Invited Panelist, Author-meets-critics panel. Min Zhou. 2009. Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation. UCLA Sociology Department Immigration Group, East Asian Library, and the Asian American Studies Department. “Asian Americans and Redistricting: Lessons from Los Angeles, San Diego, and New York City.” Invited speaker, Advancing Justice Conference. Organized by the Asian American Institute (Chicago), Asian American Justice Center (Washington, D.C.), Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco), and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Los Angeles). “Latin American Immigrants and Political Activism in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. “Rise of Political Power Among Immigrants, Racial Minorities, and Unions In Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium Conference, University of California, Riverside. 2007 “Economic Redevelopment and the Community Benefits Program in Los Angeles: A Case Study of Political Mobilization among Immigrants and Labor Organizations.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 2006 “Immigrants and Race in the City Center: Claims for Community and Space in San Diego and Los Angeles.” Invited speaker, conference on “Ethno-Spatial Diffusion and Local Governance in the United States.” Committee for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration in the United States, Cornell University. 2005. “Politics of Historic Preservation.” Invited speaker, conference on Strategies for the Preservation of Little Tokyo as an Historic Heritage Community.” Los Angeles. 2005 “Asian Immigrants, Asian Americans, and the ‘American Dilemma’ of the Twenty-First Century.” Invited speaker, conference on Immigrant Political Incorporation. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Attorney General of California, Bill Lockyer, “Project California.” Invited speaker, panel with Ken Starr, Luis Valdez, and D.J. Waldie. California State University, Los Angeles. 2004 “Contesting History and Economic Development: Chinese Americans, African Americans, and Whites in San Diego.” Invited speaker, colloquium on Racial and Ethnic Conflict in American Life. University of California, San Diego. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. 2004 “Asian Americans and Racism.” Invited speaker, Social Justice and Social
Science Symposium in Honor of Joe R. Feagin. University of Illinois, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. 2004 “Asian Americans and Latinos: Conflict and Alliances around Redistricting in California, 2000-2002.” Invited speaker. Paper presented at the UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal conference, “Securing a Foothold: Citizenship and Alienation Within the Homeland. 2003 “Electoral Politics, Race, and Democracy.” Invited speaker, Michi Weglyn Lecture. California Polytechnic University, Pomona. 2003 “Race and Economic Redevelopment in Downtown San Diego: The Case of Asian Americans and African Americans.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 2003 “The Politics of Race and Redistricting in California, 2000-2002.” Invited speaker, Nation of Immigrants Conference, Institute of Government Studies, UC Berkeley. 2003 “Redistricting in California: 200-2002: MALDEF versus the Latino State Legislators.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. 2003 “Redistricting in California and New York City.” Paper presented at the UCLA Asian Pacific American Research Roundtable. 2002 Invited discussant, session on “Intergroup Comparisons and Relations,” Social Science Research Council Workshop on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity. “The Sedimentation of Political Inequality: Charter Reform and Redistricting in New York City’s Chinatown.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. 2000 "Asian Americans and Multiracial Coalitions: 'White' or 'Brown' in New York City's Chinatown. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies. 2000 "Asian Americans and Multiracial Coalitions." Invited speaker. Paper presented at Oberlin College. "Race, Economic Development, and Politics in Monterey Park, California." Invited speaker. Paper presented at Pomona College. 1999 "Contesting Urban Space, Housing, and Politics: Asian Americans in New York's
Session organizer, “Constructing Urban Space, Political Districts, and Ethnic Politics.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, 1995. Consultant, selection committee for company to create a Chinese/Asian Historic District, San Diego Centre City Development Corporation, 1994. Committee member, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, Community Cultural Plan Project, 1993-1994.