Conferences/Workshops/Dialogues:

  • Media Coverage of Protest and Contentious Politics, Jointly presented with Holli A. Semetko and Anup Kumar, MPSA, Chicago, April 6 -9, 2017

  • Continuous Connectivity: India's Northeast and Bordering Nations, Jointly presented with Holli A. Semetko, ISA, Baltimore, February 22 - 25, 2017

  • Asymmetrical Autonomy and its discontents: Experiences from India, Paper presented at the NZPSA, Wellington, November 30 - Decemeber 2, 2015

  • The Campaign and Mobilization in Assam: Between Violence and Movements for Autonomy and Statehood, Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, 26 - 29 March 2015, Chicago, USA

  • Global Education Dialogues, Invited Participation, 10 - 11 February, 2015, British Council, New Delhi

  • Stakeholders’ Consultative Workshop on the Role of the Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar (BCIM) Economic Corridor in Regional Integration: Perspectives from Northeast India, Invited Participation, 18 - 19 July, 2014, Guwahati, Assam

  • Historical Ecology, Land Tenure or Identity Politics? The Evidence on Bodo-Muslim Violence in Assam, Presented at the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) Annual Conference, 30 September- 02 October 2013, Murdoch University, Perth, WA

  • Institutions of local governance and social citizenship: Assessing regional variations in India, Presented at the 83rd Annual Conference of CPSA, Alberta, June, 2012

  • “Contesting divested territories: Tribal land alienation and the evidence for violent mobilization”, Presented at the 81st Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, Canada, May 27-29th, 2009.

  • “Ethnic protest and separatist movements: Explaining variant outcomes to challenges of remapping federal units in India’s northeast”, Presented at the 67th Mid-West Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA, April 2-5th, 2009.

  • “Violent mobilization of the Bodos in Assam: India’s northeast”, Presented at the 66th Mid-West Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA, April 3-6th, 2008.