talks

• Invited panelist, “Skin as Technology in Asian/America,” A/P/A Institute, New York University (February 19, 2025).

• Author Talk with R.F. Kuang, Northwestern University (February 21, 2025).  

2024

• “Reproducing Race in Clone Narratives,” Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies (BBQ+), Johns Hopkins University (November 22, 2024).

• “Resurfacing Race in Cellular Time,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, November 2024.

• “Kill Switch,” American Literary Association, Chicago, May 2024.

• Panel discussant, “Under Pressure: Crises in Climate and Mental Health,” Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, April 2024.

• “Against ‘Race as Evidence’: Mae Ngai’s “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924,” Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, April 2024.

• Invited workshop and roundtable, “Eco-criticism and Capitalism,” Transpacific Studies Center, University of Southern California (April 19, 2024).

• “INHUMAN FIGURES: Robots, Clones, and Aliens,” Science Fictional Poetics, Tulane University (March 9, 2024).

2023

• Roundtable Organizer and Participant, “Solidarity in Incommensurability: Ethnic Studies and the Environmental Humanities,” American Studies Association, Montreal, November 2023.

• “Kill Switch,” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, Seattle, October 2023.

• Book panel roundtable chair, “Leslie Bow’s Racist Love,” Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, April 2023. 

• “Atomic Race,” Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, April 2023. 

• Roundtable Participant, “Technodystopian Wastescapes in Gold Fame Citrus,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, January 2023.

2022

• November 2022 - New Orleans, LA - Roundtable Participant, “Insurgent Infrastructures,” American Studies Association.

• April 2022 - Denver, CO - “The Good Ones,” Association for Asian American Studies.

• January 2022 - Washington, D.C. [Virtual] - Roundtable Participant, “Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions,” Modern Language Association.

2021

• November 2021 - San Juan, PR [Virtual] - “Environmental Racism/Settler Colonial Environmentalism: Asian and African Diasporas through Ecocriticism,” Association for American Studies.

• November 2021 - Ann Arbor, MI [Virtual] - Roundtable Participant, “Epigenetics,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.

• October 2021 - Virtual - Roundtable Participant, “Forum: New Worlds of Speculation” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present.

2020

• May 4, 2020 - Evanston, IL - Science in Human Culture Klopsteg Lecture - “Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit” [postponed]