Photo: Pineapple plantation in Hawai‘i, taken during my dissertation fieldwork
Seminar on Heritage Studies (Graduate Seminar, Graduate School of International Area Studies)
Comparative Study of Societies and Cultures (Graduate Seminar, Graduate School of International Area Studies)
Communication and Culture (Graduate Seminar, Graduate School of International Area Studies)
Corporations, Society, and Culture (Graduate Seminar, Graduate School of International Area Studies)
Identity and Consumer Society (Graduate Seminar, Graduate School of International Area Studies)
Globalization and Culture (Graduate Seminar, Graduate School of International Area Studies)
Understanding Culture: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Undergraduate Course, Division of International Studies)
Language and Cognition (Undergraduate Course, Minerva College)
Anthropology of Business (Lecturer, College of Arts & Sciences)
Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (TA, Department of Anthropology)
The Modern World and its Cultural Background (TA, Department of Anthropology)
Carving out a Cultural Domain: Semiotic Naturalization of Vegan Food in Seoul. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference of Asian Semiotics (ASIA), Balıkesir Avlu Congress and Culture Center, Balıkesir, Türkiye. June 27, 2024.
On the Relation between Signs ‘and’ Society. Paper presented at the 5th Pony Chung Workshop, Bridging Language and Culture: New Directions in Korean Semiotics and Korean Sociolinguistics, Korea University. June 14, 2024.
Translating Ethical Consumption: Vegan Food Promotion in Seoul. Paper presented at the Korean Language Futures Conference, University of Sheffield. June 30, 2023.
Corporate Communication: Metasemiotic Expertise and the Framing of Participatory Encounters. Paper presented at the 1st International Conference of Asian Semiotics (ASIA), Korea University. October 15, 2022.
The Role of Glossing in the Communicative Mediation of Organizations. Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Conference on Semiotic Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. May 30, 2021.
Semiotic Mediation of Forms of Personhood. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference of the Semiosis Research Center. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. June 29, 2020.
Shades of Femininity: Age Stratification in South Korean Cosmetic Labelling. Paper presented at Sociolinguistics Symposium 22. Auckland, NZ. June 29, 2018.
Scaling Femininity: Semiotics of Commodity Color Terms in Korean Cosmetics Brands. Paper presented at the International Conference on the 60th Anniversary Korean Society of Cultural Anthropology. Seoul. June 8, 2018.
Reconstruction of Identities: Recontextualization of Discourse and Cultural Translation. Paper presented at the Fall Conference of the Center for American and British Studies. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. November 18, 2017.
“Inappropriate Skin Color”: Effective Interpretant in Hawaiian Advertising. Paper presented at the Spring Conference of the Korean Association for Semiotic Studies. May 13, 2017.
Semiotics of Branding: Discussion on Corporations and Market. Paper presented at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. November 16, 2016.
Written Business English and the Semiotic Regimentation of Corporate “Cultural” Hierarchy. Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Denver CO. November 18, 2015. Session title: Language, Labor and Political Economy.
The Commodity as “of the Community”: Semiotics of Participatory Urban Design. Paper presented at the 2015 Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society. San Diego, CA, March 14, 2015.
Representing Corporate Social Responsibility and Reconfiguring the Corporation as ‘Super-’Person. Paper presented at the 4th Meeting of the International Forum on Business and Anthropology. Yonsei University, Seoul, December 21, 2015.
“Sustainability as Hawaiian Cultural Heritage”: Semiotic Transformation of Sustainability. Paper presented at the 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington DC. December 3, 2014. Session title: The Protocols of Encounter: Local Revitalizations in the Global Tension, Opportunities for Producing an Anthropology of the 21st Century.
Translation as Semiotic Transformation. Paper presented at Language as Culture: Ethnography of Communication, the Fall Conference of The Sociolinguistic Society of Korea. November 8, 2014.
Brand Performativity: A Semiotic Anthropological View. Paper presented at A New Horizon in Peirce’s Philosophy and Semiotics, the Fall Conference of Korean Association for Semiotic Studies. November 1, 2014.
The Prolepsis of Brands. Paper presented at New Semiotics: Between Tradition and Innovation, the 12th World Congress of Semiotics. International Association for Semiotic Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria. September 16, 2014.
Narrating Sustainability as Hawaiian Cultural Heritage: Translation as Semiotic Transformation. Paper presented at Narrative and Multimodality, the 2nd International Conference of the Semiosis Research Center. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. May 23, 2014.
“Never from the Horse’s Mouth”: The Problem of Corporate Internal Communication in a Multiethnic Corporation in Hawai‘i. Paper presented at the 50th Conference of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology jointly held with IUAES Inter-Congress. Chiba, Japan. May, 2014. Session title: Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism in Enterprise (Commission on Enterprise Anthropology).
Authorship and Ownership of Corporate Citizenship Narratives. Paper presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. November 23, 2010. Session title: Narrating Corporations: Identity, Power, and Authority.
The Moral and the Cultural: Ethnographic Study of Corporate Responses to Global Discourse of Sustainability. Paper presented at the 2013 International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. November 1, 2012.
Sign and Communication Processes. Lecture delivered at the 2013 Seoul Semiotics Summer School, Semiosis of Life. Semiosis Research Center, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. August 19, 2013.
An Inquiry into Corporate Branding and Marketing as Practices of Designing Commens. Paper presented at Global Semiosis: A Working Symposium conference, Semiosis Research Center at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Brandeis University. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. April 25, 2013.
From Digital to Oral: The Utility of Translation in the Transmission of Culture. Paper presented at Oral Literature, Its Currentness, International Conference of the Institute of Foreign Literature Studies. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. November 11, 2012.
Redefining the Face of the Giver: Examining Employee Participation and CSR. Paper presented at the 2012 Conference of the International Association for the Economics of Participation (IAFEP). School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University. July 13, 2012.
Recontextualization of “Sustainability” in Hawai‘i. Paper presented at the 9th Biennial Convention of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association. Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. July 3, 2012.
The Problem of Authenticity and Creativity Corporate Branding: An Ethnographic Analysis. Paper presented at Homo Sensus: Perception, Emotion and Semiosis, the 1st International Conference of the Semiosis Research Center. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea. June 9, 2012.
Making Claims to Ownership: Anxieties of Authenticity and Authorship and the Production of a Corporate Brand in Hawai‘i. Paper presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. New Orleans, LA. November 17, 2010. Session title: Brands, Counterfeiting, Authenticity, and Authority.
Bang for the Buck: Pragmatics of Contemporary American Corporate Gift Giving. Paper presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Philadelphia, PA. December 2, 2009. Session title (Co-organizer): The Problem of the Gift: Contemporary Modalities of Philanthropy and Charity.
Moving Forward by Looking Back: Discourses and Practices of Sustainability in Hawai‘i. Paper presented at Understanding Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities. Portland Center for Public Humanities, Portland State University. May 16, 2009.
Brands and Branding: Transferable Ownership and the Formation of Modern Mediated Communities. Paper presented at the Annual Graduate Humanities Forum, Penn Humanities Forum. University of Pennsylvania. February 29, 2008.
Divergence of the Korean Trading Sector after the Asian Financial Crisis, 1997. Paper presented at the Harvard East Asian Society. Cambridge, MA. April, 2001. Session title: A New World Order.
Globalization and Its Effect on Korean Trading Organizations. Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. November 15, 2000. Session title: The Corporations Project.