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Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung presented two papers at the Annual AsiaNetwork Conference in March at Trinity University in Texas. In "How to Introduce Controversial Issues in the Classroom: Case Study of a 'Sex Work and Emotional Labor' Course," Chung argued that dialectic Socratic Method would be effective for covering controversial issues in a classroom. Based upon her teaching experience at Hamilton and Colorado College, Chung confirmed that the dialectic teaching method encourages students to engage in critical thinking and reflexivity.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Haeng-ja Chung served as a discussant at the Columbia Modern Japan Seminar on January 18 at Columbia University. She presented a reaction paper titled "Problematizing the Legal Definitions of Ethnicity, Nationality and Citizenship."