FIERCE, BOLD, INSIGHTFUL, ENGAGING

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).