预告 Upcoming in 2026*

 

*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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January ​

• “My Encounter with Yellowness”, Methods for Critical Approaches to Political Science (CAPS) Workshop, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Yonsei University 연세대학교, 8-9/January/2026 (invited by Professor Jungmin Seo and Dr. Olivia Rutazibwa). 

June

• “Sino-African Travels from the Cold War to the Present” (Organiser and Presenter), Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature (ACCL) 2026, The National University of Singapore, Singapore, 25-26/June/2026.

July

• “Blackness in China, from Colour to Area Studies”, Australian Society for Asian Humanities (ASAH) Inaugural Conference, China Studies Centre, The University of Sydney, Australia, 3-4/July/2026. 

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以往 Talks Given [recent and select]​

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

• “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.

• “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. 

• “‘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‘种族流动’：亚非跨种想象与当代视觉文化中的痛/快辩证法”, Chinese Department, Shanghai Normal University 上海师范大学, 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 中葡双语) [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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Since 2015, I have given presentations and talks at a diverse range of universities and cultural institutions across more than twenty countries and special regions. For a complete list, kindly send an email to request a CV.