ORGANIZED
2019
-Co-organizer and Chair. "Techno-Optimism and its Social Overflows," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov. 21.
2018
-Organizer and Chair. "Se-cura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17.
2016
-Organizer and Chair. “Proof and the Personal: Revisiting the Self-Other Binary Debate Within Claims of Evidence,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 20.
2012
-Co-organizer. "The Presence of ‘America’ in India: Where and How Does ‘America’ Appear and What are the Effects?” UIUC International Forum for U.S. Studies Conference, Urbana, IL, April 5-8.
PRESENTED
2020
-Presenter. "Parasitic Prestige: Racialized Cultural Capital and Affirmative Kin Making Effects," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 18-22 (proposed panel; in-person conference cancelled; online presentation).
-Guest Speaker (online). "Class Concepts and Imperial Conciliation in Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (Gisaengchung)," Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar Series, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX (Nov. 6).
-Presenter. "Flying Queer: Attending to the Politics of Transnational Feminism," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, Nov. 12-15 (accepted panel; conference cancelled).
2019
-Presenter. "Technology and Techne in the Air," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov. 21.
-Guest Speaker. "Gender, Travel, and Korean Male Flight Attendants," Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar Series, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, Nov. 8.
-Presenter. "Se-cura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 23.
2018
-Presenter. "Security Narratives: Korean Flight Attendants Serving to Secure Self and Nation," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17.
-Guest Speaker. "Se-cura: Security as the Presence and Absence of Care among Feminized South Korean Flight Attendant Labor," Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar Series, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, Oct. 31.
2017
-Presenter. “‘Surrogate Whiteness’ in the Ivory Tower? Alternating Alterities within Asian/Americanness,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec. 3.
-Presenter. "'Non-Natives' Not the Same: New Discoveries in Old "Korean Culture" Debates," Global Korean Studies and Writing Korean Culture Conference. The Anthropology Department at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 22.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Color Hierarchies in Inter-Asia,” Worlding Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea, July 28.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” 2017 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars Michigan League, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 13.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Women’s and Gender History Symposium at UIUC, Urbana, IL, March 3.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, April 1.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 19.
2016
-Presenter. "South Korea's Brand of 'World-class' Worker: Labor, Gender, and (Im)mobility among South Korean Flight Attendants," International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Conference, Hong Kong, June 25.
-Presenter. “Serving to Secure ‘Elite’ Status: Flight Attendants, Labor, and (Im)Mobility in Contemporary South Korea,” Society for East Asian Anthropology Annual Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 19.
2015
-Presenter. “‘World-Class’ Worker: Labor, Gender and(Im)mobility within the Flight Attendant Occupation in South Korea,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Nov. 18.
-Presenter. “‘World-Class’ Worker: Labor, Gender and(Im)mobility within the Flight Attendant Occupation in South Korea, UIUC Center for East Asian Pacific Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Symposium, Urbana, IL, Nov. 6.
-Presenter. “‘World-Class’ Worker: Labor, Gender and(Im)mobility among South Korean Flight Attendants.” Seoul National University Institute of Cultural Studies and Department of Anthropology Research Affiliates Brown Bag Lunch Talk, Seoul, South Korea, May 18.
2013
-Presenter. “Flight Status Unknown: Dubai-based South Korean Female Flight Attendants and the Global Making and Unmaking of Class,” UIUC Korean Familyin Comparative Perspective Workshop, Urbana, IL, October 11.
2011
-Presenter. “Digesting the other ‘Western’ Other: International Chinese Students’ Negotiations with ‘Asian America.’” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 18.
2010
-Chair and Presenter. "Re-orienting the Boundaries of ‘Oriental’ Masculinity: Ethnography of Heterosexual Asian American Women at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 7.
2009
-Presenter. “‘Race’ in (East) Asia: Thoughts on a Global Racial Order.” Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later International Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 7.
[Photo Courtesy: Amber Szymczyk (Chao Center for Asian Studies -Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 2018)]
2019
-Co-organizer and Chair. "Techno-Optimism and its Social Overflows," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov. 21.
2018
-Organizer and Chair. "Se-cura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17.
2016
-Organizer and Chair. “Proof and the Personal: Revisiting the Self-Other Binary Debate Within Claims of Evidence,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 20.
2012
-Co-organizer. "The Presence of ‘America’ in India: Where and How Does ‘America’ Appear and What are the Effects?” UIUC International Forum for U.S. Studies Conference, Urbana, IL, April 5-8.
PRESENTED
2020
-Presenter. "Parasitic Prestige: Racialized Cultural Capital and Affirmative Kin Making Effects," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 18-22 (proposed panel; in-person conference cancelled; online presentation).
-Guest Speaker (online). "Class Concepts and Imperial Conciliation in Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (Gisaengchung)," Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar Series, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX (Nov. 6).
-Presenter. "Flying Queer: Attending to the Politics of Transnational Feminism," National Women's Studies Association Annual Conference, Nov. 12-15 (accepted panel; conference cancelled).
2019
-Presenter. "Technology and Techne in the Air," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Nov. 21.
-Guest Speaker. "Gender, Travel, and Korean Male Flight Attendants," Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar Series, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, Nov. 8.
-Presenter. "Se-cura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 23.
2018
-Presenter. "Security Narratives: Korean Flight Attendants Serving to Secure Self and Nation," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17.
-Guest Speaker. "Se-cura: Security as the Presence and Absence of Care among Feminized South Korean Flight Attendant Labor," Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar Series, Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University, Houston, TX, Oct. 31.
2017
-Presenter. “‘Surrogate Whiteness’ in the Ivory Tower? Alternating Alterities within Asian/Americanness,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec. 3.
-Presenter. "'Non-Natives' Not the Same: New Discoveries in Old "Korean Culture" Debates," Global Korean Studies and Writing Korean Culture Conference. The Anthropology Department at Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, Sept. 22.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Color Hierarchies in Inter-Asia,” Worlding Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Sungkonghoe University, Seoul, South Korea, July 28.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” 2017 International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars Michigan League, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 13.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Women’s and Gender History Symposium at UIUC, Urbana, IL, March 3.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, April 1.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, Canada, March 19.
2016
-Presenter. "South Korea's Brand of 'World-class' Worker: Labor, Gender, and (Im)mobility among South Korean Flight Attendants," International Studies Association Asia-Pacific Conference, Hong Kong, June 25.
-Presenter. “Serving to Secure ‘Elite’ Status: Flight Attendants, Labor, and (Im)Mobility in Contemporary South Korea,” Society for East Asian Anthropology Annual Conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 19.
2015
-Presenter. “‘World-Class’ Worker: Labor, Gender and(Im)mobility within the Flight Attendant Occupation in South Korea,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Nov. 18.
-Presenter. “‘World-Class’ Worker: Labor, Gender and(Im)mobility within the Flight Attendant Occupation in South Korea, UIUC Center for East Asian Pacific Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Symposium, Urbana, IL, Nov. 6.
-Presenter. “‘World-Class’ Worker: Labor, Gender and(Im)mobility among South Korean Flight Attendants.” Seoul National University Institute of Cultural Studies and Department of Anthropology Research Affiliates Brown Bag Lunch Talk, Seoul, South Korea, May 18.
2013
-Presenter. “Flight Status Unknown: Dubai-based South Korean Female Flight Attendants and the Global Making and Unmaking of Class,” UIUC Korean Familyin Comparative Perspective Workshop, Urbana, IL, October 11.
2011
-Presenter. “Digesting the other ‘Western’ Other: International Chinese Students’ Negotiations with ‘Asian America.’” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, May 18.
2010
-Chair and Presenter. "Re-orienting the Boundaries of ‘Oriental’ Masculinity: Ethnography of Heterosexual Asian American Women at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, April 7.
2009
-Presenter. “‘Race’ in (East) Asia: Thoughts on a Global Racial Order.” Ethnic Studies 40 Years Later International Conference, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 7.
[Photo Courtesy: Amber Szymczyk (Chao Center for Asian Studies -Transnational Asia Research Initiative Seminar, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, 2018)]