Guest Lectures >>>
University of Virginia
- "Black Myth: Wukong and the World," April 2025
Harvard University
- "Anime Aesthetics and Anime Games in China: Three Keywords," April 2025
- "Chinese Games and World Games: Keys to Reading Black Myth: Wukong," November 2024
- "ACG and Nijigen: Anime and Anime Aesthetics in China," November 2023
Amherst College
- "Chinese Video Games and the World: Three Key Questions," November 2024
Tufts University
- "Mimesis, Speciesism, and Procedure: Models for Understanding Animals in Games," November 2024
- "What Can Video Games Tell Us About the Animal-human Relationship?," October 2023
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- "Game Studies: What’s the Starting Point?" November 2021
National University of Singapore
- "Gaming with Chinese Characteristics," November 2021
- "Media and China in the 1990s," November 2019
Conference Presentations >>>
- “Worlding Chinese Video Games,” What Is China? New Perspectives in New Eras, an international symposium at Harvard University, April 2025
- “The Dermatology of Video Games: Skin and Its Digital Genesis,” Collaborative Learning Forum at East China Normal University, March 2025
- “Taiwanese Games? Chinese Games? Travel in the ‘+’,” Taiwan Studies +, Conference at Harvard University, February 2025
- “Coding Chinese Affect: The Problem of Chineseness in the Age of AI,” Global Sinophone Classicisms: Hybridity, Agency, and Critical Challenges, International Conference at German Research Foundation (DFG), May 2024
- “Is Intelligence Universal? Three Cases of Chinese Video Games,” AAS Annual Conference, March 2024
- “From NPCs to AI Worlds: What Can Chinese Videogames Tell Us About Intelligence?” Chinese Humanities 2033: New Visions, New Directions, International Conference at Harvard University, October 2023
- “Action, Horror: The Birth of a Chinese Videogame Genre,” 2023 AAS Annual Conference, March 2023
- “Mid-Autumn: The Untold Story of Stanislavsky Coming to Yan’an,” Harvard-Yale Conference on Modern Chinese Literary and Media Studies, March 2019
- “An Intellectual Prepares: The Stanislavsky System and Yan’an Theatre, 1937-1941,” Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 2017
- “The Abandoned Legacy: Theatrical Labor and the Stanislavsky System in Yan’an Theatre,” New England Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference (NEAAS), January 2017