[Talk] May 8, 2026. “Authenticating Food Security: The Work of Biometric Welfare in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure” at the University of Queensland, Brisbane.
[Presentation] May 6-7, 2026. “The Labors of Authentication: From Biometric Welfare to Synthetic Voice” at Authenticity, Generative AI and Synthetic Media: An ADM+S Workshop, 6-7 May 2026, QUT Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
[Talk] April 13, 2026. “Unknotting Food Security: The Work of Biometric Welfare in India’s Digital Public Infrastructure” at the United States Study Centre, University of Sydney.
[Podcast] March 23, 20026. Chats over Chai. In coversation with Australia India Institute CEO, Lisa Singh, on Digital Public Infrastructure and Citizenship. Listen here.
[Presentation] February 25, 2026. “The Aftermath of the Mobile Phone Myth: Private Burdens of Digital Public Infrastructures” at Aftermath Symposium, Melbourne STS Node, University of Melbourne:
[Presentation] February 23, 2026. “Citizenship as Anticipatory Labor: Meeting Authenticity Demands in a Digital Public Infrastructure.” at Anticipatory Infrastructures Symposium, Emerging Technologies Lab, Monash University
[Talk] November 25, 2025. Australia India Institute, Insight Series Talk: “Linking Citizenship to India’s Digital Age”
[Presentation] November 4, 2025. “The Private Lives of Digital Public Infrastructures: Mobile Phone Ownership as a Condition of Inclusion in Welfare” at the South Asia Resarch Institute (SARI) Conference, The Australian National University, Canberra:
[Workshop] August 21, 2025. Digital Public Infrastructure Maker Residency. Infosys Living Labs, Melbourne.
[Workshop] August 20, 2025. Digital Public Infrastructure Innovation Workshop. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra.
[Talk] October 31, 2023. Keynote Speaker, Digital Humanities and Intelligent Futures workshop organized by the Australia India Institute, Melbourne: ‘Bodies on Biometric Duties: A Child’s Eye View of Care in the Welfare State.’, October 31, 2023.
[Talk] January 20, 2021. Invited talk at the BIT-ACT monthly seminar series hosted by the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy: ‘Biometric Designs for Increasing Inclusion and Decreasing Corruption: Lessons from India’s Food Security System’. Details here.
[Talk] August 28, 2020. Invited panelist. MINRO-SAMVAAD discussion on NLP and Fake News. IIIT-Bangalore. Video here.
[Talk] August 1, 2020. Invited talk at the Computer Science and Engineering Department of the University Visweswarya College of Engineering (UVCE, Bangalore) on “Enabling Technology to Shape a Humane Digital Society – Why does it Need Help? Video here.
[Talk] March 6, 2020. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (BPB) (Federal Agency for Civic Education), Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, Government of Germany on ‘The Future We Want to Live In’ at Future 2040 + Media Performance, Künstlerhaus Mousonturn, Frankfurt, Germany.
[Interview] April 22, 2020. Invited Q&A moderated by Bronwen Deacon of the Alexander Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany on the short story “In Mangal’s New World”. Videos here: YouTube and Facebook.
[Talk] January 28, 2019. Samvaad Talk at IIIT-Bangalore on “WiFi in the Wild – Learnings from Non-users of an Infrastructure.” Video here.
[Talk] November 30, 2018. Invited talk at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment (ATREE), Bangalore as part of Talks@ATREE on “Public WiFi is for Men and Mobile Internet is for Women: Interrogating Politics of Space and Gender around WiFi Hotspots.” Video here.
Preeti Mudliar 