academic conferences
2025
“When We Gaze Back: De-obscuring the Camera, Illuminating Queer Countervisuality” at the Southeast Asia’s Art Histories Postgraduate Symposium, organised by University of Melbourne and Nanyang Technological University, Online (October)
“Waves, Wayang, Wayfinding through Patani Sapphic Cinema” at the Association for Southeast Asian Cinema , Chiangmai University (August)
“Mapping Sapphic Patani, Tracing the Southeast Asian “Queer Regional Imagination,” at the Neue Ansätze Kritischer Geovisualisierung 2025, BURG Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (May)
“Fabulating the (still) metaphorical Sapphic Archive of Patani” at the Parse Journal Seminar on Fabulation, University of Gothenburg (April)
“Ramadan Nights” : A Queer Gothic Exploration of Muslim Women’s Spectral Desire” with Samak Kosem, PhD, at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference 2025, Columbus, Ohio (March)
2024
“Archiving the Patani Queers / Queering the Patani Archive” at the Queer Contemporary Histories - International and Intersectional Perspectives, Frei Universität Berlin (July)
“Ramadan Nights” : A Queer Gothic Exploration of Muslim Women’s Spectral Desire” with Samak Kosem, PhD, at the Alternative Narratives of Belonging, Resistance & Rebellion: Portrayals of Indigenous Muslim Minorities, University of Leeds (June)
“Archiving the Patani Queers / Queering the Patani Archive” at the 23rd East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, East-West Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa (February)
public talks and guest lectures
2026
Invited lecture “Mapping Saphic Patani, Tracing the Southeast Asian Regional Imagination” for the Heo/Geo lecture series, organized by the Philippine Geographical Society and the Department of Geography, UP Diliman (March)
2025
Book reading "»Nicht die Ersten«: Queere Bewegungsgeschichten und Inspiration für die Zukunft” with Tarek Shukrallah and Simon Schultz, and discussion on Queer Asian movements in Germany at eeden, Hamburg (March)
Roundtable speaker on the “Queer Literature: Navigating Literary Spaces and Publications”online panel discussion for Southeast Asian Queer Cultural Festival 2.0 (March)
2024
Reading “Nidra Nirat: A Dream Depository” for /ba.ca/ with New Naratif: Reading Pride, Weaving Liberation (November)
Led a workshop on “Speculative History” for Embrace the Blur Creative Circle initiated by Estelle Dao Lassus (July)
Guest lecture on “Decoloniality and Postcoloniality: Theory and Debates”for the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HfBK), Hamburg, course on Design as Tool of Resistance led by Anna Unterstab (May)