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“The Exhaustion of Asian American Criticism” ( article in progress for Amerasia )


  • University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of English, Latitudes—working group on comparative studies of race, colonization, and empire. Nov. 19, 2025.
  • Symposium on Marxism and Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley, Dec. 5, 2025. Convened by Colleen Lye, Calvin Cheung-Miaw, and Cynthia Gao.
  • Post-45 Faculty Symposium. Convened by Samantha Pergadia and Arthur Wang. With Loren Glass, Sam Huber, Timothy Lem-Smith, Luca Messarra, Alyssa Quintanilla, Jenny Rhee, Francisco Robles, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Amanda Su, Adrienne Brown, J.D. Connor, Gloria Fisk, Elijah Hook, Nia Judelson, Carlos Nugent, Aaron Obedkoff, Dan Sinykin, Rachel Greenwald Smith, and Sunny Xiang. Dec. 12–13, 2025.



“The Asian American Character of Logistics”


  • Americanist Colloquium, Dept. of English, Yale University. March 2024.
  • “Logistics, Race, and Narrative.” Seminar on “The Rhetoric of Value,” convened by Seb Boersma, Jake Orbison, and Sam Samore. With Bret Benjamin, Beverly Best, Charlie Bond, Fintan Calpin, Benjamin Crais, Amy De'Ath, Delarys Ramos Estrada, Andrew Haas, Aditi Kumar, Blanca Missé, Jake Orbison, and Carson Welch. ACLA. Montreal, Canada. March 2024.
  • Panel on “Supply-Chain Capitalism,” convened by Eli Jelly-Schapiro, with Peter Hitchcock, Miriam Posner, and Tierney Powell. MLA. Philadelphia.  January 2024.
  • Panel on “Cold War, Decolonization, and Crisis,” with Jini Kim Watson, Joseph Keith, and Christopher J. Lee. Association of Postcolonial Thought. University of Michigan. Sep. 2023.



“States of the Filipino Novel: On Wilfrido D. Nolledo”


Lecture. The Literary and Cultural Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, co-sponsored by Exploding Galaxies Press. April 23, 2025.




In conversation with Seb Franklin, “Value and Slavery, or the Longue Durée of the Analog-Digital Distinction”


The Program in Media and Modernity, School of Architecture, Princeton University. Oct. 24, 2023.



Neferti Tadiar’s “Remaindered Life”


In conversation with Jasbir Puar and Erica Edwards around Neferti Tadiar’s work. Barnard College, Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. April 11, 2023.




“Marcos and Pinochet at the International Writing Program”


Panel on “Institutions of Authorship, 1965-2022,” convened by Alexander Manshel, with Sarah Brouillette, Laura McGrath, and Aarthi Vadde. Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP/13). UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.  Sep. 14-17, 2022.




“Chicago’s Asia: Early Human Capital Theory and the Neoliberal Remaking of the Model Minority Myth”


  • Seminar on “Human Capital.” Convened by Benjamin Conisbee Baer. American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). June 15-18, 2022.
  • Symposium on “Archiving Cold War Asia” convened by Chih-ming Wang and David Chang. Panel on “Humans as Archive: Theories about Capital,” with Sunny Xiang and Petrus Liu. Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University. April 30, 2022.