Conferences
2026: Biometric Cultural Citizenship: Translations of a Digital National Identification Policy in Nepal, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, Galway, Ireland, June 28-July 2.
2026: Digital ID Development Framework for the Global South: A Political Economic Approach, International Association for Media and Communication, Galway, Ireland, June 28-July 2.
2025: Faith-based Activism against Biometric Identification: Resistance to Aadhaar Enrolment in Mizoram. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, Singapore, July 13–17.
2025: Secretive Digital State: Hidden Policy Documents and the Issues of Transparency and Accountability of the National Identification System in Nepal. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) annual conference, Singapore, July 13–17.
2025: Between Dependency and Sovereignty: Technology Development, International Tech Companies, and Digital Identifications in South Asia. IAMCR Preconference: InterAsian Digitalities: Rethinking Theories and Methods, Singapore, July 12.
2025: Digital ID Dependency in the Global South: The Political Economy of the National Identification System in Nepal. 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Denver, U.S.A, June 12–16.
2025: An InterAsian Digitalities Framework: A Proposal for Digital Identification Systems Studies. 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Denver, U.S.A, June 12–16.
2025: The Transnationality of Identification Systems: Mobilities, Mediations, Methods. 75th Annual International Communication Association Conference, Denver, U.S.A, June 12–16.
2025: Digital ID Myth Makers: Expert Imaginaries and the National Identification System in Nepal. Association for Asian Studies (AAS-in Asia) Conference, Kathmandu, June 3.
2025: An InterAsian Digitalities Framework: A Proposal for National Digital Identification Studies. 7th Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) Conference, Beirut, Lebanon, May 15–17.
2024: Transnational Nepali Cinemas: South-South Partnerships in Early Regional Co-production Cinema Practices in South Asia. Symposium on South Asian Screen Cultures, 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, U.S.A, October 30.
2024: Digital Capitalism in the Global South: The Political Economy of the National Identification System in Nepal. International Association for Media and Communication Research Annual Conference, Otautahi Christchurch, New Zealand, June 30–July 4.
2024: Digital Sovereignty for Whom? Critical Discourse Analysis of Data Localization and Social Media Platform Regulation in Nepal. ICA 2024 Postconference: Digital Sovereignty for Whom? Technological Autonomy in Geopolitical Affairs, University of Sydney, Australia, June 25.
2024: A “Failed Government Service Holder and Addicted Literary Researcher”: A Biographical Inquiry of Media Historiography of Shiva Regmi. IAMCR Preconference: Repressed Histories of Communication and Media Studies, Gold Coast, Australia, June 20.
2023: Emergence of the Ethics of Information Abundance: Audience Resistance and the Recycling of Digital News Archives on Social Media in Nepal. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, online, July 9–13.
2022: Digital Media Accountability: Audience Participation on Social Media, Online Violence against Media and an Incident from Nepal. Online Pre-conference, European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), Digital Culture and Communication (DCC) section, October 12.
2022: E-governance Meets Digital Capitalism: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of National ID Cards in Nepal. International Conference on Digital Governance and Digital Politics in South Asia, Department of Political Science St. Joseph’s College North Point, Darjeeling (WB) India – 734104, September 15–16.
2022: Cooperation in Digital Journalism: Construction of Online Newspapers in Nepal (1995–2003). Annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Tsinghua University - China, Online, July11– July 15.
2021: Digital Media Accountability: Audience Participation on Social Media, Online Violence against Media and a Critical Incident from Nepal. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, Online, July 11–15.
2021: No Policy without Us: Dominant Stakeholders and Making of Media Policy Drafts in Nepal. IAMCR Pre-conference: Institutions, Interventions, Transgressions: Glocal Media Policies and Praxis from South Asia, Online, July 10.
2019: From Media Accountability to Violence: Audience Participation and Opposition in the Proposed LED Bulb Procurement Episode on Social Media. 8th Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, July 24-26, Kathmandu, Nepal.
2019: Ethics of Information Abundance: Recycling Nepali Newspaper Archive Content on Social Media. Chautari Annual Conference, April 21-22, Kathmandu.
2017: Making a Brand Product: Nepali Newspapers on the Net in the 1990. Chautari Annual Conference ‐ 2017
2015: Rise and Fall of High Level Information Technology Commission in Nepal. Fourth Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, 22 to 24 July, Kathmandu.
2014: Holding Stake or Power: Stakeholder Participation in Nepal and Making of Media Policy Drafts (2012-2013). Third Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, 23-25 July, 2014, Kathmandu.
2012: ‘We the Janajatis’: Activism of Inap Weekly for Newars and other Janajatis during the Decade of the 'Reformed Panchayat', 1982-1990. Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya, Kathmandu, July 18-22.
2011: Countering Exclusion in Reformed Panchayat System in Nepal: A Case Study of Portrayals of Adivasi Janajati in Nepal Bhasa Weekly Inap (1982-1990). Conference on Structures of Exclusion, Indian Formation Research Society Delhi University, November 23-25.
2011: Politics of Melodrama: Discourses of Modernity and Tradition in State-made Cinemas in Nepal (1973-1990. 24th conference of IAMHIST on Media History and Cultural Memory, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 6-10.
2011: Propaganda of Panchayat System: A Story of Magazine Ramjham(1974-1990). Second Media Conference, Martin Chautari, March 27.
2010: The History of Life and Death of Royal Nepal Film Corporation. Media Research Conference, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, March 26.
Invited Talks and Seminars
2026: International Support for Digital Identification in the Global South, Web Summit Qatar, February 2.
2026: Foreign Aid and the Governance of Digital National Identification in Nepal. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research’s Trust Seminar, Online, March 9.
2025: Voices of Change: How Nepal’s Youth Shaped Revolution. The South Asian Society of Georgetown University in Qatar, September 25.
2025: ID Support in the Global South: The Role of International Development Agencies and Multinational IT Corporations in the Development of National Digital Identifications. Theory and Method Winter School on Arab and Southern Digitalities, Northwestern University in Qatar, January 8–10.
2024: Digital Sovereignty in Nepal: A Discourse Analysis. Research seminar, Martin Chautari, June 9, 2024.
2023: Need of New Laws Related to Civil Society and Its Debate. Laws Related to Civil Society and Its Economic Aspect, Martin Chautari, Kathmandu, June 25.
2023: Writing and Literacy in the Digital Era. One-Day Symposium on Writing and Literacy Studies in the Context of Nepal, Kathmandu University School of Education, Department of Language Education, Kathmandu, May 28
2023: Regulation, Ethics & the issue of media professionalism. National Seminar on Professionalism & diversity in Nepali Media, Media Action Nepal, Kathmandu, January 10.
2022: E-governance Meets Digital Capitalism: Sociotechnical Imaginaries of National ID Cards in Nepal. Governing Technologies: Exploring datafied practices, imaginaries, and digital state assemblages in Asia, Monash University and University of Nottingham, Online, October 20–21.
2022: The Situation of Data Protection in Nepal. Research seminar at Martin Chautari, November 27.
2022: The social surveillance: The Impact of social media platforms in the global south. Himal South Asian, Twitter space, September 22.
2022: Policies and Practices of Freedom of Expression in the Digital World in Nepal. Centre for Himalayan Studies, University of North Bengal ,India, September 13.
2022: Research at Martin Chautari. Nepali Department of Darjeeling Government College, September 14.
2022: Interaction between possible contributors and the editors of Journal Samaj Adhyayan. Martin Chautari, June 26.
2022: Research Methodology. Academic Training Workshop Enhancing Capacity of Rights-Based Advocates, Marin Chautari at Bardibas, Mahottari, June 11–12.
2022: Process of the Making of Privacy Act and Policy Changes, Research Seminar, Martin Chautari, May 3.
2022: Verbatim / Transcription / Document Utility, System and Approaches. Capacity Building Program for the Staffs of Federal Parliament Secretariat, Federal Parliament Secretariat, April 9.
2022: Practices of Digitization of Newspapers and the Road Ahead of Gorkhapatra Corporation. Gorkhapatra Digital Archive Workshop, Gorkhapatra Corporation, Dhulikhel, March 27.
2022: 14 Years of Gorkhapatra's Naya Nepal Multilingual Pages: Achievement, Challenges and Possibilities Workshop for Co-coordinators of Naya Nepal Pages " Gorkhapatra Corporation, Dhulikhel, Nepal, March 11.
2021: Policy Process of Electronic Transaction Act, 2063 v.s , Martin Chautari, December 12,.
2021: Digital Rights in Nepali National Policy , Martin Chautari, May 4 .
2021: Bibliography. Martin Chautari Seminar, September 29.
2019: The Digital Archives of Nepali Newspapers. Archives Related to Research on Nepali History, Martin Chautari, July 21 .
2019: Digital Transitions of a Public News Media: A Case of Gorkhapatra Corporation. Research seminar, Martin Chautari, May 7.
2018: Digital Transition of Nepali News Media: A Case of Kantipur Publications, Chautari Sunday Seminar, May 20.
2017: My Rite to Passage: From Zero to Final Draft of an Article. Research and Writing: Orientation Workshop, September 17–18.
2014: Visions of Nepali Information Technology Policies. Universal Connectivity Discussion Series, Martin Chautari, September 12.
2013: How to Write History of Nepali Magazines? Research Seminar, Martin Chautari, August 4.
2012: ‘Maoist Magazines’: Relation between Market and Political Party. Workshop on Media Research, Martin Chautari and Kathmandu University, September 10.
2012: The Attempted Assassination of Padam Thakurathi in 1986: Rethinking Periodization in Nepali Media Historiography. Workshop on ‘Ruptures and Repairs in Nepali History’, Martin Chautari, Central Department of History, Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu Nepal and Kyoto University, Kathmandu, August 19–20.
2012 : Vote for Prashant Tamang: Representation of an Indian Idol in the Nepali Print Media and Manufacturing of a Nepali “National Identity”. Oxford seminar, Oxford, UK, March 13.
2012: Vote For Prashant Tamang: Representation of an Indian Idolin the Nepali Print Media and Manufacturing of a Nepali“National Identity”. The School of Oriental and African Studies seminar, London, March 7.
2012 : Open Discussion on the Future of ‘Media Discussion Series’. Martin Chatuari, February 2.
2011: Issues of Janajati Movement in Post Referendum Nepali Media. Martin Chautrai, October 20.
2011: Resurgence of ‘Nepali National Identity’ in the Age of Identity Politics and Media Globalization: Prashant Tamang’s Performance in Indian Idol 3 and Discourses in Nepali Print Media. Kathmandu workshop on 'Creation of Public Meaning during Nepal's Democratic Transition', September 4–5.
2011: Politics of ‘Communication for Development’. Intentions and Consequences of the National Communication Services Plan 1971 in Nepal (1970-1990). Winter School on Historical Development Experiences, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, January 23–28 .
2011: Bibliography, Reference and Work Cited, Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows, Martin Chautari, January 18.
2010: Content Analysis. Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows, Martin Chautari, April 11.
2010: Bibliography, Reference and Work Cited. Study and Research in Diversity and Pluralism for Education fellows, Martin Chautari, February 9.
2009: Politics of the concept 'Communication for Development' during Panchayat Period. Media Research , Martin Chautari, April 16.
2008: Practices of Radio Network and Situation of Local Radios. Media Discussion, Martin Chautari, November, 27.
Guest Lectures
2026: Introduction of Communication Technology Theories, Journalism and Mass Communication Postgraduate Level, R R Campus, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, May 27.
2026: Introduction of Communication Technology Theories, Journalism and Mass Communication Postgraduate Level, R R Campus, , Nepal, May 21.
2026: Cyber Governance and Lawmaking in Nepal: The Case of the Electronic Transactions Act, 2006. Media Digital Policy Guest Lecture. June 1, Lincoln College, Kathmandu, Nepal, June 1.
2025: The Questions Concerning Transparency and Accountability of the National Identification System in Nepal. Journalism and Mass Communication Mphil. Level, Central Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 23.
2024 : MCJ 523 MC Research in Mass Communication, Mass Communication and Journalism MA Level, Polygon College, Purbanchal University, May 26.
2024: Digital Racism, Northwestern University in Qatar, undergraduate course on Race and Racisms, NUQ, April 15.
2012: State of News Media in Nepal: Scenario and Trends. ‘Society, Culture and Politics in Nepal’ undergraduate class, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London, February 28 .
2012: Chaos or Rebuilding: Some Trends of Nepali Media in the Post Conflict Situation. ‘Culture and Conflict in the Himalaya’ MA class, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London,, February 23.