2024
2023
Boston University, Pardee Center
The Moral Foundations of Vaccination Morale
2021
Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture, York University
A Moral Theory of Development
October 2021
How Social Science Advances Our Understanding of Pandemics
Series on ‘Social Science for a World in Crisis’. June 2021
Brown University
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Podcast series, 'Trending Globally: Politics & Policy' We Finally Have Covid-19 Vaccines. But Will Enough People Take Them?
March 2021
Carnegie Council for Ethnic in International Affairs
Panel on Illiberal Democracy on the Rise: Examining Brazil, Hungary, & India.
June 2021
Full transcript: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multimedia/illiberal-democracy-on-the-rise-examining-brazil-hungary-india
2020
Intelligence Squared US via The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Nationalism Is a Force for Good
June 2020
Full transcript: https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/sites/default/files/pdf/06.29.20_nationalism_is_a_force_for_good_transcript.pdf
Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID)
The Politics of Managing Covid-19 in China and India: a Comparison
Keynote address, June 2020.
Einaudi center, Cornell University
Panel on Global Approaches to Race, Ethnicity and Inequality
July 2020
Human Rights Watch
Violence against Minorities in India
October 2020
Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Panel on ‘The Politics of Managing Covid in India and China’
December 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZOdfgw5raE&t=181s
2019
Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID)
Conference on ‘The Politics of Growth and Human Development,’ University of Manchester
September 2019
https://www.effective-states.org/watch-prerna-singhs-acclaimed-conference-keynote/
Canadian Museum of History
The Walrus Talks
Ottawa, September 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJIYbwLF6_4
American Academy in Berlin
Fellow spotlight
February 2019
American Academy in Berlin
Robert Bosch Lecture on ‘States, Societies, and the Control of Contagion in China and India’
February 2019
Nordic Sociological Association
Robert Bosch Lecture on ‘States, Societies, and the Control of Contagion in China and India’
August 2019
American Sociological Association
The Pursuit of Inclusion through Law, Policies, Narratives and Other Means
Plenary panel. Montreal, August 2017.
2018
Harvard University
The Control of Contagion in China and India
Fairbank Center’s 60th Anniversary Symposium. Panel on "Global Health, Global Care for the Elderly and Cross-Cultural Comparisons"
February 2018
Lincoln School
Providence, RI
June 2018
2017
Brown University
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Podcast series, 'Trending Globally: Politics & Policy' How Solidarity Works for Welfare
April 2017
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Importance of National Solidarity for Democracy
Respondent to Prof Mark Lilla, October 2017.
Brown University
Lecture on ‘Reaffirming University Values’
Respondent to Prof Mark Lilla, October 2017.
Centre for Policy Research
Subnationalism and Social Development in India
Podcast, CPR Thoughtspace, 2017.
2016
2012
Harvard Yenching Institute
Panelist, May 2012.
Book panels
Brown University
Center for Contemporary South Asia
September 2016
Centre for Policy Research
New Delhi
January 2017
Jaipur Literary Festival
Jaipur
January 2017