Roundtable Presentation @ American Sociological Association in San Francisco, CA (August 2009). In recent years large wildfires have plagued Southern California’s landscape. The most notable set of fires was in October of 2003, in which multiple fires scorched an area the size of small eastern states. In San Diego County alone, over 280,000 acres were burned before  [ Read More ]

Presentation for Crossing the Boundaries XIV @ SUNY Binghamton (April 22, 2006) My paper specifically focuses on the relationship between literature, film, and architecture since the 1970s as being constitutive of the experience of Southern California. Specifically, it is about the ways in which visual representation and the built environment have been centered around the  [ Read More ]

Presentation for the Graduate Student Conference in Historical Social Science at SUNY Binghamton (April 29, 2005) In 2003, the FOX network began airing a television program called The O.C., and it became a cultural phenomenon. Now in its second season and averaging more than 8 million viewers a week, it has become a powerful marketing tool  [ Read More ]

Presentation for the New York Conference on Asian Studies at Bard College (October 30, 2004) This paper will focus on the historical ephemerality of boundaries in regards to Hong Kong’s cinema in order to understand the multi-leveled negotiations that make up its cinematic vernacular. The role of place and location is both integral to the  [ Read More ]