Upcoming academic and public events at which I will be speaking:
Event (click for more info) | Title of Presentation/Talk | Date | Venue |
Presentation at Yale Korean Language & Studies Symposium | Postcolonial Memory and Traces of Seoul’s Shinto Shrines | 28 April 2023 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
Presentation at 2023 Association for Asian Studies AAS-in-Asia Conference | Cold War Reconfigurations of Religion in US-Occupied South Korea | 26 June 2023 | Kyungpook University, Daegu, South Korea |
Presentation at 2023 American Academy of Religion Annual Conference | Postcolonial Memory and Traces of Seoul’s Shinto Shrines: The Palimpsest of Japanese Colonial Religion in South Korea’s Capital | 18-21 November 2023 | San Antonio, Texas |
Past academic and public speaking events:
Event (click for more info) | Title of Presentation/Talk | Date | Venue |
Roundtable participation at 2023 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference | Religion, Barriers, and Possibilities | 18 February 2023 | Virtual |
Presentation at 2022 Susman Graduate History Conference | Setting the Boundaries of Religious Freedom and National Interest in North Korea | 1 April 2022 | Virtual, by Rutgers University |
Presentation at USC Korean Studies Institute Graduate Symposium | The Limits of Religious Freedom in North Korea: How the North Understands Religion | 10 February 2022 | Virtual, by University of Southern California |
Presentation at 2022 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference | Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Americanism in the North Korean Understanding of Religion | 25 March 2022 | Hawai’i Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawai’i |
Presentation at Yale Korean Language & Studies Symposium | North Korean Historiography of Religion, through North Korean Textbooks in the Yale East Asia Library | 10 December 2021 | Virtual, by Yale University |
Presentation at 2021 New England Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference | Rational Restriction on Religion? How North Korea Conceives of Religious Freedom | 6 December 2021 | Virtual, by Harvard University |
Presentation at Boston University Graduate Program in Religion Student Association Conference | The Boundaries of Religious Freedom in North Korea: Excluding Religion to Protect the Revolutionary State | 26 September 2021 | Virtual, by Boston University |
Lecture on North Korea at Bristol Public Library | The “Other” Korea | 14 September 2021 | Bristol Public Library, Bristol, Connecticut |
Presentation at 8th Annual Korea University Graduate Student Conference | A Marginal Religion and COVID-19 in South Korea: Shincheonji, Public Discourse, and the Shaping of Religion | May 2021 | Korea University, Seoul, South Korea |
Remarks in webinar on “Chairman Lee, Shincheonji, and COVID-19: The Verdict” | No title | February 2021 | Virtual, by CESNUR |
Presentation at Contesting Memorial Spaces in the Asia-Pacific Conference | The Memory and Legacy of Shinto Shrine Sites in Seoul: The Geography of Colonial Religious Topoi | November 2020 | Virtual, by Kyushu University |
Presentation at 2020 New England Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference | Marginal Religion and COVID-19 in Korea: Shincheonji, Public Discourse, and the Shaping of Categorical Language | October 2020 | Virtual, by University of Vermont |
Presentation at 2020 Harvard East Asia Society Conference | City Boundaries and the Traces of the Kami: Borders, Urban Spaces, and the Legacy and Memory of Shinto Shrines in Seoul | February 2020 | Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Featured speaker at ThiNK at Yale event | Covering North Korea: Analysis, Journalism, Scholarship | December 2019 | Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut |
Presentation at Implicit Religion USA conference | A ‘Laissez Faire Policy?’ Defining and Categorizing Religion in Occupied South Korea | June 2019 | Monmouth 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 Korea | May 2019 | George Washington University, Washington, DC |
Presentation at University of Pennsylvania EALC Graduate Conference 2019 | Managing Post-Colonial Religious Rights: Religious Freedom and Religions Policy of the U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948 | April 2019 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Presentation at Columbia University 28th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia | Benevolent Neutrality: Religious Freedom and Religions Policy of the U.S. Military Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948 | February 2019 | Columbia University, New York, New York |
Presentation at 47th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference | Fostering Freedom and Faith: Religious Liberty and Christianization in the U.S. Occupation of South Korea, 1945-1948 | November 2018 | Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania |
Presentation at 6th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars | Politics, Public, and Shamans: Marginalization of Shamanism in Korea, Past and Present | May 2018 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
Presentation at 46th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference | Religious and National Identity in Korea, 1860-1945 | October 2017 | Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Presentation at James Joo-Jin Kim Program in Korean Studies Undergraduate Fellow Research Symposium | Respected but Marginalized: The Paradoxical Treatment of Shamanism in South Korea | May 2017 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Presentation at University of Pennsylvania EALC Graduate Conference 2017 | The Soviet-based Korean Communist Movement beyond Kim Il Sung | April 2017 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Presentation at Columbia University 26th Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia | The Politics of Shintō in Colonial Korea: Religion on the Margins of Japan’s Empire | February 2017 | Columbia 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 2016 | World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Panel speaker in “Missiles, Nukes, Markets, Madman?: North Korea in 2016” North Korea Roundtable | A More Credible Deterrent?: Nuclear and Missile Developments in North Korea, 2016 | October 2016 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Presentation at “What Isn’t Shinto?” Shinto Symposium 2016 | Shintō in Colonial Korea: A Broadening Narrative of Imperial Era Shintō | September 2016 | University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |