2026
June 2026, BISA 2026 Conference, Brighton
2025
July 2025, EWIS, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
June 2025, BISA 2025 Conference, Belfast
June 2025, workshop at the University of Göttingen
January 2025, BISA Virtual Conference, roundtable “The rise of the far right around the world”.
2024
October 2024, Digital Fringe Talk Seminar – the PAD Research Group – Populism, Anti-Gender and Democracy, University of Stavanger, Norway
July 2024, EWIS, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
June 2024, BISA 2024 Conference, Birmingham
May 2024, Workshop on “Transformation of the contemporary right”, University of Warsaw
February 2024, SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology seminar series
February 2024, Loughborough University Nationalism Network (LUNN) webinar series
2023
November 2023, invited talk @the Global Perspectives on the Far Right webinar series, C-REX
October 2023, invited talk @the Scottish Centre for China Research seminar series
September 2023, EISA-PEC, Section “Global China and the changing international order”, co-chaired with Jonna Nyman, Potsdam
July 2023, EWIS – Workshop “Social media and everyday international relations”, co-convened with Lisa Gaufman, Amsterdam
June 2023, TOChina summer school, Turin
May 2023, Association for the Study of Nationalities annual convention, New York city
2022
December 2022, “Hopes and fears: The potential for solidarity in the Uyghur and Chinese diasporas“, roundtable discussion organised by the School of East Asian Studies, Sheffield University
May 2022, “US Foreign Policy Deconstructed“, webinar series hosted by City, University of London; University of Cambridge, and University of Warwick
May 2022, Critical Global Politics seminar series, University of Manchester
May 2022, “Social credit as a governing technique, as imaginary, and as meme”, Digital Organisation and Society (DOS) Research Centre, Royal Holloway
28 March to 2 April 2022, ISA2022 Annual Convention
- roundtable: “Race and racism in East Asian international relations”
- roundtable: “Postcolonial identity, anti-Westernism, and global authoritarianism in emerging powers”
2021
August 2021 – March 2022, career break (maternity leave)
9 June, Roundtable “Citizenship and ‘positive energy’ in global China in pandemic times”, Citizenship in Pandemic Times
21 May, Pandemics and the Politics of Party-State Legitimation, European Institute for Chinese Studies (EURICS)
31 March, Social Credit in China: Promoting Trust or Digital Tyranny?, Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project, NYU School of Law (video)
8 March, Hukou and suzhi as technologies of governing citizenship and migration in China, Cornell Contemporary China Initiative lecture series
2020
20 November, Disaster nationalism in the digital age, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Trinity College Dublin
28 October, Roundtable discussion “Social credit and social media systems in China”, Association of Internet Researchers 2020 Conference
23 October, Presentation at the panel “Intellectual Histories and Global Connections”, Millennium 2020 conference “Entanglements and detachments in global politics”
2-3 September, co-organization (with Carwyn Morris): Online symposium on Borders and Bordering in Digital Space
16 September, RUSI roundtable discussion on the concept of xiaokang shehui
2019
11-14 September – Presentation at the panel “Populism and International Relations”, EISA Pan-European Conference 2019, Sofia University “Sveti Kliment Ohridski”
7-9 June – Strategic future workshop of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam
2-3 May – co-organization (with Frederik Ponjaert): National Identities and the Youth in East Asia, Université libre de Bruxelles
27-28 May – co-organization (with Nolwenn Salmon and Takeshi Morisato): Transformation of youth identities in East and South East Asia, Université libre de Bruxelles
11-12 March – Presentation at the EU-Japan Forum 2019, Brussels
28 March – Invited talk, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
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