Conference presentations
Who will Write the History of Chiang Tung - the Burmese, the Thai or International Scholars? Paper presented at Liberal Arts International Conference 2018 (LATU) Panel: Decolonising Southeast Asia's Past: Archaeology, History of Art, and National Boundaries, 13th-14th September 2018, at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok. Book of abstract
Local Spirits and the Sense of Place and Belonging in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar, paper presented at ASAA 2018 Conference, Sydney University, 3-5 July, 2018. Presented in the panel "Stone Masters: The Territory Cults of Monsoon Asia", organiced by Holly High. Book of abstract
The Origin and History of Chiang Tung in Local History Narratives and Symbolic Performances, paper presented at Dynamic Borderlands - Livelihoods, Communities and Flows, the 5th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12-14 December, 2016. Book of abstract
Drums, Frogs and the Imagined Khun Nation: The Celebration of Songkran Festival at Chiang Tung, paper presented at ASEASUK Conference 16-18 September, 2016, SOAS London.
Shifting meanings of "aniconic" signs in the Buddhist tradition, presented at the 21th World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) August 23-29, 2015 Erfurt, Germany.
Songkran Performance Manifesting Identity and Sense of Belonging in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar, presented at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies, Burma / Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 24-26 July 2015.
Buddhist Visual Culture in Keng Tung and Upper Southeast Asia: Comparing Architecture, Wooden Sculptures, Paintings and Banners, 2010 International Burma Studies Conference: Burma in the Era of Globalization, Marseille, France July 6th - 9th, 2010
Buddhist Banners, Elephants and Horses: Ethnic-Religious Identity in the Eastern Shan State of Myanmar, The 25th conference in the 40th year of the Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK), Swansea University, 11th-13th September 2009.
Shan Ethnic-Religious Identity: Objects, Art, and Material Religion in the Eastern Shan State, presented at the International Conference on Shan Studies, 15-17 October 2009, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Material Religion and Ethnic Identity: Buddhist Visual Culture in the Age of Nationalism, presented at New Directions in the Study of Material Religion, National University of Singapore, 14-16 August 2008.
Veneration of a Burmese Buddha image among the Tai people in Chiang Tung, presented at the 10th International Conference on Thai Studies, "Thai Societies in a Transnationalized World", Thammasat University, Bangkok, January 9-11, 2008.
Tai Khun Buddhism and Ethnic-Religious Identity, presented at the "Conference on Shan Buddhism and Culture", SOAS, University of London, 8-9 December 2007.
Buddhist Visual Culture as an Emblem of Identity - From Sāñcī to Contemporary Upper Mekong, presented at the 2nd SSEASR Conference "Syncretism in South and Southeast Asia - Adoption and Adaptation", Mahidol University, Bangkok 24-27 May 2007.
Ethnicity and Buddhist Visual Culture, presented at the Conference "Religion on the Borders", Södertörn University College, Sweden April 19-22, 2007.in the panel "Stone Masters: The Territory Cults of Monsoon Asia"