“The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Zainichi Scientists, and Trans-Asian Bird Diplomacy”, the First Workshop on Trans-Asian Scientific Diplomacy in Cold War Japan and Korea, Yokohama, Japan, February 15-16, 2024.

"The Migratory Animal Pathological Survey and the Emergence of Trans-Asian Ornithology in Cold War Asia", the 137th American Historical Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, the United States, January 4-7, 2024.

“When does Genetic Evidence Become Historical Evidence? Genetic History and Archaeology in South Korea”, the “Epistemic Transfer” Workshop, organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities, November 14-15, 2023 (online).

“Even before Knowing the Risk: Barbers’ Sanitary Masks and Risk Knowledge in Colonial Korea”, The 2023 Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, the United States, October 26-29, 2023 (online). 

“‘Pour the Old Liquor into A New Leather Pouch’: The Environmentalism and the Eugenic Theory of Population Quality in South Korean Academia in the 1970s-80s”, the international workshop on “Eugenics in History and Sources: From the Cases of Japan and South Korea”, Suzaku Campus, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, October 7-8, 2023. 

“Bird Banding for What? Military Entomology, Ornithology, and the Rise of Nature Conservation in Cold War Asia”, the 16th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, August 21-25, 2023.

“The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Zainichi Scientists, and Trans-Asian Bird Diplomacy”, the 3rd Conference of the DHST Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy, July 21, 2023, São Paulo, Brazil (online)

“Minjok in Flux: Group Classification and Racialization in South Korean Life Sciences”, the online workshop “Ordering People, Naming Populations”, July 14, 2023, the University of Freiburg, Germany (online)

“The Yamashina Institute for Ornithology, Zainichi Scientists, and Trans-Asian Bird Diplomacy of the Two Koreas”, the Seventh Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Korea Basic Science Institute, June 29, 2023, Daejeon, South Korea (Session organizer/presenter)

“A Transwar Origin of South Korean Eugenics: Scientists and Japan’s Eugenic Protection Law”, the 8th AAS-in-Asia Conference at Kyungpook National University, June 26, 2023, Daegu, South Korea (Session organizer/presenter)

“A Transwar Origin of South Korean Eugenics: Scientists and Japan’s Eugenic Protection Law”, The Global History of Japan’s Eugenic Protection Law Workshop at Waseda University, June 24, 2023, Tokyo, Japan (Invited)

“When Asia Comes to Korean Genetics: A Transregional Reflection on the History of Genetics and Race in South Korea”, The HSS Co-sponsored Workshop: Beyond the Global: Transregionalism in Histories of Science at Academia Sinica, June 20-21, Taipei, Taiwan (Invited). 

“Entangled Genetic Histories of Bionation Building in Japan and South Korea”, Genes, Genomes, and Identities: Japan in National and Transnational Perspectives Workshop at the Maison Franco-Japonaise, June 13, 2023, Tokyo, Japan (Invited).

“Reconfiguring Disaster Victims: Mass Disaster Genetics and Memory Politics in South Korea, 1988-2000”, Disaster Studies Conference at KAIST, May 12-13, 2023, Daejeon, South Korea

“Entangled Genetic Histories of Bionation Building in Japan and South Korea”, Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series, Harvard University (online), April 25, 2023 (Invited)

“National Eugenics and Medical Scientists in South Korea, 1945-1964”, National Cheng Kung University STS Seminar, March 3, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan (Invited)

“The Trans-Asian Origins of Migratory Animal Pathological Survey, circa 1960-1966”, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Forum, March 2, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan (Invited)

“Making the Sanitary Mask: Barber Hygiene and the Culture of Asepsis in Colonial Korea”, Academia Sinica, March 1, 2023, Taipei, Taiwan (Invited)

“Trans-Asian Origins of the Migratory Animal Pathological Survey, 1958-1966”, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, November 17-20, Chicago, the United States (Presenter/Chair).

“Entangled Genetic Histories and the Bionation Building of Japan and South Korea”, The Workshop of Nations, ‘Races’, Genes, and Genome in the 20th and 21st Centuries, October 30-November 1, 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel (Invited)

“Cold War Complications: Japan-South Korea Collaboration and Zainichi Scientists and Engineers”, The Workshop of the Trans-Asian History of Science, medicine, and the Environment in South Korea and Japan, September 2-3, Busan, South Korea.

“Race Science in Colonial Korea”, Peking University Department of History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Colloquium (online), May 18, 2022 (Invited).

“Subimperial Genomics: Human Genomic Research and the Popular Genetic History in South Korea”, TransAsia STS Meeting (online), April 26, 2022 (Invited).

“Population Control beyond the Iron Curtain: A Transnational History of Family Planning in Cold War Asia”, Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (online), March 25, 2022 (Chair/Invited).

“Roundtable Meeting: China and Science Diplomacy in the Long Twentieth Century”, International Symposium on the History of Science Diplomacy in the 20th Century China, Beijing, China (online), March 21, 2022 (Invited).

““There Were Always Conflicts”: Writing about Collaboration with Japanese Scientists in Anti-Japanese South Korea”, The Joint Society for the History of Technology-History of Science Society (SHOT-HSS) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA (online), November 19, 2021 (Session organizer/presenter)

“Minjok in Flux: Group Classification and Racialization in South Korean Genomics and Beyond”, The Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science, Toronto, Canada (online), October 6-9, 2021. 

“From Industrial Areas to Campuses: Masks and the Politics of Environmental Pollution in South Korea, 1967-1987”, The Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History, Kyoto, Japan (online), September 9, 2021.

 “Belated Eugenics? “Feeble-Minded” Children and the Emergence of Medical Genetics in South Korea”, The 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic (online), July 29, 2021 (A session co-organizer with Aya Homei)

“Masks and the Pandemic in Modern East Asia”, The Spring Meeting of the Korean Society for the History of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea (online), June 25, 2021 (Invited)

“Between Colonial Mountaineering and Cold War Environmentalism: “Haksul Chosa” and the Nature Conservation Movement in South Korea”, A History of Science Workshop: Korean Science since Colonial Period, Pusan National University, Busan (online), May 29, 2021 (A workshop organizer)  

“In the Name of Human Adaptation: Japanese American “Hybrid Children” and Racial Anthropology in Postwar Japan”, EAS Research Seminar: Political reconfiguration of East Asia and body politics in post-war Japan, The University of Manchester, Manchester, the United Kingdom (online), February 17, 2021 (Invited talk).

“A Social History of Environmental Physiology: The Sea Women and Physiological Adaptation Research during the Cold War”, The 72th Annual Meeting of the Korean Physiological Society, Seoul, South Korea, November 4, 2020 (Invited talk, in Korean).

“Genetic History and the Politics of National Identity in South Korea”, Online, HASS/Asian Studies Special Lecture at Yonsei University Underwood International College, Incheon, South Korea (online), November 2, 2020 (Invited talk).

“The Socio-Material History of Masked Societies in East Asia”, A Virtual Workshop at the Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Department III, Berlin, Germany (online), October 26, 2020 (A workshop organizer).

““Establishing a National Park in the Demilitarized Zone”: Nature Conservation and Science Diplomacy in Cold War South Korea,” Science Diplomacy Global Online Workshop, (online), July 23, 2020.

“Roundtable: Science in 1970: A Transnational History of Fifty Years Ago,” BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival, (online), July 7, 2020. 

“Gendered Physiology: The Sea Women and Physiological Research across the Pacific,” a Departmental Colloquium, Department III, Max-Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany, June 23, 2020.

““Tech-savvy Primitives”: Technology and the Boundaries of Modernity in Human Adaptability Research on the Sea Women,” The Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Milan, Italy, October 24-27, 2019.

“Reshaping the Empire’s Laborers into Cold War’s Primitive Bodies: Haenyeo and Ama Studies in Korea and Japan, 1927–1967,” The 15th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Jeonju, Korea, August 19-23, 2019. 

“Contested Cooperation: The US-South Korea Ecological Survey in the Demilitarized Zone, 1963–1968,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 23-27, 2019 (A session co-organizer).

“Konketsuji and Nisei: Racial Anthropology, Human Adaptability, and the Making of Japanese Americans, 1951–1977,” The ISHPSSB Conference, Oslo, Norway, July 7-12, 2019 (A session co-organizer).

“Blood Purity and Scientific Independence: Blood Science and Postcolonial Struggles in Korea, 1926–1975,” UC San Diego Transnational Korean Studies, February 2, 2018 (Invited talk).

“Blood Purity and Scientific Independence in South Korea, 1926–1975,” The UCLA History of Science Colloquium, January 29, 2018.

“Biology for the Nation: The International Biological Program in South Korea and Taiwan during the Cold War Era, 1961–1975,” The ISG Fellow’s Meeting, the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, October 18, 2017.

 “On the ‘Americanization’ of Postwar Korean Science: Yung-sun Kang and the Origin of Human Population Genetics in South Korea, 1953–1969,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 19-22, 2015.

“The Asian Body as a Business Plan: Post-genomics, Medical Tourism, and Personal Genome Testing in South Korea,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 9-12, 2013.