Forthcoming

Climate Change (Speaker): "Magical Metropolises as the 'New Normal': Climate Change in Chinese Science Fiction", Day School on Climate + SF, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, February 2025.

Transnationalism (Panellist): To Be Continued: Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorising Serials and Adaptations, KCL and Monash University, September, 2024.

 

Past

Chinese Global Orders (Panellist): Panel discussion of The Wandering Earth 2 at the British Film Institute, in collaboration with LSE, UK-China Film Collab, supported by the British Academy, February, 2024.

Futurism and Medial Humanities (Invited Speaker): Chengdu World Science Fiction Convention October, 2023.

Chinese-English Translation: Reading Chinese Book Review Network (Management Committee and Book Reviewer), read my book reviews on crime fictions, May, 2023.

Recognition of Women and Non-binary Authors (Invited Talk): Beyond Feminist Perspectives: Care as a Mode to Envision the Future, The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, March, 2023.

Decolonisation and Resistance (Co-Director): Co-directs London Science Fiction Research Community, from 2020 to 2023, co-organized annual conferences on Activism & Resistance (2021), SF + Extraction (2022), Work-in-Progress, and Statement & Resources on Sinophobia and Anti-Asian Racism.

Cultural Heritage &Communities: Lunch Talk Series on Food & Language, Gender and Sexuality in SFF & Fan Fiction, and Literature and Diaspora, East and South East Asian heritage (ESEA) Heritage Month, 2021/2022.

Artificial Intelligence and Future Society (Panellist): AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, SOAS China Institute Public Talk Series, December, 2021.

Waste and Pollution (Chair): public talk “Chen Qiufan: Why did I Write a Science Fiction Novel about E-waste?”, the transcription of discussions have been published as part of Vector 293 exploring Chinese SF, 2019.

 

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