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THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS BY TAKING CARE OF ONE ANOTHER. - GRACE LEE BOGGS // REMEMBER TO IMAGINE AND CRAFT THE WORLDS YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT,  JUST AS YOU DISMANTLE THE ONES YOU CANNOT LIVE WITHIN. - RUHA BENJAMIN //

Presentations






Conference Paper Presentations
  • Nham, Kai. “ Careful & Care-full Crafting: Trans Asian American Care Webs & Information Infrastructure .” Paper presented to Society for Social Studies of Science Meeting: Reverberations, September 3-6, 2025. Seattle, Washington, United States of America: Society for Social Studies of Science. 
  • Nham, Kai. “Unfurling Trans Asian American Care & Digital Information Infrastructure.” Paper presented  to Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities, April 25-27, 2024. Seattle, Washington, United States of America: Association of Asian American Studies.

 Conference Roundtables & Panels
  • Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, Rachel Kuo, mads le, Grayson Lee, Sarah Nguyễn, Kai Nham, and Tam Rayan. “Corroding Empire's Infrastructure: Enacting Care, Resistance, and Refusal in Information Systems & Networks.” Roundtable at Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting: Re-Orienting Asian American Studies in a time of resurgent ethnonationalism and fascism, April 17-19, 2025. Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America: Association of Asian American Studies. 
  • Nakamura, Lisa, Kai Nham, Noopur Raval, Wells Lucas Santo, Cella M. Sum, Wendy Sung, and Xiaowei R. Wang. “Beyond Cyborgs and Techies: Critical Technology Studies and Asian/American Life.” Roundtable at Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities, April 25-27, 2024. Seattle, Washington, United States of America: Association of Asian American Studies.
  • Bui, Matthew, H. Yumi Kim, mads le, Cindy Lin, Kai Nham, and Ian Shin.  “On data afterlives and alterlives.” Roundtable at Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting: Sustainable Publics, April 6-8, 2023. Long Beach, California, United States of America: Association of Asian American Studies.

Invited Talks
  • Trans Technologies, in conversation with Oliver Haimson. 2025. Los Angeles Public Library. Los Angeles, CA. 
  • Dong, Harvey, Kai Nham, and Nkauj lab Yang. “Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies.” Panel at University of California, Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library. Berkeley, CA. October 25, 2019.
  • Nham, Kai. “Whose University? 50th Anniversary of TWLF Exhibit Reception.” Invited speaker at University of California, Berkeley Ethnic Studies Library. Berkeley, CA. April 24, 2019.