Conference Presentations
“Aesthetics for the Body: From Work to Work-care through Performance”
June 12, 2018
Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts,
Athens Institute for Education and Research, June 11-14, 2018
“A Home on the Island: Performance as Research in Applied Theatre”
July 1, 2017
Singapore Drama Educators Association Theatre Arts Conference, June 29–July 1, 2017
“Disrupting the Female ‘Overflow’: Marriage Migration, Affects, and Embodied Knowledge”
June 10, 2017
Performance Studies international #23. University of Hamburg, June 8–11, 2017
“Transformance: Historiography through Indigenous Historicity”
June 14, 2016
International Federation for Theatre Research Conference.
University of Stockholm, June 13–17, 2016
“Intimate Strangers: Marriage Migrants and Intercultural Theatre in the Age of Minor Transnationalism”
June 27, 2015
Paper presented Singapore Drama Educators Theatre Arts Conference, June 26–28, 2015.
“Sightlines from the South: Performance, Sub-empire and Female Minor Transnationalism”
Jan 9, 2015
Paper presented at Taiwan the View from the South Conference, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Jan 6–9, 2015
“East Asian Cultural Palimpsest in Training: Conceptualizing the Body through Performance Pedagogy”
July 7, 2014
Paper presented at Performance Studies international Conference, Shanghai Theatre Academy, July 4–8, 2014
“Compressed Space, Conflated Time, Embodied Materiality: East Asian Minor Transnationalism in Performance”
June 29, 2013
Paper presented at Performance Studies international Conference, Stanford University, June 26–30, 2013
“Puppets, Colonization, and the Cold War: Tradition and Innovation in the Palm Puppetry of Taiwan”
July 5, 2012
Paper presented at the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO, Paris, July 2–6, 2012
“Joyously Traversing Jianghu: The Golden Bough Performance Society’s Hotchpotch Aestheticism and Taiwanese Humor”
July 9, 2010
Ninth International Junior Scholars’ Conference on Sinology “Taiwan Literature and Culture,” July 9–10, 2010. Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
“Localizing Brecht—Performing Hakka Women and Pear-Growers on Taiwan’s Fault Line”
May 20, 2010
Thirteenth Symposium of International Brecht Society “Brecht in/and Asia,” May 19–23, 2010, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawai‘i (Mānoa), Honolulu, USA
“A Tradition of Cultural Hybridity in Performance under Colonial Censorship—The Golden Bough Performance Society”
July 14, 2009
2009 International Federation for Theatre Research Conference University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
“Performing Hakka Women on Taiwan’s Central Fault Line - The Shigang Mama Theatre Company”
June 28, 2008
2008 North American Taiwan Studies Association annual conference. University of Washington, Seattle, USA
“Telling the Stories of Our Tribal Settlement against Narratives of Empire—The Malataw Theatre Company”
June 10, 2007
2007 North American Taiwan Studies Association annual conference University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
“The Aesthetics of Song in the Golden Bough Style–From Canonizing Cultural Gaudiness to Inventing Cultural Gaudism”
July 4, 2006
2006 North American Taiwan Studies Association annual conference University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Invited Talks & Workshops
“Theatre Arts Education on the Red Dot: An Applied Theatre Perspective”
June 11, 2018
Symposium on Teaching Arts and Culture in a Global World.
Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts,
Athens Institute for Education and Research, June 11–14, 2018
“Applied Theatre”
Jan 5, 2014
Inter-varsity Theatre Forum hosted by NUS Stage
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Jan 4–5, 2014
“Rehearsing Cultural Diversity: Multiculturalism in the Contemporary Theatre of Taiwan”
Mar 29, 2012
Department of English Language and Literature.
National University of Singapore, Singapore
“A Popular Culture Born of Theatrical Healing: Golden Bough Performance Society and Its Four Plays”
Sept 27, 2011
Department of Religion and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
“The Drama of the Capital Jingju”
Apr 20, 2010
Guest lecture, Department of Asian Studies.
University of Texas at Austin, USA
“Decolonizing the Stage: The Contemporary Indigenous Theatre of Taiwan”
Mar 28, 2010
Workshop presentation
2009 Intercollegiate Taiwanese-American Student Association Conference
University of Texas at Austin, USA
“The Splendor of Cultural Hybridity on Taiwan’s Contemporary Stage”
Dec 30, 2009
Public lecture, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan
“The Indigenous Theatre of Taiwan”
Nov 24, 2009
Guest lecture, Department of Asian Studies
University of Texas at Austin, USA
“To the West, the East, and the Center—The Journey of Pursuing a PhD”
Dec 26, 2008
2008 Taiwan Women winter retreat workshop series,
Newark, New Jersey, USA
“Performing Hakka Women on Taiwan’s Central Fault Line”
Mar 29, 2008
2008 Taiwan Women spring lecture series,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
“From Kitchen to the Stage - Performing Hakka Women on Taiwan’s Central Fault Line”
Dec 28, 2007
Workshop, 2007 Taiwan Women winter retreat,
Totowa, New Jersey, USA
“Weaving a Tale of Many Voices–The Making of Multiculturalism in the Contemporary Theatre of Taiwan”
Nov 25, 2006
Guest lecture, National University of Tainan,
Tainan, Taiwan
“Cultural Creation and Recreation–Making Multiculturalism in the Contemporary Theatre of Taiwan”
Oct 26, 2006
Public lecture, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan