Xinmin Liu attended the 2025 Conference of ASLE (Association for Studies of Literature and Environment, biennial) held at College-Park, University of Maryland, on July 8-11, 2025. The conference theme is Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Identity, and Liu made a panel presentation entitled “Seeing Is Not Believing: Atmospheric Ambience in Countering Telescopic Seeing” on July 10 in a panel focusing on East Asian Eco-cinema organized by Kiu-wai Chu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore).