Conferences

September 25th 2026, 2PM (ET)

DRIG Encore presentation

This Encore presentation for the Disability Research Interest Group (DRIG) of the American Anthropological Association will revisit and expand on my recent work as a filmmaker and anthropologist, focusing on my documentary “The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams.” Drawing from my broader research on disability, media, and Korean cultural production, the presentation will introduce the film’s central questions, situate it within disability anthropology and disability studies, and reflect on the collaborative process of working with autistic artists and communities. I will also discuss how the film engages with DRIG’s commitment to centering disabled people’s experiences in knowledge production, and invite conversation about the possibilities and limits of documentary as a mode of disability-centered ethnographic practice.

April 24th, 25th, 2026

Cascadia Seminar 

This flash talk for the 2026 Cascadia Seminar in Medical Anthropology, themed “Multiple Futures: Intergenerational Voices and Global Connections,” introduces my work at the intersection of disability, media, and medical anthropology through the documentary “The Cat that Lives in Your Dreams.” In five minutes, I will briefly sketch how collaborative filmmaking with autistic artists and disabled communities unsettles narrow clinical understandings of autism while opening up alternative futures of care, kinship, and communication across Korea and its diasporas. Framed as a prompt for conversation rather than a full research talk, the presentation invites discussion about how medical anthropology might engage more deeply with multimodal, disability-centered methods in an intimate, participatory seminar setting like Cascadia.