Lim, Yiru. Lecture on Empathy, Art and Society (invited speaker). Sookmyung Institute of Humanities, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea, 13 Dec 2024.
Lim, Yiru. “Lonely Narratives – Stories of Living and Dying Alone.” "Loneliness" 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference, 26-27 Sep 2024.
Lim, Yiru. “The Image and the Performance of the Witness.” Association for Asian Studies, 8th AAS-in-Asia Conference, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, 24-27 Jun 2023.
Lim, Yiru. “How to Pronounce Rupture: Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Imaginings of Self.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting 16-18 Jun 2022.
Seminar organiser, panel chair, presenter.
Lim, Yiru. "It's a Layered Thing: Embodied History in Public Spaces." Oral History Association 2021 Annual Meeting, 9-14 Oct 2021.
Lim, Yiru. “Others is Not a Race: Cultural Reclamation and Erasure.” The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, 15-19 Jul 2019.
Panel convenor, panel chair, presenter.
Lim, Yiru. “Ninth International Conference on The Image,” Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, SAR, 3-4 Nov 2018.
Lim, Yiru. “The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye: A Portrait of the Invisible Artist.” The Eighth Asian Conference on Arts and Humanities (ACAH2017), Kobe, Japan, 30 Mar – 2 Apr 2017.
Lim, Yiru. “Straddling the Divide: Virginia Woolf and John Banville.” Borders of Modernism, International Conference, Centre for European Modernism Studies (CEMS), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, 14-16 Dec 2016.
Lim, Yiru. “The Garden City: Planting a Tree, Growing a Nation.” ‘Spontaneous Beauties’? World Gardens and Gardens in the World, An International Conference, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 10-12 Jun 2016.
Lim, Yiru. “Lost in Transit: Considering Representation in the Contemporary.” CAMPUS ASIAEAUI, Winter School 2012. East Asian University Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 27 Feb -1 Mar 2012.
Lim, Yiru. “Telling the Story about Storytelling: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea.” The Contemporary: An International Conference of Literature and the Arts, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 24-26 Jun 2011.