Conferences, Talks, and Workshops
Invited Presentations/Discussions at Workshops, Seminars, and Events
Invited Discussant. “Pandemic Film Culture and the Future of Cinephilia: Discussion with Film Curators, Programmers, and Archivists” Virtual Roundtable, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University, March 30, 2021.
“The Art of Unmasking: Image and the Trial of the Gang of the Four,” presented at “Transitional Justice without Transition? Redressing Past Injustices under State Socialism” Conference, hosted by Prof. Daniel Leese, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany, Feb 21-23, 2019.
Discussant, for Matthew Van Duyn’s talk on “‘To Serve Production, To Serve the Laboring People’: The Politics of Socialist Space and Working-Class Experience in a Chinese New Village” History Colloquium. Department of History, UW, Seattle, April 18, 2019.
“Academic Conference Planning ABCs” Workshop (invited talk, with Ann Anagnost and Jing Xu), UW China Studies Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and China Studies Graduate Student Association, May 29, 2018.
“Archiving Class Struggle: Memory, Witnessing, and Image in Chinese Revolutionary Historiographies and Historiophonies,” invited talk at the UW Chinese Anthropologists Group Workshop, Jan 2018.
“Cinema as Show Trial,” presentation and screening of video work at the Visual Anthropology Workshop with Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, UW, Oct 26, 2017.
“Archival and Field Research in China: What Works and What Doesn’t,” invited talk at China Studies Workshop, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, UW, Nov 9, 2017.
Conference/Panel/Workshop Organizing
Co-organizer (with Soyi Kim and Laura Li), “The Art of Working Through: Menstruation, Survival, Failure” Panel, for National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) Conference, Detroit, Nov 14-17, 2024.
Co-organizer (with Timmy Chen), “A Deep Focus on Global Chinese Cinephilia” Virtual Roundtable Discussion,Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley, April 2022.
Co-organizer (with Man Fung Yip), “Sensing Taiwan” Roundtable Event as part of the “Taiwanese Films @ OU”film series, Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Oklahoma (collaborated with Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute), April 21, 2022.
Co-organizer (with Shu Yang), “Shame/Shine: Chinese Sluts across Time, Border, and Media” Panel, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2021 Annual Conference, Mar 22-26, 2021.
Panel Series Co-organizer (with Chenshu Zhou), “Spaces of Encounter: Locating Cinema in the Chinese-Speaking World” Panel II, scheduled for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, March 17-21, 2021.
Co-organizer, “Land/scaping Taiwan: (Non-)Humans, Environment, and Moments of Encounter” Conference, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Taiwan Studies Program, Department of Landscape Architecture/College of Built Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, Dec 2020-Jan 2021.
Panel Organizer, “Performing Warfare for the People: Chinese Imaginaries of the Enemy through Spectacle, Sound, and Poetry,” at the AAS-in-Asia “Asia at Crossroads” Annual Conference, co-hosted by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Kobe, Japan, June 29-July 1, 2020.
Panel Chair and Organizer, “Wanted: Image Politics and the Production of the Criminal Body,” at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention at Seattle, January 9-12, 2020.
Co-organizer and Speaker (with Jing Xu and Xiaoshun Zeng), “The Possibility of Scholarship: Knowledge Production and Scholarly Community Building,” The Jackson School of International Studies, China Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Nov 6, 2018.
Presentations at Conferences
“Rashomon, Rape, or Rethinking Cinema as Women’s Hearings?”, scheduled to present at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting, New York City, January 3-6, 2024.
“Period. Yet No End to Flow: Chinese Women and Menstrual Media,” scheduled to present at Visible Evidence XXX - Decentring Documentary: New Visions and Perspectives, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, Dec 2024.
“Working Through: Menstruation, Survival, and Failure,” scheduled to present at the National Women’s Studies Association’s 44th Annual Conference, Detroit, MI, November 2024.
“(In-)credible Women, Media, and Evidence Mindfulness,” presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2024 Annual Conference, Seattle, Mar 14-17, 2024.
“Cataloguing Counterrevolutionary Crimes,” presented as part of the panel “Stranger than Fiction: True Crimes in the Movie Colony” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Chicago, April 12-15, 2023.
“Material Objects, Mass Forensics, and Incriminating Media,” presented at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2023 Annual Conference, Boston, Mar 16-19, 2023.
“Film, Catalogue, Portable Media,” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference,Chicago, Mar 31, 2022.
“Shooting Enemies on Location: Cine-photographic Policing and Media Militarism,” the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2022 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i, Mar 25, 2022.
“Trial by Moving Images in the Age of Cold War,” The History of Moviegoing, Exhibition, and Reception Project (HoMER) Annual Conference, May 25-28, 2021.
“Found Footage as Shadow Archive: Approaching the Media History of Shame in China,” the Migrating Archives of Reality: Programming, Curating, and Appropriation of Non-fiction Film Conference, co-organized by Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences in cooperation with Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, May 6-7, 2021.
“Judging Women in 1950s China, or a Media Archaeology of Slut Shaming,” the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2021 Annual Conference, Mar 22-26, 2021.
“Cinema as Show Trial: The Place of Socialist Justice and the Space of Cinematic Inquisition,” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Virtual Annual Conference, Mar 17-21, 2021.
“Punishment by Camera: Death as Artifacts in the Age of Public Exposure,” as part of the session Death in Visual Culture, Visual Cultures of Death (1800 to present) at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference (virtual conference), Feb 10-13, 2021.
“Lost Image, Found Footage: Archival Thinking through Pidou,” Chinese Archives in Crisis: An International Workshop, History Department at Stanford University, Nov 2020 - Jan 2021.
“How the People/Enemies Look: Face, Cinema, and the Watchful Politics of Socialist Class War,” presented at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention at Seattle, January 9-12, 2020.
“Showcase Justice: Class Struggle and the Visual Economy of Violence in Revolutionary China, 1925-85”, presented at the American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting, New York, January 3-6, 2020.
“The Unmasked, the Defaced: Image, Law, and Counterrevolution,” presented at the “Drawing the Human: Law, Comics, Justice” Virtual Conference, School of Law and Criminology, USC, Queensland, Australia, Nov 28-29, 2019.
“Incriminating Media and Art: Crime, Crowds, and Class Struggle”, presented at the American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS) Annual conference, Seattle, October 4-6, 2019.
“Pidou: A Tale of Multiple Show Trials in China,” presented at the Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, Stanford, April 12-13, 2019.
“Staging Post-revolutionary Justice: Cinematic Struggle across the Taiwan Strait,” the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2018 Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., March 22-25, 2018.
“The Fantasy of People’s Trial: Class Struggle, Enemies, and Alternative ‘Trial Film’ in China,” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Toronto, March 14-18, 2018.
“The Exposure Complex: Image, Violence, and Class Struggle in Socialist China,” Fourteenth Graduate Seminar on China, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Jan 4-7, 2018.
“Slowing Execution, Executing Slowness: Taiwanese Video Art and Chen Chieh-jen’s Lingchi: Echoes of a Historical Photograph (2003),” The 2017 Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature Conference (ACCL), Hong Kong, June 21-23, 2017.
“Modeling Justice: Cinema as Struggle Session across the Strait at the Turn of the 1980s,” presented at the Sights and Sounds of the Cold War in the Sinophone World Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, March 25-26, 2017.
“Ways of Exposing: Cinema as Struggle Session in Mao’s China,” presented at The Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Chicago, March 22-26, 2017.
“Spectatorship, Cinephilia, and the Problematization of Film Historiography: Two Meta-films”, presented at The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Convention, Salt Lake City, October 6-8, 2016.
“Childhood as a Viewfinder of Film History: Political Violence and Child Vision”, presented at the Adolescence in Film and Television area of the 2016 Popular Culture and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference, Seattle, March 22-25, 2016.
“Ambiguous Legacies, Dubious Nostalgia: Remembering the Chinese Cultural Revolution through the Lens of Childhood”, presented at American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference, Cambridge, Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016.
“Vision/Blindness and the Cinematic Construction of the Cultural Revolution”, presented at Asia Pacific Forum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, April. 2015.
“Gazing at History: A Study of Wang Xiaoshuai’s 11 Flowers”, presented at Harvard East Asian Society Conference, Boston, USA, February 20-21, 2015.
Professional Development
(Participant) The Book Proposal Sprint & Manuscript Works Author Support Workshop series, 2023- summer 2024.
(Participant) Teaching in the time of A.I. Workshop, SLLC & College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland College Park, August 25, 2023.
(Participant) Diversifying Course Content Workshop, The Center for Faculty Excellence, University of Oklahoma, Nov 2021.
(Participant) Mellon Fellows Post-Fellowship Symposium, Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., October 24-25, 2019.
(Participant) “Data Visualization for Art Historians and Historians: A Digital Humanities Workshop with Prof. Nancy Um,” Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Seattle, Jan 25, 2019.
(Participant) “Media-Rich Digital Scholarship through Scalar Workshop,” Simpson Center for the Humanities and the University of Washington Press, Oct 12, 2018.
(Participant) “Scholarship in Sound and Images: Video Essay Workshop,” led by Professor Jason Mittell, University of Washington, Seattle, Oct 5-7, 2018.
(Participant) Mellon Dissertation Fellows Archival Research Orientation Workshop, Library of Congress, Research Orientation Center, Washington, D.C., Jun 12-13, 2018.
(Participant) Race and Media Microseminar (aligned with Race and Media Conference), organized by Ralina Joseph and LeiLani Nishime, Center for Communication Difference and Equity, UW Seattle, April 27, May 4 & 18, 2018.
(Participant) “Critical Ethnic Studies and Cinema & Media Studies: A Conversation,” the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Annual Conference, Toronto, March 14-18, 2018.
(Participant) “Missing Pictures: History and Poetic Imagination in Cinema of Rithy Panh” Microseminar, Simpson Center for the Humanities & Anthropology Department, UW, Dec 2017.
(Participant) “Ethnographic Aesthetics: Word, Image, Sound” Microseminar (led by Prof. Sasha Welland), Center for the Humanities, Department of Anthropology, UW, Jan 7-Feb 25, 2016.
(Participant) “Scholarship as Public Practice” E-portfolio Workspace Seminar, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Loew Hall 301, Dec 4, 2015.
