Talk to graduate architecture students in GSAPP at Columbia Univiersity, New York, on Status-Appropriate Spaces: How Bangkok’s architecture negotiates formal and informal Thai values.

Guest lecture for graduate students of communications deign at CommMa on ‘How cultural filters adapt traditions, imports and commerce into hybrid Thai pop’.

I turned ideas behind my book Very Bangkok into a tool for analysing cities in my TEDx Chiang Mai talk: How to Build a Sensory Profile of Place.

I spoke about that in ‘Typecast by Typeface: How Thai Fonts Reveal Cultural Values’ in the opening talk of the region’s leading typography conference, BITS 10: the 10th Bangkok Brand Identity & Typography Symposium.

In this new series of programs by Thailand Foundation I give a talk on ‘Decoding Bangkok.’

The Anglo-Thai Society invited me to speak to society members in the first of its series of virtual talks via Zoom during Covid lockdown.

20 Years of Thai Thai: Phases in Thai Popular Culture 1994-2014. A talk at The National Museum in Bangkok for the National Museum Volunteers’ Lecture Series.

I spoke in the official Fringe of UWRF 2014 about ‘Very Thai, Very Volatile: 20 Years of Change in Popular Culture.’ An evening talk at Bar Luna, Ubud.

Philip Cornwel-Smith spoke at the Creative Bangkok international symposium on ‘Very Thai Thai: How Pop Became Heritage’, alongside speakers from Google, Nasa, Walt Disney, Le Cordon Bleu, duPont and Cirque du Soleil.

‘20 Years of ThaiThai: Phases in Thai Popular Culture 1994-2014’. A talk on July 1 at Thammasat University to the students of its to the International Programme. Very Thai is one of their set texts. Philip spoke on the phases of Thai popular culture that he has witnessed during those two decades in Bangkok.

Bangkok’s oldest Rotary Club hosted a talk by Philip Cornwel-Smith called ‘Very Thai Thai: How Pop Became Culture’. Held at the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in Bangkok

As part of the TCDC exhibition ‘Hello World’, Philip Cornwel-Smith spoke at TCDC on March 8 2014. Called ‘Very Thai Cultural Filters: How Hybrids preserve and project a sense of Thainess’, the talk went into the ways that Thais are selective about what they import and adapt into hybrids.

I gave a talk at Bangkok’s most historic library, focusing on the emergence of popular culture becoming a legitimate form of Thainess known as ‘Thai Thai’, and the exploration of everyday practical solutions being recognized as ‘Vernacular Design’.

‘Phases of Bangkok: Interpreting Thai urban popular culture since 1994’. I spoke at the American Women’s Club, Bangkok, in a ‘Luncheon Talk’ at Jester’s restaurant on the river at the Peninsula Bangkok Hotel.

‘Very Thai Thai’. Philip spoke at the National Museum Volunteers Lecture Series’s annual lecture series for the third year in a row, and the fourth time in total. That year’s talk drew from the new chapters in the 2nd edition of Very Thai, focusing on the emergence of popular culture becoming a legitimate form of Thainess known as ‘Thai Thai’, and the exploration of everyday practical solutions being recognized as ‘Vernacular Design’.

‘The Thai Hybrid: How Thai culture makes imports its own’. I was invited to give a guest lecture to the Thai and international students doing the first foundation year of the CommDe degree programme, of the Communications Design Faculty at Chulalongkorn University.

‘Phases of Bangkok: Interpreting Thai urban popular culture since 1994.’ The International Studies Department of Bangkok’s Thammasat University held a talk at its Tha Phra Chan campus by Philip Cornwel-Smith, addressing an audience of mainly American international students to familiarise them with how the Thai capital has developed.

I gave a keynote talk on ‘Thai Pop Icons: Mysteries & Masterkeys’ to an audience of new arrival expatriates in Bangkok. The event was hosted by BNH Hospital and Santa Fe removals company and held in BNH Hospital.

I gave a talk at the Bangkok chapter of Pecha Kucha on 23 Jan 2013. The event was held at Neilson Hays Library in Bangkok. The format requires speakers to talk for 20 seconds each for 20 slides. My subject was ‘Taking Pop’s Pulse: What Philip Cornwel-Smith does’.