12 Sep 2025 - Panelist at "Creative Collaboration between the UK and China", ABCP Annual Conference 2025, University of Surrey, UK
10 June 2025, "‘The logics of passion: An inquiry into a philosophical foundation of creative enterprise", Faculty Research Showcase, 麻豆影院, Leicester, UK
8 Feb 2025 - "Opportunities and challenges in digital infrastructure development within dance organisations: a Knowledge Transfer Partnership case study", Igniting Creativity: Art, Education, Transformation and Change conference, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds, UK (With Sally Doughty & Ebenezer Apata)
3 Feb 2024 – “The Wandering Earth 2 film screening and panel discussion”, organised by LSE’s Department of Government, BFI Southbank, London, UK
11 Jan 2024 – “Creating sustainable relationships workshop”, China-UK Creative Industries Hub, Online
13 Nov 2023 – “Blockchain and the Creative Industries: Challenges and Opportunities” as part of 麻豆影院, Leicester, UK
1 Nov 2023 – “The task of a translator and the different dimensions of cultural translation in electric shadows”, USTB, Beijing, China
25 Oct 2023 – “International storytelling in corporate films”, RZ Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility, Beijing, China
23 Oct 2023 – “Searching for heritage inspired animation IPs between the UK and China”, XATU, Xi’an, China
15 Mar 2022 – , University of Liverpool, UK
28 Oct 2021 – , King’s College London, UK
26 Oct 2021 – , Cambridge University China Forum, Cambridge, UK
5 Feb 2019 – “Hong Kong New Wave: Legacy and Future Opportunities in International Film Business”, Birmingham City University, UK
28 Sep 2018 – “Early Film Criticism Culture in Amoy/Xiamen Local Newspapers before 1949”, Chinese Film Theory and Criticism Workshop 2, Hong Kong Baptist University
27 Sep 2018 – , University of Hong Kong
22 Mar 2018 – “The Issues of Writings on Contemporary Chinese Art in British Newspapers”, Birmingham City University, UK
2018 – Introduction to the screening of Have a Nice Day (2017) at Phoenix Cinema, Leicester, UK
Jan 2018 – “Challenges in Theorising Hong Kong Cinema History”, The Hong Kong History Project The 2nd Postgraduate Workshop, University of Bristol, UK
15 Dec 2017 – “Writing Contemporary Chinese Art in Journalism: issues, challenges and possibilities”, Polish Institute of World Art Studies, Warsaw, Poland
Sep 2017 – “The Art of Moving Truth: An Inquiry into the Possibility of Writing Film Criticism as Journalism through Theory and Practice”, at The Future of Journalism: Journalism in a Post-truth Age?, Cardiff University, Wales
14 June 2017 – “Tracing the Heroine: a Historical and Aesthetic Investigation on CCTV’s television representation of the ‘Chinese mother of Belgium”, with Roel Vande Winkel at the Poetics of Asian Cinemas Conference, Lancaster University, UK
4 May 2017 – “A Critical Valuation of Current Debates in Chinese Film Criticism in Mainland China”, Chinese Film Theory and Criticism Workshop, Kings’ College, University of London, UK
June 2017 – ‘Release Me’: Seeking Communications Beyond the Empire of Signs”, IFVCR Network Conference, Cardiff University, Wales
May 2017 – “Rethinking Foucault’s Discourse”, guest lecture at the School of Journalism and Communication, Xiamen University, China
2015 – Introduction to the screening of Golden Gate Girls (2014) at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales
16 Sep 2015 – “Authentic Intellectuals: Challenges in Diaspora beyond Nationalism”, at Diaspora beyond Nationalism Conference, Cardiff University, Wales
May 2015 – “Disrupting Boundaries: Then Where Do We Go Now?”, at Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, Riverside, LA, USA
July 2014 – “Searching for Cross-Cultural Definitions of Chinese Cinema: Comparing Research Literature in English and in Chinese” at Asian Cinema Studies Conference, University of Macau
16 May 2014 – “Current Issues on Researching Chinese Cinema in the UK” at East Asian Screen Studies Symposium, King’s College London, UK
Nov 2013 – Book Launch: Phoenix Picturehouse: 100 Years of Oxford Cinema Memories, Phoenix Picturehouse Cinema, Oxford, UK
June 2013 – “Charlie Chaplin’s Revolution in China” at NECS Conference – ‘Media Politics – The Political Media’, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Mar 2012 – “The Shared Dreams: Transnational Hong Kong Cinema through Nostalgia” at Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, University of Hong Kong