Academic conferences where I have served as panelist, chair, or organiser

2025

Panelist, “Ghosts in the Archival Grain: Entangled Epistemic Processes in Malayan Fisheries”, roundtable on Reckoning With Scientific and Intergenerational Knowledge, International Congress for the History of Science and Technology, 29 June 2025. 

Panelist, “Of Ikan & Ichthyology: Local & Imperial Knowledge Production in Malayan Fisheries, 1921-1942”, Rising Voices in Southeast Asian Studies: Southeast Asians in the Anthropocene, 15 March 2025, Association of Asian Studies Conference 2025, 15 March 2025.

Organizer and Chair, “Empires and Environments: Tropical Landscapes, Colonial Science, and Knowledge Production in 20th-Century Southeast Asia”, Association of Asian Studies Conference 2025, 13 March 2025.

Panelist, “Chilling Fish: Technology, Local Agency, and Knowledge Production in Fisheries of British Malaya”, Hawai’i Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, 8 March 2025

2024

Panelist, “The Trials of the Tongkol: Knowledge Production and the Struggles of Steam Trawling in British Malaya, 1919-1928″. Imperial Failures – Environment and Nature Deconstructed. Singapore Management University, Singapore, 22-23 August 2024.

Panelist, “The Trials of the Tongkol: Imperial Ichthyology & the Struggles of Steam Trawling in British Malaya, 1919-1928″. WISLI Student Conference 2024. Madison, Wisconsin, 29 June 2024.

Panelist, “Deeper Fish: Steam Trawling & Knowledge Production in British Malaya”. Movers & Shapers: Animal History Group Summer Conference. Online conference, 27 June 2024.

Panelist, “Cooling Fish: Marine Environments and Knowledge Production in British Malaya, 1923-1943”. “Living Asia”: 35th School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii,  4 April 24.

2023

Moderator, “Doing Environmental History in Southeast Asia: Robert Cribb & David Biggs”. Zoom discussion panel. Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, University of Hawaii at Manoa. November 2023. 

Panelist, “Nature Condensed: The Historical Origins of the Singapore Zoological Gardens”. Doing Animal History in Southeast Asia. Zoom lecture series organised by Development Study Club, Indonesia, 15 November 2023.

Guest speaker, “Animals in the Study of Southeast Asian History”. Zoom lecture organised by Development Study Club, Indonesia, 26 September 2023.

2022

Panelist, “Pigs & Fishes in the Archives: Observations & Opportunities from Researching Singapore’s Agricultural Past”. Southeast Asia Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives, International Symposium 2022. Singapore, 17 November 2022.

2021

Panelist, “Exotic Water: The Fishes of Empire in British Malaya, 1923-1942”. Asia’s Wet Natures: Past, Present, and Future, Yale-NUS College, Singapore, 28-29 October 2021.

2020

“Three Alien Fish: Freshwater Aquaculture in Colonial Malaya, 1921-1942”, When Species Travel on the Rise and Consequence of Invasive Ecologies in Asia and the West Pacific, Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 17-18 February 2020.

2019

“The Making of Colonial Fish: Empire, Experiments, and the Fisheries Department of British Malaya, 1923-1942”. 14^th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, Asia Research Institute, Singapore, 22-26 July 2019.

“Making Fish: Experiments, Empire, and the Fisheries Department of British Malaya 1923-1942”. 5^th Global Histories Student Conference, Free University of Berlin, Germany, 31 May- 2 June 2019.