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Delivered the research presentation, "Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing," at the Issues in Mental Health Policy Seminar at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City on January 29, 2020.


Presented twice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in November: (1) first delivering a research presentation, "From OTMs (other than Mexicans) to YAMS (you're all Mexicans): Conflating Latina/o/x Migrants,鈥 at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, on November 14, 2019; (2) as a panelist for the Social Science Matters series, "Critical Issues for the 2020 Election Cycle: U.S. Immigration Policy,鈥 on November 19, 2019.


Delivered the closing keynote address, "The Global Next Door: Local Engagement, Accompaniment, and New Forms of Diversity," at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference, "Crossing Borders and Boundaries: Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers." San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 2019.


Hong, A. M. (2025) H & G, a great and terrible story, a lyric opera adapted from Anna Maria Hong鈥檚 novella, H & G, was performed at the Eastman School of Music鈥檚 Winter Voice Festival on January 30鈥揊ebruary 2, 2025, directed by Timothy Long and Pat Diamond. Hong co-wrote the libretto with composer Allen Shawn and theater director Jean Randich.


Hong, A.M. Invited Speaker, 鈥淎API Sonnets.鈥 University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 16, 2025.


Hong, A.M. Invited Reader, Octagon Reading Series, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 15, 2025.


Anna Maria Hong joined the Creative Writing Advisory Board at Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal in August 2024.


Anna Maria Hong presented on the 鈥淏ut Thou Thyself Unbind鈥: The Uncontainable Sonnet seminar with Dora Malech, Lauren K. Watel, Laura T. Smith, and Walt Hunter at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference in Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2024.


Hong, A.M. (2024) Invited Reader, 鈥淩eading and Interview with Ellen Miller-Mack, Riley Bowen, and Jon Plodzik.鈥 Poet Talk, WMUA, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, August 29, 2024.


Anna Maria Hong judged the 2024 Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Shenandoah literary magazine, selecting poems by Majda Gama as the winner and by Desiree Santana as the runner-up.