Talks and Readings

2025

‘Buddhism, death and thermodynamics: Decentring the language of conservation expertise,’ in Unearthing Collections: Archives, Time and Ethics, eds. M. Buchcyzk, et al., chapter 3.

‘Conserving the sacred: C is for custodial participation’, Interview with The C-Word Podcast, S17E03, (40 mins).

‘It was like that when we found it: Dissociation and standards of care for archaeological and ethnographic collections’, Journal of the Institute for Conservation (UK), 1-13.

with Kamal Pokwal, ‘A mountainous task: Relocating the natural history gallery at the National Museum of Bhutan’, iConnect Magazine, Autumn 2025, no. 12, 12-17.

‘Continuity as care: Devotional maintenance, renewal, accumulation, and disposal in Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist material religion’, RELIGIONS, Special issue on Materiality and Private Rituals in Tibetan and Himalayan Cultures 16, no. 2, 240-256.

2024

‘Capacity building and collaboration in pest management in the southern Himalayas,’ in project booklet Making Museum Professionals, 1850-Present: Reflections for the Museum Sector, 40.

‘False adversaries: Material heritage and human-insect relationships in museum collections,’ in Archeological Review from Cambridge 39, no. 1, 207-217.

2023

‘Feeling at home and the “psychosomatics of arecaidinism”’, MAA Digital Lab, 26 Dec 2023.

‘Skin and the archive: Reading ecology and colonial legacies in a Kuria drum,’ in Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives in European Ethnographic Museums, eds. W. Modest and C. Augustat, 197-199.

‘Damage, dirt, and change over time: Documenting conditions at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology’, Journal of the Institute of Conservation (UK) 46, no.2, 127-140.

‘Reconsidering fragility in museums - and the world,’ SAPIENS.org, 23 February 2023.

‘There is no West: Language and geography in museum practice,’ TAKING CARE Project (EU), 10 February 2023.

2022

‘Establishing context and continuity for the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects: Conservation as research methodology,’ in AIC General and Concurrent Sesssion Postprints, vol 1.

with Jonn Gale, ‘Making connections through world collections: “People and Plants” at the Powell-Cotton Museum,’ Museum Ethnographers Group Blog, 15 May 2022.

2021

‘On the use of human remains in Tibetan ritual objects’, PhD thesis, SOAS University of London.

‘Human remains as cultural objects: A case study in Tibetan material religion,’ Journal of Museum Ethnography 34, 127-141.

2020

‘Human remains in Tibetan material religion: An object-centered approach,’ Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar at University of Oxford, October 2020 (40 mins).

‘Instrumentation and death in Buddhist material culture,’ Introduction to the event Buddhism Inside/Out: Engaging the Dead, SOAS Centre for Buddhist Studies, January 2020 (20 mins).

2019

‘Cultural technology and the material strategies of Tibetan ritual objects,’ Object lessons from Tibet and the Himalayas, originally presented at the International Association of Tibetan Studies meeting in Paris, July 2019.

‘Review: Power Objects in Tibetan Buddhism by James Duncan Gentry,’ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 82, no. 1.

2018

'The ethics of stability for cultural materials: A conservator's perspective' in Shades of Noir, Ethics: Preserving voices vulnerable to erasure, 38-41.

2017

'Interpreting human remains in Tibetan ritual objects' in Material Religion: the Journal of Art, Objects and Belief, 1-3.

2015

with Utsha Gurung, et al. 'Locally and historically sourced strategies for conservation at the Department of Culture, Bhutan' in The AICCM Bulletin 26, no 1. 

'Regional report: Note on the treatment of Buddhist heritage' in ICOM-CC Theory and History Working Group Newsletter, no. 19, 3-5.

2014

with Geneva Griswold. 'Evaluating environmental conditions in shipping containers with recommendations on their reinforcement for the storage of cultural materials', at ICOM-CC Triennial conference, Melbourne, Australia.

2013

with Geneva Griswold. 'The dead-bucket: An inexperienced conservators' guide for evaluating setbacks' in Youth in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (YoCOCU) Special Issue, Procedia Chemistry 8.