November 12, 2025 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented at the 27th Annual ICOM General Conference: The Future of Museums in Rapidly Changing Communities.): “Dialogue and Lightning Talks: Leading the Digital Future”. Dubai World Trade Center. Dubai, UAE. More Info Here.

January 23, 2025 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Caring for MohenjoDaro” AIA Archaeology Hour Lecture, hosted by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). Watch Recording.

September 16-20, 2024 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presents with Greg Smith, Adam Green, and Sara Eichner): “A preliminary report from the 2023-2024 field season at MohenjoDaro”. European Association of South Asian Archaeology.  Leipzig, Germany.

April 19, 2024 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Greg Smith and Adam Green): “Decolonizing Mohenjo Daro: A Participatory Approach to Archaeology in Pakistan”. Society for American Archaeology (SAA). New Orleans, LA.

April 5, 2024 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Deniz Cavdir): “Pedagogy and Cartography: A Case Study in Rising Water”. Earth Action Week. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY.

November 15-19, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Keeping Receipts: Decolonizing the archive at Mohenjo-Daro”. Session on Archiving Bodies: Bodying Archives; organized by Alanna Warner-Smith and Tony Chamoun. American Anthropological Association (AAA). Toronto, ON.

June 8-10, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Itzamna Huerta and Mahnoor Fatima): Treating Legacy Colonial Data as Data Error: Decolonizing data through participatory data collection and storytelling at Mohenjo-Daro. HASTAC 2023; Critical Making and Social Justice. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY.

March 29, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Mahnoor Fatima and Itzamna Huerta): “A Critique of Archaeological Excavation: Legacy Data as Critical Discard Research”. Center for Critical Discard Research. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY.

March 2, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro”. AIA Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship. University of Rochester. Rochester, NY.

February 24, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Mahnoor Fatima and Itzamna Huerta): “Acknowledging and Contending with Racialized Caste Violence in Pakistan”. Anti-Racism Symposium. Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, NY.

February 23, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro”. AIA Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship, Montclair University. Montclair, NJ.

January 27, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro”. AIA Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship, Toledo Art Museum.  Toledo, OH.

January 26, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Community Engagement in the Archaeology and Heritage of Pakistan: New Work at MohenjoDaro”. AIA Martha Sharp Joukowsky Lectureship, University of Cincinnati. Cincinnati, OH

January 5-8, 2023 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Decolonizing MohenjoDaro: Visualizing data as critical heritage practice”. Session on Archives and Legacy Data for a Post-colonial Archaeology, organized by Amy Miranda and Rubina Raja. Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA). New Orleans, LA.

July 4, 2022 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Can Sucuoglu): “Visualizing Time as Spatial Analysis. World Archaeological Congress-9”, Prague, Czech Republic

March 6, 2022 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Can Sucuoglu): “Determining Microstratigraphy: A closer look at the everyday in MohenjoDaro”. Annual Workshop for South Asian Archaeology.


November 23, 2021 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Murtaza Vali, Hussam Dakkak, Basmah Kaki, and Hessa AlBader): “Accommodations – Presentation by Architects and Curators” at the National Pavilion of Saudi Arabia. Watch Recording.

March 18, 2021 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Can Sucuoglu and Priyashi Galiawala): “Digital Approaches to Neighborhood Analysis: Data Management and 3D Reconstructions of DK-G South, MohenjoDaro”. International Webinar on the Indus Civilization. University of Kerala. Kerala, India.

March 30, 2019 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented with Jessie Braden): “Neighborhood Analysis of DK-G, MohenjoDaro”. Annual Workshop on South Asian Archaeology, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.


February 28, 2017 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Decolonizing colonial desire”. Anatomising The Museum III, Contemporary Art and Decolonisation, PIart XII, hosted by HDK-Valand at University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Watch Recording. 


March 7, 2017 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): ”Archeology and Trade”. GLOBAL ART FORUM 11: DIG!, hosted by Art Dubai. Watch Recording.


July 30, 2016 (Dr. Uzma Z. Rizvi presented): “Intervention by Uzma Z. Rizvi”. Draft conference Zurich, moderated by Gareth Evans. Watch Recording.