Talks
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Chicago, IL, US, April 2 – 6, 2025
“Redefining Realism in Game Design through Selective Representations of History in Japanese Analog and Digital Games”
Pre-constituted panel with Aaron Trammell, Tara Fickle, and Soraya Murray
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Albuquerque, NM, US, February 19 – 22, 2025
“How ‘anime’ is anime games?”
The Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Seattle, WS, US, April 25 – 27, 2024
“GAMES AND ASIA/AMERICA: A ROUNDTABLE.” Pre-constituted panel with Edmond Y. Chang, Matthew Jungsuk Howard, Miyoko Conley, Takeo Rivera, and Christopher B. Patterson.
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Boston, MA, US, March 14 – 17, 2024
“Understanding Post-postwar Japan through the Giant Woman at the End of the World”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Albuquerque, NM, US, February 21 – 24, 2024
“Destruction, Rebirth, and Ambivalence: Nuclear Power in Japanese Video Games.” Pre-constituted panel with Rachael Hutchinson, Ryan Scheiding, and Keita Moore.
UCSC Festival of Monsters
Santa Cruz, CA, US, October 13 – 15, 2023
“Conjuring Precarity through the Sublime Bodies of Japanese Giant Monsters
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Sevilla, Spain, June 19 – 23, 2023
“Finding the Post-Postwar Japan in Death Stranding’s Sublime Ruins”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Denver, CO, US, April 12 – 15, 2023
“Transnational Galatea: Erasure of Asian Bodies in Globalized Media”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Albuquerque, NM, US, February 21 – 24, 2023
“Designing the Global Body: Japan’s Postwar Modernity in Death Stranding”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Albuquerque, NM, US, February 21 – 24, 2021
“Traumatic Femininity and Remediated Postwar Japan in FFVII“
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
Online, 2020
“A Different Kind of Pleasure: Recontextualization of a Japanese Femme Fatale for the Female Audience”
Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
Canceled and Rescheduled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020
“Working Through Weightlessness in Postwar Japanese Tactical Wargames”
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Albuquerque, NM, US, February 19 – 22, 2020
“Materialized Trauma and Masked Desire”
Mechademia Conference
Minneapolis, MN, September 27-29, 2019
“Pure Love and Fruitless Union: Reframing Queerness as Feminist Liberation in CLAMP’s Works.”
Replaying Japan
Kyoto, Japan, August 9 – 11, 2019.
“NieR: Automata as a Postcolonialist Intervention”
Anime Expo Academic Symposium
Los Angeles, CA, US, July 4-7, 2019.
“Feminist Recontextualization of Nostalgia in Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Mine Fujiko”
International Communication Association (ICA)
Washington, DC, US, May 24 – 28
“Fetishized Innocence and Sexualized Healing: Consumption of Innocence in Japanese Idol Culture”
Games + Communication Ante-Conference
Washington, DC, US, May 23
“Methods of Power”
Events
Art of Change” Immersion Event
San Mateo, CA, May 5, 2024.
Presenter
Alok Vaid-Menon in Person: Comedy Performance & Panel Discussion
UC Santa Cruz, April 9, 2024.
Development
Arts & Activism: A Conversation with Shepard Fairey, Frank Abe, and Andrew Aydin
Online, May 22, 2023.
Programming, production, and moderation
A Conversation with POSE Co-Creator Steven Canals: Redefining Diversity through Creative Interventions
UC Santa Cruz, May 19, 2023.
Programming and production
A Conversation with Award-winning Pixar Editor Kevin Nolting & Disney Historian Don Peri: Directing and Editing Feelings
UC Santa Cruz, May 19, 2023.
Programming and production
Santa Cruz COE & UCSC ArtsBridge Celebration
UC Santa Cruz, May 9, 2023.
Programming
Arts Professional Pathways: Find YOUR Path! 2024
UC Santa Cruz, April 19, 2023.
Development, programming, production, and moderation
Seminar on the Relations of Theory and Practice with Visiting Scholar McKenzie Wark
UC Santa Cruz, April 13, 2023.
Development
A Conversation with Screenwriter/Producer Nicole Jefferson Asher
UC Santa Cruz, February 10, 2023.
Programming, production, and moderation
A Conversation about Curatorial Practices and Internships at the National Museum of African American History & Culture
Online, Postponed
Development and programming
A Conversation with Ken Corday
UC Santa Cruz, May 20
Development and programming
Arts Professional Pathways: Find YOUR Path! 2022
UC Santa Cruz, April 15, 2022
Development, programming, production, and moderation
Navigating Success, Creative Possibility, and Ethics in the Entertainment Industry: A Conversation with Sandino Moya-Smith, VP of Production at MGM
UC Santa Cruz, April 8, 2022
Programming, production, and moderation
Arts Professional Pathways: Find YOUR Path! 2020
UC Santa Cruz, January 10, 2020
Development, programming, production, and moderation