Talking to students in Dr. Mariko Naito’s Introduction to Queer Theory Class, Meiji University, April 2024.
Invited Lectures
“Imagining and Identifying the ‘Homosexual’ in Modern Japanese Art.” Symposium for The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939, Wrightwood 659 Gallery/Alliance Française of Chicago, May 2025.
“戦後日本：アメリカ人同性愛者たちの「天国」？戦後日米関係をクィアする” [Postwar Japan: A “Heaven” for American Homosexuals? Queering Postwar U.S.-Japan Relations] Meiji University 明治大学, January 2025.
“占領期日本の同性愛の表象：欲望、恨み、アメリカの影響,”[Representations of Homosexuality in Occupation Period Japan: Desire, Resentment, and the Impact of America] Meiji University 明治大学, April 2024.
“Pitfalls, Promise, Persistence: Recent Trends in LGBTQ Activism in Japan.” Mitchell Center for Democracy, University of Pennsylvania, January 2024.
“‘Uneven Desires’: Towards A Queer Transnational History of Occupation Japan,” Modern Japan Historians Workshop, University of Tokyo 東京大学, December 2023.
“虹の世界を求めて：冷戦期における日米の言語交流とクィア,” [Seeking the Rainbow World: U.S.-Japan Cold War Era Linguistic Exchange and Queerness] Meisei University International Japanese Studies Lecture Series, November 2022.
Conference Presentations
“An Absolutely True Story: Metafictional Translation and Queer Literary Imaginaries in Kawamoto Nao’s The Real Life of Julian Butler.” Association of Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference, Dartmouth University, May 2025.
“Plants in the Shade: Floral Metaphors and Botanical Representations of Queerness in Modern Japanese Literature.” Association of Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference, Yale University, May 2024.
“三島由紀夫初期作品と占領期日本の同性愛文化：戦後日本文学翻訳の「クィア」な歴史”[Mishima Yukio’s Early Works and Gay Culture in Occupation Japan: A ‘Queer’ History of Postwar Japanese Literary Translation] Waseda University Graduate Literary Seminar, April 2024.
“戦後日本文学の翻訳と同性愛文化の歴史的関係を検討する,” [Assessing the Historical Relationship Between Postwar Japanese Literary Translation and Homosexual Cultures] Japan Foundation Gender History Conference, Aoyama Gakuin University, January 2024.
“Finding the Rainbow World: Queer Translation and Utopian Imaginaries in Postwar Japan.” Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of Pennsylvania, October 2022 (Winner, Marlene Mayo Graduate Paper Prize).
- Selected for the Association of Asian Studies Council of Conferences, re-presented at Association of Asian Studies 2024 Conference, Seattle, WA, March 2024.
“Planting Seeds in the Heart: Donald Keene, Arthur Waley, and the Melancholic Birth of Japanese Literature in Cold War America,” On the Many Lives of Japanese Literature in Postwar America [Organized Panel], Association of Japanese Literary Studies, University of California Los Angeles, May 2022.
“日米同盟を超えて——戦後アメリカにおける日本語文学翻訳とその影響、1955-1965年.”[Beyond the U.S.-Japan alliance: translated Japanese literature in postwar America and its impact, 1955-1965] Historian’s Workshop 1st Japanese Research Showcase – Early-Career History Workshop, February 2022.
“Queer Contacts: Translation, Dislocation and Japanese Literature in Cold War America, 1952-1968,” Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Graduate Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 2021.
“We Do Not Live to Be Productive: Rhetoric, Assembly, and the Evolution of LGBT Activism in Contemporary Japan,” Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 2021.
“How We Speak of Who They Are: Valences of Queer Identity in English Translations of Japanese Fiction,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Emory University, January 2020.
“Ambiguity and Heterogeneity in Contemporary Japanese LGBTQ Political Discourse,” Mid-Atlantic Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference, Dickinson College, October 2019.
“We Do Not Live for the Sake of (Re)production: Analyzing Digital Responses to Anti-LGBT Speech on Japanese Social Media,” University of Pennsylvania East Asian Languages and Civilizations Graduate Student Conference, April 2019.
“Abandoned, Rebuilt, Reformed: Representing Reproduction in Japanese Fiction,” Association of Asian Studies Northeast Regional Conference, Brandeis University, October 2018.
“Queerness and Alternative Families in Post-Bubble Japanese Fiction,” Society of East Asian Studies Annual Conference, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 2018.
“Technology, Identity and Violence in Post-Shōwa Japanese media,” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference, Washington D.C., March 2013.
Conferences Organized
“Untold Narratives and Entangled Perspectives in East Asia,” University of Pennsylvania Graduate Research Colloquium of East Asian Studies 2022 Conference, April 2023
“Innovation, Fabrication, Conservation: Responding to the Past(s) of East Asian Cultures,” University of Pennsylvania Graduate Research Colloquium of East Asian Studies 2022 Conference, April 2022
“Instruments and Intermediaries in East Asia,” University of Pennsylvania Graduate Research Colloquium of East Asian Studies 2020 Conference (Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic)
Other Presentations & Seminars
International Forum on “Humanities Across Borders” 国際フォーラム 「越境する人文知」Waseda University, February 2024 (Commentator and Moderator)
“In Memoriam: Dr. Mark Bookman (1991-2022),” University of Pennsylvania Graduate Research Colloquium of East Asian Studies 2023 Conference, April 2023
(Coordinator) “Critical Race Studies in/of Japan.” Penn Forum on Japan, 2020-2021
“What Can One Do with a BA in Japanese?” Japanese Language Program, University of Pennsylvania, October 2019
“Teaching English in Japan After Graduation,” University of Massachusetts Amherst, October 2017
Patrick Carland-Echavarria 