“Advertising Chinese Modern Society: graphesis, concept modeling, historical method”, the 7th Social Media Process, Haerbing, August 2-4, 2018.
“From Image to Knowledge: Visual Knowledge Production in the Advertisements of Modern China”, Perking University, Beijing, June 13-15, 2018.
“Advertising Chinese Modern Society: graphesis, concept modeling, historical method”, Digital Humanities Asia, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford April 27-28, 2018.
“A Prehistory of Digital Humanities in China”, the 2018 Annual Conference of Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., March 22-25, 2018.
“Digital Humanities in Nanjing University”, International Conference on Cyberinsfrastructure for Chinese Historical Studies, Harvard China Center, Shanghai，March 14-16, 2018.
“Digital Humanities in China”, the Workshop of “ Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, Tsinghua University, Jun 20-11, 2017.
“Commercial Advertising Ephemera and the Meaning Mining of Images,” “Digital Humanities and History Studies,” the 2nd forum of Digital Humanities, Peking University, May 26, 2017.
“ Computation and Humanities: Digital Humanities as a new field,” the 10th R conference, Tsinghua University, May 21, 2017.
“Concept Modeling and Advertising Chinese Modern Society,” “Digital Scholars, an emerging profession？,” the 7th International Conference of Digital Archives and Digital Humanities，the National Taiwan University, Taiwan，December 1-3.
“Fundamental Issues of New Media Art Thoery,” “Studies on Framework of Literary Knowledge” ，Renmin University of China, November 19-20, 2016.
“Concept Modeling the Advertising Chinese Modern Society,” Digital Humanities 2016 Conference, July 11-16, 2016.
“The King of Shanzhai: Internet based Innovations in China,” the Workshop of “Digital Era and Everyday Experience Critique of Contemporary China, Nanjing University, July 23.
“The King of Shanzhai: Internet based Innovations in China”, The 2016 Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies, March 31-April 3, 2016.
“The Chinese Commercial Advertising Archive: a Digital Ephemera Project Workshop,” Rice University, April 4-5, 2016.
Digital Archiving Advertising Ephemera: a Case of Commercial Chinese Advertisement Archive,” “ History Studies in Big Data Era”，Shanghai University, December 4-5, 2015.
“Image and Transformation of Media: Production of Visual Knowledge in Digital Age,” the forum of Young Scholars of Art Science, Nanjing University of Art, June 12-15.
“From Images to Data: Metadating Chinese Commercial Advertisements ”, Around the World Internet Conference, University of Alberta, April 30, 2015 .
“Statistics and Digital Humanities”, 2014 Tsinghua-Sanya Workshop on Big Data: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations, December 27-30, 2014.
“Concept Network: From Chinese Commercial Newspaper Advertisement to the Sociological Theory in Modern China”, the Workshop of “From Humanities to Digital Humanities”(with Ke Deng), National Chengchi University, Taiwan, December 5-6, 2014 .
“Digitally Archiving Advertising Ephemera: The Case of the Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (CCAA) (1880-1940)”, the Fifth International Conference of Digital Archive and Digital Humanities, Academia Sinica Digital Center; Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, December 1-2, 2014.
“‘Metadating’ Advertisement: The case of the Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (CCAA) (1880-1940)”, Advertising and Marketing in China: Chinese-Western Cultural Encounters (19th c. – Present), Center for Asia Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco, November 13-14.
“From Images to Data: Metadating Chinese Commercial Advertisements ”, Around the World Internet Conference, University of Alberta, April 30, 2015 .
“Statistics and Digital Humanities”, 2014 Tsinghua-Sanya Workshop on Big Data: Opportunities, Challenges and Innovations, December 27-30, 2014.
“Concept Network: From Chinese Commercial Newspaper Advertisement to the Sociological Theory in Modern China”, the Workshop of “From Humanities to Digital Humanities”(with Ke Deng), National Chengchi University, Taiwan, December 5-6, 2014 .
“Digitally Archiving Advertising Ephemera: The Case of the Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (CCAA) (1880-1940)”, the Fifth International Conference of Digital Archive and Digital Humanities, Academia Sinica Digital Center; Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University, December 1-2, 2014.
“’Metadating’ Advertisement: The case of the Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive (CCAA) (1880-1940)”, Advertising and Marketing in China: Chinese-Western Cultural Encounters (19th c. – Present), Center for Asia Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco, November 13-14.
“From Image Archive to The Concept Network”(Poster Presentation), “Networks in the Humanities”, The Texas Digital Humanities Consortium, University of Houston, April 10-12, 2014.
“What Changed: Ephemera from Printing to Digital”, the Ephemera Workshop of “Ephemera: Current and Future”, Rice University, December 6-7, 2013.
“Digitizing Historical Ephemera”, 2013 Harvard Radcliffe Exploratory Workshop on Text Mining in Literary Chinese, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, October 18–19, 2013.
“The Digital Archiving of Ephemera: Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive”, the Ephemera Workshop of “Defining Ephemera”, Rice University, December 8-9, 2012.
“Refashioning the Print Literature: Internet Literature in China ”, the 5th Electronic Literature Organization Conference (ELO) , sponsored by West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, June 20-23,2012..
“Between the Virtual and the Real: Living Condition of Post-human in China,” the Second “Sino-British Bilateral Forum on Marxist Aesthetics”, Manchester University, April 10-16, 2012.
“As a new revolution: Electronic Literature in New Media Age”, 2011 Annual Conference of Chinese Comparative Literature Association, co-sponsored by Fudan University, Shanghai Normal University, 13-14 July, 2011(also as the panel organizer).
“Rethinking the text(uality) in Digital Context”, “Ephemera and Archives Workshop”, Rice University, 2-4 December, 2011.
“Internet Literature in China: A New Literary Revolution?”, Comparative Literature in the Phase of World Literature: The Fifth Sino-American Symposium on Comparative Literature, co-sponsored by Institute of Arts and Humanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harvard University and Tsinghua University, 22-23 August, 2010.
Invited Lectures
“Why do we need Digital Humanities in China”, Yale University, April 6, 2018.
“Can Cyborg Change the Future of Sexality?”, Zaojiu Lectures, Shanghai, March 18, 2018.
“The Frontier of Humanities Research and Cultural Heritage in the Big Data Era”, Big Data and Social Science Workshop, Jan 19. 2018.
“What Kind of AI do We Need?”, Kuang-Chi, Oct 29, 2017.