2025 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “Alien Creatures in Chinese Art and Literature of the Ming and Qing Era.” Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, 28 August 2025.
2025 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “Russia’s War in Ukraine: Reactions in Chinese Art and Literature on both sides of the Taiwan Straits.” University of Oxford, 17 June 2025.
2025 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Chinese Art and Literature of the Ming and Qing Era.” School of Chinese, National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan, ROC, 1 April 2025.
2024 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui.“Multi-temporalities and Parallel Spaces: Utopia, Dystopia and Digital Worldbuilding in Chinese Online Alternate History Fiction.” The 18th Annual Conference on Asian Studies ACAS, “Asian Temporalities: Chronologies, Seasons, Tenses”, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 22-23 November 2024.
2024 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “War and the Anthropocene: Chinese Visual and Poetic Narratives, 2022-Present.” School of Chinese, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, 14 November 2022.
2024 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui.“China and the Art of War: Perceptions of the Russo-Ukrainian War in Chinese Online Poetry and Visual Art Narratives”. The 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Tallinn, Estonia, 24-27 August 2024.
2024 Qian Cui & Daria Berg. “Reimagined Communities: Nation and Nationalism in Contemporary Chinese Art and Poetry on Russo-Ukrainian War”. The 25th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Tallinn, Estonia, 24-27 August 2024.
2024 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “Speaking Truth to Power: Parrhesia and Perceptions of the Russo-Ukrainian War in Chinese Online Poetry and Visual Narratives, 2022-Present”. The 15th Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities, International Academic Forum IAFOR, Tokyo, Japan, 23 May 2024.
2024 Qian Cui & Daria Berg. “Beyond the “China Dream”: Reimagining Communities in Contemporary Chinese Art and Poetry on the Russo-Ukrainian War”. The 15th Asian Conference on Arts & Humanities, The International Academic Forum IAFOR, Tokyo, Japan, 27 May 2024.
2024 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “Parrhesia and Perceptions of the Russo-Ukrainian War in Chinese Online Poetry and Visual Narratives, 2022-Present”. Schweizer Asiengesellschaft SAG, The 10th Young Talent Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 8 May 2024.
2024 Qian Cui & Daria Berg. “Reimagined Communities: Nation and Nationalism in Contemporary Chinese Art and Poetry on the Russo-Ukrainian War”. Schweizer Asiengesellschaft SAG, The 10th Young Talent Conference, Basel, Switzerland, 9 May 2024.
2024 Berg, Daria & Qian Cui. “Speaking Truth to Power: China’s Artists, Poets and Netizens on the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2022-Present”. Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge, UK, 1 February 2024.
2022 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Postsocialist Biopolitics and Gender in the Reception of Performance Art from China.” Annual Conference on Asian Studies ACAS, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 25 November 2022.
2022 Mirra, Federica & Daria Berg. “The Chinese Dream and its Nightmares: Perspectives from Visual Arts.” The 2022 Nordic NIAS Council Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22-24 August 2022.
2022 Mirra, Federica & Daria Berg. “Visual Narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative in Western China.” The 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 24-27 August 2022.
2022 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella.“Chinese Dreams and Nightmares: The Genealogy of Utopia and Anti-Utopia in China’s Mediasphere.” Conference ‘Genealogies of Literary Form in Contemporary China’, Oriental University, Naples, Italy, 23 June 2022.
2022 Berg, Daria. “Zhao Tingyang: Alles unter dem Himmel. Vergangenheit und Zukunft der Weltordnung” (“Zhao Tingyang: All under Heaven. Past and Future of the World Order”). Lecture Series “Buch im Fokus” (“Book in Focus”), University of Luzern, Switzerland, 27 April 2022.
2022 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling.” China-US Surge Spring Symposium, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA, 15 April 2022.
2021 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’.” Annual Conference on Asian Studies ACAS, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 26 November 2021.
2021 Berg, Daria. “Chinas neue Stars im Spannungsfeld von Kultur, Konsum und Kommunismus” (“China’s New Stars in the Area of Tension of Culture, Consumption and Communism”). The 8th Mountain Academy of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Scholarship Foundation), Appenberg, Switzerland, 3 October 2021.
2021 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “The Avant-Garde in Post-Socialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality.” The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars ICAS 12, Kyoto, Japan, 28 August 2021.
2021 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’.” The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars ICAS 12, Kyoto, Japan, 26 August 2021.
2021 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling.” The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars ICAS 12, Kyoto, Japan, 25 August 2021.
2021 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “China’s New Media Superstars.” The 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany, 24 August 2021.
2021 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Borders, Marginality, and the Contemporary: Yang Zhichao’s Art at the Turn of the 21st Century.” The 23rd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, University of Leipzig, Germany, 25 August 2021.
2021 Berg, Daria. “Der Mann, der China erfand: Auf den Spuren von Xi Jinpings Macht” (“The Man who Invented China: In the Footsteps of Xi Jinping’s Power”). Chinaforum Basel, 4 June 2021.
2021 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Rising from the Margins: Women Superstars in Superpower China.” Conference “China from the Margins: New Narratives of the Past and Present”, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of China Studies, Suzhou, China, 10-11 April 2021.
2021 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’.” Conference “The Technological Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Literature”, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 22 January 2021.
2020 “Verführung im Vergnügungsviertel: Die talentierte Frau in Kunst und Literatur im China der Kaiserzeit” (“Seduction in the Pleasure Quarters: The Talented Woman in the Arts and Literature of Imperial China”). International Lyceum Club, St.Gallen, Switzerland, 24 November 2020.
2019 “Superstars in der Supermacht China: Eine Schriftstellerin und eine Künstlerin im Spannungsfeld von Staat und Konsumkultur.” Internationaler Lyceum Club, St.Gallen, Switzerland, 26 November 2019.
2019 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Performance Art on the China/West Border: Yang Zhichao’s Jiayu Pass.” Annual Conference on Asian Studies ACAS, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 25 November 2019.
2019 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Post-Human Wilderness: Dystopian Landscapes in China from the Intellectual Crisis of the 1990s to Cao Fei.” The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars ICAS 11, Leiden, The Netherlands, 19 July 2019.
2019 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “New Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising China.” The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars ICAS 11, Leiden, The Netherlands, 17 July 2019.
2019 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Kulturunternehmer und digitale Medien in China” (“Cultural Entrepreneurs and Digital Media in China”). Confucius-Institute Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Germany, 4 February 2019.
2018 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Ruins in the Post-Humanist Wilderness.” Conference on “Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China.” University of Zurich & Villa Garbald, Castasegna, Switzerland, 5 October 2018.
2018 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in China’s Mediasphere.” The 22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, University of Glasgow, UK, 30 August 2018.
2018 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Cao Fei: The Nightmares of China’s Rejuvenation.” The 22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, University of Glasgow, UK, 29 August 2018.
2018 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Celebrità e nuovi media: un'esplorazione delle strategie transmediali” (“Celebrity and the New Media: An Exploration of Transmedia Strageties”). University of Milan, Italy, 25 May 2018.
2018 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “China’s New Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Digital Media.” Dhaka University, Bangladesh, 16 April 2018.
2018 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “China's New Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Digital Media.” University of Milan, Italy, 28 March 2018.
2017 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Stars mit dem & gegen das System: Cao Fei” (“Stars with and against the System: Cao Fei”). Freiburger China Gespräche (Freiburg Academic Talks), Freiburg, Germany, 6 December 2017.
2017 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “The Internet, Public Opinion and Online Culture in Twenty-first Century China.” Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea.
2017 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Il dibattito intellettuale in Cina nell'era delle riforme” (“The Intellectual Debate in China in the Reform Era”). University of Milan, Italy.
2017 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Women Writers as Cultural Entrepreneurs.” Workshop on “Popular Literature in Contemporary China: Production, diffusion and genres”, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 17 June 2017.
2017 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “The Transmedia and Transcultural Hyperrealism of Ai Weiwei’s Digital Communication.” Workshop “Landscapes or Realism”, SOAS, University of London, February.
2017 “Amazon, Artist and Activist: A Pioneering Courtesan Poet and Painter in late Ming China.” University of Würzburg, Germany, 18 January 2017.
2016 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Zhou Xiaoping: A Blogger for China’s Renaissance?” The 21st Conference of the European Association Conference of Chinese Studies EACS, St. Petersburg, Russia, 24 August 2016.
2016 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “China’s New Businesswomen: Authors, Bloggers and Celebrities as Cultural Entrepreneurs in Post-Deng China.” The 21stEuropean Association for Chinese Studies Bienniale Conference EACS, St Petersburg, Russia, 25 August 2016.
2016 “China’s New Cultural Entrepreneurs 2.0: Authors, Bloggers, Consumption Celebrities.” University of Geneva, Switzerland, 10 May 2016.
2016 Berg, Daria & Rui Kunze. “Chinese Woman in New York City: Transcultural Travel and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-first Century China.” International interdisciplinary conference “People and Cultures in Motion: Environment, Space and the Humanities.” Chengchi University, Taipei, Republic of China, 13 March 2016.
2016 “Cyberbabe, Cybervamp, Consumption Celebrity: Anni Baobei and the Web-based Spectacle of Female Self-Fashioning in Twenty-first Century China.” CCK Lecture Series, St Gallen & Leiden University, Leiden, 11 March 2016.
2015 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Narrating and Critiquing the Avant-Garde in Contemporary China: Part I.” Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July 2015.
2015 Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. 2015. “Narrating and Critiquing the Avant-Garde in Contemporary China: Part II.” Fudan University, Shanghai, China, July 2015.
2014 Berg, Daria, Wei-hsin Lin & Giorgio Strafella. “Micro/Blogs and Glocalisation: Transcultural Communication in China’s New Mediasphere.” International Conference “China’s Media Go Global”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2-3 September 2014.
2014 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Creating a New Chinese Cyber-Celebrity: A Cultural Analysis of Han Han’s Blog as Web-based Media Spectacle.”The 20thEuropean Association for Chinese Studies Biennial Conference EACS, Braga & Coimbra, Portugal, 24July 2014.
2013 “Blogging China: Han Han and the Art of Trans/cultural Communication 2.0 in Postsocialist China’s Marketplace.” KIM (Cultures, Institutions, Markets) Lecture, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, 21 October 2013.
2013 “Transcultural Flows in Postsocialist China: The Utopian Team and the Art of Transcultural Travel.” Panel on ‘Transcultural Communication in a Globalizing China.’ Conference ‘The Future of Content is Context’, University of St. Gallen, 26 April 2013.
2013 “Auf der Erfolgsleiter zu den Wolken: Visionen von Examenskandidatinnen in Romanen (xiaoshuo) der späten Kaiserzeit” (“On the Ladder of Success to the Clouds: Visions of Examination Candidates in Late Imperial Chinese Novels (xiaoshuo)”). Symposium “Alltagskultur in chinesischen Romanen” (“Everyday Culture in Chinese Novels”). University of Munich, Germany, 24 March 2013
2012 “Chinese Dreams: Weaving Red Threads of Communication.” Inaugural Lecture, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, 9 October 2012.
2012 Berg, Daria & Leung, Wing-Fai.“The Du Lala Phenomenon: Chick-lit in Postsocialist China.” The 19th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Paris University, France, 7 September 2012.
2012 Berg, Daria & Mohammed Shafiullah. “The Rhetoric of Cultural Communication in the Works of Chinese Bloggers and Artists.” The 19th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Paris University, France, 7 September 2012.
2012 Berg, Daria & Wing-Fai Leung.“Shanghai Panic: Performing Urban Linglei (Alternative) Culture and the Carnivalesque in Postsocialist China.” Conference “Chinese Cinemas in the Twenty-first Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination”, University of Exeter, UK, 9-11 July 2012.
2012 Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “A Twitter Bodhisattva: Ai Weiwei’s Media Politics.” Conference “Modes of Activism and Engagement in the
Chinese Public Sphere”, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 27 April 2012.
2011 “Die Kunst der Kommunikation—mit chinesischen Merkmalen: Die neue Rhetorik des Widerstandes in China” (“The Art of Communication—with Chinese Characteristics: The Rhetoric of Resistance in China”). University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, 24 September 2011.
2011 “From Pleasure to Politics: Entertainment, Art and Activism in Postsocialist China’s Mediasphere.” Conference ‘The Culture of Entertainment in China: Past and Present’, University of Bristol, UK, 19-20 May 2011.
2010 Berg Daria & Fulda, Andreas. “Public Intellectual 2.0. Ai Weiwei, Contemporary Art and Civil Society.” China Seminar, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, 2 November 2010.
2010 “Dream City of Shanghai: Thames Town and the Urban Imaginary in Twenty-first Century China’s Mediasphere.” Keynote speech delivered at Shanghai World Expo 2010, London ZED Pavilion, Symposium ‘Moving Images and the Digital Eco-City’, Shanghai, China, 17 October 2010.
2010 “Web Carnival: Mapping Cultural Change in Postsocialist China.” School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, 21 September 2010.
2010 “A Cultural Reading of the New Postsocialist Discourse in China’s Mediasphere.” The 18th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Riga University, Latvia, 14-18 July 2010
2009 “The Transformation of Print Culture in Twenty-first Century China.” International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, September 2009.
2009 “Body Writing: Best-sellers, Banned Books and Blogs in Post-Deng China.” University of Oxford, UK, May 2009.
2009 “The Pastoral in the Story ‘Xiaoxiao’ (1929) by Shen Congwen.” University of Oxford, UK, May 2009.
2008 “Spoofing Culture, the Beijing Olympics and Web 2.0 in China.” Inaugural Conference, International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK, November 2008.
2008 “Blogging China: Cyberspace, Consumerism and Cultural Creativity In Twenty-First Century China.” The 17th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Lund University, Sweden, August 2008.
2008 “The Politics of Laughter: Humour, Carnival and the Grotesque in Contemporary Chinese Cyberculture.” Conference “Emotions behind Smiles and Laughter: from facial expression to literary description”, Bologna, Italy, May 2008.
2008 “Muzi Mei, Sister Hibiscus, and the Alternative Discourse of Linglei Cyberculture in Twenty-first Century China.” The 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, USA, April 2008.
2007 “Reality Shows and Urban Utopia: Cyberspace, Consumerism and the New Cultural Discourse in Twenty-first Century China.” International Symposium “New Information & Communication Technologies and Transformation in China”, University of Nottingham, UK, June 2007.
2007 “Soul Partners: Big Brother, Consumer culture and Cyberspace in Contemporary China.”Workshop “Monies, Markets and Finance in China and East Asia: Local, Regional, National and International Dimensions.” University of Heidelberg, Germany, May 2007.
2006 “Breaking Hearts on the Riverbank: The Social Network and Cultural Representation of Xue Susu, Poet, Painter and Courtesan in late Ming China.” International symposium “Elites in Asian History: Social Network and Cultural Representation.” Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo, Japan, February 2006.
2004 “Consuming Secrets Online: New Media in Contemporary China.” Conference “From Woodblocks to the Internet: Chinese Publishing and Print Culture in Transition.” Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA, November 2004.
2004 “Best/selling the Private World: Body Writing in Contemporary China.” The 15th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, University of Heidelberg, Germany, August 2004.
2004 “The Cult of Tanyangzi: Portrait of a Lady in Late Ming China.” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 2004.
2004 “Best-sellers, Banned Books and Body Writing: The Discourse of Consumption in Contemporary China.” Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 2004.
2004 “Bestsellers, Banned Books and the Cultural Discourse in China post-1989.” The 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies AAS, San Diego, CA, USA, March 2004.
2004 “Bestsellers, Banned Books and Body Writing in Contemporary China.” Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, February 2004.
2003 “Virgins, Venerators and Literary Vogues: Tanyangzi and the Politics of Discourse in Late Ming China.” International Institute for Asian Studies workshop “The World of Wang Shizhen: Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Sixteenth-Century China”, Leiden, The Netherlands, June 2003.
2003 “Bohemian Rhapsodies: The Quest of the Courtesan in late Ming Jiangnan.” The 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies AAS, New York, NY, USA, March 2003
2002 “Women and the Publishing Boom in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan.” The 14th Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies EACS, Moscow, Russia, August 2002.
2002 “Queen of the Bordellos: Qinhuai Revisited.” Workshop “Narrating and Imaging the Nation: Gender, Sexuality and the Nation.” Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, June 2002.
2002 “The Cult of Clever Women: Gentility, Books and Business in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan.” Conference “Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History”, University of Durham, UK, March 2002
2001 “The Lore of Xiaoqing: Tracing Emotions in Seventeenth-Century Jiangnan.” Conference “Emotions and the Analysis of Historical Sources in China”, Cortona, Italy, November 2001.
2001 “Der Kult um Tanyangzi: Eine junge Frau im China der späten Kaiserzeit” (“The Cult of Tanyangzi: A young Woman in Late Imperial China”). The 28th German Orientalists’ Convention, University of Bamberg, Germany, March 2001
1999 “What the Messenger of Souls has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture.” School of Oriental and African Studies/ International Institute for Asian Studies Workshop “Literature/Theory/ China/Japan”, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, June 1999
1997 “Visions of the City: New Voices in China’s Neon Light Fiction.” London Research Seminars, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, November 1997.
1997 “Visions of the City in China’s New Neon Light Fiction.” China Research Seminars, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 21 November 1997.
1997 “Yingguo de hanxuejia yanjiu Zhongguo liang’an dangdai wenxue” 英国的汉学家研究中国两岸当代文学 (Sinological Research in British Universities on mainland China and Taiwan). Paper presented in Chinese. Department of Literature, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, PR China, 15 September 1997.
1997 “Ming/Qing shidai de lixiang sixiang yu xianshi: Xingshi yinyuan zhuan yanjiu”明清时代的理想思想与现实：醒世姻緣傳研究 (Utopianism and the Perception of the World in the Ming and Qing eras, with Special Reference to the Novel Xingshi yinyuan zhuan). Paper presented in Chinese. Department of History, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, PR China, 13 September 1997.
1997 “Entrepreneurialism and Neon Light Fiction.” Contemporary Chinese Literature Festival, South Bank Centre, The Arts Council, London, UK, 17 May 1997.
1997 “Marvelling at the Wonders of the Metropolis: Perceptions of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Cities in the Tale of Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan).” International Conference “Town and Country in China: Identity and Perceptions”, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 18 April 1997.
1997 “Taiwan zuojia Wu Jinfa”台湾作家吴锦发 (“The Taiwanese Writer Wu Jinfa”). Paper presented in Chinese. Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Oxford, UK, 21 February 1997
1996 “The Spirit of Wealth Reigns Supreme: Perceptions of Power and Authority in China’s New Neon-light Literature.” British Association of Chinese Studies BACS Annual Conference, Cambridge University, UK, September 1996.
1996 “Taiwan dangdai wenxue zhong de yuanzhumin” 台湾当代文学中的原住民(“The Indigenous Peoples in Contemporary Taiwanese literature”). Paper presented in Chinese. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, 5 August 1996.
1996 “Visions of the Great Mother: Madame Chao in the Novel Marriage Destinies that will Bring Society to its Senses (Xingshi yinyuan zhuan).” 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI, USA, 13 April 1996.
1996 “Beiqing de shanlin: Taiwan dangdai wenxue zhong de yuanzhumin” 悲情的山林：台湾当代文学中的原住民(“The Melancholy Mountain Forests of China’s Border Cultures: New Voices in Taiwanese Literature”). Paper presented in Chinese. Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University, UK, 7 March 1996
1994 “Late Ming Cities.” Modern Chinese History Seminar, Oriental Institute, Oxford University, UK, March 1994.
1993 “The Motif of the Healer in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction.” China Research Seminar, Oriental Institute, Oxford University, UK, February 1993.