Please see the list below for a full list of presentations conducted by Professor Sanders:
- “Translating Du Fu.” 26 Apr 2019. Roundtable presentation at EAS Annual Conference—Translation: Commitment and Compromise, University of Toronto.
- “What can you do with classical Chinese poetry?” 4 May 2018. Annual Rohrbach Lecture. St. John’s College, Santa Fe.
- “Fake Views: Poetic Presentations of the Self in Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Life Adrift.” 31 Mar 2017. Paul Hsiang Lecture Series on Chinese Poetry. McGill University. Montréal.
- “Circulation of Tang Anecdotes.” October 8-10, 2015. Paper presented at 69th annual RMMLA convention, Santa Fe.
- “Translating Chinese Poetry.” October 8-10, 2015. Poetry reading at 69th annual RMMLA convention, Santa Fe.
- “Re-Reading Chinese Poetry in a Digital Context.” Jan 2014. Paper presented at MLA Annual Conference, Chicago.
- “Out With It! Judicial Torture in Chinese Vernacular Stories of the Ming.” 2 Feb 2010. Pre-Modern China Lecture Series. Columbia University. New York.
- Closing Address at “T’ang Studies: The Next Twenty-Five Years: An International Conference to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the T’ang Studies Society.” 9 May 2009. University at Albany, Albany, New York.
- “What Does Being a Literary Man Mean?” March 2009. Paper presented at AAS Annual Conference, Chicago.
- “The Myth of the Timeless Poem Belied by Anecdotes.” May 2008. International Conference on Anecdote, Gossip, and Occasion in Traditional China, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies.
- “Can Poetry be its Own Context? Recurring Images in the Works of Meng Jiao (751-814).” April 2006. Workshop on Translating Contexts of Chinese Poetry, Univ. of Toronto.
- “Constructing Narrative Contexts for Chinese Poetry: Should we tell a good lie?” April 2005. Workshop on Translating Contexts of Chinese Poetry, Harvard University.
- “Grief Without Borders: Translating the Anguish of the Chinese Poet, Meng Jiao (751-814).” January 2004. International Conference on the Humanities. University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
- “Out with It!: The Aesthetics of Torture in Chinese Court Case Stories.” March 2001. International Conference on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Torture in China, UofT.
- “How to Do Things with Poetry: Poetic Praxis in Tang Anecdotal Narratives.” March 1999. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Boston. 22 pp.
- “Classical Chinese Poetry in Modern Print Media.” August 1998. Invited paper for a conference on “Chinese Modernism: New Perspectives on Chinese Culture of the 1910s,” Charles University, Prague. 28 pp.
- “Poetry Matters in the Life and Work of Qu You (1347-1433).” March 1998. Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS), Washington, D.C. 14 pp.
- “Inside Out: Poetry in Han Biographical Writing.” June 1997. Annual Meeting of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC), Pacific Grove, CA. 46 pp.