CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

—Panels Organized—

Structure After Structuralism

2017 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 29, 2017)

Police Un/Bound: New Ethnographies of Policing

2016 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 17, 2016)

—Panel Presentations—

COVID-19 in the United States: A Portrait of Systemic Public Health Failures

International Conference of DONGUIBOGAM (Sept 26, 2020)

You Cannot Form the Words: Diagnosis, Fragmentation, and the Presence of Illness

Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine workshop: “The Work of Diagnosis” (Oct 19, 2018)

The Body as Stranger: A Case Study of Acupuncture in the Midst of a Cancer Scare

Johns Hopkins Anthropology 2018 Graduate Conference: “Being with Others” (Apr 4, 2018)

How to Read Ethnography: From Zora Neale Hurston to James Baldwin

Anthropology and Literature workshop at Johns Hopkins (Mar 30, 2018)

Holding a Space: Locating Therapy in Two American American Acupuncture Clinics

The Johns Hopkins Anthropology Colloquium Series (Jan 30, 2018)

Spaces that Heal: Therapy and Material in an American Acupuncture Clinic

Princeton Anthropology 2017 Graduate Conference: “Ethical and Political Materialities” (Dec 8, 2017)

Impressions of American Acupuncture: The Needle as Transitional Object

The Fellows Symposium at the Hopkins Center for Advanced Media Studies (Apr 20, 2017)

Ours are the Ordinary Struggles: Cynicism and Uncertainty on a Sex Worker’s Stroll

2016 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 19, 2016)

Life on Patrol: An Ethnographic Examination of Police Work on the Streets of Post-Freddie-Gray Baltimore

2016 Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Nov 17, 2016)

A Labor of Love: Work and American Life in Acupuncture and Anthropology

Johns Hopkins Anthropology 2015 Graduate Conference: “Affecting Labor” (Mar 27, 2015)

When I Walk Out, Something is Better: Acupuncture, Healing, and “Reagency”

Program for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins Workshop with Karen Barad (Mar 14, 2015)

What is the Name of this Medicine? Uncovering National and Public Making Projects of Post-Freddie-Gray Baltimore

Johns Hopkins East Asian Studies 1st Annual Symposium on Public Health in Asia (Feb 28, 2014)

Assessing Diagnosis: A Performative Theory Approach to the Language of Contemporary East Asian Medicine in the United States

8th International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine (Sept 11, 2013)

Meta-synthesis of Qualitative Studies on Patient Experiences of East Asian Medicine

8th Annual Congress of the International Society for Complementary Medicine (Apr 11, 2013)

Scientific Inquiry and the Enhancement of Tradition: Rethinking the Role of Inheritance for Chinese Medicine in the United States

New School for Social Research 2012 Graduate Student Conference: “Inheritance” (Apr 28, 2012)

Only Ghosts Know: Name Play in the Chinese Translation of a Tintin Adventure

“Living Names” workshop by the Johns Hopkins Department of Anthropology (Mar 10, 2012)

Touching the Subjectless Self: Intimate Transitions in Community Acupuncture

Program for Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Johns Hopkins Annual Seminar (Apr 6, 2012)

Betrayal and Community Acupuncture: Concept, Object, Method, Moment

The Johns Hopkins Anthropology Colloquium Series (Dec 1, 2011)

Archaeological Practice and the Entanglement of Tools

Stanford Archaeology Center 2011 Graduate Student Conference: “Entanglement in Archaeology (Apr 16, 2011)

—Discussant—

Crafting Aspiration through Creative Forms

Johns Hopkins Anthropology 2015 Graduate Conference: “Enacting Aspiration” (Apr 19, 2017)