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Selected Invited Talks/Lectures

  • “Moving Images Make Enemies: Cataloguing Counterrevolutionaries and the Aesthetics of ‘Irrefutable Evidence’,” Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, June 21, 2024, Taipei. 

  • “Unearthing Taiwan’s Wild Justice: Nature, Gender, Ghost Medium” invited talk at the “Land/scaping Taiwan: (Non-)Humans, Environment, and Moments of Encounter” Workshop, Taiwan Studies Program and Department of Landscape Architecture/College of Built Environments, UW Seattle, Sept 25, 2023.

  • “Where Justice Lies: The Exposure Complex between Fact and Fiction,” presentation at Law & Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop, Georgetown University Law Center, May 24, 2023.

  • “Archival Work as Ethnographic Encounter,” Looking Forward to the Past: A CLIR-Mellon Fellows Reunion Symposium, organized by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), St. Louis, Missouri & Online, May 2022.

  • “Cinema is a Verb,” invited talk for the Living Library event, The United World, at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, October 22, 2021.

  • “Shooting Enemies: Cine-photographic Policing and Revolutionary Justice in Wartime China,” invited virtual talk for the Work in Progress Webinar in Law and Literature at the University of Toronto, June 22, 2021.

  • “Archival Thinking through Taiwan,” invited talk for Taiwan Studies Fall Colloquium, UW Taiwan Studies Program, Jackson School of International Studies, UW, Seattle, May 3, 2021.

  • “Postdoc Experiences and the Pandemic,” invited talk for the Early Career Workshop II organized by GSAAS and History Department at Brown University, April 27, 2021.

  • “Observing Mortality: A Conversation on Death and Visual Culture,” zoom webinar for the Collective for Radical Death Studies (CRDS), February 23, 2021.

  • “Cataloging Counterrevolution: Faces, Masks, and the Art of Unmasking,” virtual talk for the Socialist Visual Studies Group, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and Columbia University, February 11, 2021.

  • “Cinema all under Heaven: Rethinking Zhang Yimou’s Hero,” invited online lecture and post-film discussion for the Washington University in St. Louis and the Webster Film Series at Webster University, February 15, 2021.

  • “Museological Warfare: Cine-Exhibition of Class Struggle in Mao’s China,” invited talk, Center for China Studies, UC Berkeley, September 4, 2020.

  • “Pidouhui as and in Art History: Crowd, Cruelty, and Curatorial Justice,” invited talk at the Asia Art Archive in America, New York, March 2, 2020.

  • “Shameful Labor: Image-making and the Mass (Re-)production of Punishment in Chinese Socialism,” Labor Studies Workshare Series, the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, UW Seattle, Feb 12, 2020.

  • “Crafting Atrocity: Museological Imagination of Chinese Class Struggle”, presented at Society of Scholars Meeting, Simpson Center for the Humanities, UW, Dec 11, 2019.

  • (Guest Speaker) Seattle Taiwanese American Film Festival Opening Panel (with Prof. Yomi Braester, Ellen Chang), UW Taiwan Studies Program and SIFF Cinema, Seattle, Jun 29, 2018.

  • “Curating Counterrevolution: Pidouhui, Image, and the Politics of Visibility in China,” invited talk at the UW China & Inter-area Workshop, Asian Law Center, School of Law, UW and the East Asia Library of UW, Nov 16, 2017.

  • “A Tale of Multiple Encounters: Contextualizing Cinema in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the PRC,” guest lecture at the ENGL111 class, English Department, University of Washington, April 2016.