2024Advancing Public Diplomacy evaluations: AI and predictive analytics to leverage the global power of Hallyu, The Korean Wave. Presented online at the Data For Policy Conference. "Decoding the Future: Trustworthy Governance with AI?".
2024From Innovative Methodologies to Creative Mythologies: Understanding digital soft power of heritage media through creative practice. Presented online at the MeCCSA Practice Network Symposium: Creative Practice Research and "Intelligent" Technologies: On the Future of Creativity, Ravensbourne University.
2024Decolonizing Cultural Diplomacy as an Academic Discipline. Presented online at the 17th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management, University Institute of Lisbon.
2024Building Research Culture in Arts Management Higher Education: Celebrating Students Research. Presented online at the Annual Conference of Association of Arts Administration Educators. Universidad Del Sagrado Corazón.
2024Demystifying Hallyu’s Global Reach and Appeal: Experimenting with Big Data. Presented at the International Conference "Mapping and Theorizing Hallyu", Seoul National University.
2024Alternative Diplomacies: K11 International Artists Residencies as Temporal Meta-Spaces of Democracy in China. Presented at the International Studies Association Conference.
2024Web 3.0 Heritage Diplomacy Towards Deinstitutionalization. Presented online at the International Heritage Symposium. "Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage through Past, Present and Future". University of Bologna.
2023Could Hallyu soft power be quantified and mapped? Presented online at the 2023 International Conference for Public Diplomacy.
2023Research Advances in the Post-Pandemic Arts Management Education. Presented at the Conference Cultural Management in the Post-Pandemic World. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
2023Community of Critical Digital Practice: Mapping GLAM Soft Power. Presented online at the Panel “International Cultural relations and communities of practice” at the 2023 ENCATC Congress on Cultural Management and Policy.
2023Advances in Data Storytelling: Telling Interactive Data Stories with Open Ending. Presented online at the Digital Storytelling Virtual Conference. StoryCenter.
2023Expanding International Ecosystem of Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy: Creating a New Summer School. Presented at the 2023 AAAE Conference: The Creative Ecosystem: People, Process, Power.
2023Presenting the New Summer School in International Arts Entrepreneurship. Presented remotely at the 2023 Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education International Online Conference.
2023Translating Data to Power: Computation Tools to Assess ‘Soft Power’. Presented online at The Oxford Internet Policy & Politics Conference. University of Oxford.
2023Digital Contact Zones of Museum Diplomacy. Presented at the 28th International Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies themed ‘Synergies in Intercultural Communication: Languages, Professions and Heritages’. City University of Macau.
2023Designing Art Metaverse Portal: Converging, creating, experimenting with, and minting crypto arts. Presented online at the 2023 Conference: The Art Museum in the Digital Age. The Belvedere Research Center.
2023Smart Heritage, Smart Cities and Big Data: How to Transform Data Excess into Data Intelligence? Presented online at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium. The Michigan State University.
2022From creative to smart cities: Arts data for smart governance. Presented at the 2022 Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference.
2022Data intense research and computation tools for cultural diplomacy. Presented online at the Data for Policy Conference.
2022Alternative Diplomacies: International Artists Residencies as Creative Practices of Democracy in China. Presented online at the 2022 International Conference for Public Diplomacy.
2022Datafied urban communities: City museums as sites of data practice in smart cities. Presented online at the 2022 International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference.
2022Beyond the scorecard diplomacy: From soft power rankings to critical inductive geography. Presented online at the Data Power Conference.
2022Dancing in the Metaverse: Designing an interdisciplinary flagship Arts Projects module. Presented online at the AAAE Conference Series: New Directions in Arts Administration.
2021New Turn in Heritage Diplomacy: ‘Intimate’ and ‘Mobile’ Diplomacies. Presented online at the Living Digital Heritage 2021 Conference. Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage & Environment, Macquarie University.
2021From institutions to spaces: the future of museums in the post-pandemic world. Presented online at the 2021 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Virtual Conference, National University of Singapore.
2021Reviving cultural relations in the post-pandemic world: Employing geo-visualization and AI to leverage and augment the cultural appeal of museums. Presented online at the 2021 Global Humanities Symposium: Observing Cultural Diplomacy. Meridian International Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
2021Digital Museum Diplomacy: Presentation of the Monograph. Presented online at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.
2021Connected Intelligence: Reimagining museums through research, teaching and industry connections. Presented online at the AAAE Conference Series: Reimagine/Reconnect/Renew.
2021Long-term research endeavor: Developing trajectories for critical Cultural Analytics and Digital Humanities. Presented online at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium. Meridian.
2021Digital museum diplomacy in the midst of (post) pandemic crisis: Inspiring, educating, contributing to global peace and well-being. Presented online at the Museums and the Web 2021 Conference.
2020Livestreaming Culture: Playing with Europeana. Presented online at the Europeana 2020 Conference: Crisis, Change and Culture.
2020Digital Tourism? Digital Soft Power of Museum in the (Post)Pandemic World. Presented online at the Conference ‘Living with Tourism: Paradoxes, Empowerment and Future Directions’.
2020Industry placements for hands-on learning experiences: Exploring collaborations with creative industries in Melbourne. Presented online at the AAAE Conference Series: 2020 Vision for Student Success.
2020Critical Archiving and Datafication: Overcoming Colonial Legacies. Presented online at the 18th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work.
2020Smart Museums: Where does Museum Data Fit in a Smart City Data Ecology? Presented online at Museums and the Web 2020 Conference.
2020Forecasting Museum Soft Power: Predicting Attraction Power of Traveling Exhibitions. Museums and the Web 2020 Online Conference.
2019Re-inventing the Past through Singapore Memory Project: Socio-political Complexities of Digital Crowd-sourcing Techniques. Presented remotely at the Digital Humanities Conference ‘Complexities’.
2019Museums in Smart Cities: Urban Soft Power. Presented remotely at the International Communication Association Conference.
2019Beyond ‘State vs Non-state’ Dichotomy: The State Hermitage Museum as a Russian Diplomacy ‘Hybrid.’ Presented remotely at the International Studies Association Conference.
2019The Australian Center for the Moving Image on the Global Map: Geo-visualisation of Soft Power. Presented at the International Digital Curation Conference.
2018X Design: From Local Connections to Global Impacts. Presented at the MuseumNext Conference.
2018A collaboration between museums, academics, and graduate students: Innovations in Digital Humanities. Presented at the Annual Digital Humanities Australasia Conference ‘Making Connections’.
2018Measuring ‘Attraction Power’: Australia goes to Asia through Museum Blockbuster. Presented at the ARC International Symposium ‘Rethinking Trans-Asia Media Flows from Australia’.
2018New Directions in Diplomacy: Geo-visualisation of Soft Power. Presented at the 25th World Congress of Political Science.
2018Developing Digital Methods to map Museum Soft Power. Presented remotely at the Conference of Digital Humanities Orgnisations: ‘Bridges/Puentes’.
2018Economic capital of museum ‘soft power’: Measuring museum impacts through economic activity. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics.
2018Geography of Museum Influence: Mapping Colonial Legacy. Presented at the International Symposium ‘Geographies of Disruption’.
2018The GuggenTube Phenomenon: Online Power of Global Brands. Presented at the International Conference on Media and Communication.
2017Mapping Museum Social ‘Ecosystems.’ Presented at the Conference ‘Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: The cultural value of collections and the creative economy’.
2017MCN Scholar Presentation: Mapping Museum ‘Soft Power.’ Presented at the International Museum Computer Network Conference.
2017Digital Doorway to Asia: Singapore and its Digital Diplomacy. Presented at the International Conference ‘Other Asians, Asia’s Othering: Inclusionary Utopias, Exclusionary Politics’.
2017‘Soft Power’ of Museum Blockbusters: Measuring Impacts beyond Economics. Presented at the International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management.
2017More than a Library: Cultural Diplomacy of Europeana. Presented at the Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Conference.
2017Crossing Borders: Global PR of the Hermitage Museum. Presented at the Association of Arts Administration Educators Annual Conference.
2017Friends of the Hermitage: Non-state Diplomacy of State Actors. Presented at the International Communication Association Conference.
2016Post-national cultural diplomacy: A Case study of the global Guggenheim. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention.
2015BRICS Summit diplomacy: Global identities of Russia and China through national media coverage. Presented at the European Consortium for Political Research General Conference.
2015Resisting Western Hegemony: Russian Strategic Communication through the BRICS Diplomacy. Presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference.
201545 min workshop ‘Digital Diplomacy: Dialogue or Propaganda?’ Presented at the 13th International Conference ‘From Digital Humanities to a Humanities of a Digital’.
2015‘Let’s start a YouTube revolution’: Fighting against YouTube on YouTube. Presented at the Symposium ‘What's New about New Media? The Technology of Protest Past and Present’.
2014Democracy for Export. Presented at the ‘Museums and Politics’ UNESCO Conference.
2014Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Development. Presented at the 18th International Conference on Cultural Economics.
2014The Virtual Museum of the Pacific - Epistemological Clashes in Cultural Preservation. Presented at the 12th International Conference ‘New Directions in the Humanities’.
2013Cultural Diplomacy beyond Governmental Control: A Museum Voice in seeding ‘Imperial’ Cosmopolitanism. Presented at the Conference ‘Challenges, Disconnects, and Clashes in Political Studies’.
2013A Failure of Digital Diplomacy: Social, Cultural, and Information Boundaries in Online Cross-cultural Communication. Presented at the Social Informatics Research Symposium: The Social Informatics of Information Boundaries.
2013Cultural Heritage Online on the Service of Digital Diplomacy. Presented at the World Social Science Forum.
2013Bridging Cultures in the Information Age: Dialogical Approaches in Theorizing Digital Diplomacy. Presented at the Digital Transformers Symposium.
2012Cultural Diversity Online: Digital Diplomacy Negotiations. Presented at the 38th Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference.
2012Online Museum as a ‘Civic Laboratory.’ Presented at the 4th ICTs and Society-Conference: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media.
2012Epistemologies of Doing: Researching Online Museum Community. Presented at the Graduate Conference on Embodied Knowledge in Art and Visual Culture.
2012Cultural Interactivity or Interpassivity: Managing Citizen Participation Online. Presented at the 14e Colloque pour étudiants et jeunes diplômés.
2011Digital Diplomacy: New Strategy for Open Access to the Culture of Europe. Presented at the Culture Forecast Conference.
2011Cultural Diplomacy 2.0 through Online Museums Platforms. Presented at the 6th International Conference on the Arts in Society.
2011Measuring Audience Engagement in Online Museum Communities. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society.
