Invited Talks & Presentations
“The Hypermobility Turn in Contemporary Opera” Invited by Giorgio Biancorosso & Emilio Sala for “Spaces of Musical Production/Production of Musical Spaces” conference [University of Milan, November 2023]
“Performing Voices Of Change In Lei Liang’s Inheritance (2018): An Operatic Manifesto On Gun Violence” Invited By Lei Liang And Wen Deqing For The Seminar, Contemporary Opera [Shanghai Conservatory Of Music, June 2023]
“Parallel Worldbuilding In Indie Opera: The Industry’s Sweet Land (2020).” Invited By Martha Feldman And Judith Zeitlin For Their Co-Taught W2023 CDI Course, Opera Without Borders, “Remaking Butterfly” Module [University Of Chicago, Feb 2023]
“Beijing Opera: A Glimpse Of Chinese Culture.” Invited By Alexander Rehding For His Course, GENED 1006: Music From Earth [Harvard University, Oct 2020]
Roundtable Talks
“Future of Opera.” Transmedia Arts Seminar co-sponsored by the Mahindra humanities center and metaLAB at Harvard (Virtual), september 2022. Roundtable Organizer and speaker, together with Jelena Novak, Ellen Pearlman, Kamala Sankaram, Brian Staufenbiel.
“Glocal Networks and Transmedia Flow of Opera and Multimedia Performances in the 21st Century.” The 21st Quinquennial International Musicological Society Congress (IMS 2022), Athens, August 2022. Roundtable organizer and speaker, together with Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University, respondent), Yayoi Uno Everett (University of Illinois at Chicago, chair, speaker), Jelena Novak (Center for Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, speaker), João Pedro Cachopo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, speaker), Jake Johnson (Oklahoma City University, speaker), William Gibbons (Texas Christian University, speaker).
Conference Presentations
“On Decolonial Paradox in the Hypermobility Turn: Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods (2020-2021).” Society for American Music, Detroit, Michigan, March 2024.
“Interrogating Operatic Decolonization In The Hypermobility Turn: Sweet Land (2020) And Twilight: Gods (2020-21).” 5th Transnational Opera Studies Conference, Lisbon, July 2023.
“Parallel Worldbuilding In Indie Opera: The Industry’s Sweet Land (2020).” American Musicological Society Conference, New Orleans, November 2022.
“Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods (2020): Site-Specific Reimagination Of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung.” American Musicological Society Allegheny Chapter (Virtual Meeting), April 2022.
“Performing Hong Lou Meng In 21st-Century America: Bright Sheng And David Henry Hwang’s Dream Of The Red Chamber (2016).” Harvard University Asia Center Graduate Student Associate Presentation (Virtual Meeting), April 2022
“Indie Opera And Transmedia Aesthetics: White Snake Projects’ Death By Life (2021) And A Survivor’s Odyssey (2021).” Society For American Music Conference, Tucson (Shifted Online), March 2022.
“Unsettling Opera Through Site-Specific Staging: Reconsidering Immersion And The Politics Of Collaboration In Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods (2020).” American Musicological Society Conference, Chicago (Shifted Online), November 2021.
“Performing Voices Of Change In Lei Liang’s Inheritance (2018): An Operatic Manifesto On Gun Violence.” Perspectives On Chinese Contemporary Music Conference. Shanghai, October 2021.
“The American Maverick Who Looked Back: ‘Lyrical Rumination’ In Lou Harrison’s Elegiac Symphony (1975/88-1942).” Annual Society For American Music Conference. Minneapolis (Shifted Online), July 2020.
“On And Beyond Mickey-Mousing: Revisiting Yuan Muzhi’s Scenes Of City Life (1935).” Music And The Moving Image Conference. NYU Steinhardt (Shifted Online), May 2020.
“Bright Sheng’s Dream Of The Red Chamber (2016): A Chinese Musical Commentary In The Twenty-First Century.” American Musicological Society (AMS) Conference. Boston, November 2019; Society For Ethnomusicology (SEM) Conference. Indiana University, November 2019; 22nd CHIME Meeting. Chinese Music Research Institute In Central Conservatory Of Music In Beijing, September 2019; Harvard University Friday Lunch Talk, September 2019.
“Fred Ho’s The Warrior Sisters (1998): A Performance Of ‘Transformative Interracialism.’” American Musicological Society New England Chapter. Wellesley College, 2019 February; Allegheny Chapter Meeting Of The American Musicology Society. Case Western Reserve University, April 2019.