“Genealogies of Racism, Risk Management, and Reparation: Rethinking Japanese Studies and Institutionalized Whiteness in the Postwar University,” Dr. David Chu Program in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto (October 26, 2022)
“Crafting A Proximate Remove: On Queer Reading, Disciplinary Politics, and Navigating the Publication Process within and beyond Japanese Studies,” East Asian Humanities Workshop, Stanford University (October 5, 2022)
“Reparation, Method, and Citational Debts: On the Indispensability of Black Feminist and Queer Studies Approaches for Research on Premodern Japanese Slavery and Performance,” University of California, San Diego (April 15, 2022)
“Burdens of Proof: Enslavement, Evangelization, and the Performativity of Visual Evidence in Jesuit Japan,” Slavery and Visual Culture Workshop University of Chicago (March 11, 2022)
“On the Shifting Poetics of Propter Nos: Translating Race, Honor, and Humanity between Sylvia Wynter and Jesuit Japan,” Dept. of Comparative Literature Graduate/Faculty Workshop Brown University (February 4, 2022)
“Spectacles of Virtue: Racialization, Translation, and the Dramas of Religious Masculinity in Jesuit Japan” Rosenthal Memorial Lecture, Brown University (February 1, 2022)
“Refusals of Finitude: Gesture and the Ephemeral Archive of Medieval Japanese Slave Dramas,” Slavery’s Archive in the Premodern World Workshop
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (May 7, 2021)
“Questioning the Good Life: The Tale of Genji and Queer Critique,” Wesleyan University (March 11, 2021)
“Showing Up to Withhold: Economies of Enslavement and Spectacular Restraint in Medieval Japanese Performance,” University of Pennsylvania (October 29, 2020)
“Staging Enslavement: Subjection, Exertion, and the Gestural Economies of Medieval Japanese Performance,” The Ohio State University (October 28, 2020)
“Showing Up to Withhold: Economies of Enslavement and Spectacular Restraint in Medieval Japanese Performance,” Columbia University (February 14, 2019)
“Staging Enslavement: Subjection, Exertion, and the Gestural Economies of Medieval Japanese Performance,” Brown University (November 19, 2018)
“Subjection’s Gestures: On the Materiality of Being Moved in Japanese Literature and performance,” Keynote Address, 23rd Annual Japan Studies Graduate Conference, University of California, Los Angeles (October 29, 2018)
“Staging Enslavement: Gestural Economies and the Question of Personhood in Medieval Japanese Performance,” University of Washington (February 2, 2018)
“Austerity, Accessibility, Risk: English Language, Asian Students, and the Value of Non-Native Tuition,” Princeton University (December 10, 2016)