Selected Presentations & Appearances
Archives of Absence: Navigating Silenced Histories Across Japanese and American Empires
· May 2025
Invited Talk
Stanford University ,
Decolonizing Local/Global Archive Stories
· May 2024
Keynote/Named Lecture
Yonsei University,
Seoul
Minor(itized) Aesthetics
- Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond, Situations International Conference
· February 2024
International Meeting or Conference
London, England
Teaching Conflicts in Asia for K-12 Educators
· January 2024
Keynote/Named Lecture
Annual Association for Asian Studies in Asia Southeast Regional Conference,
Winston Salem, NC
USIA/S Films In Asia
· September 2023
Invited Talk
Dartmouth College,
Dartmouth, NH
Worlding Zainichi Cultural Studies
· July 2023
Keynote/Named Lecture
Osaka University,
Osaka, Japan
Postcolonial Vengeance: Return of the Colonial Unconscious
· April 2023
Invited Talk
Northwestern University,
Chicago, IL
Queering the Post/Colonial Cinematic Archive
- Gender Studies Now Colloquium
· March 2023
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Durham, NC
Decolonizing Film Studies and the Rise of Global Korean Cinema
· February 2023
Invited Talk
Vanderbilt University,
Decolonizing Asian Studies?
· June 2022
International Meeting or Conference
University of Cambridge,
Cambridge, England
Transpacific Pedagogy in Asian American Studies--Duke University Archives
· April 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Association for Asian American Studies ,
Denver, Colorado
Bordercrossing Research Collaboration on Colonial and Postcolonial Cinema in East and Southeast Asia
- Association for Asian Studies Conference
· March 2022
International Meeting or Conference
Honolulu, Hawaii
Millennial Vengeance: Park Chan-Wook's "Agassi"
- Empires in Motion International Conference
· March 2022
International Meeting or Conference
University of Hawaii, Manoa,
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Animating and Navigating the Motion Picture Archive of the United States Information Agency
· October 2021
International Meeting or Conference
American Studies Association,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Building Asian American & Diaspora Studies in the Local South
· April 2021
Lecture
Association for Asian American Studies,
Online
Strange Bedfellows: Asian American Studies and Asian Studies in the 21st Century
· January 2021
Other
Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures,
University of Virginia
Japanophone Literature in the Age of Three Worlds
· February 2020
Invited Talk
Yale University,
“Francophone vs Japanophone Literatures? A Transpacific Query on Absence”
· June 2019
Invited Talk
Arabic Language Institute in Fez,
Fez, Morocco
“Gaming Conflicts and Cultures”
- International Teaching & Learning Conference
· June 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Political Studies Association,
Brighton, England
“Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko Goes Global: Translating “Zainichi” Between Anglophone and Japanophone Literatures"
- Japanese Diaspora to the Americas: Literature, History, and Identity Conference
· May 2019
International Meeting or Conference
Yale University MacMillan Center,
. “Figure of the Translator”
· October 27, 2017
Invited Talk
Department of World Literatures,
Boston University
“Japanophone Literature?”
· July 5, 2017
Invited Talk
Wongang University
“Forgetting and Remembering Kim Saryang: Excavating Divided Literary Legacies in East Asia”
- 28th AKSE Conference
· April 2017
International Meeting or Conference
Faculty of Arts, Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
“Performing Interracial and Inter-Ideological Crossings in Transwar East Asia”
· July 2016
International Meeting or Conference
Meji Gakuin University,
Tokyo, Japan
“Performing Transwar East Asia’s Transition”
· June 2016
International Meeting or Conference
Association for Asian Studies in Asia,
Kyoto, Japan
Postcolonial Literature and Modernity in East Asia 后殖民主义与亚太文学现代性
· May 26, 2016
Invited Talk
Shandong University,
Shandong, China
Book talk: Intimate Empire
· March 24, 2016
Invited Talk
Macalester College,
St. Paul, MN
“Conflicting Colonial Memories in East Asia”
· March 10, 2016
Invited Talk
L’école des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ,
Paris, France
“Post-Cold War?”
· March 2, 2016
Invited Talk
University of Oslo,
Oslo, Norway
“Paradox of Post-Cold War and Post-Colonial Asia Pacific: Crossing Asian Studies and American Studies”
· April 2014
Keynote/Named Lecture
College of William and Mary,
Translating Zainichi Literature
· January 11, 2013
Lecture
University of California--Berkeley
Teaching Korean Literature in Translation
· July 28, 2012
Lecture
Musashi University-Tokyo, Japan
Colonial Korean Cinema in the Japanese Empire
· July 14, 2012
Lecture
Kyoto University--Institute of Humanities Research
Geopolitics of Collaboration: Remapping Korea after the "Manchurian Incident"
· November 17, 2011
Lecture
Columbia University
Imagining Imperial Communities and Consuming Colonial Collections
· August 26, 2011
Lecture
Seoul National University
“번역된 조우와 식민지 표상의 난제: 제국의 언어로 글쓰기 [Translated Encounters and the Conundrum of Representing the Colonized: Imperial Language Writings in Colonial Korea],
· July 1, 2011
Lecture
Musashi University Tokyo, Japan
Censorship and Dialogue across the Colonial Divide
· April 30, 2011
Lecture
Princeton University
Colonial Modernity and the Conundrum of Representation: Korean Literature in the Japanese Empire
· March 4, 2011
Lecture
National University of Singapore
“Fissures, Silences, Failures: Question of Agency in Colonial Cinema”
· November 1, 2010
Lecture
NYU Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts
“アメリカの コリアンスタヂィス “ [State of the Field: Korean Studies in North American Universities]
· July 1, 2010
Lecture
Musashi University, Tokyo, Japan
“Cinematic Coproductions and the Colonial Archive”
· March 1, 2010
Lecture
University of Southern California
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Teaching and working with refugee and migrant youth - Duke Engage Koreas
· 2014
- 2025
Service Learning
South Korea
Service to the Profession
Participant
- Faculty Curriculum on Anti-Racism
·
January 11, 2021
- January 14, 2021
Professional Development
Duke Office of Faculty Advancement,