Expertise

2023

Could Hallyu soft power be quantified and mapped? Presented online at the 2023 International Conference for Public Diplomacy. Seoul, South Korea.

2023

Research Advances in the Post-Pandemic Arts Management Education. Presented at the Conference Cultural Management in the Post-Pandemic World. Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hong Kong.

2023

Community 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. Helsinki, Finland.

2023

Advances in Data Storytelling: Telling Interactive Data Stories with Open Ending. Presented online at the Digital Storytelling Virtual Conference. StoryCenter. Berkeley, USA.

2023

Expanding International Ecosystem of Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy: Creating a New Summer School. Presented at the 2023 AAAE Conference: The Creative Ecosystem: People, Process, Power. New York, USA.

2023

Presenting the New Summer School in International Arts Entrepreneurship. Presented remotely at the 2023 Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education International Online Conference. USA

2023

Translating Data to Power: Computation Tools to Assess ‘Soft Power’. Presented online at The Oxford Internet Policy & Politics Conference. University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.

2023

Digital 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. Macau.

2023

Designing 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. Vienna, Austria.

2023

Smart 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. Michigan, USA.

2022

From creative to smart cities: Arts data for smart governance. Presented at the 2022 Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference. Seoul, South Korea

2022

Data intense research and computation tools for cultural diplomacy. Presented online at the Data for Policy Conference. Hong Kong.

2022

Alternative Diplomacies: International Artists Residencies as Creative Practices of Democracy in China. Presented online at the 2022 International Conference for Public Diplomacy. Seoul, South Korea.

2022

Datafied 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. Beijing, China.

2022

Beyond the scorecard diplomacy: From soft power rankings to critical inductive geography. Presented online at the Data Power Conference. Bremen, Germany.

2022

Dancing in the Metaverse: Designing an interdisciplinary flagship Arts Projects module. Presented online at the AAAE Conference Series: New Directions in Arts Administration. USA.

2021

New 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. Sydney, Australia.

2021

From 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. Singapore.

2021

Reviving 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. USA.

2021

Digital Museum Diplomacy: Presentation of the Monograph. Presented online at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association. Australia.

2021

Connected Intelligence: Reimagining museums through research, teaching and industry connections. Presented online at the AAAE Conference Series: Reimagine/Reconnect/Renew. USA.

2021

Long-term research endeavor: Developing trajectories for critical Cultural Analytics and Digital Humanities. Presented online at the Global Digital Humanities Symposium. Meridian. USA.

2021

Digital 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. USA.

2020

Livestreaming Culture: Playing with Europeana. Presented online at the Europeana 2020 Conference: Crisis, Change and Culture. Netherlands.

2020

Digital Tourism? Digital Soft Power of Museum in the (Post)Pandemic World. Presented online at the Conference ‘Living with Tourism: Paradoxes, Empowerment and Future Directions’.

2020

Industry 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. USA.

2020

Critical Archiving and Datafication: Overcoming Colonial Legacies. Presented online at the 18th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Siegen, Germany.

2020

Smart Museums: Where does Museum Data Fit in a Smart City Data Ecology? Presented online at Museums and the Web 2020 Conference. USA.

2020

Forecasting Museum Soft Power: Predicting Attraction Power of Traveling Exhibitions. Museums and the Web 2020 Online Conference. USA.

2019

Re-inventing the Past through Singapore Memory Project: Socio-political Complexities of Digital Crowd-sourcing Techniques. Presented remotely at the Digital Humanities Conference ‘Complexities’. Utrecht, Netherlands.

2019

Museums in Smart Cities: Urban Soft Power. Presented remotely at the International Communication Association Conference. Washington DC, USA.

2019

Beyond ‘State vs Non-state’ Dichotomy: The State Hermitage Museum as a Russian Diplomacy ‘Hybrid.’ Presented remotely at the International Studies Association Conference. Toronto, Canada.

2019

The Australian Center for the Moving Image on the Global Map: Geo-visualisation of Soft Power. Presented at the International Digital Curation Conference. Melbourne, Australia.

2018

X Design: From Local Connections to Global Impacts. Presented at the MuseumNext Conference. New York, USA.

2018

A collaboration between museums, academics, and graduate students: Innovations in Digital Humanities. Presented at the Annual Digital Humanities Australasia Conference ‘Making Connections’. Adelaide, Australia.

2018

Measuring ‘Attraction Power’: Australia goes to Asia through Museum Blockbuster. Presented at the ARC International Symposium ‘Rethinking Trans-Asia Media Flows from Australia’. Melbourne, Australia.

2018

New Directions in Diplomacy: Geo-visualisation of Soft Power. Presented at the 25th World Congress of Political Science. Brisbane, Australia.

2018

Developing Digital Methods to map Museum Soft Power. Presented remotely at the Conference of Digital Humanities Orgnisations: ‘Bridges/Puentes’. Mexico City, Mexico.

2018

Economic capital of museum ‘soft power’: Measuring museum impacts through economic activity. Presented at the 20th International Conference on Cultural Economics. Melbourne, Australia.

2018

Geography of Museum Influence: Mapping Colonial Legacy. Presented at the International Symposium ‘Geographies of Disruption’. Sydney, Australia.

2018

The GuggenTube Phenomenon: Online Power of Global Brands. Presented at the International Conference on Media and Communication. Abu Dhabi, UAE.

2017

Mapping Museum Social ‘Ecosystems.’ Presented at the Conference ‘Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: The cultural value of collections and the creative economy’. Manchester, UK.

2017

MCN Scholar Presentation: Mapping Museum ‘Soft Power.’ Presented at the International Museum Computer Network Conference. Pittsburgh, USA.

2017

Digital Doorway to Asia: Singapore and its Digital Diplomacy. Presented at the International Conference ‘Other Asians, Asia’s Othering: Inclusionary Utopias, Exclusionary Politics’. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

‘Soft Power’ of Museum Blockbusters: Measuring Impacts beyond Economics. Presented at the International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management. Beijing, China.

2017

More than a Library: Cultural Diplomacy of Europeana. Presented at the Digital Preservation for the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities Conference. Brighton, UK.

2017

Crossing Borders: Global PR of the Hermitage Museum. Presented at the Association of Arts Administration Educators Annual Conference. Edinburgh, UK.

2017

Friends of the Hermitage: Non-state Diplomacy of State Actors. Presented at the International Communication Association Conference. San Diego, USA.

2016

Post-national cultural diplomacy: A Case study of the global Guggenheim. Presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention. Atlanta, USA.

2015

BRICS Summit diplomacy: Global identities of Russia and China through national media coverage. Presented at the European Consortium for Political Research General Conference. Montreal, Canada.

2015

Resisting Western Hegemony: Russian Strategic Communication through the BRICS Diplomacy. Presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference. Montreal, Canada.

2015

45 min workshop ‘Digital Diplomacy: Dialogue or Propaganda?’ Presented at the 13th International Conference ‘From Digital Humanities to a Humanities of a Digital’. Vancouver, Canada.

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’. Ottawa, Canada.

2014

Democracy for Export. Presented at the ‘Museums and Politics’ UNESCO Conference. Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

2014

Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Development. Presented at the 18th International Conference on Cultural Economics. Montreal, Canada.

2014

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific - Epistemological Clashes in Cultural Preservation. Presented at the 12th International Conference ‘New Directions in the Humanities’. Madrid, Spain.

2013

Cultural Diplomacy beyond Governmental Control: A Museum Voice in seeding ‘Imperial’ Cosmopolitanism. Presented at the Conference ‘Challenges, Disconnects, and Clashes in Political Studies’. Montreal, Canada.

2013

A 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. Montreal, Canada.

2013

Cultural Heritage Online on the Service of Digital Diplomacy. Presented at the World Social Science Forum. Montreal, Canada.

2013

Bridging Cultures in the Information Age: Dialogical Approaches in Theorizing Digital Diplomacy. Presented at the Digital Transformers Symposium. Manchester, UK.

2012

Cultural Diversity Online: Digital Diplomacy Negotiations. Presented at the 38th Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference. Baton Rouge, USA.

2012

Online Museum as a ‘Civic Laboratory.’ Presented at the 4th ICTs and Society-Conference: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. Uppsala, Sweden.

2012

Epistemologies of Doing: Researching Online Museum Community. Presented at the Graduate Conference on Embodied Knowledge in Art and Visual Culture. Montreal, Canada.

2012

Cultural Interactivity or Interpassivity: Managing Citizen Participation Online. Presented at the 14e Colloque pour étudiants et jeunes diplômés. Montreal, Canada.

2011

Digital Diplomacy: New Strategy for Open Access to the Culture of Europe. Presented at the Culture Forecast Conference. Helsinki, Finland.

2011

Cultural Diplomacy 2.0 through Online Museums Platforms. Presented at the 6th International Conference on the Arts in Society. Berlin, Germany.

2011

Measuring Audience Engagement in Online Museum Communities. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge, and Society. Bilbao, Spain.

2023

Curated and facilitated the panel "Reimagining Heritage for Digital Natives in Singapore" at the Communicating the Arts Conference. Singapore.

2023

Curated and facilitated the International Panel "The Future of AI in the Art World: Promises, Perils and Threats" at the Communicating the Arts Conference. Helsinki, Finland.

2023

Curated and chaired the International Panel "Mapping Soft Power of Hallyu, the Korean Wave" at the 2023 International Conference for Public Diplomacy. Seoul, South Korea.

2023

Curated and chaired the Research Seminar Series "‘Glocal’ Agenda in the Arts Management Research: Interrogating, Redefining and Challenging Traditional Research Canons." at the University of the Arts Singapore. Singapore.

2023

Curated and chaired Award-winning International Panel ‘International Research and Educational Ecosystem of Cultural Diplomacy as an Academic Discipline’ at the 2023 AAAE Conference: The Creative Ecosystem: People, Process, Power. New York, USA.

2023

Curated and chaired the International Panel ‘Teaching International Arts Entrepreneurship? Pedagogical Implications, Challenges and Possibilities of Working Across Borders’ at the 2023 Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Education International Online Conference. USA.

2022

Curated and chaired the Panel ‘Virtual Heritage Spaces as a Platform for Intercultural Communication’ 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, Macau.

2022

Chaired a Round Table discussion on Cultural Policy, Diplomacy and Institutional Theories at the Panel Session ‘Emerging Trends and Research in Developing the Oxford Handbook on Arts & Cultural Management’ at the 2022 Social Theory, Politics and the Arts Conference. Seoul, South Korea.

2022

Curated and chaired the International Panel ‘Going Out’ Policy of China: Blind Spots, Pitfalls and Possibilities at the 2022 International Conference for Public Diplomacy. Seoul, South Korea.

2022

Curated and chaired the Research Webinar Series GLAM and Digital Soft Power in the Post-pandemic World at LASALLE College of the Arts and Digital Diplomacy Research Center at the University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.

2020

Chaired the Panel at the Annual Showcase MA in Arts Management Program, Queen’s University of Belfast at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences 2020: Debate, Discover, Discuss. Bournemouth, UK.

2020

Curated and chaired the Research Webinar Series Redefining Digital Keywords: From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms at the Digital Studio, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2020

Convened and facilitated the Cultural Research Network global webinar Contagious Cities: Facing and Understanding the Pandemic.

2019

Co-organised the Cultural Research Network Global Webinar Comparative Overview of National Cultural Data Sources.

2019

Convened the Round-table Public Conversation Event Alice in Wonderland - Alice Around the World: Political Geography of Creative Content Mobility at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2019

Convened the Round-table New Perspectives on Non-State Diplomacy: Situating Empirical Framework in the Context of Non-Western Countries at the International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada.

2018

Chaired the Panel Digital Heritage Workshop: What are graduate attributes and pathways at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2018

Chaired the Panel Diplomacy, Cooperation and Forging Alliances at the 25th World Congress of Political Science, Brisbane, Australia.

2018

Curated Public Lecture Series Global Dimension of Cultural Entrepreneurship: International Inspirations Making Local Impact at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2018

Curated Research Seminar series Digital Humanities Marathon 2018 at the Digital Studio, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Curated research seminar ‘Liberating Technologies’: Digital Cultures of Protest in China at the Digital Conversations Research Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Curated Afternoon Tea Public Conversation panel: Competition or Collaboration? Cultural Diplomacy Institutes in Multicultural Melbourne at The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Curated research seminar The Digital Beyond: Living, Dying and Impossible Futures at the Digital Conversations Research Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Convened the Panel More than a Library: Exploring Public Value of Europeana at the 2016 Europeana Research Award Winners event.

2017

Convened the Panel Non-state Diplomacy from Non-Western Perspectives at the International Communication International Conference, Washington DC, USA.

2023

The Politics of Digital Heritage Presented at the Research Seminar The Future of Digital Heritage at the National University of Singapore. Singapore.

2023

Mentorship or Collaboration? Presented at the AAAE Membership Meeting at the 2023 AAAE Conference: The Creative Ecosystem: People, Process, Power. New York, USA.

2023

Arts Management Education in Singapore. Presented at the Global Conversation Roundtable at the 2023 AAAE Conference: The Creative Ecosystem: People, Process, Power. New York, USA.

2023

The Future Research on Cultural Diplomacy. Presented remotely for the Pre-Launch of the Book Research Agenda for Public Diplomacy (Prof Eytan Gilboa) at the ISA 64th Annual Convention ‘Real Struggles, High Stakes: Cooperation, Contention, and Creativity’. Montreal, Canada.

2023

Translating Data to Power: Computation Tools to Assess ‘Soft Power’. Presented remotely for the Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport, the UK Government, London, UK.

2022

Digital Cultural Relations: Digital Bridging, Digital Bonding, and International Development. Presented at the Virtual Launch of the Research Report on Digital Cultural Relations. British Council, London, UK.

2022

Practice as Research & Research as Practice: Critical Digital Practice as Experimental Innovative Research. Presented at the Teaching & Learning Symposium, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.

2021

Cultural Diplomacy in the Metaverse. Presented at the International Professional Seminar, ‘The Metaverse and International Relations’. International Cultural Relations (ICR), London, UK.

2021

The future of Museum Diplomacy. Presented at the International Professional Seminar, ‘The sustainable development of International Cultural Relations’ as a part of the ‘ICR Futures’ project at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick, in association with International Cultural Relations (ICR), London, UK.

2021

Digital Heritage Diplomacy. Presented at the Roundtable Breaking grounds and rethinking heritage diplomacy. The International Society for Ethnology and Folklore Congress.

2020

ICOM multilateral diplomacy through crowdsourcing. Presented at the International Organisations and Digital Diplomacy Book Launch. Jean Monnet European Center for Excellence.

2020

What is next in Public Diplomacy Studies after the Pandemics? Presented at the Public Diplomacy Interest Group panel ‘Country Images and Public Diplomacy in Times of Global Unrest’. 2020 International Communication Association Virtual Conference.

2020

Digital Museums and Their Soft Power. Presented at the Plenary Session ‘Museums in the Era of Post-Truth’ of the V International Conference ‘Media Education, Media Ecology, and Media Literacy: Digital Media for the Future.

2020

Demo: Geo-visualisation of Museums Soft Power. Department of Digital, Media, Culture and Sport, the UK Government, London, UK.

2019

Demo: Geo-visualisation of Museums Soft Power. British Council, London, UK.

2019

From Digital to Algorithmic: Art & Diplomacy in the 21st Century. University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.

2019

Museums in Smart Cities, Geo-visualisation Tools to Measure Urban Soft Power. The Australian Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia.

2018

Demystifying Museum Soft Power: Geo-visualisation of Museums' Influence. Cultural Research Network Global Webinar.

2018

Demo: Geo-visualisation of Museums Soft Power. Presented at American Alliance of Museums, Washington DC, USA.

2018

Demo: Geo-visualisation of Museums Soft Power. Presented at National Endowment for the Arts, Washington DC, USA.

2018

Demystifying Museum Soft Power. Launch of the Dynamic Web Application Museum Soft Power Map. Presented at the Digital Studio, Melbourne, Australia.

2018

ACMI X Research Internship: Benefits and Opportunities. Demonstration for the Arts Work Integrated Learning Showcase, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2018

Digital Humanities Research in Action @ The Digital Studio. Interview at Research Bazar, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Digital Tools Facilitating Graduate Learning: Co-organizing a Public Conversation Event. Presented at the Digital Literacy Show and Tell Event, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Developing Digital Methods to Map Museum 'Soft Power.' Presented at the Public Cultures Research Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

Mapping the Power of Museums. Digital perspectives: The art and science of visualisation and visual practices (Showcase). The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.

2017

GuggenTube: Online Power of Global Brands. Presented at the Digital Studio Research Seminar Series, The University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia.