“Contemporary Buddhist Studies,” Guest lecture, Ambedkar University Delhi, 14 April 2020.
“Buddhism and Business: Buddhist economic relations and tourism in Ladakh,” invited paper presentation at the Ambedkar University Delhi, 13 March 2020.
“Connectionwork: Analyzing the spread and expansion of Buddhism in the global market economy,” invited paper presentation at The Aesthetics of Religious Belonging: Asian Perspectives” workshop, Cliff College, 25-28 July 2019.
“The Last Shangri-la: Positioning Ladakh as a Global Buddhist Pilgrimage Site in India,” invited paper presentation at The Politics and Pathways of Return: trans-regional perspectives on a Buddhist homeland conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 28-29 June 2019.
“Something Rotten in Shangri-La”. Invited paper presentation at the Buddhist Consumption: Excess and Waste workshop, University of Copenhagen, May 23-24, 2019.
“The modern spectacle of Buddhist tourism and ritual in Ladakh, India.” Invited paper presentation at Buddhism and the Study of Buddhism in Nordic Countries conference, Aarhus University, June 3, 2019.
“Buddhism, business and believers,” invited public talk at the New Works in Buddhist Studies series, University of Michigan, Dec 11, 2018.
“Global Buddhist Youth in India: Buddhist transformations among 21st century lives,” invited public lecture at Bard College, NY, Dec 4, 2018.
“Connectionwork: Analyzing the spread and expansion of Buddhism in the global market economy” paper presentation at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Denver, CO, Nov 19, 2018.
“Buddhist ritual as ‘spectacle’- Aesthetics and technologies of mediating religious connections” paper presentation at the American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Denver, CO, Nov 18, 2018.
“The Rockstar Monk with a mission”: The millennial celebration of Naropa and his modern reincarnation,” invited public lecture at the “Comparative anthropology of Buddhism” Seminar: Buddhist Ritualities. Organised by N. Sihlé (CNRS-CEH) and B. Brac de la Perrière (CASE-EHESS-CNRS). Paris. Dec 22, 2017.
“Buddhist Youth in India: Transforming Buddhism to align with 21st century lives,” invited public lecture at the SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D’ÉTUDES DU MONDE TIBÉTAIN, INALCO. Dec 21, 2017.
“Examining the ‘value’ of spiritual tourism in Ladakh: Branding , marketization and commodification of Buddhism in the Indian Himalayas” paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association 116th Annual Meeting, Boston. Nov 29, 2017
“The Centrality of ‘Youth’ in Promoting and Reforming Buddhist Monasteries in Ladakh” paper presentation at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Nov 20, 2017.
“Value creation, marketization of spiritual tourism and religious transformation in Ladakh, India” paper presentation at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Nov 19, 2017.
“Socially Engaged Sangha Economies in Ladakh, India,” invited paper presentation at Sangha Economies conference, Max Planck Institute, Halle. Sep 21, 2017.
“Spectacularization of Buddhist rituals in Ladakh,” invited public lecture at Heidelberg University. Organized by Professor Inken Prohl. June 13, 2017.
“Spectacularization, aura and the disneyfication of Buddhism?” invited paper presentation at Buddhism and economics: New theoretical frontiers workshop, University of Copenhagen, June 25, 2017.
“The Spectacle of Buddhist Rituals: Recent Transformations of Monastery Festivals in Leh, Ladakh,” paper presentation at the International Assocation of Ladakh Studies conference, Bedlewo Poland, May 4, 2017.
“Social engageret buddhisme,” invited public lecture at Folkeuniversitetet, March 3 & 15, 2017.
“The Spectacle of Buddhist Festivals in Leh, Ladakh,” invited public lecture at the University of Tallin, Estonia, March 17, 2017.
“Buddhist Goods on Display: Commodification, marketization and museumification of monasteries in Ladakh, India”, paper presentation at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Minneapolis, Nov 17, 2016.
“The Spectacle of Buddhist Festivals in Leh, Ladakh,” paper presentation at Buddhism, business and economic relations – in Asia and beyond conference, University of Copenhagen, Oct 12, 2016.
“Young Buddhism: Analyzing transformations of Buddhism through ‘youth,’” paper presentation at Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West conference, University of British Columbia, Aug 11, 2016.
“Buddhism a Unique Selling Point (USP): The branding and marketing of spiritual tourism in Ladakh,” paper presentation at the International Association of Tibetan Studies conference, June 21, 2016.
“Museumification of Monasteries in Ladakh,” invited paper presentation at “Precious Relics” workshop, Aarhus University, Denmark, May 12, 2016.
“Buddhist Tourism in Ladakh,” invited paper presentation at the Buddhist Tourism in Asia conference, Oregon State University, April 6, 2016.
“Moral Policing and the Risk of Inter-religious Marriage: Debating personal desire and societal impositions among Ladakhi student migrants in New Delhi,” invited paper presentation at Global Gender Matters conference, Lund University, December 15, 2015.
“To Blog or not to Blog?” paper presentation at Mega Seminar, Sandbjerg, Aug 24, 2015.
“Challenges and Opportunities Posed to the Transmission and Preservation of Buddhism by the Increase in Higher Educational Migration among Ladakhi Buddhist Youth in India” paper presentation at the 12th United Nations Day of Vesak 2015, Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (MCU), Wang Noi, Ayutthaya, Thailand, May 28-30, 2015.
“Ladakhi student migrants in Delhi” invited paper presentation at the Neuroscience, Psychology and Educational Practices conference, Delhi University, Jan 30-31, 2014.
“Buddhism and Secular Ethics” invited paper presentation at InAsia Day, Aarhus University, Oct 20, 2014.
“Young Buddhism: Towards a Conceptualization of Buddhism in Its Encounter with Modernity among Ladakhi Buddhist Youth” invited paper presentation at Buddhism and Modernity conference, Aarhus University, Oct 31- Nov 2, 2013.
“To Be both Modern and Moral- Ladakhi Buddhist Youth Negotiations of Buddhism and Education in India” invited paper presentation at the Ethnicity and Religion conference, Aarhus University, Sep 27, 2013.
“Navigating both the modern and the moral: Ladakhi Buddhist youth in contemporary India” paper presentation at The Anthropology and Philosophy of Moral Experience, Aarhus University, Sep 20, 2013.
““Living in Two Different Worlds”: Negotiation of education, culture and religion among Ladakhi student migrants in India” paper presentation at the 16th Colloquium of the International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) Heidelberg University, 17-20 April 2013.
“Margins, Marginalization and Marginality among Ladakhi student migrants in New Delhi” paper presentation at the CESAU Sandbjerg- seminar, Sandbjerg, DK, Jan15-16, 2013.
“Facebook Methodologies: Using Social Media in Our Ethnographic Research” invited public lecture at Aarhus University, December 4, 2012.
“Facebook:Fieldwork reflections” at Facebook:: Fieldwork publication workshop, Aarhus University, Jan 23, 2012.
“Living in Two Different Worlds”: Negotiation of education, culture and religion among Ladakhi student migrants in India” paper presentation at the Second ANHS Himalayan Studies Conference, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, Sep 21-23, 2012.
“Finding space for the migrant voice: A Ladakhi migrant’s short story and its awkward reception” paper presentation at the ASA12: Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World conference at JNU, New Delhi, April 3-6, 2012.
“(Re)learning Ladakhi Culture: Negotiation of culture and religion among “educational refugees” in the Indian knowledge economy” paper presentation at the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA), Nanterre, France, July 10-13, 2012.
“Internal Migration in India Project” invited paper presentation at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Research Conference New Delhi, India (via Skype), Feb 22-23, 2012.
“A Global Buddhism Returns: New Media, Ancient Wisdom, and Modern Translations among Ladakhi Student Migrants in Ladakh,” invited public lecture at Western Michigan University, Dec 8, 2011.
“The Intergenerational Transmission of Global Buddhism in the Everyday Lives of Ladakhi Youth in Contemporary India” presented at Third Nordic Conference on South Asian Studies for Young Scholars, Lund University, Aug 16-18, 2011.
“Be Kind, Be Unite, Be a Good Human Being” paper presentation at the Nordic Network of Philosophical Anthropology (NNPA) conference, Questioning the Human Being conference, Aarhus University, Aug 25-27, 2010.
Elizabeth Williams Ørberg 