Invited Talks
2025 “The Globalization of K-Culture,” Korea Economic Institute of America, Washington, DC (Online talk)
2025 “Conducting Research in Theatre and Performance as a Participant-Observer,” Interdisciplinary Program in Performing Arts, Seoul National University, Korea (Online talk)
2025 “Korean Wave and Global Korea,” Center for Korean Research and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, NY (Online talk)
2025 “Beyond the Sewol: Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora,” Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University, AZ
2024 “K-pop Fandom: Performing Materialization of Affective Labor,” K-Pop: Musical Production and Consumption Conference, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University, CT
2024 “Beyond the Sewol: Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora,” Celebrating 100 Years of the Department of English Language and Literature, Ewha W. University, Korea (Online talk)
2024 “K-pop Fandom: Performing Materialization of Affective Labor,” Reputation Symposium, Centre for Corporate Reputation, Oxford University, UK
2024 “Navigating Careers: Job Market,” Decolonizing Korean Studies Collective (Online talk)
2024 “K-pop Fandom: Performing Materialization of Affective Labor,” Department of Asian American Studies and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Davis, CA
2023 “What’s Up with K-pop Fandom?” Casa Con (Online talk)
2023 “Performing Collaborative Public Counter-Memory: Activist Theatre and Performance in South Korea and the Diaspora,” Institute of English and American Studies, Ewha W. University, Korea (Online talk)
2023 “K-pop and the U.S., K-pop in the U.S.,” ROK-US Alliance Symposium organized/sponsored by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Los Angeles and Arizona State University, AZ
2023 “Contemporary Korean Cinema,” K-Culture: Korean History/Culture Seminar organized/sponsored by the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles and Arizona State University, AZ
2023 “Beyond the Sewol: Performing Collaborative Public Counter-Memory in South Korean Theatre and Performance,” Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Korea
2022 Moderator, Publication Forum: The History of Korean Gay Films, Seoul International Pride Film Festival, Korea
2022 “Contemporary Korean Cinema,” Ewha Language Center, Ewha W. University, Korea
2021 “Performing Memory and Testimony after a National Tragedy: The Sewol Mothers in Korean Theatre and Performance,” Institute of Humanities, Chonnam National University, Korea (Online due to COVID-19)
2021 “Squid Game discussion with Dr. Areum Jeong,” Center for Korea Studies, University of Washington (Online due to COVID-19)
2019 “Representing the Unrepresentable: Staging the Sewol Ferry Disaster in Theatre Troupe Yellow Ribbon’s Talent Show, Namsan Art Center’s From Pluto, and Camino de Ansan,” 4.16 Foundation, Korea
2018 “Performing Documentative Imagi-nation: Transnational Acts of Activism in South Korea,” Asia Culture Center, Korea
2018 Interpreter, Panelist, Post-Show Discussions and Workshops with South Korean Filmmaker Jee-woon Kim, Vanderbilt University, TN, Duke University, NC
2018 Respondent, Book Talk: Elizabeth Son’s Embodied Reckonings: “Comfort Women,” Performance, and Transpacific Redress, Performance Studies international, Korea
2018 Moderator, Interpreter, “An Introduction to Daegu’s Art Scene: Theatre Troupe TRAIN,” Performance Studies international, Korea
2016 Post-Show Discussion Moderator, Ping Chong + Company’s Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Santa Barbara, CA