On Friday, April 28, 2023, I will be presenting at the 2023 Symposium of Yale Korean Language and Studies. The symposium will be held from 3:00pm to 6:00pm EDT.

My presentation will cover “Postcolonial Memory and Traces of Seoul’s Shinto Shrines.”

On Monday, June 26, 2023, I will be presenting at the Association for Asian Studies’ AAS-in-Asia Conference at Kyungpook National University in Daegu, South Korea.

My presentation, titled “Cold War Reconfigurations of Religion in US-Occupied South Korea,” will be part of a panel I co-organized with Daigengna Duoer entitled “Religion and Cold War in East Asia,” together with Sandra H. Park (George Washington University), Jonathan Feuer (University of California, Los Angeles), and Daigengna Duoer (University of California, Santa Barbera), joined by Paul S. Cha (Hong Kong University) as discussant. Our panel will be from 9:00am to 10:50am.

On Saturday, February 18, 2023, I will be participating and speaking at the Association for Asian Studies Conference (AAS) virtual component.

I will speak on the topic of “Religion, Barriers, and Possibilities” as part of a roundtable entitled “Disability as Possibility: A Roundtable in Honor of Mark R. Bookman 1991-2022,” together with Carolyn S. Stevens (Monash University), Alexandra Hambleton (Tsuda University), and Genevieve Tan (University of Pennsylvania). Our panel will be from 8:00am to 9:30am EST.

On Friday, December 10, 2021, I will be presenting at the 2021 Symposium of Yale Korean Language and Studies. The symposium will be held via Zoom from 6:00pm to 7:30pm EST.

My five-minute presentation will cover “North Korean Historiography of Religion, through North Korean Textbooks in the Yale East Asia Library,” and is scheduled to begin at 6:55pm EST.

On Thursday, February 10, 2022, I will be presenting at the USC Korean Studies Institute Graduate Symposium. My presentation is titled “The Limits of Religious Freedom in North Korea: How the North Understands Religion.”

The symposium will be held online via Zoom from 1:00pm-5:00pm PST (4:00pm-8:00pm EST). I will present third in Panel 2 (Governance), from 2:00pm-2:55pm PST (5:00pm-5:55pm EST).

On Friday, March 25, 2022, I will be presenting at the Association for Asian Studies Conference (AAS) in Honolulu, Hawai’i.

My presentation, titled “Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Americanism in the North Korean Understanding of Religion,” will be part of a panel entitled “Anti-Americanism in Asia: Transnational Resistance, National Independence, and Domestic Suppression,” together with Chiou-Ling Yeh (San Diego State University) and Joy N. Sales (California State University, Los Angeles), with Mark J. Sanchez (Vanderbilt University) as chair and discussant. Our panel will be from 11:30am to 1:00pm.

On Monday, December 6, 2021, I will be presenting at the New England Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference (NE AAS).

My presentation, titled “Rational Restriction on Religion? How North Korea Conceives of Religious Freedom,” will be part of a Panel D2 on modern Korea with fellow Yale graduate students Jusung Lee and Karis Ryu. Our panel, entitled “Nation, Religion, and Society in Modern Korea: Examinations of Religious Freedom & Restriction, Modern Social Engagement, and (Inter)National Identity and Belonging,” will be from 3:30pm to 5:00pm EST. The panel will be chaired by Kyuhoon Cho of Regina University.

The conference will be held online via Zoom. Register here for free.

See the full conference program here.

On Sunday, September 26, 2021, I will be presenting at “Religion & (Breaking) Boundaries,” a virtual conference organized by the Boston University Graduate Program in Religion Student Association.

My presentation, titled “The Boundaries of Religious Freedom in North Korea: Excluding Religion to Protect the Revolutionary State,” will be part of Panel 2A, “Nation and Culture: Concealment, Activism, and Freedom,” which will be from 10:30am-12:05pm EDT.

The conference will be held online and registration is free. Register here.