GUEST LECTURES
2023 “Theorizing Puppet Animation and Animal Life in Socialist China,” School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen.
2023 “The Glitch Aesthetics and the Multi-layered Structure of Digital Games,” School of Media and Communication, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen.
2022 “Surface and Depth: The Spatial Imagination of Digital Media,” Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Beihang University, Beijing.
2021 “Animation and Transmediality ,” Guest lecture for “Readings in Contemporary Chinese Literature: Transmedia Practices” (Yiwen Wang), University of California San Diego
2020 “Animal Media ,” Guest Lecture for “Introduction to East Asian Media Studies” (Yuriko Furuhata), McGill University.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025 Moderator for “The Intersection of Advertising and New Media Conditions in Japan’s 1980s,” Association for Japanese Literary Studies 33rd Annual Meeting on “Media Temporalities.”
2025 “The Emergence of a Novel–Television Assemblage in Late Colonial Hong Kong,” The Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago.
2025 Video Essay, “Stroboscopic Effects: Between North American Experimental Animation and Hong Kong Martial Arts Television,” Graduate Research Forum, Cinema and Media Studies, The University of Chicago.
2025 “Zine Reading + Printmaking Workshop,” momoration x OH Art Foundation, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago.
2025 Moderator for “Media Archaeology and Infrastructure in East Asia,” Failing Media, University of Chicago.
2025 Discussant for “Walking Against Time: Slowness, Performance, and Embodied Critique in Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker Series (Presenter: Sihan Wang),” Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago.
2024 “Queer Platformativity: The Transmedia Network of The Untamed (2019),” The Digital Unconscious (L’inconscient numérique), Paris Graduate School of Arts, History, and Humanities in Global Perspectives (GSAH), The University of Chicago.
2024 “Televisual Mediations,” Dissertation Proposal Workshop, Arts and Politics of East Asia, The University of Chicago.
2024 “Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in China,” Sound and Writing in East Asia, The University of Chicago.
2024 Discussant for “Criticism’s Body: Literature and Carnality in Maruyama Masao and Takeuchi Yoshimi (Presenter: Jue Hou),” Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop, University of Chicago.
2024 “Intra-Asian Video Cultures: Cyberpunk in the Age of Video-Sharing Platforms,” Japan Studies Graduate Workshop, Tokyo University.
2024 “On Chinese Xianxia Dramas” in the panel “East Asian TV Dramas: Brainstorming Methods and Stakes,” Digital Media Workshop, University of Chicago.
2023 “Chinese Television in the Age of Live TV,” Asian Cinemas in the Cold War, Xiamen University.
2023 “The Electric Perception Machine: Mediating Animals on Television,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
2022 Media Aesthetics IV: The Annual Rhetoric and Public Culture Summer Institute at Northwestern University.
2022 “Information Processing: On Asian Cyberscape in the Cyberpunk New Wave,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
2022 “Chen Yingzhen and the Sound of the ‘Third World’,” Situations Conference for Graduate Students, Yonsei University.
2021 “Monster Hunt and the Affective Human-Monster Communication,” in the panel “Media Ecologies in Anthropocene: East Asian Perspectives,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
2021 “Assembling the History of Difference: Independent Animation in Postsocialist China,” The Inaugural Conference of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, Hong Kong.
2019 “Technologies of Sounds, Waves, and Socialist Sovereignty,” Democracy and Digital Media, Comparative Media Studies MIT, Massachusetts.
2019 “The Production of Animated Special Effects in Monster Hunt (2015).” Media Production as Media Theory Workshop, Concordia University, Montreal.
2018 “Clandestine Listening to Enemy Radio (Ditai) in Socialist China.” Radio Asia Pasifika: Cultural Broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific Region, Nottingham University, Nottingham.
2016 “Traveling Monkey King in the Maoist Era.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2015 “From Local to Translocal: Story of McDull.” Masterclass on East Asian Cinemas, Centre for Cultural Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2015 “Sexualities of Sun Wukong.” Humanities Postgraduate Students Symposium, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
2015 “From Local to Translocal: An Anthropomorphic Story of McDull.” Traveling Text/Image/Media: The Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Conference, Shanghai.