Presentations
As lecturer
- 6 March 2013 Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus/Denmark
Speech at the Department of Culture and Society
„’Transnational Indianness’: Identity Construction in the Indian Marriage Market“
- 25-28 July 2012 Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon/Portugal
22nd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS)
„The Indian Online Matrimonial Market: Changing Patterns of Marriage Matchmaking” -
19-21 May 2011 Humboldt University Berlin
Workshop „Young South Asian Scholars Meet” (Y-SASM) on „Engendering and Degendering South Asian Studies“
„Gender and mobility: A case study on Gujarati matrimonial media“ -
1 November 2010 Humboldt University Berlin
Kolloquium des Querschnittsbereiches „Medialität und Intermedialität in den Gesellschaften Asiens und Afrikas“
„Matchmaking 2.0 – Matrimonial Websites, digital marriage bureaus and the ‚Gujarati-Community’“ -
15-17 July 2010 Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Workshop: „Identifying New Themes in South Asian History”
„Female representation and agency in the Indian Online Matrimonial’s discourse” -
27 May 2010 Georg-August-University Göttingen, Centre for Modern Indian Studies
Colloquium: Modern Indian History Seminar
„Local and translocal dynamics of a global media phenomenon: Changing female subjectivity and agency in the Indian online matrimonial market“ -
8-10 April 2010 Humboldt University Berlin / Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures, Free University Berlin
International Conference: „Time for Medialisation. Integrating Media and transcultural communication within Islamic and Area Studies”
„Medialisation and social change – The Indian online matrimonial market as a new field of research”