2018

体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.

“In the Shadow of the Cold War: the Hierarchy of Bodies on the Korean Peninsula”

2017

College Art Association, New York.

Co-chaired panel with Sooran Choi: Dismantling the Center/Periphery Model in Global Art History: Art and

Politics from the 1960’s to the 1980’s

2014

Beyond Korean Studies: From Areal to the Transnational, a joint International Symposium,

Georgia State University & Hanyang University, Seoul

2014

College Art Association, Chicago.

“Failure, trauma, and silence in contemporary art in South Korea”

2012

College Art Association, Los Angeles.

“Debates on the “Political”: A Case Study in South Korea”

2011

Connected and Consequential: Generating New Art Ecologies, A Network of Artists /

Creative Thinkers, A Series of Conversations, Smith College and Dynamite Space Northampton, Nov. 2011.

“Mixrice Collective”

2011

Symposium in conjunction with the exhibition “Image Clash: Contemporary Video Art

from South Korea” at University of Colorado Boulder Museum of Art

“From Minjung to Sublime: The work of Chan-kyong Park”

2011

Trans Asia Photography Review Symposium, Hampshire College, Amherst.

“The Specters of Militarized Modernity: Photography from South Korea”

2011

Association of Art Historians, co-chaired session and presented:

“Latitudinal Attitudes: Critical Curatorial Practices in Contemporary South Korean Art,”

University of Warwick, UK

2010

College Art Association, Chicago.

“Between Fiction and Facticity: Photographing Historical Reenactment in South Korea”

2008

The 7th Gwangju International Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea

Symposium <8008: “Reality” & “Utterance” in Contemporary Korean Art>

“Cultural politics of curating contemporary Korean art for audience abroad,” Arko Museum, Seoul

2007

Comparative Research on Contemporary Art Education between China and Western countries, Shandong University,

Tai’an, China

“College Art Education in the United States: Focus on Paradigm Shifts Since 1965 to Present”

2006

Rethinking Marxism, UMass Amherst, MA

“Economy, Labor, and Cultural Memory: the work of Seung Wook Koh”

2005

New York Conference for Asian Studies, SUNY New Paltz, NY

“Against Monument: Reconstructing Memory in Recent South Korean Art”

2005

College Art Association, Atlanta, GA

"Conceptual and Political Art for the People: Beyond North-South Divide"

2003

South Eastern College Art Conference, Raleigh, NC

"Specific, generic, and back again: Other means for painting"