Conference Presentations
Gang, S. (2026/03). Undoing the Male Order in Late Industrial South Korea: Monstrous Femininity and Transgender-Coded Subtext in M (1994). Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Gang, S. (2025/08). The Utopia of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Korean Fictions: Focusing on Park Sang-Young’s Novel I Want To Be One-Dimensional and Saebyŏk ŭi mihak’s BL Fiction Only Kind to Me. 2nd International Conference for Contemporary Korean Studies, Seoul National University.
Gang, S. (2025/06). Stranger Sociality and Digital Intimacy: Exploring LGBTQIA+ Communication in Korea. 32nd Association for Korean Studies in Europe Conference, University of Edinburgh.
Gang, S. (2025/06). “Then I chose to play Confucian Boy”: Korean Queer Individuals Exploring Identity in Digital Spaces. Conference “Diversity in/and Korea”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Gang, S. (2025/05). Die Homöostase des Feldes und das ethnografische Ich: Eine Reflexion aus der Feldforschung zu queeren Alltagsräumen in Seoul [The homeostasis of the field and the ethnographic self: A reflection from fieldwork on queer everyday spaces in Seoul]. Frühjahrskonferenz der DGS-Sektion Soziologische Theorie [Spring Conference of the DGS Section on Sociological Theory], Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Gang, S. (2025/02). Queer Placelessness: Re-thinking Queer Economies and Everyday Exclusion in South Korea. Authors’ Workshop, CRC 1265 “Refiguration of Spaces”, Technische Universität Berlin.
Gang, S. (2024/10). Rediscovering Audience Publicness: Korean Female Spectators and the Challenges of Postcolonial Theater Historiography. Institute for Korean Studies, Ohio State University (online).
Gang, S. (2024/10). Conflict Prevention and Queer Placelessness: An Intersectional Analysis of LGBTQIA+ Lives. CRC 1265 Annual Conference “Conflicts in Space – Spatial Conflicts”, Technische Universität Berlin.
Gang, S. (2024/08). The Sense of Placelessness: Analyzing Intersectional Marginalization of Seoul’s Queer Inhabitants. IGU Conference “Feminist and Queer Spatialities”, University College Dublin.
Gang, S. (2024/03). Exploring Age-Based Conflicts in South Korean Queer Communities: A Sociocultural Analysis. Conference “Marginality, Inclusion, and Gender in Korea: Past and Present”, University of Málaga.
Gang, S. (2023/11). Extracurricular: Queer Korean Youth and Their Experiences of Studying Abroad. 6th SoKEN Conference “Korean Youth Abroad”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Gang, S. (2023/06). Surviving the Coming of Age: Exploring Queer Life Stories through Oral History Interviews. Conference “Korean Youth Spaces, Ecologies and Technologies”, University of Edinburgh.
Gang, S. (2023/06). What Makes Queer Spaces Queer? Workshop “Quality of Space: Different Meanings—Conflicts and Solidarity”, CRC 1265, TU Berlin.
Gang, S. (2022/10). Spectatorship, Audience Publicness und die koreanischen Zuschauerinnen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts [Spectatorship, audience publicness, and Korean female spectators of the early twentieth century]. 10. Konferenz der Vereinigung für Koreastudien [10th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies], Duisburg.
Gang, S. (2021/11). COVID-19 and Challenges of the Asian Communities: A Case Study on Online Activism on the German-Speaking Internet. International Conference “The Living, Caring, and Networking of Diaspora in the Age of Uncertainty”, Chonnam University (online).
Gang, S. (2021/10). From Concert Halls to Streets: Tracing the K-Pop Fans’ Histories of Political Engagement. 9. Konferenz der Vereinigung für Koreastudien [9th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies], Universität Hamburg (online).
Gang, S. (2019/06). From the Ugly Duckling to the Golden Goose: Yu Kil-chun’s Rediscovery of Play (Sandaehŭi) as a Profit-Making Business for the State. Conference “Korean Intellectuals In Between”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Gang, S. (2018/11). Cinema Kiss: Challenges of Western Romantic Films in Colonial Korea. 8. Konferenz der Vereinigung für Koreastudien [8th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies], Universität Frankfurt am Main.
Gang, S. (2018/07). The Infectious Love: Female Students’ Theatergoing and Their Role in Eugenic Marriage in Colonial Korea. IFTR World Congress “Theatre and Migration”, Belgrade.
Gang, S. (2017/09). Between Spectator and Spectacle: Transformations of Women’s Spectatorship during the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392–1897). AHRC DTP Conference “Tradition and Transformation”, University of Cambridge.
Gang, S. (2017/09). Making Home and Theatre: The Female Audience and Their Husbands in Colonial Korea. 3rd Workshop of the European Forum on Korean-Japanese History “Gender(ed) Histories of Korea and Japan”, University of Tübingen.
Gang, S. (2016/06). From an Imperial Tool to Space of Engendered Nation Building: Theatres in Colonial Korea (1910–1945). 4th GRAINES Summer School, Universität zu Köln.
Gang, S. (2016/02). The Test of Love: Imagination and Representation of Korea on German Stage in 1930. Workshop “Writing Global Theatre History”, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.
Invited Talks
Gang, S. (2026/03). Can you pass? Thresholds of Queer Cultural Spaces in Seoul. Guest lecture in the MA programme in Korean Studies, University of British Columbia.
Gang, S. (2026/02). LGBTQ+ Youth and Space in South Korea. Exploring Queer Identity through Online Gaming. Guest lecture in Korean Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Gang, S. (2024/12). Exploring Korean Women’s Intersectional Spectatorship: A Cultural History of Colonial Everyday Life in the Early Twentieth Century. Guest lecture at the AOI Center for Korean Studies, Universität Tübingen.
Gang, S. (2024/11). Exploring Korean Women’s Intersectional Spectatorship. Guest lecture at the Yun Dong-Ju Centre, Foreigners’ University Siena.
Gang, S. (2024/10). 근대적 주체 만들기: 20세기 초 조선인 여성 구경꾼들에 대한 공공 담론 [Making Modern Subjects: Public Discourses on Chosŏn Female Spectators in the Early Twentieth Century]. 38th Book Review of the Korean Literary Research Group “Sanghurlang” (online).
Gang, S. (2024/10). Rediscovering Audience Publicness: Korean Female Spectators and the Challenges of Postcolonial Theater Historiography. Guest lecture at the Institute for Korean Studies, Ohio State University (online).
Gang, S. (2024/07). Queer Refiguration of Spaces: Exploring LGBTQIA+ Everyday Lives in Seoul. Guest lecture as part of “Queering Asia: Doing Field Research on Lives in the South Korean and Taiwanese Queer Community”, Universität Tübingen.
Gang, S. (2024/01). We Are Everywhere. But Where Are We? Exploring Queer Everyday Space in Seoul. Global Solidarity Lecture Series, Virtual NYI #8. Organised by the NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies (online).
Gang, S. (2023/09). Der Stand der Menschenrechte queerer Menschen in Südkorea [The state of human rights of queer people in South Korea]. Panelist at the queer-political human rights conference at the German Bundestag (AG Queer, SPD parliamentary group).
Gang, S. (2023/03). Queer People as Emerging Citizens of Seoul: Challenges of Everyday Life and Visions of the Future. Guest lecture at the National Assembly Futures Institute, Seoul.
Gang, S., Löw, M. & Stollmann, J. (2023/03). Spaces between Display and Discretion: Politics of Queer Everyday Life in Seoul. Workshop “Das Andere der Stadt” [The Other of the City], University of Seoul.
Gang, S. (2022/09). Meine Familie(n). Wann bin ich koreanisch genug? [My Family/Families. When am I Korean enough?] Opening keynote on heteronormativity and national identity in South Korea at KADAY – Annual Conference of Korean Adoptees in Germany, Bonn.
Gang, S. (2021/06). K-Pop: Koreas Soft Power und Wirtschaftsfaktor [K-Pop: Korea’s soft power and economic factor]. Guest lecture at the Korea Business Day (Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, online).