Selected Talks

Forthcoming 2024. Roundtable “Friendship as Praxis”. AAA Annual Meeting. Tampa. 20-23 November.

Forthcoming 2024.   “Engineering the praxis: building, expertise, and knowledge transference in Chinese construction sites in Nairobi”. AAA Annual Meeting. Tampa. 20-23 November.

2024.  ‘Building to stay: Chinese entrepreneurs, real estate, and aspiration in Nairobi’. EASA  Conference. Barcelona. 23-26 July.

2023.  ‘Negotiating the city: Urban planning and dwelling amidst China-built infrastructure in Nairobi, Kenya’. ECAS Conference, Cologne. 31 May- 3 June.

2022. ‘Re-generating history: third generations mainlanders and heritage making in Taiwan’. EASA Conference. Belfast. 26-29 July.

2021. ‘Vacating history? ‘Heritage by dispossession’ in a military village in urban Taipei’. Paper presented at the conference ‘Emptyness: Ways of Seeing’. Centre for Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), Department of Social Anthropology, School of Museum Ethnography (SAME). University of Oxford, Oxford. 29 Sept-1 Oct.

2021. “‘Partisan Pasts’: Architectures, Aesthetics, And Temporalities Of Heritage In Taiwan’s Military Villages”. SIAC Congress. Rome. 23-25 September.