Assistant Professor of History Soojung Han presented the paper “Identity Changes of the Elite Xianbei in Medieval China” at the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.

Assistant Professor of History Soojung Han was invited to give a talk titled “From Kin to Pseudo-Kin: The Transformation of Kinship Politics and Diplomacy from the Early Medieval Period to the Liao–Song–Jin Era” at The Great Entanglement: Reframing East Eurasian Histories in the Longue Durée workshop hosted by the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. The workshop was sponsored by the University of British Columbia, Cornell University, and the James P. Geiss & Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

Assistant Professor of History Soojung Han presented the paper “Changes to Diplomatic Relations through Marriage Alliance Systems in Middle Period China (304-907)” at the T’ang Studies Society Conference, hosted by the T’ang Studies Society and the Elling Eide Center in Sarasota, FL.

Assistant Professor of History Soojung Han was invited to give a talk in the “Asia in Depth” series at Georgetown University. Her talk was titled “The Rise of the Shatuo Turks: Identity Formation in Medieval China.”

Assistant Professor of History Soojung Han was invited to give a talk in the China Humanities Seminar (CHS) series at Harvard University. Her talk was titled, “Forging a New Sino-Inner Asian Order: The Brotherly Relations Between the Shatuo Turks and Kitans (907–979).”