| 2021 |
(with Sara Hillman). Laboring to communicate: Use of migrant languages in COVID-19 awareness campaign in Qatar. Sociolinguistic Symposium-23. 7-10 June 2021. (Online) |
| 2019 |
Renaming during the Hindu nationalist rule: Marginalization of Dalits and minorities. Paper presented at American Name Society, Annual meeting, New York City. 3-6 January 2019. |
| 2018 |
Indexicality, identity, and language change: Colonial and postcolonial imaginaries of Urdu. Pleanary talk. Talk and Silence: Language in Colonial Contexts. American University of Cairo, Egypt 28-Feb-1 March, 2018. |
| 2017 |
Representation of Arabic dialects in tweets: an examination of ideologies. Poster. To be presented at “11th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy” Aug 29-31, 2017. Organized by the Association of Written Language and Literacy at Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. |
| 2016 |
Rise of Khaliji dialect in the Arabic entertainment media. 3rd International Conference on Language, Linguistics, Literature, and Translation.Sultan Qaboos University, Masqat, Oman, 3-5 November 2016 |
| 2016 |
From Rajjal to Rayyal: Ideologies and shift among young Bedouins in Qatar. 21stSociolinguitic Symposium, University of Murcia, Spain, June 15-18, 2016. (Co-author). |
| 2015 |
(with DivakaranLiginlal et al) The richness of metaphor and the metaphor of richness in Arabic ecommerce. International Business Conference, University of Ajman, UAE. May 12-14, 2015. |
| 2014 |
English in GGC countries: status and features. Paper presented at the Language and Society Conference, University of Waikato, New Zealand. Nov 23-25, 2014. |
| 2014 |
(with DivakaranLiginlal et al) Localization for a High Context Culture: An Exploratory Study of Cultural Markers and Metaphors in Arabic E-Commerce Websites. E-commerce, e-business, and E-service Conference. Regal Riverside Hotel, Hong Kong. May 1-2 2014. |
| 2014 |
Urdu in Bollywood: Shifting Canons. Association of Asian Studies Conference. Philadelphia, PA, USA. March 29, 2014 |
| 2013 |
Urdu in Bollywood: withering Diction. Paper presented at Linguistic Society of India conference. Mysore, India. November 27, 2013. |
| 2012 |
Polyphony of Urdu in India. Paper presented at The Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. October 11-14, 2012. |
| 2012 |
Language change in a multilingual setting: Urdu in India. Paper presented at Symposium about language and society (SALSA-XX). University of Texas at Austin. April 14, 2012. |
| 2009 |
Disjoint between the Public and Private: Use of immigrant languages in Kuwait. Paper presented at MIDP Colloquium, University of Antwerp, Belgium. Sep 14-16, 2009. |
| 2009 |
Multilingualism in a monolingual country: a case of Kuwait. Paper presented at Linguistics in the Gulf-2. Qatar University, Qatar. March 11-12, 2009. |
| 2008 |
Semiotic complexity of Urdu in India. Paper presented at Symposium about language and society (SALSA-XVI). University of Texas at Austin. April 11-13 2008. |
| 2007 |
Old Wine in a new bottle: Urdu in Nagari. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. Jan 5, 2007. |
| 2006 |
Old Wine in a new bottle: Urdu in Nagari. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA. Jan 5, 2007. |
| 2006 |
Ideology of change and change of ideology: shifting conceptions of Hindi. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 16, University of Limerick, Ireland July 6-8, 2006 (with SaiSamant). |
| 2005 |
Representations of Hindi in the Dalit resistance movement. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation NWAV-34. New York University. Oct 21, 2005 (with SaiSamant) |
| 2005 |
Hindi is perfect; Urdu is messy: the sociolinguistic construction of Hindi and Urdu in the nineteenth century. Paper presented at South Asian Linguistic Analysis (SALA-25), University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Sep 16-18 2005. |
| 2005 |
Imaginings of Hindi in the Dalit resistance movement. Paper presented at South Asian Linguistic Analysis (SALA-25), University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Sep 16-18 2005 (with SaiSamant). |
| 2005 |
Scripting a new identity: the battle for Nagari in 19thcentury India. Paper presented at International Symposium on Bilingualism(ISB), Barcelona, Spain, March 21, 2005. |
| 2004 |
Language ideology and the construction of Hindu/Hindi identity in late 19thcentury India. Paper presented at New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV-33). Ann Arbor. Oct 2, 2004. |
| 2002 |
Linguistic influences of Arabic on Urdu. Paper presented at Faculty of Humanities Colloquium. 25 April 2002. University of Science and Technology, Sana’a, Yemen. |
| 1996 |
Hindi, Urdu: A case of lexical divide. Paper presented at South Asian Linguistic Analysis (SALA). Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (with R. K. Agnihotri) |