Endless Summer: Transcultural Geographies of City Pop Art
“And Suddenly There Was City Pop: The Global Dimensions of the Retrograde Formation of a Japanese Popular Music Genre”
University of Amsterdam, 19-21 March 2025.

Entangled Lives: Uncanny Animals in Cosmopolitical Documentary
“New Configurations of Globality in Documentary Media” panel
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Boston, 16 March 2024.

Moving Targets: Object Detection and Algorithmic Aesthetics
Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Denver, 12 April 2023.

Dangerous Liaisons: Nocturnal Cinema and the French New Wave
Originally presented as “Nocturnal Cinema: Film Noir, Jazz, and the French New Wave” at the Media & The Night conference
McGill University, 18-19 March 2022.
Updated 20 July 2024.

Three-Dimensional Music: Cornelius’s Animated Soundworlds
Japanese Association for the Study of Popular Music (JASPM) conference, Osaka, 7 December 2019.
Revised and expanded July 2024.

From the East Village to Shibuya: A Tale of Two Record Stores.
333Sound: Short Books About Albums. Published By Bloomsbury, 11 March 2020.

Torrential Noise: 1724 Records and the Asian Post-Rock Soundscape
6th Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies (IAPMS) conference.
Communication University of China, Beijing, China, 9-10 June 2018.

Double Happiness: Hip Hop and the New Asian-American Food Culture
Originally presented as “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.

‘I’m Riding a Panda!’ Japanese Cult Media and Hipster Cosmopolitanism
FlowTV 9, no. 10 (April 2009). Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin.

This Was England: British Television And/As Cultural Heritage
FlowTV 9, no. 5 (January 2009). Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin.

Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn
FlowTV 9, no. 1 (October 2008). Dept. of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin.

Keyword: Cosmpolitanism
Critical World: Thinking Globalization Through Music website, Université de Montréal, 2008.

Productivity Is Fun: Instrumentalized Pleasure and Digital Lifestyles
The Internet as Playground and Factory: A Conference on Digital Labor, Eugene Lang College / The New School, 12-14 November 2009

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

Variable Cinema: Portable Movies and the Pleasures of Reinvention
Society for Cinema Studies Conference, 23 May 2002.

World Music: The Relocation of Culture
Roundtable presenter and participant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Globalization and Creativity, Chicago, 1996.

The Self in the Other: Ethnographic Film, Surrealism, Politics
Visual Anthropology 8 (1) (1996): 79-94.

Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on Baraka
The Future of Media Studies conference, Film & Media Studies Program, MIT, 1995.