Conference and Seminar Presentations
“Tehran & Seoul, 1979: (Re)emergence of a Community.” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 14, 2022.
“Surviving Nuclear Violence: Ecologies of Care and the Politics of Redress in America’s Cold War Pacific.” Organization of American Historians (OAH) Conference on American History and Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1, 2022.
“Diasporic Memories and Cold War Circuits of Change: Iranian Migration to South Korea and the United States.” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i, March 25, 2022.
Roundtable: “We Can’t Forget What Happened: Gender, Violence, and Justice in the North American West,” sponsored by the WHA Committee on Assault Response and Educational Strategies (WHA-CARES). Western History Association (WHA) Annual Meeting Pre-Con Session, October 18, 2021.
“Ecologies of Care: The Politics of Redress in the Nuclear Pacific.” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, April 10, 2021.
“Between Two Empires: Compensatory Justice and Korean A-Bomb Survivors.” American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, New York, New York, January 4, 2020.
“Compensatory Justice and the Politics of Care: Korean and Nisei Survivors Remember the Atomic Bomb.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai’i, November 7, 2019.
“Chandler’s Dolls: Race, Gender, and Orientalism in Post-World War II U.S.-Japan Relations.” Newberry Gender and Sexuality Seminar, The Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, September 20, 2019.
“From Citizens to Refugees?: Japanese American Migrants in the Pacific.” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 25, 2019.
“From Tehran to Seoul to Los Angeles: The Iranian Diaspora and Transnational Circuits of Change.” Forty Years & More: International Conference on Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco, California, March 29, 2019.
“The Japanese American Transnational Generation and Jim Crow in the American West.” Western History Association (WHA) Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 2018.
“Korean Atomic Bomb Survivors and the Nuclear Pacific: Reimagining the Future of Transnational and Pan-ethnic Solidarity.” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, March 30, 2018.
“The Unredressed and the Unforgiven: American Atomic Bomb Survivors and the Politics of Reparations in the Cold War Pacific.” American Historical Association (AHA) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 7, 2018.
“Remembering the Unredressed: American Atomic Bomb Survivors, Japanese Peruvians, and the Politics of Post-WWII Reparations.” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois, November 11, 2017.
“Voices of the Unredressed: Korean and Japanese American Atomic Bomb Survivors in America’s Cold War Pacific.” International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK). Seoul, South Korea, September 22, 2017.
“Bodies of Memory, Bodies of Citizenship: Japanese American Atomic Bomb Survivors and the Politics of Care.” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon, April 14, 2017.
“From Tehran to Seoul to Los Angeles: How Iranian and Korean Diasporas Converged,” International Conference of the American Studies Association of Korea (ASAK). Yongin, South Korea, September 30, 2016.
“American Hibakusha: Japanese American Atomic Bomb Survivors and the Making of a Diaspora,” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference. Miami, Florida, April 30, 2016.
“Americans in the Japanese Empire: The Nisei Transnational Generation in the Pacific before World War II,” Transpacific Convergence: University of Southern California – Kyoto University Symposium on Nikkei Studies. University of Southern California, March 22, 2015.
“How South Texas Met Japan: Hakata Dolls, Post-WWII U.S.-Japan Relations, and the Birth of a Local Museum in Corpus Christi,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting. Corpus Christi, Texas, March 5, 2015.
“Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: Japanese Americans in the Pacific.” Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 30, 2014.
“Rethinking Citizenship: Americans in the Japanese Empire.” Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California, April 14, 2013.
“Citizenship Across Borders: American Migrants in Japan, 1920-1945.” Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., April 11, 2012.
“Beyond Diasporic Settlements: Japanese American Transnational Migrants in the Pacific.” The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, August 13, 2011.
Invited Lectures and workshops
“Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific.” Book Talk. Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Spring 2022 Online Books Series, April 20, 2022.
“Teaching Critical Issues in Asian American History.” Japanese American Incarceration and Teaching of Asian American History. Teachers’ Workshop, Facing History and Ourselves, Chicago, March 22, 2022.
“From Citizens to Enemy Aliens: Japanese Americans and the History of Anti-Asian Xenophobia.” Jewish Museum Milwaukee, March 15, 2022.
“Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific.” Book Talk. International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program Speaker Series, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, February 16, 2022.
“Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific.” Book Talk. Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) Race/Ethnicity Workshop, University of Illinois Chicago, October 22, 2021.
“The Making of Korean America.” National Korean Studies Seminar (NKSS); Korean History and Culture Outreach Seminar for Educators, Chicago, Illinois, September 11, 2021.
“Korean American History: Migration, Diaspora, and Transpacific Convergences.” National Korean Studies Seminar (NKSS): Korean History and Culture Outreach Seminar for Educators, Chicago, Illinois, October 26, 2019.
“From Citizens to Emigrants: The Japanese American Transnational Generation in the Pacific.” Institute for the Humanities Fellows Lecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, November 13, 2018.
“Japanese American Hibakusha and the Politics of Care: Compensatory Justice in the Nuclear Pacific.” Harpur College Dean’s Speaker Series: States, Violence, and Migration in Global Asia, Binghamton University, State University of New York, February 23, 2018.
“From Tehran to Seoul to Los Angles: How Iranian and Korean Diasporas Converged.” A public lecture sponsored by the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture and the Center for Critical Korean Studies, University of California, Irvine, March 9, 2017.
“Transnational Circuits of Change and the Convergence of Iranian and Korean Diasporas.” Global Asian Studies Colloquium. University of Illinois at Chicago, February 27, 2017.
“The War and Its Aftermath: Nisei Draftees in the Imperial Armed Forces during World War II,” Japanese American Museum of San Jose. San Jose, California, February 7, 2015.
Fighting for the Emperor: Nisei Soldiers in the Imperial Armed Forces, February 7, 2015 (J-Town Community TV)
“Nikkei amerikajin no kokusai idō to kyosei shūyō: Tule Lake no kibei nisei o chūshin ni” (The Transnational Migration and Internment of Japanese Americans: The Kibei Nisei at the Tule Lake Segregation Center). International Mobility of Japanese Research Forum. Kyoto, Japan, June 17, 2010.
“Food and Drink in Modern World History.” Itami International Cultural Exchange Association (ICEA). Hyogo, Japan, June 17, 2010.
“‘The Kibei Problem’: Rethinking the History of Japanese American Internment during WWII.” International Mobility of Japanese Research Forum. Kyoto, Japan, November 21, 2009.
“David Akira Itami to 1930 nendai no California ni okeru kibei nisei no taiken” (David Akira Itami and the Kibei Nisei Experience in California in the 1930s). Migration Studies Society. Osaka University of Commerce, Osaka, Japan, May 9, 2009.
“Japanese American Migrations and Transnationalism in the Pacific, 1930-1955.” International Institute of Language and Culture Studies. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, May 24, 2008.
“Senzen no nihon taizai nikkei amerikajin kenkyū no saikōsatu” (Researching the Japanese American Community in Pre-WWII Japan). Japan Foundation Research Symposium. Osaka, Japan, May 15, 2008.
“Transnational Community and Identity: The Korean American Experience.” Transnational Studies Association. Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan, November 21, 2007.
Future PRESENTATIONS
Western History Association (WHA) Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas, October 12-15, 2022.