Recent Activity

Below is a listing of upcoming or recent talks, conferences and trips.

March 3, 2026 - Yale University

Public Talk: Seeing the World Anew: Commissioner Lin Zexu and China’s Pursuit of Evil

October 2, 2025 - University of Guam

Public Talk: The Opium War, Commissioner Lin, and the Lingering Imperialist Visions of the Past

September 29, 2025 - Distinguished Lecture in Humanities (Hong Kong PolyTechnic Univ)

Public Talk: An Exile Misremembered: Lin Zexu and Qing China’s Response to the West

September 12, 2025 - 16th Annual IESHR Lecture (New Delhi, India)

Public talk: Convenient Lies and Inconvenient Truths: Chinese Cosmopolitanism, British Legalized Lawlessness, and the Demythification of Commissioner Lin Zexu in the Opium War (1839-1842)

April 25, 2025 - Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo (Japan)

Public talk: The Remarkable Commissioner Lin: An Old Tale Retold

March 23, 2025 - Royal Asiatic Society - China (Shanghai)

Public talk: Beyond the Opium War: Rethinking the Contributions of Commissioner Lin Zexu in 19th century China

July 9, 2024 - AAS in Asia Meeting (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Chair and Discussant: Inter-Asian Histories of the Tibetan Plateau: War, Tributes, Frontiers, Photographs, and Tea

March 15, 2024 - Association of Asian Studies Meeting (Seattle, WA)

Paper Presentation: Forgotten Partners: Tibetan Muslim Elites and Tibet’s Inter-Asian Relations