2023
“Itinerant Moves: Maggie Calloway and Afro-Filipina Performances of Bodabil across in Manila and Singapore,” 18th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore and Puón Institute, San Fernando, La Union, Philippines
"The Satin Sisters: Felt Architectures and the Afro-Filipina Chorus," Kritika Kultura Lecture Series, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
“‘Mahal is a Whole Atmosphere’: Toro y Moi’s Psychedelic Racial Atmospheres in ‘Postman,’” Association for Asian American Studies (virtual; scheduled)
2022
“‘I Feel Love’: Donna Summer and Queer Filipinx Nightlife in Three Acts,” American Studies Association (ASA), New Orleans, LA (scheduled)
“Sonic Curations: Marpessa Dawn’s Misplaced Vocals and Choreography in Paris,” Seminar Workshop, The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College
"'I Love You Dearly, Bitch': Manila Luzon and Latrice Royale's Queer and Afro-Filipino Drag Performances," Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS), Denver, CO, April 16, 2022.
2021
"Dreamed Dwelling: Towards a Method of Afro-Filipina Spatial Poetics and Relational Performance," American Studies Association (ASA), Virtual, October 13, 2021.
“No Requests: Pinay Mobile DJs in the Washington, D.M.V. Area,” Museum of Popular Culture Conference (Pop Con), Virtual, April 23-25, 2021.
"Marpessa Dawn's Performances of Ecological Surface and Skin in Paris, France," Association for Asian American Studies, Virtual, April 8-10, 2021.
2020
“Performing ‘Black, Pacific, & Filipina’: Marpessa Dawn’s Racialized Surface in France,” International Conference on Philippine Studies (ICOPHIL), Alicante, Spain, Sept. 23-25, 2020 (accepted, postponed due to COVID-19).
“No Requests: Pinay Mobile DJs in the Washington, D.M.V. Area,” Association for Asian American Studies, Washington, D.C., April 9-12, 2020 (accepted, cancelled due to COVID-19).
2019
“Archives as World Fairs: Maxine Mina: 1896-1920,” Center for Philippine Studies (CPS), University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, November 6th, 2019.
“The ‘Satin Sisters’: Performing Afro-Filipina Intimacies,” Asian American Writing Group Workshop at Brown University, April 13, 2019 and Association for Asian American Studies, Madison, WI, April 25, 2019.
“'Oriental, Dusky, Beauty': Performing Filipina Minstrelsy in 1898," Harvard Theater & Performance Colloquium, March 3, 2019.
2018
“Filipinos in Louisiana: Folklore and Fictions,” Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Aug. 15, 2018.
2017
“Typhoon / Floodsong Poetics: Douglas Kearney’s Black Automaton (2009) and Patrick Rosal’s Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016),” American Studies Association (ASA), Chicago, IL, November 11, 2017.
“Resisting a Legal Grammar: Poetic Embodiment and Tidal Memory in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!," Poetry after 2000 Conference, Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, May 20, 2017.
“Rust and Remaindered Life in the Archipelago: Documentary/Ecopoetry after U.S. Military Occupation in the Philippines,” Columbia University Weatherhead Institute, April 20-21, 2017.