Media
“Secular Worldbuilding w/ Karis Ryu,” Night Journey Podcast, February 6, 2026.
“The Legacy of U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan” in Meet the Fellows: Spring Edition, Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University, January 21, 2021.
Guest Lectures
“Engaging Religion at the Smithsonian APAC,” Museums and Religion: The Politics of Preservation and Display (Graduate Seminar at Yale University), New Haven, CT, September 13, 2023.
Workshops
Workshop Co-lead, “breaking form: a workshop for creative praxis & asian americanist critique,”Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2-4, 2026.
Upcoming & Recent Presentations
Panelist, “Tomorrowlands: Disney and the Future of Religions,” Religion and Popular Culture Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 21-24, 2026.
Panelist, “Book Panel: Sonia Hazard’s Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media,” Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 21-24, 2026.
Co-presenter, “What Is Secular Is the Violence: Transpacific Militarization and the Postsecular Poetics of Religious Memory,” The Intimacies of Kith: Collaborative Poetry Scholarship and Practice Between Asian North America and Southeast Asia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, October 2-4, 2026.
“Pedagogies of Citizenship: Race, Popular Culture, and the Public Education of American Secularism,” Futures of American Studies Institute, Hanover, NH, June 29-July 4, 2026.
“Retelling the Marriage Plot: Bridgerton’s Asian Heroines,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 9-11, 2026.
KARIS H. RYU 