| 2023 | Dark Seed: Desert Islands and Beginning Again. An invited talk presented at Thinking Islands: Exploring the Sea and the Land in Literature, Film and Philosophy. University of Hong Kong, HK. 6 October. |
| 2022 | Building and Using a Literary Corpus: Introducing Computational Literary Studies. An invited talk presented at the Research Institute for the Humanities Webinar Series: Digital Humanities Across the Faculty. Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK. 9 March. |
| 2022 | A Literature of Densities and Fugitive Vectors. Building a Techno-Humanities Culture in Hong Kong. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, HK. 7 January. |
| 2019 | At First Blush: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Reading Machine. An invited conference paper presented at New Materialist Literary Theory. University of Erfurt, GERMANY. 19 September. |
| 2018 | The Communion of Clouds: A Reading of Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. An invited lecture. University of Tokyo. JAPAN. 25 May. |
| 2018 | Object-Oriented Philosophy and the Art of Literary Criticism. An invited lecture given at The Society of Fellows Lecture Series. University of Hong Kong, HK. 9 April. |
| 2017 | The Date in the Hong Kong Imaginaire. An invited seminar paper presented at the CCASEA (HK) Symposium. City University, HK. 12 December (with E. Sorensen). |
| 2017 | Writing at the End of Capitalism. An invited seminar paper presented at the Department of English Studies Seminar Series. Durham University, UK. 8 November. |
| 2017 | The Utopian Quality of Hong Kong’s Schizo-Identity. A keynote address at The Humanities PGR Conference 2017. University of Exeter, UK. 12-13 June. |
| 2017 | A Third Way – Creative Criticism. A keynote address at PolyU Writing Roundtable 2017. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK. 19 May. |
| 2016 | Living in the West, thinking of the East –when locality becomes a hyperobject. A conference paper presented at East/West: Ruptures and Convergences. University of Malaya, MALAYSIA. 1-2 December. |
| 2016 | The Becoming-woman of Coetzee’s Magistrate: A Reading of Waiting for the Barbarians. An invited conference paper presented at Reading Coetzee’s Women. Monash University, ITALY. 27-29 September. |
| 2015 | Locality as hyperobject – Hong Kong, 2014. A conference paper presented at In the Regions of Utopia. Newcastle University, UK. 28-30 June. |
| 2014 | De-Familiarization and the Act of Reading World Literature. An invited conference paper presented at Deleuze’s Cultural Encounters with the New Humanities. Shue Yan University, HK. 9-12 June. |
| 2014 | The African Supernatural and an Ontology of Difference. A conference paper presented at The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland: Haunted Landscapes. Falmouth University, UK. 8 March. |
| 2013 | The Inevitable Migration: World Literature. A conference paper presented at The British Comparative Literature Association Conference: Migration. University of Essex, UK. 8-13 July. |
| 2012 | Pepetela’s The Return of the Water Spirit: Deleuze, Desire, and the State. A conference paper presented at 2012 Kaifeng International Deleuze Conference. Kaifeng, CHINA. 18-22 May. |
| 2011 | The Trace in Dambudzo Marechera’s The House of Hunger. A conference paper presented at New Critical Perspectives on the Trace. Malaga, SPAIN. 20-22 October. |
| 2011 | The Ethical Moment of Crisis: Dambudzo Marechera’s Black Sunlight. A conference paper presented at the 4th International Deleuze Studies Conference: Creation, Crisis, Critique. Copenhagen, DENMARK. 27-29 June. |
