“Joe’s World Atlas: Manga and the Cold War in Japan, ca. 1970,” AAS annual meeting, Seattle, April 1, 2016.
“Mothers’ Love: A Mother’s Music (Haha no kyoku, 1937) , Stella Dallas (1937) and Feminist Transnational Film History,” at Esther Eng and Other Challenges to World Feminism, Columbia University, February 6, 2016.
“Ri Kōran Sings!: Airwaves in East Asia,” The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, Columbia University, December 16, 2015.
“Representation of Queerness: Hagio Moto, Ursula K. Le Guin and Feminist Utopia,” Nichibunken, Kyoto, Japan, November 27, 2015.
Keynote panelist at Kinema Club XV at Nippon Connection Film Festival in Frankfurt, Germany, June 5 and 6, 2015.
“Restricted Bodies versus Anarchic Bodies: Cross Media Translation between
Manga and Anime in Attack on Titan (Shingeki no kyojin),” at LaGuardia Community College, New York, May 6, 2015.
Respondent to Michael Baskett (Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, The University of Kansas), “Engaging Asia: Reintegrating Japanese Film Culture into Cold War Asia,” at the Modern Japan Seminar, Columbia University, April 17. 2015.
“Momotaro’s Wars: Images of Disasters and Transnational Cinema in Japan” at the Portland State University Center for Japanese Studies, February 12, 2015.
Respondent to Okano Yayo (Professor of Political Science, Doshisha University), “Where and How I Met the Ethics of Care,” Modern Japan History Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 18, 2014.
“History as Created by Special Effects: Pre-Gojira Films by Tsuburaya Eiji,” Documenting Political: Godzilla Returns, New York University, October 13, 2014.
“Photography’s Aura: The Veneration of the Emperor’s Portrait and Its Ambiguity in 1930s and 1940s Japan” at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Philadelphia, PA, March 28, 2014
“The Origin of Anime: Global Film Culture and Wartime Japanese Animation,” at the City College of New York, March 4, 2014
“Photographic Film: The Emperor’s Body in 1920s to 1930s Japan” at the Kinema Club XIII at Harvard University, January 17-18, 2014
“Nationalities of Wartime Animated Film in Japan: Momotaro, the Divine Warriors of the Sea (1945) by Seo Mitsuyo” at the Modern Japan Seminar, Columbia University, Oct. 24, 2013
“Performing Japaneseness: Realistic Machines, Cute Characters and Wartime Aggression” at the Association for Japanese Literary Studies annual conference, October 18-19, 2013
“Feminist Imagination in Shojo Manga: Motherhood, Reproduction, and Family in Hagio Moto’s Marginal (1985-87) ” at Research Conference Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms, Emory University, April 19-20, 2013
“Imperial Imagination in Girl’s Comics: Is a Female Emperor Possible in Japan?” at the Third Mechademia Conference on Anime, Manga and Media Theory from Japan, Nov. 29-Dec. 2, 2012
“Nationalization and Representation of the Body: Public Sphere in Nippon News (1940-1951)” at Censorship, Media, and Literary Culture in Japan: From Edo to Postwar. International Symposium, Columbia University, March 6-7, 2009
“Patriotic Housewives and Working Girls: Gender, Nationalism and Visual Culture during the Asia Pacific War (1931-45) in Japan,” at Fourteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis at the University of Minnesota, June 12-15, 2008