Policy & Public Engagement
Bringing scholarly expertise to bear on questions of gender, geopolitics, and inclusive development
Select Policy Engagements
Dr. Debotri Dhar contributes to global policy conversations, bringing her thematic and area expertise to work with governments, non-profits and universities.
Women, Peace and Security: An Inclusive Agenda
CSDR, Qutub Institutional AreaExpert, Opportunities for a Women + Peace + Security Framework for India
Pedagogy, Sexual Violence, and “South Asianness” in the United States
New JerseyConsultant, Manavi, NGO for South Asian and South Asian American women. Series with grant support from the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.
Faculty Advisor, Diplomacy Lab
University of MichiganAdvisor, Project: Online Gender-Based Violence. Ford School of Public Policy. University partnership with the US Department of State, under the aegis of the Gender Policy Council in the White House
Panel Discussions on Non-Traditional IR
International Studies AssociationOrganizer and speaker, panels on Women and International Relations, and Advancing Humanitarianism through International Relations.
Women of Afghanistan
Expert commentator, U.S. Assistance for Women of Afghanistan: Media commentaries, teach outs, and public outreach
Select Public Lectures & Talks
A selection of public lectures, keynote addresses, and invited talks across universities, policy forums, and cultural institutions in India, the United States, and internationally.
Women in International Relations
Speaker and Organiser
Global Panel hosted by International Studies Association, USA
Does India Need a Feminist Foreign Policy?
Speaker
Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University
Gender and the Politics of Representation in Indo-Western International Relations
Public Lecture
Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University
Indian Foreign Policy in the Indo-Pacific: Pursuing Maritime Diplomacy in a Multipolar World
Guest Lecture
Young India Fellowship, Ashoka University
Of Friendships and Fables: Rewriting Gender in an Indian Context
Speaker
JDMC, University of Delhi
Contemporary Issues in Commerce, Finance, IT, Media and Social Sciences
Invited Keynote Speaker
Research Conference, KES Shroff College of Arts and Commerce, Mumbai; Jai Narain Vyas University, Rajasthan; and MANCOSA, South Africa
Sexual Violence and Insecurity in South Asia
Organiser, Speaker and Moderator
Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Risky Subjects: Sexual Violence in Gendered Economies
Presenter. Blue Bag Lunch Talk
Center for Finance, Law and Policy, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Storytelling as a Tool to Advance Inclusion and Well-Being
Invited Speaker. Organised by Elevate (sponsored by CEW+) and Partners in Health (PIH)
Rackham Assembly Hall, University of Michigan
Creative Pedagogy: A Panel on Undergraduate Teaching
Organiser and Moderator
Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan
Committee on Gender and Sexuality: Creative Pedagogical Forms for Feminist Thought
Chair and Commentator
American Studies Association Annual Conference
The World after Woolf: Contemporary Reflections on Women Writers, Money, and the Market
Paper Presentation
Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium, Oxford, UK
Domestic Violence
Invited Speaker
South Asian American Health Initiative (SAAHI)
Committee on Gender and Sexuality: Creative Pedagogical Forms for Feminist Thought
Chair and Commentator
ASA Annual Conference, Baltimore
Gender Violence, Immigrant Vulnerability, and the State: A Symposium
Organiser and Panelist. Co-sponsored by Women’s Studies; International and Comparative Studies; Latino/a Studies, American Culture; the Global Scholars Program; and Michigan Immigration and Labor Law Association.
University of Michigan
Feminism through a South Asian Lens
Invited Speaker. Global Perspectives on Feminism Series. U-M event by multicultural orgs Elevate, South Asian Awareness Network, Paani.
University of Michigan
Women in Finance
Invited Panel Moderator
Michigan Ross School of Business
De-westernizing Feminism
Invited Panel, FemDems
Ford School of Public Policy
Women, Travel, Writing
Public Talk
British Council, Kolkata, India
Bodies of Knowledge
Talk. Co-sponsored by International Center, South Asian Studies, Education Studies, and Institute for the Humanities.
CEW, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Feminist Pedagogy and Humanitarian Education
Colloquium Talk
Department of Education Studies, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
(Re)Writing Women and the Politics of Religion
Public Talk
Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Women, Community, Belonging: History Lessons from 1947
Invited Distinguished Speaker, Technical Session Chair, and Guest of Honour, Valedictory Session. “1947: Rethinking” International Conference.
Department of History, Kurukshetra University, India
What’s God/dess Got to Do with It? A Conversation Between Comparative Religion and Transnational Feminist Praxis
Public Lecture
College of Wooster
Exploratory Seminar on Gender and Education Reform
Invited Seminar Presentation
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Of Pitfalls and Possibilities: Feminist Transnational Organizing Across Difference
Public Talk. Co-sponsored by Boston and Brandeis Universities.
Bollywood: Cultivating Social Change through Arts and Media
Invited Public Talk
East Brunswick Public Library and New Jersey Council for the Humanities
Death, Masculinity and the Nation in the Writings of Rabindranath Tagore
Paper
Graduate Colloquium on Gender and Sexuality, Princeton University
Beyond the Binary: Rape, Suicide and the Contemporary Indian State
Invited Paper Presentation
Modern South Asia Conference, Yale University, USA
Positivism, Postmodernism and Pedagogy: Teaching Texts on Indian Culture in the U.S.
Conference Paper. Theory at Work: Text, History and Culture Conference, BHU Dept. of English, in collaboration with Sahitya Academy and ICSSR, India.
Sarita’s Suicide: Sexual Violence, Public Death and the Gendered State in Contemporary India
Conference Paper. Panel on Public Death and the State in South Asia.
European Conference on Modern South Asia, University of Bonn, Germany
Love, Feminist Agency, and the Nation in Anita Nair’s Mistress
Conference Paper
Modern Languages and Literatures Conference, University of Miami