Conference Papers, Seminars, Lectures

2009 Maison de Recherche en Sciences Humaines, Universit de Caen Basse-Normandie, France
Noix de cajou, argent et changements culturels: la transformation de la socit jarai dans le Nord-Est du Cambodge

2009 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Paper. [Prelude to] Tang Kadon During the War and After: A Village on the Run in the Highlands of Northeast Cambodia.
Session Organizer: Resiting the Village, Revisiting The Community

2009 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
Paper. Cosmologies of Corruption and the Politics of Appropriation in Cambodia
Session Organizer: Local Understandings of Corruption in South and Southeast Asia

2008 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Paper. Development Time: Chronological Crisis and Postwar Power among the Jarai of Cambodia

2008 Workshop of the American Museum of Natural History and the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation: Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity in a Rapidly Changing World: Lessons for Global Policy
Paper. The Cultural Politics of Sustaining Cultural and Biological Diversity
Co-authored with M. Dove, D. Graef, A. Cerezo, C. Hays, S. Osterhoudt and J. Stoike

2008 Roskilde University Program in Development Studies
Ph.D. Student Workshop
Paper. On Being Consumed: Jarai Highlanders Encounters with Government in Northeast Cambodia.

2008 Yale Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series
Commentator on a paper by Michael Perelman

2004 Yale Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series
Proposal presentation. The Social Lives of Seeds: Proposed research in Northeast Cambodia

2003 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society
Governing Indigenous Lives: Communal Land Titling and the Spatial Needs Assessment Study in Bolivia

2002 Yale Genocide Studies Project colloquium series invited presentation
Invited Paper. Interpretations of Genocide in Stroessners Paraguay: Ach Hunter Gatherers Yesterday and Today

2002 Yale Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series
Commentator on a paper by Tania Li

2001 Yale Department of Anthropology, Physical Anthropology Brown-Bag Series
Paper. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Development: Human Health Interventions among the Ach of Paraguay.

2001 Yale Center for Comparative Research
Workshop on Conservation and Sustainable Development: Comparative Perspectives
Paper. Development with Identity. The Spatial Needs Identification Study and Indigenous Land-Titling in Bolivia

2000 Yale Program in Agrarian Studies Colloquium Series
Commentator on a paper by Prasenjit Duara