,” Agnes Scott College, February 27, 2001
• "Women in the Global Economy," Fourth Annual Social Justice Colloquium, California State University Monterey Bay, March 27, 2000
• “The Politics of Botanical Knowledge," South Asian Studies Program colloquium, University of Iowa, March 9, 2000
• "Cultural Studies of Colonial Science: A case study from South India," SNDT University, Bombay, January 4, 2000.
• "The Global Politics of Biodiversity," School of Biology Colloquium, Georgia Tech, May 14 1999.
• "Plant "Biodiversity" and Property Rights in India," Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Special Seminar, Georgia Tech, February 1999.
• "Reflections on Women in Science," Grinnell University symposium on Gender and Technology, March 1998.
• "British Imperial Botany," paper delivered at the Center for Science and the Environment, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, August 1996.
• "Methodological questions in environmental studies raised through the story of cinchona transplantation," Natural Resources and Forestry study group, University of California, Berkeley, August 1994.
Panelist, “Go-Go Industrialization,” at Fire and Ice: The shifting narrative of climate change, UC Irvine Forum for the Academy and the Public, February 8-9, 2019.
Panelist, Out of the Archive, workshop on feminist archival research, sponsored by UC Irvine Libraries & UCHRI, May 18, 2018.
“Databases as Politics: Reflections on Science and Technology Studies in South Asia,” Nov 22 2017, UC Irvine (Science, Technology and Race seminar series).
UCI Intellectual Property Law conference. “Comments on Laura Heymann’s IP Law,” October 27 2017
Panelist, “China and India Beyond Borders,” UC Irvine, October 24, 2017
Moderator, Panel on Democracies, Dictatorships, and the Spaces in Between, UC Irvine, March 6, 2017
“Colonial, Post-colonial, Settler, and Fascist Citizens: How to Resist the Master-Plan,” at UC Irvine [Part of the series on Science, Technology and Race], January 12, 2017.
Keynote Presentation, “History? The Past in the Present,” History Graduate Students’ conference, UC Irvine, April 22, 2016
“Brain circulation: From India to Silicon Valley and back,” Noopur Raval and Kavita Philip, Access Asia Colloquium, Oct 29 2015
"Postcolonial Technologies, Developmental Leapfrogging, Jugaad Economics" October 2, 2015 Informatics Colloquium
“Postcolonial Piracy,” UCI Law School, Socio-Legal Studies’ Colloquium, February 14, 2014.
“How Thinking with “Gender” Changed the History and Practice of Medicine,” roundtable on the work of Gina Morantz- Sanchez, January 27, 2014.
“Approaching Colonialism” panelist, Jan 21 2015, UC Irvine School of Humanities.
Moderator and Discussant, “Zoobiquity,” Author Colloquium Series, October 22, 2013, Departments of History and Literary Journalism.
Moderator and panelist, “Aliens and Others: Reflections on Postcolonial Science Fiction,” UC Irvine, April 18, 2013.
Panelist, “Asia Beyond the Stereotypes: Portrayals of North Korea, China, and India” (Barbara Demick, Kavita Philip), February 14, 2013
Panelist, “New Media/New Protests” (Ben Ehrenreich, Marc Bousquet, Laila Lalami, Kavita Philip, Jeff Wasserstrom), UCI, April 23, 2012.
“Postcolonial Technopolitics: Spaces of Contradiction in Transnational Technology Studies,” CRITO Speaker Series, Paul Merage School of Business, UCI, April 13, 2011
Respondent, Stephen Humphreys, "Securing Privacy," Humanities Center, UCI, Feb 10, 2012
Moderator & Discussant, “Writers and Globalization,” Conversation with Pankaj Misra and Laila Lalami, UC Irvine Dept. of History, April 20, 2009
Panel Discussant, “Thinking about Museums, Exhibits, and the Modern City – Some Japanese Points of Departure,” May 29 2008, U. C. Irvine
Introduction, “Howard Rheingold,” for Howard Rheingold Keynote, at "Literacies, Collective Action, Participatory Media" Symposium. U. C. Irvine, Thursday, May 22, 2008
Roundtable presentation, "Techniques of Domination, Strategies of Resistance: Power, Agency, and Identity in the Historical Frame,” Graduate student History and Theory conference, UC Irvine, January 15, 2005
“What is a Technological Author?” at Critical Legalities symposium on Genealogies of the Legal, UC Irvine, October 28, 2004
Panel discussant, "Constructing Tradition: The Politics of a Useable Past" UC Irvine Graduate Students’ conference, “History and Theory,” November 1-2, 2003