"Maenad Martyr." (Keynote Reading). Permanently Under Construction: Canadian Studies. University of Toronto. October, 2017.

"Insurgent Utopias: Action, Attention, Story." The Fantastic Now. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, September 2016.

"Keynote Literary Reading." Ideology in Post-Colonial Texts and Contexts: Annual Conference of Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, May 2015.

"Recomposing Strange Tales of Liaozhai." Conference of the Canadian Literary Society of Japan, Yamanashi University, Yamanashi, Japan, June 2015.

"Ghost Biologies: Sovereignty, Diaspora and the Geopolitics of Exception." The Literary Narrative, the Biomedical body and Citizenship in Canada, Université de Limoges, Limoges, France, December 2014.

"Asian Canadian 'Literary Elites' and Intellectual Property: The Scandal of Appropriation in the 1990s and the 2010s." "Gods and Idols" SAGE Graduate Colloquium, Concordia University, Montreal, February 2014.

"Occupunk: Selves, Space and Solidarity in the Reloaded Economy." Endnotes Graduate Student Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 2013.

“How to Do ‘You’: Methods of Asian/Indigenous Relation.” Imagined Communities, Recuperated Homelands: Rethinking Canadian and American Minority and Exilic Writing. University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France, March 2011.

“Political Animals, Supernatural Machines.” Crossroads: Canadian Cultural Intersections/Carrefours: Intersections Culturelles au Canada. Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, May 2010.

"Holding Up the Knowledge Keepers: A Strategy to Turn This Ship Around." Writing in Dangerous Times: Survival, Resistance, Joy (Relational Innovations II). OCAD University, Toronto. October 2017.

"Moth Jar from North of the 49th Parallel." (with my student Kathy Pham). Asian American Literary Festival. Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., July 2017.

"In Excess of Allegory: Remembering and Reinventing Strange Tales of Liaozhai in Feminist Diaspora." Yamanashi University, Yamanashi, Japan, June 2015.

"In Excess of Allegory: Remembering and Reinventing Strange Tales of Liaozhai in Feminist Diaspora." Sugiyama Jogakuen University, Nagoya, Japan, June 2015.

“'all multiple and shattered and singing': Radical Kinship in the Long Now.” (with Rita Wong). Inaugural Orlando Lecture, Department of English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, November 2014.

"Rippling Water, Swimming Fish: Critical/Creative Practice and New Materialism." Department of English, University of Ottawa, October 2014.

"Sybil Continuities, Earth Relations." (With Rita Wong). Convergence on Poetics, University of Washington, Bothell, USA, September 2013.

"Myths of the Post-Apocalypse: The Future Grammar of Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker." I'm in You/You're in Me. Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, February 2013.


"Cha Cha Dreaming Beyond Apocalypse: Notes on Grist." The Architecture (curated by Steve Collis). Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, January 2013.


"Evolving Epistemologies: Arts Activism in the Institution." Working the Frame (conference). McMaster University, Hamilton, October 2012.

"The Mediated Face of Memory: Time, Technology and the Frame in Through a Glass Darkly." Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, August 2012.

"The Economics of Apology: Asian/Indigenous Relation and the Marketing of Canada." Department of English, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain, April 2012.

"Asian Canadian Poetry and the Empty Container." Department of English, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, April 2012.

"The Non-Human Beside You: Thriving in the U-70 Synchrotron." Capilano Review panel for Ecologies special issue, Capilano University, North Vancouver, February 2012.

Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival, Qinghai, China, public reading, August 2011. Influency Salon, University of Toronto, public reading. Daniel Scott Tysdale gave a talk about my work before the reading. April 2011.

"Economies of the Small in Mark Truscott's Nature." Influency Salon, University of Toronto, public talk. Mark Truscott gave a reading of his work after my talk. April 2011.

“The Look of Like: Shooting Asian/Indigenous Relation.” Migration—Regionalization— Citizenship: Canada and Europe in Comparative Perspective. Interdisciplinary Conference on the Occasions of the 25^th Anniversary of the Institute for Canadian Studies, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, December 2011.

“Five Concerns and a Butterfly in the Ointment.” What is Literature Today; What is Writing? In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge: Gathering. The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta. February 2010.

“Other Than Neoliberal in the Phenomenal World: A Response to Kim Duff’s “Tube Sock Army.” With Rita Wong. Respondency West, The Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, November 2009.

“Fish, Sybils and Other Queer Kin.” Queer Literary Kinship in New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver: A Symposium. University of Ghent, April 2009.

“Remembering the Future: Myth, Migration and Biotech Bodies.” Fu Dan University, Shanghai, China, March 2009.

“Remembering the Future: Myth, Migration and Biotech Bodies.” Nan Jing University, Nan Jing, China, March 2009.

“Mythic Returns, Asian Futures.” Shanghai International Literary Festival, Shanghai, China, March 2009.

“Global Imaginations After Difference: A Poethics of the Gift,” Idaho State University, Pocatello, April 2008.

“Bladerunner and Salt Fish Girl,” Simon Fraser University, Surrey Campus, February 2006.

“Collaboration and Research,” Simon Fraser University, February 2006.

“Writing ‘Asian-Canadian,’” Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, November 2005.

“Writing ‘Asian-Canadian,’” University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, November 2005.

“Writing ‘Asian-Canadian,’” National Kaohsiung University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, November 2005.

“Writing ‘Asian-Canadian,’” National Tsing-hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, November 2005.

“Writing ‘Asian-Canadian,’” National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2005.

“W(h)ither the Canadian Nation: Clippings off the Vine,” Simon Fraser University, March 2004.

“Identity Movements: Asian Canadian Arts Activism in the 90s,” National Ching-Hua University, Hsing-chu, Taiwan, November 2003.

“Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History and Cyborg Hope,” Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, November, 2003.

“Seeing Ghosts,” Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, October 2003.

“Potential Formations, Possible Momentums,” with Roy Miki and Chris Creighton-Kelly, IntraNation conference, Vancouver, November 2002.

Urban Myths, with Sarah Waters, Wordfest, Calgary, October 2002.

"Gold Mountain Nanaimo," Malaspina University-College, Nanaimo, November 1997.

"Posthuman Reproductivity and the Social Figure in Wayde Compton's The Outer Harbour." Fantasy and Myth in the Anthropocene. Marsaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, October 2018.

"Ghosts, Aesthetics and Troubled Lineages." Thinking Its Presence. Poetry Centre, University of Arizona, Tucson, October 2017.

"The Majority Contact Zone: Insurgent Difference in the Telling It Conference and Collective, 1988-1990." The Concept of Vancouver. Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, October 2016.

"Saturate, Dissolve: Water for Itself, Unsettler Responsibilities, and Radical Humility." Under Western Skies. Mount Royal University, Calgary, September 2016.

"Life/Fiction: Speculative Fiction and Environmental Emergence." Where Next?, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, February 2016.

"Sovereignty and the State: Between Stö:lo Land and Khmer Diaspora." Ideology in Post-Colonial Texts and Contexts: Annual Conference of Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany, May 2015.

"Brain States, Buddhist Primitives, Genocidal Flows: The Blind Intimacy of Witness." Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Refrains of Freedom, Panteion University, Athens, Greece, April 2015.

"The Compass on Campus: Asian Directions/States of Asianness." The North in the South Symposium, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, January 2015.

"Salvage Ethics, Alliance Ontologies and Nonhuman Eruptions in Rita Wong's forage." Canada and Beyond 3, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain, June 2014.

"'the water rippled until i could no longer see myself in the pond': Empiricism, Imperialism and the Interaction of Autopoieitic Systems." Science and Society Symposium. University of Ottawa, October, 2013.

"Reimagining Pragmatism Beyond Neoliberalism: Community-Based Practice and the Public Intellectual, TransCanada Institute Think Tank: Sustainability, Mentorship, and Intellectual Production: The Present and Future of Emerging Scholars in Canadian Literary Studies, University of Guelph, April 2013.

“The Look of Like: Shooting Asian Indigenous Relation.” Cultures of Sustainability, Sustainability of Cultures: An Asian Pacific Workshop Series. University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, December, 2011.

"Poetry and the Civic Imagination." Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference. October 2011.

“Desiring Presents, Missing Pictures: Cultures of Redress and the Photographs of C. D. Hoy.” National University of Singapore, Singapore, July 2011.

“How to Do ‘You’: Methods of Asian/Indigenous Relation.” University of California at Riverside, Riverside, USA, March 2011. (In absentia)

“The Look of Like: Shooting Asian Indigenous Relation.” Cultures of Sustainability, Sustainability of Cultures: An Asian Pacific Workshop Series. University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia, December, 2011.

“Radioactive Time: A Politics and Poetics of Asian/Indigenous Relation in Marie Clements’s Burning Vision.” Canada and Beyond: Inaugural Seminar. Universidad de Huelva-Sala de Grados, Huelva, Spain, May 2010.

“A Poetics of Asian/Indigenous Relation: Notes on an Epistemology of Respect.” Canadian Asian Studies Association Conference. Pinnacle Marriot Hotel, Vancouver, October 2009.

“Journals in Space: Digital Circulation, Cultural Commons and Intellectual Labour.” Canadian Literature 50^th Anniversary Gala. University of British Columbia, October 2009.

“Biopoetics in (Third) Space: Life Itself Between Freezing and Boiling in Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Found and Rita Wong’s Forage.” TransCanada 3. Mount Allison University, July 2009.

“Fish, Sybils and Other Queer Kin.” Queer Literary Kinship in New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver: A Symposium. University of Ghent, April 2009.

“Labour Asian Can: National, Institutional and Capital.” TransCanada 2. University of Guelph, October 2007.

“Labour Asian Can: National, Institutional and Capital.” Anniversaries of Change Conference. Simon Fraser University (Harbour Centre), September 2007.

“Brand Canada: Oppositional Politics, Global Flows and a People to Come,” Negotiating Diversity: Transatlantic Exchanges Between Canada and Europe, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, April 2007.

“Community Action, Global Spillage: Writing the Race of Capital,” Serial Accomodations: Diasporic Asian Women’s Writing, University of British Columbia, March 2007.

“The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” No Language is Neutral: A Conference on Dionne Brand, Toronto, October 2006.

“Laugh of Liberation: The Carnivalesque in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms.” Wild Words: 2005 Alberta Centennial Literary Celebration. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, October 2005.

“Strategizing the Body of History: Anxious Writing, Absent Subjects, and Marketing the Nation.” Beyond Autoethnography: Writing Race and Ethnicity in Canada. Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, April 2005.

“I See You Watching: Gender, Race and Cyber-subjectivity in Atwood’s Oryx and Crake.” Blurring the Boundaries: Transrealism and Other Movements, 26^th International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 2005.

“RIM Manifesto.” With Rita Wong and Glen Lowry. Poetics and Public Culture: A Conference in Honour of Frank Davey. University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. March 2005.

“Citizen: Imagination and Agency.” Round table discussion with Fred Wah, Wayde Compton, Samir Gandesha, and Sophie McCall. SFU Writer-in-Residence Colloquium and Reading. Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 2005.

“Future Asians: Migrant Speculations, Repressed History and Cyborg Hope.” Canadian Studies Conference, Greifswald, Germany, June 2004.

“Recollection Without A Cause: Trauma and Absence in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans." Negotiating the Past: An International Conference on Asian British and Asian American Literatures, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, November 2003.

“Recollection Without A Cause: Trauma and Absence in Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans." Free Exchange Graduate Student conference, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, March 2002.

“Corrupted Lineage,” Renegotiating Identities: Canadian Studies in the Asian Pacific Context. Combined conference of the 2^nd Asian-Pacific Conference in Canadian Studies and The Biennial Conference of the Association of Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand (ACSANZ), University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia, July 1-4, 2000.

“Political Animals and the Body of History,” Making History, Constructing Race conference, University of Victoria, October 23-25, 1998.