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February 2017 ISA (International Studies Association) Baltimore, MD. TBA
Dec. 10-12, 2016 “Immunity without sovereignty: UN case studies from 1940s China” at the Reconstruction of East Asia conference, University of Cambridge
Dec. 7, 2016 “Studying Drugs from a Korean Perspective: The Importance of East Asian Genealogies” at the University of Tuebingen
Nov. 9, 2016 “Theorizing World Collapse and the Death of East Asian IR” USC, Los Angeles, CA
Oct. 26-27, 2016 “Excavating an East Asian Genealogy of Drugs” University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College, for the “Drugs, Politics and Society in the Global South” symposium
May 2016 “The Return of the State in Global Finance: Banking Regulation and the Future of Economic Warfare” at the workshop, “New Moral Economies of Sovereignty” held at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Berkley, CA
May 2015 “Weaponization of Finance: Banking Regulation and the Future of Economic Warfare against Non-Sovereign Actors” at the Law and Society Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA
May 2015 “Contradictory Global Public Health: Privatizing Tobacco and Nation-State Polices in South Korea,” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine in New Haven, CT
April 2015 North Korean Contributions to Global Public Health: WHO and International Cooperation” at International Health Organizations (IHOs): The History for the Future Network, Shanghai Workshop 2015
January 2015 “Reconfiguring Which Universe?: Rethinking Empire and the Unyō Maru Crisis of 1875,” Wake Forest University
Oct. 2014 Roundtable at George Washington University (AACS), “Timeless Models for Chinese IR?: Resurrecting the Tribute System”
July 2014 “The Memorialization of Yi Royal Sacred Spaces: Colonialism, Nationalism and the Transformation of the Altar of Gratitude and the New Hall of Jade Origins at Ch’angdŏk Palace, Seoul” at AAS-in-Asia, Singapore
April 2014 “Smoking towards Neoliberal Unification” at the Center for Korean Studies, University of California-Berkeley
October 2013 “One Mind, One Nation Under Nicotine: Patriotic Smoking in North-South Korean Relations” at the Rising Stars of Korean Studies V, University of Southern California
June 2013 “’One Mind,’ One Nation Under Tobacco” at the Alcohol and Drug History Society Annual Meeting, London, UK
June 2013 “Ways of Seeing and Knowing: Gender and Filiality in Two Chosŏn Biographies of Cross-Dressing Martial Women” at the East Asian Biographies Conference, Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia
March 2013 “Multiple Chinas: Cosmopolitan Confucianism and East Asian International Relations in the Early Modern Period” 2013 Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting
June 2012 “Contradictions in the State Monopoly of Opium and Tobacco in Korea,”Drugs and Drink in Asia Conference, Musto Center for Drug Policy, Shanghai University, PRC
April 2012 “War and Memory in Chosŏn Korea” East Asian Languages and Cultures Department, Columbia University
March 2012 Presented “War and Memory in Early Modern Korea,” East Asian Studies Program & the Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
February 2012 Invited talk, “From Zero to Hero: Memory and Counter-narrative in the Early Modern Korean Public Sphere,” at the University of Pennsylvania
May 2011 Georgetown-JHU Graduate Student Colloquium, presented “Foreign Goods, Local Tastes: The Circulation of Tobacco in Chosŏn Korea” at Georgetown University
January 2011 American Historical Association Annual Meeting: Chair, Politics of Sacred Space in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century East Asia, presented paper, “Sacred Spaces and Early Modern Subjecthood in Chosŏn Korea“
March 2010 Mid-Atlantic American Academy of Religion: presented “The Expansion of Subjecthood in Postwar Chosŏn Korea“
February 2010 Year of Korea colloquium at Kennesaw State: presented “Buddhist Women and the Limitations of Male Authority in Chosŏn Korea