Academic Conferences
American Anthropological Association (AAA)
2023, Toronto, Canada: Chair and Presenter
“Applying Legal Pluralism in the Digital Sphere”
Panel: Plural Governance and Contestations of Power: Multiscalar Approaches
Section: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
Law and Society Association (LSA)
2023: San Juan, Puerto Rico: Presenter
“Problematizing Legal Automation: AI Judges”
Panel: Legal Pluralism and Courts
2022, Lisbon, Portugal: Presenter
“Law and Digitality: Tracing Modern Epistemologies and Power”
Panel: Legal Pluralism as an Analytical Category Today
2021, Zoom: Presenter
“Law and AI Technologies: Mediating "Islamic" Piety and "Secular" Reason in
Bangladesh Courts”
Panel: Sociolegal Perspectives on Speech, Regulation, and Privacy
The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
2023, Denver, USA: Presenter
“Digital Legal Databases: Racialized and Gendered Archives”
Panel: Archives of the (In)Visible Surveillance, Imaging and Power
Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA)
2022, York, UK: Presenter
“Digital Legal Databases: Archives and Epistemologies”
Panel Stream: The Digital Turn in Socio-Legal Studies
International Communications Association (ICA)
2022, Paris, France, Presenter:
“Law and Digitality: Tracing Modern Epistemologies and Power”
Panel: Laws and Policies of Communication Technology: JudiCATory Issues”
2021, Zoom, Presenter:
“Rethinking Legal Norms: Law and Technology”
Panel: Mediated and Public Displays of Charity in Islamic and Refugee Contexts
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT)
2024, Viña del Mar, Chile: Presenter:
“Neocolonial Digitality: Limitations of Digital Tools to Process Non-English Script”
Panel: Digital Communication
2022, New Orleans, USA: Presenter:
“Digital Databases: Colonial Legacies Reinscribed in Technologies”
Panel: Imperialism, Religion, and Colonial Legacies
SHOT: The Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS)
2022, New Orleans, USA: Presenter
“Digital Databases: Colonial Legacies Reinscribed in Technologies”
Panel: Exploring Data: Disasters, Meaning, Memory
The Annual Conference on South Asia (ACSA)
2022, Wisconsin Madison, USA: Chair and Presenter
“Rethinking the Design and Use of Legal Research Software Through Perspectives from Bangladeshi Non-State Legal System (Shalish)”
Panel: "New Political Examinations of Bangladesh"
The XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference
2022, Gdańsk, Poland, Presenter
“Alternate Evidentiary Processes in Non-State Courts: Making the “Inadmissible” Admissible”
Panel: Marginalia: Contesting Colonial Archives and the Limits of Evidence
Cultural Studies Association (CSA)
2022, Chicago, USA: Presenter
Law and Digitality: Tracing Modern Epistemologies and Power •
Panel: The Space of Regulation: Reckoning with Media, Power and Space 4
2021, Zoom: Presenter
“Reshaping Legal Norms: Law and Technology” •
Panel: Resisting Erasures: Lives, Afterlives, and Institutions
University of Cambridge: Histories of Artificial Intelligence
2021, London, UK, Presenter
“Law and Digitality: Tracing Modern Epistemologies and Power”
Panel: Epistemologies
50 Years of Bangladesh: UNESCO Madanjeet Singh South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies (UMSAILS)
2021, Dhaka, Bangladesh: Presenter
“Plural Imaginations of Law, Evidentiary Process, and Justice: Alternate Epistemologies and Marginalized Standpoints”
Panel: Rights and Remedies under the Constitution
Asian Law and Society Association (ALSA)
2021, Zoom: Presenter
“Law and Digitality: Problematizing Modern Legal Language and Epistemologies”
Panel: Legal Education and Legal Language Reconsidered
Invited Public Talks
Keynote Speaker
University of Dhaka, Department of Law
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2023
Talk: “Analyzing the Potential Gaps of the Draft Data Protection Act”
University of Dhaka, Department of Anthropology
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2023
Talk: “Neocolonial Digitality: Exploring Digital Legal Databases Using Legal Pluralism”
Talk: “Interdisciplinary Research”
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
Zoom, 2023
Event: Constitutional Conversation Data ‘Protection’: Women’s Access to Justice
Talk: “The Shortcomings of the Data Protection Act: Discrimination Towards Women and Girls”
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2022
Event: Rethinking Bangladesh’s Evidence Act
Talk: “Digital Evidence: Curbing and Empowering Women’s Rights”
Guest Speaker
University of Toronto: Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society
Toronto, 2024
Event: Research Exchange Series
Talk: “AI Judge Models: Biases of Training AI and Exclusion of Alternate Forms of Legal Reasoning”
Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Zoom, 2024
Event: Biplob in Bangladesh: How a Student Revolt Overthrew a Regime
Talk: “Mis/Disinformation: Social Media Conundrums”
Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute, University of Oxford
U.K. 2024
“Databases and Automation: Designing Injustice”
NYU Digital Humanities
New York, USA, 2023
Event: Digital Humanities Showcase
Talk: “Digital Tools: Language and Power”
Institute of Informatics and Development (IID) and Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust
Zoom, 2023
Event: Consultation on Analyzing the Draft Data Protection Act in light of Public Interest and Human Rights
Talk: “Data Protection Act: Impact on Rural and Marginalized Communities”
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC), NYU
New York, USA, 2022
Event: MCC Colloquium
Talk: “Law and the Digital: Data and Justice in the Global South”
Yale Macmillan Center
Yale University, Zoom, 2020
Event: South Asia Brown Bag
Talk: “Rethinking Legal Epistemology: Law and Technology in Bangladesh”
Consultation on Law and Policy
Bangladesh Ministry of Law, Justice, and Parliamentary Affairs
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2023
Policy Breakfast Series: Draft Data Protection Act 2023, Bangladesh
Asia Internet Coalition and Institute of Informatics and Development (IID)
Zoom, 2024
Event: Amendment of Bangladesh Cyber Security Act, 2023 [Proposal]
Conference Organizer
Yale Law School
New Haven, USA, 2023
Conference Theme: “Propaganda and Emerging Technologies”
NYU Steinhardt
New York, USA, 2022
Conference Theme: “Hinterlands of Media and Technology”
Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST)
Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2021
Academic Workshops
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA, 2024
Event: Cultures of Datafication In & Across South Asia
Paper: Data-Driven (In)Justice: Muslim Women in South Asia
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW)
Minnesota, USA, 2023
Paper: “Developing the Concept of Neocolonial Digitality”
Group: Many Worlds of Ethics: Ethical Pluralism in CSCW
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT)
Zoom, 2022
Paper: “AI Judges: Analysis of Non-State Courts to Demonstrate the Biases of Law and AI”
Association for Computing Machinery: The Special Interest Group on Computer– Human Interaction (ACM–SIGCHI)
New Orleans, USA, 2022
Paper: “Digital Archives: Neocolonial Power and Epistemology”
Group: Triangulating Race, Capital, Tech
UMass Center for Justice, Law, and Societies
Graduate Student and Junior Scholar Workshop, Zoom, 2021
“Legislating Gender in "Digital" Bangladesh: Mediating "Islamic" Piety and "Secular" Reason in Courts”
Group: Culture and Violence Against Women
Law and Society Association (LSA)
Early Career Workshop, Zoom. 2021
“Law and Technology: Mediating “Islamic” Piety and “Secular” Reason in Bangladeshi Courts”
R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies
Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS: MP), New Delhi, India/Zoom, 2021
Thinking the Political Workshop
University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
South Asia Legal Studies Workshop, Zoom, 2021
“Reshaping legal Norms: Technological (Algorithmic) Governance and Resistance”
University of Cambridge
Zoom, 2021
Histories of Artificial Intelligence: A Genealogy of Power Summer School