INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCES PRESENTATIONS

I. INVITED TALKS

·       Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong: June 11, 2026, Invited by Professor Hang-tsui Lik to lead a group discussion of song lyrics  in Mandarin Chinese on “An Exploration of How Crossing South Writers of the Early Southern Song (1127-1279) Adapted and Transformed the Trope of ‘Imagined Travel’ 渡詞人對東坡詞中“神遊故國”主題的接受與轉變

·        Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong: June 8, 2026, Invited by Professor Elizabeth Harper to deliver a book talk in English, entitled “Longing for Landscape: Displacement and Cultural Memory in the Song Lyrics of Su Shi and the Crossing-South Writers 故國神遊: 蘇軾與南渡作家詞中的流離失所與文化記憶” 

·         Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 4, 2024, by invitation of Professor Tung Yung-chang, delivered an hour-long presentation in Mandarin Chinese on the topic of "Investigating Urban Traces: Understanding the Geo-poetics of Urban Identity in Southern Song China through the Hundred Poems on West Lake collection of Dong Sigao (fl. 13th cent)” 尋覓城市的遺跡：南宋城市形象與抒情書寫，以董嗣杲的《西湖百詠》為例 and answered questions from the audience.

·        Institute of Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, April 11, 2024, by invitation of my sponsors, Professors Hu Siao-chen and Liao Chao-heng, delivered an hour-long presentation in Mandarin Chinese on the topic of “Displacement and Cultural Memory: An Exploration of how Crossing South Writers of the Early Southern Song (1127-1279) Adapted and Transformed the Trope of ‘Imagined Travel’ from the Song Lyrics of Su Shi (1037-1101)” 流離失所與文化記憶: 南渡詞人對東坡詞中“神遊故國”主題的接受與轉變 ─ 以向子諲、李清照與葉夢得為例and answered questions from the audience.

II. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

·        Fourth Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities, City University of Hong Kong, May 28-May 30, 2026. Presented new research based on a 25-page paper on the topic of “Su Shi’s Song Lyrics as a Source of Cultural Memory: A Comparative Study of Literary Adaptation Across the Jin and Southern Song Divide in 12th cent. East Asia” by invitation at this international and interdisciplinary conference. 

·        Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Vancouver, Canada: Spring, 2026, Organized the panel “Nanjing’s Literary Layers: Constructing, Curating, and Recalling the Literary Legacy of the Southern Capital” and presented a paper on “Meditating on the Past and Capturing the Present: Ma Guangzu’s Creation of a Capital Gazetteer Through His Curation of Jiankang’s Literary Layers” 

·        Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Columbus, Ohio: Spring, 2025, Invited to present on the panel “Mappings of Authority and Identity: The Interplay between Geography and Culture in Texts on Urban Space from Early to Late Imperial China” with my paper on “Unearthing Traces of Kingly Qi: The Literary Mapping of Jiankang as a Capital in the Hundred Poems on Jinling collections of Ma Zhichun (1144-?) and Zeng Ji (13th cent.)”

·        Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco CA, Jan.6-9, 2023, organized the panel “Oceans as Contact Zones” and served as the presider. This roundtable explored how an oceanic perspective changes our understandings of literary history and encourages a trans-regional or global approach to literary texts. Presenters consider the utility and limits of oceans as “contact zones” drawing on a range of examples drawn from Asian and European cultures, reconceiving the constantly changing oceans as spaces for the interaction between self and other often within radically asymmetrical relations of power.

·        Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston, Spring 2023, Organizer of the panel, "Putting Frontiers at the Center of Medieval Chinese Literature” and presenter of the paper, “From Jackfruit to Pearls: Strategies of Naturalizing and Foreignizing the Exotic in Southern Song Travel Writings on Lingnan”

·        Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Honolulu, Hawaii. Spring 2022, Organizer of the panel, “Where the Land Meets the Sea: Mapping Perceptions of the Maritime World of Lingnan in Literary and Historical Discourses from the Song to Qing Dynasties" and presenter of the paper, “Through Continental Eyes: Textual Verification and (Mis)perceptions of Guangzhou in Fang Xinru's One Hundred Poems on the Southern Sea"

·        Modern Language Association Conference, Washington DC, (Hybrid In-Person and On-Line Conference) Jan.6-9, 2022: Organized and coordinated a panel on “Sadness” as the presider. Drawing on Chinese literature and beyond, we discussed social-constructivist and physicalist views of emotion, grief’s relation to ritual and genre, the gendering of sorrow, and the utility and limits of cognitive theories of emotion dominant in the new field of affect studies.

·        23rd Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Fall 2021 (University of Leipzig, Conference Held On-line): By invitation of the panel organizer, Professor Roland Altenburger of the University of Wurzburg, participated on a panel entitled, “Functional and Imaginative Gardens and Landscapes of Hangzhou and the West Lake from Song to Qing” and presented the paper, “The Emergence of the Geo-Poetic Collection: Dong Sigao’s Hundred Poems of West Lake.”

·        Modern Language Association Conference, Toronto, CA (Conference Held On-Line), Jan.6-9, 2021: Organized a panel on “Questioning Harmony: Ecocritical Perspectives on Pre-14th Century Chinese Literary, Visual, and Material Culture” and presented the paper, “Mastering the Mountain: Su Shi’s Later Rhapsody on the Red Cliff as an Ecocritical Parable in Text and Image.”

·        The Cultural Landscapes of West Lake: From Local to Global-Site Visit Workshop, Hangzhou China, Sept.4-8, 2019. By the invitation of conference organizers Professor Christiane Hille (SOAS, University of London) and Professor Miao Zhe 繆哲 (Department of Art and Archeology, Zhejiang University) participated in a workshop on cultural landscapes of Hangzhou from the 10th to 21st centuries in preparation for a follow-up conference to be held at University of Munich, Germany.

·        Annual Association for Asian Studies Conference, Washington DC. Presenter, Spring 2018, “Refashioning West Lake: The Changing Meaning of Scenic Sites in Two ‘Hundred-Poem Collections’ from Song dynasty China”

·        Second Conference on Middle Period Chinese Humanities, Universiteit Leiden, Sept. 14-17, 2017. Presented new research based on a 25-page paper on the topic of “Touring the City in Southern Song China: The Popular Poetics of ‘Hundred-Poem’ Collections on Jiankang and Hangzhou in the 13th century” by invitation at this international and interdisciplinary conference.

·        International Conference for Early and Mid-Career Scholars of Song Dynasty Literature (国际中青年学者宋代文学专题研讨会), Hangzhou, China, Fall 2016. Cosponsored by the scholarly journal Wenxue yichan 文学遗产 and Zhejiang Polytechnic University 浙江工业大学. By invitation, presented in Chinese the paper, “Southern Osmanthus and Northern Pear: The Garden of Xiang Ziyin as a Site of Memory in the Writings of Southern Song Literati” (岩桂与鹅梨：向子諲之园林如何在南宋初两代文本中成为一个记忆场所)

·        Association for Asian Studies Conference in Asia (AAS in Asia), Kyoto, Japan, Summer 2016. Panel Organizer and Presenter, “A Walking Guide through the Palimpsest: Zeng Ji’s Geo-Poetics in One Hundred Quatrains on Jinling.”

·        Annual Association for Asian Studies Conference (AAS), Chicago, IL, Spring 2015, Panel Organizer and Presenter, “Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream: The Song Lyrics of Xiang Ziyan as a Textual Locus for Refuge Memories of Resettlement in the South.”