I was cleaning up some files and thought I’d share this here. It’s from the “Spring Forward, Fall Back?: Progress and Challenges in Korean Gender Studies” panel organized by Hyaeweol Choi (Australian National University) at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) meeting in Seattle nearly a year ago on April 2, 2016. I presented some comments (and stories) about queer politics.… more
A short primer on my ongoing/upcoming work on queer geopolitics in East Asia Forum Quarterly, published by the Australian National University. I highlighted the Christian Liberal Party (CLP), military conscription system, HIV/AIDS, and Islamophobia on the rise.… more
I’m giving a talk on queer & evangelical geopolitics next week in Seoul. It’s my first time giving a public academic-y… more
Very interesting workshop CFP, due July 1, 2016. Submissions will be considered for publication in a 2018 special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies. The workshop “proposes to examine the intersection of science, language, and literature and expand this inquiry across periods, disciplines, and media, examining representations of science and scientific data in materials including but not limited to premodern archival materials, science textbooks, literature, popular science journals, general interest periodicals, and science fiction.”… more
Below are five (5) Sessional Lecturer postings in Contemporary Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, in both the fall and spring semesters of 2016-2017 year: Politics of development in Asia, Comparative colonialisms in Asia, Asian cities, Asian youth cultures, and Comparative modernities in Asia.… more
I’ll be interpreting tomorrow for artist and filmmaker Heung-Soon Lim whose documentary film Factory Complex 위로공단 (2004) won the prestigious Silver… more
Here’s the poster for a talk I recently gave at Binghamton University (March 4). It was essentially the same talk I gave at UC San Diego in February, but reorganized & improved in focus and clarity. I hope, at least.… more
I returned a few days ago from giving a talk in the Program in Transnational Korean Studies at the University of California,… more