I have been fortunate to meet and exchange ideas with people from different communities through talks, conversations, and writing. These opportunities have allowed me to share my experiences, reflect on questions I care about, and learn from others along the way. I share some of these exchanges here and welcome opportunities for new conversations.

I. Areas of Conversations

II. Selected Conversations

Heritage, Cities & Placemaking

• When Institutions Have Preferences: Unequal Participatory Governance and the Institutional Politics of Heritage Prodcution in Contemporary Taipei

Invited talk · September 2026 · Hosted by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

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Participatory Democracy & Public Deliberation

• How Can AI Facilitate Public Participation and Deliberation?

Webinar · Jul 2024 · Hosted by the Global Innovaation Hub, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom · In Conversation with Alice Siu

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• How to Engage Immigrants and Refugees in Participatory Budgeting?

Webinar · Apr 2021 · Hosted by People Powered · Co-presented with Shih-Zhe Lai

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• The Global Travel of Participatory Budgeting: A Reflection on How Democratic Deepening and Social Justice Have Been Made Possible

Public writing · Jun 2016 · Published on Newtalk.tw · Co-written with Wan-Tzu Chang · In Chinese

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• Democratic Imagination Unlimited: Participatory Budgeting and Its Cousins

Public writing · Jun 2016 · Published on Newtalk.tw · Co-written with Wan-Tzu Chang · In Chinese

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• Lessons from Canada: Rethinking the Practice of the “Right to the City” through Participatory Budgeting in Toronto Community Housing

Public writing · Jun 2016 · Published on Newtalk.tw · In Chinese

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Teaching & Academic Life

• Teaching and Research in North America from a Social Science Perspective

Podcast · Feb 2024 · Hosted by the North American Taiwan Studies Association · In Conversation with Wei-Ting Yen · In Chinese

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Taiwanese Communities in Southern California

• Taiwanese Sensibility in Southern California: Urban Life, Learning Tâi-gí, and Taiwanese Communities in San Diego

Invited talk · Dec 2026 · Invited by the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University · In Taiwanese (Tâi-gí)

III. Moments of Exchange