Institute for Social Studies / Development & Change Publication Workshop, Hague, Netherlands, November 2022
Article manuscript presentation – ‘Crypto by Fiat (Order): State-Sanctioned Mining at the Hydro-Crypto Nexus and Navigating Financial Crises During Covid-19’
University of Cambridge – Cambridge, UK, November 2022
Physical to Digital Infrastructure Transitions in Contemporary Asia
Johns Hopkins SAIS -Southeast Asia League of Students (SEALS) Talk, Washington D.C., October 2022
Comparative Physical-to-Digital Infrastructure Transitions in Southeast Asia
APSA Asia Publication Workshop, Political Economy Group, Bangkok, Thailand, July 2022
Manuscript discussion
Association for Asian Studies Conference – Panel on Hydropower in the Mekong, Honolulu, HI, March 2022
Risky Business: Fast Finance & Faulty Infrastructure – the Case of Lao PDR
APSA 2021, (Virtual) Seattle, WA, September 2021
Disaster by Design: Submersed Stakeholders & the Political Economy of Dam Failure
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), (Virtual) Amsterdam, Netherlands- July 2021
Post-Socialism the Mekong Way: Sino-Investment in the CLMV Countries
Michigan State University – East West Center- April 2021
Mekong Dams: Debates and the Politics of Evidence
International Studies Association – ISA, April 2021 (Virtual)
Panel on ‘Competing Powers & Southeast Asian Energy Futures’ (WC41)
Stimson Center – Mekong Dam Monitor Launch, Washington D.C., December 2020
Stimson Center – US State Department launch of the Mekong Dam Monitor
Chatham House Asia, London, November 2020
Chatham House Asia webinar: Too Close for Comfort? China Southeast Asia Relations
East West Center, Washington D.C., April 2020 (Webinar)
East West Center, Washington D.C., September 2019
Johns Hopkins SAIS, Washington D.C., September 2019
‘Searching for Patient Lending in an Impatient World: Infrastructure, Finance and the Illusion of Capital”
APSA Asia Workshop, Universiti Sains-Malaya, Penang, Malaysia, June 2019
“Institutional Poaching & Parallel Governance Along the Mekong: From Flying Geese to Belt & Road” (article manuscript)
Development Studies Association (DSA), Open U. Milton Keynes, UK, June 2019
“Panel convenor and special issue on ‘Dams, Development, & Decision-Making:, New Directions’‘
Columbia U. SIPA/NYSEARN Public Lecture, NYC, April 2019
AAG Conference, Washington DC, April 2019
“‘Fast Finance: Who Gives a Dam? Hydro-energy Expansion & Environmental Governance in the Age of Post-DAC Competitive Capital’
Africa-Hydro 2019, Windhoek, April 2019
“Finance & Financialization Along the Mekong”
LSE International Development, Cumberland Lodge, Nov 2018
“(Mis)-Managing Water Resources Along the Mekong”
McGill University Doctoral Workshop 2015, Montreal, Canada, 2015
“Environmental Governance and Changing Land Institutions in the Age of Late Development: The Case of Lao PDR”
CLACSO-CODESRIA-APISA 5th South-South Summer Institute, Recife, Brazil, 2012
“Rethinking Development: Growth Regimes and Social Protection – the Case of Lao PDR”
ASEASUK, Panel on Laos in Historical & Contemporary Transition, Cambridge, UK, 2011
“On the Particular & the Shared: Lao PDR in Comparative Perspective”