Co-organizer with Shimamura Teru and Linda Flores for a bilingual symposium at Oxford University: 2008 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium: Bodies, Regions and Industry from the Perspective of Takiji 「多喜二の視点から見た身体・地域・産業―― 2008 オックスフォード小林多喜二記念シンポジウム」, Oxford University, Keble College, September 16-18, 2008.

The proceedings was published in a bilingual edition by Kinokuniya Press. For summaries and snapshots, see: http://www.takiji-library.jp/announce/2008/20081009.html. Click on page 7 for my concluding comments (scroll down for English).

Organizer: Proletarian Literature in East Asia, a two-day international symposium at the University of Chicago, November 1-2, 2002. I guest-edited a volume for positions: east asia cultures critiques, based on the symposium.

Symposium on Japan and the Humanities Crisis. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Organized by Steve Ridgely. December 5, 2015.

University of Minnesota Brown Bag Lecture. October 10, 2013.

Lineages of the Literary Left: A Symposium in Honor of Alan M. Wald, University of Michigan, March 21-22, 2013.

２０１２小樽小林多喜二シンポジウム (2012 Kobayashi Takiji Symposium in Otaru), Otaru, Japan, February 21-23, 2012. (In Japanese)

“The Housekeeper ‘Problem.’” Symposium: Red Love and Proletarian Femme Fatales. The Australian National University, Canberra, November 24-25, 2011.

Invited participant in a blockbuster symposium organized by Azuma Hiroki, 「クール・ジャパノロジーの可能性」(The Futures of Cool Japanology), Tokyo, March 5-6, 2010. (In Japanese)

“The Improbable Revival of Proletarian Literature,” New York University, February 18, 2010.

Comparative Literature Brown Bag, University of Michigan, April 2009.

「多喜二シンポから学ぶ」(Learning from the Takiji Symposium), Address to the Kobayashi Takiji Memorial. Otaru, Japan. February 20, 2009. (In Japanese)

“Bodies in Pain: A History of Proletarian Literature through Pain” 2008 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium, Oxford University, September 2008. (Bilingual: in English and Japanese)

“Health is Our Capital.” Symposium on proletarian literature, Leiden University, The Netherlands. November 2006.

“The Japanese Empire, Internationalism, and Proletarian Arts.” Symposium on proletarian literature, University of California, Berkeley. April 2006.

「男同士：『工場細胞』における男たちの絆の親密性」(Between Men: the Intimacy of Male-Male Camaraderie in The Factory Cell), 2nd Annual Kobayashi Takiji International Symposium: The Writings of Kobayashi Takiji Across Generations and National Boundaries. Tokyo. August 28-29, 2004. (In Japanese)

Midwest Japan Seminar. University of Iowa, September 24, 2016.

Roundtable organizer for Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA. April 2016.

Panel organizer. “Women Writing Radical Love in the Throes of the Japanese Proletarian Literature Movement.” Association for Asian Studies. Philadelphia. March 27-30, 2014.

Panel organizer: “Sex, Texts, and Comrades across the Pacific: Japan and the USSR.” Modern Languages Association. Chicago. January 10, 2014.

Performance and Japanese Literature: Association for Japanese Literary Studies. University of Chicago. October 18, 2013.

“Beyond ‘Red Love’ in Japan.” Event organizer and speaker along with Ruth Barraclough and Paula Rabinowitz in a panel presentation: “Spectacles of Red Love across the Pacific.” Loyola University Chicago. October 24, 2012.

“Japanese Proletarian Literature and the Invention of the Modern Girl: Spectacles of Sex and Class.” Modernist Studies Association: “Modernism and Spectacle.” Las Vegas. October 18-21, 2012.

“Sunless Streets: The Geography of Labor (Activism) in the Proletarian Movement.” Association of Asian Studies. Philadelphia. March 25, 2010.

“Domesticity and the Proletarian Avant-garde.” Panel Organizer. Panel: “The Proletarian Vanguard and the Avant-garde.” Association of Asian Studies. Boston. March 2007.

“Nationalism and Internationalism in Japanese Proletarian Literature.” Art and Politics in East Asia Workshop presentation. University of Chicago. March 2004.

“Romancing Comrades,” Panel Organizer. Panel: “Labor and Desire in East Asia.” Association of Asian Studies. San Diego. April 2004.

“Popularization and the Masses.” Midwest Japan Seminar. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. September 2003.

“Sexing Class.” Proletarian Literature in East Asia Workshop presentation. University of Chicago. December 2002.

“‘We Cannot Take From Them What They Have Not Got:’ The Japanese Working Class and the Nation,” Symposium on “Proletarian Literature in East Asia.” University of Chicago. Symposium Organizer. November 1-2, 2002.

“‘Real Experience’ in Hayama Yoshiki’s Early Works.” Panel Organizer. Panel: “Working and Writing, Art and Autobiography: Rethinking Japanese Proletarian Literature.” Association of Asian Studies. Washington, D.C. April 2002.

“Theory and Practice in Miyamoto Yuriko.” Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women’s Texts. University of Alberta, Canada. August 2001.

“From Taishū (the Masses) to Proletariat: Tokunaga Sunao’s The Sunless Street (Taiyō no nai machi).” Panel Organizer. Panel: “Re-imagining the Taishū and Tokyo in 1920s Japan.” Association of Asian Studies. San Diego. March 2000.

“Proletarian Literary History Reconsidered.” Association of Japanese Literary Studies: Issues of Canonicity and Canon Formation in Japanese Literary Studies (formerly MAJLS). Boulder, Colorado. November 1999.

「葉山芳樹の初期作品における囚人のイメージ」(The Aura of the Prisoner in Hayama Yoshiki’s Early Works). Presentation at the Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Culture). Kyoto, Japan. July 1999. (In Japanese)

「アメリカの帝国意識」(Imperial Consciousness in the United States). Presentation at the Nichibunken. Kyoto, Japan. May 1999. (In Japanese)

“The Ideology of Exposure: I-Novels and Social Exposés.” Comparative Literature Intra-Student and Faculty Forum Conference. University of Michigan. March 1999.

“Miyamoto Yuriko Rewrites Her Wartime Texts.” Panel chair. Panel: “Wartime Texts/Postwar Contexts.” Association of Asian Studies. Boston. March 1999.

「『Das Kapital』と葉山芳樹の『海に生くる人々』」(Capital and Hayama Yoshiki’s Life on the Sea). Presentation at Osaka University, Kokubungaku (National Literature) seminar. January 1999. (In Japanese)

“Laborers of Love in Snow Country: The Fantasy of Capitalism” Panel Organizer. Panel: “Snow Country and Capitalism.” Midwest Association of Japanese Literary Studies. Love and Sexuality in Japanese Literature. Purdue University, Indiana. November 1998.

“The Problem of Popular Proletarian Literature.” Midwest Conference of Asian Affairs. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. September 1998.

“What Made Her Do It?: Kaneko Fumiko’s Memoir.” Panel Organizer. Panel: “Resisting Ideologies: Fascist, Popular and Proletarian Discourses in Prewar Japan.” Midwest Conference on Asian History and Culture, Graduate Student Conference. Selected by Program Committee as “Outstanding Panel Presentation.” Ohio State University. May 1998.

“The Textual Condition of Miyamoto Yuriko’s ‘The Family of Koiwai’.” Midwest Association of Japanese Literary Studies: The New Historicism and Japanese Literary Studies. University of Michigan. October 1997.

“A Reception History of Tamura Toshiko, a Twentieth Century Japanese Woman Writer.” “Genders/Bodies/Borders,” University of Michigan Graduate Student Conference. University of Michigan. October 1997.

“The Textual Condition of Miyamoto Yuriko’s ‘The Family of Koiwai’.” Comparative Literature Brown Bag (Lunchtime Lecture). University of Michigan. October 1997.

Invited Discussant for panel: “Voices from the Valley Floor, Voices from the Valley Rim: Political Implications of Literature Written Before, During and After Japan’s ‘Dark Valley Years,’” MCAA (Midwest Conference of Asian Affairs). Bloomington, Illinois. October 2003.

Invited Discussant for “The ‘Almost-Modern Girl’ in Chinese New Sensation Fiction,” Michael Ouyang, Stanford University, China’s Long Twentieth Century: Words, Images, Voices, Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium at the University of Chicago. April 2003.

Invited discussant for panel on popular literature, “A Literature for the Masses: History, Politics and Sexuality in Japan’s Popular Literature.” MCAA (Midwest Conference of Asian Affairs). University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. September 1998.