RECENT AND UPCOMING CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

August 2010. “The Body as Gift: Gender, the Dead, and Exchange in the Chöd Ritual Economy,” 12th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies, Vancouver, BC.

February 2010. “Sovereign Bodies: Religion and Cultural Politics in Buryatia,” Russian Futures: Contexts, Challenges, Trends, Duke University.

April 25, 2009. "Bodies in Flux: Reincarnation and Apprenticeship as Transnational Ties in Buryat Buddhism," at the "Global Socialisms and Postsocialisms" Annual Soyuz Symposium, Yale University.

July 15, 2008. "Stone Temples and Altars of Rock: Resignifying Nature in Shamanic Tourism, Siberia". Panel: "Nostalgia, Authenticity, Conservation," 16th IUAES Congress, Kunming, China. Postponed.

July 2, 2008. "The Revival of Chöd (gcod) in the Gelug school as a Cultural Link Between Mongolian and Tibetan Worlds." Buddhism and the Third Millenium Conference, Ulan-Ude, Russia.

March 15, 2008. "North Asia Meets South Asia: Buryat Buddhists in India" at the Annual Fulbright Conference, Jaipur, India.

April 28, 2007. "Pilgrims, Fieldworkers, and Secret Agents: Buryat Buddhologists and Eurasian Imaginary." Annual SOYUZ Symposium: "Locating 'Eurasia' in Post-Socialist Studies: The Geopolitics of Naming," Princeton University.

April 13, 2007. Post-screening discussion of In Pursuit of the Siberian Shaman at the ASN 2007 World Convention, Columbia University.

December 7, 2006.  "From Wild Men to Businessmen: Shamanic Transformations in Buryatia." Workshop "Reassessing Religion in Siberia and Neighboring Regions." Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.

November 18, 2006. "Food for the Gods: The Matter of Sacrifice among the Shamans and Buddhists of Buryatia,” Panel: “Powerful Objects: Materiality and Metonymy in Four Asian Religious Communities,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

November 15, 2006. "Remapping Sacred Landscapes: Shamanic Tourism and National Identity in Olkhon Island." Panel: "Sacred Landscapes and Shamans in North Asia," Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose. 

October 6-8, 2006. "Is Siberian Buddhism Really Tibetan?" SSRC Eurasia Program/Princeton University Institute for International and Regional Studies. Dissertation Development Workshop "Russia and Eurasia in World Context: A Dialogue with East Asian Studies."