conferences & presentations
2023
↳ “punctures and perforations: the collapsible care of cardboard” for roundtable on “radical solidarities in environments of crisis,” american studies association (montreal, canada)
↳ “corrugated surrogacies” for panel on “materialities and inter- and outer-connectivity,” association for the study of literature and the environment, (portland, or)
↳ “unchosen hosts, the politics of stairs, and parasitism as non-strategic living” for panel on “home-making today: interdisciplinary reflections on domestic space, home, and the ancestral homeland in asia and the diaspora,” global asias 6 (state college, pa)
↳ “collapsible care and enfolded militarisms” for roundtable on “globalizing reproductive justice across asias,” global asias 6 (state college, pa)
↳ “abolishing and absenting” for panel on “new working conditions in asian american studies,” modern language association (san francisco, ca)

2022
↳ “corrugated care: the kinship of cardboard and the war in vietnam” for panel on “imperial relations,” beyond militarism, university of cambridge (london, uk)
↳ “markets, militarisms, and the supply chain of imperial intimacies,” research presentation showcase, center for the study of race, indigeneity, and transnational migration, yale university (new haven, ct)
↳ “identitarian fractures of queer asian fun: cyborgian sexualities in soft science” for panel on “asian fun,” american comparative literature association (virtual)
↳ “the bland, banal, and boring: political uneventfulness and unexceptionality in eugene lim’s dear cyborgs” for panel on “resignifying failure in asian american narratives,” association for asian american studies (denver, co)
↳ “against ‘opening back up’ and ‘moving on’: inhabitance and refurbishment as methods of care” for roundtable on “discourses of care in asian american literature and studies,” northeast modern language association (baltimore, md)
↳ “metabolism as decolonial witnessing: the sticky intimacies of slavery and indenture” for panel on “in/from the wake: decolonial witnessing,” northeast modern language association (baltimore, md)

2021
↳ “place as palimpsest: protruding the pandemic” for roundtable on “place and pandemic,” nonfictionow aotearoa (virtual)
↳ “absence and apparition: haunting as anti-imperial poetics in ghost of” for panel on “the poetics of writing race and resistance,” contemporary women’s writing association (virtual)
↳ “dirty nails” for creative writing panel on “memoir and the mind: memory and identity,” the american library in paris, diasporic vietnamese artists network, (virtual)
↳ “slippery afro asian subjectivities: slavery and empire in on earth we’re briefly gorgeous and beloved” for panel on “southeast asia: oceans, seas, and straights,” american comparative literature association (virtual)
↳ “the graphic child: counter-visual productions in thi bui’s the best we could do,” modern language association (toronto, canada)
↳ “queer vietnamese kinships and anti-imperial subjectivities” for panel on “asian american literature and empire and imperialism,” modern language association (toronto, canada)
↳ “epistolary intimacies and abolitionist study as struggle” for roundtable on “teaching literature and humanities in prison: prison education initiatives,” modern language association (toronto, canada)

2020
↳ “malcolm x, yuri kochiyama, and pan-afroasia,” national women’s studies association (minneapolis, mn)
↳ “biopolitical dust in when the emperor was divine,” asian american studies symposium, yale asian american cultural center (new haven, ct)
↳ “yuri kochiyama as spatial artist: quotidian aesthetics and afroasian solidarity” for panel on “sounds and spaces of solidarity,” association for asian american studies (washington, d.c.)
↳ “mirror space; the unlocations of vietnamese kinships and literature” for panel on “transmedia engagement and the performance of place in southeast asia, modern language association (seattle, wa)