Conferences, Seminars & Talks
- “Death, Citizenship and Justice”, Invited for the regional seminar titled History for Peace by Takshila Foundation and Seagull Foundation of Arts, Patna (3 and 4 December 2023)
- “Right to Hospitality and Citizenship”, Invited for the annual seminar titled History for Peace by Seagull Foundation of Arts, Kolkata (3,4 & 5 August 2023).
- “Infrastructures of Citizenship”, Invited for a dialogue on Citizenship as a speaker at The India-China Institute, The New School, New York (10 March 2023).
- “Who is the Outsider in Northeast”, Invited as a speaker for Newslaundry’s Media Rumble, New Delhi (14 & 15 Oct 2022).
- “Family as the Political”, Citizenship and Migration in South Asia: Looking Beyond Partition, Royal Holloway, London (10 &11 June 2022).
- “Formless Punishment: Criminalizing the migrant through the National Register of Citizens process”, Law and Society Conference, Lisbon (13-16 July 2022).
- Waste, De/disvalue and the Citizen-subject in South Asia.” A Talk at The Stanford South Asia Working Group. (8 March 2022).
- “Citizenship Crisis in India”. Invited as a Speaker and Moderator in the University of York Online Short Documentary Festival 2021.
- “NRC and Assamese History”. Conference on “Writing the Region: Knowledge, Practice and Power in South Asia”, Princeton University (17-18 April 2021).
- “NRC in Assam: Spectre of Law & Acquiescent Subjectivities”. Conference on “Stigmatization, Identities and the Law”, National University of Singapore (23-24 June 2020).
- “NRC and Vulnerable Subjects”. Invited to Present a Paper in a Conference on “Statelessness and Right to Have Rights: National Conference on the Citizenship Laws in India” Jointly Organised by Legal Aid Society, National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS), Kolkata and Cornell Law School, NUJS (22-23 Feb 2020).
- “NRC and Statelessness”. Invited as a Speaker at Talk Journalism held in Jaipur (20-22 Sept 2019).
- “The National Register of Citizenship and Crisis of Citizenship”. Invited to Speak as a Panel Member, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (12 Oct 2019).
- “Who is an Indian?” Invited to Speak at a Public Talk Organised by Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) and People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Marathi Patrakar Sangh (13 Oct 2019).
- “Thinking Immaterially About Borders”. Royster Global Society Conference on “Borders”, University of North Carolina (28-31 May 2019).
Significant Publications
Journal Articles
Gogoi, Suraj., & Sen, Rohini. (2024) “Citizenship and Belonging: NRC Process in Assam” in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol 50 (19) 4828-4849.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Saikia, Parag.J. (2020) “Sharing and Exchanging: Understanding Common Grounds in Northeast India”, Asian Ethnicity, Vol 21 (1) 22-38.
Prakash, Aseem., & Gogoi, Suraj. (2015) “What Happened to Caste Based Political Parties?” Exemplar: The Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol 3(1) 18-27.
Book Chapters and Reviews
Gogoi, Suraj., & Sen, Rohini (2023) “Tablighi Jaamat: Racism and Coronavirus in Assam” in Satveer Kaur-Gill & Mohan J. Dutta (Eds.) Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication, Inequality, and Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2023) “Formless Punishment and Exclusion: Criminalizing the Migrant Through the Indian National Register of Citizens” in Pablo Ciocchini and George Radics (Eds.) Criminal Legalities from the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2023) “What is New about Contemporary Indian Democracy”: A review of The New Republic: Populism, Power and the Trajectories of Indian Democracy edited by Shray Mehta and Ravi Kumar, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LVIII (44) 31-33.
Gogoi, Suraj. (7 April 2022) The Strategy Behind a Political Party’s Rise: A Review of Nalin Mehta’s The New BJP (Westland Books), Live Mint.
Commentaries/Essays
Pegu, M., & Gogoi, S. (1 April 2024) Diminishing Returns: Assam Failing CAA Protests, The Caravan.
Gogoi, Suraj. (28 Sept, 2023) When Memories Become a Threat, Fountain Ink.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2 June 2023) In Mizoram, a Refugee Crisis Highlights Mizo Tribal Affinities and Hostility, Himal Southasian.
Gogoi, Suraj. (13 April 2022) On “Non-political” Assamese. Himal Southasian.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2020) Refusal, Romanticism and Ground Realities in Northeast India, Borderlines CAASSME.
Gogoi, Suraj & Sen, Rohini. (14 Oct 2020) The NRC’s Spillover Effect. Himal Southasian.
Gogoi, Suraj. (2 July 2020) Heat and Coronavirus, Anthropology News.
Gogoi, Suraj., & Chakma, Shyamal. (2018). The Bru-Mizo Conflict in Mizoram, Economic & Political Weekly, 53 no. 44 (November 3).
Public Sociology
Gogoi, S. (19 Feb 2024) 41 years of Nellie massacre: A pre-Godhra chapter for New India, with Assam’s ‘wage of indigenousness’, Newslaundary.
Gogoi, S. (28 May 2024) Cleaning the ‘Bangladeshi’: DNA and citizenship in contemporary India, Newslaundry.
Pegu, M., & Gogoi, S. (22 Jan 2024) Himanta’s Ram Mandir Food Ban has no Empirical Basis in Assam, Newslaundry.
Gogoi, S. (30 November 2022) Did Israeli director Nadav Lapid really abuse India’s hospitality with his ‘Kashmir Files’ critique? Scroll.in.
Gogoi, S. (20 May 2022) From outsiders to termites and infiltrators: How ‘Bangladeshi’ came to signify hate and difference, Scroll.in.
Gogoi, S. (23 September 2022) Fury is past, nothing but fear. Scroll.in.
Choudhury, Angshuman & Gogoi, S. (17 Feb 2022) Hijab Ban: How some Liberals are Sleepwalking into the trap set by Hindutva Nationalists, Scroll.in.
Gogoi, S. (29 May 2022) Anek’s ‘Saviour Complex’: Northeast Needs to be ‘Understood’, Not Saved. The Quint.
Gogoi, S. (30 September 2021) The Scorching Rays of Assamese Nationalism, The Hindu.
Gogoi, S. (30 November 2021) False Pledge: NRC in Assam, The Telegraph.
Gogoi, S. (11 November 2019) As Assam Hosts Brahmaputra Pushkaram, Can the Festival Truly Encompass the River’s Multiple Meanings? Firstpost.
Gogoi, S. (November 2019) Shaheen Bagh’s Resistance Must be Viewed Sans Liberals’ Romanticism, Right’s Identity Politics, Firstpost.
Choudhury, A, and Gogoi, S. (28 August 2019),What the Spam Dossier on Journalists and Activists Covering #NRC Tells us About Assamese Supremacy, Newslaundry.
Choudhury, A and Gogoi, S. (27 December 2019) Yogendra Yadav and Shekher Gupta Vouch for a Monolithic Assamese Identity; Get History and Politics Around NRC all Wrong, Firstpost.
Gogoi, S. (7 February 2019) A Lack of Citizenship will Produce Second Class Citizens, Asia Times.
Gogoi, S. & Chakma, S. B. (8 February 2019) Dissent Over Citizenship Bill Causes Havoc, Asia Times.
Gogoi, S. & Saikia, P.J. (12 March 2019) Waiting for Citizenship: A Global Phenomenon, Asia Times.
Gogoi, S. (3 July 2019) Miyah Poetry Weaves A World Of Suffering And Humiliation In Contemporary Assam, The Wire.
Gogoi, S. (23 August 2018) NRC Muddle: Vigilante Students Union and India’s Borderlands, Asia Times.
Saikia, P.J. & Gogoi, S. (28 February 2018) Bhupen Hazarika Setu and the Politics of Infrastructure, The Wire.
Saikia, P.J. & Gogoi, S. (2 July 2018) The Silence of the Media: National Register Of Citizens in Assam, Newslaundry.
Saikia, P.J. & Gogoi, S. (16 July 2018) The Rise of Philistines in Assam, Newslaundry.
Saikia, P.J. & Gogoi, S. (2 August 2018) How NRC Legitimised Xenophobia and Chauvinism In Assam, Newslaundry.
Awards
ICA Food Writing Prize 2024
Research Areas
Indian Sociology, Citizenship in South Asia, Social Theory, State and Minority, Caste, Violence, Migration, Qualitative Research Methods (Ethnography), Hospitality, Census, Bureaucracy, Sociology of Food, Race, Social & Political Thought in Northeast India, Death and Law.
