Conferences & panels organized
2022. VANDA-3 Vienna Anthropology Days. Conference co-organizer, September 26-30, Vienna
2020. VANDA-2 Vienna Anthropology Days. Conference co-organizer, September 28 – October 1, Vienna
2017. 9th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines (ICTAM9): Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals. Panel organizer and chair, August 8, Kiel, Germany
2017. International Conference, Department of South Asian, Tibetan & Buddhist Studies (University of Vienna) and Institute for Social Anthropology (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia: Body Cultivation, Therapeutic Intervention and the Sowa Rigpa Industry. Conference co-organizer & chair, August 1-3, Vienna
2016. IASTAM-India, First International Conference on Advances in Asian Medicine (ICAAM), Special RATIMED Symposium on Tibetan Medicine: The Emerging Sowa Rigpa Industry in Asia. Symposium organizer, January 5, Pune, India
2012. AG Medical Anthropology International Conference: The Interstitial Body: mapping the space between medicine and the nation. Organizer & chair of invited panel, November 29-December 1, Vienna
2012. AAA American Anthropological Association Conference: Of National Bodies, Borders, and Medical Nations: rethinking the body politic. Organizer & chair of invited double panel, November 14-18, San Francisco
Keynote lectures
2023. International Symposium of Traditional Mongolian Integrative Medicine II: The Mongol Branch of Sowa Rigpa – Traditional and Integrative Medicine in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Buryatia. September 20, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (Zoom presentation)
2018. BRICS International Medical Forum: The Northern Branch of Sowa Rigpa: Tibetan-Mongolian Medicine in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Siberia. November 20, Moscow, Russia
2016. 100 Year Founding Anniversary of Men-Tsee-Khang: Tibetan Medical Education Outside China. September 13, Lhasa, China
2016. IASTAM-India, First International Conference on Advances in Asian Medicine: The Transnational Sowa Rigpa Industry in Asia. January 5, Pune, India
Invited papers & lectures
2023. National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute, „Workshop on Medicinal Animals and Asia“: A Case of Faunal De-Medicalization? Animal Medicines in Contemporary Sowa Rigpa Pharmaceutical Practice. May 11, Singapore
2023. Central Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Dept of Sowa Rigpa: Lecture on Research Methodology. April 12, Sarnath, India
2022. University of Vienna, Dept for Social and Cultural Anthropology, „Habilitationskolloquium“: From Tibetan Medicine to Asian Medical Industries – Trans/Nationalism, Pharmaceutical Assemblages, and Socioeconomic Transformations of Asia. October 18, Vienna
2022. Mongolian Academy of Sciences & Mongolian University of Science and Technology, „Symposium on Traditional Mongolian Veterinary Medicine“: Traditional Veterinary Medicine in Mongolia – a preliminary historical and anthropological perspective. July 7, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2021. University of Oslo, Dept of Community Medicine and Global Health: An Elephant in the Room? Sowa Rigpa as an Asian Medical Industry. March 16, Zoom seminar lecture
2021. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram: Tibetan Medicine Between Traditional Knowledge and Modern Science. February 24, Zoom seminar lecture
2020. ÖAW Öffentliche Sitzung der phil-hist Klasse: Bericht aus dem Institut für Sozialanthropologie. March 5, Vienna
2019. Padma AG & Uni Bern international workshop, Probing Flexibility – Tibetische Medizin im internationalen Kontext: Neue Erkenntnisse zur tibetischen Medizinindustrie – Resultate des RATIMED Projekts. June 27, Zürich
2019. UC Berkeley Symposium: Reflections on Traditions and Technologies – Ethical Engagements and New Directions in the Study of South Asian Medicines. April 4, Zoom conference
2018. Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography: The Northern Branch of Sowa Rigpa: Tibetan/Mongolian Medicine in Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Siberia. November 22, Moscow
2018. Anthropological Atelier, Oriental Institute (Czech Academy of Sciences) & Institute for Social Anthropology (Austrian Academy of Sciences): From Tibetan to Mongolian Medicine. Contextualizing Historiography and the Emergence of a Pharmaceutical Industry. June 7, Prague
2018. Third International Conference on Tibetan Medicine: Sowa Rigpa in Asia – A Quantitative Overview. February 26, Sarnath, India
2017. Harvard Medical School, Third Annual Conference of the WFCMS Specialty Committee of Tibetan Medicine: From Local Health Tradition to Transnational Industry: The Alienation of Tibetan Medicine. October 7, Boston
2017. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: Traditionelle Mongolische Medizin: Kontinuität und Wandel in globalem Kontext. June 26, Munich, Germany
2017. Otoch Manramba Mongolian Medical University: Sowa Rigpa in Modern Asia: From traditional medicine to innovative industry. March 16, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2016. Oxford University ArgO-EMR Seminar, Botanical Ontologies in Asian Medicine: The Pharmaceutical Assemblage: Rethinking Sowa Rigpa and the herbal pharmaceutical industry in Asia. November 9, Oxford, UK
2016. British Academy & Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropology in Austria Day: From Buddhist Deities to the Spirit of Capitalism: Tibetan Medicine and the Remaking of Inner Asia. November 8, London, UK
2015. World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, Tibetan Medicine Committee Inaugural Conference: Pharmaceutical Assemblages: Assessing the Transnational Sowa Rigpa Industry in Asia. August 7-9, Xining, China
2015. Globhealth ERC Advanced Grant Conference, From International to Global: Knowledge, Diseases and the Postwar Government of Health, CNRS/ INSERM/ CERMES3: From Scarcity to Profit: Traditional Medicine and Global Health. February 12-14, Paris, France
2014. National Rehabilitation and Early Detection Center: From Traditional Medicine to Pharmaceutical Industry: The development of Sowa Rigpa in Mongolia, India, China and Bhutan. December 3, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2014. International Symposium, Institute for Social Anthropology & Department for South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Transforming Tibetan Anatomy. Panel chair & welcome speech, June 12-13, Vienna, Austria
2014. Argo-EMR Workshop on The Transmission of Tibetan Medicine, University of Oxford: Tibetan Medical Education in Exile. May 22-23, Oxford, UK
2014. National Conference on Medicinal Plants, Government of India (Council for Development of Rural Areas, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, Dept. of AYUSH, Dept. of Biotechnology): Assessing the Role of Materia Medica in Traditional Pharmaceutical Industries: The Case of Sowa Rigpa. February 21-22, Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi, India
2014. Azim Premji University & St. John’s Research Institute: The Development and Preservation of Tibetan Medicine in India & Reassembling Tibetan Medicine. February 10-11, Bengaluru, India
2013. Anthropological Atelier, Institute for Social Anthropology: Rupture of Exile, Risks of Loss: Preserving Tibetan medical Knowledge in India. December 4-6, Vienna, Austria
2013. Wednesday Lecture, University of Vienna: Reassembling Tibetan Medicine: the formation of a transnational Sowa Rigpa industry in contemporary India, China, Mongolia and Bhutan. December 4, Vienna
2012. AAA American Anthropological Association Conference: Alternate Imaginaries: Tibetan medicine, ethical bodies and the modern nation. November 14-18, San Francisco, USA
2012. Universität Rostock, 6th Symposium of the Graduate School on Cultural Encounters and the Discourse of Scholarship: The Politics of Preservation and Loss: Tibetan medical knowledge in exile. September 27-29, Rostock, Germany
2011. Cardiff University: Making a ‘Medical System’: Tibetan Medicine in Exile. January 21-22, Cardiff, UK
2010. Bhutan Exhibition, Wien Energie Haus: Wie ‘wissenschaftlich’ ist die Tibetische Medizin? Beobachtungen zur Effektivität, Qualität und Überprüfbarkeit eines traditionellen Heilsystems. August 25, Vienna
2008. Indian Institute of Advanced Study: Marketing the Tibetan Cause: Tibetan Medicine between Business and Politics. March 13-14, Shimla, India
2008. French Institute of Pondicherry: Shifting Registers of Illegitimacy: Tibetan Medicine in India. March 7-9, Pondicherry, India
2006. French Institute of Pondicherry: The Institutionalization of Tibetan Medicine in the Indian Exile. May 30, Pondicherry, India
Conference papers & lectures
2021. ECSAS European Conference on South Asian Studies: (Con)textualizing Asian Medicines – the „documentization“ of Sowa Rigpa and the anthropology of texts. July 26-29, Vienna, Austria (online)
2020. EASA European Association for Social Anthropologists Conference: Asian Health Industries – the success and obsolescence of ‚traditional medical systems‘. July 21-24, Lisbon, Portugal (online)
2017. ICTAM-9 International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, IASTAM: Gauging the Transnational Sowa Rigpa Industry: Patterns, Dynamics, and Modes of Production. (with Harilal Madhavan) August 8, Kiel, Germany
2017. International Conference on Medicine and Yoga in South and Inner Asia, University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences: The Emergence of a Traditional Mongolian Medicine Industry. (with Harilal Madhavan) August 2, Vienna
2017. Transfigurationen. Conference of AG Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Switzerland, Vienna Dialogues in Medical Anthropology, University of Basel: Von Medizinsystemen zu Medizinindustrien: Medizinanthropologische Transfigurationen traditioneller asiatischer Medizin. February 17, Basel, Switzerland
2016. IATS International Association for Tibet Studies Conference: Humanitarianism from Below: Tibetan Medicine and Nationalism in Global Context. June 19-24, Bergen, Norway
2013. ICTAM-8 International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, IASTAM: Reassembling Tibetan Medicine: The Formation of a Transnational Sowa Rigpa Industry. September 9-13, Sancheong, South Korea
2013. EASA-SMA European Association for Social Anthropologists – Society for Medical Anthropology Joint International Conference: Engaging the World through Tibetan Pharmaceuticals. June 12-14, Tarragona, Spain
2012. AG Medical Anthropology International Conference: An Alternate Body Politic: Tibetan Medicine and Nationalism in Exile. November 29-December 1, Vienna, Austria
2011. AAA American Anthropological Association Conference: When Experts Meet: the politics of theorizing the other. November 16-20, Montreal, Canada
2011. DGV Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde Tagung: Die Alchemie exil-tibetischer Identität: Anmerkungen zur pharmazeutischen und politischen Wirksamkeit tibetischer Pillen. September 14-16, Vienna
2010. University of California, San Francisco: Tibetan Medicine in Exile: the ethics, politics and science of cultural survival. May 12, San Francisco
2010. Austrian Academy of Sciences: Of Potency and Impotence: Traditional Tibetan Medicine and Modern Quality Control. March 25, Vienna
2009. ICTAM-7 International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, IASTAM: Joining Forces: The Marriage of Modern Science and Tibetan Medicine in Exile. September 7-11, Thimpu, Bhutan
2009. ICTAM-7 International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicines, IASTAM: Is Tibetan Medicine ‘Indian’? The Recognition of Sowa Rigpa in India. September 7-11, Thimpu, Bhutan
2006. AAA American Anthropological Association Conference: Ethics of Survival, Politics of Altruism: Tibetan Medicine in Exile. November 15-19, San Jose, USA
2006. IATS International Association for Tibet Studies Conference: The Identity Politics of the Dharamsala Men-Tsee-Khang in India. August 27-September 2, Königswinter, Germany
