“Three-Dimensional Music: Cornelius’s Animated Soundworlds.” Japan. Society for Popular Music (JASPM) conference, Osaka, Japan, December 2019.

“Tropical Dandies: Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Exoticism, and Bamboo Music.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Seattle, 13-17 March 2019.

“Gathering Storm: Post-Rock Scenes in Asia.” Interasiapop conference, Beijing, China, 9-10 June 2018.

“From Cookbook to Comic Book: Graphic Media, Hip Hop, and Asian-American Food Culture.” Journal of Intercultural Studies conference, “Migrating Concepts: Cosmopolitanism, Multiculturalism, and Conviviality Across the Asia Pacific,” Singapore, 23-25 February 2018.

“‘Imagine’: Performance and Ritual in an Age of Global Insecurity.” Cultural Typhoon conference, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan, July 2016.

“The Other Food Network: Asian Americans and Oppositional Identity in U.S. Food Media.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Atlanta, 2 April, 2016.

“Street Food, Asian American Style: Oppositional Taste in Post-Millennial U.S. Food Culture.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia, 7-9 August 2015.

“Platformers and Sequencers: Playing With MIDI.” Ludomusicology 2015 conference, University of Utrecht, 9-10 April, 2015.

“Hypermobile Subjects: Chipmusic, Resistance, and Mobility.” Ludomusicology 2014 conference, University of Chichester, 2014.

“The Rake’s Progress: Steve Coogan and Celebrity Culture.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Seattle, 2014.

“‘By Pressing Down This Special Key, It Plays A Little Melody’: Videogame Subcultures and Nostalgia for the Future.” Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music (JASPM). Tokyo, Japan, 24 May 2012.

“The Shibuya Effect: Transnational Soundscapes, Transcultural Capital.” Inter-Asia Popular Music conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010.

“Strangers to Ourselves? Identification and Estrangement in Nick Broomfield’s Ghosts.” Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference, Association for Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2010.

“Productivity Is Fun.” The Internet As Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor, Eugene Lang College / The New School, 2009.

“Among Strangers: Cinema Across Borders.” Keene State College, New Hampshire, Sixth Biennial Symposium, 2009.

“Another Green World: Lifestyle Television and Environmental Citizenship.” Roundtable on Electronic Waste: FlowTV Conference, Austin, Texas, 2008.

“The Baraka Effect: Cinema, Modernity, and the Metaphysical Imaginary.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Philadelphia 2008.

“Miniaturizing the World: Internationalism, Nationalism and the Japanese Character Industry.” “Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations,” Theory, Culture, & Society conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2008.

“Cashing in on the Attic: Auctions in Contemporary Lifestyle Television.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Chicago, 2008.

“Subcultural Studies and the Future of Nostalgia.” Cultural Studies Now conference, University of East London, 2007.

“‘Cool Japan’: Globalization and the Subculture Industry.” Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads conference, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, 2006.

“24: Macrotelevision and Mobile Media.”Console-ing Passions conference, Milwaukee, 2006.

“‘Asian Cult Cinema’: Transcultural Politics and the Aesthetics of Transgression.” Kinema Club conference, Japan Foundation, Tokyo, 2005.

“Translation as a Martial Art: Kung Faux from Détournement to Dubtitling.” Console-ing Passions conference, New Orleans, 2004.

“The Fashion Police: Self and Governance in What Not To Wear.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference, Atlanta, 2003.

“‘Chappie’: Software Characters and the Digital Culture Industry.” Paper and panel co-organiser, “The Character Industry: Consuming Objects and Images in the Global Cultural Economy.” Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, 2003.

“D-Day in Denmark: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium.” MIT3: Television. MIT, Cambridge, 2003.

“Subcultural Cinema: Knowledge, Mediation, Cultural Capital.” Society for Cinema Studies (SCS) conference, Minneapolis, 2003.

“Street Tribes: Global Mediascapes, Subcultural Strategies.” Paper and panel organizer, “Contact Zones: Transnational Spaces, Transcultural Imaginaries.” Midwest Popular Culture Association, conference, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2002.

“Variable Cinema: Portable Movies and the Pleasures of Re-Invention.” Society for Cinema Studies conference, Denver, 2002.

“D-Day in Denmark: Multi-Channel Television at the Millennium.” Society for Cinema Studies conference, Washington, D.C., 2001.

“Trance: From Ethnomusicology to Techno-Primitivism.” New Jersey Communication Association conference, Rider University, panel on Music and Media, 1999.

“Window on the World: Global Theme Parks.” MIT Media Lab, Narrative Intelligence group, 1997.

“Teaching French on the World Wide Web.” MIT, Colloquium for American Association of Teachers of French, 1997.

“News, Actualités, Nachrichten: Using Radio on the Web.” Presentation to MIT Pedagogy & Technology Workshop, 1997.

“Entangled Observers: Ethnography and the Global Cultural Economy.” MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., panel on “Ethnographies and Markets, 1996.

“Global Mythologies: World Cinema and the Transnational Imaginary.” Conference on “Film | Culture | History,” University of Aberdeen, 1996.

“Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on Baraka.” “New Exoticisms in Literature, Film, and Other Media,” conference at Universidad de Zaragoza, 1996.

“The Self in the Other: Ethnography and the Politics of Surrealism.” Society for Cinema Studies conference, New York, 1996.

“Democracy in Cyberspace: Society, Politics, and the Virtual Republic.” MIT Communications Forum. Panel organiser, presenter, moderator, 1994.

“ZONE: Heterotopian Space from Apollinaire to Virtual Reality.” MIT History and Literature Workshop, 1994.

“Chris Marker’s La Jetée.” MIT Media Lab, Narrative Intelligence group, 1993.

“Tournier/Faucon: On Vitrines, Mannequins, and Photographs.” MLA conference, San Francisco,1991.

“From Rousseau to Lévi-Strauss: Michel Tournier’s Noble Savages.” NEMLA conference, Wilmington, panel on colonialism, 1989.