Conference Organization
Mini-Conference: “Southeast Asian Politics.”  Western Political Science Association (21-23 May 2020)

Conference: “Asia in the World.” Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Aliso Viejo CA (19-20 October 2018)

Invited Presentations / Workshops
Centre for Welsh Governance, Cardiff Wales (29 June 2023), “The Forms and Goals of Territorial Autonomy”

The Many Faces of Territorial Autonomy, Berlin Germany (14-15 June 2023) “On the Many Forms and Goals of Territorial Autonomy”

PBRC Faculty Research Talk (28 March 2023) “Territorial Autonomy & Indigenous Self- Government: A Global Perspective”

Subnational Politics and Regimes Network (19 July 2022) “Understanding Self-Governments: Towards a Typology of Territorial Autonomy”

PBRC Faculty Fellow Talks, Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo CA (11 March 2021)
Presentation: “Indonesian Autonomies: Or, How I Spent my 2019-20 Sabbatical as a PBRC Faculty Fellow”.  Video available here.

Militia Workshop, Queen’s University, Belfast (27-28 February 2020)
Presented paper: “Disturbing the Peace: Paramilitarism across Southeast Asia”

Claremont Athenaeum Talk, Claremont CA (13 February 2020)
Seminar: “Rethinking Territorial Autonomy”

Return to Society: Demobilization, Remobilization of Former Combatants, Leiden Netherlands (20-21 January 2020)
Presented paper: “Disturbing the Peace: Paramilitarism across Southeast Asia”

Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC Canada (08 January 2020)
Seminar: “Indigenous Territorial Autonomy”

Singapore Management University, Singapore (10 December 2019)
Seminar: “Rethinking Territorial Autonomy”

SMERU Research Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia (05 December 2019)
Seminar: “Inferences in Qualitative Research: Ethnography, Case Studies, and Comparative Analysis”

Center for Law and Policy Studies, Jakarta Indonesia (04 December 2019)
Seminar: “Territorial Autonomy in Indonesia and Beyond”

Australian National University, Indonesia Project, Canberra ACT (27 November 2019)
Seminar: “Territorial Autonomy in Indonesia and Beyond”

Australian National University, Canberra ACT (13 November 2019)
Seminar: “Rethinking Territorial Autonomy”

University of Victoria, BC Canada (24-25 October 2018)
Invited Roundtable Participant: “Ethno-Religious Nationalism and Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia”

University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA (22 May 2017)
Graduate Colloquium, “Rethinking Autonomy”

PBRC / East West Center Workshop on Governance and Integration for Internal Migrants (17-18 March 2017)
Conference Organizer; Presented paper: “Displacement and Reintegration in Aceh, Indonesia”

Peace Science Society, Notre Dame (20-22 October 2016).
Workshop participant, “Understanding Militias”, discussing topic “Militias: Pro-State or Anti-Rebel?”

American Political Science Association Conference, Philadelphia PA (30 August 2016)
Workshop participant, “Studying Southeast Asian Politics,” presenting paper “Dangerous Fieldwork in Southeast Asia”

International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta GA (15-19 March 2016)
Workshop participant, “Religion and Peace: Possibilities, Challenges, and Prospects”

University of California, Irvine (06 February 2015)
Invited Speaker for Professor Steven Topik, presented paper “Coffee: An Indian Ocean Perspective”

Symposium: Social Resistance in Non-Democracies, Lund Sweden (24-26 November 2014)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”

Symposium: Framing Asian Studies: Geopolitics, Institutions and Networks, Netherlands (18-20 November 2013)
Presented paper: “Area Studies, Asian Studies, and the Pacific Basin”

Portland State University (16 January 2013)
Invited Speaker, International Studies, presented paper “Shrouded: Indicators of Holy War in Southeast Asia”

Symposium: Yale Conference on Militias, New Haven CT (19-20 October 2012)
Presented paper: “State Proxy or Security Dilemma?  Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War”

Symposium: Rebel Governance, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH (10-12 September 2010)
Presented paper: “Rebel State, Strong Society: Civilian Influence on Rebel Governance in Aceh”

Symposium: Religious Non-State Actors and Human Security, Seattle WA (6-8 May 2009)
Presented paper: “Ulama, the State, and War: Islam-State Relations in the Aceh Conflict”

Symposium: Religious Non-State Actors and Human Security, Seattle WA (8 May 2008)
Presented paper: “Ulama as Umpire: Islamic Leaders in the Aceh Conflict”

Symposium: Learning to Lose: Dominant Parties in Quasi-Democratic Systems, Toronto ON (31 March 2006)
“Learning to Lose?  Not If UMNO Can Help It”

University of British Columbia, Global Citizenship Speaker Series, Vancouver BC (30 January 2006)
Presented paper: “From Brazil to Banda Aceh: UBC Students Reflect on Global Citizenship”

Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta Indonesia (14 April 2004)
Presented paper: “Neither Wolf, nor Lamb: Embracing Civil Society in the Aceh Conflict”

International Conferences
International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) 13, Surabaya, Indonesia (28 July – 01 August 2024)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Appreciating the Effects of ‘Sham’ Self-Rule”

AAS in Asia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (09-11 July 2024)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Appreciating the Effects of ‘Sham’ Self-Rule”

Asian Studies Conference of Japan (ASCJ), Tokyo Japan (02-04 July 2016)
Presented paper: “Power to the Province: Decentralizing Autonomy in Southeast Asia”
Organized panel: “Democracy in Indonesia: Struggles across Time”

AAS in Asia, Kyoto Japan (24-27 June 2016)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Organized panel: “Social Mobilization, Governance, and Polarization in Southeast Asian Politics”

Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, Coventry England (22-24 June 2015)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”

National Conferences
American Association of Geographers (AAG), Honolulu HI (16-20 April 2024)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Appreciating the Effects of ‘Sham’ Self-Rule”

International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco CA (03-06 April 2024)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Appreciating the Effects of ‘Sham’ Self-Rule”

Policy Sciences Annual Institute, World Bank, Washington DC (9-11 November 2023)
Discussant: “Anticipating and Supporting Internal Migration Destination Sites to Reduce Deprivation”

International Studies Association (ISA), Nashville TN (30 March-02 April 2022)
Presented paper: “Understanding Self-Governments: Towards a Typology of Territorial Autonomy”
Presented paper: “The Partisans: Indirect Violence by Civilian Non-Combatants in Civil War”
Chair and Discussant for panel, “Civilian Agency During Violent Conflict”

Policy Sciences Annual Institute, Claremont CA (18-20 October 2021)
Presented paper: “Indigenous Development and Underdevelopment in Southeast Asia”

American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle WA (30 September-03 October 2021)
Presented paper: “Indonesian Autonomies: Explaining Self-Government in Aceh and Papua”

International Studies Association (ISA), Virtual (06-10 April 2021)
Presented paper: “Making Autonomy Work: Contrasting Aceh and Papua”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Virtual (21-26 March 2021)
Organized panel: “Orde atau Kacau: Governance, Order, and Territory in Indonesia”
Presented paper: “Indonesian Autonomies: Contrasting Aceh & Papua”

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), Vancouver BC (04-06 June 2019)
Presented paper: “Civil Wars in Southeast Asia: Intersections of Class and Ethnicity”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Denver CO (21-24 March 2019)
Presented paper: “Aceh in Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean Worlds”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington DC (22-25 March 2018)
Presented paper: “Diversity in Unity: Acehnese Nationalism and its Minorities”

International Studies Association (ISA), San Francisco CA (04-08 April 2018)
Organized panel: “Internal Migration in Asia: Governance and Integration”
Presented paper: “Displacement and Reintegration in Aceh, Indonesia”
Discussant for panel: “Rebel Governance and Post-Conflict Politics”

American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco CA (31 August – 03 September 2017)
Chair for panel, “Southeast Asian Politics”
Chaired meeting for the Southeast Asian Politics Related Group

International Studies Association (ISA), Baltimore MD (22-25 February 2017)
Presented paper: ““Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Presented paper: “Rethinking Autonomy”

Policy Science Institute, Claremont CA (27-29 October 2016)
Presented Paper: “Rethinking Autonomy”

American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia PA (31 August – 04 September 2016)
Presented paper: “Decentralizing Autonomy: Power-Sharing among Ethnic Minorities”
Organizer / Chair for panel: “Political Diversity in Southeast Asia”
Discussant for panel: “The Legacies of Colonialism”

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), Calgary AB (31 May – 02 June 2016)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Organizer / Chair for panel: “Armed Conflicts in Social Contexts”

International Studies Association (ISA), Atlanta GA (15-19 March 2016)
Chair / Discussant for panel: “Opportunities and Organizations in Civil Wars”

Policy Sciences Institute, World Bank, Washington DC (11-13 November 2015)

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), Newport Beach CA (23-25 October 2015)
Presented paper: “Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic & Protestant Colonizers”
Chair / Discussant for panel: “Research on Missionaries”

American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco CA (03-06 September 2015)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Organizer / Chair for panel: “Social Resistance and State Responses in Southeast Asia”
Organizer / Chair for panel: “Southeast Asian Politics: Democracy and Security”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago IL (26-29 March 2015)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Organizer / Chair for panel: “Social Resistance in Non-Democracies”

International Studies Association (ISA), New Orleans LA (18-21 February 2015)
Presented paper: “Strife of the Soil: Unsettling Transmigrant Conflicts in Indonesia”

American Political Science Association (APSA), Washington DC (28-31 August 2014)
Presented paper: “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts”
Chair for panel: “The Contemporary Dynamics of Ethnic Conflict”

International Studies Association (ISA), Toronto ON (26-29 March 2014)
Presented paper: “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts”

Policy Sciences Institute, Ursinus College Pennsylvania (25-27 October 2013)

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), Victoria BC (4-6 June 2013)
Presented paper: “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ethnic Minorities in the Aceh Conflict”
Organized panel: “New Voices in Southeast Asian Politics”
Discussed / Organized panel: “Civil Wars and Post-Conflict Violence”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), San Diego CA (21-24 March 2013)
Presented paper: “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ethnic Minorities in the Aceh Conflict”
Organized panel: “Sub-Regional Minorities in Asian Conflicts”

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), Phoenix AZ (09-11 November 2012)
Presented paper with Ian Zatkin-Osburn: “Shrouded: Indicators of Holy War in Southeast Asia”

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), Edmonton AB (13-15 June 2012)
Presented paper: “State Proxy or Security Dilemma?  Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War”
Chair / Discussant for panel: Sources of Conflict and Violence”

International Studies Association (ISA), San Diego CA (01-04 April 2012)
Presented paper: “State Proxy or Security Dilemma?  Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War”
Organized / Chaired panel: “Serving the State?  Understanding Paramilitaries in War”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Honolulu HA (31 March – 03 April 2011)
Presented paper: “Strong State, Smothered Society: Explaining Violence in Thailand’s Deep South”

International Studies Association (ISA), Montreal QC (16-19 March 2011)
Presented paper: “Unarmed Forces: Civilian Options in Times of War”

International Studies Association (ISA), New Orleans LA (17-20 February 2010)
Presented paper: “Unarmed Forces: Village Authority and Non-Combatant Strategy in the Aceh Conflict”
Winner, Kenneth Boulding Award for best student paper in Peace Studies

Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), Denver CO (23-25 October 2009)
Presented paper: “Ulama, the State, and War: Islam-State Relations in the Aceh Conflict”

Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago IL (26-29 March 2009)
Presented paper: “Peace by Piece: Traditional Leaders and Conflict Mitigation”

International Studies Association (ISA), New York NY (15-18 Feb 2009)
Presented paper: “Peace by Piece: Village Peace Processes in Southeast Asia”

Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), London ON (3 June 2005)
Presented paper: “Insurgents or Resurgence?  Islam and Identity in Aceh”

Regional Conferences
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), Ogen Utah (11-12 October 2024)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Appreciating the Effects of ‘Sham’ Self-Rule”

Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Vancouver BC (28-30 March 2024)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Appreciating the Effects of ‘Sham’ Self-Rule”, Part of Mini-Conference on Comparative Authoritarianism

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), West Yellowstone (05-07 October 2023)
Organized panel / Chair: “Separatism and Minority Self-Rule in Asia”
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy across Asia: Assessing Challenges & Addressing Concerns”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (22-23 September 2023)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy in Autocracy: Effects of Sham Self-Government”
Presented paper: “Language Education in Territorial Autonomy: Politics, Nationalism, and Identities” (w/ Hiromi Nitaguchi)
Discussant for panel: “Asian and Middle Eastern Regional Power”

Western Political Science Association, San Francisco CA (06-08 April 2023)
Presented paper: “Territorial Autonomy & Indigenous Self-Government: A Global Perspective”
Discussant for panel: “Conflict Processes”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (23-24 September 2022)
Presented paper: “The Partisans: Indirect Violence by Civilian Non-Combatants in Civil War”
Presented paper: “Navigating Hard Times: Civilian Strategic Action & Political Violence” (w/ Tetsushi Ogata)

Western Political Science Association Conference, Portland OR (20-22 March 2022)
Presented paper: “The Partisans: Indirect Violence by Civilian Non-Combatants in Civil War”
Presented paper: “Understanding Self-Government: Towards a Typology of Territorial Autonomy”
Discussant for panel: “Contentious Politics”
Chaired panel: “State Politics and Policy”

Canadian Council for Southeast Asia Studies (CCSEAS), Vancouver BC (19-22 October 2021)
Presented paper: “Indonesian Autonomies: Self-Government in Aceh and Papua”
Organized roundtable: “Southeast Asian Politics: Celebrating the Work of Diane Mauzy”
Presented paper: “A Fruitful Union of Fact and Theory: Diane Mauzy on Political Science in Southeast Asia”

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), Virtual / BYU (09 October 2021)
Organized panel / Chair: “Papuan Lives Matter: Multilevel Resistance from Subnational to Transnational”
Presented paper: “Indonesian Autonomies: Self-Government in Aceh & Papua”
Chair / Discussant for undergraduate poster session
Roundtable presentation: “Teaching ‘Introduction to Southeast Asian Studies’: Challenges and Reflections”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (23-25 September 2021)
Presented paper: “Understanding Self-Governments: Towards a Typology of Territorial Autonomy”
Discussant for panel: “Conflict and Security”

Western Political Science Association Conference (21-23 May 2020)
Organized mini-conference: Southeast Asian Politics and the Boundaries of Belonging
Presented paper: “Making Autonomy Work: Contrasting Aceh and Papua”

Canadian Council for Southeast Asia Studies (CCSEAS), Montreal QC (24-26 October 2019)
Presented paper: “Disturbing the Peace: Paramilitarism across Southeast Asia”
Presented paper: “Displacement and Reintegration in Aceh, Indonesia”

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), Mexico City (18-19 October 2019)
Presented paper: “Aceh in Southeast Asia”

Western Political Science Association Conference, San Diego CA (18-20 April 2019)
Presented paper: “Diversity in Unity: Acehnese Nationalism and its Minorities”

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), Aliso Viejo CA (19-20 October 2018)
Conference Organizer

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS, co-hosted by SWCAS) Annual Meeting, Dallas TX (17-18 November 2017)
Presented paper, “Displacement and Reintegration in Aceh, Indonesia”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (22-23 September 2017)
Organized panel: “Studying the Pacific”; Presented paper: Writing and Teaching the Pacific Basin”
Presented paper: “Rethinking Autonomy”
Chair for panel: “Human Rights and Policy Change”

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), Salem OR (09-11 June 2017)
Presented paper: “Rethinking Autonomy in Southeast Asia”

Western Political Science Association Conference, Vancouver BC (13-16 April 2017)
Presented paper: “Rethinking Autonomy in Southeast Asia”

AAS-West Annual Conference (WCAAS), Missoula MT (23-24 September 2016)
Presented paper: “Power to the Province: Decentralizing Autonomy in Southeast Asia”

Asian Studies Conference of Japan (ASCJ), Tokyo Japan (02-04 July 2016)
Presented paper: “Power to the Province: Decentralizing Autonomy in Southeast Asia”
Organized panel: “Democracy in Indonesia: Struggles across Time”

AAS in Asia, Kyoto Japan (24-27 June 2016)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Organized panel: “Social Mobilization, Governance, and Polarization in Southeast Asian Politics”

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), Northridge CA (10-12 June 2016)
Presented paper: “Power to the Province: Decentralizing Autonomy in Southeast Asia”
Chaired panel: “Individual Papers: Southeast Asian Security”

Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), Puerto Rico (07-09 January 2016)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Chaired panel: “Political Institutions and Institutionalization”
Chaired / Discount for panel: “Democratic Culture in Authoritarian Contexts”

AAS-West Annual Conference (WCAAS), Salt Lake City UT (09-10 October 2015)
Presented paper: “Coffee: An Indian Ocean Perspective”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (25-27 September 2015)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Discussant for panel: “International Conflict and War”

Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference, Coventry England (22-24 June 2015)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), Stockton CA (5-7 June 2015)
Presented paper: “Under a Rebel Flag: Social Resistance under Insurgent Rule in Aceh, Indonesia”
Presented paper: “Coffee: An Indian Ocean Perspective”

AAS-West Annual Conference (WCAAS), Tempe AZ (03-04 October 2014)
Presented paper: “Strife of the Soil: Unsettling Transmigrant Conflicts in Indonesia”
Presented paper: “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts”
Discussant for panel: “Modern Southeast Asia”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (26-27 September 2014)
Presented paper: “Transmigration and Armed Conflict in Southeast Asia: Militants and Misconceptions”
Chaired panel: “Human Rights and Humanitarian Ethics”

Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), Bellingham WA (20-22 June 2014)
Presented paper: “The Best Ye Breed: Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic & Protestant Colonizers”
Presented paper: “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts”

American Academy of Religion (AAR) West, Los Angeles CA (08-09 March 2014)
Presented paper: “Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic & Protestant Colonizers”

Canadian Council for Southeast Asia Studies (CCSEAS), Montreal QC (17-19 October 2013)
Presented paper: “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts”
Chaired panel: “Local Identities and Resistance”

ISA-West Annual Conference, Pasadena CA (27-28 September 2013)
Presented paper: “Second-Order Minorities in Asian Secessionist Conflicts”
Winner, best paper award at ISA-West
Presented paper: “Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers”
Chaired panel: “Managing and Resolving Conflict”

International Security Studies Section (ISSS) ISA / International Security and Arms Control Section (ISAC) APSA, Irvine CA (13-15 October 2011)
Presented paper: “State Proxy or Security Dilemma?  Understanding Anti-Rebel Militias in Civil War”
Chaired / Discount for panel: “Civil Conflict: Anticipation and Reaction”

Asian Studies, Pacific Coast (ASPAC), Portland OR (18-20 June 2010)
Presented paper: “Strong State, Smothered Society: Explaining Violence in Thailand’s Deep South”
Winner, best student paper award

Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies (CCSEAS), Vancouver BC (15-17 October 2009)
Presented paper: “The State and War in Thailand’s South: Understanding Violence in Patani”
Organized panel: “Understanding Violence in Patani”

Canadian Association of Asian Studies (CASA), Waterloo ONT (13-16 November 2008)
Presented paper: “Peace by Piece: Village-Level Conflict Resolution in Southeast Asia”

Canadian Consortium on Asia-Pacific Security, Quebec City QC (2-4 December 2004)
Presented paper: “Turning the Corner: The 2004 Indonesian Elections”