“‘Renewable’ islands as Environmental Futures: Islands of STS’” talk for Colby College STS Seminar on Islands (co-presenting with Kim de Wolff), 4th December 2025.
Utrecht University Network for the Environmental Humanities meeting presentation (20th November 2025) – co-presenting with Rianne Riemens.
“EnergiØ”, a conversation with Michaela Büsse and Orit Halpern, moderated by Özgün Eylül İşcen, at Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design, the 2025 Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung, DGTF) (12th June 2025)
“The Energy Island as Incomposite Techno-utopia” (with Michaela Büsse) in “Incompossible Islands: Thinking the Fictional, the Real and the Virtual in Times of Ecocide”, American Comparative Literature Association 2025 Annual Conference (online).
“Tracing ‘Asian Futurity’ through Singapore’s Model Planetary Eco Urban Aesthetics” in “Eco-city Visions: Environmental Aesthetics and Sustainability Politics from Southeast Asia to the Arab Gulf” (organized by Jenny Chio and Brent Luvaas), Association for Asian Studies 2025 Annual Conference, Columbus.
“Energy resource as proposition: making green hydrogen with the energy island/hub” (with Michaela Büsse), “Social studies of energy and the making and unmaking of energy resources” conference, Copenhagen. 29th – 31st October 2024.
Participant in “Extractive Pasts, Sustainable Futures?” Research Studio on Energy Transition (March 11-18 2024), TU Dresden.
“Terrains of Environmental Speculation: The ‘Energy Island’ as Model of Transitional Futures.” Centre for Science Studies Colloquium, Aarhus University. 7th February 2024.
“Retelling ‘Environmental Data’ through Critical Practice and Aesthetic Contexts” in Creating Impact with Data Journalism: Pathways to Civic Communication and Engagement symposium, hosted by the project InfraPublics: Journalism for Civic Communication in Urban Space (Christoph Raetzsch), the Department of Media and Journalism Studies, and the Centre for University Studies in Journalism (CJU). 19th Jan 2024, on Aarhus University campus and online.
“Refiguring the ‘renewable energy island’ as environmental future” in “Islands of STS: Refiguring Environmental Futures” panel, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November 2023.
“Writing Climate” talk with Shawn Hoo, moderated by Jason Wee, for 2023 Textures Festival, 8th January 2022, National Gallery Singapore.
“Scaling Sovereignty: The ‘Energy Island’ as Past and Future Political Territory,” in “Operational Media, Extraction and Environmental Control” panel, Society for the Social Studies of Science-ESOCITE Annual Meeting, Cholula, December 2022.
Skills-based Session – “In the Beginning” (with Fabian Charles Graham and Ven Paolo Bruno Valenzuela), 17th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, 12th July 2022.
ARI Roundtable with artist/writer Jason Wee and artist Tita Salina on Speculative Southeast Asian Aesthetic Urban Futures, commentary by Associate Professor Daniel Goh, 31st May 2022, 4 – 5.15pm SGT.
National University of Singapore (NUS) Arts Festival 2022, Critical Conversations 3: Illuminating the Poetics of Space – Light as Meaning Making , with critical cartographer Wong Zi Hao, moderated by Dr Kamalini Ramdas, 16th March 2022, UCC Atrium, NUS, Singapore.
“Exploring planetary design futures through Kim Stanley Robinson’s Speculative Fictions,” in “Using Speculative Fictions for pedagogical/research applications centered around environmental stewardship, responsibility and responsible innovation” panel, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Toronto, October 2021.
Co-moderator with Toby Smith for “Cities and Computers: Our Urban-Machinic Imaginaries” featuring Shannon Mattern, Brian House, Yuriko Furuhata, and Ranjodh Singh Daliwal, December 4th 2020, 9 – 11am PST.
“ ‘We Only Have One Landfill Left’: The Planetary Imaginary of Semakau,” in “Cosmogrammatics: Nature(s) in Planetary Design” panel, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology/ Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, August 2020.
“Revisiting Jane Jacobs’ urban complexity in global sustainable city discourse,” “The City and Complexity – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment,” Architecture, Media, Politics, Society conference, London 2020.
“Scaling Back Global Urban Futures,” in “Narrativizing Infrastructure” panel, Association for the Arts of the Present, University of Maryland, College Park, October 2019.
“Future-proofing Singapore: Projecting Formulas for the City-state’s Future,” Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) meeting, New Orleans, September 2019
“Siting ‘para-dise’ with ecofeminist speculative futures’ jam session panel – Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, June 26th – 30th 2018, UC Davis (panel organizer/ presenter)
“Future-proofing Singapore: Projections of a Developmental City-State,” (‘Pending Politics’), American Anthropological Association Meeting, San Jose, November 2018.
“Another Space is Possible? Art Creating Urban Space in Singapore” (with Joanne Leow) – 2nd June 2017, The Substation, Singapore (as part of the Salon series of ‘Discipline the City’)
May Ee Wong, PhD. Researcher and writer 