“I Will Find You a Private Home: A Workshop on Shanghai Real Estate on Television and the Video Essay as Method,” Society of Fellows in the Humanities, University of Hong Kong, December 6, 2022
“Not Quite a Danwei: Zhu Wen’s Pursuit of Collectivity Through Literature and Film,” American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, June 17, 2022
“Green Blood: The Artistic Regime of the PLA in Yan Geling’s ‘Female Soldier Trilogy’,’” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, March 25, 2022
“Wang Shuo: A Research Practicum,” invited talk for Chen Jingling’s seminar EALC 550: Chinese Popular Cultural and Cinematic Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 9, 2021
Co-organizer and co-moderator, “Building Other Bodies: A Conversation about Speculative Fiction in Translation” [Participants: Mona Kareem, Bora Chung, Anton Hur, Ta-wei Chi, Ari Larissa Heinrich], Hong Kong International Literary Festival, November 6, 2021
“‘The Whole Nation Watching Television’: Wang Shuo’s Domestication of and Rebellion Against Postsocialist Chinese Television,” Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, April 23, 2021
“Chinese Television at Midnight: Triumph at Midnight and the Birth of ‘Television-Style Television,’” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, March 23, 2021
“Lust of the Machine: The Technologies and Traditions of YY Fiction,” READCHINA Virtual Lecture Series (Winter 20/21): Practices of Reading in the People’s Republic of China, University of Freiburg, December 15, 2020
“May Fourth’s Forgotten Territory: The Story of Chinese Film Literature,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Seattle, WA, March 13, 2019
[Chinese] “最近西方媒介理论发展对分析当代中国文学的用法” [The Uses of Recent Developments in Western Media Theory for the Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Literature,” invited talk for Shao Yanjun’s seminar, April 10, 2018, Peking University, Beijing, China
“Televisual Samsara: Wang Shuo's Transmedia Aesthetic of the Everyday,” Association for Asian Studies annual conference, March 17, 2017
“All in the Family?: Local Dialect, National Culture, and Global Formats in A Dongbei Family,” “Sinophone Studies: New Directions” workshop, October 14, 2016, held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Toward a Trinitarianism of Wang Anyi: Wang Anyi's Early Nineties Fiction as Novels of Manners, as Social Realism, and as Database,” “Wang Anyi and Chinese Realism” conference, May 6, 2016, held at New York University, New York, New York
“The Great China Database: Contemporary Chinese Fiction and the Technology of Representation,” the “Unpacking China” workshop, April 25, 2014, held at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts