Recent and upcoming events
2024-25
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.
September 27, 2024: “What Comes Next: Search and Reunion as a Collective Practice.” Association of Postcolonial Thought.
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 2024 (date TBA): 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.