Talks

Writing at the End of the World: Poetic Interventions in the Face of Climate Catastrophe. The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu, April 2024.

Ice, Seeds, and Memory: Anarchiving as Feminist Method: An Arctic Case Study. Thinking Gender 2023,” UCLA Center for the Study of Women,” Los Angeles, February 24, 2023.

Suspended in (Melting) Ice: Svalbard’s Industry of Global Memory Storage. Mediating Arctic Geographies, Inari, Finland, June 10, 2022.

Razed and Erased: The Belated Memorializing of the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885. American Association of Geographers, virtual, 2021.

#NewMexicoTrue: Commodities, Violence, and Atomic Tourism in the Land of Enchantment (with Key MacFarlane). Friday Forum. University of California, Santa Cruz, May 10, 2019.

Nuclear in Miniature: Atomic Tourism in New Mexico (with Key MacFarlane). The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 4, 2019.

Classical Landscapes, Contemporary Ruins: Political Reclamation in Zhang Kechun’s Drinking Tea by  the River. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 23, 2019.

Asian Cartographies of the American West. Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association, Chaminade University, Honolulu, HI, November 10, 2018.

Wild Wild East: Mapping an Imagined Chinatown. SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA, April 13,  2017.

Invited Lectures

Chinese Landscape Art: From the Sung Dynasty to the Current Climate Crisis. Department of Art History. Appalachian State University, Boone, April 26, 2023.

Arctic Ice in Contemporary Art. Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 13, 2023.

The Polar Landscape and Archiving at the End of the World. Department of Art History, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, May 13, 2022.

Commodifying Mixed Race Asian Bodies. Department of History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 27, 2021.

Affective Curating in Holocaust Museums. Department of History, Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, January 21, 2020.