预告 Upcoming in 2025*

 

*I welcome everyone to my talks, even when they are hosted for special classes. Information about upcoming talks is usually released or reposted through the WeChat public account "Transnational and Situated" listed above. If not, please email me for the details and instructions on attending if you are interested. 

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November​

• “The Rise of Chinese Games and the Discourse of Cultural Confidence 國產遊戲崛起與文化自信話語”, Taiwan Research Institute, Xiamen University 廈門大學, 26/November/2025.

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最近 Talks Recently Given [select]​

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• “Transracial Flows in the Age of AI Visuality”, The Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature and Transcultural Studies Association of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 上海交通大學, 24-26/October/2025.

• “Transracialism in Afro-Asian Culture”, Department of Inter- and Transcultural Cooperation, Universität Bonn, 24/October/2025. [online, invited by Dr. Hangwei Li]

• “Humanising China-Africa Relations in a Zambian Novel 一部贊比亞小說中的中非人文關係”, Contemporary Foreign Literature Young Scholars Forum, Nanjing University 南京大學, 14-15/October/2025.

• “Afria-Asia Dialogue”, School of Political Science and International Relations, Tongji University 同濟大學, 20 /Sep/2025. [invited by Prof. Chih-yu Shih and Dr. Shine Choi as commentator]

• “Between Techno-Blackness and Techno-Orientalism”, The Second Harare Forum for Africa: Rural Development Cooperation and China-Zimbabwe Civilisation Dialogue Academic Week, China-Zimbabwe Exchange Center in Harare, 14-24/August/2025.

• “‘Worlding Mauritius in Chinese and English”, From Research to Publication: Remapping Conversations on Doing Political Science and IR from/on East Asia and Beyond, Kangwon National University 강원대학교, 17-20/July/2025.[invited by Dr. Seoyoung Choi]  

• “Censored Literature as World Literature?”, part of the visiting scholarship hosted by the Heidelberg Confucius Institute with the MA Transcultural Studies Program of Heidelberg University, 14 /July/2025. [invited by Dr. Petra Thiel and Lennart Riedel]

• “Toward a Bilingual Construction of Sino-Mauritian Identity: Island Nationalism and Ethnic Pride in Marie Madeleine Lee’s Life Writing”, Stories of Migration International Conference, The University of Mauritius, 3-5/July/2025. 

• “China-Africa as Culture”, Sino-African Hub in Shanghai, 29/May/2025. [invited by Dr. Jodie Yuzhou Sun for the Fudan University BA course “Africa and the Modern World”]

• “Embodying Sino-Mauritian Relations in the World: Island Nationalism and Ethnic Pride in Marie Madeleine Lee’s Life Writing”, Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network Conference and Symposium: Evolving Dynamics of Africa-China Relations and Re-imagining the Future, Lingnan University (Hong Kong), 15-16/May/2025. 

• “‘Taiwanese/Chinese Food at Home’ Culinary Narratives in Taiwanese South African Life Writing”,  The Second Annual Joint Conference of Africa and Middle East Studies in Taiwan: Taiwan in the Africa-China Moment-Hidden Histories and Futures, Academia Sinica with National Quemoy University, 23-26/April/2025. 

• “Against the 'Racial Flow': Afro-Asian Transracialism and the Dialectics of Pleasure and Pain in Contemporary Visual Culture 反‘種族流動’：亞非跨種想象与當代視覺文化中的痛/快辯證法”, Chinese Department, Shanghai Normal University 上海師範大學, 16/April/2025. [invited by Prof. Zhu Zhenwu]

• “Agualusa’s African Writing and Literary Universe” with Jose Agualusa and Sun Ganlu, 2024 Shanghai International Literary Week, Sinan Books, 15/August/2024. (In Chinese and Portuguese 中葡雙語) [invited as discussant by the publisher]

• “Race and Diaspora in Chinese South African Life Writing”, Department of English, The University of Macau, 28/Aug/2024. [invited by Professor Jeremy de Chavez]

• “On the Untranslatability of Blackness in Chinese, or the Inherent Translationality of Hei 黑”, Translation and Transcultural Studies Research Seminar Series, Warwick University, 21/Jun/2024. [invited by Dr. Jane Qian Liu]

• “‘Hope for the Nation’: A Critical Survey of Figures of Mixed Chinese and Black/African Heritage and their Racial Niche in Chinese Media”, Africa-China: Cultural Dimensions Symposium, Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique, 14-15/March/2024. [invited and fully sponsored by the Yale Council on African Studies and the Council on East Asian Studies]​

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From 2015 onwards I have given presentations and talks in a diverse range of universities and cultural institutions in different countries. For a full list, kindly send an email to request a CV.