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

2025

  • Book reading of "»Nicht die Ersten«: Queere Bewegungsgeschichten und Inspiration für die Zukunft” and discussion with Tarek Shukrallah and Simon Schultz 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)