Talks:
March 2026 Invited Lecture, “Kalimpong as Penumbra: The Tibet Question”, University of Vienna.
February 2026 Invited Lecture, “China, Tibet and India”, Ludwig Maxmillian University.
Ferbruary 2026 Invited Lecture, “Passport as Politics”, Erfurt University.
March 2025. Invited Lecture, “China-India Border Encounters”, IDS, Sussex University.
October 2024. Invited Lecture “China in India: From Shangri-la to Kalimpong”, SOAS, London.
November 2023. Invited Lecture “Foreign Kautilyas: At the Tibet-China-India Border in Kalimpong”, CWEH, Sussex University.
November 2022. Invited Lecture, “From Shangri-la to Kalimpong: the road of Conflict, Trade and Politics”, Centre for Himalayan Studies. IN.
January 2022. Invited Lecture, ‘Foreign Kautilyas: India and China at the Border’, German Historical Library, London, UK
January 2021. Invited Lecture, “Water and Political Ecology: Himalayas and Beyond”, Siliguri College, IN
August 2019. Invited Lecture, “Re-conceptualising Himalayan Borderlands”, Centre for Himalayan Studies. IN.
July 2019. Invited Lecture, “Ambivalent States: Periscoping India, Periscoping China”, Kalimpong College, IN.
July 2019. “Saṃvṛtisatya (संवृति सत्य): Implications for Border Thought”. AAS-in-Asia. TH
September 2018, “Erratic Passports and Economies of Desire”, University of Oslo, NO
July 2018. “Passports, Chinese Characteristics, and the Foreign Registration Files”, AAS-in-Asia, Delhi, IN.
January 2018. Invited Lecture, “作为民族志的噶伦堡：来自别处的书写 Kalimpong as Ethnography: Writing from Elsewhere”, Dinghai talks, Shanghai, CN.
December 2017, Invited Lecture, “Third Imaginings: Tianxia and Cha ma gudao”, Kalimpong College, IN
December 2017. Invited Lecture, “Kalimpong as Metonym: China-India through the Looking Glass”, North Bengal University, IN.
November 2017. Invited Lecture, “Chinese ‘Characteristics’ in India: A Reading of Foreigner Registration Files 1940s-1960s”. Fudan Development Institute, CN
June 2017. China’ in the Southwest Borderlands 边疆: a ‘Chinese’ Trader on the Ancient Tea Horse Road, 9 th Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference, DK.
June 2017. “Encountering Spies in the Indian Hills: the Covert Politics of a Chinese Cultural Institution”, Nordic Association of Chinese Studies 2017, DK
July 2016, “People’s Daily in the 1950s: Prefiguring the 1962 Sino-Indian War”, China’s Propaganda System: Legacies and Enduring Themes, UK
June 2016, “Kalimpong Calling India/China: Redefining Socio-Political Space”, 8 th Asian Dynamics Initiative Conference, DK
February 2016. “The Value of Passports”. IMISCOE Spring Conference, DK.
December 2015, Invited Lecture, China in Kalimpong: 1954-63, Kalimpong College, IN.
Select Keynotes:
May 2019, “Waterscapes: Himalayas in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene”, Nordic Network for Himalayan Studies. DK
November 2016, The Third Space: China as ‘Third Pole’ Culture”, International Conference of Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture, Beijing Normal University, CN
October 2010, ‘Borders and the Limits of Liberalism’, Migrant Identities Conference, University of Bergen. NO
January 2008 ‘Diasporic Imaginings’, Dynamics if Diasporic Studies, IGNOU, New Delhi.
June 2007, “Passage to Cosmopolistan”, HERMES International Seminar, DK.
June 2005, “Whiteness and Thailand”, Intercultural Communication’ International conference, TH
August 2004, “Postcolonial Time: Diaspora and Identity”. Georg Brandes School, DK
Passport(s)
Poddar, Prem. 2008. Invited Lecture, The Indentured Pass: Through the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Paper presented at the Department of English, Southampton University [unpublished].
Poddar, Prem 2009. Invited Lecture, Between Subjecthood and Citizenship: The travels of East Asians. History Department, Southampton University [unpublished].
Poddar, Prem 2009a. Papers and Narratives Across the Oceans. Paper presented at Indian Ocean Conference in Goa, ‘Connecting Histories across the Indian Ocean: Religion, Politics and Popular Culture’. [unpublished]
Poddar, Prem 2016. “The Value of Passports”. IMISCOE Spring Conference, Denmark.
Poddar, P. 2018. “Passports, Chinese Characteristics, and the Foreign Registration Files”, AAS-in-Asia Conference, Delhi.
Poddar, Prem 2018. Visualising Value: Transculturing Passports. Keynote lecture, Heidelberg University. [unpublished].
Poddar, Prem. 2018a. Erratic Passports and Economies of Desire. Paper presented at Erratic Bodies Conference, Oslo University. [unpublished].
Poddar, Prem. 2026, Invited Lecture, “Passport as Politics”, Erfurt University.
July 2019. “Saṃvṛtisatya (संवृति सत्य): Implications for Border Thought”. Conference AAS-in-Asia. Thailand.
