2010
• Collapsing & Converging: Bridging Participatory Culture & Civic Engagement in Indonesia, Freedom of Expression Workshop of the Ford Foundation, The South by Southwest (SXSW) 2010, Austin TX, 12-14 March 2010.
• ‘Pop ‘n Politics: Web 2.0 and Participatory Culture in Indonesia’ at Digital Media and Learning Conference, San Diego, 18-20 February 2010.

2009
• ‘Religion @ Web 2.0 {in Indonesia}’ at the Western Conference of Association of Asian Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, 22-24 October 2009.
• ‘Networks, Politics, Democracy <-> YouTube-ing, Blogging, Twittering: A Global Perspective on the Internet and Political Change’, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 24 September 2009.
• ‘Social Science 2.0’, Imaging the City Graduate Seminar, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, 21 September 2009.
• ‘Networked Publics: Web 2.0 and Politics in Indonesia’ at Southeast Asia Update, Amsterdam – the Netherlands, 19 June 2009.
• ‘Muslim Networks: Discourses on Islam in Indonesian Blogosphere’, Studies on Religion and Politics in Indonesia Seminar, Tempe, 17 April 2009.
• ‘Undemocratic Networks and Radicalization on the Net’, Mathematics and Cognition Seminar, Arizona State University, Tempe, 15 April 2009.
• ‘Networked Politics: Cyberactivism & Political Changes — are they really connected?”, Global Minds Speaker Series, Scottsdale, 24 March 2009.

2008
• ‘Good Heavens — Cultural Religiosity in Contemporary Southeast Asian Cities and Beyond’ at Dialogic Conference: Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes, Global Cities Institute and Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne – Australia, 7-10 December 2008.
• ‘Empowered Communities: The Role of New Media and the Internet’ at the Sixth East Asia Congress, Institute of Strategic and International Studies, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia, 5 December 2008.
• ‘Undemocratic Networks: The Internet and Radicalization’ at ASEAN Regional Forum Meeting, sponsored by Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Denpasar, Bali – Indonesia, 7-9 November 2008.
• ‘Islam and Pop-Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere’ at Seminar on Islam and Popular Culture, University of Pittsburgh, 10-12 October 2008.
• ‘Ten years of Cyberactivism in Indonesia’, ASU Learning Community on Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Asia Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, 25 September 2008.
• ‘On Being Far Away: Networks, Knowledge, and Nationalism’ at the Seminar on 100 Years of National Awakening of Indonesia, Washington DC, 17 August 2008.
• ‘Networked Movement: ICT and Civil Society Activism’ at the Seminar on the Role of ICT in Supporting Civil Society Movement Agenda in Indonesia, Combine Resource Institute, Yogyakarta – Indonesia, 4 August 2008.
• ‘Bodies ‘n Bytes: ICT and Urban Creative Networks’ at ArtePolis, Institute of Technology Bandung, Bandung – Indonesia, 8-10 August 2008.
• ‘Demopolis: The Politics of Public Space in Jakarta’ at the International Conference on Public Space and Social Cohesion in the City: Present and Future, Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg – Russian Federation, 3-4 July 2008.
• ‘ICT and Community Empowerment: Southeast Asia Case’ at International Pre-Conference on Media and Human Rights, Consumers Union and Ford Foundation, Minneapolis, 5 June 2008.
• ‘Networked Politics: Co-Evolution of the Internet & Un/Democratic Activism’ at Cyber-influence Conference Series 3.0: Webvolution, Seattle, 24-26 June 2008.
• ‘Alternative Imaginations: Bringing Science and Technology Closer to Home‘ at Gebyar Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesian Consulate, Los Angeles, 31 May 2008.
• ‘Non-ness without Non-sense’ at CSPO Enlightening Lunch, with AI Project team, Arizona State University, 6 May 2008.
• Freedom of Expression Workshop, Global Partners and Associates, London, 28-29 April 2008.
• ‘Civic Networks: The Internet and ‘People’ Activism in Indonesia’ at Subversion, Conversion, Development: Public Interests in ICT Conference, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, Cambridge – United Kingdom, 24-26 April 2008.
• ‘Being entangled in the web’ New Frontiers in Research and Communication Workshop, Arizona State University, Tempe, 12 February 2008.

2007
• ‘The Internet and Democracy in Indonesia’ at Technology, Politics and Democracy Public Seminar, Washington DC, 8 December 2007.
• ‘From Using to Being: Civil Society in Networked Communication Environment’ at Civil Society, Information Technology and Networked Communication Workshop, Institute of Global Justice and OneWord Foundation, Jakarta – Indonesia, 9 November 2007.
• ‘Networked Politics: Civil Society Activism in the Information Age’ at Freedom of Expression in Asia, Freedom of Expression Project – London, Ford Foundation and Combine Resource Institute, Yogyakarta – Indonesia, 4-7 November 2007.
• ‘Demopolis: Power, Nationalism, and Place-Making in Indonesia (Jakarta)’, Global Studies Forum Colloquium, Globalization Research Center, Dept. of Political Science, and Dept. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 31 October 2007.
• ‘Socio-political History of the Internet in Indonesia’ at the Symposium on the History of Communication Technologies, Smithsonian National Postal Museum, Washington DC, 17 October 2007.
• ‘Power Relations and Urban Spaces in Contemporary Indonesia’ at International Convention of Asian Scholars, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia, 2-5 August 2007 (with Rita Padawangi).
• ‘Beyond Techno-Politics; The Internet and Activism in Pacific Asia’ at International Convention of Asian Scholars, Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia, 2-5 August 2007.
• ‘Link Local Blog Global: The Multi-Colored Spheres of Muslim Blog-world’ at Contested Terrains of Globalization Conference, Global Studies Association, Irvine, 17-20 May 2007.
• ‘Islam Unbound: The Territorial-Identity Nexus of Political Reform’ at Islam, Regionalism and New Institutions Seminar, Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Department of History and Department of Political Science, Yale University, New Haven, 3 March 2007.