Nov 2013 “Transcendent Territory and Portable Deities: Mobility and the Problem of Indigeneity Between Nepal and India”, Social Anthropology Seminar Series, Harvard University
Sept 2013 “Globalization, Development, and the Politics of State Restructuring in ‘Post-Conflict’ Nepal”, Research Seminar Series, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
July 2013 “Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desire, and Ritualized Action in Northeast India and Beyond”, Plenary speech at the conference Negotiating Ethnicity in Northeast India, University of Vienna, Austria
May 2013 “Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desire, and Ritualized Action in Nepal and India”, Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Canada
May 2013 “Globalization, Development, and the Politics of State Restructuring in ‘Post-Conflict’ Nepal”, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada
April 2013 “Debating Transitional Justice in ‘Post-Conflict’ Nepal”, Human Rights Workshop, Yale Law School
March 2013 “Globalization, Development, and the Politics of State Restructuring in ‘Post-Conflict’ Nepal” Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Feb 2013 “High Asian Connections: Mobility and Territoriality Across the Himalaya” Mt Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Oct 2012 “Temple Building in Secular Nepal: Post-Conflict Notions of Progress” Religion and Politics Colloquium, Yale University
Aug 2012 “Ethnic Federalism and Affirmative Action” Support for Participatory Constitution Building Network/United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Kathmandu, Nepal
July 2012 “Inequality in South Asia: What is to be Done?” a panel discussion with Alpa Shah and Ajay Gudavarthy, Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Nepal
April 2012 “Framing, Practicing and Performing Ethnicity in Nepal and India” Performance Studies Working Group, Yale University
Feb 2012 “Transcendent Territory and Portable Deities: Mobility and the Problem of Indigeneity between India and Nepal” Agrarian Studies Colloquium, Yale University
Jan 2012 “Embodied Texts, Textualized Bodies: Engaging with Shamans and Activists in Nepal and India” Sensory Cultures of Religion Research Group, Yale University
Dec 2011 “Restructuring States, Restructuring Ethnicity? Federal Futures in India and Nepal” Conversations on South Asian Politics (COSAP—a consortium of NYC-area scholars), The New School, New York, NY. With Louise Tillin.
June 2011 “Constitution Drafting, State Restructuring and the Peace Process in Nepal: What Next?” Roundtable discussion organized by the Britain-Nepal Academic Council, School for Oriental and African Studies, London, UK
May 2011 “Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desires and Ritualized Action” Social Anthropology Senior Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK
March 2011 “Bordering Zomia: Himalayan Reflections on States and their Others” Anthropology Research Seminar Series, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Feb. 2011 “Reframing Ethnicity: Academic Tropes, Political Desires and Ritualized Action” Social Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh, UK
Jan. 2011 “Creating a Culture of Marginality: Nepal’s Current Classificatory Moment” Contemporary South Asia Seminar, University of Oxford, UK
Sept. 2010 “The Lingering Effects of Affirmative Action: Cultural Practice, State Policy and Social Science” South Asia Colloquium, Yale University
Nov. 2009 “Historicising Ethnicity in Darjeeling: From Tribe to Nation and Back Again” Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, UK
Oct. 2009 “The ‘Lingering Effects’ of Affirmative Action in Nepal and India: Ethnic Boundaries, Cultural Practice and State Policy” Transnationalisation and Development Research Centre Colloquium, Faculty of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany
June 2009 “Beyond Tibetanization: Border Ethnicities at the Nepal-China (TAR) Friendship Bridge” Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, UK
May 2009 “Ethnic (P) reservations: Culture, Identity and Affirmative Action in Nepal and India” Contemporary South Asia Discussion Group, University of Cambridge, UK
April 2009 “Practice, Performance, and the Politics of Recognition: Synthesizing Thangmi Ethnicity Across Himalayan Borders” Post-Doc Seminar Series, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
Feb. 2009 “Ethnic (P)reservations: Culture, Identity and Affirmative Action in Nepal and India” Graduate Research Seminar Series, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
Oct. 2008 “Synthesizing Practice and Performance, Securing Recognition” Department of Anthropology Colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
May 2008 “Reservations, Federalism and the Politics of Recognition in Nepal and India” Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, Nepal
May 2005 “Comparing Ethnic Identity in Nepal and India: A Case Study of the Thami of Dolakha and Darjeeling” Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, Nepal
May 2005 “Thami Culture and Religion” Second National Thami Convention, Kathmandu, Nepal
Dec. 2004 “The Thami of Nepal and Darjeeling” Gorkha Dukhi Niwas Samaj Hall, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Feb. 2004 “The Formation of Political Consciousness in Rural Nepal: Lessons from the Maoist Movement” South Asia Program Seminar Series, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dec. 2003 “Insurgency in Nepal: Who are the Maoists?” Asian Studies Organization, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
July 2003 “A Broader Look at Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism” Social Science Immersion Course, Social Science Baha, Kathmandu, Nepal
June 2003 “Ethnicity in Nepal” Columbia University-University of Virginia Summer Intensive Tibetan Language Course, Center for Buddhist Studies, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, Nepal
April 2003 “Visual Ethnography in Nepal: A Collaborative Photo Exhibition with the Thangmi” “Living with the Maoists in Rural Nepal” Two talks at Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Sept. 2002 “Tibeto-Burman Ethnic Groups in the High Himalayan Borderlands” Namgyal Monastery, Ithaca, NY
April 2000 “Living Among the Forgotten Thangmi of Nepal” (with Mark Turin) Cultural Studies Group of Nepal, SAARC Secretariat, Kathmandu, Nepal
Feb. 2000 “Discourses on Women and Buddhism” Trinity College, College Semester Abroad, Kathmandu, Nepal
March 1999 “Ethnicity in Nepal”, School for International Training, Kathmandu, Nepal
May 1997 “Doing/Writing Dharma: Feminist Journeys Through the Tibetan Buddhist Ethnoscape”, Department of Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI