talks

upcoming

“Kill Switch,” American Literary Association, Chicago, May 2024.
Panel discussant, “Under Pressure: Crises in Climate and Mental Health,” Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, April 2024.
Roundtable Participant, “Against ‘Race as Evidence’: Mae Ngai’s “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924,” Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, April 2024.

Roundtable Organizer and Participant, “Solidarity in Incommensurability: Ethnic Studies and the Environmental Humanities,” American Studies Association, Montreal, November 2023.
“Kill Switch,” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, Seattle, October 2023.
Book panel roundtable chair, “Leslie Bow’s Racist Love,” Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, April 2023.
“Atomic Race,” Association for Asian American Studies, Long Beach, April 2023.
Roundtable Participant, “Technodystopian Wastescapes in Gold Fame Citrus,” Modern Language Association, San Francisco, January 2023.

November 2022 - New Orleans, LA - Roundtable Participant, “Insurgent Infrastructures,” American Studies Association.
April 2022 - Denver, CO - “The Good Ones,” Association for Asian American Studies.
January 2022 - Washington, D.C. [Virtual] - Roundtable Participant, “Out of This World: Larissa Lai’s Visions,” Modern Language Association.

November 2021 - San Juan, PR [Virtual] - “Environmental Racism/Settler Colonial Environmentalism: Asian and African Diasporas through Ecocriticism,” Association for American Studies.
November 2021 - Ann Arbor, MI [Virtual] - Roundtable Participant, “Epigenetics,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
October 2021 - Virtual - Roundtable Participant, “Forum: New Worlds of Speculation” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present.

May 4, 2020 - Evanston, IL - Science in Human Culture Klopsteg Lecture - “Racial Disintegration: Biomedical Futurity at the Environmental Limit” [postponed]

October 12, 2019 - College Park, MD - Association for the Study of Arts of the Present - “Postracial Medicine in Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea”
November 7, 2019 - Honolulu, HI - Association for American Studies - “Seeds, Security, and Survivalism” [also panel co-organizer]
April 26, 2019 - Madison, WI - Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) - “Superficial Death”
April 25, 2019 - Madison, WI - Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) - “Roundtable Participant, Pacific Pessimisms”
April 5, 2019 - University Park, PA - Global Asias 5 - “On Resisting Extinction”
February 20, 2019 - Evanston, IL - Chapin Humanities Residential College
February 7, 2019 - Evanston, IL - Asian American Studies Program - “Japanese American Internment Narratives After 9/11”
January 6, 2019 - Chicago, IL - Modern Language Association (MLA) - “Disarticulation and Debility in Bhanu Kapil’s Humanimal”

November 17, 2018 - Toronto, ON - Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) - “Book Panel Participant: Susan Squier's Epigenetic Landscapes”
November 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Association for American Studies (ASA) - “Precision Medicine in Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea”
October 23, 2018 - Evanston, IL - One Book One Northwestern - Panelist on The Handmaid's Tale panel - “Salvaging the Future”
October 19, 2018 - New Orleans, LA - Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) - “On Resisting Extinction”
August 11, 2018 - Lancaster, PA - Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space - “Inhuman Forms in Jeffrey Yang’s An Aquarium”
May 11, 2018 - Chicago, IL - Hippocrates Poetry & Medicine Symposium - “Disarticulation and Disability in Bhanu Kapil's Humaninal”
April 11, 2018 - Evanston, IL - Northwestern Global Café (International Studies Program) - "The Posthuman Subject in/of Asian American Literature"
March 29, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) - "Asian/American Assimilation as Racial Intoxication"
March 9, 2018 - Evanston, IL - Northwestern English Department - "Inhuman Subjects in Jeffrey Yang's An Aquarium"
January 31, 2018 - Evanston, IL - Northwestern Comparative Race and Diaspora Graduate Cluster - "Current Critical Conversations in Asian American Studies"
January 5, 2018 - New York, NY - Modern Language Association (MLA) - "Anti-Atomic Identity in Neo-internment Narratives"

December 1, 2017 - Evanston, IL - Lipstick Theatre at Northwestern - "Feminist Literatures."
November 10, 2017 - Chicago, IL - ASA - "Sand, or Anti-Atomic Identity in Neo-internment Narratives."