Selected Invited Talks

  • Brown University, PSTC Colloquium (2026) — “Soldiers Without a Nation.”

  • University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Anthropology Colloquium and Center for India and South Asia (2025) — “Waiting for their War to Come.”

  • Case Western Reserve University, Anthropology Talk ( 2024) — “To Starve, To Strike, To Mobilize.”

  • California State University, Long Beach (2023) — “Rousing a Nation Across Nations.”

  • Louisville Committee of Foreign Relations (2023) — “India, China, and Tibet : The Forgotten Minority?”

  • Princeton University, Anthropology Colloquium (2019) — “Enemies of the State”

  • Fels Policy Research Institute Seminar Series (2017) — “Unheard Voices: What Refugee Communities Can Teach Us.”

Statue of Pawo Tenzin Nyima, soldier in the Indian Army who was martyred in April 2020. Image by Ishani Dasgupta, May 2023.

Interviews

  • “Inside the Deterritorialized Tibetan Nation.” Interview by Prof. David Buckley (2022). Click here to Listen

  • “Interview with Ishani Dasgupta, 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner” (2019). Association of Political and Legal Anthropology. Read More

Anu Sharma, Erik Harms, and Ishani Dasgupta at the 2019 AAA Annual Meeting. Image By Randi Irwin

Selected Academic Convenings Organized

  • The Indian Supreme Court at 75: Reflections on Independence and Accountability Featuring Justice S. Murlidhar of India. Pozen Center for Human Rights and the University of Chicago’s Law School (2025).

  • Tibetan Poetry as Resistance: Conversation with Tibetan poet, translator, and writer Bhuchung D. Sonam. Pozen Center for Human Rights, University of Chicago (2024).

  • The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India: Conversation with Alpa Shah on her latest book. Pozen Center for Human Rights (2024).

  • Religion and Electoral Institutions in Asia. Center for Asian Democracy, International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), United States Institutes of Peace, Washington, D.C. (2023).

  • Disinformation and Its Political Impacts. Panel Discussion, Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville (2022).Click here to watch the video

  • Migration: Points of Entry, Points of Departure. Annual Wolf Humanities Center Symposium, University of Pennsylvania (2022). Click here to Learn More

  • Citizenship in Crisis? A Panel Discussion on India and Myanmar. Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2021). Click here to watch the video.

  • What Kind of Politics are Enabled by the Study of White Identity and/or White Privilege?," Race and Politics Series, Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy, University of Pennsylvania (2021).