Navjotpal Kaur

2022

·       “Punjabi masculinities and transnational spaces: performance, choice, and othering,” Canadian Sociological Association (Session: Masculinities in transition), Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 19 May 2022

2021

·       “Gender, caste, and spatiality,” American Sociological Association (Sub-Unit: Space and Place: Boundaries and Meanings of Place). 9 August 2021.

·       “Field Realities in the Global South: Practicing Reflexivity with Marginalized Populations,” 20th Annual Thinking Qualitatively Virtual Conference, with Sumeet Sekhon and Rachelle Hole, University of British Columbia Okanagan. 4 July 2021.

·       Workshop: “Decolonizing Research Methods for the Global South,” The Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), Edmonton, BC (virtual), with Sumeet Sekhon, University of British Columbia Okanagan. 3 June 2021 (virtual).

·       “Gender, caste, and spatiality: Intersectional emergence of hegemonic masculinities,” Canadian Sociological Association. 31 May 2021 (virtual).

·       “India’s agrarian crisis: Farmers’ protest and the history of anthropogenic environmental degradation,” International Conference on Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World since 1800, Indian Ocean World Center, McGill University, with Harminder Sran, University of San Francisco, CA. 28 May 2021

·       “Transitioning Masculinities: Transnational Migration and Masculine Subjectivities of Young Punjabi Men,” IV International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology, Brazil. 26 February 2021 (virtual) Recording available at: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/meetingapp.cgi/Session/14163 @32:25

·       “Addressing Transnational Emigration of Youth from Punjab in Light of Environmental Factors: Bringing Farmers from Margins to the Center,” IV ISA Forum of Sociology, Brazil. With Harminder Sran, University of San Francisco, CA. 24 February 2021 (virtual)

2020

·       “Caste Visibility and Hegemonic Masculinity: Theorizing Caste-Embodiment in Local and Transnational Spaces,” Junior Theorists Symposium, American Sociological Association, Berkeley, August 2020 (virtual due to COVID-19). Also featured in Perspectives: A newsletter of the ASA theory section: http://www.asatheory.org/current-newsletter-online/jts-panel-3-performing-gender-race

·       “Transnational Masculinities: caste, embodiment, and masculine capital in transnational spaces” presented at Sociology Uncancelled: A Socially Distant Graduate Symposium, MUN. 2020 (virtual due to COVID-19)

·       “Understanding Hegemonic Masculinities: Theorizing Pride,” Qualitative Analysis Conference (cancelled due to COVID-19). https://www.qualitatives.ca/featured-students

2019

·        “Legitimate PTSD?”: Self-responsibilization and accountability of PSP on trauma, help-seeking and the role of resiliency as a personal attribute” poster presented at BC First Responders’ Mental Health Conference, Richmond B.C. With Elizabeth Andres, Nick Carleton, Rose Ricciardelli, & Greg Anderson. 2019

2018

·       “Fit for Public Safety: Informing attitudes and practices tied to the hiring of public safety personnel” presented at CIMVHR FORUM, Regina, SK. With Elizabeth Andres, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Nicholas Carleton, Greg Anderson. 2018

·       “Masculinity in Transition: Case study of young immigrant Punjabi men in Canada” presented at 25th Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Banff, Alberta. 2018

·       “Negotiating risk and choice in multiple fetus pregnancies: Reduction, termination or ‘risking it out’” XIX ISA Annual World Congress, Toronto, ON. With Rose Ricciardelli. 2018

·       “I asked for it: how women experience stigma in their transition from being infertile to being mothers of multiples through assisted reproductive technologies” 35th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, Fredericton, NB. With Rose Ricciardelli. 2018

2017

·       “I asked for it”. Poster presented at 8th Annual International Conference on Stigma. Washington, D.C. with Rose Ricciardelli. 2017

·       “Chronic Pain Perception in Different Ethnic Groups in India and its Impact on Quality of Life” presented at 19th Aldrich Multidisciplinary Graduate Research Conference—Community Oriented Research: Local and Global Communities, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL. 2017