FIERCE, BOLD, INSIGHTFUL, ENGAGING

Creating deep, embodied understanding of complex topics

AWARDS:

Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya has been a celebrated speaker on national and international platforms for well over two decades. Using relatable, creative, and accessible examples and formats, she speaks about de/colonizing methodologies in qualitative research, justice-oriented issues in higher education, transnational and diasporic topics, writing and publishing, contemplative pedagogies, arts-based research, and academic wellness.

Selected Speaking History

Invited keynote speaker (May, 2021), Advanced Methods Institute, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Invited panelist, Post Philosophies and Doing of Inquiry, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and University of Missouri, USA (December, 2020)
Invited keynote presenter at the Comparative and International Education Society, Miami, Florida, (March, 2020)
Invited keynote presentation for the The Trailblazers and Innovators Series in Minority Graduate Education Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (March, 2019)
Invited keynote workshop from Workshop in Methods, Presented at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (March, 2019)
Invited keynote presentation at the Journal of Language and Literacy Education 2019 Winter Conference, Athens, Georgia.
Invited workshop as Distinguished keynote speaker, De/colonizing Qualitative Research, Journal of Language Journal of Language and Literacy Education 2019 Winter Conference, Athens, Georgia.
Invited keynote responder to Egon Guba Lecture at Qualitative Research SIG Business Meeting, (AERA 2019), Toronto, Canada.
Invited keynote speaker, 2nd Annual Qual-World Virtual Conference, International Institute of Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, (December, 2018).
Featured Spotlight Speaker (March, 2018), A Ted-Talk Style Event Celebrating Innovative Teaching and Research, Kansas State University, Teaching and Learning Center
Invited and inaugural Podcast speaker for Qualitative Research SIG from AERA, (November, 2017)
Invited speaker, Have a Byte, a TED talk style event hosted by Global Campus for pedagogies and philosophies in distance education (October, 2017).
Invited Speaker at the University of Sydney to deliver talk to faculty in Comparative and International Education. (December, 2014)
Invited Keynote Speaker at Southern Connecticut Women’s Studies Program (February, 2014).