The soul too

is a debasement

of a text, but, thus, it

acquires salience, although a

human salience, but

inimitable, and, hence, memorable.

-Li-Young Lee, “The Cleaving”

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Teaching

• EAST 404/RLST 359/HIST 305J: Faith in Law in East Asia: Beginnings to 1800 (Yale, Fall 2021, perma)
• EAS 99: Senior Tutorial, East Asian Studies (Harvard, AY 2016-17, Prof. Sun Joo Kim, perma)
• SW 27 (Now GENED 1100): The Two Koreas (Harvard, Spring 2016, Prof. Carter Eckert, perma)
• AI 63 (Now GENED 1049): East Asian Cinema (Harvard, Spring 2016, Prof. Jie Li, perma)
• CB 33 (Now EASTD 141): Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions (Harvard, Fall 2015, Head TF, Prof. James Robson, perma)
• ER 18 (Now GENED 1091): Classical Chinese Ethical and Political Theory (Harvard, Fall 2014, Prof. Michael Puett, perma)

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Convening

• Regularly:
  • Secretariat, Growth Markets Regulatory Council (September 2024-present), perma
  • Co-chair, GBBC APAC Monthly Meeting (June 2024-present), perma
• Occasionally:
  • Not all Blockchains are the Same, Eps. 4 (Oct. 2024) and 5 (Dec. 2024)
  • Moderator, “Fireside Chat: The Future of Equitable Gender Outcomes and Women-Centric Solutions,” feat. Nigina Muntean (Chief, Innovation Unit, UNPFA) and Michelle O’Connor (VP, Global Brand and Market Expansion, TaxBit), 7th Annual GBBC Blockchain Central UNGA (September 23, 2024), GBBC-UNGA

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Presenting

• GBBC APAC Policy Work Updates
  • GBBC US Policy Working Group (December 11, 2024; October 16, 2024; August 22, 2024; May 23, 2024; April 25, 2024)
  • “Korea and APAC Policy Work Q1 2024,” GBBC Members Town Halls (EMEA+East Coast, APAC+West Coast) (March 26, 2024)
  • “Fieldwork Notes from Korea and ASEAN,” GBBC US Policy Working Group (March 25, 2024)
• Panelist, Chainalysis Policy Pulse: Asia Pacific (July 31, 2024), perma
• “What We Mean When We Talk about Regulation,” Intl. Assn. on Regulation & Governance Inaugural Conference, UPenn Carey Law School (June 17, 2024), perma
• Panelist, “DeFi and Crypto-assets in ASEAN and Beyond,” OECD-FSC-KIF Roundtable on Digital Finance in ASEAN (March 18-19, 2024), perma 1, perma 2
• “Korea Policy Briefing,” GBBC Post Trade Distributed Ledger Group (March 6, 2024), PTDL
• “Royally Bestowed Certificates in the Harvard-Yenching Library Korean Rare Books Collection,” Korean Treasures at Harvard, Harvard University Korea Institute (April 7, 2022), perma, vimeo
• “Visualizing Korea’s Monastic Litigation Networks, 1400-present,” GeoCON 2021, Harvard Center for Geographical Analysis (January 15, 2021)
• “Korean Buddhism’s Elusive History,” Guest Lecture for History 78.04 (Prof. Soyoung Suh), Dartmouth College (November 4, 2020)
• “Learning from Monastic Litigation,” Council on East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Associates Lecture Series, Yale University (October 28, 2020), perma
• “Institutional Work as a Tyler Fellow and Beyond,” Dumbarton Oaks Scholarly Heads’ Meeting, Dumbarton Oaks (May 20, 2019)
• “‘Fail? Over my Dead Body’: Land Use, Property Rights, and a Buddhist World Borne out by the Land Itself,” 3rd New Frontiers in Premodern Korean Studies Workshop, Harvard Univ. (May 9, 2019), perma
• “Temple Litigation and Korea’s Long Nineteenth Century,” Dumbarton Oaks Research Report Series, Dumbarton Oaks (April 24, 2019), perma
• “Making Sense of Administering Monastics in Nineteenth Century Korea,” 10th Kyujanggak International Symposium for Korean Studies, Seoul National University (November 25, 2017), perma
• “Understanding Monastic Administration in Nineteenth Century Chosŏn: Problems, Sources, Prospects,” 143rd Academy of Korean Studies Colloquium, Academy of Korean Studies (August 14, 2017), perma
• “Making Sense of Administering Monastics in Late Chosŏn Korea,” 13th Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers Workshop, UCLA (June 10, 2017), perma
• “Chosŏn Buddhism,” Guest Lecture for Korean History 111: Traditional Korea (Prof. Sun Joo Kim), Harvard College (April 13, 2017)
• “There is No Mention of Any Buddha-Stealing Robber Monks,” Harvard Department of EALC Prospectus Conference (May 9, 2016)
• “Major Trends in Korean Historiography,” Guest Lecture for Sociology 181: Social Change in Modern Korea (Prof. Paul Chang), Harvard College (September 12, 2013)
• “The Rise of the Chogye Order of Korean Buddhism,” Trumbull College Mellon Forum, Yale College (October 5, 2009)
• “Expert Remembering: Craftsmanship and Contemporary Korean Buddhism,” 3rd Annual Kyujanggak Institute Korean Studies Summer Workshop, Seoul National University (July 17, 2009)