UPCOMING APPEARANCES
2024, May 4. “Park My Car: Pandemic Ambiguity in Chung Mong-hong’s Taiwan.” Workshop on “Pandemic Archives.” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Invited.
2024, May 7. “Love Boat: Taiwan — A Conversation with Valerie Soe.” Sponsored by UC Irvine Dept. of English, Dept. of Asian American Studies, Humanities Center, and Illuminations.
2024, June. Book talk with Wendy Cheng and Wen Liu. North American Taiwanese Students Association Annual Meeting, New York City. Invited.
2024, September 20. “The Genres and Space-Times of Asian American Realism.” Department of English, University of Texas-Dallas. Invited.
PAST APPEARANCES
2024, April 27. “Illiberal/Liberal, Asia/America.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle.
2024, April 26. “X Marks the Spot: Locating Taiwan and Northeast Asia in Asian/America.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle.
2024, April 19-20. “Revanchism, Ressentiment, and the Taiwanese American Novel.” Symposium on “Rethinking Cold War Culture and History in Taiwan.” UCLA. Invited.
2024, April 12. In conversation with Charles Yu. UC Irvine Humanities Core Friday Forum.
2024, April 11. In conversation with Charles Yu. UC Irvine Illuminations. [YouTube]
2024, April 11. “Did Netflix’s Adaptation Ruin The Three-Body Problem?” Guest on Sinica Podcast with Kaiser Kuo, joined by Cindy Yu.
2024, March 28. “Northeast Asian American Literature in the Era of Deindustrialization.” Transnational Asia Speaker Series. Chao Center for Asian Studies. Rice University, Houston. Invited. [YouTube]
2023, November 23. “How to Live Safely in a Taiwanese American Universe: Ambiguity in Charles Yu’s Fiction.” New Bloom, Taipei. Sponsored by the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University. Invited.
2023, November 16. “Race and Human Capital in the Taiwanese American Novel.” National Taiwan University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Invited.
2023, November 9. “Techno-Orientalism: From Old Forms to New Formations.” Sogang University, Seoul. Invited.
2023, November 1. “Post-65 Taiwanese Human Capital and the Taiwanese American Novel.” International Center for Cultural Studies (文化研究國際中心) at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu. Invited.
2023, October 26. “Making the Case for Taiwan Studies: Taiwan Literature as World Literature, and the Anthropocene,” with Wen-Chi Li (U. of Oxford) and Ti-han Chang (U. of Central Lancashire). National Taiwan Normal University in partnership with the National Museum of Taiwan Literature. Taiwan Literature Base, Taipei. Invited.
2023, October 20. “Semiperipheral Structures of Feeling in the Taiwanese American Novel.” American Studies Association of Korea Annual Meeting. Kyung Hee University, Seoul.
2023, June 29. “Love Boat: Taiwan — A Conversation with Valerie Soe.” “Intersections and Relations: Asian/American Studies in Global Frames.” Academia Sinica, Taipei.
2023, June 26. “Deep Conditions of the World: Modernization Theory and Transimperiality,” for the panel, “Intersecting Afterlives of Empire in Global Asias,” with Jeehyun Choi (UC Berkeley), Cheng-Chai Chiang (UC Berkeley), and Chih-ming Wang (Academia Sinica). AAS-in-Asia, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
2023, April 6. “Race Cringe, Semiconductors, and the Taiwanese American Novel,” for the panel, “Uneven and Combined Development and Asian/America,” with Alden Sajor Marte-Wood (Rice U) and Sunny Yang (U. Houston). Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Long Beach.
2022, December 14. “Immaterial but Objective Correlatives: COVID, The Falls, and All of Us Are Dead.” English Language and Literature Association of Korea Annual Meeting. Virtual.
2022, November 4. “South Korean Zombie Films and the Antinomies of Labor.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
2022, October 14. “Writing Like an Engineer: Postracial Form and Utopia.” Coast45, a Post45 Symposium, University of Southern California. Invited.
2022, September 17. “The Semiperipheral Structures of Feeling in Taiwanese American Fiction,” for the panel “The Edges of Empire: Land, Race, and Class across East Asian/America.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
2022, June 16. “Taiwanese American Return Fiction,” for the seminar “Paracolonial Formations.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Virtual.
2022, March 17. “The Work of Inhabiting a Role: Charles Yu speaks to Chris Fan.” Novel Dialogue Podcast, Season 3, Episode 4.
2021, October 30. “The ‘Universal’ Charm of the South Korean Zombie.” American Studies Association of Korea. Virtual.
2021, October 14. “Roundtable: Baltimore’s Possible Futures: A Dialogue on ‘Rising Asia,’ Black Erasure, and the ‘Ungentrifiable City.’” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Virtual. Invited.
2021, September 26. Interview on Theory to No End Podcast.
2021, April 10. “Slow Life in Still Life: Orientalism and Jia Zhangke’s Postsocialist Irony.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting. Virtual.
2021, March 23. “‘Sorry, Please, Thank You’: US-China Trade War and Queer Orientalism.” Association for Asian Studies. Virtual. Invited.
2021, January 7. “Speculative Fictions and Financial Speculation.” MLA Annual Convention. Virtual. Invited.
2020, October 12. “Transnational Equivalences and Inequalities.” UC Speculative Futures Collective, UC Irvine. Virtual.
2020, May 7. “Apocalypse and Pandemic Literature, TV & Film in the Era of COVID-19.” UCI School of Humanities. Invited.
2020, February 10. “Science Fictionality and Post-1965 Chinese American Women Writers.” Stanford U. Dept. of English. Invited.
2020, January 7. “Post-1965 Asian American Fiction.” Institute for European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei. Invited.
2019, October 12. “Slow Life in Still Life.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Meeting, U. Maryland, College Park.
2019, October 8. “‘Who belongs? Who gets to decide?’: Borders and Belonging Launch Event.” UCI Humanities Center. Invited.
2019, September 21. “Engineers for Korea: The Science Fictionality of Native Speaker.” American Studies Association of Korea Annual Meeting, Korea University, Seoul.
2019, June 8. “The Science Fictionality of Native Speaker.” ASAP/Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2018, October 19. “The Genres of Occupational Concentration: Asian American Fiction after 1965.” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2018, September 15. “Chinese Clones and Postracial Zombies: The Ironies of US-China Interdependency in the Era of Trump.” American Studies Association of Korea Annual Meeting, Korea University, Seoul.
2018, May 24. “Slow Asian Americas.” ASAP/Amsterdam, Amsterdam.
2018, March 29. “Nerds, Race, and Silicon Valley Fiction.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, UCLA.
2018, March 7. “Ted Chiang Public Reading.” UC Irvine Illuminations Series, Crystal Cove Auditorium. Invited.
2018, February 27. “Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others Book Club Discussion.” UC Irvine Illuminations Series. Invited.
2018, February 23. “The Buried Giant: A workshop and discussion.” UC Irvine Dept. of English, UC Irvine. Invited.
2018, January 5. “The ‘Pivot’ Novel.” MLA Annual Meeting, New York.
2018, January 4. “Asian/American Utopias and Dystopias.” MLA Annual Meeting, New York.
2017, May 31. “Why Write the Future, and How?” UC Irvine. Invited.
2017, May 23. “Chinese Clones and Postracial Zombies in Never Let Me Go and Zone One.” University of Hong Kong. Invited.
2017, May 17. “Asian/American Silicon Valley Narratives.” UC Irvine Dept. of Asian American Studies. Invited.
2017, April 14. “Transpacific Futurities: Beyond the Special Issue.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
2017, April 13. “Post-Historical Form in On Such a Full Sea.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.
2017, March 16. “Roundtable on Arrival and Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life.” UC Irvine Dept. of English. Invited.
2017, March 8. “Asian American Silicon Valley Narratives.” UC Riverside Dept. of English. Invited.
2017, January 6. “Diversity as Arbitrage: Silicon Valley and Asian/America.” MLA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2016, December 27. “The Shift from Exclusion to Selection: Asian American Fiction after 1965.” Academia Sinica, Taipei. Invited.
2016, November 17. “Asian/American (Anti-)Bodies: A Roundtable Discussion.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver.
2016, November 12. “Asian American Techno-Modernism: Genre and Literary History.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting, Pasadena, CA.
2016, October 7. “Animacy at the End of History in Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea.” UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies.
2016, April 29. “The Shift from Exclusion to Selection: Cultural Production in the Asian American ‘90s.” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Miami.
2016, March 18. “Battle Hymn of the Afropolitan: Afro-Asian Model Minorities and the Afterlives of Chinese Development in Africa.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Cambridge, MA.
2015, October 6. “Roundtable on Techno-Orientalism.” UC Riverside Sawyer Seminar on Alternative Futurisms. Invited.
2015, April 25. “Roundtable on Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media.” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago. Invited.
2015, April 24. “Diversity as Arbitrage: Silicon Valley and Asian America.” Grinnell College East Asian and Asian American Studies Consortium, Grinnell, IA. Invited.
2013, November 21. “Techno-Orientalism as Critical Realism: China Mountain Zhang, Science Fiction and the Naturalistic Turn in American Realism.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
2013, June 22. “The Immaterial Labor of Sinological Realism: Mike Daisey’s The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.” Futures of American Studies Institute, Hanover, NH.
2013, March 15. “Post-1965 Asian American Science Fiction as Critical Realism.” UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender.