“Resistance is (Not) Futile: Towards a Dialectical Understanding of Propaganda and Consent Formation,” Twenty Years since the Margins Conference, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK, Dec 19, 2008.

“Islam and Oil: US-Saudi Relations and its Representation in the Media,” International Communication Association, Chicago, May 21-25, 2009.

“Islam and Oil: US-Saudi Relations and its Representation in the Media,” International Association of Media and Communication Research, Mexico City, July 21-24, 2009.

“Play it Again, (Uncle) Sam: A Brief History of US Imperialism, Propaganda, and the News,” International Association of Media and Communication Research, Mexico City, July 21-24, 2009.

"From Allies to Enemies: News Representations of Saudi Arabia After 9/11," 14th International conference of the Arab-U.S Association for Communication Educators, Nov. 7-10, Cairo, Egypt.

Kumar, D. The Logic of “Going Muslim”: Citizenship, Integration, Loyalty and the “American way of Life” after Fort Hood, IAMCR, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010.

Kumar, D. “The Islamophobic Warriors in the United States,” IAMCR, Istanbul, Turkey, July, 2011

“The Matrix of Anti-Muslim Racism: The Far Right, Liberalism, and the Media,” ICA, London, June 17-21, 2013.

“Security as Psychological Wage: Race, Surveillance, and Empire” with Arun Kundnani, Union of Democratic Communication Conference, University of Toronto, May 1-3, 2015.

“The Empire’s Liberal Clothes: Obama’s Multicultural War on Terror,” ICA, San Juan, PR, 21-25 May, 2015.