CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, INVITED TALKS AND DISCUSSIONS
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Invited Roundtable Speaker at the fourth international conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia network (MSIA), Ewha Womans University, Seoul (June 2025).
“‘Letters and Pills’: Shaping Modern Taste in H. G. Wells’ Tono-Bungay,” the MSIA Modernism and Language conference, Ewha Womans University, Seoul (June 2025).
Invited Speaker, “Trans-Pacific Modernist Studies,” hosted by the Modernist and Contemporary Working Group of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania (November 2024).
Invited Speaker, “A Conversation on Modernist Studies in East Asia,” hosted by the Global Avant-Garde and Modernist Studie Graduate Cluster at Northwestern University (November 2024).
“The Chinese Literati Tradition and Aesthetic Sources of Liberal Thinking,” the Modernist Studies Association conference, Chicago (November 2024).
Invited talk: “Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and the Liberal Aesthetic in Edwardian Britain.” Department of English Research Seminar, City University of Hong Kong (October 2024).
Invited talk, “Modernism and the Observant Eye.” Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) (March 2024).
Invited talk, “Chinese and Western Styles of Landscape Painting 风景与⼭⽔的相似与互补.” Shanghai Library (March 2024).
“A World Elsewhere: Home and Wanderlust in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer and Lin Yutang’s Chinatown Family,” the Modernist Studies Association conference, Brooklyn (October 2023).
Invited talk, “Aesthetic Sources of Liberal Thinking.” Workshop on “Transcultural Modernities,” Department of Political and Social Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter (May 2023).
Invited talk, “‘The New Economy and the Old Morality’: Wells, Forster, and Edwardian Liberalism.” School of English, The University of Hong Kong (April 2022).
Invited talk, “Neither New Nor Fabian: G. L. Dickinson and the Cosmopolitan Appeal of Beauty.” Tokyo Modernism Research Seminar 3 (January 2022).
Invited talk, “Reshaping the Self across Cultural Boundaries: Yan Fu, Dickinson, and Ruskin.” College of Professional and Continuing Education, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (June 2021).
Invited talk, “‘The Cultivated and Observant Eye’: Ruskin, China, and the Art of Living.” The John Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University (January 2021).
Invited talk, “Global Modernism and Comparative Literature,” the English Department, Shanghai International Studies University (June 2020).
“The Modernist Moment in Old Cities,” China-UK Humanities Alliance-British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium, Fudan University (September 2019).
“‘Medicine for Fate?’: Colonialism, Timelessness, and Cosmopolitanism in Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle,” the MSIA Modernism and Multiple Temporalities conference, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo (September 2019).
“‘The Tiny Interval’ Between the Acts: Virginia Woolf’s Restaging of Civilization,” the Troublesome Modernisms conference, British Association for Modernist Studies, King’s College London (June 2019).
Invited speaker, “John Maynard Keynes on Individual Liberty and Aesthetic Society,” Symposium on the Emergence of Commercial Society and Political Economy, Fudan University (January 2019).
Invited Roundtable Speaker, “Teaching Literature and Empathy,” the MSIA Modernism and Empathy Conference, The Education University of Hong Kong (June 2018).
