Seminar talks
2017 “Reclaiming subjectivity. Marginalisation and cultural stereotypes in relationships between Japanese elderly and Indonesian care workers”. Europe Japan Research Centre Seminar Series, Oxford Brooks University, UK

2016 “Iconoclasm and blasphemy as critique from within. Calls for reformation in Japanese Buddhism”. Seminar at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

2016 “Buddhist encounters with modernity in Tokyo”. Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies Seminar Series, Waseda University, Japan

2015 “Reckoning with change and continuity. Socio-economic lives of Buddhist temples in Tokyo”. Seminar at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Conference and workshop presentations
2022 “Bodies in crisis. Imagining the otherwise in Asia. Part 1: The world we live in”. Discussant. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. Honolulu, USA

2021 “Ageing and water. The body on strike and the ethical effects of failure”. 120^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Baltimore, USA

2018 “Preaching to the secular. The predicaments of religious selves among Buddhist priests in Tokyo”. 16^th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions. Bern, Switzerland

2018 “Representation in motion: Taking footage of, for and with Buddhist temples in Tokyo”. Joint workshop between Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle, Germany

2017 “Buddhist business plan. Chance encounters and economic sustainability of Japanese Buddhist temples”. 116^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington DC, USA

2017 “Religious ritual and what the taxman has to do with it. Definitional tug-of-war between Buddhist temples, commercial companies and the state in Japan”. Workshop. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

2017 “Sensory ethnographies in spaces of co-production: The quest for alternative immersive experiences”. Discussant. 15th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Lisbon, Portugal

2013 “Friendship in care? Migrant eldercare workers' relationships with their non-migrant colleagues”. 112^th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, USA

2013 “Ascription of personhood. Care work and migration in Japan”.10^th Annual Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Sibiu, Romania

2013 “Working intimacies. Indonesian care worker experiences in Japan”.1^st European Association for Japanese Studies Japan Conference. Kyoto, Japan

2012 “Hospitality and amae”. 8^th European Association for Japanese Studies PhD Workshop. Newcastle, UK

2011 “Comparative socialities of migrants and people with disabilities”. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Conference. Lampeter, UK

2011 “Migrant care labour and policy responses in ageing Japan: Debating a new society”. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. Oxford, UK

2008 “The socio-political identity of Indonesian immigrants in Japan”. 24^th Association of South-East Asian Studies in the United Kingdom Conference. Liverpool, UK