Presentations

Conference & Workshop Papers

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Original Research

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• “The Japanese Governance of Asia: AI-Assisted Approaches to Mining, Cleaning, and Structuring Historical Prosopographical Data.” New Horizons for AI Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities, UChicago HK Campus, 2026.

• “Imperial Governance in the Taishū jinji-roku: Data Mining the National Diet’s Next Digital Library,” HKADH, Hong Kong, 2026.

• “Digital China: AI and the Humanities?”, China Lunch, TU Berlin [via Zoom], 2025.

• “Chinaforschung in Norddeutschland: Eine quantitative Analyse [China Research in Northern Germany: A Quantitative Analysis],” DVCS, Hamburg [prerecorded], 2025.

• “Launch of the Atlas of East Asia-Related Research in Northern Germany,” Kiel [via Zoom], 2025.

• “Die Modernisierung der Wasser-Infrastruktur in Nordwest-China: Ökonomie und Ökologie im Zeichen des Zweiten Weltkriegs [The Modernization of Water Infrastructure in Northwest China: Economics and Ecology in the Context of World War II],” DOT, Erlangen, 2025.

• “From Archives to Algorithms: Digital History of Global China through the Lens of AI,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 2024.

• “Lanzhou im Krieg: Urbanisierung eines infrastrukturellen Knotenpunkts [Lanzhou during Wartime: Urbanisation of an Infrastructural Hub],“ DVCS, Münster, 2024.

• “Engineers in Taiwan, 1945–1974: Migration & Taiwanisation,” TAP, Bochum, 2024.

• “The Transformation of Lanzhou through Wartime Infrastructural Planning,” Transitions and Transformations of Urban Mobility Infrastructures and Practices in 20th Century East Asia, 22th Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility (T2M), Leipzig, 2024.

• “Identifying Critical Infrastructures and Transport Hubs through Digital Simulations based on Archival Maps,” MPIWG Berlin, 2024.

• “Simulating Historical Transport Networks through Archival Maps Geographic Mobility in Late Republican China,” Aix-Marseille, 2024.

• “Chinese Engineers Relational Database (CERD)—Retrospective and Outlook,” Aix-Marseille, 2024.

• “Chinese Engineers Relational Database,” Digital Humanities Day, Leipzig, 2023.

• Chair, Papers on Republican China, DVCS Annual Conference, Erlangen, 2023.

• “Pragmatist Influence on Engineering Courses in Republican China,” EdUHK, Hong Kong, 2023.

• “Bridging the Gap: Anglophone ‘Young China’ and the British Boxer Indemnity Fund, 1925–1950,” Revisiting the Study Abroad Movement in Modern China, Aix-Marseille, 2023.

• “The Chinese West during Wartime—Spatial Imaginations from Japan,” Center for Contemporary Chinese Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, 2023.

• “Lustration and Transitional Justice—Useful Categories for Pre-1949 China?,” Seventh European Congress on World and Global History (ENIUGH), The Hague, 2023.

• “Chinese Engineers Relational Database,” Tools of the Trade, Harvard University, 2023.

• “Technocracy and Technostructure in Nationalist China. Expert Rule or Rule over Experts?” Elites in China and Taiwan, ENP-China, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 2023.

• “Engineering Associations in Republican China. Professional Resilience during Dispersed Political Control,” World Economic History Congress, Paris, 2022.

• “The Role of Engineers within the Guomindang Technostructure. A Database-Driven Assessment,” Elites in China, ENP-China, Aix-Marseille, 2022.

• “Reflecting Boundaries: A Discussion of Frontiers, Borders, and Processes of Spatialization,” Processes of Spatialization, Leipzig, 2021.

• “Dynamics of the 1920s Sino-American Network of Hydraulic Engineers,” EACS Biennial Conference. Leipzig, 2021.

• “The Civil Engineer Ling Hongxun (1894–1981) as an Educator.” International Committee for the History of Technology, Prague [hybrid], 2021.

• “Nationalising Colonial Space through Infrastructure. The Luo Expedition to Xinjiang in 1943,” Radical Nationalism and Fascism in East Asia. New Approaches in Research. Masaryk University, Brno, accepted 2020, conference cancelled (Covid-19).

• “Social Cohesion and Radical Infrastructures in Nationalist China,” Social Cohesion in a Transregional and Global Perspective. Leipzig, 2020.

• “US-Educated Engineers in Beiyang China. Wang Jingchun (1882–1956) and the Politics of Transportation,” AAS in Asia, Kobe [hybrid], 2020.

• “Three Ludic Commentaries on Tian’anmen,” 1989—A Caesura in Global History and its Consequences. Leipzig, 2019.

• “Der frühe Technokrat Wang Jingchun (1882–1956) und sein Lobbyismus für die Yue–Han-Eisenbahn [The Early Technocrat Wang Jingchun (1882–1956) and His Lobbyism for the Yue–Han-Railway],” DVCS, Berlin, 2018.

• “The School of Natural Justice. Chinese Anarchists in Tokyo,” Initiative Japanforschung, Leuven, 2017.

• “The Transculture of China’s Engineers,” SFB Colloquium*.* Leipzig, 2017.

• “Historising Power Architectures. Revisiting Japanese nanshoku in the 20th Century,” The Third What is & How to Do LGBT History Conference. Manchester, 2016.

• “A Pride for Shanghai. Strategies of Adaption and Contextualization,” Queer East Asia Conference, Vienna, 2015.

Academic System Commentary

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• “Policy Shifts in China: Implications for Germany’s Research Sector,” Secure Data Exchange Forum, GEOMAR, Kiel, 2025.

• “Strategien und Ziele der Volksrepublik China und Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Forschung in Deutschland [PRC Strategies and Goals, and Implications for Science and Research in Germany],” Rostock University, 2025.

• Discussant, “Forschungskompetenz, Innovationsfähigkeit, Tenure-Track-Programm, #IchbinHanna Research Expertise, Innovation Skills, Tenure Track Programme, #IchbinHanna” ReCentGlobe Annual Conference, Leipzig, 2022.

• Discussant, “Wissen entgrenzen [Dissolving Knowledge],” Max Weber Foundation, Leipzig, 2021.

• “Einflussnahmen, Abhängigkeiten und Selbstzensur: Gefahren des akademischen Engagements mit der VR China [Interferences, Dependencies, and Self-Censorship: Risks of Academic Engagement with the PR China],” TiCK. Paderborn, 2020.

General Audience Talks

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• “Chinaforschung in Norddeutschland [China Research in Northern Germany],” ChiKoN Forum, Kiel [prerecorded], 2026.

• “Where Do We Stand With AI in Humanities and Social Science?,” Centre d’études français sur la Chine Contemporaine, 2026.

• “China: Bunter als ein Panda [China: More Diverse than a Panda],” Frankfurt Book Fair, 2022.

• Chair, “Heiter scheitern [To Fail Cheerfully],” Leipzig, 2022.

• Discussant, film talk “Papa Rainbow, dir. Fan Popo,” wide queer world. Leipzig, 2019.

• Chair, film talk “Hong Kong 2019 ELAB protests/Boundaries (Gaaihaan/Naambak), dir. Lee Chun Fung,” Das Japanische Haus. Leipzig, 2019.

• Discussant, “Chungkuk LGBT hwaltongŭi kwakŏwa, hyŏnchae, chŏnmang [Past, Present, and Prospects of China’s LGBT Project],” 2015 Asia Conference on LGBT. Seoul, 2015.

Invited Classroom Lectures

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• “Utilising Prosopographic Databases for Network and Spatial Analysis,” MPIWG Berlin, 2024.

• The Use of Databases in Digital Humanities, EdUHK, Hong Kong, 2023.

• “Engineering Trouble—Book Talk,” PhD workshop, Keio University, 2023.

• “Engineers in Early Republican China,” Economic History Seminar, Keio University, 2023.

• “Datenbankerstellung in den Humanities mit der Software Heurist [Database Creation in the Humanities Using Heurist],” Digital Lab, Leipzig University, 2022.

• “Chinesische Ingenieursstudenten in den USA. Hintergründe und Folgen, 1905–1937, [Chinese Engineering Students in the USA. Backgrounds and Consequences, 1905–1937],” Aktuelle Forschungen zur und Tendenzen der Technikgeschichte. PhD Colloquium, TU Dresden, 2019.