Selina Lai-Henderson

Selected Conference Presentations:

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• Co-Chair, “International Committee Luncheon.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, Canada. Nov 2023.

 

• "The Sounds of Shanghai: Langston Hughes and Jazz in Interwar China." Panel: Langston Hughes, Black Internationalist. MELUS 37th Annual Conference. Indianapolis, USA. April 2023.

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• Chair and Organizer, with Michio Arimitsu. “International Committee Talkshop. Worlding of Blackness: A Global Dialogue.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, USA, November 2022.

 

• Panel Organizer, “World Literature in China and China in World Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA, April 2021.

 

• “The Linghun of Black Folks: W.E.B. Du Bois, China, and Translation.” American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, USA, April 2021.

 

• “‘You Are No Darker Than I Am:’ W.E.B. Du Bois and Maoist China.” Humanities Research Center Annual Conference. Duke Kunshan University. September 2020.

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• Dialogue by invitation. International Committee Talkshop 3: "Decentering American Studies: Comparative Approaches to Understanding the US." American Studies Association. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, November 2019.

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• Paper, "'Riddle of the Universe:' Rethinking Race, Gender and Transnationalism Through W.E.B. Du Bois's Encounters in China." American Studies Association. Atlanta, GA, USA, November 2018.

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• Paper, "Langston Hughes, Paris, and Shanghai." MLA International Symposia, Düsseldorf. June 2016.

 

• Invited Presentation, “Mark Twain and the Chinese Connection.” Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University of Hong Kong. March 2015.

 

• Paper, “Mark Twain in China:  Race, Translation, and the Transnational Setting.” The Seventh International Conference on the State of Mark Twain Studies. Elmira, USA, August 2013.

 

• Paper, “Mark Twain in China: A Posthumous Adventure.” Association for Asian American Studies Conference. Seattle, USA, April 2013.

 

• Session Chair, “Transnational American Studies, Next Steps.” Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies. Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, June 2012.

 

• Paper, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in China.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2012.

 

• Paper, “Mark Twain’s Adventures in China.” C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, Apr 2012.

 

• Paper, “Lighting Out For the Chinese Territory: Mark Twain & ‘Sivilization’ in China.” A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1950. American Studies Program, The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, May 2011.

 

• Paper, “Was Twain White? Reading Race in the Man & His Works.” School of Modern Languages & Cultures (SMLC) Seminar Series. The University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, Jan 2011.

 

• Paper, “Singing the Hip-hop Politics: September 11 and Beyond in Nas's Rap Poetry.” The United States After September 11: Changes and Continuities. Beijing, PRC, Oct 2007.

 

• Paper, “Harlem Renaissance & ‘Ghetto Renaissance’: Race Relations in the United States through the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Nasir Jones”; Session Chair, “American Studies.” Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Honolulu, HI, USA, Jan 2006. 

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Invited Lectures

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Recent 

 

• “Recovering the Lost Art of Thinking in Education – How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education.” Princeton University Press. April, 2022.

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• “Young Researchers in Transnational American Studies.” Obama Institute, University of Mainz, Germany. December 2021.

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• “W.E.B Du Bois in China: Translation and Reception.”  Alliance of Asian Liberal Arts Universities (AALAU) Research Collaboration Workshop. Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China, July 2019.

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• “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Internationalism in Republican and Maoist China.” Chinese Culture and Translation Studies Support, Beijing Language and Culture University, China, March, 2019.

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• “‘Riddle of the Universe:’ Rethinking Race, Gender and Transnationalism through W.E.B. Du Bois’s Encounters in China.” Humanities Research Center Launch Featured Presentation. Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan China. September 2018.

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• "Langston Hughes in Shanghai." Forum on Migration, Barnard College / Columbia University, New York, May 2016.

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• "From Mark Twain to Langston Hughes in China." Transnational American Studies Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany, June 2016.

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Past 

• Book Talk, "Mark Twain in China." Mark Twain House and Museum, Hartford, CT, June 2015.

• “The Adventures of Mark Twain in China.” American Studies, Stanford University, October 2014.

• “Transnational American Studies.”  American Studies, HKU, Sep 2012

• “Mark Twain.”  English Department, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jun 2011

• “Translation.”  English Department, City University of Hong Kong, May 2011

• “African American Music: an Introduction.”  American Studies, HKU, Oct 2010

• “Jazz, Rap, and American Culture.”  American Studies, HKU, Oct 2010

• “Rap and Youth Cultures.”  American Studies, HKU, Jan 2008