Events, 2012-present
Liwanag Filipino Literary Festival. Washington, DC. October 27, 2024
Q&A on La Tercera. University of the Philippines, Tacloban. June 26, 2024
Imago and the Revolution. Conversation on La Tercera with Glenn Diaz and Julian de la Cerna. Ateneo de Manila, QC. June 18, 2024
The Craft of Fiction. Dept of English, De La Salle University, Manila. June 15, 2024
A Reading and Conversation with Gina Apostol. Dept of English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines, Diliman. May 27, 2024
Keynote conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen for Festival of AAPI Books (FAB). Long Beach, CA, May 4, 2024
Q&A on La Tercera at Toronto Public Library. North York Public Library, Toronto, CA, April 23, 2024
Conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen for his 6th Norton lecture. Harvard, April 16, 2024
Istorya: Filipino Community Event, Scottish Rite Cathedral. Honolulu, HI. April 5, 2024
Talk with NYU undergraduate class. Online. April 3, 2024
Talk with Filipino Curriculum of Hawaii students & Patricia Halagao. March 17, 2024. University of Hawaii-Manoa
Keynote: Dan and Maggie Inouye Distinguished Chair in Democratic Ideals. February 22, 2024. University of Hawaii-Manoa
Q&A with Nueva School 10th graders on Insurrceto. San Mateo, CA. Online. January 26, 2024
“Migration and Agency: Subjectivity and Awe in the Philippine Diaspora.” Talk with Liryc de La Cruz on his art Il Mio Filipino. Spazio Griot in Mattatoio, Rome, Italy
“Italian Scenes in Gina Apostol’s Novels.” Talk with Enrico Mariani. Italian Diaspora Studies Seminar. Centro Studi Americani, Rome, Italy
Q&A with Nueva School 10th graders on Insurrecto. San Mateo, CA. Online. January 24, 2023
Penguin Random House / Library Journal Winter Bookfest. December 8, 2022. Online.
Asian Arts Alliance Town Hall. November 15, 2022. Online.
Insular Fantasies, Capitalist Nightmare, Revolutionary Dreams. Keynote Speech at Filipino Book Festival. San Francisco, CA, October 15, 2022. Transcript here.
History, Memory, and the Artistic Imagination: Talk with Jessica Hagedorn. UC Berkeley event. October, 5, 2022. Online.
We Gathered: 130 Years of Asian American Activism in NYC. Cooper Union with Strand Books. Panel with Wajahat Ali, Whitney Hu, Shekar Krishnan. Sept 22, 2022.
Filipino-American Book Club. Talk on Insurrecto. August 20, 2022.
Convo with Elaine Castillo on her book of essays How To Read Now. For Loyalty Bookstore & Belcanto Books, L.A. July 28, 2022 (online).
Convo with Melissa Chadburn on her debut novel A Tiny Upward Shove. AAWW event at Teardrop Park at Battery Park City, New York. May 2, 2022.
Rome Prize Ceremony. American Academy in Rome event at Cooper Union Great Hall + dinner at The Library at Public Theater. New York City, April 25, 2022.
Class Q&A on Insurrecto, University of Florida. Classroom of Professor Malini Johar Schueller. March 29, 2022 (online)
AWP Philadelphia. March 23-26, 2022,. Panels on Asian Women Writers + on Writing Southeast Asia.
Visiting Writer, Reading and Q&A, Asian American Speakers Series at Bard College. March 14, 2022. On Bibliolepsy and Gun Dealers’ Daughter.
Marx Education Conversation with Patricia McManus on Insurrecto. March 12, 2022 (online)
Vassar Writer-in-Residence Reading and Q&A. February 8, 2022, Vassar College. On Bibliolepsy.
Convo with Jaena Rae Cabrera for AAPI Communities in Conversation. Penguin Random House, Publishers Weekly and University of South Carolina’s Augusta Baker Endowed Chair, February 1, 2022 (online)
Convo with Malaka Gharib on Bibliolepsy, City Lights, San Francisco, CA, January 18, 2022 (online)
Convo with Zack Linmark on Bibliolepsy, Literati Books, Ann Arbor, MI, January 11, 2022 (online)
Convo with Neferti Tadiar on Bibliolepsy and the EDSA Revolt, Vromans Books, Los Angeles, CA, January 6, 2022 (online)
NYC Book Launch, Bibliolepsy, Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY with Sabina Murray, January 5, 2022 (online)
Book Launch, Bibliolepsy, Politics and Prose, Washington, DC, with Viet Thanh Nguyen, January 4, 2022 (online)
Reading and Q&A with Zack Linmark, Sabina Murray and Lara Stapleton, KGB BAR, November 4, 2021
Manuscript workshop with Cathy Park Hong and Laila Lalami for Seek, Memory, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, USC (zoom), October 28, 2021
AAWW book launch (zoom) for Eugene Lim’s Search History: Chat and Q&A, October 5, 2021
Talk on Balangiga Massacre (zoom), DONG-A University, Busan, South Korea, October 1, 2021
Chat with Brainard Carey on writing during pandemic, Yale University’s WYBC, September 8, 2021.
Chat with Alessandro Raveggi on Multinovel, Ca Foscari University (Venice), April 16, 2021
Chat w/ Luisa Valenzuela (in Buenos Aires), Francisco Goldman (in Mexico), Jonathan Levi (in Rome), for Under The Volcano, organized by Magda Bogin (in New York), April 14, 2021
Chat + Q&A on Raymundo Mata with Ken Chen, City of Asylum-Pittsburgh, April 8, 2021
Interview with Glenn Diaz on Raymundo Mata, Fully Booked Chats, April 5, 2021
Chat + Q&A on Raymundo Mata with MT Vallarta, Eastwind Bookstore, March 20, 2021
Panel with Harold Augenbraum on Translation, UMichigan, Ann Arbor, March 12, 2021
Talk on Insurrecto, Radcliffe Institute on Asian America and the archive, March 5, 2021
Chat + Q&A on Raymundo Mata with Sabina Murray, Loyalty Bookstore, February 16, 2021
Classroom Zoom on Insurrecto, Micah Stark, University of Nevada, Reno, February, 11, 2021
Chat + Q&A on Raymundo Mata with Elaine Castillo, Literati Bookstore, January 29, 2021
Kundiman Mentorship Lab Reading, January 27, 2021
Chat + Q&A on Raymundo Mata in "A Mighty Blaze" with Grace Talusan, January 21, 2021
Chat + Q&A with Rina Mapa on Raymundo Mata, Toronto Public Library, Toronto Public Library, January 13, 2021
Book Launch of The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, City Lights, January 12, 2021
Keynote Speech, Pandemic Playbook, BDAP, Manila, Philippines, Nov 27, 2020
Classroom Q&A, Rice University via Zoom, October 6, 2020
Ulahi Book Club Q&A via Zoom, Bacolod, Philippines, September 5, 2020
Lift-Up Pod interview, podcast conversation, June 14, 2020 (published July 6, 2020)
Center for Fiction, Q&A and NYC book launch of Quotients by Tracy O'Neill, May 12, 2020
Classroom Q&A, NYU via Zoom, April 14, 2020
AAWW, Reading + Convo, Insurgent Tongues, NYC, February 13, 2020
McNally Jackson, Convo to Launch of Meng Jin's Little Gods, NYC, January 22, 2020
Tables of Contents, Reading @ EGG diner, Brooklyn, NY, January 16, 2020
Center for Book Arts Reading + Broadside, NYC, NY, November 21, 2019
A Celebration of Edna O'Brien, Symphony Space, NYC, NY, November 13, 2019
American Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 5-9, 2019
Sunday Salon at Von on Bleecker St, NYC, NY, Reading, September 17, 2019
AAWW Book Launch of Zack Linmark's Importance of Being Wilde at Heart, Sept 14, 2019
Slice Literary Festival, Brooklyn, NY, September 8, 2019
University of Santo Tomas, Manila, August 17, 2019
Kritika Kultura podcast, Ateneo de Manila, Quezon City, August 15, 2019
University of the Philippines, Tacloban, Leyte, August 10, 2019
Philippine Readers and Writers Festival, Raffles Hotel, Makati, Philippines, August 3, 2019
City of Asylum, Pittsburgh, PA, July 23, 2019
Columbia University, Eugene Lim Class Reading + Q&A, New York, NY, April 29, 2019
New York University, NYCAASC, Keynote, New York, NY, April 26, 2019
AAWW Open Margins, Talk, New York, NY, April 22, 2019
Toronto Public Library, Reading + Convo with Rina Mapa, Toronto, Canada, April 9, 2019
Princeton University, Paul Nadal Class Reading + Q&A, Princeton, NJ, April 4, 2019
AWP Portland, "Coming of Age in Asian American Fiction," Panel, March 30, 2019
AWP Portland, "Innovations in Southeast Asian Literature," Panel, March 29, 2019
San Francisco MoMA, SF, CA, Reading + Convo with Elaine Castillo, March 23, 2019
University of California, Berkeley, CA, Reading and Talk, March 21, 2019
Adelaide Writers Week, Multiple Events, Adelaide, Australia, March 2-8, 2019
University of Miami, FL, Reading and Craft Talk with Pat Rosal, February 21-22, 2019
Palm Beach County Library, FL, Reading & Q&A, February 20, 2019
Malaya @ Columbia University, Reading & Convo, February 15, 2019
Asian American Writers' Workshop, Reading & Convo, with Sabina Murray, February 7, 2019
Politics and Prose Bookstore, Reading and Q&A, Washington, DC, January 19, 2019
Blue Stoop, Reading and Q&A, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA, January 18, 2019
Singapore Unbound, Second Saturdays, Reading, January 12, 2019
McNally-Jackson, Moderator, C. Bhuvaneswar's White Dancing Elephants, January 10, 2019
Brian Lehrer show, WNYC, on Insurrecto, Filipino-American Narratives Doing Battle, January 7, 2019
SOAS-University of London, Workshop and Launch, January 4-5, 2019
KGB Bar, Sunday Night Fiction, December 9, 2018
Fordham University Golden Gloves Competition, Reading, December 7, 2018
UMass Amherst Visiting Writers Series, December 6, 2018
Bard Micro-College Reading and Q&A, December 6, 2018
Book Launch for Insurrecto at Purple Yam, NYC, November 13, 2018
Downtown for Democracy, Reading, November 2, 2018
Soho Press Reading, KGB Bar, November 1, 2018
Berlin, Germany, Philippine Consulate, Reading and Workshop, August 20-21, 2018
Emily Harvey Residency, July 5-Sept 5, 2018
Phillips Exeter Academy, Harkness Summer Institute, Participant-Observer, June 24-29, 2018
American Library Association, Book Signing, New Orleans, LA, June 23, 2018
Book Expo, ARC signing, Javits Center, NYC, June 1, 2018
Book Expo, "LibraryReads," Javits Center, NYC, May 31, 2018
Irish Arts Center, "Life Through the Reading Lens," IAC, NYC, May 1, 2018
AAWW, "Is America the Heart?" Elaine Castillo Book Launch, moderator, April 25, 2018
PEN World Voices Festival, "The Ghost Dictatorship," Cooper Union, NYC, April 22, 2018
AAWW, Reading and Panel, Go Home!, March 12, 2018
AWP18 Tampa, FL, Reading, Inkwood Books, March 10, 2018
AWP18 Tampa, FL, Panel, Go Home!, March 9, 2018
Chiang Mai University, lecture on Insurrecto and historiography, December 18, 2017
Kasertsat University, Bangkok, lecture on ASEAN literature, December 14, 2017
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, lecture on Gun Dealers' Daughter, December 12, 2017
University of Alaska Anchorage, reading and talk on Fil-Am War, Oct 13-15, 2017
Bluestocking Bookstore, Lolas' House by Evelina Galang, moderator, Sept 22, 2017
AAWW, Celebrating Nick Joaquin, reading, June 30, 2017
Philippine Consulate General New York, Nick Joaquin Launch, April 27, 2017
McNally Jackson, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan book launch, moderator, Mar 8, 2017
In Bloom, Kundiman AWP offsite reading, February 11, 2017
Kundiman gala, introduction of honoree Elda Rotor, November 19, 2016
AAWW, moderator, Sabina Murray's Valiant Gentlemen, November 1, 2016
LitCrawl NYC, PEN America, reading, October 1, 2016
Singapore Literature Festival, reading & panel, Asia Society, September 29, 2016
Queens Book Festival, moderator, "The East is not Far," August 5, 2016
Filipino-American Literary Book Festival, Queens, Reading, June 18, 2016
Singapore Literary Festival Benefit, Reading, June 16, 2016
Ace Hotel Residency, Filipino American Museum, June 5, 2016
AAWW, moderator, Imagined Communities in Indonesia & Philippines, April 29, 2016
The Johns Hopkins University, Fiction Alumni Reading Series, March 8, 2016
McNally-Jackson Bookstore, reading for A Kind of Compass, December 1, 2015
AAWW, moderator, "Love in Imaginary Places," November 19, 2015
Cornell University Lecture Series, October 27, 2015
Bowery Poetry Club, NYC, "Reading Rizal: What Tomorrow Brings," October 19, 2015
Fordham University, NYC, "Dogeaters in the Diaspora," panel, October 15, 2015
Yale University, "Understanding the Filipino," October 3, 2015
Filipino American Museum, Fordham University, "Reading Rizal," August 16, 2015
Kundiman, Fiction Faculty, Inaugural Fiction Workshop, June 24-28, 2015
AAWW, New York, NY, Moderator, "War and Laughter," NYC launch of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, May 5, 2015
AAAS, Evanston, IL, Panel, "Towards a Filipino Transnational Imaginary," April 23, 2015
Amherst College, Amherst Bookstore, Amherst, MA, Reading, March 23, 2015
Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, NJ, Reading, November 12, 2014
Word Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ, Reading, September 11, 2014
Summer Forum, Joshua Tree, CA, Speech, July 7, 2014
National Writers Union, Plenary Panel, New York City, May 18, 2014
AAAS, San Francisco, CA, Panel, April 16-19, 2014
Classroom Visit on Bibliolepsy, Paul Nadal class, University of California, Berkeley, April 16, 2014
National Bookstore, Makati, April 14, 2014
University of Santo Tomas, April 13, 2014
Kritika Kultura, Ateneo de Manila, April 10, 2014
University of the Philippines Cebu, April 5, 2014
Yale-NUS, Reading and Workshop, March 25-26, 2014
Kaya Natin (videotaped reading of Waray poetry), New York City, November 23, 2013
NPR interview on typhoon Haiyan, November 15, 2013
PEN American Awards, October 21, 2013
Manila Noir, Reading and Conversation, Asia Society,New York City, June 3, 2013
Long Island University, Chat + Q&A on Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Brooklyn NY, May 2013
AAAS Panel, Seattle, WA, April 2013
Wheaton College, Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Writer, Norton, MA, February 28, 2013
Book Launch, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Philippine Consulate General, San Francisco, CA, October 27, 2012
Write Angles Conference, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, October 20, 2012
John Batchelor Show, radio interview, October 20, 2012
Book Launch, Gun Dealers’ Daughter, Philippine Consulate General, New York, NY, September 20, 2012
Woman-Stirred Radio, Interview with Merry Gangemi, WGDR Vermont, August 2, 2012
Newtonville Books with Don Lee, Newton, MA, July 31, 2012
WW Norton Book Launch of Gun Dealers' Daughter, Cakeshop, New York, July 18, 2012
Porter Square Bookstore with Pagan Kennedy, Somerville, MA, July 17, 2012
Cityline, WCVB Boston, chat on Asian America & Gun Dealers’ Daughter, July 10, 2012
