Public Media

“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.

Roundtables

Co-organizer, “Asianist Life Writing: Part II – Family, Community, and the Diasporic Experience,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, March 13-16, 2025.

Co-organizer and Panelist, “Asianist Life Writing: Part I – Rethinking Archives and Modes of Scholarly Expression,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, March 13-16, 2025.

Conference Papers

“‘Is Any Dream Futile?’ Rituals of Racial Revision in Historical Fantasy,” Nostalgia: A Religious Studies Graduate Conference, Brown University Department of Religious Studies, Providence, RI, April 10-11, 2026.

“Constructing the Myth of Asian America: Reproducing and Queering the Racial Canon,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2-4, 2026.

“Building the (Im)Possible World: Romance, Repetition, and Race in Wicked,” RITM Graduate Research Conference: Critical Knowledge Generations, New Haven, CT, February 13, 2026.

“‘No One Is Going to Save You’: Writing in the Failure of Deliverance,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 10-12, 2025.

“Building the (Im)Possible World,” Graduate Conference at the School of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, QC, May 16-17, 2025.

“Afterchurch: Gender, Sex, and Power in Asian American Christianity,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 17-19, 2024.

“‘How Did I Let This Happen?’: Constructing the Body of Asian American Christianity,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 23-26, 2024.

“Dreaming as Method, Dreaming as Solidarity: Thoughts on Ethnographic Partnership,” Graduate Student Conference, Northwestern University Department of Religious Studies, Evanston, IL, October 25-27, 2024.

“Yoon Dong-ju in Diaspora: A Translation/Reflection/Refraction,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 11-13, 2024.

“For Church and State: How American Evangelicalism Constructs, and Leaves Out, Asian American Subjecthood,” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 25-27, 2024.

“Ruth Ozeki’s Sensory and Material World in Racial Modernity,” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 18-21, 2023.

“Our Heathen Language: Asian American Poetry as Primary Sources in Studies of American Religion,” Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 20-22, 2023.

“‘We Became the Cool Kids’: Cultural Belonging at Seoul American High School, 1974-2019,” Blood in Modern Korea and Its Diasporas Workshop, Colby College, April 15, 2022.

“On Both Sides of the Camera: The Autonomous Photography of Lao Monks in the Buddhist Archive,” School of Pacific and Asian Studies Graduate Conference, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, April 6-7, 2022.

“Spiritual Inheritances and Geographic Futurities: Considering Asian and Native American Ways of Being and Relating,” Enacting Inclusive Futures: A Symposium on APIDA/A Communities, Asian Pacific American Studies Program at Michigan State University, March 18-19, 2022.

“George May’s Lost Town: Remembering Yongsan Garrison through Seoul American High School, 1974-2019,” Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference, December 6, 2021.

As Discussant/Respondent

“Korean History, Theology, and Critique,” Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference, New Haven, CT, February 27, 2026.

“Race, Migration, and Religion in the Korean Context,” Yale Korean Philosophy of Religion and Theology Graduate Conference, New Haven, CT, February 28, 2025.