2024
"Digital Futures: Asian Media Temporalities and the Expansion of the Sphere of Politics." Käte Hamburger Kolleg "global dis:connect," Munich, October 22, 2024.
"In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City." Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, May 10, 2024.
"In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City." Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, April 19, 2024.
"Karma, Kinship, and Queerness in the Cinema and Video Art of Apichatpong Weerasethakul." Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 9, 2024.
“Utopian Visions: Queer Relationality in Contemporary Thai Media.” Looking Beyond the Logos: Theravada Visual Culture in Southeast Asia, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 14–17, 2024.
"The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City." Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky, March 1, 2024.
2023
“Thai Cinema’s Ghostly Desires.” Guest lecture, World Cinema, Cinematic Worlds, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto, October 17, 2023.
“The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City: Femininities on Film.” Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, October 16, 2023.
“Shaping Asia in Chinese Bangkok: Contemporary Re-Visions of Region.” Shaping Asia, Universität Bielefeld, September 27–29, 2023.
“Southeast Asia as Question: Thinking Region from Bangkok.” La Langue, Colonial Legacies, Area Studies: Comparative Modernities, Conference, Asian Studies and Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, September 22–23, 2023.
"Karma, Kinship, and Queerness in the Work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul." With Jean Ma, Desire and Relationality in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, April 10, 2023.
2022
"The Sources of Urban Modernity in Asia." Roundtable, New York Conference on Asian Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, October 7–8, 2022.
"Melancholia." Porch Conversation, with Nana Adusei-Poku and Gregg Bordowitz. Denniston Hill Interdisciplinary Arts Organization, Glen Wild, New York, August 18, 2022.
"In the Mood for the 1960's: Trans-Asia Colonial Modernity as a Period Genre." Seminar, Period Genres. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, June 15–18, 2022.
2021
"How to do Things with Buddhism: Mahayana Buddhism as Global Counterpolitical Tool during the Cold War," Understanding Thai Buddhism through Contemporary Literature, EuroSEAS Conference, Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 7-10, 2021.
"In the Mood for Zen: Buddhism as a Lens for Critical Regional Studies," Syncopating Religion, Syncopating East Asia Multi-Campus Working Group, University of California Humanities Research Institute, April 20, 2021.
"Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia," Discussant, Association for Asian Studies Virtual Annual Conference 2021, March 21–26, 2021.
2020
"Manta Ray and the Intimacy of Hosting the Stranger," Panelist, "Poetic Refuge: Migration and the Films of Phuttiphong Aroonpheng," Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, November 4, 2020.
"In the Mood for the Plural: Asian Femininity in a Transcultural Field," Transcultural Studies, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, October 29, 2020.
"In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City," East Asian Media Ecologies, Harvard University, October 28, 2020.
"Engendering History," Discussant, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Institute, University of Toronto, September 23, 2020.
"Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia," Discussant, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 19–22, 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19).
"Queer Ontologies: New Approaches to Southeast Asian Media," Future Trajectories of Asian Media Studies, Harvard University, March 19, 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19).
"For Tomorrow for Tonight: Thai Cinema and the Expansion of Queer Politics," Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, March 18, 2020 (event canceled due to Covid-19).
"'Luminous People': New Approaches to Thinking about Buddhism and Queerness," Cornell University Society for Buddhist Studies, March 9, 2020.
"In the Mood for Texture: Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Shanghai's Urban and Media Revivals of 'Chinese Colonial Modernity,'" Advanced Research Collaborative, City University of New York, February 6, 2020.
Podcasts
Podcast, with Patrick Jory, Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong. “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies,” New Books Network, 2021.
Podcast, with Patrick Jory, Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema. “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies,” New Books Network, 2019.
"Digital Futures: Asian Media Temporalities and the Expansion of the Sphere of Politics." Käte Hamburger Kolleg "global dis:connect," Munich, October 22, 2024.
"In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City." Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, May 10, 2024.
"In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City." Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, April 19, 2024.
"Karma, Kinship, and Queerness in the Cinema and Video Art of Apichatpong Weerasethakul." Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 9, 2024.
“Utopian Visions: Queer Relationality in Contemporary Thai Media.” Looking Beyond the Logos: Theravada Visual Culture in Southeast Asia, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, March 14–17, 2024.
"The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City." Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Kentucky, March 1, 2024.
2023
“Thai Cinema’s Ghostly Desires.” Guest lecture, World Cinema, Cinematic Worlds, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto, October 17, 2023.
“The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City: Femininities on Film.” Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, October 16, 2023.
“Shaping Asia in Chinese Bangkok: Contemporary Re-Visions of Region.” Shaping Asia, Universität Bielefeld, September 27–29, 2023.
“Southeast Asia as Question: Thinking Region from Bangkok.” La Langue, Colonial Legacies, Area Studies: Comparative Modernities, Conference, Asian Studies and Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University, September 22–23, 2023.
"Karma, Kinship, and Queerness in the Work of Apichatpong Weerasethakul." With Jean Ma, Desire and Relationality in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, April 10, 2023.
2022
"The Sources of Urban Modernity in Asia." Roundtable, New York Conference on Asian Studies, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, October 7–8, 2022.
"Melancholia." Porch Conversation, with Nana Adusei-Poku and Gregg Bordowitz. Denniston Hill Interdisciplinary Arts Organization, Glen Wild, New York, August 18, 2022.
"In the Mood for the 1960's: Trans-Asia Colonial Modernity as a Period Genre." Seminar, Period Genres. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, June 15–18, 2022.
2021
"How to do Things with Buddhism: Mahayana Buddhism as Global Counterpolitical Tool during the Cold War," Understanding Thai Buddhism through Contemporary Literature, EuroSEAS Conference, Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 7-10, 2021.
"In the Mood for Zen: Buddhism as a Lens for Critical Regional Studies," Syncopating Religion, Syncopating East Asia Multi-Campus Working Group, University of California Humanities Research Institute, April 20, 2021.
"Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia," Discussant, Association for Asian Studies Virtual Annual Conference 2021, March 21–26, 2021.
2020
"Manta Ray and the Intimacy of Hosting the Stranger," Panelist, "Poetic Refuge: Migration and the Films of Phuttiphong Aroonpheng," Mediating Race, Reimagining Geopolitics, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, November 4, 2020.
"In the Mood for the Plural: Asian Femininity in a Transcultural Field," Transcultural Studies, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, October 29, 2020.
"In the Mood for Texture: Bangkok as a Chinese City," East Asian Media Ecologies, Harvard University, October 28, 2020.
"Engendering History," Discussant, Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Institute, University of Toronto, September 23, 2020.
"Engendering History: Gender, Sexuality, and Love in Thailand, Lao PDR, and Cambodia," Discussant, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March 19–22, 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19).
"Queer Ontologies: New Approaches to Southeast Asian Media," Future Trajectories of Asian Media Studies, Harvard University, March 19, 2020 (canceled due to Covid-19).
"For Tomorrow for Tonight: Thai Cinema and the Expansion of Queer Politics," Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, March 18, 2020 (event canceled due to Covid-19).
"'Luminous People': New Approaches to Thinking about Buddhism and Queerness," Cornell University Society for Buddhist Studies, March 9, 2020.
"In the Mood for Texture: Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Shanghai's Urban and Media Revivals of 'Chinese Colonial Modernity,'" Advanced Research Collaborative, City University of New York, February 6, 2020.
Podcasts
Podcast, with Patrick Jory, Teardrops of Time: Buddhist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Angkarn Kallayanapong. “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies,” New Books Network, 2021.
Podcast, with Patrick Jory, Ghostly Desires: Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema. “New Books in Southeast Asian Studies,” New Books Network, 2019.
