Speaking Engagements

Upcoming academic and public events at which I will be speaking:

Event (click for more info)Title of Presentation/TalkDateVenue
Presentation at Yale Korean Language & Studies SymposiumPostcolonial Memory and Traces of Seoul’s Shinto Shrines28 April 2023Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Presentation at 2023 Association for Asian Studies AAS-in-Asia ConferenceCold War Reconfigurations of Religion in US-Occupied South Korea26 June 2023Kyungpook University, Daegu, South Korea

Past academic and public speaking events:

Event (click for more info)Title of Presentation/TalkDateVenue
Roundtable participation at 2023 Association for Asian Studies Annual ConferenceReligion, Barriers, and Possibilities18 February 2023Virtual
Presentation at 2022 Susman Graduate History ConferenceSetting the Boundaries of Religious Freedom and National Interest in North Korea1 April 2022Virtual, by Rutgers University
Presentation at USC Korean Studies Institute Graduate SymposiumThe Limits of Religious Freedom in North Korea: How the North Understands Religion10 February 2022Virtual, by University of Southern California
Presentation at 2022 Association for Asian Studies Annual ConferenceAnti-Imperialism and Anti-Americanism in the North Korean Understanding of Religion25 March 2022Hawai’i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i
Presentation at Yale Korean Language & Studies SymposiumNorth Korean Historiography of Religion, through North Korean Textbooks in the Yale East Asia Library10 December 2021Virtual, by Yale University
Presentation at 2021 New England Association for Asian Studies Regional ConferenceRational Restriction on Religion? How North Korea Conceives of Religious Freedom6 December 2021Virtual, by Harvard University
Presentation at Boston University Graduate Program in Religion Student Association ConferenceThe Boundaries of Religious Freedom in North Korea: Excluding Religion to Protect the Revolutionary State26 September 2021Virtual, by Boston University
Lecture on North Korea at Bristol Public LibraryThe “Other” Korea14 September 2021Bristol Public Library, Bristol, Connecticut
Presentation at 8th Annual Korea University Graduate Student ConferenceA Marginal Religion and COVID-19 in South Korea: Shincheonji, Public Discourse, and the Shaping of ReligionMay 2021Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
Remarks in webinar on “Chairman Lee, Shincheonji, and COVID-19: The Verdict”No titleFebruary 2021Virtual, by CESNUR
Presentation at Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia-Pacific ConferenceThe Memory and Legacy of Shinto Shrine Sites in Seoul: The Geography of Colonial Religious TopoiNovember 2020Virtual, by Kyushu University
Presentation at 2020 New England Association for Asian Studies Regional ConferenceMarginal Religion and COVID-19 in Korea: Shincheonji, Public Discourse, and the Shaping of Categorical LanguageOctober 2020Virtual, by University of Vermont
Presentation at 2020 Harvard East Asia Society ConferenceCity Boundaries and the Traces of the Kami: Borders, Urban Spaces, and the Legacy and Memory of Shinto Shrines in SeoulFebruary 2020Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Featured speaker at ThiNK at Yale eventCovering North Korea: Analysis, Journalism, ScholarshipDecember 2019Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Presentation at Implicit Religion USA conferenceA ‘Laissez Faire Policy?’ Defining and Categorizing Religion in Occupied South KoreaJune 2019Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey
Presentation at 2019 International Graduate Conference on the Cold War‘Nothing Less Than a Religious War’: The Genesis of the Religious Cold War in KoreaMay 2019George Washington University, Washington, DC
Presentation at University of Pennsylvania EALC Graduate Conference 2019Managing Post-Colonial Religious Rights: Religious Freedom and Religions Policy of the U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948April 2019University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presentation at Columbia University 28th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East AsiaBenevolent Neutrality: Religious Freedom and Religions Policy of the U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948February 2019Columbia University, New York, New York
Presentation at 47th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies ConferenceFostering Freedom and Faith: Religious Liberty and Christianization in the U.S. Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948November 2018Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania
Presentation at 6th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies ScholarsPolitics, Public, and Shamans: Marginalization of Shamanism in Korea, Past and PresentMay 2018University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Presentation at 46th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies ConferenceReligious and National Identity in Korea, 1860-1945October 2017Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presentation at James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies Undergraduate Fellow Research SymposiumRespected but Marginalized: The Paradoxical Treatment of Shamanism in South KoreaMay 2017University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presentation at University of Pennsylvania EALC Graduate Conference 2017The Soviet-based Korean Communist Movement beyond Kim Il SungApril 2017University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presentation at Columbia University 26th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East AsiaThe Politics of Shintō in Colonial Korea: Religion on the Margins of Japan’s EmpireFebruary 2017Columbia University, New York, New York
Featured speaker at “Basketball Diplomacy and the North Korean Mind: Film and Discussion”North Korea: What Do We Know?November 2016World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Panel speaker in “Missiles, Nukes, Markets, Madman?: North Korea in 2016” North Korea RoundtableA More Credible Deterrent?: Nuclear and Missile Developments in North Korea, 2016October 2016University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Presentation at “What Isn’t Shinto?” Shinto Symposium 2016Shintō in Colonial Korea: A Broadening Narrative of Imperial Era ShintōSeptember 2016University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania