I also want to thank Man Joong Kim (Binghamton SUNY), who connected me with Prof. Yoo while he was planning the conference. I wouldn't have been part of this without him.
#KoreanStudies #AsianStudies #STS #ReligionAndTechnology #MaristAsianStudiesConference #PosthumanKorea #BoyoungKim #SangKeunYoo
Big thanks to Prof. Sang-Keun Yoo at Marist for pulling the whole thing together, including a campus tour and a dinner. And a big shout-out to the student organizers and the student poster presenters, whose research on Korean/Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies was sharp and thoughtful.
A highlight was the keynote by Kim Bo-young, one of South Korea's most celebrated sci-fi authors. Her next book, A PLAGUED SEA (trans. by Sophie Bowman), was picked by Grimdark Magazine as one of the most anticipated fantasy, sci-fi, and horror books of 2026. It comes out in August, so stay tuned!
The conference brought together a stellar group of scholars in Korean Studies. I am grateful to have been part of "Korean Religion in the Global Technoscape" panel w/ Professors Minjung Noh (Lehigh) and Kyunghee Pyun (FIT). A great exchange across religious studies, art history, & STS.
So glad I got to present "The Sacred Data Center: Premodern In/Tangible Heritage as Sociotechnical and Religious Imaginaries in a South Korean Big Tech" at the Marist Asian Studies Conference 2026 on 3/25. Its theme was "Posthuman Korea: Religion and Feminism in the Post-Cold War Technoscape."
Their reports look very interesting as they focus on the Bay Area's art+tech scenes. I look forward to digging in. Thanks!
I completed registration with the payment for the 3/18 evening event! I'll try to arrive 30 minutes earlier. See you there!
Thanks for your interest! Great to know that my piece made some resonance with you. BTW, Your timeline is filled with many interesting ideas! I'll check them out soon :)
I'm available during:
* Mon, 3/16 afternoon-evening;
* Tue, 3/17 all day;
* Wed, 3/18 afternoon-evening;
* Thu, 3/19, all day.
I'll DM you. Thanks!
@holdspacefree.bsky.social Thank you for connecting and kind words!
@serife.bsky.social Thank you for inviting! I can make it to @grayarea.org 3/18 event: grayarea.org/event/the-st... if you attend. On other days, I can drop by Gray Area or somewhere else in the Bay Area you find convenient?
How could professional societies facilitate those encounters to be more productive and just? I am hoping the Computer History Museum archives help recover some of that texture. And if this resonates, please do reach out.
In an era when generative AI produces images in seconds, I find it worth revisiting earlier conversations digital tools opened up -- how artists used them to engage audiences, and what was at stake.
This trip is supported by the ACM History Committee Fellowship, for a project at the intersection of the history of computing, digital art history, and ACM SIGGRAPH @acmsiggraph.bsky.social
Just arrived in San Jose for archival research (Mar 9-20)! If you're in the Bay Area -- working on the history of computing, digital art, STS, or the institutional history of technical societies -- I would love to meet for coffee. DM or email: yoehan.oh@yale.edu
#HistoryOfComputing #DigitalArt #ACM
This is a great model for teaching technical subjects to upper-level STEM students, enabling them to engage in conversations about their web of cultural, political, and intellectual connections! I'd highly recommend you read this thread through (including the work I co-worked with him and Jacinda)!
50 free eprints available: grab one while they last!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GD9NQ...
I'd love to hear your thoughts, especially from folks working on STS, or platform governance, East Asian political economy.
My article is part of Science as Culture's Forum on Tech Oligarchy edited by Kean Birch (keanbirch.bsky.social) and Les Levidow. The Forum as a collective explores how tech oligarchy reshapes technology and politics.
How has Korea's tech oligarchy โ led by Naver, the country's dominant search & platform conglomerate โ been publicly contested?
I trace how developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries, originally shaped around chaebol giants like Samsung, are now being translated to govern platform capitalism.
New pub alert! My article is out in Science as Culture sciasculture.bsky.social!
'Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea'
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
๐ค We're honored to have Zachary Riebeling (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) as our session chair and Clare Kim (University of Illinois Chicago) as our commentator! ๐
Looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends interested in Asian American history of science in our session! ๐๐๐ฅ
Lastly, Christine Noelle Peralta (Amherst College) gives her talk on "Racial Management Through Reproductive Health, from the American South to the Global South." ๐๐ฉบ
Thirdly, Eun-Joo Ahn (Yale University) gives her presentation on "Marginalized โMajorityโ: The Case of Korean American Scientists After the Second World War." ๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ท
Then, Yoehan Oh at Yale University (that's me! ๐โโ๏ธ) presents "White and Asian Settlers in Transition Across the Pacific: Unpacking ALOHAnet to Find the Interwoven Histories of Race, Empire, and Electrical Engineering in Hawai'i." ๐๐
Check it out at tomorrow morning 10:30 AM (CT), Sat, Jan. 10th, 2026, at Hancock Parlor (Palmer House Hilton, Sixth Floor)!
Firstly, Jeannie Shinozuka (Washington State U.) will discuss โRacial Differences in Intelligenceโ: Japanese Americans and Intelligence Testing in the Early 20th Century." ๐๐
๐ Are you in AHA 2026 American Historical Association @historians.org or hanging around Chicago, IL? ๐๏ธ
My colleagues and I will give a presentation tomorrow in a panel titled "Asian American Racial Formations and the Production of Scientific Knowledge in the Pacific and the American West, 1900โ77"!
Great #physics and #history article (by my former student, Eun-Joo Ahn) on Ben W. Lee, the Korean-American physicist who made the framework underlying the standard model accessible to a generation of particle physicists.
pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...
#HistSTM
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In this issue:
-Articles on infrastructure & astronomy (Eun-Joo Ahn) & ocean drilling (Beatriz Martinez-Rius)
-@mbaldwin.bsky.social's review of books by @patrickmccray.bsky.social, @ccmmody.bsky.social & Mark Solovey
-James Hofmann's essay on the current state of Ampรจre historiography #histSTM
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๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ญ: ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ & ๐๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐
Theme: Workers Building, Using, and Resisting AI
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Date: April 29, 2026
๐ Loc: Yale University (In-person)
๐ฐ Funding: Scholarships available for grad students & organizers!
๐๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐: Jan 18, 2026 Submit here: indl-na.sciencesconf.org