2007. Environment, history, and governance: A cross-oceanic comparison of place marginalization, Ko’olauloa, Oahu ( Hawai’i) and Taiwan’s East Coast. Conference on Economic Development and Social Change in Taiwan’s History. Academica Sinica, Institute of Taiwan History, Taipei (with L. M. Hsia).
2007. Out of globalizing Taipei: Cultural imagination, local identity, and the case of the Festival of Austronesian Culture in Taitung. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco (with L. M. Hsia & W. C. Han).
2006. Scale dynamics of Mormon geopolitics. Emerging Geographies of Belief Conference, Exeter, England.
2006. Hou Shan: Orientalism in Taiwan’s geographical imagination. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago (with L. M. Hsia).
2005. Framing political ideology: A comparison of journalistic narrative in newspapers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Annual Meeting of International Association for Media and Communication Research, Taipei (with C. H. Chen).
2004. Transformation of geographical identity in the Americanizing Mormon culture region. Annual Meeting of the Western Historical Association, Las Vegas.
2004. Geopolitical imaginations about Mormons in news and popular magazines, 1910-2002. Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Toronto (with C. H. Chen).
2003. Creation of religious and geographic identity: The case of Isaac Russell. Annual Meeting of the Mormon History Association, Kirtland OH.
2002. Whither the culture region? Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles.
2000. “Shall we never have done admiring our Brigham Youngs?”: The unconsummated Mormon/socialist alliance. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh.
1999. Longings for innocence: The relationship between reconstructions of gender and region in turn-of-the-century Mormonism. Annual Meeting of the Mormon History Association, Ogden UT (with C. H. Chen).
1999. The divorce of regional independence from female independence in Mormon history. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu.
1998. “Those amazing Mormons”: The media’s construction of Latter-day Saints as a model minority. Sunstone Symposium, Salt Lake City (with C. H. Chen).
1998. The transformation of regional citizenship within Mormonism. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston.
1997. Use of Asian American history in the news media: the discourse of “model minority.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago (with C. H. Chen).
1997. Struggles over regional meanings: an example from Mormon history. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth.
1995. Territoriality as nationalist strategy: the Mormon case. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Westlakes Division, Mankato MN.
1989. Phenomenology as an alternative to positivism. Annual Meeting of the Utah Geographic Association, Ogden UT.