In addition to my research, I consider conferences and presentations essential for developing my ideas, exchanging perspectives, and connecting my work with broader academic communities. Presenting in Canada, China, the United States, and Peru has enabled me to discuss my projects on migration, labour, political education, and public memory with students, faculty, and scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. These experiences have sharpened my arguments, prompted new questions, and deepened my understanding of how research adapts to different audiences. I also value conferences as opportunities to form intellectual connections and to learn how similar questions are addressed across various institutions, regions, and disciplines.
XXXVI Coloquio Internacional de Estudiantes de Historia,
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Selected presentation: From Textbooks to Red Tourism: Investigating CCP’s Educational Strategies for Ideological Governance
He recopilado documentos oficiales de políticas y analizado los datos cualitativos con el fin de identificar temas recurrentes en la manera en que se presentan los mensajes ideológicos y en cómo los estudiantes responden a ellos. Este proyecto plantea cómo los jóvenes chinos comprenden los mensajes políticos del CCP, qué significados culturales atribuyen a las prácticas patrióticas y cómo los textos ideológicos —desde el libro de texto obligatorio Introducción al pensamiento de Mao Zedong hasta el omnipresente Pensamiento de Xi Jinping sobre el socialismo con características chinas— son presentados como deberes morales, cívicos o nacionales. Al considerar los espacios educativos como herramientas ideológicas, el proyecto muestra que la educación ideológica proporciona una orientación emocional y simbólica que conduce gradualmente a los estudiantes a aceptar la autoridad del CCP como legítima y digna de confianza.
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Conversations on Indenture,
Coolietude/Qoolietude and Curriculum
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Selected presentation: After the Coolie Trade: Chinese Migrants and the Reshaping of Legal and Social Life in Peru, 1872–1900
This colloquium brings together students, researchers, artists, and community members interested in the histories and afterlives of indentureship and their pedagogical implications. This is an exploratory and collaborative space for conversation across disciplines, experiences and methods. The format will be a moderated discussion among three to four invite participants whose work engages with indenture, migration, diaspora, memory, art, education or decolonial pedagogy in different ways.
We are especially interested in questions of how might histories of indentureship be taught, remembered or mobilized within educational spaces? What possibilities do they offer?
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Summer Abroad Program Shanghai, Fudan University
Selected presentation: Survival Infrastructure: How Couriers in Shanghai Build Stability from Precarity
My research experience in Shanghai transformed classroom knowledge into immediate, lived understanding. As an East Asian Studies student, I had examined China’s history and urban transformation, but fieldwork allowed me to see how these broader forces shape everyday life. Through our study of food-delivery couriers, I gained a deeper understanding of platform labour by engaging directly with workers’ experiences of migration and everyday dignity. Presenting our findings to University of Toronto Summer Abroad students at Fudan University was particularly meaningful, as their questions showed me how student-led research can generate new perspectives on familiar issues. The project also taught me that fieldwork goes beyond data collection: it requires careful listening and a willingness to adapt. Working with a collaborative team, together with Professor Victor Falkenheim’s guidance, strengthened my confidence in navigating the uncertainty of field research.
International Undergraduate History Conference
Selected presentation: From Silence to Peace: Sharing Children’s WWII Stories Through Digital Education
Presenting at the 2026 UMGC International Undergraduate History Conference provided an invaluable opportunity to share my research within a truly international community of undergraduate historians. I was particularly drawn to the conference because of its openness to both traditional research and innovative forms of historical communication. Presenting From Silence to Peace prompted me to reflect more deeply on how to convey challenging histories to diverse audiences, especially when engaging with children’s testimony, wartime trauma, and digital public history. Presenting research like this involves not only articulating an argument but also actively listening to others’ perspectives, addressing new questions, and reconsidering the decisions we make as historians. For me, this conference became a space where research, education, and public storytelling intersected.
Presenting From Textbooks to Red Tourism at the 2026 ASSU Undergraduate Research Conference allowed me to revisit a long-term project and articulate its development. The oral format enabled me to expand on the written argument and highlight the significance of specific field sites, student responses, and educational practices. It also increased my awareness of how to communicate complex political issues while preserving the human experiences central to my research.
Presenting the same project as a poster at the University of Toronto’s Tri-Campus Undergraduate Research Conference provided a distinctly different experience. Here, I engaged in direct, one-on-one discussions with attendees as they examined the poster. The process of designing the poster required me to distill a comprehensive project into a concise visual argument, prioritizing the most significant field observations, student responses, and findings. I particularly appreciated the immediacy of this format, as questions arose rapidly and each interaction prompted me to articulate the project from a new perspective.
Selected presentation: From Textbooks to Red Tourism: Investigating CCP’s Educational Strategies for Ideological Governance