ORGANIZED
2019
-Co-organizer and Chair. "Global Model Minority Discourse and Asian Diasporic Subjects," Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (forthcoming July 1-4).
2018
-Organizer, Chair, and Presenter. "Secura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, Nov. 17.
2016
-Organizer, Chair, and Presenter. “Proof and the Personal: Revisiting the Self-Other Binary Debate Within Claims of Evidence,” Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 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, April 5-8.
PRESENTED
2019
-Presenter. "Asia's Colored Men: Masculinity and Meaning in Contemporary South Korea," Association for Asian Studies in Asia 2019 Conference: "Asia in Motion: Asia on the Rise?" Bangkok, Thailand (forthcoming July 1-4).
-Presenter. "Se-cura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR (forthcoming March 19-23).
2018
-Presenter. "Se-cura: Security Narratives: Korean Flight Attendants Serving to Secure Self and Nation," Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17.
-Guest Speaker. "Security Narratives: Korean Flight Attendants Serving to Secure Self and Nation," 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,” 116th 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, Michigan, 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, Illinois, March 3.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Annual Conference of the Association for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, 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: FlightAttendants, 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, Colorado, 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, Louisiana, 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, Texas, 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, 2018)]
2019
-Co-organizer and Chair. "Global Model Minority Discourse and Asian Diasporic Subjects," Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, Bangkok, Thailand (forthcoming July 1-4).
2018
-Organizer, Chair, and Presenter. "Secura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, Nov. 17.
2016
-Organizer, Chair, and Presenter. “Proof and the Personal: Revisiting the Self-Other Binary Debate Within Claims of Evidence,” Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 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, April 5-8.
PRESENTED
2019
-Presenter. "Asia's Colored Men: Masculinity and Meaning in Contemporary South Korea," Association for Asian Studies in Asia 2019 Conference: "Asia in Motion: Asia on the Rise?" Bangkok, Thailand (forthcoming July 1-4).
-Presenter. "Se-cura: Security as the Absence (and Presence) of Care," Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland, OR (forthcoming March 19-23).
2018
-Presenter. "Se-cura: Security Narratives: Korean Flight Attendants Serving to Secure Self and Nation," Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, Nov. 17.
-Guest Speaker. "Security Narratives: Korean Flight Attendants Serving to Secure Self and Nation," 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,” 116th 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, Michigan, 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, Illinois, March 3.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Annual Conference of the Association for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 1.
-Presenter. “Dirty Work, Glamorous Migrant: South Korean Flight Attendants and Reproducing Racial, Gender, and National Hierarchies,” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Ontario, 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: FlightAttendants, 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, Colorado, 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, Louisiana, 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, Texas, 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, 2018)]