“Multilayered Narratives of Women in a Conflict Zone.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. “Women, Islam, and Post-colonial Realities in Asia.” Washington D. C, Mar. 22, 2018.

Moderator and Presenter, “The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference. Washington D. C., Feb. 11, 2017.

“The Story of Kashmiri Women: Dialectics of Resistance and Accommodation.” 35th Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Feminist Transgressions.” San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 15, 2014. Chair of Panel, “The Parchment of Kashmir.” Modern Language Association Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, Jan. 5, 2013.

“Kashmiriyat and Kashmiri Women.” 33rd Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future.” Oakland, California, Nov. 11, 2012.

“Story of Kashmiri Women: Dialectic of Resistance and Accommodation.” 33rd Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future.” Oakland, California, Nov. 11, 2012.

“Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender, Community, and Nationhood.” 32nd Annual National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Feminist Transformations.” Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 11, 2011.

“Discourses on the Palimpsest of Kashmir.” 40th Annual Conference on South Asia. Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 21, 2011.

“Autonomy in Jammu and Kashmir.” Paper presented at the Conference organized by the Government of India selected Interlocutors for Jammu and Kashmir:

“Pluralism and Diversity in Jammu and Kashmir.” Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India, July 11, 2011.

“Linguistic and Cultural Ambidexterity in the Works of Sara Suleri Goodyear.” 24th Annual Multi Ethnic Literature of the United States Conference: “Ethnic Transformation of the Self and the City.” Paper presented at United States Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Language Studies Round Table Two: “Asian, Asian American and Arab American Literatures.” Scranton, Pennsylvania, April 9, 2010.

“Forces of Regionalism and Communalism in South Asia.” 10th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “The Sacred and the Secular in South Asian Literature and Culture.” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dec. 27, 2009.

Chair of Panel, “Religion, War, Terror, and Violence: The Effects of Trauma on the South Asian Child.” 10th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “The Sacred and the Secular in South Asian Literature and Culture.” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dec. 26, 2009.

“Nuclearization of the Kashmir Conflict.” Fourth Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference. Pre-conference Venue of the 38th South Asian Conference. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, Oct. 22, 2009.

“Forces of Regionalism and Communalism in the Global World.” Second Global Studies Conference, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, May 30, 2009.

“Women and the Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan.” Seventh Annual Kent Estes Justice for All Conference. College of Education, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, Feb. 13, 2009.

“Conceptualization and Crystallization of women’s Agency.” 9th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Literature and Culture.” San Francisco, California, Dec. 27, 2008. Chair of Panel, “Rhetorical and Generic Experiments.” 9th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Gender and Sexuality in South Asian Literature and Culture.” San Francisco, California, Dec. 27, 2008.

“Tracing the Insurgency in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan.”Global Studies Conference. University of Illinois, Chicago, May 16-18, 2008. Virtual Presentation. Chair of Panel,“Speaking with the Enemy.” Student Conference in Language and Literature 2008. Department of English, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, Apr. 4, 2008.

“Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender, Community, and Nationhood.” Faculty Roundtable: “Transnational Feminism and Research Methodology.” Women’s Studies Conference: “No Limits 2008: Transnational Feminism.” University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, Mar. 1, 2008.

Chair of Panel, “Traversing Political, National, and International Spaces.” Womens’ Studies Conference: “No Limits 2008: Transnational Feminism.” University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, Feb. 29, 2008.

“Islam, Women, and the Violence in Kashmir: Between India and Pakistan.” 8th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Social Justice in South Asian Cultural Practices.” Chicago, Dec. 27, 2007. Chair of Panel, “Nationalism, Religious Fundamentalism, and Transnationalism in the Global Arena.” 7th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Postcolonialism and South Asian Diasporas.” Philadelphia, Dec. 26, 2006.

“The Politics of Nationalism and Transnationalism in the Works of V.S. Naipaul.” 35th Annual Conference on South Asia. Wisconsin-Madison, Oct. 22, 2006.

“Citizenship in a Transnational Age: Culture and Politics in Amitav Ghosh’ Shadow Lines.” 15th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Feb. 24, 2006.

Chair of Panel, “Style, Irony, Allusion, and Other Literary Matters.” 15th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, Feb. 24, 2006.

“V.S. Naipaul: Myths of origin and of National Sensibility.” Modern Language Association Convention, Division 33: English Literature Other Than British and American: “V.S. Naipaul: Contemporary Revaluations.” Washington D.C., Dec. 28, 2005.

“Nationalism vs. Universalism in Amitav Ghosh‘s Shadow Lines.” South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Secularism: Possibilities and Limits.” Washington D.C., Dec. 26, 2005.

“Place and the Politics of Identity in the Works of South Asian Female Writers.” Women’s Studies Conference: “Erasing Boundaries: Women’s Studies in the New Millennium.”

University of Nebraska at Kearney, Mar. 5, 2005.

“Transnationalism as Hybridization in Rushdie’s Satanic Verses.” 6th Annual South Asian Literary Association Conference: “Transnationalism and its Discontents.” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dec. 26-27, 2004.

“Sophistic Underpinning of Platonic Dichotomies.” Student Association of Graduate English Studies Conference: “In the Presence of Ideology: Research, Rhetoric, Representation.” University of Oklahoma, Mar. 9, 2001.

“The Reinscription of Dichotomies in Rushdie’s Hybridized Protagonists.”Sixth Graduate Student Conference: “The Concept of Hybridity.” University of Oklahoma, Oct. 14-16, 1999.

“The Irresolvability of Manichean Binarism in Haroun and the Sea of Stories.” Sixth Annual Student Conference: “The Concept of Hybridity.” University of Oklahoma, Oct. 14-16, 1999.