Recent and upcoming events
2025-26
February 25, 2026. WIP for Women’s and Gender Studies Works-in-Progress Series. Wellesley College.
November 6, 2025. “Occupation Children and Their Literary Legacies.” Workshop on “The Legacies of Occupation: Kinship, Belonging and Transnational Adoption After World War II,” hosted by University of Cologne and NYU. Deutsches Haus, NYU.
October 12, 2025. Seminar on “Modernist Development and Underdevelopment,” co-organized with Janice Ho. Modernist Studies Association.
October 10, 2025. “Our Infrastructure, Ourselves: Claiming Infrastructure in Korean Transnational Adoption.” Plenary Roundtable Talk. Modernist Studies Association.
2024-25
May 31, 2025. “Legal Kinship: The Adoption Trauma Plot.” Panel on Legal [___]. Society for Novel Studies.
May 10, 2025. “Asymmetrical Exchanges: Adoption Narratives and Their Remainders.” Special Session for Asian Feminisms and Contemporary Cultural Production. Korean Association for Feminist Studies in English Literature. Seoul National University.
March 12, 2025. Guest faculty visit for courses on Asian American Literature (Professor Howie Tam, English) and Asian American History (Professor Yuri Doolan, History), Brandeis University.
February 12, 2025: “Configuring Kin: Adoption Archives, Literature, and the Possibility of Justice.” Speaker Series on Rethinking Korea: New Perspectives on a Critical Region. Northeastern University.
2023-24
April 27, 2024: “What the TRC Means to Me.” Panel on “Diasporic Vision” from the Margins: Transdisciplinary Interventions within Korean Diaspora Studies. Association for Asian American Studies.
April 23, 2024: Presentation at American Literature and Culture Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.
April 9-10, 2024: Conversation and workshop with Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom. Harvard University.
March 9, 2024: Panel conversation on Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play. Brandeis Theater Arts Productions, Brandeis University.
January 4, 2024: “Recovering Adoption Archives.” Panel on 70 Years of Armistice: Ends of the Korean War. Modern Language Association.
November 29, 2023: Guest panelist for Tan Twan Eng’s The House of Doors, Diane Rehm Book Club, produced by WAMU, Washington DC.
October 28, 2023: “Foreclosed Communities of British ‘Brown Babies.’” Seminar on Anticolonialisms/Antifascisms. Modernist Studies Association.
August 13-14, 2023: World Literature and Law Conference, sponsored by Law & Literature. Cardozo Law School.
2022-23
April 11, 2023: Moderator of A Sense of Wonder: A K-drama Literary Reading with Matthew Salesses. Launch event of Genre, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama, the inaugural Korean Studies Symposium, University of Buffalo.
March 2-3, 2023: Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar on Transnational Adoption, Cold War Militarism, and Literary Creation. Co-organized with Catherine H. Nguyen. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.
February 10, 2023: Online book launch for The Aesthetic Life of Infrastructure (Northwestern University Press, 2022). Hosted by UCR Center for Ideas and Society.
January 7, 2023: “Postwar Welfare: U.K., U.S., Korea.” Roundtable on Better State Forms. Modern Language Association.
November 11-12, 2022: “Proxy Wars, Proxy Adoptions.” Symposium on The Cold War and U.S. Empire in Asia. Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College. https://www.wellesley.edu/newhouse/events/node/198641
November 3, 2022: "“On Fungibility.” Roundtable on Insurgent Infrastructures. American Studies Association.