June 27-28, 2025: “Southeast Asia Libraries Past and Present: Bibliotactics Library History and Decolonial Library and Information Science”
- Southeast Asia Library Group (SEALG) Annual Meeting, University of Passau, Germany [Hybrid]
- Teaching Materials on Global Libraries Class (UCLA graduate) Link to class
August 5-6, 2025: “Empowering Cambodian Libraries: Building Sustainable Digital Futures”
- Center for Khmer Studies Library, Wat Damnak, Siem Reap Cambodia
- Co-organizer and keynote presenter “Digital Library User Experience (Digital Access, Application, Activation)” and “Community Conversation: Transforming Cambodian Libraries, historical contexts to digital horizons”
August 8, 2025: “Library History as Data-Art-Life: Fabulating the Vietnamese Past”
August 9, 2025: “Women’s Reading: Theory and Practice” Roundtable with Cindy Anh Nguyễn, Yến Vũ và Nguyễn Thị Minh
- Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Part 1 event details and signup, 10AM
- Part 2 event details and signup, 9AM
- Nguyễn Art Foundation is pleased to present a two-part event (8 & 9 August) that brings together scholars and practitioners exploring the complex entanglements between reading, gender, institutional power, and historical memory in Vietnam and its diasporas. Moving across colonial archives, library histories, and literature, the program rethinks the act of reading – not as passive consumption, but as a site of resistance, imagination, and world-making. Through diverse lenses – feminist critique, critical fabulation, and institutional analysis – these speakers interrogate who gets to read, what is considered public or private, and how gendered dynamics shape literary and cultural encounters. The program highlights how readers, particularly women, have long negotiated visibility, agency, and power through their engagement with texts.
August 14, 2025: Invited Book Talk Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public
- Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore [Hybrid], 4-5:30PM Singapore Time
- Zoom/in person Registration link here
September 3-6, 2025: “Data Fictions: Visuality of Public Life and Information Infrastructures in Southeast Asia”
- 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Seattle, Washington USA
- Panel: Infrastructure, State, and Networks of Expertise: Building Modernities Across Asia 2
January 13, 2026: Publication Day!
January 2026 UCLA Book Launch and Party
January 2026: Invited Book Talk Bibliotactics: Libraries and the Colonial Public
- Public Humanities Forum, History Department, Cultural and Religious Studies. City University of Hong Kong [Hybrid]
March 12-16, 2026 Association for Asian Studies, Vancouver, Canada [Book Party]