INVITED TALKS
2019 Learning From Songdo: Three Questions for the Smart City.
Department of Communication, Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, Canada. (Jan 21).
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Chaired/Organized
2019 Chair, Violence and Security Assemblages in Urban Environments. Society for Social
Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference. New Orleans, USA (Sep 4-7).
2017 Organizer, The Myth and Contradictions of Sustainable Development:
Politics and Situated Practices of Mediating the Environment. International Association
for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, Cartagena,
Colombia (July16-20).
Papers Presented
2019 Defensible Selfhood and DIY-Surveillance: A Genealogy of Security Governance in
South Korea. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference. New
Orleans, USA (Sep 4-7).
2019 From a Transit City to a Global City: A Genealogy of Mobility Regime in South Korea. International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia. Jeonju, South Korea (Aug 19-23).
2019 From a Transit City to a Global City: A Genealogy of Mobility Regime in South Korea. Association of Asian Studies-in-Asia. Bangkok, Thailand (July 1-3).
2018 From a Transit City to a Global City: Technology and Techniques of Governing Mobility in South Korea. Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting. St. Louis, USA (October 11-14).
2018 Immanent Surveillance: Living with Unpredictability and Environmentalization of
Urban Risk. Digital Cultures: Knowledge/ Culture/ Technology. Lüneburg, Germany (Sep 19-22).
2018 Programming the Smart City: Governing Urban Risk through Data-intensive
Environments. 68th International Communication Association (ICA) Annual
Conference. Prague, Czech Republic (May 24-28).
2017 Infrastructure, Developmental Government, and Techno-nationalism: A Case for
Meta- analysis of Mobility in South Korea. Digital Media and Borders: Infrastructures, Mobilities, and Practices Across Asia and Beyond. Lingnan University, Hong Kong (Dec 8-10).
2017 Sustainable Development As an Oxymoron: The Smart City and the Reinvented
Politics of Governing Cities. International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference. Cartagena, Colombia (July 16-20).
2016 From Tidal Flats to a Smart City: Reassembling Songdo: 1997-2013. Midwest STS
Graduate Student Workshop. Chicago, USA (Sep 16-18).
2016 From Tidal Flats to a Smart City: Reassembling Songdo Using ANT Approach. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) & European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Annual Conference. Barcelona, Spain (Aug 31-
Sep 3).
2015 Paradox of Mobility and Spatialization of Technological Utopia. Spaces & Flows: 6th
International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies. Chicago, USA
(Oct 15-16).
2014 Developmental Imagination and its Geographical Discontent: Case of a “Smart
Cities” Project in South Korea. Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Tampere, Finland (Jul 1-4).
2013 Developmental Imagination and its Geographical Discontent: Case of a
“Smart Cities” Project in South Korea. 10th University of Illinois Communications Collaboration Conference (UICCC), Urbana-Champaign, USA (Oct 18).
2012 Nonplace as a Space of Representations: An Ethnographic Study of Urban Café in Seoul. 9th Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Paris, France (July 2-6, 2012).
CAMPUS TALKS
2018 Immanent Surveillance, the Environmentalization of Urban Risk, and Security
Governances in ‘Smart Cities’. Institute of Communications Research, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Sep 28).
2019 Learning From Songdo: Three Questions for the Smart City.
Department of Media and Cinema Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. (Oct 31).