Career-related academic work abroad:
* 1.-21.01.2022, lectures for courses ‘Transborder Studies’ and ‘Seminar: Special issues on Development Studies,’ as Erasmus + International Credit Mobility exchange staff, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand..
• 21.11.2019, public lecture ‘Cross-border Developments: Recent Phenomena With Reference to India, Myanmar and China,’ Geography Department, Indira Gandhi Government College, Tezu, Arunachal Pradesh, India
* 1.—6.03, 2019, four lectures as Erasmus + International Credit Mobility exchange staff at Mandalay University, Myanmar;
* 14.04.2019, a lecture at Democracy Institute, Myitkyina, Myanmar
* 20.02.2016, guest lecture ‘”Kachin conflict” in Northern Myanmar: Roots and Shifting Contexts’, for course ICA 622 “Collaboration Methods in Conflict Resolution”, Bangkok University, at Asia Centre.

* 23.07.2009-6.11.2009 teaching Part III 'Regional focus: Southeast Asia / Vietnam' in a course 'Studying Development'; seminar leader; 3 methodological lectures, AS Kulturstudier, Oslo University College / Hoi An, Vietnam;

* 11.07.2011-4.11.2011 teaching Part III 'Regional focus: Southeast Asia / Vietnam' in a course 'Studying Development'; seminar leader; 3 methodological lectures, AS Kulturstudier, Oslo University College / Hoi An, Vietnam

Ethnographic field research:
* 2010 Sino-Myanmar boundary, Northern Myanmar
* 2011 Thailand, Myanmar
* 2012 Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar
* 2014 Laos, Thailand
* 2016 Myanmar
* 2019 Myanmar
* 2019 Northeast India

Organization of internationsl academic events:

* Chief convener,Roundtable “Development and Local Practices in Southeast Asia”, Tallinn University, 29-30.05.2015; with participants from Australia, Finland, Estonia.

* Chief convener, conference “Multiple Lives of Democracy: from Asia-Pacific to Europe”, Tallinn University, 25.04.2014; with participants from Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, Estonia, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Ukraine; chief sponsor Taiwan Foundation for Democracy.

* one of the chief conveners, international workshop “Innovative Approaches to Border Studies” and book launch of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, School of Humanities; daytrip to Estonian-Russian border in Narva; 2.-4.05.18; participants from Finland, Sweden, UK, Switzerland, Germany.

Participated and presented a paper at the following international conferences:

* Symposium on Ambivalent Infrastructures, Dimapur, Nagaland, India, 28.11-30.11.2019); presented a paper 'China’s Belt and Road Initiative: designing futures and battling disjunctions in Myitkyina;'

* Regional Studies Association conference “Pushing Regions Beyond their Borders,” University of Santiago de Compostela, Hispaania, 4.06.-07.06.19, presented a paper 'Infrastructure developments ordering Yunnan’s borderlands / B/ordering at Yunnan borderlands;'

* Asian Borderlands Research Network conference “Borderland Spaces: Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources”, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 13-15.08.18; presented a paper "The Sino-Kachin Border through Assemblage Gaze";

* Workshop “On Edge: China’s Frontiers in a Time of Change”, 12-14.10.2017, Kandersteg, Sveits; invited to present a paper "Assembling the Sino-Myanmar borderlands" -- organized by Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (Universities of Zurich and Bern), Max D. Woodworth (Ohio State University) ja Madlen Kobi (Università della Svizzera italiana); costs covered by Swiss National Science Foundation and University of Zurich Fund.

* Asian Borderlands Research Network conference “Dynamic Borderlands: Livelihoods, Communities and Flows”, Kathmandu, Nepal, 12-14.12.16; presented a paper "Underlying political dimensions of the ”Kachin conflict” in Northern Myanmar"; performed as a discussant in the panel "Border Militarization: Insurgencies, Communities and Ceasefire Capitalism in Myanmar and Thailand" convened by Dr Amporn Jirattikorn, Chiang Mai University (Thailand).

* Southeast Asia Geography Association (SEAGA) conference 'Geography that matters: unraveling the destiny of for environment, society and people in Southeast Asia', Siem Reap, Cambodia, 21.11-28.11.2014; invited to diiscuss Dr Philip Hircsh's plenary lecture "The shifting geopolitics of the Mekong: a multi-dimensional approach".

* European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial conference 'Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution', Tallinn, 31.07-3.08.2014, presented a paper 'Bangkok Protests in the Name of Democracy';

* 'Myanmar From the Margins', Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, 14-15.11.2013, presented a paper “The Spatiality and Borderless-ness of Contentious Politics: the Kachin Mobilities as Capability”; all costs covered by organizer;

* Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (RGS-IBG) Annual International Conference 2013, London, 27-30.08.2013, presented a paper '“Ethnic Conflict” As An Instrument of Politics in Myanmar';

* 3rd Asian Borderlands Conference 'Connections, Corridors, and Communities,' Singapore, 11.10-13.10.12, presented a paper 'The Corridors of the Kachin Socio-technical Networks: continuities and conversions';

* Conference 'Security’s Impact on Border Policies,' Victoria, BC, Canada, 30.03-31.03.12, I was invited to present a paper "Contending Security/Sovereignty Fixations at the Sino-Myanmar Borderlands in 21st century," all costs covered by organizer;

* Association for Asian Studies (AAS) conference, Toronto, Canada, 15.03.-18.03.12, presented a paper "The Sino-Myanmar border: the political geography of power and violence";

* International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) and the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) joint conference, Honolulu, USA, 31.03-3.04.11, organized a panel "Burma’s Borders: organizing lives and claiming spaces" together with Alexander Horstmann (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) and presented a paper "Stakeholders at the Sino-Myanmar / Burma Border" co-authored with Mart Viirand (University of Edinburgh);

* Burma Studies Conference 2010: Burma in the Era of Globalization, July 6-10, 2010; Université de Provence, Marseille, France;

* 5th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography titled “Post-Globalization and East Asia,” Dec 13-16, 2008, Seoul, South Korea, organized a session `Spaces of Struggle: Life-Worlds between China and Southeast Asia`;

* International Workshop on Autonomy and Armed Separatism in South and Southeast Asia, June 26-27, 2008, National University of Singapore, Singapore;

* “The Security Paradox of Open Borders: Surveillance and Control of Migrants,” Asia Europe Workshop, Chiang Rai, Thailand, Dec 18-23, 2003;

* International Convention of Asian Scholars, Singapore, Aug 19-23, 2003;

* “Borders and Regional Markets, Economies, Cultures,” Chiang Mai, July 4-6, 2003, organized by the Social Sciences Research Council, USA;

* Burma Studies Conference, Oct 21-25, 2002, Gothenburg, Sweden;

* “Political Fault-Lines in Southeast Asia: Movements for ethnic autonomy in nation-state structures,” Oct 15-16, 2001, City University of Hong Kong;

* Border Regions In Transition V, June 28-30, 2001, Tartu, Estonia.

Peer-reviewed for the following 1.1 category journals / book publishers: Annals of the Association of American Geographers; Geopolitics; Political Geography; Ethnicities; Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Geoforum; Contemporary Politics; Territory, Politics, Governance; The Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers; Citizenship Studies; Social and Cultural Geography / Routledge; Cornell University Press

Peer-reviewed for the following journals with a focus on Asia: Modern Asian Studies, Asian Ethnicity, Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Journal of Political Science.

Work as an external expert:
Proposal evaluator, Horizon 2020 REFLECTIVE-11-2015, remote (1—31.08.2015) and on-site consensus evaluations (14.—18.09.2015, Brussels)