Jeremy Fernando fabricates with words
~ Pan Huiting
invited speeches
Jeremy Fernando, ‘On translation & love’. Gdynia: Ereignis Conference, Beyond Dualism, Keynote address, 11 June, 2023.
---, ‘to play — perchance to dream’. Singapore: NUS French Film Festival, Dériver / Arrivée, 3 October, 2019.
---, ‘the suicide bomber: on thought, gifts, death, love, poetry … ’. Singapore: Bras Basah Open: School of Theory & Philosophy, TheoryFilm#12 — Necro-Romanticism: Suicide & Politics in Film, 10 May, 2019.
---, ‘writing | walking | blindness’. Singapore: The National Library of Singapore, ALT TXT, 27 February, 2019.
---, ‘reading | art | resistance’. Singapore: The National Library of Singapore, ALT TXT, 20 February, 2019.
---, ‘Words. Things.’. Singapore: Bedok South Secondary School, Arts Fiesta, 23 October, 2018.
---, ‘Elliptical dreams’ in dreams are always already too long, alongside Mark Brantner, Yanyun Chen, Sara Chong, & Lim Lee Ching. Singapore: NUS Museum, NUS Arts Festival, 18 September, 2018.
---, ‘On writing art’. Singapore: National Library of Singapore, Cultural Criticism Reading Series, 8 August, 2018.
---, ‘On writhing — with writing’. The European Graduate School ‘Live’ presentation series, 14 March, 2018.
---, ‘art & writing; or, the whispers of sand …’. Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia, 17 February, 2017.
---, ‘On writing — writhing, crying, screaming’, featuring the charcoal sketches of Yanyun Chen. Msida: University of Malta, 24 March, 2016.
---, ‘On thinking with — Sciences, Scientists, and Isabelle Stengers’, alongside the watercolour & ink paintings of Maureen Burdock. Davis: UC Davis, 1 June, 2015.
---, ‘On walking with my teacher — writing, ink, calamari …’. Berkeley: UC Berkeley, 27 February, 2015 & Davis: UC Davis, 26 February, 2015.
---, ‘On fidelity; or, will you still love me tomorrow?’ Davis: UC Davis, 24 February, 2014.
---, ‘On the law; or, daddy daddy where are thou …’ Singapore: St. Joseph’s Institution, 7 November, 2013.
---, 'Twinkle twinkle; or 4 stars good, 2 stars bad ...'. Singapore: MOE Literature Seminar, 20 August, 2011.
---, ‘Never the twain shall meet; or how to build a wall’. Guangzhou: Guangzhou University, 19 April, 2011.
---, ‘Randori with Franz Kafka; on reading, irony, and the law’. Tokyo: Kogakuin University, 9-10 June, 2010.
---, ‘Sympathy for the Devil; on evil and reading’. Singapore: Victoria Junior College, 22 May, 2009.
---, ‘What if Mary ate the lamb, or is the lamb: post-structural registers in an afternoon’. Singapore: Victoria Junior College, 9 July, 2008.
artist talks
Jeremy Fernando, ‘A ghost never dies’, in conversation with Lucía Sbardella & Miguel S. Salas at Museo de Bellas Artes Rene Brusau, Ciudad de Resistencia, 30 September, 2021.
---, ‘Es imposible el silencio’, in conversation with Gabriela Golder, Mariela Yeregui, Diana Fernández Irusta, Nadia Martin, Tania Puente, Yamila Volnovich, moderated by Jazmin Adler, Mecenazgo, Buenos Aires, 12 March 2021.
---, ‘Choking on Nostalgia, again’, in conversation with Yanyun Chen & Lawrence Ypil at Tembusu College, The National University of Singapore, Singapore, 19 February, 2020.
---, ‘Pages and Perspectives’, in conversation with Pooja Nansi & Cyril Wong at the NUS Museum, Singapore, 26 January, 2020.
---, ‘Choking on Nostalgia’, in conversation with Yanyun Chen & Lawrence Ypil at ArtScience Museum, Singapore, 11 January, 2020.
---, ‘Gaps and Progressions in Communication’, in conversation with Joanne Pang at SPRMRKT Cluny Court, Singapore, 27 April, 2019.
---, ‘Skin, Scars, and Trauma’, in conversation with Yanyun Chen, Emylia Safian, & Tey Hong Liang at The Singapore Art Musuem @ 8Q, Singapore, 18 January, 2019.
---, The Plot Thickens: Writing Conservation’, in conversation with Lim Lee Ching, & Theophilus Kwek at Zarch Collective Spaces, Singapore, 9 June, 2018.
---, ‘Writing about art’, in conversation with Scott Michael Anthony, & Junni Chen, organised by ArtHop & Treehouse at Tembusu College, The National University of Singapore, Singapore, 6 October, 2016.
---, ‘Film Conversations’, in conversation with Huzir Sulaiman, John Lui, & Tan Bee Thiam at O.P.E.N Film Festival: Singapore International Festival of Arts, The Projector, Singapore, 3 July, 2016.
---, 'We've decided to talk about machines', in conversation with Yu-Chen Wang & Genevieve Chua at Yeo Workshop, Singapore, 8 November, 2015.
---, ‘How Many Hats do you Wear?’, in conversation with Amanda Lee Koe, Heman Chong, Marc Nair, & Mayo Martin at The Singapore Writers’ Festival, The National Museum, Singapore, 3 November, 2013.
conference presentations
Jeremy Fernando, ‘reading | resisting | art’, Kolkata: Rabindra Bharati University — Dissent & Democracy: Critical Perspectives, 8-9 November, 2021.
---,‘Je suis marxiste, tendance Groucho — trains, imaginary names, and whack-for-my-daddy-o’, Dublin: University College Dublin — Palimpsests: The V Flann O’Brien International Conference, 16-19 July, 2019.
---, ‘Re: Reading Jeremy Fernando’, Klagenfurt: Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt — Association of Philosophy & Literature: Truth, Fiction, Illusion, Worlds, and Experience, 29 May – 2 June, 2019.
---, ‘Making up with JB’, Oxford: Oxford Brookes University — Applied Baudrillard, 5-7 September, 2018.
---, ‘On dreams … with Kafka and Goh Poh Seng’, Penang: Universiti Sains Malaysia — International Conference on Literature: Contemporary Perspectives in Postcolonial and Diasporic Literature and Theory, 25-16 July, 2018.
---, ‘resisting art’, Singapore: The National University of Singapore — Communication Interventions: Imagining Futures, 7-10 May, 2018.
---, ‘Choo choo train chuggin’ down the track — on John Duffy’s Brother’, Singapore: Nanyang Technological University — The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures: Ireland’s Writers in the 21st Century, 24-28 July, 2017.
---, ‘— becoming bodies —’, Singapore: The National University of Singapore — The Fifth International Deleuze Studies in Asia Conference: Desiring-Machines, 9-11 June, 2017.
---, ‘On Moving Bodies’, Singapore: Nanyang Technological University — Movement(s) and Mobility: A Gender Studies Symposium, 2-3 June, 2017.
---, ‘Touching screens — or, I touch myself …’, Singapore: Asia Research Institute — Homo Sapiens, Mortality, and the Internet in Contemporary Asia, 14-15 March, 2016.
---, ‘I, Delilah’, performed with Anna-Caroline Pflug. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University — Product, Production, Productivity: A Women’s Studies Symposium, 10 – 11 December, 2015.
---, ‘On Sciences with Isabelle Stengers; or, thinking with a ‘lil bit of dancing …’. Singapore: School of Art, Design, & Media, Nanyang Technological University — Environmental Visions, 24 – 26 January, 2014.
---, ‘On dancing and trains; or, John Duffy’s Brother’. Sydney: Irish Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand — The Ends of Ireland, 4-7 December, 2013.
---, ‘Mommy mommy …’. Singapore: Asia-Pacific Science & Technology Studies Network Biennale Conference — Knowing, Making, Governing, 15-17 July, 2013.
---, ‘John, I’m only dancing …’. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University — Transcultural Imaginaries, 14-17 June, 2013.
---, ‘Yes, I would prefer not to …’. Singapore: The National University of Singapore — International Association of Philosophy & Literature Annual Conference, 3-9 June, 2013.
---, ‘On Polanski and puppets; or Kleist dancing on a string …’. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University — Citizens of the World, 22-24 June, 2012.
---, 'When Kumar meets kathoeys; or did Ziggy play guitar ... '. Singapore: Asian Research Centre — Gender & Sexuality: Performance and Representation in Asia, 18 Jan, 2012.
---, ‘How to pick up a call in time’. Singapore: Nanyang Technological University — On the Contemporary, 24-26 June, 2011.
---, ‘The art of mourning … hold, cut, kill’. Singapore: National University of Singapore — Afterlife & Death in a Digital Age: Asian Perspectives, 26-28 May, 2011.
---, ‘On thinking; or movement, boundaries, and the trans …’. Nanjing: New York Institute of Technology & Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications — Crossing Borders: Traveling, Teaching, and Learning in a Global Age, 16-17 April, 2011.
---, ‘On Reading; or a plea for evil’. Seoul: Ewha Womans University — Trading Places: The Changing Climate of English Studies, 27 November, 2010.
---, 'What if Lady Bracknell was your daddy; on the unimportance of gender and such bunburying'. Singapore: Australasian Victorian Studies Association — Re-Orienting Victorian Studies, 25-27 June, 2010.
---, 'On Bodies; reading, resonance, death'. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University — Resonance(s): a Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Art and Politics, Special Session, 22 April, 2010.
---, 'Waking up with Obama; or the morning after ...'. New York: 2010 Telos Conference — From Lifeworld to Politics: Empire in the Age of Obama, 16-17 Jan, 2010.
---, ‘Elliptical Reading or a plea for ethical violence’. Taipei: National Chengchi University — 8th Annual Wenshan International Conference: Literature and Violence, 9-10 May, 2009.
---, ‘Just Reading’. Singapore: School of Humanities and Social Sciences — Sound, Silence and the Arts, 28 February, 2009.
---, ‘The Spectre of Singapore in Singapore cinema’. Onyang: The English Language and Literature Association of Korea — Re-visioning English Studies in Asia, 20-22 November, 2008.
---, ‘Read Blindly or an incredulity towards the trans’. Seoul: Ewha Womans University — Trans-Cultural Studies in the Pacific Era, 19 November, 2008.
---, ‘Reading the body: Derrida, Ronell and Cixous in the play-pen with Marguerite Duras’. Cardiff: Cardiff University — Assuming Gender, 27-29 May, 2008.
---, ‘Reading or Just Gaming: Poker with Hélène Cixous and Jean-François Lyotard’. Seoul: Ewha Womans University — Provincializing English: The English Department in the Asian Context, 2-3 November, 2007.
---, ‘Blind Ethics: Žižek, Derrida and the question of the Third’. Singapore: School of Humanities and Social Sciences — Irresponsibility, 28-30 September, 2006.
---, ‘The Spectre of the National that haunts Singapore Cinema’. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong — The Film Scene, 21-22 April, 2006.