Public Lectures and Invited Talks
Otago Centre for Law and Society and the Religion Programme, University of Otago public seminar – Dunedin, New Zealand March 2024
Title: “Hope, happenstance, and the making of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s landmark transgender rights judgments”
Law and Society in South Asia (LASSA) conference funded by a Law and Society Association (LSA) Global Collaboration Grant – Lahore, Pakistan December 2023
Title: “Closing Remarks”
Fondazione Bruno Kessler conference on “A Shared Interest in Family Legal Pluralism: The Potential of Constructive Alliances between Religious and Queer Groups” - Trento, Italy (via Zoom) September 2020
Title: “Concluding Remarks: Queer/Religious Friendship in the Trump Era”
University of Melbourne Asian Law Centre’s “Asian Legal Conversations - COVID-19” Webinar Series - Melbourne, Australia (via Zoom) June 2020
Title: “A Secular Need, COVID-19 and the Persistence of Anti-Muslim Sentiment in India”
University of Melbourne Australia India Institute “Keywords for India” Lecture Series - Melbourne, Australia November 2018
Title: “Courts”
Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Sheikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law’s Khalid Ishaq Distinguished Lectures Series - Lahore, Pakistan November 2014
Title: “The Rule and the Role of Islamic Law: Constituting Secular Law and Governance in Contemporary India”
Käte Hamburger Kolleg Centre for Advanced Study of Law as Culture (Recht Als Kultur) at the University of Bonn - Bonn, Germany April 2014
Title: “The Rule and the Role of Islamic Law: Constituting Secular Law and Governance in India”
Oberlin College “Year of the Queer” Lecture Series - Oberlin, USA March 2013
Title: “Transgender Rights in Unlikely Places?: The Case of Pakistan”
Institut d'études de l'Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM) (by way of invitation from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) - Paris, France June 2012
Title: “Transgenders in Pakistan and Transgressive Feelings of Kinship”
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) (by way of invitation from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) - Paris, France May 2012
Title: “Transgender Rights in Pakistan: Developments and Issues”
Sciences Po Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) (by way of invitation from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) - Paris, France May 2012
Title: “Islamic Law and the Making of Secular Governance in India”
Duke Law School (by way of invitation from the American Constitution Society at Duke) – Durham, USA March 2010
Title: “Avoiding Marriage: Why Progressives Should Not Support Marriage for Same-Sex Couples”