Dr. Himika Bhattacharya gave the anniversary keynote lecture for the 20th Anniversary of the LGBTQ Studies and the GLBTQ Resource Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder on October 12, 2015. The title of her talk was "Person Excepting Women": Perspectives on gender neutrality in anti-rape activism in India.

Dr. Bhattacharya has also recently published an article "Magic Tricks: The Politics of Memory, State, and Tribe in Lahaul, India" in Meridians: feminism, race, and transformation Volume 13, No. 1. The article is available online at Meridians.