“冯道的世界：中古晚期政治文化中的边缘与核心”清华历史讲堂，4/19，2012.

“晚唐五代清流文化与唐宋社会的转型,” 第三届中日学者中国古代史论坛,武汉大学, 9/17-18, 2011.

“作为一种史学研究对象的晚唐五代节度使墓葬,”第一届“两岸历史文化研习营, 四川大学, 8/18-26, 2011.

“现代学术史上的季羡林和金克木,” 国际汉学系列讲座，北京大学，6/17, 2011.

“Web of Knowledge: Itinerant Learning and Monastic Authority in Medieval China,”Ritual, Religion and Institution in Medieval China: An International Symposium, Fudan University, 11/6-8, 2010.

“万劫因缘会刹那－论近代中国佛教史研究系谱的诞生,” 佛教史研究的方法与前景 (批评的中国学系列学术研讨会[三]) ,复旦大学文史研究院, 9/24-26, 2010.

“从节度使墓葬看唐五代河北文化的变迁,” 复旦大学文史讲堂讲座, 9/21, 2010

“枭雄的抉择 : 试析晚唐五代两座武人墓的构成,”台湾大学艺术史研究所, 6/23 2010

“西方唐史研究概观,” 人大史学讲堂讲座, 5/31, 2010

“忆昔开元全盛年－论晚唐五代笔记中的历史记忆,” 实践中的唐宋思想和礼仪与制度国际学术讨论会, 中国人民大学, 5/28-30, 2010.

10.“唐帝国为何会瓦解－一个老问题的新思考,”北京大学中国古代史研究中心讲座, 5/24, 2010

“VisualizingWenin Early 10th Century China — Evidence from Mortuary Arts,”Tenth Century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-Centered Age, Part II,Center for the Arts of East Asia, University of Chicago, 5/14-15, 2010.

“Veritable Records or Cultural Imagination: Xuanzang’s Account of India and Central Asia Revisited”International Symposium for the Center for the Study of Asian Culture 2009, Kansai University, 6/27, 2009.

“A Civilized Warlord in Early 10th Century Hebei: The Tomb of Wang Chuzhi and Its Cultural Significance,”Tenth Century China and Beyond: Art and Visual Culture in a Multi-Centered Age, Part I,Center for the Arts of East Asia, University of Chicago, 5/ 29-30, 2009.

Roundtable Panelist, “Archives and Sources Across Cultures,”MAMA XXXIII (Urban Life and Culture),University of Missouri — Kansas City, 2/27-28, 2009

“The Itinerary of Fame Building: Itinerant Learning and Abbotship in Medieval Chinese Buddhism,”Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, 2/16-18, 2009

“Dao'an, Huineng, and the Monkey King: The Birth of the Genealogy of Chinese Buddhist Patriarchs,” invited lecture, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore, 2/11, 2009

“Prosopography in Medieval Chinese Studies: Information that are Database Friendly and Otherwise —Literacracy as a Case Study,”1st International Workshop on Biographical Databases for China’s History, Harvard University, 11/21-23, 2008.

Roundtable Panelist, The Beijing Olympics and the Global Community, Hall Center, The University of Kansas, 9/25, 2008

“Imagining Buddhism: Xuanzang’s Journey to India Revisited,” invited lecture, University of the West,4/25, 2008.

“九世纪宦官官僚的形成－以梁守谦为中心,” 西安碑林 920 周年华诞国际学术研讨会, 西安碑林博物馆, 10/24-25, 2007

“当前中国古代史研究中的问题与主义,”北京大学历史系讲座, 10/22, 2007.

“A Journey of Illusion? Re-examining Xuanzang’s Vision of Central Asia and India,”Workshop on the Kinetic Vision in Early Medieval China, Harvard University, 5/25 - 26, 2007

“Views of Confucius and the Duke of Zhou in the Tang,”Conference on “TheRituals of Zhou(Zhouli) in East Asian History: Premodern Asian Statecraft in Comparative Context,”Princeton University, 12/8-11, 2006

“From Dao’an to Huineng: The Making of Buddhist Patriarchs in Medieval China,” invited lecture, The Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 7/14, 2006

“The Making of Literocracy and the Imagination of Literary Success in Late Medieval China,” invited lecture, Pre-modern China Lecture Series, Columbia University, 4/13, 2006

“The ‘Middle Kingdom’ that was India: Discourses on Indian Culture in Medieval China,”Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 4/6-9, 2006

“Why did the Tang Fall: A Re-assessment of the Ninth Century,” invited lecture, East Asian Studies Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies, 1/17, 2006

“Modernizing humanities: The study of the history of Buddhism in China from the 1890s to the 1940s,”The XIV Conference of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, London, United Kingdom, 8/29-9/3, 2005

“The Rise of Buddhist Commentarial Tradition in Eastern Jin,”A Workshop on the Eastern Jin, Harvard University, 5/6-7, 2005

“Narrative, Spirituality, and Representation of Foreign Monks in Early Medieval China: The Case of Huijiao's Biography of Kumārajīva,“The 9th Conference on Redefining Chinese Culture: Chinese and Comparative Historical Thinking in the 21st Century, Fudan University, 4/8-10, 2004

“Literocracy and the Transformation of Medieval Culture,”Chinese Medieval Studies Workshop, Columbia University, 12/13, 2003

“Narrative, Spirituality and Historical Interpretations in Buddhist Biography: A Close Reading of Huijiao's Biography of Kumārajīva,” invited lecture, Seminar on Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, 12/4, 2003

“Narrative, Spirituality, and Voices of Inner Conflicts in Buddhist Biography: The Case of Kumārajīva,”The International Conference on Poetic Thoughts and Hermeneutics in Traditional China: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Yale University, 5/1-4, 2003

“Travel and Learning in Medieval Chinese Buddhism,”University of British Columbia Conference on Buddhist Monasticism, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2/21-2, 2003

“The Characteristic of Medieval Buddhism — The Monastic Network,” invited lecture, Hualin Lecture Series, The School of Literature and the Center for the Study of Chinese Social History, Nankai University, 10/31, 2002

“Rethinking Late Tang Culture: the Case of Literary Families and Social Concept of Purity,” invited lecture, Institute of History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 10/30, 2002

“A New Reading of an Old Problem: The Origin of Chinese Buddhist Scholasticism in the Biographies of Foreign Monks of the Six Dynasties,”History of Chinese Foreign Relations in the Ancient Time: An International Conference on the Research and Collection on the Newly Discovered Materials, Peking University, 10/25-26, 2002

“New Trends in Social and Cultural History of China: A Survey of Western Sinology,” invited lecture, Department of Chinese Literature, Fudan University, 10/23, 2002

“The Trends and Problem of Western Historiography in the Recent Decades,” invited lecture, Key Research Institute of Social Science of China in Nankai University, 10/19, 2002

“The Transformation of Mid- and Late Tang Social Elite and Two Bodies of Civil Service Examinations,” invited lecture, Key Research Institute of Social Science of China in Nankai University, 10/18, 2002

“The Characteristic of Medieval Buddhism — The Monastic Network,” invited lecture, Key Research Institute of Social Science of China in Nankai University, 10/17, 2002

“Eunuch Power, Legitimacy, and Medieval Chinese Kingship: the Case of Tang,” invited lecture, Key Research Institute of Social Science of China in Nankai University, 10/16, 2002

“Aristocracy, Meritocracy, or Literocracy: Re-mapping the Structure of Mid and Late Tang Elite,”New Perspectives on the Tang: An International Conference, Princeton University, 4/18-20, 2002

“Quest of Knowledge: Travel and Learning in Medieval Chinese Buddhism,”Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., 4/4-7, 2002

“A Buddhist Interpretation of Culture and Learning in Ninth Century China: The Case of Shenqing'sBeishan lu,”Interpretation and Intellectual Change: An International Conference on the History of Hermeneutics, Rutgers University, 10/4-6, 2001

“The Transformation of Mid- and Late Tang Social Elite and Two Bodies of Civil Service Examinations,” invited lecture, High-Tang Project Lecture Series, Department of History, Peking University, 6/6, 2000

“Official Writing and Social Transformation in Late Tang,” invited lecture, China Humanities Seminar, Harvard University, 4/17, 2000

“Body Matters: Appearance, Virtue, and Career in Medieval China (200-900),”Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston MA, 4/11-14, 1999

“Body Matters: Appearance, Virtue, and Career in Medieval China (200-900),” invited lecture, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2/22, 1999

“Tension and Reconciliation in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Thought: The Case of Vimalakirtinirde?a and Pure Land Buddhism,”The Third Chung-Hwa International Conference on Buddhism, Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Taipei, Taiwan, 7/19-21, 1997

“The Legacy of the Yuan-ho Era (805-820): A Re-examination of the Political Structure of the Late T'ang Court,”Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu HI, 4/11-15, 1996