Invited
“Contact and Resonance: Chinese Installation Art in the 1980s.” Guest Lecture for ART 210 Globalization and Contemporary Art. Department of Art and Art History, Macalester College (October, 2024/via Zoom).
“The Art of Neolithic Japan.” Guest Lecture for ARHS 114 Introduction to Asian Art. Department of Art History, Kenyon College in Gambier, OH (April, 2023).
“Socialist Bodies: The Art of the Cultural Revolution.” Guest Lecture for ARHS 191 Art and Propaganda of Modern Asia. Department of Art History, Kenyon College in Gambier, OH (April, 2023).
“Sculpture in Early Twentieth-Century China.” Guest Lecture for HA 4815 Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art. Department of History of Art, The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH (February, 2023).
“Zhao Mengfu and the Art of Acquiescence.” Guest Lecture for ARHS 291 Art of Late Imperial China. Department of Art History, Kenyon College in Gambier, OH (January, 2023).
Refereed
“Contemporary Chinese Art in Ohio: 1993.” Paper delivered at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Columbus, OH (March, 2025).
“Beijing to Hangzhou: Marin Varbanov and the Significance of Mixed Media in the Post-Mao Era.” Paper delivered at College Art Association Annual Conference in New York, NY (February, 2025).
“Remaking Spaces: Agency and Queerness in the Art of Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990).” Paper delivered at Global Asias Interdisciplinary Annual Conference in Irvine, CA (February, 2024).
“Pushing Boundaries: Revisiting the Contribution of Post-Mao Artistic Exchanges to Contemporary Chinese Art.” Paper delivered at Annual Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (November, 2023/via Zoom).
“From Craft to Fine Art: The New Discourse on Sculpture in Republican China.” Paper delivered at The Historical Society for Twentieth Century China Biennial Conference (August, 2022/via Zoom)
“The Art of Yanobe Kenji: Torayan, Cuteness, and Nuclear Disasters.” Paper delivered at Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference in Houston, TX (March, 2022).
“Christian Art and Fu Jen University in Republican China (1911-1949).” Paper delivered at Science and Research Centre Koper Symposium, University of Ljubljana (May, 2021/via Zoom).
“Rethinking the Chinese Avant-Garde.” Paper delivered at Ohio State Department of History of Art Graduate Symposium (March, 2021/via Zoom).
“The Contested Body and the Great Wall.” Paper delivered at Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference in Carlisle, PA (October, 2019).
“The Uncompromising Body: Gender in Chinese Performance Art.” Paper delivered at Midwest Art History Society Annual Conference in Cincinnati, OH (March, 2019).
“He Chengyao’s Opening the Great Wall and the Re-Shaped Memory.” Paper delivered at “Memory and Media” Graduate Conference for Chinese Studies at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH (November, 2018).
“Close Looking: Ma Shouzhen’s Orchid and Bamboo.” Paper delivered at Annual Student Art History Symposium at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, MN (April, 2018).
Conferences, Panels, and Talks Organized/Chaired
“Gendered Mediations: Materials, Mediums, Artistic Practices in twentieth-century East Asia.” Panel Co-organizer/Chair, College Art Association Annual Conference • Chicago, IL (February, 2026).
“Queer X Contemporary X China.” Organizer/Discussant, The Ohio State University • in-person and online (09/2024-04/2025).
This is a year-long interdisciplinary program convened within a framework of global China. Speakers include novelist Jiaming Tang, curator Kris Ercums, and film screenings.
“On Radical Practice: Representing Politics, Resistance, and Transmission.” Co-organizer, OSU History of Art Graduate Student Conference • online (April, 2022).
“Assembling Gods: Ecology, Memory, and Temple Murals in North China.” Co-organizer, OSU History of Art GILD lecture with Anne Feng, Boston University • online (March, 2021).
“Edmonia Lewis and the Poetics of Plaster.” Co-organizer, OSU History of Art GILD lecture with Caitlin Beach, Fordham University • online (November, 2020).
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