“The Race of Diversifying Film Tastes: The Challenge of Curator Development in the UK’s Neoliberalist Economy”, 2nd ACPAC Annual Conference (Thailand Film Archive, 19-21 June 2026)
“Creative Economy and Labour Value in Britain’s Screen Industry”, 3rd CLAS PGR Conference: Re-anchoring the Value of the Humanities in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Nottingham, 20 May 2026) [Keynote]
“Contesting Dichotomous Femininity in Mao’s Film Industry: Female Stars and Representation of the New China”, School of Arts, Media and Communication research seminar (University of Leicester, 10 December 2025)
“Dancing in Chains: Shanghai Film Dubbing Studio and the Creative Performance in the Mao Era”, Film Studios: Histories, Evolution, Innovation conference (Bristol, 5-7 June 2023)
“Daoism and Diasporic Narrative of Taiwan Martial Arts Films (wuxia pian)”, International Perceptions of China: Chinese Culture in International Audio-Visual Culture (University of Southampton, 13 June 2023). [keynote]
“The Changing Image of Nüxia (⼥侠, female warrior) in ‘Dagon Gate’ Films”, 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 25-26 November 2022).
“Contesting Gender Space: Zhou Xuan and Chinese Female Stardom during the Republican Era” Women in East Asian Cinema conference (HOME, Manchester, 4-6 December 2019)
“Performativity in Chinese Artistic Documentaries: A Case Study of Xie Jin’s Huang Baomei (1958)” Conference: Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide (Queen Mary University of London, 15-16 November 2019).
“Looking for a (Chinese) Mother: The Construction of Pan-regional Chineseness in Lotus Lantern (dir. Chang Guangxi, 1999)” Research symposium: Cinemas of the Sinosphere: Border Crossing in Chinese Cinemas (University of Exeter, 20-22 September 2019).
“Shanghai Calling: Imagination of Cosmopolitanism in Co-produced Romantic Dramas” 13th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference (LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, 24-26 June 2019)
“Multilingualism in Chinese Urban Films and Re-globalisation of Shanghai in the 1990s” Chinese Cinema in Global Context—Past and Present (University of Idaho, Moscow ID, 14-15 April 2019)
“Finding Next Star: Femininity, Casting and Post-Revolutionary Aesthetics in 1980s’ Chinese Cinema”. Symposium: Casts and Casting: Perspectives from Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (University of Hertfordshire, 10-11 November 2018).
“Republic Star Culture: The Case of Zhou Xuan”. Guest lecture (UCLA, 19 April 2018).
“Shanghai Jazz and Film Noir Crossover”, Rethinking Film Genres: East Asian Cinema and Beyond, conference (University of Hull, 14-15 September 2017)
“Space Remixed: Filming Location, Selective Cosmopolitanism and Translating the Fluidity of Mega Cities in 007 Franchise”. Conference: Cosmopolitanism, World Cities and Circulation of Visual Culture between China and Britain (Shanghai Theatre Academy, 23 June 2017).
“Hear the Unseen: Shanghai Dialect and Taiwan Cinema”, SCMS annual conference (Atlanta, 30 March – 3 April 2016).
“Ghost Shanghai in Taiwan New Cinema and After”. Research symposium: Chinese Cinema: Space, Identity and Politics (University of Nottingham, 5 June 2015).
“Now You See It; Now You Don’t: The Transpacific Imagination of Shanghai in Hollywood’s Sci-Fi Films”, SCMS annual conference (Montreal, 25-29 March 2015).
“Piracy, an Alternative Channel for Film Distribution? Online Film Sharing, Censorship and Chinese Independent Cinema”, China in Cyberspace: Platform, Content and Governance, interdisciplinary research workshop (University of Hull, 25 September 2014).
“Somewhere in Between: The Transpacific Imagination of Shanghai in American Independent Cinema since 2000”. Research seminar (University of Southampton, 19 November 2013).
“Behind the Dazzling Lights: The Secret of Cosmopolitan Shanghai in Hollywood Action Blockbusters”, Screen annual conference (University of Glasgow, 28-30 June 2013).
“I’m Ugly but Gentle’: Performing Xiaorenwu (litter character) in Chinese Comedies”, Revisiting Star Studiesconference (Newcastle University, 12-14 June 2013).
“Weaving the Net: Followers, Fame and Film Criticism in an Inter-Media Era”, BAFTSS annual conference: Critics and Criticism: Writing on Audiovisual Media (University of Lincoln, 19-21 April 2013).
“The Good, Bad and Ugly: Performing Whiteness in the Chinese Propaganda Cinema 1949-1976”, Images of Whiteness annual conference: Exploring Critical Issues (Mansfield College Oxford, 7-9 July 2012).
“Beyond the Cultural Revolution: Zhiqing’s Story and the Narrative of Urbanisation in Contemporary Chinese Independent Cinema”, New Generation Chinese Cinema, conference (King’s College London, 26-27 May 2011).
“The Construction of Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Chow Yun-fat’s Comedies”, MeCCSA annual conference (University of Glasgow, 30 June-1 July 2010).
“The Birth of a Hollywood Star: Chinese Immigrants, Global Labour and Capitalisation of Ethnic Stardom”, 1st International Congress on Chinese Studies Immigration and Cultural Exchanges (Centro de Estudios Chinos Lu Xun, Bilbao, 26-29 November 2008).
“The Birth of a TV Star: Chow Yun-fat, Typecasting and Hong Kong Modern Xiaosheng”, Televising History: Nation, Memory, Identity, postgraduate conference (University of Lincoln, 13-15 June 2007).”Negotiating Transnational Stardom: Chow Yun-fat, Hollywood Blockbusters and Markets”, Identities Negotiations in Contemporary Space(s), postgraduate conference (University of Warwick, 2 December 2006).
