CONFERENCES & INVITED TALKS
2019
“Let heart do the work”: attentive labour, active support, and frontline service workers for people with intellectual disability (with Yueh-Ching Chou). Transforming Care Conference, Copenhagen, Demark, June 24-26.
2017
“Touching intimacy: Bodywork, affect and the caring ethic in erotic gay massage.” Invited Talk. Gender Studies Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, February 16.
2016
“Touching intimacy: Bodywork, affect and the caring ethic in erotic gay massage.” Society for Social Problem Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, August 19-21.
2015
“Talk to the hands that listen and care: The bodywork of gay masseurs in Taiwan. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, August 21-25.
2014
“Touching intimacy: Exploring Taiwanese gay masseurs' bodywork in intimate high-touch services.” International Sociological Association Annual Conference, Yokohama, Japan, July 13-19.
2012
The classing gaze and its gendering effects: The counseling experiences of domestically violent Taiwanese men. Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Taichung, November 24-25.
2011
“Tactical resistances in daily politics: How battered Vietnamese wives negotiate family and state tightropes in Taiwan?” SOAS Conference on Migration to and from Taiwan, London, June 29-30.