Below are dates where author Omar Khan has given or will be giving an illustrated talk on the book Paper Jewels: Postcards from the Raj. Upcoming events are starred [*].
| Date/Invite | Location | City | Time |
| INDIA | |||
| August 18 2018 | Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum | Mumbai | 6:00 pm |
| August 20 2018 | National Institute of Design | Ahmedabad | 5:00 pm |
| August 24 2018 | Jawahar Kala Kendra | Jaipur | 6:30 pm |
| August 27 2018 | India International Center (IIC) | New Delhi | 6:30 pm |
| August 30 2018 | Amethyst | Chennai | 6:30 pm |
| December 10 2018 | Victoria Memorial Hall (VMH) | Kolkata | 5:30 pm |
| December 11 2018 | Higginbotham's Bookstore | Bengaluru | 6:30 pm |
| October 12 2022 | Maritime Mumbai Museum [Virtual] | Mumbai | 7:00 pm |
| June 7 2024 | MAP Museum of Art & Photography [Virtual] | Bengaluru | 7:00 pm |
| PAKISTAN | |||
| February 24 2019 | Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) | Lahore | 12:15 pm |
| November 17 2019 | Faiz Festival | Lahore | 1:00 pm |
| UK | |||
| November 3 2018 | BACSA (members and guests only) | London | 12:00 pm |
| November 7 2018 | Royal Asiatic Society | London | 6:30 pm |
| November 9 2018 | Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities | Oxford | 12:45 pm |
| November 12 2018 | School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) | London | 1:30 pm |
| October 26 2019 | Lahore Lit Fest (LLF) London @ The British Library | London | 12:15 pm |
| September 24 2021 | Families in British India (FIBIS) Conference | Oxford | 08:15 pm |
| November 3 2021 | UK Postal Museum [virtual] | London | 6:50 pm |
| NETHERLANDS | |||
| July 19 2019 | International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) | Leiden | 5:00 pm |
| US | |||
| November 17 2018 | SACHI/Asian Art Museum | San Francisco | 2:00 pm |
| November 24 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Postcard Club | San Francisco | 1:00 pm |
| September 10 2019 | Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley | Berkeley | 5:00 pm |
| October 19 2019 | Annual Conference on South Asia, UW Madison | Madison, WI | 10:30 am |
| December 7 2019 | 19|47 Partition Archive | Berkeley, CA | 11:00 am |
| October 22 2022 | Wafer-thin History: India and World War I through Postcards | Madison, WI | 8:30 am |
| March 17 2023 | The Handmade Postcard in China, India and Native America [Association for Asian Studies] | Boston, MA | 2:00 pm |
| October 19 2023 | Building Postcards: Rössler’s Calcutta 1896 [Annual Conference on South Asia] | Madison, WI | 11:00 am |
| JAPAN | |||
| August 27 2021 | The Handmade Postcard in China, India and Native America, International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS) | Kyoto | 8 am |