Participated and Presented a paper entitled " Oral Tradition among the Kondh Community of Kalahandi : From Oral to Written and Beyond" to in International Seminar on Orality, Word and Beyond, organised by Indian institute of Advance Study, Shimla on 9 – 12 October 2011.

Participated in SAARC Folklore Conference in Agra 30 September – 2 October 2011 and presented a paper entitled From Woman to Goddess Pendra Garhien: A Contested Discourse of Gender in Tribal Religious Cult

Participated in National Conference on national Conference on Indian Folklore and presented Folklore studies in Orissa, organised by Karnataka Janapada Academy , April 2011

Participated in International Seminar on the Mahabharata and presented Sarala Mahabharata in March 2011 organised by IGNCA

Participated in National Conference on Community Knowledge organised by Dr Ambedkar University , New Delhi, 13-17 December 2010 and presented Community Digital Archives of Kalahandi

Participated in National Seminar on Oral Literature organised by Vidyasagar University Midnapur March 2011.

Attended the SAARC Folklore Conference in Chandigarh, December 2010 and presented the paper on Oral Epic Singers of Kalahandi.

Presented paper on Ramkatha in text and performance in Orissa in National Seminar on Ramkatha:Ankan,Vachan and Manchan, Organized by Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts , New Delhi 12-14 March 2008.

Presented a paper on Ethnic Singers and Oral Epics in Kalahandi , in SAARC Folklore Conference 5-7 December 07 in New Delhi

Presented a paper on Redefining Folklore in the context of Indian folklore Research , in Dept of Folklore , Calicut University, Kerala, january 3-5 , 2005

Ethnic Identity and Oral Narratives in International Society for folk narrative research(ISFNR) XI session in Mysore, January 1995

Indian Folklore Congress (IX th session1986, in Sambalpur University, 1991 in Viswabharati university, 1993 in Karnataka Janapada and Jaksagana Academy, Banglore) 1992 in Folklore Academy Bhubaneswar, 2000 in Punjabi University, Patiala)

National's Seminar on Folk and Tribal Version of Mahabharata India organized by Indian Institute of Advance Studies, Shimla, November 1991

Attended International seminar on Tribal Culture in Changing World, organized by Institute of Oriental Studies, The Universe, Cuttack, Orissa,, December, 1988

National Seminar on Rama Katha In Folk and Tribal tradition in India, Dept. Folklore Research, Gauhati University, Guahati in collaboration with Anthropological Survey of India February 1988