Teaching
Talks and Conference Papers
2025 March 14
Les origines transpacifiques de la Chine moderne : une histoire sociale des Chinois éduqués aux Etats-Unis (1850-1950)
Institute of East Asian Studies Seminar
Lyon, France
2025 February 4
La publicité en Chine. Cycle-débat du CECMC
Cycle-débat du Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (CECMC)
Campus Condorcet, Paris, France
2024 December 2
From Tools to Insight: New Computational Approaches for Chinese Historical Texts in the Age of AI
with Baptiste Blouin and Christian Henriot
Campus Condorcet, Paris, France
2024 November 8
Madmen in Shanghai
Chinese Business History Webinar Series
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
2024 September 7
La publicité en Chine : espaces et pouvoirs
Book Talk
Le Phénix Bookstore, Paris, France.
2024 July 9
Leveraging Large-Scale Historical Databases with HistText
with Christian Henriot
Charting the European D-SEA (Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies), Berlin, Germany
2024 June 11
A comparative analysis of Japanese- and American-returned students in Dongfang zazhi 東方雜誌 (1904-1948)
International Conference Rethinking Modern Chinese Elites: From Print to Computational Methods
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2024 May 15
Rethinking Biography in Modern China: A Data-driven Approach
Research in Cultural History in Early 20th century China, Trajectories and Life Stories, Seminar coordinated by Anne Kerlan
Campus Condorcet, Paris, France
2024 January 12
Corpus écrits, oraux et artistiques : les humanités numériques... et après ?
Journée des jeunes chercheur.e.s en études aréales organisée par l’unité CNRS « Études aréales » (UAR 2999) pour les GIS Asie, Études africaines en France, Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, et le consortium de l’IR* Huma-Num DISTAM
Campus Condorcet, Paris, France
2023 October 12
Reshaping the Chinese Ladder of Success: A Study Based on the Who’s Who of American Returned Students (1917)
Internation Workshop Rethinking the study abroad movement and its impact on modern China (1850-1950s)
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2023 October 6
Paris in the Orient: A spatial micro-history of the French in Shanghai (1942)
From Port Opening to Openness: 180 Years of Urbanization in Shanghai. International Symposium. 从开埠到开放 – 上海都市化180年. 国际学术研讨会 国际学术研讨会
Shanghai, China (Online)
2023 September 4
Beyond Digital Humanities: Thinking Computationally. A Position Paper
Beyond Digital Humanities: How computational methods are reshaping scholarly research (with Christian Henriot)
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2023 June 7
Filling the Data Gap: The cases of the Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD) and the Liumei Biographical Database (LMBD)
China Institute of the University of Trier (CIUT) Webinar Series #1 (with Nora Van Den Bosch)
Trier, Germany (Online)
2023 April 15
The Rise of Global Elites in China: A data-driven study of American University Men in Shanghai
14th European Social Social History Conference (ESSHC)
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2023 March 16
Introduction to HistText – an integrated framework for the datafication of massive, multilingual digital corpora for the study of modern China
Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference (with Baptiste Blouin and Christian Henriot)
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
2023 March 16
Introducing the Modern China Biographical Database (MCBD)
Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A.
2023 January 9
Reshaping the ladder of success in the era of globalization: A network approach to family strategies among American-educated elites in China around 1917
Elites and Social Networks in China and Taiwan
Institute of Modern History, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 June 25
Local elites with global outreach: A bilingual topic modeling of the Shanghai press (1919-1949)
New Foundations in Chinese Digital History Conference
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2022 June 20
Alice in Dataland: Stepping through the Digital Mirror
European Summer School in Chinese Digital Humanities
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2022 June 4
Introduction to HistText – an Integrated Framework for the Datafication of Massive, Multilingual Digital Corpora. Fifth Annual GHI Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History
Datafication in the Historical Humanities: Reconsidering Traditional Understandings of Sources and Data (with Jeremy Auguste and Christian Henriot)
German Historical Institute (GHI), Washington, D.C.
2022 March 2
“Light, Heat, Power !” La publicité lumineuse et l’invention du paysage nocturne à Shanghai dans la première moitié du XXe siècle
Séminaire EHESS Histoire de la culture visuelle en Asie orientale
Campus Condorcet, Paris, France
2021 November 18
The Chinese Presscape: Mapping the periodical press in 1930s China
ENP-China Webinar (with Nora van den Bosch)
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2021 January 25
Harnessing Historical Newspapers in the Digital Age
Research Institute of Asian Studies (Irasia)
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2020 November 17
Circulez, y’a rien à voir” : publicité et mobilité à Shanghai dans la première moitié du XXe siècle
Séminaire EHESS "La Chine républicaine (1912-1949) : nouvelles approches historiques" (co-organized by Xavier Paulès, Victor Louzon, and Delphine Spicq)
Campus Condorcet, Paris, France (online)
2020 November 3
Équiper sans encombrer : le mobilier publicitaire à Shanghai dans la première moitié du XXe siècle
Séminaire "Habiller la ville", organized by Stéphanie Le Gallic
Bordeaux-Montaigne University (online)
2020 October 22
The Rotary Club and the Politics of Language
ENP-China Webinar
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2020 April 10
Naissance de la profession publicitaire en Chine
Research Institute of Asian Studies (Irasia)
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2020 February 11
Americanizing Chinese Elites in Republican Shanghai
Networks in East Asia: Methods and Case Studies. Hong Kong History Project Workshop
University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K.
2019 October 18
Les Rotariens dans les réseaux transcoloniaux à Shanghai dans la première moitié du XXe siècle
La personne en question dans les réseaux. 5e rencontre du groupe « Réseaux et histoire » (Res-Hist)
Rennes, France
2019 October 7
Transnational Elite Sociability in Republican China: A Case Study of Meeting Attendance the Rotary Club of Shanghai (1919-49)
International Workshop Elites, Knowledge, and Power in Modern China
Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France
2019 May 14
Histoire de la Publicité (Table-ronde)
Séminaire "L’enseigne, nouvel objet pour les études visuelles"
Institut National d’histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris
2018 October 13
Puissances de la publicité : des images et des données (table-ronde)
Les Rendez-vous de l’Histoire
Blois, France
2018 June 25
Toward a spatial history of advertising in modern Shanghai (1905-1943)
Mapping as a historical bridge Panel. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, Bridges/Puentes
Mexico City, Mexico
2018 May 5
Madmen in Shanghai: The China Commercial Advertising Agency
Li Ka Shing Foundation Workshop on Modern Chinese History
University of California, Berkeley, Cal.
2018 April 27
MADSpace: Towards a digital history of advertising in modern China
DHAsia Final Conference Harnessing Digital Technologies to Advance the Study of Asia and the Non-Western World
Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, Cal.
2017 June 23
Revealing/reviving ghost advertisements: Using street photographs to visualize outdoor advertising in modern Shanghai
Wiles Colloquium “New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography"
Queen’s University, Belfast
2014 November 13
The Grapes of Happiness: Selling Sun-Maid Raisins to the Chinese (1920s-1930s)
Advertising and Marketing in China: Chinese-Western Cultural Encounters (19th c.-Present)
USF Center for Asia Pacific Studies, University of San Francisco, California
2014 June 25
Advertising Childhood in Shanghai (1850-1949): The making of a transcultural realm through commercial images/experiences of children
International Workshop “Visual Transculturalities: Depictions of Power and Constructions of (the) Gaze"
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
2013 October 29
The patrimonialization process of advertising: From scorn and mistrust to a digital archive
Digital Heritage Congress
MUCEM, Marseille, France
2013 October 29
IAO Scholar: A global platform for the digital history of modern China
Digital Heritage Congress
MUCEM, Marseille, France
2013 September 20
La publicité délivrée : en finir avec le mythe d'une publicité hors du livre et des humanités
Les Humanités délivrées
Université de Lausanne & Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2009 December 10
A journey in Pere Jo's camera obscura. The photographic manufacturing of China
International workshop Common People and the Artists in the 1930s: An Essay in the Cultural and Social Metahistory of China through Visual Sources
Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany