Workshops and Events
In December 2024, I organized and presented my work at Beijing’s Bye-bye Disco 夜谈 // Late Night Sessions. This Chinese-language event was open to the general public and it included presentations anthropologist He Beili 何贝莉 and myself. The event was called Through the Eyes of an Anthropologist 以人类学家的视角. For a summary of the event, follow this link.
Earlier in the year, in June 2024, I invited a collection of seven scholars all working on China to participate in the “History, Nostalgia and Futurabilities” workshop. The aim of the workshop was to address and capture the messiness, the fragments and multivocality of the past, present and possible futures/futurabilities among China’s Others. The workshop was inspiring and eye-opening! The tools we have to record, express and communicate our findings are boundless — as I was reminded by the diverse range of methods & output that people brought with them— from textual narrative, to ethnographic film, old photos, musical notes and even block prints.
Invited Lectures and Book Talks
March 2025: Book Talk on my newly published book “The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade” at the University of Edinburgh and at the School of Oriental and African Studies
In October 2024, I was invited to Birmingham and Durham University to give Book Talks on my newly published book “The Invention of Tradition in China: Story of a Village and a Nation Remade”
April 2024: Invited Lecturer at the Highland Peoples of Southwest China/Southeast Asian/Northeast Asia series at Indiana University
Spring 2023 & Autumn 2023: Invited to give talks at City University New York & York University, Toronto: “The Love Letters: Dreams at the Dawn of the Mao Zedong Era“
January 2023: Invited Talk at Modern China Seminar Series, Columbia University: “Reclaiming a Chinese Halycon Past: A Love Story”
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