- ‘Striking the 21st Century Trade Deal: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement – Perspectives from Japan and South Korea’, Korea Caucus & Japan Caucus Joint Seminar, The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (November 21, 2013)
- Dissertation Ch.8 ‘The Change of Tides: The Future of U.S.-Northeast Asian Trade Wars and Currency Conflict’, 2013 ISA-Northeast Annual Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, USA (November 7-10, 2013)
- Dissertation Ch.6 ‘Echoes of the Asian Financial Crisis in Reverse: Capital Controls and Currency Wars in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis’, The Tobin Project Democracy and Markets Graduate Student Forum, Cambridge, MA, USA (October 18, 2013)
- Dissertation Ch.7 ‘Wither Regional Bloc Formation? : The Prospects and Pitfalls of Trilateral Free Trade Agreement and Investment Treaty amongst China, Japan, and South Korea‘, Conference on Regional Leadership, Norms and Diversity: Comparing the Asia-Pacific with Europe, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (January 29-30, 2013) (Presentation Slides)
- Dissertation Ch.1 ‘Introduction: Defining Trade Wars and Currency Conflicts‘ & Dissertation Ch.2 ‘The Theoretical Framework: Political Capacity and Industrial Interests‘, Visiting Fellows Seminar, Rajawali Fellows Institute, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, USA (September 10, 2013) (Presentation Slides)
- ‘Dealing with the Open Economy Policy Trilemma? China’s Dream Agenda of Financial Reforms’, 2013 Association of Chinese Political Studies Annual Meeting and International Symposium, “China’s Domestic and International Relations: Expanding Reforms and Global Influence?”, University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (August 22-23, 2013)
- ‘U.S. Policies on Northeast Asian Countries: China, Japan, South Korea’, invited lecture for visiting Japanese students from Koushi High School, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, Boston University, Boston, USA (August 5, 2013)
- Dissertation Project ‘Trade Wars and Currency Conflict: China, Japan, and South Korea’s Responses to U.S. Protectionism, 1971-2013’, Korean Studies Dissertation Workshop, Social Science Research Council, Monterey, CA, USA (July 1-5, 2013)
- Dissertation Ch.3 ‘Recurring Cycles of Trade Protectionism from the GATT to the WTO: U.S. Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Investigations on Trade with Japan, South Korea, and China’, 2013 International Studies Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA (April 3-6, 2013) (Presentation Slides); also presented at the PhD Dissertation Workshop in Global Political Economy at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (April 24-26, 2013)
