Events
Talks, lectures & conference papers
Selected invited talks, guest lectures, and conference presentations.
Upcoming
New engagements will be listed here once confirmed. For invitations, please get in touch.
Past
- 2026
Invited talkCenter for Korean Studies, University of California, Los Angeles · Jan 29, 2026 - 2026
Invited talkHow Korea Impact Chinese Popular CultureCenter for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles - 2025
ConferenceIntertextuality Across Histories and Geographies in Contemporary East Asian CinemaSociety for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, IL · April 3–6 - 2025
ConferenceNetworking Women: East Asian Women in Global Cinematic MediaRound table, National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program, Washington, D.C. · March 6–8 - 2024
Invited talkEast Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California · Oct 31, 2024 - 2024
Invited talkGlobal Korean Screen Culture in Postsocialist ChinaCarnegie Mellon University - 2023
ConferenceReframing Korean Screen Culture: Recent Changes in Social, Gender, and Industrial LandscapesKorean Screen Culture Conference, Melbourne, Australia · December 1–2 - 2023
Invited talkCouncil on East Asian Studies, Yale University · Apr 26, 2023 - 2023
Invited talkScreen Capitalism: Global Korean Screen Culture in Postsocialist ChinaUniversity of Rochester - 2022
ConferenceAssociation for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI · March 24–27 - 2021
Invited talkKim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs, Korea Institute, Harvard University - 2021
Invited talkNonsense or an Alternative Language?: The Lingualscape in the Transnational Korean Screen CultureKorean Heritage Language Research Group Roundtable, UC Irvine - 2021
WorkshopOpening a Virtual Space before the Door of the Law: The Transnational Togani Effect from Silenced to Angels Wear WhiteKorean Studies Working Group at Harvard, Cambridge, MA · April 23 - 2020
Invited talkThe Task Force for Asian American Progressive Advocacy and Studies at Harvard · Dec 7, 2020 - 2020
Guest lectureNation, Memory, and DemocratizationHistory, Nationalism, and the World: The Case of Korea, Harvard - 2019
ConferenceThe Powerless in the Power-of-Screen: From Silenced to CarnivalAssociation for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO · March 21–24 - 2018
ConferenceFrom a ‘to-be-looked-at’ Object to a ‘to-cater-to’ Subject: A Shift of Viewing Subject and Gender Identity in the Rise of Korean Popular CultureInternational Federation for Research on Women’s History, Simon Fraser University, Canada · August 9–12 - 2018
ConferenceCollaborative Transplant: Hurry Up, BrothersKorean Wave Still Matters: Present and Future Directions Conference, Monash University, Australia · June 7–8 - 2018
ConferenceGendered Screen-capitalism: A Shifting Gaze and Female Friendship14th Biennial Asian Studies in Israel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem · May 23–24 - 2018
Guest lectureThe Power of Screen: Hallyu and its Reception in ChinaKorean Failures, UC Irvine - 2017
ColloquiumTransplantable Screen-capitalism: Chinese Remakes of Korean TV ProgramRecent Books in Korean Studies Colloquium, Center for Critical Korean Studies, UC Irvine · May 25–26 - 2017
Guest lectureSpectator-subject, Co-production, and Reception of Korean TelevisionGender and Visuality in Korea, UC Irvine - 2015
ConferencePop Culture as Healing and Reconciliation: Supernaturalism and the Supersensory in Korean Cinema and K-dramaWestern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Salt Lake City, UT · October 9–10