Featured Engagements
PODCAST · NEPAL · 2025
Decolonizing Education: EMI, ELT & MLE Challenges in Nepal
A Podcast with Dr. Bhim Gautam for Radio Shweta Shardul 93.6 [In the Nepali language]
PODCAST · ONLINE · 2024
Navigating ELT frontiers: Journeying from the Global South
A Podcast with Dr. Ching-Ching Lin for Borderland Dialogues: Identity, Language and Power
INTERVIEW · ONLINE · 2024
EMI in lower socio-economic settings: Future EMI Research opportunities
An interview for the Education, Languages, and Internationalisation Network (ELINET)
Featured Keynotes & Plenaries
KEYNOTE · NEPAL · 2025
Language Shaming & Coloniality
Language shaming and the coloniality of English and multilingual education in Nepal
NELTA Madhesh Conference, Janakpur, Nepal
PLENARY · PHILIPPINES · 2025
Research as Resistance
Rethinking Critical Language Studies Research
16th Free Linguistics Conference
University of Santo Tomas, the Philippines
PLENARY · BANGLADESH · 2024
Seeking Decolonial Options
In English and multilingual education in South Asia
BIL International Conference: “Language Metamorphosis: Implications for Language Education in Decolonial Contexts,”
BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
PLENARY · INDIA · 2024
Decolonizing Multilingualism
Rethinking medium of instruction policy and linguistic citizenship in South Asia
International Conference on “Reclaiming Voices of India and Beyond: Mobility, Sustainability, and Technology,”
University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
PLENARY · HONG KONG · 2024
Antiracist Policies and Pedagogies
For decolonial English-medium education
English-Medium Education Symposium
City University of Hong Kong
KEYNOTE · ONLINE (LONDON) · 2024
EMI
For decolonial English-medium education
English as a medium of instruction or English as a medium of instruction-for-inequalities
University of Oxford, UK
Featured Workshops & Researcher Development
WORKSHOP · INDIA · 2025
Politics and Processes of Publication in International Journals
University of Hyderabad, India
WORKSHOP · PHILIPPINES · 2025
Publishing in International Journals for Early Career Researchers
The Philippines Normal University, Manila
WORKSHOP · UAE · 2024
How Early Career Researchers Can be Productive:
From the Perspective of a Young Researcher
United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE
WORKSHOP · ONLINE (USA) · 2024
Do’s and Don’ts in Job Searching for Faculty Positions
American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)
Graduate Student Council
Featured Invited Lectures & Talks
TALK · ONLINE (USA) · 2025
Multilingual and Multimodal Counterstorytelling as the Pedagogy of Resistance
TESOL International Association
Bilingual-Multilingual Education Interest Section
LECTURE · INDIA · 2025
From Subjects to Co-Researchers: Rethinking Research as Collective Resistance
University of Hyderabad
Foundation Day Lecture 2025 of The Centre for English Language Studies (CELS)
LECTURE · HONG KONG · 2025
Critically Engaged Literacy Workshop as Decolonial and Antiracist Research
University of Hong Kong
The Consortium for Research on Language Policy and Practice
LECTURE · INDIA · 2024
Raising Multilingual Awareness Through Critically Engaged Workshops
The English and Foreign Languages University
Hyderabad, India
Watch My Other Talks & Panel Discussions
Language, Multilingualism, and Education
Dynamic Learning Community (Nepal)
Language Policy and Planning: Theories, Practices, and Possibilities (Panel Discussion)
Dynamic Learning Community (Nepal)
A Conversation with Dr. Ahmar Mahboob
Across International Universities
International Conferences
Invite Me to Your Institution
I welcome invitations for keynote and plenary addresses, invited lectures, research seminars, professional workshops, and researcher-development programs. Talks and workshops can be tailored to the needs of universities, conferences, research groups, and professional organizations.