MEDIA COVERAGE/TALKS

MEDIA COVERAGE:
October 9, 2010: Kantipur FM
Postcard from America/Farkera Herda America
Jan 11, 2011: Deutsche World (English) 
Global Ideas: TV Interview


 2009: France 24
The Most Significant Event of 2009

 October 2000: CNN International
Screening of WATER in the Q and A with Riz Khan

 TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS

July 2012: Oxford University, UK
Conference on religion and diaspora, Oxford University
Department of Anthropology
Paper presented: The religious life of the Gorkhalis of Myanmar
December 2011: Islamabad, Pakistan 
SDPI conference
Reading from "The End of the World"


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Jaipur Literature Festival
Jaipur, India--January 2010
jaipurliteraturefestival.org/

 Dangerous Women
Ubud Writers Festival, Bali, Indonesia--October 2009
http://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/

 Himalayan Readers Bookclub (HRB)
with support of Learning Zone members of British Council
Sushma Joshi, Sanjeev Upreti and Suvani Singh
Discussion and reading of "The End of the World"
April 25, 2009
British Council, Lainchour, Kathmandu

 Valparaiso Residency
Almeria, Spain--January 2009

 Berlinale Talent Campus
Berlin, Germany--February 2007

 The New York Film Academy in Paris
Screening of "The Escape"
Paris, France--July 2006

 Justice during Nepal's civil conflict
Tokyo University: presentation
Amnesty International: Access to justice during the conflict presentation
Okinamizu University--screening and discussion of "WATER"
Tokyo, Japan-September 2005

 Presentation of paper on trafficking (IASFM)
Sao Paolo, Brazil
January 2005

 "The People's War in Nepal"
With speaker Sushma Joshi, 2 pm, Flushing Library,
Queens, NY, USA
The library is located at 41-17 Main St. Free.
Mar 21, 2004

 August 2001: Breadloaf Writers Conference
Middlebury, Vermont, USA
Reading by Sushma Joshi

 Writing Europe 2001: Migrant Cartographies
Universiteit Leiden (22-24 March 2001)
Paper presented: Mosques, Pubs and Hip-Hop Clubs: The Sylheti community in the East End 
Deakins University, Melbourne, Australia (6-8 July 1999)
Paper presented: Cheli-Beti: Discourses of trafficking, and gender, sexuality and citizenship in modern Nepal

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