Conference Presentations

Keynote Address
27th International Costume Congress, Korean Society of Costume, Hanseong Baekje Museum, Seoul, South Korea

“Crossing Boundaries: For the Awareness of East Asian Aesthetics in Global Fashion.” August 24, 2016.

Regular Presentations

Scholarly Workshop: The Politics of National Costumes in Asia, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
“Hanbok as Nation: Cultural Paradoxes of Korean Dress.” November 7–8, 2025. (Forthcoming as a book chapter)

9th International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles Conference, Beyond the Silk Road, Across the Seas: Circulations of Textiles, Ideas, and Techniques Pre-1900s, University of California at Berkeley, CA
“Fleurs-de-lis in East Asia: An Object-Based Study.” October 9–12, 2025. (Paper in progress)

Korean Society of Costume International Conference, Fashion for Human, Peace, and the Future, Seoul, South Korea. online.
“Toward a (Re-)Definition of Hanbok/Korean Dress.” October 23, 2021.

Costume Society of America 45th Symposium, The Pacific Rim & Beyond: Diffusion and Diversity in Dress, Seattle, WA
“Dissolving Sartorial Borders between East and West: Incorporation of Western Elements into Hanbok.” April 20, 2019.

Conference: Picturing Identities and Ideologies in Modern Korea: Transnational Perspectives for Visual Culture, Center for Korean Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA (sponsored by Academy of Korean Studies Grants)
“Paradox of Hanbok: What We Perceive as Tradition.” March 14, 2019.

Textile Society of America 16th Biennial Symposium, The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global, Vancouver, Canada
“Korean Patchwork Textiles: From Traditional Women’s Crafts to Global Collections.” September 21, 2018.

6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network, Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
“Sartorial Borderlands between East and West: Assimilating Western Tailoring Techniques into Hanbok.” August 13, 2018.

Fashioning Asian Identity, University of San Francisco, Asia Pacific Studies. CA
“Koreanness of Korean Dress: From a Bizarre Look to the Runway.” April 5, 2018.

Korean Fashion from the Joseon Dynasty to Today, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
“Koreanness of Korean Dress: Through the Lens of Outsiders.” December 9, 2017.

Brown Bag Lunch Seminar, Bard Graduate Center, New York
“Hanbok in Modern and Postmodern Times: Fashion, Counter-Fashion, and Anti-Fashion.” March 28, 2017.

Conference: Documenting Korean Costume: Primary Sources and New Interpretations,
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, NY (sponsored by Academy of Korean Studies Grants)
“Primary Sources for Korean Dress Historiography: Categorization, Authentication, and Interpretation.” March 24–25, 2017.

1st International Hanbok Seminar for Specialists, Soigné and Sustainable: Hanbok as Inspiration for Future Fashion, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
“The Aesthetics of Hanbok Mirrored in High Fashion.” November 18, 2016.