Conferences

Here is a list of conferences where I have presented or plan to present my work on genealogies.

• June, 2022. (Postponed due to Covid-19) Chinese Object Study Workshop. The Art Institute of Chicago.
  • Presented paper: “Reproductions of Engraved Texts and Images in Printed Genealogy Books.”
• June, 2022. The Society for Textual Scholarship’s 2022 Conference Program. Loyola University, Chicago.
  • Presentation: “Mapping Ancestry in Early Modern China.”
• April, 2022. Annual Conference for Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. UCLA.
  • Presentation: “Books for Commoners.”
• March, 2022. AAS (Association for Asian Studies) Annual Conference. Hawaii and online.
  • Presented paper: “Literature and Lineage: The Social Life and Impact of Commissioned Writings in Ming China, 1450-1644.”
• June, 2021. The 70th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) (Virtual Conference). Indiana University.
  • Presented paper: “Literature and Lineage: The Emergence of Literature Sections in Chinese Genealogies, 1450-1644.”
  • Won Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize
• September, 2021. Organizing and Disorganizing Knowledge (Virtual Conference). Durham University, UK.
  • Presented paper: “The Material Production of Genealogy Books in Early Modern China, 1450-1644.”
• July, 2021. Text and Textuality (Virtual Conference). Durham University, UK.
  • Presented paper: “From Record-keeping to Identity Construction: The Booklization of Family Genealogies in Early Modern China, 1450-1644.”
• October, 2020. The 69th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) (Virtual Conference). Michigan State University.
  • Presented paper: “Engraving Lineages: The Transformative Power of Print Culture in Early Modern Rural China.”
• October, 2020. The 49th Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on Asian Studies (SWCAS) (Virtual Conference). Texas State University.
  • Presented paper: “Engraving Lineages: The Transformative Power of Print Culture in Early Modern Rural China.”
• May, 2020. (Postponed due to Covid-19) Graduate Student Symposium: The Ends of Text. The Journal of the History of Ideas. The University of Pennsylvania.
  • Presented paper: “Illustration Matters: The Reconfiguration of the Genealogy in Late-Ming China, 1500-1644.”
• April, 2020. (Postponed due to Covid-19) Standalone Conference: Before & Beyond Typography: Text in Global & Multimodal Perspective. Stanford University.
  • Talk: “Manipulating Printing Technology in Late-Imperial-China Genealogies.”
  • Abstract: Through an analysis of a wealth of family genealogies, this paper shows that many genealogies were produced through a combination of different printing technologies. This casts doubts on the dichotomies between manuscript and print, and between woodblock and movable type.
• October, 2019. 68th Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) Annual Meeting. Michigan State University.
  • Presented paper: “Artifact versus History: The Popularization of Genealogies in Longyou, Zhejiang, 1750s-1920s.”
  • Abstract: Through an investigation of genealogies produced from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century, this article demonstrates that genealogies underwent a process of popularization in the nineteenth century. As genealogies became increasingly available and accessible to more social groups, they became markers of social distinction as different groups made genealogies in their own ways. Genealogies became new sites for age-old antagonisms in local society as well.
• April, 2017. “The Spatial Turn,” the 2017 Graduate History Association Conference. Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Presented paper: “The Imagining of Home and the World: Maps of Lineages in Late Imperial China.”