Invited Talks

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Spring 2022 University of London SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies

• Topic: “Building a model of family reconciliation from the ground-up: A Taiwan study” (English)

 

Spring 2022 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Graduate seminar in The High-Income Trap in East Asia (taught by Dr. Syaru Shirley Lin)

• Topic: “The feminist approach to the ultra-low fertility problem” (English)

 

Spring 2022 The National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages, and Literature, Course: Taiwan’s Language and Society (taught by Dr. Tsio̍h Bo̍k-bîn)

• Topic: “Gender, family, and the Hakka culture” (Mandarin and Hakka)

 

Spring 2022 Reforming Speech Communication in Public Sphere: Examine the Contemporary Public Policy and Legal Communication:

• Topic: “Communicating public policy“ Forum (Mandarin)

 

Spring 2022 National Chengchi University, International College of Innovation, Course: Global Civil Movement (taught by Dr. Cheng Hung-Ying)

• Topic: “Gender Equality/ LGBTIQA+ Activism” (English)

 

Spring 2022 Taiwan Ireland Association

• Topic: “LGBTQ/tongzhi movement in Taiwan: Past, present, and future” (English)

 

Spring 2022  Department of Cultural Resources and Leisure Industries, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan

• Topic: “Twenty years into the 'Act of Gender Equality in Employment" (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2021 Research Institute of The Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

• Topic: “State of the art of Taiwan Studies in North America: Observations from the North American Taiwan Studies Association“ (Mandarin) (I was one of the three speakers)

 

Fall 2021 Graduate Program of Ethnicity and Culture, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan

• Topic: “Families in Post same-sex marriage Taiwan” (Mandarin)

             

Spring 2021 Communication Studies Department, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California 

• Topic: “Internationalizing the study of family and interpersonal communication”(English)

 

Spring 2021 Department of Cultural Resources and Leisure Industries, National Taitung University, Taitung, Taiwan

• Topic: “Empowering diversity in the workplace” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2020 Association for Taiwan Literature, Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

• Topic: “Current Trends in Taiwan Studies-North America Perspective” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2020 Department of Mass Communication, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

• Topic: “Identity issues in same-sex marriage movement in Taiwan” (Mandarin)

 

Spring 2020 Department of Cultural Resources and Leisure Industries, Taitung, Taiwan

• Topic: “Gender issues in the workplace” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2019 College of Communication, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Topic: “Field observation and in-depth interviews: What are these?” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2019 Graduate Society of Applied Linguists, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

• Topic: “She did not come out but we’ve come to terms”— family reconciliation of challenged expectations when a young adult child is a gender and sexual minority/ tongzhi” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2019 National Taiwan University Department of Sociology

• Topic: “International Conference submission workshop: NATSA call for paper information session” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2019 Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

• Topic: “Went to America to get a PhD, and then what?” (Mandarin)

 

Spring 2017 Department of Psychology and Counseling, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

• Topic: The daily lives for the sexual and gender minorities: Family relationship, and work” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2016 Department of Psychology and Counseling, Ming Chuan University,  Taoyuan, Taiwan

• Topic: “A counselor’s guide to understanding the basics the sexual and gender minorities” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2016 Department of Mass Communication, Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Topic: “The endless possibilities that blossom when LGBTQ+ intersects with communication studies”  (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2016 Institute of Communication Studies, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

• Topic: “Media communication: LGBTQ+ and gender” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2016 Department of Speech Communication, Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan

• Topic: “What has been communicated in speech communication?” (Mandarin)

 

Fall 2016 Department of Mass Communication, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan

• Topic: ”Sex and gender in communication studies: Binary and fluidity” (Mandarin)

 

Spring 2015 Workshop: Cigarette smoking among sexual minority populations, Department of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (talk given online) (English)

• Topic: “LGBTQ+ substance use and abuse in Taiwan”

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