2025. Ethnography & Mixed-Methods Research: The Case of Han Childhoods. School of History and Culture, Lanzhou University, China. July.
2025. New Book Webinar: “Unruly” Children (Moderator: Fei Yan, Tsinghua University, Beijing; Discussants: Yunxiang Yan, UCLA; Shao-hua Liu, Academia Sinica, Taipei; Xiaojun Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing). Organized by Theory, History, Society (THis). June.
2025. Book Talk: “Unruly” Children. Special Lecture Series, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. April.
2025. "Unravel the Complexities of Children’s Moral Development: Human-Machine Analysis of Arthur Wolf’s Fieldnotes Collected in Taiwan 1958-1960." Tateuchi East Asia Library Digital Scholarship Series, University of Washington, February.
2025. "Thoughts on a Cognitive Anthropology of China." Engaged Anthropology of (Global) China, University of Edinburg, Online workshop, February.
2025. "Historical Fieldnotes, Ethnographic Epistemology, and Children's Socio-moral Cognition." Culture and Cognition Workshop, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London. January.
2024. "Unruly" Children: Re-interpreting Classic Fieldnotes by Aurthur Wolf. Fei Hsiao-Tung Lecture Series, Tsinghua University, Beijing, December.
2024. Co-organizer of the Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop, “Precarity & Urgency: Debating the Future of China Anthropology amid Misalignments,” The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. December.
2024. "Understanding China from a Cognitive Anthropology Perspective: Exploring the Boundary and Possibilities of Ethnography." Global China Workshop, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. December.
2024. “Unruly” Children: Re-discovering an Obscured History of Haishan. Haishan Research Center, National Tai-pei University, New Taipei, Taiwan, Nov.
2024. “Unruly” Children: Re-interpreting Arthur P. Wolf’s Taiwan Fieldnotes in a New Framework, Taiwan Pioneers workshop, Taiwan Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Nov.
2024. “Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Social Anthropology Kinship Hub Seminar, University of Edinburgh, Nov.
2024. Understanding Morality, Culture and Cognition through Child Development. New Topics Forum, Department of Anthropology, Renmin University, Beijing, Oct.
2024. Ethnography: From Methodology to Epistemology. Advanced Graduate Seminar on Research Methodology, School of Social Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, September.
2024. New Books Panel. Northwest China Forum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, October.
2024. Taking Children Seriously: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. Biological Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Washington. May.
2023. The Case of Children and Childhood. Anthropology and Social Work Seminar, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. December. Online.
2023. The Good Child: Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Early Childhood Moral Development in China. Global China Seminar, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. December. Online.
2023. Ethnographic Research and Meaning Interpretation. Advanced Graduate Methods Seminar, School of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. November. Online.
2023. “Unruly” Children: Re-discovering Arthur P. Wolf’s Taiwan Fieldnotes in a New Framework. Medical Anthropology & Historical Demography Seminar, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. September.
2023 To Fight or Not to Fight: Integrating Ethnography and NLP Methods to Understand Children’ Social Life via Texts. Psychology Seminar, Queen’s University Belfast. June.
2022 Rediscovering “Children”: Re-interpreting historical fieldnotes in a new framework. Forum on Rethinking Anthropological Classics, hosted by Society (a Chinese social-science journal). China. December. (online).
2022 Children’s Behavior, Morality and Meaning: Re-discovering Anthropological Fieldnotes via Natural Language Processing Techniques. UW Data Science Seminar, eScience Institute, University of Washington. December. (online).
2022 Ethnography with/of Children: Towards Deep Knowledge of Learning in Cultural Contexts. The Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop “Interdisciplinary methods and theory for studying childhood learning across cultures.” Simon Fraser University. October. (online).
2022 "Unruly" Children: Learning Morality in a Taiwanese Village (1958-1960). Culture Club, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis. October.
2022 The importance of observational ethnographic data (co-presenters: Sheina Lew-Levy and Jennifer Clegg). Pre-Conference Workshop on Challenges in Developmental Cross-Cultural Research. Cultural Evolution Society. Aarhus University, Denmark. September. (hybrid).
2022 To Fight or Not to Fight: Culture, Cognition and Morality from a Child Development Perspective. The Wenner-Gren Foundation Workshop “Cultural Models Theory: Shaping a New Anthropology.” Northern Illinois University. Chicago. May.
2022 Childhood Development in mid-20th century Taiwan (online interview), Taiwan Studies Program, University of Washington. April.
2022 Moral Development from a Shanghai Preschool to a Taiwanese Village. China Studies Group, Loyola Marymount University, April. (online).
2021 “Good Children,” “Bad Children”: Moral Development as a Window into Anthropology’s Interdisciplinary Visions. Anthropology and Ethnology Research Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, December. (online).
2021 Childhood in Anthropological Texts: Re-discovering Naturalistic Observations via Natural Language Processing Techniques. UW eScience Institute Postdoctoral Seminar, University of Washington. December. (online).
2021 Discussant for Forum on Social Aesthetic Education. Chinese Academy of Arts, China, December. (online).
2021 Raising Good Children: Morality and Child Development. Shandong University, China, June. (online).
2021 Children at the margins: Rethinking anthropological perspectives about mid-20th century Chinese childhoods. Rethinking Chinese Childhood in Modern History Conference. Trinity College, Dublin, May. (online).
2020 The Good Child: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Early Moral Development in China. Institute of Anthropology, East China Normal University, Shanghai, October. (online)
2020 The Dark Side of Moral Development. Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS), The University of Hong Kong, September. (online).
2019 Understanding Chinese Moral Psychology (Templeton World Charity Foundation workshop), Hong Kong, December.
2019-2022 SRCD/Jacobs Foundation Social Learning and Cultural Evolution Workshop Series.
2019 The Classic “Child Interview” in a Taiwan Village (1959): When Sinological Anthropology Met the Anthropology of Childhood. Kui-Ge Lecture Series, Yunnan University, Kunming, June.
2019 Children in Authur P. Wolf's Taiwan Village (1958-1960): When Sinological Anthropology Met the Anthropology of Childhood. Fei Hsiao-Tung Lecture Series, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June.
2019 "Learning Merit in a Chinese Preschool: Bringing an Anthropological Perspective to Understanding Moral Development." The International Conference on "Culture, Cognition and Governance," Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, June.
2019 “No Comparison, No Harm:” Social Comparison, Social Media, and Anxious Mothers in Contemporary China. Workshop: Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2000s, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June.
2018 The Good Child: Chinese Children's Moral Development. Life and Moral Education Center, Capital Normal University, Beijing, July.
2018 The Good Child: The Early Learning of Fairness, Guanxi and Biaoxian. Fei Hsiao-Tung Lecture Series, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June.
2018 The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. China Studies Program, University of Washington, Seattle, May.
2018 The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. The Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, January.
2017 Learning “Merit” in a Chinese Preschool: Bringing the Anthropological Perspective to Understand Moral Development. Ethnographic Theory Workshop, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, November.
2017 When the Developing Mind Meets the Changing Culture: Moral Development in Chinese Communities. Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar: “A Cross-Disciplinary Approach for the Study of Human Social Behavior,” Harvard University, The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Boston, July.
2016 The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Las Vegas, October.
2015 Prosocial Development in Infancy and Early Childhood: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian, China, November.
2014 Becoming a Moral Child: Morality, Culture, and Mind in Contemporary China, Inaugural Lecture for “WU Zelin Anthropology Lecture Series,” Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June.
2014 Becoming a Moral Child: Preschool Discourse and Practices of Sharing in China, LSE conference on “Human Cooperation in Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives”, The London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, May.
2022 China Anthropology in Precarity and Geopolitical Tensions: Knowledge Production &
Public Engagement. Roundtable Chair & co-organizer at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Seattle, November.
2021 Narrative Anthropology: Identity, Truth, and Narrative Mediation. Chair & Discussant at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
2021 Home away from Home: Reconsidering Expectations of the “Chinese Family.” Co-organizer at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).
2017 Diagnosing Moral Anxieties: Contested Values, Public Discourses, and Social Transformation in Contemporary China. Chair and co-organizer at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., December.
2016 Raising Chinese Singletons: Anxieties and Struggles of Parenting in Contemporary China. Co-organizer at the Annual Conference of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, March-April.
2015 Experiments in Ethnographies of Child Development: Theoretical and Methodological Entanglements between Anthropology and Psychology. Co-organizer & Chair at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Denver, November.
2023 Learning Morality in Peer-networks: A New Look at Historical Texts of Taiwanese Childhood. Sunbelt (Annual Meeting of International Network for Social Network Analysis), Portland, June.
2023 When Children's Minds Meet AI: Re-reading Historical Fieldnotes through A Human-Machine Hybrid Approach. SPA (Society for Psychological Anthropology) Biennial Meeting, San Diego, April.
2022 Humor as Ethnography: A Collaborative Experiment (Co-presenter with Yang Zhan). Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Seattle, November.
2021 “Wild” Kids and Their Networks in rural Taiwan: Making Sense of Arthur P. Wolf’s Historical Fieldnotes with a New Framework. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Online, November.
2021 An adopted girl at the margins: Re-discovering historical fieldnotes with a new framework. In the panel "Cultural models, social change, and inequalities (extending the legacy of Naomi Quinn): Socialization over the life course." Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA), Online, April.
2021 Learning morality with siblings: The untold tale of a mid-20th century Taiwanese family. In the panel "Alternative Visions of Children and Childhood: Citizenship, Morality, and Social Responsibility in Mid-Twentieth Century China." Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Online, April.
2019 “No Comparison, No Harm:” Social Comparison, Anxiety and Anti-Anxiety in Gendered Childrearing in Contemporary China. In the panel "Changing Climates and Infrastructures of People-Making and Reproductive Labor in East Asia (Part 1)". Joint Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)/the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), Vancouver, November.
2019 The Mischievous, the Naughty, and the Violent in a Taiwanese Village: Aggression Narratives in Arthur P. Wolf’s “Child Interview” (1959). In the panel "Destabilizing Educational Studies from the Margin: A Reflection about Educational Ideologies and Practices." Annual Meeting of North American Taiwan Studies Association, Seattle, May.
2019 "Child Interview” in a Taiwan Village (1958-1960): Bringing to Light Arthur P. Wolf’s Improved Replication of the Six Cultures Study. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA), New Mexico, April.
2019 "No Comparison, No Harm:" Popular Childrearing Discourse, Social Comparison, and Parental Anxiety in Contemporary China. In the Panel "Negotiating Ideologies and Practices in Children's Education: Pre-modern and Modern Chinese Perspectives". Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Denver, March.
2018 Cultivating personhood in a Taiwan village (1958-1960): Bringing to light Arthur P. Wolf's dissertation fieldwork materials under new theoretical frameworks in child development. Global Island: Taiwan and the World, Taiwan Studies Workshop, University of Washington, October.
2018 Tattling (Gaozhuang) with Chinese Characteristics: Moral Anxiety, Norm Sensitivity, and “the Genuine Child.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Washington D.C., March.
2017 Tattling (Gaozhuang) with Chinese Characteristics: Moral Anxiety, Educational Competition, and “the Genuine Child.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., December.
2016 Aspirations and Anxieties: Cultivating Morality among Young Only Children in China. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle, March-April.
2015 The Multiple Facets of Fairness in Chinese Preschoolers’ World: Bridging Ethnographic and Experimental Approaches to Understand Moral Development. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Denver, November.
2015 “Feeling into Another’s Heart” (Jiang Xin Bi Xin)? When Empathy Is Endangered, Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Chicago, March.
2014 “Imagine My Heart As Yours”: When Empathy and Love Are Endangered, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington D.C., December.
2013 Cultivating Morality in An Age of Moral Crisis: Quandaries of Moral Education in China, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Chicago, November.
2013 The Ontogeny of Guanxi: Chinese Children’s World of Sharing in An Age of “Moral Crisis”, Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) with the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG), San Diego, April.
2012 Cultivating Morality in An Age of Moral Crisis: The Culture of “Sharing” in A Chinese Preschool, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, November.
2011 Entitlement and Children’s Distributive Justice: A Cross-Cultural Comparison, National Quality Forum: Life-Sciences-Based Integration of Medicine and Education, Shanghai, China, November.
2011 To Share or Not to Share: Culture, Entitlement, and Distributive Justice in Young Children, International Conference on Moral Education: Cultivating Morality: Human Beings, Nature and the World, Nanjing, China, August.
2016 Experience Facilitates the Emergence of Sharing Behavior among 7.5-Month-Old Infants, International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS) Biennial Meeting, New Orleans, May.
2016 Parent and Infant Interventions Promote Early Prosociality, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention, San Diego, January.
2015 7.5-month-old Infants Learn to Share, Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Biennial Meeting, Columbus, October.