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Ned Legaspi presented "Bamboo Against the Current: Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in a Multipolar Media World" at the Graduate Student Conference 2025 of the UP Asian Center on 31 May 2025. It was his first academic conference and the first public presentation of the Culturally Intelligent Storytelling Bamboo Framework.
Ned Legaspi presented "Reclaiming Filipino Narratives: The CIS Bamboo Framework for Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Philippine Film and Series" at the 30th Annual Philippine Studies Forum in Japan, held on 21 and 22 June 2025 at the Komaba Campus of the University of Tokyo. It was his first forum outside the Philippines.
Ned Legaspi presented “Culturally Intelligent Storytelling: A Southeast Asian Lens on Narrative, Identity, and Engagement” at the 15th Biennial Conference of the Asian Consumer and Family Economics Association in Hanoi, Vietnam, on July 9, 2025. Accepted into the official program following blind review, the paper brought a Southeast Asian perspective on narrative, identity, and engagement into an international interdisciplinary conference.
Ned Legaspi presented "Culturally Intelligent Storytelling in Climate Communication: A Southeast Asian Lens on Resonance, Care, and Representation" at the 2025 AUN-EEC Conference on Ecological Culture and Education. His paper ran in Parallel Session 5 on 28 August 2025 at Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City.
Ned Legaspi presented "Restorying Heritage: A Culturally Intelligent Framework for Reclaiming Philippine Narratives" at the Philippine Studies Conference 2025 at SOAS University of London on 20 September 2025. The conference theme was Repatriating Philippine Heritage, and his paper argued that storytelling itself can be a form of return.
Ned Legaspi spoke on culturally intelligent newswriting at the TFCN Global News Summit in the Netherlands on 21 September 2025. He joined online from London, where he was at the Philippine Studies Conference at SOAS, and made the case that a story lands differently depending on who is reading it.