Talks & Media

Interviews:

'The human cost of South Korea's era of transnational adoption.' Ear to Asia podcast, September 2022.
'Korean Adoptee Experiences.' The T on the T: Trans in Conversation, Bent TV, Channel 31 Melbourne, June 2022.
'Transnational adoption and 'blending in." The Philosopher's Zone, ABC Radio National, March 2022.

Exhibition:

detour, installation + audio, Same River Twice Exhibition for the Emerging Writers' Festival 2022. Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Community Arts Centre, 15 June - 3 July.

Film:

Merleau-Ponty with an Australian accent, 39min, produced with Dr Fiona Utley & Dr Marilyn Stendera. Phenomenology of Perception Around the World: A 75th Anniversary Broadcast Series, International Merleau-Ponty Circle x Chiasmi International, June 2022.

Previous talks (selected):

'The Irrational Math of the Heart: Korean adoption, diaspora, and incommensurability.' ANU Korea Institute Seminar, Australia National University Canberra, September 2022.
‘Korean Transnational Adoptees and the Affective Politics of Incommensurability.’ Asian Studies Association of Australia, Monash University, 5-8 July 2022.
‘On ‘Contingent Anonymity’: Korean adoptee experiences of ‘blending in.’ Adoption Initiative Conference, St. John’s University NY with Montclair State University, 25-26 March 2022.
‘The diasporic mobilities of Korean overseas adoptee returnees.’ International Webinar on Korean Studies. Co-hosted by the Korean Studies Centre, Center for Australian Studies (Yonsei University), and Gyeonggido Government. University of Queensland, October 2021.
'Researchers who podcast.' Panel, The Whisper Collective Podcast, October 2021.
'The intersectional lives of transgender adoptees.' Panel, Also-Known-As New York, April 2021.
'Thinking Trans Embodiment and ‘Homeliness." Thinking Trans/Trans Thinking Conference, University of Texas, Austin. October 2020.
‘Creating Community Centered Content & Expanding Conversations around Transnational Adoption: Adopted Feels Podcast.’ Australian Educational Podcasting Conference, La Trobe University, November 2020.
‘Being ‘Elsewhere’: On Borders and Intergenerationality in Korean Transnational Adoptee Experiences.’ Gender and Intergenerational Issues of Transbordering ‘Koreans,’ Seoul National University, June 2019.
“Quiet’ Precarity: Theorizing Korean Transnational Adoption as Migration.’ 11th Biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia Conference, University of Western Australia, December 2019.