2025 [Invited Talk] “EVR Periyar and Self-Respect in Singapore,” Self-Respect Movement and its Legacies Conference, University of Oxford, 4-5 September, the UK.
2021 “The Problem with Neera: The (Un)Making of a National Drink in Late Colonial India,” The 4th Asian Consortium of South Asian Studies International Conference on South Asia’s Linkages with East and Southeast Asia, Past and Present (Vietnam, Online).
2019 “Language, Social Reform, and the Politics of Temperance in Madras and the Straits Settlements, c.1920s-1937,” Asian Consortium for South Asian Studies (ACSAS) Conference, 22-23 November, NUS, Singapore.
2019 “Poverty, Race, and Social Reform in Colonial South and Southeast Asia,” Meeting of Minds Forum, 14-15 October, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2019 “Ghosts of Prohibition Past and Present: History and Alcohol Policy in India,” 11th International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) 16-19 July, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
2019 “Policing the City Toddy Shop: Perspectives from Madras and the Straits Settlements,1920-1939,” The Pursuit of Global Urban History Conference, 11-12 July.
2019 “The Development of a Visual Culture of Temperance in Late Colonial India,” Politics, Oppression and the Senses Panel, Canadian Historical Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, University of British Columbia, Canada.
2019 [Invited Lecture] “Christians and Prohibition Policy in Late Colonial India,” Alcohol and Illiberal Regimes in the Long 20th Century Workshop, 15-16 March, Humboldt University of Berlin and Transregionale Forum, Berlin, Germany.
2016 “The Limits of Total Prohibition in the Madras Presidency, 1937-1943,” Graduate Research Seminar, 10 November, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2014 “Toddy, Race, and Colonial Singapore Society, 1880-1939,” Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK) Conference, 12-14 September, University of Brighton, the UK.
Darinee Alagirisamy 