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  • Wednesday, March 11, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
    CEAL EB I meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Society for the Study of Early China
  • 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM PDT
    2026 CEAL Annual Meeting
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
    CEPIEC (China Educational Publications Import & Export Corporation Ltd.)
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM PDT
    American Association of Teachers of Japanese
  • 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
    Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  • 8:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS Board of Directors Meeting
  • Thursday, March 12, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
    AAS All Council's Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PDT
    CEAL EB II Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
    China National Publications Import & Export (Group) CO., Ltd
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS Council of Conferences Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS Diversity and Equity Committee Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS East and Inner Asia Council Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS Northeast Asia Council Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS South Asia Countil Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    AAS Southeast Asia Council Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    American Association of Teachers of Japanese
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    CHINOPERL
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Early Medieval China Group
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Society for the Study of Early China
  • 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    2026 CEAL Annual Meeting
  • 9:00 AM - 8:00 PM PDT
    Onsite Registration/Badge Pickup Hours
  • 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Leading an Asian Studies Center in a Changing World: An Opportunity to Build Connections, Share Best Practices, and Broaden Perspectives

    Organizer/Presenter: Danielle Rocheleau Salaz – University of Colorado Boulder

    Facilitator: Lauren Collins – University of Colorado Boulder

  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM PDT
    Dreaming of Words
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    China International Book Trading Corporation
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
    GETSEA (Graduate Education and Training in Southeast Asian Studies)
  • 11:30 AM - 11:55 AM PDT
    Nirop (Farewell)
  • 11:55 AM - 12:05 PM PDT
    Soul of Solace
  • 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Society for the Social Science Study of China (SSSSOC) Inaugural Workshop - Sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation

    Organizer: Mary Gallagher – University of Notre Dame

    Facilitator: Kellee Tsai – Northeastern University

    Facilitator: Teresa Wright – California State University, Long Beach

    Facilitator: Jessica Teets – Middlebury College

  • 12:05 PM - 12:35 PM PDT
    5201314: XXXX XXXX (Fourth Cut)
  • 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Finding Creative Inspiration through Chinese Literature

    Organizer: Lehyla Heward – Independent Scholars of Asia

    Facilitator: Lehyla Heward – Independent Scholars of Asia

  • 12:35 PM - 1:50 PM PDT
    Give and Take
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    CEAL - Small Roundtable Discussion
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    KCCNA Meeting
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  • 1:50 PM - 3:05 PM PDT
    The Returning Tide: Thirty Years On
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Teaching/Un-teaching Caste

    Organizer: Anne Murphy – University of British Columbia

    Facilitator: Ram Rawat – University of Delaware

    Facilitator: Jai Birdi – Chetna Association of Canada

    Facilitator: Seema Mahi – University of British Columbia

  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Center For Chinese Studies/National Central Library, Taiwan
  • 3:05 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    Coroner to the Stars
  • 4:00 PM - 4:55 PM PDT
    First Timers Orientation
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM PDT
    Opening Ceremony & Keynote Address
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    101: Storytelling in International Relations
    Chair: Prasenjit Duara – Duke University
    Presenting Author: Iris Ma – University of Notre Dame
    Presenting Author: Marisol Villela Balderrama (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Presenting Author: Zahra Moharramipour (she/her/hers) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Presenting Author: Ran Mu (she/her/hers) – University College London
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Fanze Meng (he/him/his) – University College London
    Presenting Author: ShiPu Wang – University of California, Merced
    Presenting Author: Marie-Agathe Simonetti (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Chicago
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    102: At the Threshold: Border-crossings, Solidarities, Ruptures, and Repairs in South Asia

    Organizer: Fahad Naveed – University of British Columbia

    Chair: Vazira Zamindar – Brown University

    Speakers: Fahad Naveed – University of British Columbia

    Speakers: Suvaid Yaseen – Hamilton College

    Speakers: Anushay Malik – Simon Fraser University

    Speakers: Sharmistha Kar – Concordia University

    Speakers: Zehra Jabeen Shah – Harvard University

    Speakers: Amit Gautam – Social Science Baha

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    103: AI, the Humanities, and Asian Studies: Is This Our “Calculator Moment?”

    Organizer: Christopher Smith – University of Florida

    Chair: Christopher Smith – University of Florida

    Discussant: Matthieu Felt – University of Florida

    Discussant: Paul Vierthaler – Princeton University

    Discussant: Małgorzata Citko-DuPlantis – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

    Discussant: Baro Hyun – Temple Univeristy

    Discussant: Lani Alden – University of California, Berkeley

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    104: Return of Women Ghosts, Women Monsters, and Women Demons: Dangerous Women in the Late 20th Century and Contemporary Korean Visual Culture
    Organizer: Young Jung (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Chair: Paul S. Cha – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Young Jung (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Sung Un Gang (he/him/his) – Technische Universitat Berlin
    Paper Presenter: So Hye Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ji-yoon An – University of British Columbia
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    105: Reframing Gender at the Margins: Critical Dialogues on Power and Identity in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Gio L. Miole (he/they) – University of Tokyo
    Chair: Gio L. Miole (he/they) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Gio L. Miole (he/they) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Hilda Kemala (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Russell Yap (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    106: Across Boundaries of Space and Time: Being Other and Away in Early Modern and Modern East Asia
    Chair: Laura Nenzi (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Presenting Author: Astghik Hovhannisyan (she/her/hers) – Russian-Armenian University
    Presenting Author: Yoko Yamashita (she/her/hers) – Yokohama National University
    Presenting Author: Nilima Rai (she/her/hers) – Queen's University
    Presenting Author: Nur Hafeeza Binti Ahmad Pazil (she/her/hers) – Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Presenting Author: Shunsuke Nakao (he/him/his) – The University of Tokyo
    Northeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    107: Geoeconomics, Technology, and Trade Politics in Northeast Asia
    Chair: Kristin Vekasi (she/her/hers) – University of Montana
    Presenting Author: Narae Lee (she/her/hers) – Université Laval
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Érick Duchesne (he/him/his) – Université Laval
    Presenting Author: Jeffrey C. Youn (he/him/his) – College of Charleston
    Presenting Author: Yilin Aileen LU (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Presenting Author: Virginia Leticia Valdivia Caballero (she/her/hers) – National Autonomous University of Mexico
    Presenting Author: Michelle F. Hsieh (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    Presenting Author: Zhaoyi Li (she/her/hers) – Korea University
    Northeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    108: Japan’s Business Reinvention and Competing Visions of Global Capitalism: A Session with Ulrike Schaede on Her New Book, Japan’s Re-Emergence

    Organizer: Amy Borovoy – Princeton University

    Chair: Amy Borovoy – Princeton University

    Book Author: Ulrike Schaede – University of California, San Diego

    Speaker: Louise Young – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Speaker: Gennifer Weisenfeld – Duke University

    Speaker: Yves Tiberghien – University of British Columbia

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    109: At the Interstices of Economic Progress and Environmental Preservation in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Bo kyeung Gu (she/her/hers) – Busan University of Foreign Studies
    Chair: YoungKyung Ko (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Bo kyeung Gu (she/her/hers) – Busan University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: Ratih Indraswari (she/her/hers) – Parahyangan Catholic University
    Paper Presenter: YoungKyung Ko (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Mya Saraswaty (she/her/hers) – Parahyangan Catholic University
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    110: Body Ungoverned: Faith, Performance, and National Narratives of Women in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Narumol Namfon Choochan (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Organizer: Sirithorn Siriwan – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Anastasia Melati Listyorini (she/her/hers) – Taipei National University of the Arts
    Paper Presenter: Narumol Namfon Choochan (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Anastasia Melati Listyorini (she/her/hers) – Taipei National University of the Arts
    Paper Presenter: Aubrey Kandelila Fanani (she/her/hers) – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Discussant: Rachmi Diyah Larasati (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    111: Beyond Borders and States: Southeast Asian Refugees and Movements in the Late 20th Century
    Organizer: Becky Butler (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: Becky Butler (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Ann Ngoc Tran (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Becky Butler (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Sophea Seng (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    Paper Presenter: Vincent Tran – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Ivan Small – Northern Illinois University
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    112: Coercion, Capital, and Contract in Japanese History
    Organizer: Joshua Linkous – Harvard University
    Organizer: Charlotte Ciavarella – Harvard University
    Chair: Amy Stanley (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
    Paper Presenter: Joshua Linkous – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Charlotte Ciavarella – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: John D'Amico – Tohoku University
    Discussant: Amy Stanley (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    113: Bring it Back, Move it Forward: Ancestral Modernities across Southeast Asia - Sponsored by Thailand, Laos, Cambodia Studies Group
    Organizer: Micah F. Morton (he/him/his) – Northern Illinois University
    Chair: Micah F. Morton (he/him/his) – Northern Illinois University
    Paper Presenter: Hector Guazon (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Andrew Johnson (he/him/his) – Stockholm University
    Paper Presenter: Micah F. Morton (he/him/his) – Northern Illinois University
    Paper Presenter: Courtney Work (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Discussant: Mayfair Yang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    114: Archives and Data in Dialogue: French Perspectives on Vietnamese Studies from Early-career Scholars

    Organizer: Ombeline Bois – Paul Valéry University of Montpellier

    Organizer: Marie Cugnet – University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    Chair: Jade Thau – INHA - InVisu

    Discussant: Vy Cao – Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History

    Discussant: Jade Thau – INHA - InVisu

    Discussant: Ombeline Bois – Paul Valéry University of Montpellier

    Discussant: Cathy Monarque – Paul Valéry University of Montpellier

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    115: Governing Immobility: The Case of the Philippines

    Organizer: Amanda Cheong – University of British Columbia

    Chair: Amanda Cheong – University of British Columbia

    Book Author: Yasmin Y. Ortiga – Singapore Management University

    Speaker: Rhacel Salazar Salazar Parreñas – Princeton University

    Speaker: Anju Mary Paul – New York University Abu Dhabi

    Speaker: Suzy Lee – Binghamton University, SUNY

    Speaker: Geraldine Pratt – University of British Columbia

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    116: Malaysian State(s) of Enclosure
    Organizer: Aida Arosoaie – University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Organizer: Alice Rudge – SOAS University of London
    Chair: Zhou Hau Liew – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Sara Loh – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Aida Arosoaie – University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Paper Presenter: Zhou Hau Liew – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Chun-Yu (Jo Ann) Wang (she/her/hers) – Pitzer College
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    117: Worlding Alam: Nature, Eco-Spiritualism, and Sufism in Malay Cosmology
    Organizer: Katia Chaterji (she/her/hers) – Loyola Marymount University
    Chair: Christina Sunardi (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Ulil Amri (he/him/his) – Creighton University
    Paper Presenter: Katherine Bruhn (she/her/hers) – Illinois State University
    Paper Presenter: Katia Chaterji (she/her/hers) – Loyola Marymount University
    Discussant: Nazry Bahrawi (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Southeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    118: Border-crossings and Identity Strategies in Middle Period China - Sponsored by T'ang Studies Society
    Organizer: Nikita Kuzmin (he/him/his) – Elling Eide Center
    Chair: Jeffrey Kotyk – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Paper Presenter: Yalin Du (she/her/hers) – Princeton Day School
    Paper Presenter: Filippo Ugolini (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Di Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Nikita Kuzmin (he/him/his) – Elling Eide Center
    Discussant: Victor Mair (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    119: Cultures of Crossing: Networks and Navigation Connecting Medieval and Early Modern Japan to East Asia
    Organizer: Peter Shapinsky (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Springfield
    Chair: Peter Shapinsky (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Springfield
    Paper Presenter: Peter Shapinsky (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Springfield
    Paper Presenter: Michelle Damian – University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
    Paper Presenter: Damien Peladan (he/him/his) – Université Bordeaux Montaigne
    Paper Presenter: Maria Petrucci – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Gregory Smits – Pennsylvania State University
    Discussant: Igawa Kenji (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    120: Popular Culture, Historiography, Political Upheaval in Myanmar: Challenging Jane Ferguson’s Silver Screens and Golden Dreams: A Social History of Burmese Cinema

    Organizer: Pattaratorn Chirapravati – California State University, Sacramento

    Chair: LinDa Saphan – University of Mount Saint Vincent

    Book Author: Jane M. Ferguson – Australian National University

    Speaker: Elora Halim Chowdhury – University of Massachusetts, Boston

    Speaker: Aye Lei Tun – McMaster University

    Speaker: Maitrii Aung-Thwin – National University of Singapore

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    121: Remembrance, Redress, and Reconciliation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Comfort Women Reparations Movement in the 21st Century
    Organizer: Timothy Webster – Western New England University
    Chair: Timothy Webster – Western New England University
    Paper Presenter: Timothy Webster – Western New England University
    Paper Presenter: Peipei Qiu – Vassar College
    Paper Presenter: Alexis Dudden – University of Connecticut
    Discussant: Alexis Dudden – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Tae-Ung Baik (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Northeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    122: The Softest Power: Pandas and the Global Politics of Animal Symbolism
    Organizer: Jiaqi Yao (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Organizer: Yingqiu Kuang (she/her/hers) – European University Institute
    Chair: E. Elena Songster (she/her/hers) – Saint Mary’s College of California
    Paper Presenter: Yingqiu Kuang (she/her/hers) – European University Institute
    Paper Presenter: Cory Willmott (she/her/hers) – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
    Paper Presenter: William A. Callahan – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Yao (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: E. Elena Songster (she/her/hers) – Saint Mary’s College of California
    East & Inner Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    123: Traversing the Ruptures of Empire and Cold War: Korean Diasporic Communities in (North)East Asia
    Organizer: Kim Y. Lacey (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Kim Y. Lacey (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Peter G. Moody (he/him/his) – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Kim Y. Lacey (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: We Jung Yi (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Discussant: Suzy Kim (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Northeast Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    124: Border Crossings of Indigenous Articulations in and out of Asia - Sponsored by AAS2026 Local Arrangements Committee
    Organizer: Parboti Roy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Parboti Roy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Parboti Roy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Pasang Sherpa (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: rupak shrestha (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Somtsobum Khyung (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
    Discussant: Mabel Gergan (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    125: Beyond Market and State: The Political Origins of Economic Institutions in China
    Organizer: Jingtian Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Organizer: Xiao Ma (she/her/hers) – Harvard Law School
    Chair: Saul Wilson – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Qin Huang – Northwestern University
    Paper Presenter: Jingtian Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Xiao Ma (she/her/hers) – Harvard Law School
    Paper Presenter: Muyang Chen – Peking University
    Co-Presenter: Muyang Chen – Peking University
    Co-Presenter: Yufan Huang – Cornell University
    Discussant: Jean Oi – Stanford University
    Discussant: Tamar Groswald Ozery – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    East & Inner Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    126: Shit Talks: What Does the Study of Human Excrement in East Asia Offer the Humanities?

    Organizer: Benjamin AK Sinvany – Columbia University

    Chair: David L. Howell – Harvard University

    Discussant: David L. Howell – Harvard University

    Discussant: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes – Duke University

    Discussant: Daren Leung – Lingnan University

    Discussant: Sijia Cheng – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Discussant: Benjamin AK Sinvany – Columbia University

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    127: Contesting the “Villain”: History, Literature, and Narrative Antagonisms in Early Modern and Modern China
    Organizer: Jiaqi Wang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Organizer: Zixi (Peter) Zhang – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Sophie Volpp – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Wang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Zixi (Peter) Zhang – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Zhang – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Wendy Cui – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Sophie Volpp – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    128: Choreographing Diplomacy: Formal Structures and Informal Acts in Nineteenth-Century Chosŏn Korea
    Organizer: Jinsung Kim (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: George Kallander – Syracuse University
    Discussant: Adam Bohnet (he/him/his) – King’s University College
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Wang – Syracuse University
    Paper Presenter: Jinsung Kim (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Sujin Cheon – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Chanhee Lee – SOAS University of London
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    129: Cultural Technique, Media, and Literature: An Early Modern Chinese Reflection
    Organizer: Xinyi Fu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Yinghui Wu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Yen-hao Liao – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Xinyi Fu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Ling Hon Lam – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    130: Aporias of Belonging: Rethinking Identity, Statelessness, and Sovereignty in Southeast Asia

    Organizer: Seok Wun (Shiila) Au Yong – Syracuse University

    Organizer: Aslam Abd Jalil – University of Malaya

    Chair: Jamie Chai Yun Chai Yun Liew – University of Ottawa

    Discussant: Seok Wun (Shiila) Au Yong – Syracuse University

    Discussant: Aslam Abd Jalil – University of Malaya

    Discussant: Vilashini Somiah – University of Malaya

    Discussant: Nursyazwani Jamaludin – University of Pennsylvania

    Discussant: Mu’izz Abdul Khalid – Universiti Malaya

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    131: Decentering China in the Global Cold War: Gendered Labor, Cultural Diplomacy, and Eco-Media
    Organizer: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Chair: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Ailin Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Raymond Tsang (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Wentao Ma (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Geraldine Fiss (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Cassandra Guan (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    132: Rethinking Histories of the Asia Pacific in the Age of Self-Determination

    Organizer: Cindy Ewing – University of Toronto

    Chair: Mark P. Bradley – University of Chicago

    Book Author: Bradley Simpson – University of Connecticut

    Book Author: Kristin Oberiano – Wesleyan University

    Speaker: Cindy Ewing – University of Toronto

    Speaker: Li-Li Chen – Universidade Nasional Timor Lorosa'e

    Speaker: Allan Lumba – Concordia University

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    133: Global China in Global Afro-Asia: Geo-Politics, Technology, and Culture
    Organizer: Zhijian Sun (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Zhijian Sun (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Ella Joy A. Ponce (she/her/hers) – Central Luzon State University
    Paper Presenter: Jing Xie (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Xun Wang (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Zhijian Sun (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Xun Wang (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    134: Global Geographies of Korean and Japanese Popular Culture: Transnational Perspectives on K-Pop, Anime, and Manga

    Organizer: Mylene T. De Guzman – University of the Philippines Diliman

    Organizer: Jayson Makoto Chun – University of Hawaiʻi, West Oahu

    Chair: Mylene T. De Guzman – University of the Philippines Diliman

    Speakers: Mylene T. De Guzman – University of the Philippines Diliman

    Speakers: Jayson Makoto Chun – University of Hawaiʻi, West Oahu

    Speakers: Shin D. Kim – Hong Kong Baptist University

    Speakers: Fine Lavoni Koloamatangi – University of Auckland

    Speakers: Marco Pellitteri – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

    Speakers: Abena Gyebuaa Somiah – McGill University

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    135: An Ideal Refuge? A Critical Examination of the South Korean Refugee Landscape
    Organizer: Angela Y. McClean – Yale University
    Chair: Nora Hui-Jung Kim – University of Mary Washington
    Paper Presenter: Angela Y. McClean – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Nora Hui-Jung Kim – University of Mary Washington
    Paper Presenter: Yura Hyeon – University of Münster
    Paper Presenter: Kate Klemm-Szeto – Rutgers University
    Discussant: Petrice Flowers – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Discussant: Ken Silverman (he/him/his) – City University of New York, Graduate Center
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    136: Spectral Modernity: Media, Belief, and Alternative Perception in East Asian Visual Culture

    Organizer: Tianle Huang – Communication University of China

    Organizer: Yu Yang, Sr. – Yale University

    Chair: Tianle Huang – Communication University of China

    Speakers: Yu Yang, Sr. – Yale University

    Speakers: Shuangnan Wu – Beijing Language and Culture University

    Speaker: Tianxiao Du – Peking University

    Speaker: JiaXin Li – Fudan University

    Speaker: Jingzhi Pan – Fudan University

    Speaker: Wei Meng – Nanjing University

    Speaker: Lina Zhang – Central University of Finance and Economics

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    137: "Classical Chinese"? Kanbun? Hanmun? The Conundrum of Literary Sinitic Training for Japanese and Korean Studies Researchers
    Organizer: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    Chair: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    Discussant: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    Paper Presenter: Ross King (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: David Lurie (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Felix Siegmund (he/him/his) – Ruhr University Bochum
    Paper Presenter: Emilie Mellerkær (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    138: Addressing Long-Term Care Challenges in the Context of Rapid Aging Across Asia
    Organizer: Thi Viet Phuong Dang (she/her/hers) – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
    Chair: Thi Viet Phuong Dang (she/her/hers) – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Thi Viet Phuong Dang (she/her/hers) – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Viet Tiep Nguyen (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Yusuke MIYOSHI (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Katsumi SHIMANE (he/him/his) – Senshu University
    Discussant: Yusuke MIYOSHI (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Katsumi SHIMANE (he/him/his) – Senshu University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    139: Cut, Stitch, Resist! A Visual and Creative Workshop for Gender and Politics Scholars in Times of Precarity

    Organizer: Kimberley PW Manning – Concordia University

    Chair: Yunyun Zhou – Queen Mary University

    Presenter: Kimberley PW Manning – Concordia University

    Presenter: Yunyun Zhou – Queen Mary University

    Presenter: Yvette-Yuefan Wu – University of Toronto

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    140: Digital Social Control in Contemporary East Asia: Platform Algorithms, Power Dynamics, and the Reshaping of Public Discourse
    Organizer: Michelle Miao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Nicole W.T. Cheung (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Michelle Miao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Nicole W.T. Cheung (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kaiping Zhang (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Digital Technology
  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    141: China Studies with Cyborg Characteristics

    Organizer: Yuchen Chen – City University of New York, Baruch College

    Organizer: Julie Yujie Chen – University of Toronto

    Chair: Silvia Lindtner – University of Michigan

    Speakers: Susan Greenhalgh – Harvard University

    Speakers: Abigail Coplin – Vassar College

    Speakers: Nancy N. Chen – University of California, Santa Cruz

    Speakers: Bingchun Meng – London School of Economics and Political Science

    Speakers: Moira Weigel – Harvard University

    Speakers: Jamie Wong – Princeton University

  • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    142: A Roundtable Discussion on The Seventies: Educated Urban Youth, the Countryside, Cultural Revolution, and Historical Memory

    Organizer: Minlei Ye – Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

    Chair: Theodore D. Huters – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Theodore D. Huters – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Shaogong Han – Hunan University

    Discussant: Richard King – University of Victoria

    Discussant: Andrea Lingenfelter – University of San Francisco

    Discussant: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  • 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Early Korean Studies Working Group
  • 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Graduate Student Reception
  • Friday, March 13, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Onsite Registration/Badge Pickup Hours
  • 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT
    The Lama's Son
  • 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    The Life and Work of Gerard Sasges

    Chair: Peter Zinoman – University of California, Berkeley

    Discussant: Jamie Gillen – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: Christopher Goscha – Université du Québec à Montréal

    Discussant: Timothy Amos – University of Sydney

    Discussant: Uyen T. Nguyen – Harvard University

    Discussant: Hazel Hahn – Seattle University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    201: Power, Piety, and Patronage: Political and Royal Actors in Buddhist Diplomacy

    Organizer: Jack Meng-Tat Chia – National University of Singapore

    Chair: Jack Meng-Tat Chia – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: William Long – Georgia State University

    Discussant: Ruizhong Choo – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: David Geary – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Chien-peng Chung – Lingnan University

    Discussant: Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen – Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    202: Building a Legacy: Canadian Visions and Formations of Chinese Art Collections
    Organizer: Wen-chien Cheng (she/her/hers) – Royal Ontario Museum
    Chair: Wen-chien Cheng (she/her/hers) – Royal Ontario Museum
    Paper Presenter: Kara Kaifang Ma (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Sisi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Regina
    Paper Presenter: Heng Wu (she/her/hers) – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
    Paper Presenter: Isabel Pifen Chueh (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta Museums
    Discussant: Laura Vigo (she/her/hers) – Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    203: A Sustainable Future of Japanese Studies: Canada’s Perspective and Direction

    Organizer: Ayeshwini Lama – Japan Foundation, Toronto

    Organizer: Noriko Yamamoto – Japan Foundation, Toronto

    Chair: James Tiessen – Japan Studies Association of Canada

    Discussant: Anne Commons – University of Alberta

    Discussant: Mika Kimura – Canadian Association of Japanese Language Education

    Discussant: Phillip Lipscy – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Vincent Mirza – University of Ottawa

    Discussant: Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon – Université de l’Ontario français

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    204: Borrowing and Rejecting: China and the Soviet Models
    Organizer: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    Chair: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Julia Zhou – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Sophia Charles – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University
    Discussant: Sergey Radchenko – SAIS Johns Hopkins University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    205: Beyond Confrontation: Everyday Aesthetic Resistance in Sinophone Communities
    Organizer: An-Ru Chu – University of California, Irvine
    Chair: Yu-ning Liu (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yu-ning Liu (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Yung-Ying Chang – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Eugene Yuchin Chen – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Tianding He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Lily Wong – American University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    206: Beyond Its Usefulness: Rethinking Horses in Early Chinese Funeral Practices, Veterinary Care, and Transcultural Forms
    Organizer: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Tsz-yan Ho (she/her/hers) – École française d'Extrême-Orient, École Pratique des Hautes Études
    Paper Presenter: Chin-hau Lei (he/him/his) – Education University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Tianyu Zhou (he/him/his) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Discussant: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    207: Beyond the Cold War: Early and Late Colonial Film Censorship in Hong Kong
    Organizer: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Organizer: Kristof Van den Troost (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Nicole Huang – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Kenny Ng – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Kristof Van den Troost (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Sheldon Lu – University of California, Davis
    Discussant: Nicole Huang – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    208: Bodies in Transition: Gender, Space, and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism in Republican Shanghai
    Organizer: Wendy Sun (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Chair: Wendy Sun (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Discussant: Wendy Sun (she/her/hers) – Grinnell College
    Paper Presenter: Bozhou Men (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Yun Liu – Shanghai International Studies University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaorong Li – University of California, Santa Barbara
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    209: Buddhist Sacred Space: Material, Visual, and Ritual Constructions - Sponsored by Association for Chinese Art History
    Organizer: Yuchen LIOU (she/her/hers) – Ghent University/National Chengchi university
    Organizer: Jiayi Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Paul Copp (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen LIOU (she/her/hers) – Ghent University/National Chengchi university
    Paper Presenter: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Zixuan WANG (she/her/hers) – Lanzhou University
    Discussant: Paul Copp (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Jeehee Hong – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    210: Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Era: Insights from Two Duke University Press Journals

    Organizer: Yuefan (Ivy) Wang – University of Macau

    Organizer: Jing Chen – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    Chair: Zong-qi Cai – Lingnan University

    Discussant: Zong-qi Cai – Lingnan University

    Discussant: Yucai Liu – Peking University

    Discussant: Mingwei Song – Wellesley College

    Discussant: Thomas J. Mazanec – University of California, Santa Barbara

    Discussant: Rob Dilworth – Duke University Press

    Discussant: Cheng Sudong – Peking University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    211: Linking Nations, Changing Lives: The BRI’s Daily Influence in South Asian Communities
    Organizer: SHABBIR GHULAM (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Chair: SHABBIR GHULAM (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Paper Presenter: SHABBIR GHULAM (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Co-Presenter: SHAFI AHSAN (he/him/his) – School of Government, Yunnan University
    Paper Presenter: KOMAL NIAZI (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: AMJAD ALI (he/him/his) – Government College University Faisalabad
    Co-Presenter: JAVERIA UMBER (she/her/hers) – Government College University Faisalabad
    Paper Presenter: SAJID ALI (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Discussant: Saroja Dorairajoo (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University
    South Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    212: Consent and Sexual Violence in Transnational East Asia
    Organizer: Allison Alexy (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Allison Alexy (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Yutaka Yoshida (he/him/his) – Cardiff University
    Paper Presenter: Yun-Lin Wang (she/her/hers) – Concordia University
    Paper Presenter: Noël Um-Lo – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Allison Alexy (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Soojin Kim (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Akiko Takeyama (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    213: Aquatic Histories: Water in the Social, Cultural, and Environmental Memory of India

    Organizer: Sujata Haridas Gaurkhede (Bansod), Jr. – Dnyanda Mahila Mahavidyalaya Wadegon

    Chair: Laxman D. Satya, Sr. – Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania

    Discussant: Supriya David – Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University

    Discussant: Swapna Mitra – SK College

    Discussant: Sujata Haridas Gaurkhede (Bansod), Jr. – Dnyanda Mahila Mahavidyalaya Wadegon

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    214: Research Creation and Ecopoetics in the Southeast Asian Diaspora
    Organizer: Joanne Leow (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Chair: Rina Garcia-Chua (she/her/siya) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Joanne Leow (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Rina Garcia-Chua (she/her/siya) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Heidi Amin-Hong – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Dennis Gupa (He/Him/His/Kapatid) – University of Winnipeg
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    215: Beyond the Verdict: Negotiating Justice with and against the Law in Post-Imperial East Asia

    Organizer: Chelsea Szendi Schieder – Aoyama Gakuin University

    Chair: Sungyun Lim – University of Colorado Boulder

    Discussant: Chelsea Szendi Schieder – Aoyama Gakuin University

    Discussant: Keyao Pan – Florida International University

    Discussant: Ivi Ivi Fung – University of Oxford

    Discussant: Shoko Yamada – Princeton University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    216: Navigating the State of Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Bencharat Sae Chua (she/her/hers) – Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
    Chair: Herlambang Wiratraman (he/him/his) – Universitas Gadjah Mada
    Paper Presenter: Herlambang Wiratraman (he/him/his) – Universitas Gadjah Mada
    Paper Presenter: May Thida Aung (she/her/hers) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Karin Zackari (she/her/hers) – University of Gothenburg
    Co-Presenter: Nan Kham Mai (she/her/hers) – PNMD Program
    Paper Presenter: Thiem Hai Bui (he/him/his) – Malmö University
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    217: Between Leviathan and Paper Tiger: New Perspectives on State-Market Relations in North Korea
    Organizer: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Chair: Ria Roy – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Seol Choi (she/her/hers) – University of North Korean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Justin Hastings – University of Sydney
    Discussant: Ria Roy – Stanford University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    218: Asian Trajectories of Soviet Nationalities Policies: Ethnoterritorial Governance in the Short Twentieth Century - Sponsored by Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)

    Organizer: Aaron N. Glasserman – University of Pennsylvania

    Chair: Rian Thum – University of Manchester

    Discussant: Aaron N. Glasserman – University of Pennsylvania

    Discussant: Roy Bar Sadeh – University of Manchester

    Discussant: DeVonte A. Tinsley – University of Pennsylvania

    Discussant: Masha Kirasirova – New York University Abu Dhabi

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    219: Democratic Strategies under Threats of Fascism - Sponsored by AAS Diversity and Equity Committee

    Organizer: Benjamin Tausig – Stony Brook University

    Organizer: Wen Liu – Academia Sinica

    Chair: Wen Liu – Academia Sinica

    Discussant: Salma Aqida – Goethe University

    Discussant: Lorraine Pan – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Yuri Chang – Skyline College

    Discussant: Ting Guo – University of Toronto

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    220: Nature & Power: Classic Concepts and Contemporary Trends in the Political Ecology of Mainland Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Jessica DiCarlo (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Chair: Jessica DiCarlo (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Co-Presenter: Jessica DiCarlo (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Paper Presenter: Jesse Rodenbiker (he/him/his) – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Tyler Harlan (he/him/his) – Loyola Marymount University
    Paper Presenter: W. Nathan Green (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Vanessa Lamb (she/her/hers) – York University
    Co-Presenter: Jianhua "Ayoe" Wang – Yunnan Nationalities University
    Discussant: Peter Vandergeest – York University
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    221: Why Do We Care? Smart City, Artificial Intelligence, and Care in Urbanizing Asia
    Organizer: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Chair: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Nina Laurel Powell – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Marie-Hélène Parizeau – Université Laval
    Paper Presenter: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Merlyna Lim – Carleton University
    Discussant: Merlyna Lim – Carleton University
    Digital Technology
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    222: Author Meets Critics: Diana J. Martinez's Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

    Organizer: Desiree A. Valadares – University of British Columbia

    Chair: Sarita Echavez See – University of California, Riverside

    Book Author: Diana J.S. Martinez – University of California, Berkeley

    Speaker: Katherine Achacoso – University of Victoria

    Speaker: Kathleen Gutierrez – University of California, Santa Cruz

    Speaker: Genevieve Clutario – Wellesley College

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    223: Sensing the Sacred and the Mundane: Multisensory Experiences in Buddhist Practices of Eurasia
    Organizer: PAEHWAN SEOL (he/him/his) – Chonnam National University
    Organizer: Marielle Harrison, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Paper Presenter: PAEHWAN SEOL (he/him/his) – Chonnam National University
    Paper Presenter: Marielle Harrison, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Sooa Im McCormick (she/her/hers) – Cleveland Museum of Art
    Discussant: Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    224: New Approaches to Southeast Asian History under Japanese Occupation
    Organizer: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University
    Chair: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Nurfadzilah Yahaya – Yale University
    Discussant: Jeremy A. Yellen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    225: New Approaches to the Study of LEKRA, the Indonesian Institute of People’s Culture, 1950-65
    Organizer: Andrew Weintraub – University of Pittsburgh
    Chair: Siddharth Chandra – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Lara Norgaard – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Asep Topan Mulyono (he/him/his) – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Andrew Weintraub – University of Pittsburgh
    Discussant: John Roosa (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    226: Bridging Area and International Studies: Statecraft, Soft Power, and Historical Narratives
    Organizer: Quah Say Jye – University of Cambridge
    Chair: Moch Faisal Karim (he/him/his) – Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia
    Discussant: Quah Say Jye – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Giulia Garbagni – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Eugene Tan (he/him/his) – ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
    Paper Presenter: Kathleen Bahian Fallon (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Gwendolyn Yap (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    227: Speech, Sound, and Other Transcultural Signs
    Chair: Nicholas Harkness – Harvard University
    Presenting Author: Zuoting Wen (he/him/his) – Western Washington University
    Presenting Author: Yelee An (she/her/hers) – Academy of Korean Studies
    Presenting Author: Fang-Ru Lin (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    Presenting Author: Aidi Cui (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg
    Presenting Author: Cho-rong Park (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Presenting Author: SeungHyeon Pyo (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    228: Contested Belonging and Global Power: International Student Experiences amid Shifting Geopolitics between China, Africa, and the U.S.
    Organizer: Jingjing Lou (she/her/hers) – Beloit College
    Chair: Jing Yu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Jing Yu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Jingjing Lou (she/her/hers) – Beloit College
    Paper Presenter: Ruiyi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Fei Xie (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Discussant: Jiaqi Liu (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    229: New Analyses and Trends in the Elections and Politics of Singapore
    Organizer: Elvin Ong (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Netina Tan (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Paper Presenter: Kay Key Teo (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Steven M. Oliver (he/him/his) – Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Elvin Ong (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Co-Presenter: Viktoria Zlomanova (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: David Matijasevich (he/him/his) – Capilano University
    Discussant: Netina Tan (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Discussant: Kai Ostwald (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    230: Bridging the Institutional Divide: Making Sense of China’s Global Financial Integration
    Organizer: Denise van der Kamp – University of Oxford
    Chair: John Yasuda – Johns Hopkins University
    Discussant: John Yasuda – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Chen Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Hong Zhang – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Denise van der Kamp – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xinyi Wei (she/her/hers) – City St George's, University of London (UNCTAD)
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    231: Charting the Plurality of Chinese Feminisms: Socialist Legacies, Global Dialogues, Digital Futures
    Organizer: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Co-Presenter: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Shaopeng Song (she/her/hers) – Renmin University
    Paper Presenter: Yiping Cai (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Danchen Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Co-Presenter: Haoming Zhou (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Xiao Han (she/her/hers) – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Discussant: Arianne Gaetano (she/her/hers) – Auburn University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    232: China and Global Capitalism: Interventions and Engagements from the 1950s to the 1980s
    Organizer: Yasser A. Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Chair: Gail Hershatter – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Discussant: Gail Hershatter – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Kelvin Ng – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Gina Anne Tam (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Paper Presenter: Yasser A. Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Yang (he/him/his) – University of York
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    233: Currents of Power: Energy Infrastructures and Imaginaries in Modern China (1900 to Present)
    Organizer: Yanping Ni (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Chair: Yurui Hu
    Discussant: Ying Jia Tan – Wesleyan University
    Discussant: Ralph A. Litzinger (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Yanping Ni (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Junfeng Xu – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Tianlin Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    234: Governing Nature: Technoscience, Ecology, and (Post) Imperialism in Twentieth-Century East Asia
    Organizer: Pei-Hsu Lin (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Chair: Hiromi Mizuno (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Discussant: Joseph Seeley (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Youjia Li (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Pei-Hsu Lin (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Paper Presenter: JJ Strange (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Juyoung Lee (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    235: Policing in East Asia: Colonial Legacies and New Perspectives
    Organizer: Max Ward – Middlebury College
    Chair: Jeffrey Martin – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Reo Matsuzaki (he/him/his) – Trinity College
    Paper Presenter: Jiakai Sheng – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Max Ward – Middlebury College
    Paper Presenter: Lingxiao Zhou – Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics
    Discussant: Jeffrey Martin – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Discussant: Suzanne Scoggins – Clark University
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    236: Democracy, Labor, and Information Technologies in a Tumultuous Taiwan
    Organizer: Margaret K. Lewis (she/her/hers) – Seton Hall University
    Chair: Margaret K. Lewis (she/her/hers) – Seton Hall University
    Paper Presenter: Richard Haddock (he/him/his) – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Wei-Ting Yen (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Lev Nachman (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    Discussant: Carl Minzner – Fordham University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    237: Ambivalent Becoming, Contingent Worlding: Infrastructures of Global Racial Capitalism of Afro-China
    Organizer: Wilson Wang (he/they) – Harvard University
    Chair: Tianren Luo (he/him/his) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Yixuan Hu (she/they) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Tianren Luo (he/him/his) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Wilson Wang (he/they) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Yajie Echo Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Kun Huang – College of the Holy Cross
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    238: Building Global Networks to Address the Challenges Facing Japan Studies

    Organizer: James L. Huffman, Jr. – The Nippon Foundation

    Chair: James L. Huffman, Jr. – The Nippon Foundation

    Discussant: Beata Bochorodycz – Adam Mickiewicz University

    Discussant: Christopher Hayes – University of Chester

    Discussant: Stephanie Santschi – University of Zurich

    Discussant: Patrik Ström – Stockholm School of Economics

    Discussant: Kiyoteru Tsutsui – Stanford University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    239: Asian Environmentalism Going Global: Buddhist, Hindu and Daoist Engagement with Ecological Crises
    Organizer: Brian J. Nichols (he/him/his) – Mount Royal University
    Chair: Brian J. Nichols (he/him/his) – Mount Royal University
    Paper Presenter: Brian J. Nichols (he/him/his) – Mount Royal University
    Paper Presenter: Mayfair Yang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Stefania Travagnin (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Liang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Durga Kale (she/her/hers) – University of Calgary
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    240: Premodern China and the Ancient Mediterranean: Why a Cross-Cultural Approach Matters Today

    Organizer: Filippo Marsili – Saint Louis University

    Chair: Griet Vankeerberghen – McGill University

    Discussant: Filippo Marsili – Saint Louis University

    Discussant: Rebecca Robinson – Université de Montréal

    Discussant: Yanxiao He – Tsinghua University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    241: Provenance Research of Chinese Art Objects in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities

    Organizer: Mengge Cao – University of Chicago

    Organizer: Helena Chen-Abair – Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Chair: Joanna M. Gohmann – Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

    Discussant: Mengge Cao – University of Chicago

    Discussant: Helena Chen-Abair – Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Discussant: Fletcher Coleman – University of Texas at Arlington

    Discussant: MacKenzie L. Mallon – Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

    Discussant: Chen Shen – Royal Ontario Museum

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    242: After "Aid" Exit: Rethinking Ownership and Sustainability in Asian Development Practices
    Organizer: Aidan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Chair: Aidan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Aidan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Xiuli Xu (she/her/hers) – China Agricultural University
    Paper Presenter: Md Jahangir Alam (he/him/his) – University of Dhaka
    Paper Presenter: Warjio -, Sr. (he/him/his) – Universitas Sumatera Utara
    Paper Presenter: Nelson Quame (he/him/his) – University of Ghana
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    243: Digital Humanities for Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Mongolian Studies Today
    Organizer: Ning Chia (she/her/hers) – Central College
    Chair: Ning Chia (she/her/hers) – Central College
    Paper Presenter: Sainjargal Tumendemberel (she/her/hers) – National Archives of Mongolia
    Paper Presenter: Richard Ciolek-Torello (he/him/his) – University of Arizona
    Paper Presenter: Dotno Dashdorj Pount (she/her/hers) – Harvard Divinity School
    Paper Presenter: Naran-Oyun Ganbaatar (she/her/hers) – Mongolian University of Science and Technology
    Discussant: Christopher Atwood (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    244: Distance to the State: Rethinking State-Society Relations in Middle-Period China through Social Infrastructures, Political Practices, and Intellectual Orientations
    Organizer: Eric S. Lee (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Chair: Charles Hartman (he/him/his) – University at Albany, SUNY
    Discussant: Charles Hartman (he/him/his) – University at Albany, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Dongmei Zhao (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yung-chang Tung (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Yitian Li (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Eric S. Lee (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    245: Early Chinese Looks at the Past: Bronzes and the Crafting of Memory in Shang–Zhou China
    Organizer: Yuwei Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Organizer: Qiyu Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Yuwei Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Xiyang Duan (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Maria Khayutina (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Paper Presenter: Qiyu Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Felipe Rojas (he/him/his) – Brown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    246: Reframing the Science-Environment Nexus: The Korean Case
    Organizer: Sunyoung Park (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Chair: Sunyoung Park (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Sang-Hyun Kim (he/him/his) – Sogang University
    Paper Presenter: Juwon Lee (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Sunyoung Park (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Albert L. Park (he/him/his) – Claremont McKenna College (The Claremont Colleges)
    Discussant: Chihyung Jeon (he/him/his) – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    247: Religion, Culture, and Media in Korea
    Organizer: John G. Grisafi (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Gloria I-Ling Chien – Gonzaga University
    Paper Presenter: John G. Grisafi (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Yeonwoo Joh (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Yunshu Hu (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Jeremiah Magoncia – Ateneo de Manila University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    248: New Methods for Studying Children’s Literature and Religious Education in Northeast Asia

    Organizer: Jolyon B. Thomas – University of Pennsylvania

    Chair: Sara A. Swenson – Dartmouth College

    Discussant: Jolyon B. Thomas – University of Pennsylvania

    Discussant: Heather Blair – Indiana University

    Discussant: Natasha Heller – University of Virginia

    Discussant: Steve Covell – Western Michigan University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    249: (Re)Mediating Environment: Visual, Poetic, and Material Techniques in East Asian Art and Literature
    Organizer: Elizabeth Lee (she/her/hers) – SUNY New Paltz
    Chair: Elizabeth Lee (she/her/hers) – SUNY New Paltz
    Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Lee (she/her/hers) – SUNY New Paltz
    Paper Presenter: Yeorae Yoon – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Alexander Murphy – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Minna Lee – Princeton University
    Discussant: Anne Feng (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    250: “I See Beauty in a Million Pieces of Glass”: Affective Strategies, Performing Bodies, Hybrid Identities, and Imagined Geographies in KPop Demon Hunters
    Organizer: Kyu Hyun Kim (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Chair: Kyu Hyun Kim (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Kyu Hyun Kim (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Mayako Shibagaki-Liu (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Mia Yun (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Gyu Tag Lee (he/him/his) – George Mason University
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    251: Rethinking the Literary in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Ann Ang (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Ann Ang (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Ann Ang (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Hannah M. Y. Ho (she/her/hers) – Universiti Brunei Darussalam
    Paper Presenter: Angelia Poon (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Alicia Izharuddin (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    252: At a Turning Point? Perspectives on Immigration and Citizenship in Contemporary Japan

    Organizer: Yunchen Tian – Kyoto University

    Chair: Yunchen Tian – Kyoto University

    Discussant: Hilary Holbrow – Indiana University

    Discussant: Ken Silverman – City University of New York, Graduate Center

    Discussant: Gabriele Vogt – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

    Discussant: Quang Huynh – Simon Fraser University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    PS1: Poster Session #1
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:45 AM - 11:40 AM PDT
    Our Mr. Matsura
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
    Pursuing an Academic Career in Japan
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
    Working in the Museum Field
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Navigating the Job Market and Employment in the US, Canada, and Europe as an Immigrant
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Publishing in Asian Studies
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Taiwan's Security: Views from the East Asian Region

    Chair: Ashley Esarey – University of Alberta

    Discussant: Chih-jou Jay Chen – Academia Sinica

    Discussant: Jieh-min Wu

    Discussant: Victoria Hui – University of Notre Dame

    Discussant: Young-Im Lee – California State University, Sacramento

    Discussant: Shino Watanabe – Sophia University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    300: Mentor, Teacher, Scholar, Friend: Remembering Janet Theiss (1964-2025)

    Organizer: Tobie Meyer-Fong – Johns Hopkins University

    Chair: Paola Zamperini – Northwestern University

    Discussant: Hyaeweol Choi – University of Iowa

    Discussant: Maram Epstein – University of Oregon

    Discussant: Tobie Meyer-Fong – Johns Hopkins University

    Discussant: Stephanie Painter – SUNY Old Westbury

    Discussant: Wen-hsin Yeh – University of California, Berkeley

    Discussant: Yi-Li Wu – University of Michigan

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    301: Modes of Translations: Texts, Languages, Praxis - Sponsored by American Association of Teachers of Japanese

    Organizer: Yukiko Hanawa – New York University

    Chair: Yukiko Hanawa – New York University

    Discussant: Yukiko Hanawa – New York University

    Discussant: Anne McKnight – University of California, Riverside

    Discussant: Margherita Long – University of California, Irvine

    Discussant: Yuri Kumagai – Smith College

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    302: Things, Creatures, and the Cosmos in Late Imperial China
    Chair: Ya Zuo – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Presenting Author: Joo-hyeon Oh (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Presenting Author: Yanxi Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Presenting Author: Arthur Erqi CHENG (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Presenting Author: Siyi Zeng (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Presenting Author: Ziyu Qiu (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Presenting Author: Xiaoye Gu (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    303: Japan as a Liminal Power: Evolving Grand Strategy from Meiji to Reiwa

    Organizer: Kei Koga – Nanyang Technological University

    Chair: Phillip Lipscy – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Kristin Vekasi – University of Montana

    Discussant: Yves Tiberghien – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Wrenn Yennie Lindgren – Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

    Discussant: Giulio Pugliese – King's College London

    Discussant: Ayumi Teraoka – Brandeis University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    304: Between Science and Non-science: Alternate Sites, Untold Traditions, and State Building in 20th-Century Asia
    Organizer: Yuchen Yan (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen Yan (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Andrew Schonebaum (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Chan – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Yaming You (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Norman Smith – University of Guelph
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    305: Between Sorrow, Mercy, and Efficacy: Representations of Old Women in Japanese Religions
    Organizer: Chihiro Saka – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Chair: Noriko Tsunoda Reider – Miami University
    Paper Presenter: Chihiro Saka – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Paper Presenter: Kenko Suzuki – Kyoto City University of the Arts
    Paper Presenter: Nathalie Phillips – University of Zurich
    Paper Presenter: Carina Roth – University of Geneva
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    306: Beyond the Marginal: Zainichi Koreans in Literary, Economic, and Political Dynamics of Postwar Japan
    Organizer: Seung-Mi Han (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Chair: Ji-Hyun Lim (he/him/his) – Williams College
    Paper Presenter: Seung-Mi Han (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Maya Hamada (she/her/hers) – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Jaehyang Han (she/her/hers) – Hosei University
    Discussant: Liting Lin (she/her/hers) – Ryukoku University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    307: Beyond the Salaryman: Work and Gender in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film
    Organizer: Edwin Michielsen – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Hannah Airriess – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Takane Suzuki (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Discussant: Ann Sherif – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Hannah Airriess – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Edwin Michielsen – University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    308: CTA Roundtable: Oceans in Motion: Environmental, Commercial, and Political Currents in Asian Maritime History

    Organizer: Janet Smith – Ohio State University

    Chair: William M. Tsutsui – Ottawa University

    Discussant: Jakobina K. Arch – Whitman College

    Discussant: Amanda Respess – Ohio State University

    Discussant: Mariko Jacoby – Hitotsubashi University

    Discussant: Hema Nadarajah – Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    309: Facing the Moment: Sustaining Asian Studies by Confronting and Navigating Contemporary Challenges

    Organizer: Lauren McKee – Berea College

    Organizer: Kristen Luck – George Washington University

    Chair: Lauren McKee – Berea College

    Discussant: Kristen Luck – George Washington University

    Discussant: Anne Prescott – Five College Center for East Asian Studies

    Discussant: Tom Mason – U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation

    Discussant: Davinder L. Bhowmik – University of Washington

    Discussant: Matthieu Felt – University of Florida

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    310: Religious Worldmaking in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Nursyazwani Jamaludin (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Chair: Nursyazwani Jamaludin (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Nursyazwani Jamaludin (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Discussant: Teren Sevea – Harvard Divinity School
    Paper Presenter: Kai Ngu (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Inditian Latifa – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Wayne Huang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Southeast Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    311: “Buddhist Asia“ and “Greater India”: Maps across Colonial Burma, Ceylon, and India
    Organizer: Gitanjali Surendran (she/her/hers) – O.P. Jindal Global University
    Organizer: Sana Aiyar (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Chair: Sasanka Perera (he/him/his) – Colombo Institute for Human Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Gitanjali Surendran (she/her/hers) – O.P. Jindal Global University
    Paper Presenter: Sana Aiyar (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Swati Chawla (she/her/hers) – O.P. Jindal Global University
    Paper Presenter: Sasanka Perera (he/him/his) – Colombo Institute for Human Sciences
    Discussant: Vinayak Chaturvedi – University of California, Irvine
    South Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    312: Transnational History, Memory, and Politics in East and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Shue Fung Chow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Tak Wai Hung (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Shue Fung Chow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Ryan Iu (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Chung Kit Tong (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Wichuta Teeratanabodee (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Discussant: Ponpavi Sangsuradej – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    313: The (Geo)Politics of PRC Law: Institutionalized Lawfare in China’s Quest for a “Law-based Governance”

    Organizer: Tamar Groswald Ozery – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Chair: Keith Hand – University of California College of the Law, San Francisco

    Discussant: Tamar Groswald Ozery – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Discussant: Weijia Rao – Boston University

    Discussant: Chi-Ting Tsai – National Taiwan University

    Discussant: Margaret K. Lewis – Seton Hall University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    314: Still Relevant or a Relic? The Quest for Social and Economic Well-being in Early North Korean Socialism
    Organizer: Suhyun Choi – Columbia University
    Chair: Suzy Kim (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Discussant: Elli S. Kim – Library of Congress
    Paper Presenter: Jun Hee Lee (he/him/his) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Hetty Ye-Jae Lee (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Suhyun Choi – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    315: The Cultural Revolution after Sixty Years: Mao’s Strategic Vision or Improvised Disorder?

    Organizer: Felix Wemheuer – University of Cologne

    Chair: Felix Wemheuer – University of Cologne

    Discussant: Andrew G. G. Walder – Stanford University

    Discussant: Patricia Thornton – University of Oxford

    Discussant: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    316: Vietnamese Engagements with Buddhist Modernism, 1950s to the Present
    Organizer: Nu-Anh Tran (she/her/hers) – University of Connecticut
    Chair: Janet Hoskins – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox – Western Connecticut University
    Paper Presenter: Nu-Anh Tran (she/her/hers) – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Sara A. Swenson (she/her/hers) – Dartmouth College
    Discussant: Janet Hoskins – University of Southern California
    Southeast Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    317: Political Ecology in Upland Southeast Asia—Part 1: Territory, Resistance, and Ecological Knowledge
    Organizer: Areerat Worawongwasu (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Organizer: Antonio Salazar (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Tacloban College
    Chair: Mary Mostafanezhad (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Areerat Worawongwasu (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Antonio Salazar (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Tacloban College
    Paper Presenter: Micah Fisher (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Discussant: Tani H. Sebro (she/her/hers) – California Polytechnic State University
    Discussant: Mary Mostafanezhad (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Southeast Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    318: Completing The New Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

    Organizer: Barbara W. Andaya – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Chair: Muhamad N. Ali – University of California, Riverside

    Discussant: Barbara W. Andaya – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Stephen B. Acabado – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Derek Thiam Soon Heng – Northern Arizona University

    Discussant: Chiara Formichi – Cornell University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    319: Digital Horizons of Vietnam Studies: Collections, Collaborations, Creative Applications

    Organizer: Cindy A. Nguyen – University of California, Los Angeles

    Chair: Cindy A. Nguyen – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Cindy A. Nguyen – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: John Phan – Columbia University

    Discussant: Vy Cao – Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History

    Discussant: George E. Dutton – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Lan Nguyen to – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    320: Internationalist Southeast Asias: Towards a Conjunctural Framework

    Organizer: Thiti Jamkajornkeiat – University of Victoria

    Organizer: Peng Ai – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Chair: Peng Ai – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Speakers: Gillian Hart – University of California, Berkeley

    Speakers: Long T. T. Bui – University of California, Irvine

    Speakers: Cindy Ewing – University of Toronto

    Speakers: Emily Mitamura – Bowdoin College

    Speakers: Jasmine N. An – University of Oregon

    Speakers: Zhou Fang – University of Oxford

    Speakers: Anchana Wachira-asakon – University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    321: Women’s Movements: History, Politics, Activism, and Feminism in Asia
    Organizer: Thuy Thi Thanh Do (she/her/hers) – Hoa Sen University
    Chair: Jen Marchbank (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Thuy Thi Thanh Do (she/her/hers) – Hoa Sen University
    Paper Presenter: Hanh Thi My Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Hanoi National University of Education
    Paper Presenter: Amna Saadat Ali – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Jen Marchbank (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Southeast Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    322: Revolutionary Replays: Cold War Legacies and Transnational Media Aesthetics in North Korean Contexts
    Organizer: Gabor Sebo (he/him/his) – Palacký University Olomouc
    Paper Presenter: Gabor Sebo (he/him/his) – Palacký University Olomouc
    Paper Presenter: Iuliia Glushneva (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Roman Husarski (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University
    Paper Presenter: Qingyang Freya Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Hyangjin Lee (she/her/hers) – Rikkyo University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    323: Sacred Animals and Environmental Change across the Asia-Pacific Region: Introducing “Water Powers”

    Organizer: Aike P. Rots – University of Oslo

    Chair: Aike P. Rots – University of Oslo

    Speakers: Florence Durney – MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

    Speakers: Evan Nicoll-Johnson – University of Alberta

    Speakers: Barbara R. Ambros – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Speakers: Susan M. Darlington – Hampshire College

    Speakers: Marius Palz – University of Cologne

    Speakers: Sonja Åman – University of Oslo

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    324: China Under Xi Jinping: A New Era?

    Organizer: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University

    Chair: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University

    Discussant: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University

    Discussant: Chenggang Xu – Stanford University

    Discussant: Carl Minzner – Fordham University

    Discussant: Holly Snape – University of Glasgow

    Discussant: Li Yuan – New York Times

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    326: Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea: State Securitization Policies and Religious Militancy
    Organizer: Amjad Hussain (he/him/his) – The New School
    Chair: Amjad Hussain (he/him/his) – The New School
    Paper Presenter: Amjad Hussain (he/him/his) – The New School
    Discussant: Syed Mujtaba Hassan (he/him/his) – Qurtuba University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Nousheen Zeb – National University of Modern Languages
    Paper Presenter: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar
    Paper Presenter: Sajjad Khan (he/him/his) – Khyber Pukhtunkhwa
    South Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    327: Crossing Boundaries, Imagining Otherwise: Youth Practices of Escape, Care, and Creation in Urban South Korea
    Organizer: Sungmin Kim (he/him/his) – Pukyong National University
    Chair: Sungi Kim (he/him/his) – Pukyong National University
    Paper Presenter: Sungmin Kim (he/him/his) – Pukyong National University
    Paper Presenter: Hyejin Jo (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Jung Eun Kwon (she/her/hers) – George Washington University
    Discussant: Sungi Kim (he/him/his) – Pukyong National University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    328: Reframing and Remembering the Past: State Diplomacy, Private Donations, and UNESCO Disputes in Japan–Korea Cultural Heritage Relations
    Organizer: Yuko NAGASAWA (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Chair: Toyomi Asano (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Yuko NAGASAWA (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Keitoku Ikegami (he/him/his) – International Christian University
    Paper Presenter: Jihon Kim (she/her/hers) – Korean National Commission for UNESCO
    Discussant: Elif Kalaycioglu (she/her/hers) – University of Alabama
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    329: Technologies of Futurity: Mediating Nuclear Asia in the Cold War
    Organizer: Mei M. Nan (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Organizer: Derek Kramer (he/him/his) – University of Sheffield
    Chair: Tong Lam (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Mei M. Nan (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Derek Kramer (he/him/his) – University of Sheffield
    Discussant: Ran Zwigenberg (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Mina Kaneko (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    330: Between the Profane and the Divine: Creative Resistance and “Islamic” Subjectivities Across Asia
    Organizer: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Chair: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Nicole Yow (they/them/theirs) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Rochisha Narayan (she/her/hers) – University of Cincinnati
    Paper Presenter: Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Joel Chong (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Discussant: Eng Seng Ho (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    331: Print, Film, and Digital Cultures
    Chair: Patrick Chimenti (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    Presenting Author: Felicity Yin – University of California, San Diego
    Presenting Author: Julia Harten (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Yijia Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Presenting Author: Pei-Han Tai (she/her/hers) – Pusan National University
    Presenting Author: Teen Zhen Tan (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Presenting Author: Yanhong Zhu (she/her/hers) – Washington & Lee University
    Presenting Author: Jing Xu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    332: Authoritarianism and Intellectual Freedom: Lessons from Southeast Asia

    Organizer: Margaret Scott – New York University

    Chair: Margaret Scott – New York University

    Discussant: Bencharat Sae Chua – Mahidol University

    Discussant: Herlambang Wiratraman – Universitas Gadjah Mada

    Discussant: Sol Iglesias – University of the Philippines Diliman

    Discussant: Rianne Subijanto – City University of New York, Baruch College

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    333: From Bodies to Bureaucracies: Reproduction and Gendered State Power in Contemporary China
    Organizer: Si Wu – Boston University
    Chair: Michael Puett – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Jolene Yiqiao Kong (she/her/hers) – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
    Paper Presenter: Mingxuan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Si Wu – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Clyde Yicheng Wang – Washington & Lee University
    Discussant: Katherine A. Mason (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    334: Growing Tendencies: Chinese Agriculture from the Qing to the Republic
    Organizer: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    Chair: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Wáng Yōu 王悠 (she/they) – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Mingran Cao – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Spencer Stewart – Purdue University
    Discussant: Fa-Ti Fan – Binghamton University, SUNY
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    335: Borders and Aid in International Relations
    Chair: Jessamyn R. Abel – Pennsylvania State University
    Presenting Author: Michiko Suzuki – University of Tokyo
    Presenting Author: Washik Muhammod Istiaq Ezaz (he/him/his) – Independent University, Bangladesh
    Presenting Author: Wenxu Zhang (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University
    Presenting Author: Jiaying Shen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    336: CANCELED - War, Diplomacy, and Development
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    337: Between Views and Worldviews: Landscape in Early Modern East Asian Art
    Organizer: Ewa Machotka (she/her/hers) – University of Zurich
    Chair: Ewa Machotka (she/her/hers) – University of Zurich
    Paper Presenter: Ewa Machotka (she/her/hers) – University of Zurich
    Paper Presenter: Doreen Mueller (she/her/hers) – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Yoonjung Seo – Myongji University, Seoul
    Paper Presenter: Fan Lin – Leiden University
    Discussant: Robert Goree – Wellesley College
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    338: Dissonances: Curating Imageries of Asia across the Transpacific - Sponsored by AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

    Organizer: Soyi Kim – Duke University

    Chair: Ji Eun (Camille) Sung – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Soyi Kim – Duke University

    Discussant: Ji Eun (Camille) Sung – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Henry Heng Lu – Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

    Discussant: Kang Seung Lee – Commonwealth and Council

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    339: Asian Wellness Industries: Practice, Market, and Cultural Identity
    Organizer: Venera R. Khalikova (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Venera R. Khalikova (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Joseph S. Alter (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Hélène Bloch (she/her/hers) – National Centre for Scientific Research
    Paper Presenter: Stephan Kloos (he/him/his) – Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Venera R. Khalikova (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Nancy N. Chen (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    340: Global Asias Tactics & Theories: Pitching Pedagogy

    Organizer: Tina Chen – Pennsylvania State University

    Chair: Tina Chen – Pennsylvania State University

    Discussant: Tina Chen – Pennsylvania State University

    Discussant: Charlotte Eubanks – Pennsylvania State University

    Discussant: Desiree A. Valadares – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Omer Aijazi – University of Manchester

    Discussant: Alex Murphy – Clark University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    341: Between Hand and Mind: Labor, Knowledge, and Professional Identities in Republican and Socialist China
    Organizer: Mindi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Organizer: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
    Chair: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Discussant: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Mindi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Tianyue Zhang – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Boyao Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    342: Diasporic Connections
    Chair: Cindi Textor – University of Utah
    Presenting Author: Dasom Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Presenting Author: Haiyin Chen (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Technology
    Presenting Author: Xiayu Liu (she/her/hers) – Hitotsubashi University
    Presenting Author: Runjie Wang – University of Washington
    Presenting Author: Kunyi ZOU (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Presenting Author: Thu Nguyen (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Presenting Author: Nathan Hesselink (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    343: Living Gods, Moving Worlds: Ritual Agents and Vernacular Religion in Transregional Asia
    Organizer: Aidi Cui (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg
    Organizer: Beichen Zu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Chair: Ruo Lin (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Aidi Cui (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Beichen Zu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Jiang (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Paper Presenter: Ruo Lin (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Shin-yi Chao (she/her/hers) – University of Rochester
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    344: Beyond Facilitation: Intermediaries and the Making of Diplomacy in Early Modern and Modern East Asia
    Organizer: Thomas P. Barrett – Keio University
    Chair: Pete Millwood – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Zikang Zhang (he/him/his) – Nagasaki University
    Paper Presenter: Xia-Kang Ziyi – Kyushu University
    Paper Presenter: Thomas P. Barrett – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Kenji Matsuo – University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Ke Ren – College of the Holy Cross
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    345: China’s Export Scholarship: Are Sponsored Translations into Foreign Languages Increasing Chinese Academic Capital?

    Organizer: Daniel Fried – University of Alberta

    Chair: Daniel Fried – University of Alberta

    Discussant: Daniel Fried – University of Alberta

    Discussant: Joanna Krenz – Adam Mickiewicz University

    Discussant: Timothy Billings – Middlebury College

    Discussant: Hua Bai – Springer

    Discussant: Yanyu Zeng – Hunan Normal University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    346: Chinese Responses to Climate Change during the Little Ice Age, ca. 1350-1850

    Organizer: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria

    Chair: Kenneth Pomeranz – University of Chicago

    Discussant: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria

    Discussant: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley – San Diego State University

    Discussant: Ruth Mostern – University of Pittsburgh

    Discussant: Qing Pei – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    Discussant: Peter C. Perdue – Yale University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    347: Conceptualizing, Visualizing, and Mapping Global China Studies

    Organizer: Jennifer Rudolph – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    Chair: Maria Adele Carrai – New York University Shanghai

    Discussant: Jennifer Rudolph – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    Discussant: Maria Adele Carrai – New York University Shanghai

    Discussant: Lane Harrison – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    Discussant: Xiaojiao Wang – North Carolina State University

  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    348: Aristocratic Cultures in Non-Han Regimes of Middle-Period China
    Organizer: Lance Pursey – Academia Sinica
    Chair: Peter K. Bol – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Soojung Han – Southwestern University
    Paper Presenter: Chao-Hui Jenny Liu (she/her/hers) – East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Zachary S. Hershey – College of William & Mary
    Paper Presenter: Zhouyang Ma – Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Discussant: Peter K. Bol – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    349: From Codes of Governance to Protecting People’ Rights: Reexamining the Function of Law in East Asia in the First Half of the 20th Century
    Organizer: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University
    Chair: Christian Hess (he/him/his) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University
    Paper Presenter: Hanbark Kim (he/him/his) – Chung-Ang University
    Paper Presenter: Cheng-Yu Lin (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Weilin Xiao (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Yu Liu – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Northeast Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    350: Becoming World Literature: Gender, Emotion, and the Global Circulation of Chinese Poetry
    Organizer: Fay Feijie Zhen – Arizona State University
    Chair: Lucas Klein (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Fay Feijie Zhen – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Zheng Li (she/her/hers) – Beijing Foreign Studies University
    Paper Presenter: Ninghui Yuan (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne
    Discussant: Lucas Klein (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    PS2: Poster Session #2
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Overcoming the Mid-Career Slump: Balancing Service, Teaching, and the Second Book Project
  • 11:40 AM - 12:50 PM PDT
    Landscapes of Home
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT
    American Association of Teachers of Japanese
  • 12:50 PM - 2:15 PM PDT
    Just Being There
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    401: Korean Racial Imaginary
    Organizer: Susanna (Soojung) Lim – University of Oregon
    Chair: Susanna (Soojung) Lim – University of Oregon
    Discussant: Susanna (Soojung) Lim – University of Oregon
    Paper Presenter: Joowon Yuk (she/her/hers) – Kyungpook National University
    Paper Presenter: Han Sang Kim (he/him/his) – Ajou University
    Paper Presenter: Sunhye Kim – Ewha Womans University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    402: Reorienting Taiwan: Capital, Migration, and Maritime Networks in a Global Frame
    Organizer: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    Chair: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    Paper Presenter: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth
    Discussant: Douglas Fix – Reed College
    Discussant: Fei Hsien Wang – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Pao-Wen Huang – Ruhr University Bochum
    Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    403: Reporting on Mao’s Last Revolution: Audio and Text from the Robert Elegant Collection
    Organizer: Zhao Ma (he/him/his) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Jan Berris – National Committee on U.S. China Relations
    Discussant: Tobie Meyer-Fong – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Joan Wang (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Jie Li – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Wang (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Zhao Ma (he/him/his) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    404: Reshaping Sea and Hinterland: New Perspectives of Imperial China from the Southern Expanse
    Organizer: Joey Low (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Chair: Andrew Chittick (he/him/his) – Eckerd College
    Paper Presenter: Joey Low (he/him/his) – Brandeis University
    Paper Presenter: Jasmin Wai Tan Law (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Kangni Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: J. Travis Shutz (he/him/his) – California State University, Los Angeles
    Discussant: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    405: Imagining China’s Transformation in Global Asia: Nationalism, Monarchism, and Citizenship in the Late Qing Period
    Organizer: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    Chair: Egas MONIZ BANDEIRA (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Paper Presenter: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    Co-Presenter: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University
    Co-Presenter: Egas MONIZ BANDEIRA (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Paper Presenter: Chengxin Peng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Wei Zhang (he/him/his) – University of York
    Paper Presenter: Yue Zhou (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Discussant: Egas MONIZ BANDEIRA (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    406: Concepts and Centers: Inquiries into the Legacy and Potential of Southeast Asian Political Life - Sponsored by Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)
    Organizer: Carla Jones – University of Colorado Boulder
    Chair: Carla Jones – University of Colorado Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Carla Jones – University of Colorado Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Ismail Alatas – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Verena Meyer (she/her/hers) – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Martin Slama – Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Discussant: James Hoesterey – Emory University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    407: “Becoming Urban”: Aspirations and Contentions from Southeast Asia’s Urban Frontiers
    Organizer: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Organizer: Vilashini Somiah (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya
    Chair: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Preciosa Ang De Joya (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Jose Cornelio Guterres (he/him/his) – Instituto Nacional de Ciências e Tecnologia Timor-Leste
    Paper Presenter: Trixie Marjorie Tangit (she/her/hers) – Universiti Malaysia Sabah
    Co-Presenter: Adrian Soidi – Warisan dan Kebudayaan Bundu Tuhan
    Discussant: Kristian Karlo Saguin – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    408: CANCELED - Whose Heritage Counts? Negotiating Power, Memory, and Identity from the Margins
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    409: Centering the Margins: Reflections on Contemporary Himalayan Art
    Organizer: Sarah Magnatta (she/her/hers) – University of Denver
    Chair: Sarah Magnatta (she/her/hers) – University of Denver
    Paper Presenter: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Uranchimeg Tsultem (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    410: No Country for Weak Men: Conceptualizing Strong(wo)man Politics in South and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Hassan Javid (he/him/his) – University of the Fraser Valley
    Organizer: Sophie Lemiere (she/her/hers) – Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair, Collège de France
    Chair: Hassan Javid (he/him/his) – University of the Fraser Valley
    Paper Presenter: Hassan Javid (he/him/his) – University of the Fraser Valley
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Lemiere (she/her/hers) – Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair, Collège de France
    Paper Presenter: Arild Engelsen Ruud (he/him/his) – University of Oslo
    Paper Presenter: Moumita Sen (she/her/hers) – MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
    Discussant: Duncan McCargo – Nanyang Technological University
    Co-Presenter: Duncan McCargo – Nanyang Technological University
    Co-Presenter: Saimum Parvez (he/him/his) – MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    411: Climate Justice and Environmental Governance in South Asia: Diplomacy, Displacement, and Regional Pathways in the Anthropocene
    Organizer: CHITHRABHANU VINODAN (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University
    Chair: Johny Augustine – St. Ambrose University
    Paper Presenter: Mohanan Bhaskaran Pillai (he/him/his) – Pondicherry University
    Paper Presenter: Johny Augustine – St. Ambrose University
    Paper Presenter: Vivek Chemmacheri Kokkmmadathil (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University
    Discussant: Vivek Chemmacheri Kokkmmadathil (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University
    Co-Presenter: Vivek Chemmacheri Kokkmmadathil (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University
    Paper Presenter: CHITHRABHANU VINODAN (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University
    Co-Presenter: Chhanda Rani (she/her/hers) – Christian Aid Bangladesh
    Discussant: Md.Rahul Amin (he/him/his) – Northern University Bangladesh
    Co-Presenter: Md.Rahul Amin (he/him/his) – Northern University Bangladesh
    Co-Presenter: Vinu J George (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University
    South Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    412: Infrastructures of Democracy: The Politics and Processes of Road Building in Nepal

    Organizer: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

    Chair: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Shyam Kunwar – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Katharine Rankin – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Jeevan Baniya – Social Science Baha

    Discussant: Amy Johnson – Georgia College & State University

    Discussant: Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa – University of British Columbia

  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    413: Religion and Southeast Asia—Practices, Politics, and Transformations in Everyday Life - Sponsored by AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) & Journal of Southeast Asia Studies (JSEAS)
    Organizer: Vilashini Somiah (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya
    Organizer: Sophea Seng (she/her/hers) – California State University, Long Beach
    Chair: Richard Fox (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Discussant: Richard Fox (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Paper Presenter: Pavithra Nandanan Menon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Marco Del Gallo (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Alokita Raichaudhuri (she/her/hers) – Jadavpur University
    Paper Presenter: Sopanha Bunthoeun (he/him/his) – Seoul National University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    414: The (Infra)Structure of Cold War in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Jiajie Meng (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Organizer: Bo Yan (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Bradley Simpson (he/him/his) – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Jiajie Meng (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Paper Presenter: Bo Yan (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Eric Dinmore (he/him/his) – Hampden-Sydney College
    Paper Presenter: Liping Sun (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    415: Margins of Authority: Technological Governance, Legal Identity, and Statecraft in Borneo
    Organizer: Oleg Vasilchenko (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Chair: Oleg Vasilchenko (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Paper Presenter: Mu’izz Abdul Khalid (he/him/his) – Universiti Malaya
    Paper Presenter: Jamie Chai Yun Chai Yun Liew (she/her/hers) – University of Ottawa
    Paper Presenter: Oleg Vasilchenko (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Discussant: Vilashini Somiah (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya
    Discussant: Dominik M. Müller (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    416: Miracles, Magic, and the Invisible in Islamic Asia
    Organizer: Faris Joraimi (he/him/his) – New York University
    Chair: Nicole Yow (they/them/theirs) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Herman Lim Bin Adam Lim (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Solihin Samsuri (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Faris Joraimi (he/him/his) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Khairillah Irwan (he/him/his) – New York University
    Discussant: Faizah Zakaria (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    417: Moving Beyond the Given: The Politics of Categories and Subjectivity in Indonesia
    Organizer: Nila Utami (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Nila Utami (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Nila Utami (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Ayu Ratih (she/her/hers) – Indonesian Institute of Social History
    Paper Presenter: Kilim Park (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Irene Poetranto – The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    418: Networks of Shadow Economies: Smuggling, Black Markets, and Informalities in Cold War Asia
    Organizer: Ka Shing So – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Chair: Jeongmin Kim – University of Manitoba
    Paper Presenter: Ka Shing So – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Discussant: Naofumi Nakamura (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Kiyotaka Maeda (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Anubha Anushree – University of Delhi
    Paper Presenter: Qiuyang Chen – Loughborough University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    419: Nonhuman Modernism in Transnational Asia
    Organizer: Mercy An (she/her/hers) – Colorado College
    Chair: Karen Thornber (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Courtney Work (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Jiahe Mei (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Mercy An (she/her/hers) – Colorado College
    Paper Presenter: Jiyuan Ren – University of South Carolina
    Paper Presenter: Bal Sharma – University of Idaho
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    420: Others Witnessed, Recorded, Reproduced, and Represented across Asia
    Organizer: Shiho Ogura (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Benjamin Tausig (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University
    Paper Presenter: Yuang Liu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Isidora Miranda (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Shiho Ogura (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Matthew Reeder (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Benjamin Tausig (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    421: Performing Youth, Negotiating Nation: Identity, Expression, and Agency among Chinese Youth at Home and Abroad
    Organizer: Bruce Xin Tao (he/him/his) – University of Sydney
    Chair: Wanning Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Bruce Xin Tao (he/him/his) – University of Sydney
    Discussant: Yu Tao – University of Western Australia
    Paper Presenter: Ye Xue (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Zitong Feng – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Ziman Li – University of Sheffield
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    422: Pivotal Places, Diverse Aspirations in East, Southeast, and South Asia: An Interdisciplinary Exploration
    Organizer: Siu Hei Lai – Chiang Mai University
    Chair: John D. Wong – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: John D. Wong – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Doris Y. S. Chan – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Michelle Wun Ting Wong – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Siu Hei Lai – Chiang Mai University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    423: Politics of the Palate: Gastropolitical Praxis across Asia and the Asian Diasporas
    Organizer: Ji-Yeon Jo (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: Ji-Yeon Jo (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Yiran Tao (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Ji-Yeon Jo (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Taiki Sano (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Jihye Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Changzoo Song (he/him/his) – University of Auckland
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    424: Political Ecology In Upland Southeast Asia—Part 2: New Economies, Community Governance, and Exclusion
    Organizer: Areerat Worawongwasu (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Organizer: Antonio Salazar (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Tacloban College
    Chair: Micah Fisher (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoyun Neo (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Madeline Chorney (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Co-Presenter: Tanya Limkhumduang (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Micah Fisher (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    425: Postbellum Disability and Veteran Settlement in China and Vietnam: Postcolonial Violence, Institutional Change, and Frontier Landscapification of the Body
    Organizer: Hanzhi Dai (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    Organizer: Ai Binh T. Ho (She/They) – Independent Scholar
    Chair: Helen Schneider (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
    Paper Presenter: Hanzhi Dai (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Ai Binh T. Ho (She/They) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Kai Yang (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Emily Matson (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    426: Healing Waters in Religious and Everyday Practices in Chinese Society (12th–20th Centuries)
    Organizer: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen
    Chair: James Robson (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Changzhong (Bhiksuni) Lee – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Jingyu Liu – Rollins College
    Paper Presenter: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen
    Paper Presenter: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Michael Stanley-Baker – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    427: Inedible Food in Premodern China: Cultural, Sensory, and Epistemic Boundaries (12th–18th Centuries)
    Organizer: Wandi Wang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    Chair: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Wandi Wang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    Discussant: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Ari D. Levine (he/him/his) – University of Georgia
    Paper Presenter: Xiaosong Gao – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    428: Narrating the Revolution: Theoretical Practice and Cultural Production in China’s Late Cultural Revolution
    Organizer: Harlan D. Chambers – Göttingen University
    Chair: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Harlan D. Chambers – Göttingen University
    Paper Presenter: Xuesong Shao – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Benjamin Kindler – Lingnan University
    Discussant: Fabio Lanza (he/him/his) – University of Arizona
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    429: Beyond the Visual: Gender, Queerness, and Media Margins in Japanese Popular Culture
    Organizer: Haruki Sekiguchi (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Haruki Sekiguchi (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Haruki Sekiguchi (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: James Welker (he/him/his) – Kanagawa University
    Paper Presenter: Minori Murosaki Ishida (she/her/hers) – Niigata University
    Paper Presenter: Lucy Glasspool – Nagoya University of Foreign Studies
    Paper Presenter: Alexis Rangell-Onwuegbuzia (they/them/theirs) – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    430: Traces of Science, Medicine, and the Environment: Ethnographic Explorations in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Chair: Tiên Dung Hà (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Discussant: Chun-Yu (Jo Ann) Wang (she/her/hers) – Pitzer College
    Paper Presenter: Darius Sadighi (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Tiên Dung Hà (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Southeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    431: Seoul Mates: Transformations of Gender and Intimacy in Contemporary South Korea
    Organizer: Alex J. Nelson (he/him/his) – University of Indianapolis
    Organizer: Seung-kyung Kim (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Chair: Alex J. Nelson (he/him/his) – University of Indianapolis
    Paper Presenter: Alex J. Nelson (he/him/his) – University of Indianapolis
    Paper Presenter: Seung-kyung Kim (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: John Cho (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Meera Choi – Yale University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    432: Shifting Modes of Subjectivity in North Korea: From Socialist Heroes to Aspiring Individuals, 1960s-present
    Organizer: Gae-hwa Bae (she/her/hers) – Dankook University
    Chair: Young-a Park (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Sunghee Kim (he/him/his) – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Gae-hwa Bae (she/her/hers) – Dankook University
    Paper Presenter: Young-a Park (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Discussant: Gabor Sebo (he/him/his) – Palacký University Olomouc
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    433: Visions of Decolonization in Colonial Korea, 1920s-1940s: Yun Ch’i-ho, Yŏ Un-hyŏng, and O Yŏng-jin
    Organizer: Irhe Sohn (he/him/his) – Smith College
    Organizer: Chung-Hee Ryu (he/him/his) – Fukuoka University
    Chair: Kyeong-Hee Choi – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Irhe Sohn (he/him/his) – Smith College
    Paper Presenter: Chung-Hee Ryu (he/him/his) – Fukuoka University
    Paper Presenter: Jong-wook Hong – Seoul National University
    Discussant: Kyeong-Hee Choi – University of Chicago
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    434: Staging the Frontier: Jeju Island as a Site of Development Experiments
    Organizer: Youjeong Oh – University of Texas at Austin
    Organizer: Hae Seo Kim – University of California, Irvine
    Chair: June Hee Kwon – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Sungjo Kim – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: June Hee Kwon – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Youjeong Oh – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Hae Seo Kim – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Kyoim Yun (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    435: China in Global Circulation: Reconfiguring Knowledge, Institutions, and Resources in the Early Twentieth Century
    Organizer: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Chair: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Duoxiao Wu (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Yundi Jin (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University
    Paper Presenter: Cheuk Huen Lee (she/her/hers) – Nankai University
    Discussant: Jiaying Shen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Discussant: Duanran Feng (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    436: China’s Zero-Covid Policy: Affective Governance, Diaspora Mobilization, Pandemic Controls, and Exit from the System
    Organizer: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto
    Chair: Patricia Thornton – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Liu (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Patricia Thornton – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Silvia Lindtner (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Hongshen Zhu – Lingnan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    437: Port City Print Cultures: Anglophone Publishing in Asia, 1860 to 1945
    Organizer: Waiyee Loh (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    Chair: Waiyee Loh (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    Paper Presenter: Richard Horowitz (he/him/his) – California State University, Northridge
    Paper Presenter: Zigui Li (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University
    Paper Presenter: Waiyee Loh (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    438: Challenges and Perils of a Transnational Political Community: Evidence from Global Hong Kong
    Organizer: Nathan Tsang – University of Southern California
    Chair: Kennedy Chi-pan Wong – The King's University
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Tsang – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Eva Cheuk-Yin Li – Lancaster University
    Discussant: Jeffrey Ngo – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Pamela P Tsui – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Eunice Leong-ming Chan – Lancaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    439: Experiential Learning in Asian Studies Classrooms

    Organizer: M. Paulina Hartono – University of Texas at Arlington

    Chair: Elise Huerta – Association for Asian Studies

    Discussant: M. Paulina Hartono – University of Texas at Arlington

    Discussant: William Ma – Louisiana State University

    Discussant: Robert Batchelor – Georgia Southern University

  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    440: Framing Contact: Roundtable on Disciplines, Methods, and Archives for Research on Premodern Asian Connections

    Organizer: Tamara T. Chin – Brown University

    Chair: Emily Hanako Everest-Phillips – Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

    Discussant: Tamara T. Chin – Brown University

    Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama – Harvard University

    Discussant: Heather M.-L Miller – University of Toronto Mississauga

    Discussant: Michelle C. Wang – Georgetown University

    Discussant: Tansen Sen – New York University Shanghai

  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    441: Class and Contentious Politics in China
    Organizer: Manfred Elfstrom (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Manfred Elfstrom (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Marc Blecher (he/him/his) – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Elaine S. Hui (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Co-Presenter: Kayi Yiu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Zhihang Ruan (he/him/his) – City University of New York, Hunter College
    Paper Presenter: Eli Friedman (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Discussant: Manfred Elfstrom (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: William Hurst – University of Cambridge
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    442: Composite Media: Communication and Its Material Forms from Song to Qing China
    Organizer: Lik Hang Tsui – City University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Danni Cai – Hangzhou Normal University
    Chair: Antje Richter (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Lik Hang Tsui – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Bruce Rusk (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Sylvia W. S. Lee – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Danni Cai – Hangzhou Normal University
    Discussant: Antje Richter (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Boulder
    Discussant: Grace S. Fong – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    443: Constructing “the Hui” from Song to the PRC: Historical Research in Memory of Dru C. Gladney (1956-2022)
    Organizer: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    Chair: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    Discussant: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    Paper Presenter: Wlodzimierz Cieciura (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Haiyun Ma (he/him/his) – Frostburg State University
    Paper Presenter: Jing Xu (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    444: Governing Family Through Women in Qing and Modern China
    Organizer: Ruonan Wang – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Matthew Sommer (he/him/his) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Ruonan Wang – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Discussant: Xiaoping Cong – University of Houston
    Paper Presenter: Wilson Miu – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Chaoran Ma – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Wan Zhao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    445: What to do When Everything is Terrible: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Japanese Studies to Purpose in the Everyday
    Organizer: Kathryn M. Tanaka (she/her/hers) – University of Hyogo
    Organizer: Alexandra Hambleton (she/her/hers) – Tsuda University
    Chair: Chelsea Szendi Schieder (she/her/hers) – Aoyama Gakuin University
    Paper Presenter: Tanya Maus (she/her/hers) – Wilmington College
    Paper Presenter: Kathryn M. Tanaka (she/her/hers) – University of Hyogo
    Paper Presenter: Itamar Zadoff (he/him/his) – University of Haifa
    Paper Presenter: Alexandra Hambleton (she/her/hers) – Tsuda University
    Discussant: Chelsea Szendi Schieder (she/her/hers) – Aoyama Gakuin University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    446: Women, Genji, Poetry
    Organizer: Joshua Mostow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Joshua Mostow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Akihiko Niimi (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Saeko Suzuki (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Joshua Mostow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Sydney Olney (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Gaye Rowley (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    447: Work and Meaning in the Literature, Film, and Media of Contemporary Japan
    Organizer: Brian Hurley – University of Texas at Austin
    Chair: Brian Hurley – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Brian Hurley – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Mieko Anders – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan E. Abel – Pennsylvania State University
    Discussant: Hannah Airriess – Indiana University
    Discussant: Anthony Stott (he/him/his) – University of Massachusetts, Boston
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    448: Haunting Japanese Colonial Legacies: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Decolonization in Postwar South Korea and Japan
    Organizer: Sangmi Bae (she/her/hers) – Korea University
    Chair: Samuel Perry (he/him/his) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Sangmi Bae (she/her/hers) – Korea University
    Paper Presenter: Izumi Nakaya (she/her/hers) – Nishogakusha University
    Discussant: Yoko HAYASHI (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Katherine Hye-Ryun Yang (she/her/hers) – George Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Mairead Cecille Hynes (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    449: Intermedial Performances of Gender in Modern Korea and China
    Organizer: Hyun Suk Park (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Chair: Tarryn L. Chun (she/her/hers) – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Hyun Suk Park (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Peng Xu (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Hyunjeong Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Seoul
    Paper Presenter: Ivanna Yi (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Discussant: Tarryn L. Chun (she/her/hers) – University of Notre Dame
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    450: Japanese Conservatism since the 1990s and the Rise of Participatory Populism
    Organizer: Nathaniel M. Smith – Ritsumeikan University
    Chair: Kenneth Ruoff – Portland State University
    Paper Presenter: Kohei Kurahashi (he/him/his) – Soka University
    Paper Presenter: Nathaniel M. Smith – Ritsumeikan University
    Paper Presenter: Yoojin Koo – International Christian University
    Paper Presenter: Tomomi Yamaguchi – Ritsumeikan University
    Discussant: Kenneth Ruoff – Portland State University
    Northeast Asia
  • 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    PS3: Poster Session #3
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    451: Socioeconomic Development and Environmental Issues
    Chair: Lorenz Timothy B. Ranera (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Presenting Author: Dagm Alemayehu Tegegn (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University
    Presenting Author: Janflor Mc.louie S. Ullero (he/him/his) – National University
    Presenting Author: Karl Friedrik K. Poblador (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Presenting Author: Emmanuel L. Alba (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Presenting Author: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Dissertation into Book
  • 2:15 PM - 3:10 PM PDT
    Ghost Mountain: The Second Killing Fields in Cambodia
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Navigating the Job Market and Employment in the US, Canada, and Europe as an Immigrant
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Publishing in Asian Studies: Getting Published in the Journal of Asian Studies
  • 3:10 PM - 3:35 PM PDT
    Submerged
  • 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM PDT
    Reconsidering Europe? Advice and Information on Transitioning from North American Academia to European Academia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    501: Eco-Encounters: Reconsidering Flora and Fauna in Chinese Art and Material Culture
    Organizer: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Organizer: Anran Tu (she/her/hers) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Chair: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Anran Tu (she/her/hers) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Discussant: Lisa Claypool – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Fa-Ti Fan – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Wilson Chan (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College
    Paper Presenter: Feng Guo – University of Edinburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    502: Data-driven Developments in China: New Dynamics of State, Labor, and Financial Capital
    Organizer: Lin Zhang – University of New Hampshire
    Chair: Lin Zhang – University of New Hampshire
    Paper Presenter: Lin Zhang – University of New Hampshire
    Paper Presenter: Angela Wu – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Julie Yujie Chen – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Chenhao Ye – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Discussant: Bingchun Meng (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Digital Technology
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    503: Escaping Death and Returning to Life: Morality, Justice, and Power in the Commutation and Suspension of the Death Penalty in Modern China
    Organizer: Yonglin Jiang (he/him/his) – Bryn Mawr College
    Chair: Yonglin Jiang (he/him/his) – Bryn Mawr College
    Paper Presenter: Yanhong Wu (she/her/hers) – Bryn Mawr College
    Paper Presenter: Thomas Buoye (he/him/his) – University of Tulsa
    Paper Presenter: Guanhong Chen (he/him/his) – Macau University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Bin Liang (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University
    Discussant: Nancy Park (she/her/hers) – California State University, East Bay
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    504: K-pop in East Asia: Socio-Political Dynamics of Global Fandom and Local Contexts
    Organizer: Yukie Hirata (she/her/hers) – Japan Women's University/ University of British Columbia
    Chair: Yukie Hirata (she/her/hers) – Japan Women's University/ University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Yukie Hirata (she/her/hers) – Japan Women's University/ University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Ichen Chen (she/her/hers) – Nara Women's University
    Paper Presenter: Masae Yoshimitsu – University of Nagasaki
    Paper Presenter: Doobo Shim – Sungshin Women's University
    Co-Presenter: Joho Yamamoto – Ritsumeikan University
    Co-Presenter: Huey-Rong Chen – Chinese Culture University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    505: Staying and Going: Navigating the Hong Kong LGBTQ+ Lived Experience in Political Precarity
    Organizer: Ho Lam Roland Cheng (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Howard Chiang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Ho Lam Roland Cheng (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ying-Chao Kao (he/him/his) – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Paper Presenter: Javier Pang (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Leo Zephyrus Chow (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    506: Gaming Narratives: Towards a Ludic Epistemology in Early Modern East Asia
    Organizer: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen
    Paper Presenter: Kang-eun Kim – Sungkyunkwan University
    Discussant: Charlotte Eubanks – Pennsylvania State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    507: Governing and Gauging the People: A Story of Chinese Population in the Long 20th Century
    Organizer: Yimang Zhou (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    Organizer: Zhelun Zhou (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: David Luesink (he/him/his) – Sacred Heart University
    Discussant: Sarah Mellors Rodriguez (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Yimang Zhou (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    Paper Presenter: Zhelun Zhou (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Weihan Sun (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xinyue Zheng (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    508: In a Sense: Early Modern Travels of China’s Sensoria across Borders, Geographies, and Cultures
    Organizer: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Chair: Qiong Zhang (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University
    Discussant: Qiong Zhang (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University
    Paper Presenter: Anna D’Ambrosio (she/her/hers) – Bibliotheca Hertziana
    Paper Presenter: Yixin Alfred Wang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    509: Plays of Power across Page and Stage
    Chair: Karin Myhre (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia
    Presenting Author: Yuyang Han (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Presenting Author: Cheuk Yee Wai (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Presenting Author: Lenore Szekely (she/her/hers) – University of Winnipeg
    Presenting Author: Chun Shan, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Exeter
    Presenting Author: Yizhuo Li (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    510: Information Empire: Notation, Transmission, Translation, and Knowledge Production in Early China
    Organizer: Qiran Jin – Princeton University
    Chair: Martin Kern – Princeton University
    Discussant: Tamara T. Chin – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Zev Handel (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Qiran Jin – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Yixin Gu (he/him/his) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Tao Guo – Wuhan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    511: Elusive Equality: Marginality, Structure, and Reproduction of Inequality in South Asia
    Organizer: Utkarsh Kamal (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Chair: Utkarsh Kamal (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Utkarsh Kamal (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Raveena Esther Ravichandran (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
    Paper Presenter: Ranju Kumari Yadav (she/her/hers) – Tribhuvan University
    Paper Presenter: Theodora Cecilia Gomes (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
    South Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    512: Negotiating Indigenous Self-Government Across Asia
    Organizer: Shane J. Barter – Soka University of America
    Chair: Hipolitus Wangge – Universiti Sains Malaysia
    Paper Presenter: Shane J. Barter – Soka University of America
    Paper Presenter: Nina McMurry – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Myla Chawla – York University
    Paper Presenter: Hari Har Jnawali – Queen's University
    Discussant: Ian Baird – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Carrie Perkins – Soka University of America
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    513: Thinking Comparatively About China: Interarea and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Organizer: Martin Dimitrov – Tulane University

    Chair: Martin Dimitrov – Tulane University

    Discussant: Mohammed Alsudairi – Australian National University

    Discussant: Cheng Chen – SUNY Albany

    Discussant: Zhang Xin – East China Normal University

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    514: Power and the Narrative in Vietnamese Tales and Stories
    Organizer: Claudine Ang – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Claudine Ang – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Claudine Ang – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Kathlene Baldanza – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Lu Zhao – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Jacqueline Yu – Columbia University
    Discussant: Eric Henry – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    516: Beyond Immigration Controls: The Politics of (E)migration in Transnational East Asia
    Organizer: Phyllis Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Organizer: Tommy Yui Chim Lo – University of Manchester
    Chair: Shelly Chan – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Paul Kreitman (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Phyllis Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Tommy Yui Chim Lo – University of Manchester
    Paper Presenter: Jon Howlett (he/him/his) – University of York
    Discussant: Catherine Ladds – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Discussant: Elena Barabantseva – University of Manchester
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    517: GLAM-ing it Up: Exploring Narratives of Asia through Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums

    Organizer: Christina Wei-Szu Burke Mathison – Ohio State University

    Organizer: Yiwen Liu – Harvard University

    Chair: Wen-chien Cheng – Royal Ontario Museum

    Speakers: Christina Wei-Szu Burke Mathison – Ohio State University

    Speakers: Yiwen Liu – Harvard University

    Speakers: Sarah Magnatta – University of Denver

    Speakers: Yi Shan – University of Texas at Austin

    Speakers: Janice Glowski – Otterbein University

    Speakers: Kimberly Masteller – Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    518: Border-Crossing Studies on Daoism in Eurasia - Part I: Border-Crossing the Dao - Theological Legacies and Translational Lineages in Early Western Interpretations of the Daodejing
    Organizer: Heejung Seo-Reich (she/her/hers) – Department of Confucian and Oriental Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)
    Chair: James Robson (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Misha Tadd (he/him/his) – Nankai University
    Paper Presenter: Dadui Yao (he/him/his) – Hainan University
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Heejung Seo-Reich (she/her/hers) – Department of Confucian and Oriental Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)
    Co-Presenter: Linfang Wang (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Discussant: Heejung Seo-Reich (she/her/hers) – Department of Confucian and Oriental Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)
    Discussant: Ruoshui Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Cambridge
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    519: Oral History Across Borders: Practices and Reflections from East Asia and the United States

    Organizer: David Cheng Chang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

    Chair: David Cheng Chang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

    Discussant: Yoshifumi Sato – Hitotsubashi University

    Discussant: Yidi Wu – Elon University

    Discussant: Sunwoo Lee – Ewha Womans University

    Discussant: Christian McCall – Tennessee Tech University

    Discussant: Xiaocong YU – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    520: The American Century and the Korean Peninsula: Critical Perspectives on the U.S. Empire from Colonial Korea and North and South Koreas
    Organizer: Jin-kyung Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Jin-kyung Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Janet Poole – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Jae-Yong Kim (he/him/his) – Wonkwang University
    Paper Presenter: Sang-Kyung Lee (she/her/hers) – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Discussant: Naoki Watanabe (he/him/his) – Musashi University
    Paper Presenter: Moon-seok Jang (he/him/his) – Kyung Hee University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    521: Collaborative Knowledge and Sacred Materialities: Reflecting on Ethnographic and Curatorial Innovations in Asian Studies - A Session in Honor of Laurel Kendall
    Organizer: Nan Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Chair: Nan Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Paper Presenter: Seong Nae Kim (she/her/hers) – Sogang University
    Paper Presenter: Eun-Shil Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Hien Thi Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Vietnam National University
    Paper Presenter: Ming Xue (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History
    Discussant: Laurel Kendall (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History
    Discussant: Nan Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    522: Political Economy of Land, Wealth and Resources in Indonesian Oligarchic Democracy
    Organizer: Takahiro Kamisuna – University of Cambridge
    Chair: Rachel Silvey – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Mariam (Mila) Jameelah – Utrecht University
    Paper Presenter: Egi Primayogha – Indonesia Corruption Watch
    Co-Presenter: Andri Prasetiyo – Senik Centre Asia
    Paper Presenter: William Hurst – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Takahiro Kamisuna – University of Cambridge
    Discussant: Jeffrey A. Winters – Northwestern University
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    523: Gendered Economies: Women, Money, and Marriage in South Korea, 1960s-1980s
    Organizer: Jihyun Shin (she/her/hers) – MacEwan University
    Chair: Susan Hwang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Eunhee Park (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Tanner Rogers (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Jihyun Shin (she/her/hers) – MacEwan University
    Paper Presenter: Eunyoung Song (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Discussant: Pil Ho Kim – Ohio State University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    524: Comparative Historical Analysis and Southeast Asian Politics

    Organizer: Erik M. Kuhonta – McGill University

    Chair: Erik M. Kuhonta – McGill University

    Discussant: Rahardhika Utama – Atma Jaya University

    Discussant: Nhu Truong – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Discussant: Reo Matsuzaki – Trinity College

    Discussant: Sana Jaffrey – Australian National University

    Discussant: Paul D. Hutchcroft – Australian National University

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    525: Social Life of Disappointment in Contemporary Asia

    Organizer: Shoko Yamada – Princeton University

    Chair: Shoko Yamada – Princeton University

    Discussant: Edmund W. Cheng – City University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Sheng Long – Yale University

    Discussant: David Kwok Kwan Tsoi – University of Oxford

    Discussant: Shoko Yamada – Princeton University

    Discussant: Courtney Wittekind – Purdue University

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    526: Health Messaging in the Philippines: Histories, Strategies, and Futures - Sponsored by Philippine Studies Group
    Organizer: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Chair: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Joshua G. Acosta (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Gideon Lasco – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-Presenter: Francisco Jayme Paolo Guiang – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Ruth M. Tindaan (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Baguio
    Discussant: Maurits Meerwijk – Ministry of Health
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    527: The Question of Value(s) in Vietnamese Social Life
    Organizer: TRI MAC PHUONG (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Chair: TRI MAC PHUONG (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Discussant: TRI MAC PHUONG (he/him/his) – University of Victoria
    Paper Presenter: THU HA PHAM – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: SON CA LAM – University of Massachusetts, Boston
    Paper Presenter: ANTHONY MORREALE – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: KEVIN LI – The Dalton School
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    528: Performing Counterworlds and Imaginative Futures in Contemporary Indonesia and Beyond
    Organizer: Anne Rasmussen (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
    Organizer: Megan R. Hewitt (she/her/hers) – The American Institute for Indonesian Studies
    Chair: Megan R. Hewitt (she/her/hers) – The American Institute for Indonesian Studies
    Paper Presenter: Anne Rasmussen (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
    Paper Presenter: Putu Hiranmayena (he/him/his) – Grinnell College
    Paper Presenter: Sylvia Tiwon (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Megan R. Hewitt (she/her/hers) – The American Institute for Indonesian Studies
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    529: Recasting the Qing-Russian Frontier: Economic Policy, Commercial Migration, and Settler Communities in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, 1850s-1900s
    Organizer: Hekang Yang – Columbia University
    Chair: Willard Sunderland – University of Cincinnati
    Paper Presenter: Hekang Yang – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Ilya Vinkovetsky – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Loretta Kim – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Willard Sunderland – University of Cincinnati
    Discussant: Sören Urbansky – Ruhr University Bochum
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    530: Responses to War and Conquest in Middle Period China (916-1368): Emotion, Ideology, Politics, and Practice
    Organizer: Ting Cheung Wong (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Chair: Linda Walton – Portland State University
    Paper Presenter: Ting Cheung Wong (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Qian Zhan (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Paper Presenter: Wuliang Qu (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Ruixue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Peter Bol (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    531: Global Maoism? Maoist Globalism!: Exporting Wigs, Words, and Watercolors
    Organizer: Jin Wang (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center
    Chair: Beiyu Zhang – Jinan University
    Discussant: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
    Paper Presenter: Jin Wang (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center
    Paper Presenter: Liangyu Hu – Beijing Language and Culture University
    Paper Presenter: Yue Wu – Stanford University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    532: Grasslands, Coalfields, and Ancestral Hills: Territorial Transformations and Indigenous Futures in High Mountain Asia - Sponsored by AAS South Asia Council (SAC)
    Organizer: Arjun Guneratne (he/him/his) – Macalester College
    Chair: Ali Raza (he/him/his) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: anudeep Dewan (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Thangsiandong Guite (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali
    Paper Presenter: Repakaba Tzudir (he/him/his) – Nagaland University
    Paper Presenter: Sanggay Tashi (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder
    South Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    533: Narrating the Archipelago: Geonarratives and Spatial Storying in the Philippines
    Organizer: Mylene T. De Guzman (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Organizer: Joseph Palis (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Chair: Mylene T. De Guzman (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Palis (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Co-Presenter: Lou Angeli A. Ocampo (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Jake Atienza (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Hannah Glimpse Nario Lopez (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Dominique Sasha N. Amorsolo (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    534: On Women, Sexuality, and Gender Diversity
    Chair: Eunsook Jung – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Presenting Author: Adrian Beyer (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Presenting Author: Amnuaypond Kidpromma (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University
    Presenting Author: Patricia D. Norland (she/her/hers)
    Presenting Author: Tan Gia Bao Huynh (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Presenting Author: Netina Tan (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Aye Lei Tun (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Presenting Author: GO IGUSA – Matsuyama University
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Katsushi Mizuno – Meiji University
    Southeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    535: Catholic Connectivities: Building Bridges between Asian Catholicism and the Modern World
    Organizer: Bryan B. Goh (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Michel Chambon (he/him/his) – Asia Research Institute
    Paper Presenter: Michel Chambon (he/him/his) – Asia Research Institute
    Paper Presenter: Bubbles B. Asor (she/her/hers) – De La Salle University
    Paper Presenter: Bryan B. Goh (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Phi-Van Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Université de Saint-Boniface
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    536: Kashmir Beyond Nation and Discipline: Ecology, Affect, and the Ethics of Accountability

    Organizer: Junyoung Verónica Kim – New York University

    Chair: Junyoung Verónica Kim – New York University

    Book Author: Omer Aijazi – University of Manchester

    Speaker: Mona Bhan – Syracuse University

    Speaker: Darren Byler – Simon Fraser University

    Speaker: Eleana Kim – University of California, Irvine

    Speaker: Pasang Sherpa – University of British Columbia

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    537: “Taking Life Lightly” across Empire and Republic: Chinese Histories of Suicide
    Organizer: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Bryna Goodman (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    Paper Presenter: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Linh D. Vu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Painter (she/her/hers) – SUNY Old Westbury
    Discussant: Xiaocai Feng (he/him/his) – East China Normal University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    538: An Unlikely Trajectory: Taiwan’s Leftism as Literary Practice and Historical Memory
    Organizer: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Po-hsi Chen – Academia Sinica
    Chair: Ping-hui Liao – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Po-hsi Chen – Academia Sinica
    Paper Presenter: Mark McConaghy – National Sun Yat-sen University
    Discussant: Ping-hui Liao – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    539: Chineseness Through Video Games: A Digital Frontier in Chinese and Sinophone Studies
    Organizer: Michael O'Krent (he/him/his) – Goethe University
    Chair: Heather Inwood – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Morgan Yu Hao – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ningxi Guo – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Michael O'Krent (he/him/his) – Goethe University
    Discussant: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
    Digital Technology
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    540: Indigeneity in the Himalayan Context: Challenges and Questions - Sponsored by AAS2026 Local Arrangements Committee

    Organizer: Fuyubi Nakamura – University of British Columbia

    Chair: Fuyubi Nakamura – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Tsering Shakya – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer – Memorial University of Newfoundland

    Discussant: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Dawa Lokyitsang – Leiden University

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    541: Interdisciplinary Entanglements: First Book Perspectives from East Asian Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

    Organizer: Tarryn L. Chun – University of Notre Dame

    Chair: Elizabeth W. Son – Northwestern University

    Discussant: Tarryn L. Chun – University of Notre Dame

    Discussant: Tara Rodman – University of California, Irvine

    Discussant: Jyana S. Browne – University of Maryland, College Park

    Discussant: Man He – Williams College

    Discussant: So-Rim Lee – University of Pennsylvania

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    542: Guns and Butter: The Legacies of Militarism in South Korean Society and Culture
    Organizer: Howard Kahm – Yonsei University
    Chair: Howard Kahm – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Howard Kahm – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Sinwoo Lee – California State University, Chico
    Paper Presenter: Yu Jung Lee – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Sang Mee Oh – George Mason University Korea
    Discussant: Peter B. Kwon – University at Albany, SUNY
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    543: Technological Change and Continuity in Early Asia: Archaeological Perspectives on Craft, Materials, and Innovation
    Organizer: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Zhen Ren (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Bo Yuan (he/him/his) – Xibei University
    Paper Presenter: Anne-Julie Robitaille (she/her/hers) – Université de Montréal
    Discussant: Michelle C. Wang – Georgetown University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    544: Consent and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Japan - Sponsored by Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
    Organizer: Akiko Takeyama (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Chair: Akiko Takeyama (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Machiko Osawa (she/her/hers) – Japan Women's University
    Paper Presenter: Akiko Takeyama (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Maiko Kodaka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: David Slater (he/him/his) – Sophia University
    Discussant: Asato Ikeda – Fordham University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    545: Consent and the Law in Japan
    Organizer: Rachel S. Levine (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Organizer: Ioannis Gaitanidis (he/him/his) – Chiba University
    Chair: Rachel S. Levine (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Rachel S. Levine (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Ioannis Gaitanidis (he/him/his) – Chiba University
    Discussant: Laura Specker Sullivan – Fordham University
    Paper Presenter: Christopher R. Chapman (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    546: Critical Approaches to Political and Cultural Mythmaking in Japanese Studies
    Organizer: Alexander Kaplan-Reyes (he/him/his)
    Organizer: Morgan Pitelka (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: Alexander Kaplan-Reyes (he/him/his)
    Paper Presenter: Alexander Kaplan-Reyes (he/him/his)
    Paper Presenter: Morgan Pitelka (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Megan Gilbert (she/her/hers) – Pomona College
    Paper Presenter: Komei Sakai – Columbia University
    Discussant: Vyjayanthi Selinger (she/her/hers) – Bowdoin College
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    547: The Enduring Legacies of Empire in Diaspora: Zainichi Koreans and Taiwanese in Cold War Japan
    Organizer: Seiji Shirane (he/him/his) – City University of New York, City College
    Chair: Andre Schmid (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Sharon Yoon (she/her/hers) – University of Notre Dame
    Co-Presenter: Ryuta Itagaki (he/him/his) – Doshisha University
    Paper Presenter: Brian Park (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Seiji Shirane (he/him/his) – City University of New York, City College
    Discussant: Andre Schmid (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    548: From Fingerprint Identification to Avatar Robots: Past and Present of Technology in Japan’s Engineering of the Future
    Organizer: Suma Ikeuchi – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Chair: Jennifer Robertson – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Midori Ogasawara (she/her/hers) – University of Victoria
    Paper Presenter: Yulia Frumer – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Suma Ikeuchi – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Celia Spoden – German Institute for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Shawn Bender – Dickinson College
    Discussant: Grant Jun Otsuki (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    549: Harnessing the Humanities in the Age of “Overtourism”: Lessons from the People’s Guide to Tokyo
    Organizer: Daniel V. Botsman (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Chair: Amy Stanley (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University
    Paper Presenter: Daniel V. Botsman (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Sabine Frühstück (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Michael Thornton (he/him/his) – Northeastern University
    Discussant: Eiko Maruko Siniawer (she/her/hers) – Williams College
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    550: From Transnational Dreams to Nativist “Realities”: Rethinking Media History in Northeast Asia, 1930s-1945
    Organizer: Jason G. Butters (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Chair: Jason G. Butters (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Jason G. Butters (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Shun Tanigawa (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Yang Qu (she/her/hers) – Ludong University
    Discussant: Reiko Tsuchiya (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Discussant: Tomoko Akami (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    551: Gendered Voices and Media Forms in East Asian Popular Culture
    Organizer: Xiqing Zheng (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Chair: Zhuoyi Wang (he/him/his) – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Zhuoyi Wang (he/him/his) – Hamilton College
    Paper Presenter: Yuanxue Jing (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Jeongwon Shin (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: James Welker (he/him/his) – Kanagawa University
    Northeast Asia
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    552: Film, Media, and Gender
    Chair: Rama Mantena (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Chicago
    Presenting Author: Rebecca L. Peters (she/her/hers) – Florida State University
    Presenting Author: Nivedita Narendar (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi
    Presenting Author: HASINA JALAL (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Presenting Author: Mukulika Radhakrishnan (she/her/hers) – University of Sussex
    Presenting Author: Arpit Gaind (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenting Author: Shahla Shahreen (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    553: America's China Talent Challenge: Initial Findings from Forthcoming Report

    Organizer: Jean Oi – Stanford University

    Discussant: Jean Oi – Stanford University

    Discussant: Margaret Lewis – Seton Hall University School of Law

    Discussant: Rosie Levine – US-China Education Trust

    Discussant: Neysun A. Mahboubi – University of Pennsylvania

    Discussant: Mary Gallagher – University of Notre Dame

  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    PS4: Poster Session #4
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 3:35 PM - 4:30 PM PDT
    No Ark: Contending Faith in a Changing Climate
  • 4:30 PM - 5:05 PM PDT
    Who has seen the sounds?
  • 5:05 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Abundance: Living with a Forest
  • 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony
  • 7:15 PM - 8:30 PM PDT
    AAS Member Cocktail Reception
  • 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT
    American Association of Teachers of Japanese
  • 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT
    Harvard-Yenching Institute
  • 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT
    Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  • 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT
    Manchu Studies Group
  • 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT
    Philippine Studies Group
  • 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT
    United States-Japan Foundation
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Burma Studies Group
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Duke University Journals Reception
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Education About Asia / Lucien Ellington Tribute
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Korea Foundation
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Society for Ming Studies
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    The Japan Foundation
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Vietnam Studies Group
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Yale University Asian Studies Councils  
  • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
    COTSEAL
  • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
    Henry Luce Foundation
  • Saturday, March 14, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Onsite Registration/Badge Pickup Hours
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    People Power: Grassroots Legal Campaigns against Intra- and Inter-State Violence in the Aftermath of WWII and the Cold War

    Chair: Lin Li

    Discussant: Jeongmin Kim – University of Manitoba

    Discussant: Sung Eun Kim – Duke University

    Discussant: Joshua Pilzer – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Naoko Wake

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    601: State of the Asian-Indigenous Union: Braiding Solidarity through a Collaborative Digital Resource and Symposium - Sponsored by AAS2026 Local Arrangements Committee

    Organizer: Ayaka Yoshimizu – University of British Columbia

    Organizer: Ty Bryant – Simon Fraser University

    Chair: Nadine Attewell – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Ty Bryant – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Nadine Attewell – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Cynthia Cui – Asian-Indigenous Relations Collective

    Discussant: Ashley Caranto Morford – Weber State University

    Discussant: Yi-Chien Jade Ho – University of Victoria

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    602: The Social History of Marriage and the Question of Divorce in Colonial and Contemporary Philippines
    Organizer: Vina A. Lanzona (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Chair: Vina A. Lanzona (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Vina A. Lanzona (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Anabelle Ragsag (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Paper Presenter: Lorenz Timothy B. Ranera (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Discussant: Mary Dorothy Jose (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Manila
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    603: Theorizing Hongkongness as Method: Transnational Flows, Cultural Fabrication, and Inter-Asia Critique
    Organizer: Wai-Chi Gigi Wong (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Wendy S Wong (she/her/hers) – York University
    Paper Presenter: Poki Chan (she/her/hers) – Concordia University
    Paper Presenter: Kin-Wai Amelia Chu (she/her/hers) – Ghent University
    Paper Presenter: Wai-Chi Gigi Wong (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Wendy S Wong (she/her/hers) – York University
    Discussant: Janice Cheung (she/her/hers) – Concordia University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    604: Tourism and Historical (Re)Imagination of Resorts and Gardens in Java, Bokor, and Shanghai
    Organizer: Hazel Hahn (she/her/hers) – Seattle University
    Chair: Jenna Grant – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Hazel Hahn (she/her/hers) – Seattle University
    Paper Presenter: Arnout van der Meer (he/him/his) – Colby College
    Paper Presenter: Xi Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Jenna Grant – University of Washington
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    605: Toward Sustainable Migration: Bridging Policy, Practice, and Migrant Experience in Japan
    Organizer: Shyam Kumar Karki (he/him/his) – Soka University
    Chair: Andi Holik Ramdani (he/him/his) – Hashimoto Foundation
    Paper Presenter: Shyam Kumar Karki (he/him/his) – Soka University
    Paper Presenter: Andi Holik Ramdani (he/him/his) – Hashimoto Foundation
    Paper Presenter: Waode Hanifah Istiqomah (she/her/hers) – Hitotsubashi University
    Paper Presenter: Mi Moe Thuzar (she/her/hers) – Hashimoto Foundation
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    606: Gender, Visual Empire, and Pop Culture: In Celebration of Sharalyn Orbaugh and Japanese Studies at UBC

    Organizer: Nathen Clerici – SUNY New Paltz

    Chair: Kaori Yoshida – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

    Speakers: Kaori Yoshida – Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

    Speakers: Kimberly Kono – Smith College

    Speakers: Anne Sokolsky – Denison University

    Speakers: Julia C. Bullock – Emory University

    Speakers: Ewa Machotka – University of Zurich

    Speakers: Nathen Clerici – SUNY New Paltz

    Speakers: Ben Whaley – University of Calgary

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    607: Art and Transpacific Imperialisms
    Organizer: Namiko Kunimoto (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Chair: Namiko Kunimoto (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Namiko Kunimoto (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: William Marotti (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Piper Prolago (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Alicia Volk (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    608: Domestic Politics, Japanese Baseball, and Public Education: Celebrating the Scholarship and Career of Paul Dunscomb (1963-2025)

    Organizer: Ethan I. Segal – Michigan State University

    Chair: William M. Tsutsui – Ottawa University

    Discussant: Roger H. Brown – Saitama University

    Discussant: Barak Kushner – University of Cambridge

    Discussant: Alisa Freedman – University of Oregon

    Discussant: Ethan I. Segal – Michigan State University

    Discussant: Kristi Roundtree – University of Washington

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    609: Weaving Care through Gendered, Indigenous, and Intergenerational Bonds in Contemporary Japanese Cinema
    Organizer: Antonella Morgillo (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Chair: Antonella Morgillo (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Letizia Guarini – Hosei University
    Paper Presenter: Antonella Morgillo (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Kosuke Fujiki – Hiroshima University
    Discussant: Kimiyo Ogawa (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    610: Intercardinal Imaginaries: Mapping (Un)avowable Sinophone Borderlands Through Literature, Film, and Media
    Organizer: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Tze-lan Sang – Michigan State University
    Discussant: Mark Bender – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Levi S. Gibbs – Dartmouth College
    Paper Presenter: Lina Qu (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Kyle Shernuk – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    611: Entangled Worlds: Religious, Artistic, and Political Encounters in Medieval Asia
    Organizer: RONG HUANG (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Chair: Jonathan Skaff (he/him/his) – Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: RONG HUANG (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Emily Hanako Everest-Phillips (she/her/hers) – Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
    Paper Presenter: Yuqing Luo (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaotian Yin (she/her/hers) – Williams College
    Discussant: Petya Andreeva (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    612: Fictions of the Self: Forms of Life-Writing in Transhistorical East Asia
    Organizer: Dafna Zur (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Chair: Janet Poole – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: David Atherton (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Dafna Zur (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Lin Meng Walsh (she/her/hers) – University of Rochester
    Discussant: Janet Poole – University of Toronto
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    613: Gender in Labor: Surveillance, Homosociality, and Resistance in the Asian Context
    Organizer: Gita Neupane – University of Idaho
    Chair: Gita Neupane – University of Idaho
    Paper Presenter: Kiran Bhana (they/them/theirs) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Gita Neupane – University of Idaho
    Paper Presenter: Sabrina M. Aripen (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    614: Global Asias’ Crossroads Between Settler Colonialism, Diaspora, and Indigeneity, Part I: Contested Settlement, Unsettled Indigeneity
    Organizer: Wayne CF Yeung – University of Denver
    Organizer: Lillian Ngan – University of Southern California
    Chair: Lillian Ngan – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Wayne CF Yeung – University of Denver
    Paper Presenter: Alex Chow – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Ju-Hyun Kim (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Karen Sasakura (she/her/hers) – Hitotsubashi University
    Discussant: Dáša Pejchar Mortensen (she/her/hers) – Davidson College
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    615: Rethinking Revolution
    Organizer: Xiying (Lillian) Lin (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Uyen T. Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Xiying (Lillian) Lin (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Fabio Lanza (he/him/his) – University of Arizona
    Discussant: Uyen T. Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Qiong Liu (she/her/hers) – Virginia Military Institute
    Paper Presenter: Royce Novak (he/him/his) – Kenyon College
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Wang (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    616: Hearing Asian Pasts: Popular Music, Urban Noises, and Maritime Sounds across East and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Allan Pang (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Organizer: Xintong Chen (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Chair: Barbara W. Andaya – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Discussant: Barbara W. Andaya – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Allan Pang (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: L. Nicole Vaughan (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xintong Chen (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    617: Histories in Parallel: Foreign Knowledge and Indigenous Practice in Premodern East Asia
    Organizer: Zekun Zhang – University of California, Davis
    Chair: Don Wyatt – Middlebury College
    Discussant: Don Wyatt – Middlebury College
    Paper Presenter: Christopher Kim – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Zekun Zhang – University of California, Davis
    Paper Presenter: Wenjiao Cai (she/her/hers) – Sidwell Friends School
    Paper Presenter: Meng-Heng Lee – University of British Columbia
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    618: Indigeneity in the Philippines: A New Dialogue on Knowledge, Identity, and Rights

    Organizer: Oona T. Paredes – University of California, Los Angeles

    Chair: Oona T. Paredes – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: Jimmy B. Fong – University of the Philippines Baguio

    Discussant: Carolyn Podruchny – York University

    Discussant: Antoine Laugrand – University of Ottawa

    Discussant: Lisa Decenteceo – University of the Philippines Diliman

    Discussant: Karminn Daytec C. D Yañgot – University of the Philippines Baguio

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    619: Dual(ing) Literacies and Complementary Poetics in Early and Medieval Northeast Asia
    Organizer: Marjorie G. Burge – University of Colorado Boulder
    Chair: Dario Minguzzi – Sapienza University of Rome
    Paper Presenter: Marjorie G. Burge – University of Colorado Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Dario Minguzzi – Sapienza University of Rome
    Paper Presenter: Loren Waller (he/him/his) – Surugadai University
    Discussant: Gustav Heldt – University of Virginia
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    620: Speculative Politics in South Korea: From Financial Populism to Climate Activism
    Organizer: Bohyeong Kim (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Chair: Seung Cheol Lee – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Bohyeong Kim (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Seung Cheol Lee – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Kyungmo Chun – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Minseo Cho – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Discussant: Sun-ha Hong – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    621: Knowledge at the Margins: Reading Communities and the Social Life of Texts in 19th-Century Vietnam
    Organizer: Jieying Lin – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Chair: Zongmei Zhang – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Paper Presenter: Jieying Lin – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Co-Presenter: Zhiyue Liu – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Paper Presenter: Ruixin Zhao (she/her/hers) – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Paper Presenter: Jie Zhang – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Co-Presenter: Van Viet Nguyen – Phenikaa University
    Paper Presenter: Ge Zhao – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Discussant: Zongmei Zhang – Southwest Jiaotong University
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    622: Decoding Arboreal Texts and Images: Tree Culture in Traditional East Asia
    Organizer: Jeongsoo Shin (he/him/his) – Academy of Korean Studies
    Chair: Jeongsoo Shin (he/him/his) – Academy of Korean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Jeongsoo Shin (he/him/his) – Academy of Korean Studies
    Paper Presenter: Sean Bradley – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Ocean Wang (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Robert Goree – Wellesley College
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    623: Disrupted Orders: Gender, Power, and Resistance in East Asia
    Organizer: Young-Im Lee (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Chair: Claudia Junghyun Kim (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Young-Im Lee (she/her/hers) – California State University, Sacramento
    Discussant: Claudia Junghyun Kim (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ki-young Shin (she/her/hers) – Ochanomizu University
    Paper Presenter: Juyeon Park (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Co-Presenter: Xiaoxia Huang (she/her/hers) – Syracuse University
    Paper Presenter: Dongshu Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    624: Sitting in the Tension: Caste and the South Asian Diaspora

    Organizer: Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra – University of the Fraser Valley

    Chair: Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra – University of the Fraser Valley

    Discussant: Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra – University of the Fraser Valley

    Discussant: Anita Lal – Poetic Justice Foundation

    Discussant: Neha Gupta – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Manmit Singh – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Sasha Sabherwal – Northeastern University

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    625: Asia and Dystopian Fictions, Facts, and Fantasies

    Organizer: Jeffrey Wasserstrom – University of California, Irvine

    Chair: Jeffrey Wasserstrom – University of California, Irvine

    Discussant: William A. Callahan – Singapore Management University

    Discussant: Louisa Lim – University of Melbourne

    Discussant: Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Discussant: Adam Brookes – Independent Writer

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    626: Histories in the Public: Practices and Possibilities in South Asia
    Organizer: Anne Murphy – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Sarah Ansari (she/her/hers) – Royal Holloway, University of London
    Paper Presenter: Anne Murphy – University of British Columbia
    Co-Presenter: Khola Iftikhar Cheema (she/her/hers) – Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar Campus
    Discussant: Sarah Ansari (she/her/hers) – Royal Holloway, University of London
    Paper Presenter: Masooma Zafar (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University,
    Paper Presenter: Yaqoob Khan Bangash – IBA Karachi
    Paper Presenter: Dharitri Bhattacharjee (she/her/hers) – Western Washington University
    South Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    627: Saltwater Empires: Environment, Commodities, and Colonial Science in Maritime Asia
    Organizer: Anke Wang (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Chair: Tansen Sen (he/him/his) – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Anke Wang (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Ruizhi Choo (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: David McCaskey – SUNY, Old Westbury
    Paper Presenter: Clark Alejandrino – Trinity College
    Discussant: Melissa Macauley – Northwestern University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    628: Transnational Mobility and Global Entanglements in 20th-Century East Asia
    Chair: Marc Andre Matten (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Presenting Author: Robert Winstanley-Chesters (he/him/his) – University of Leeds
    Presenting Author: Shen Qu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Presenting Author: XIAOQING YANG (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Cheuk Him Ryan Sun (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Presenting Author: Yoke Kuan Wong (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    629: Slavery, Law, and Society: Intra-Asian Perspectives
    Organizer: Sam Bass (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Sam Bass (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Indrani Chatterjee (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Nhung Tran (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Jaeyoon Song (he/him/his) – McMaster University
    Paper Presenter: Sam Bass (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    630: Small Worlds Like These: The Minor Archives of Cold War Asia
    Organizer: Juwon Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Christine Kim (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Juwon Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Chuanhui Meng (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Selki Noh (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University
    Discussant: I Jonathan Kief (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    631: The Politics of Knowledge: Area Studies, Transnational Intellectual Networks, and the History of U.S.-China Relations
    Organizer: Yike Zhang (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Chair: Shellen Wu – Lehigh University
    Discussant: William C. Kirby (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Thomas B. Gold – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Weiyu Dang – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Ruiheng Wang – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Yan – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Yike Zhang (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    632: The Spatial Dynamics of Military Power: Military Mobility and Imperial Control in Early Modern China, 13-18th Centuries
    Organizer: Yiming Ha (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Steven B. Miles – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Discussant: Yi Wang – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Aaron Molnar – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Sean Cronan – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Yiming Ha (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Lei Lin (she/her/hers) – Duke Kunshan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    633: Travel, Dwell, Mull: Embodied Experiences of Land and Landscape in Middle Period China
    Organizer: Lucien Sun (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Chair: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    Paper Presenter: Xiaoshan Yang – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Lucien Sun (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Elizabeth Kindall – University of St. Thomas
    Discussant: Cong Zhang – University of Virginia
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    634: Mapping Threads of Connection and Division: Rethinking Fashion Histories in Northeast Asia Beyond the Nation-State
    Organizer: Rika Rihwa Lee (she/her/hers) – Chuo University
    Chair: Christina Yi – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Christina Yi – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Lingfang Liu – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Rie Mori – Japan Women's University
    Paper Presenter: Rika Rihwa Lee (she/her/hers) – Chuo University
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    635: From Marriage Promotion to Heterosexual Refusal: The Social Consequences of Fertility Decline in East Asia
    Organizer: Anna Woźny (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Chair: Anna Woźny (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Anna Woźny (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Phung N. Su (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Phung N. Su (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Holly Hummer – University of British Columbia
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    636: Face Value: Identity and Meaning in Portraiture in China - Sponsored by AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC)
    Organizer: Dora C.Y Ching (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Chair: Jan Stuart (she/her/hers) – Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
    Discussant: Jan Stuart (she/her/hers) – Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
    Paper Presenter: Dora C.Y Ching (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Yunru Chen (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Junyao He (he/him/his) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Paper Presenter: Roberta Wue (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Joseph Scheier-Dolberg (he/him/his) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    637: Infrastructural Frontiers: State and Society in the PRC’s Western Borderlands
    Organizer: Jason Chan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Chair: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jason Chan (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Junyi Han (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Brian Spivey (he/him/his) – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Yin Cao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Discussant: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    638: 1980s Buddhism: Mobility and Materiality in South/Southeast Asia and Diasporas

    Organizer: MK Long – Dartmouth College

    Organizer: Dhondup T. Rekjong – Northwestern University

    Chair: MK Long – Dartmouth College

    Discussant: Dhondup T. Rekjong – Northwestern University

    Discussant: Sophea Seng – California State University, Long Beach

    Discussant: Mayumi Okabe – Chukyo University

    Discussant: Htet Min Lwin – York University

    Discussant: Darcie M. Price-Wallace – Tergar Institute

  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    639: Knowledge Production and Speculative Fiction in the Sinosphere—Part I: Writings of Technology
    Organizer: Nick Stember (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Chair: Nick Stember (he/him/his) – Independent Scholar
    Discussant: Bo Ærenlund Sørensen (he/him/his) – University of Copenhagen
    Paper Presenter: Zhange Ni – Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuheng Ko (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Emily X. Jin (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    640: Knowledge Production in the Making and Unmaking of Empire and Nation: Languages, Ethnicities, and Cultural Authority
    Organizer: Rhonda Ran Huo – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Loretta Kim – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Matthew Mosca – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Bramao-Ramos – Bates College
    Paper Presenter: Rhonda Ran Huo – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Kin Ian Monica Chang – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Mian Chen – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    641: Literary Cartographies of Empire in Premodern China
    Organizer: Amy Zhang (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Chair: Manling Luo (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Amy Zhang (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Discussant: Manling Luo (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Thomas J. Mazanec (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Christopher Elford (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Paper Presenter: Meimei Zhang (she/her/hers) – Occidental College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    642: Longue Durée Perspectives on Secularization in the Sinophone World
    Organizer: Yegor Grebnev – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    Chair: Elena Valussi – Loyola University Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Yegor Grebnev – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Jiahui Shen (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Aymeric Xu – Scuola Superiore Meridionale
    Discussant: Ting Guo – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    643: Making “Textbooks” for Cultural Expertise in Premodern China
    Organizer: Zijing Fan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Lucille Chia – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Lili Xia – Barnard College, Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Mo Zhai – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Zijing Fan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Vedal – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Lucille Chia – University of California, Riverside
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    644: Explorations in the Economic and Business History of Modern Japan
    Organizer: Steven J. Ericson (he/him/his) – Dartmouth College
    Chair: Naofumi Nakamura (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Catherine Phipps (she/her/hers) – University of Memphis
    Paper Presenter: Mark Metzler (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Janet Hunter (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Tom Learmouth (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Steven J. Ericson (he/him/his) – Dartmouth College
    Northeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    645: Gender and Genre in Korean Women’s Writing
    Organizer: Hannah Kwak (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Chair: Hannah Kwak (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Hannah Kwak (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Sophie Bowman (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Hayun Cho – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Yoon Sun Yang – Boston University
    Discussant: Sunyoung Park – University of Southern California
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    646: Reading Marx Across Asia
    Organizer: Siwei Wang (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Organizer: Yiming Ma (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Chair: Yaowen Dong (he/him/his) – University of Memphis
    Paper Presenter: Siwei Wang (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Jack Cao (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Anna Stirr (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Rajeshwari Deshpande (she/her/hers) – Savitribai Phule Pune University
    Discussant: Benjamin Kindler – Lingnan University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    647: Global Health Imaginaries and Governance in Autocratic Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Emma Willoughby – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Emma Willoughby – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Yan Long – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Mary-Collier Wilks – University of North Carolina, Wilmington
    Paper Presenter: Soksamphoas Im – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Timothy Sim – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Emma Willoughby – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    648: Is There a Future for Human Rights? Global Challenges, Asian Responses
    Organizer: Dominik M. Müller (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Organizer: Claudia Derichs – Humboldt University of Berlin
    Chair: Dominik M. Müller (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
    Discussant: Claudia Derichs – Humboldt University of Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Ferdiansyah Thajib – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Paper Presenter: Dina Zaman (she/her/hers) – IMAN Research
    Paper Presenter: Tuwanont Phattharathanasut – Humboldt University of Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Teresa Jopson – Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
    Southeast Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    649: Chinese Muslim Networks and State Power: Agency, Adaptation, and Resilience from the Late-Qing through the Xi Jinping Present
    Organizer: Qianyu Ma – Carnegie Mellon University
    Organizer: Xian Wang – Australian National University
    Chair: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Hannah Theaker – University of Plymouth
    Paper Presenter: Qianyu Ma – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Xian Wang – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Susan K. McCarthy – Providence College
    Discussant: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    650: With Homeland in their Hearts—Korean Overseas Diasporas’ Manifold Influences on Korea Proper
    Organizer: Vladimir Tikhonov (he/him/his) – University of Oslo
    Chair: Myungho Hyun (he/him/his) – Northeast Asia History Foundation
    Paper Presenter: Vladimir Tikhonov (he/him/his) – University of Oslo
    Paper Presenter: Kyounghwa Lim (she/her/hers) – Chung-Ang University
    Paper Presenter: Mikyoung Kim (she/her/hers) – Gyeongsang National University
    Discussant: June Hee Kwon – California State University, Sacramento
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 8:30 AM - 10:50 AM PDT
    The Ozu Diaries
  • 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Researching More Than One East Asian Country Simultaneously
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    701: Migration, Agency, and a Gendered Lens: Women Migrants in South and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Farah Afzal (she/her/hers) – Wilfrid Laurier University
    Chair: Farah Afzal (she/her/hers) – Wilfrid Laurier University
    Paper Presenter: Farah Afzal (she/her/hers) – Wilfrid Laurier University
    Paper Presenter: Ame Khin MAY-KYAWT (she/her/hers) – York University
    Paper Presenter: Amna Zulifqar (she/her/hers) – National University of Modern Languages
    Paper Presenter: Shomaila Sadaf (she/her/hers) – University of Jyväskylä
    Discussant: Shomaila Sadaf (she/her/hers) – University of Jyväskylä
    South Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    702: Contrapuntal Readings or the Struggle over Geography: How Are Borders Present in Academic Research?

    Organizer: Anushay Malik – Simon Fraser University

    Organizer: Hassan Javid – University of the Fraser Valley

    Chair: Kamran Asdar Ali – University of Texas at Austin

    Discussant: Ali Usman Qasmi – Lahore University of Management Sciences

    Discussant: Tania Saeed – Lahore University of Management Sciences

    Discussant: Fizzah Sajjad – Mahbub ul Haq Research Centre, Lahore University of Management Sciences

    Discussant: Umair Javed – Lahore University of Management Sciences

    Discussant: Anushay Malik – Simon Fraser University

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    703: Carter Eckert and the Making of Modern Korea: Colonialism, Militarism, and Economic Development - Sponsored by AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)
    Organizer: Michael Kim – Yonsei University
    Organizer: Hyung Gu Lynn (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Christine Kim – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Michael Kim – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Sungik Yang (he/him/his) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Tae Gyun Park (he/him/his) – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Anna Lee – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Discussant: Paul Chang – Stanford University
    Discussant: Jean Hong – University of Michigan
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    704: Knowledge Transmission Through Empire and Trade
    Chair: Laura Miller – University of Missouri-St. Louis
    Presenting Author: Ghamal S. Mohammad (he/him/his) – Murdoch University
    Presenting Author: Naoko Kato (she/her/hers) – Corpus Christi College at UBC
    Presenting Author: Cynthia Sin Ting Yeung (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Presenting Author: Zhongyuan (Cindy) Hu – KU Leuven
    Presenting Author: Menghe Tian (she/her/hers) – Donghua University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    705: Rethinking Knowledge and Identity: Intellectual Networks and Cultural Politics in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Pin-Hua Chou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Alan R. Dai (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Pin-Hua Chou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Alan R. Dai (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Pai-Li Bernie Liu (he/him/his) – Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
    Paper Presenter: Quah Say Jye – University of Cambridge
    Discussant: Ann Marie Leshkowich – College of the Holy Cross
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    706: Stones of Meaning: Lithic Materiality and Cultural Imagination in Late Imperial China (10th–19th Century)
    Organizer: Piaopiao Yang – Freie Universität Berlin
    Chair: Tao Wu (she/her/hers) – China Academy of Art/Freie Universität Berlin/Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Paper Presenter: Yixiong Cui (he/him/his) – Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Paper Presenter: Piaopiao Yang – Freie Universität Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Tao Wu (she/her/hers) – China Academy of Art/Freie Universität Berlin/Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Discussant: Michael J. Hatch (he/him/his) – Trinity College
    Discussant: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    707: Risk, Vulnerability, and Extraction in Philippine Histories
    Organizer: Mark J. Sanchez (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University
    Chair: Mark J. Sanchez (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Alex Orquiza (he/him/his) – Providence College
    Paper Presenter: Theresa Ventura (she/her/hers) – Concordia University
    Paper Presenter: Mark J. Sanchez (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Marvin Joseph F. Montefrio – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    708: Between the Land and the Word: Place-Making as a Mode of Knowing in Late Imperial China
    Organizer: Jian Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    Paper Presenter: Jian Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Xiaolin Duan (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University
    Paper Presenter: Sunkyu Lee (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Paper Presenter: Eloise Wright (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Discussant: Ruth Mostern (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    709: Living with Chronic Illness in Asia: Ethnographic Crossroads
    Organizer: Amy Borovoy – Princeton University
    Organizer: Xisai Song (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Austin
    Chair: Amy Borovoy – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Amy Borovoy – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Xisai Song (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Austin
    Paper Presenter: Priscilla Song (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Tine Gammeltoft – University of Copenhagen
    Discussant: sarah pinto – Tufts University
    Discussant: Scott Stonington – University of Michigan
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    710: Beyond the Draft: Universalism, Art, and Gender in the Sixth Republic of Korea’s Military System
    Organizer: Sunhong Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Sunhong Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Inhwa Kang (she/her/hers) – Department of Sociology, Kangwon National University
    Paper Presenter: Kazuki Morita (he/him/his) – Doshisha University
    Paper Presenter: Sunhong Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Seungsook Moon – Vassar College
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    711: Making the Sacred Resonate: Interpreting Chinese Religious Art in International Classrooms, Galleries, and Museums
    Organizer: Lan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: James A. Benn (he/him/his) – McMaster University
    Paper Presenter: Lan Li (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yongshan He – University of Winnipeg
    Paper Presenter: Fletcher Coleman (he/him/his) – University of Texas at Arlington
    Discussant: Chen Shen – Royal Ontario Museum
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    712: Mapping Territory in the Making: Cross-Border Cartographic Practices, Knowledge Politics, and Nation-Building in Modern China
    Organizer: Cruz (Wenhao) Guan (he/him/his) – Ohio State University
    Chair: James Millward – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Cruz (Wenhao) Guan (he/him/his) – Ohio State University
    Discussant: Nianshen Song – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Xue Zhang (she/her/hers) – Reed College
    Paper Presenter: Sijian Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Yu-chi Chang – Vassar College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    713: Medicine at the Margins: Rethinking the Production of Medical Knowledge in the Landscape of Resource Scarcity from Imperial to Modern China
    Organizer: Shumin Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Chair: Ming Tak Ted Hui (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Shumin Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Yinghua Luo (she/her/hers) – Nankai University
    Paper Presenter: Qi Dai (she/her/hers) – Sichuan University
    Discussant: Ming Tak Ted Hui (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    714: Sacred Forms and Embodied Resistance: Gender, Religion, and Cultural Expression in East Asia - Sponsored by Council of Conferences (COC)
    Organizer: Jooyoun Lee – St. Edward's University
    Chair: Patricia Welch – Hofstra University
    Paper Presenter: Emma Laube – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Dah Kim – University of Georgia
    Paper Presenter: Raisa Stebbins – University of California, Los Angeles
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    715: Ships as In-Between Spaces in Asian and Pacific Waters, 1910s-1960s
    Organizer: Jiayi Tao (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    Chair: Jiayi Tao (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    Paper Presenter: Thomas M. Larkin (he/him/his) – University of Prince Edward Island
    Paper Presenter: Sophie-Jung Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    Paper Presenter: Jiayi Tao (she/her/hers) – University of Vienna
    Paper Presenter: Fei'er Chen (she/her/hers) – Southeast University
    Discussant: Robert Bickers (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    716: Sonic Crossings: Reimagining Chinese Musical Traditions across Borders
    Organizer: Ming-yen Lee (she/her/hers) – University of the Arts Singapore
    Chair: Meredith Schweig (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Ming-yen Lee (she/her/hers) – University of the Arts Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Priscilla Tse (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
    Paper Presenter: Elynn Tan (she/her/hers) – Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Ya-Chen Lee – Nanhua University
    Discussant: Meredith Schweig (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    717: Rethinking Global Chinese Foodways
    Organizer: Seung-joon Lee (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Michelle T. King (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Seung-joon Lee (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Xinwei Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Helsinki
    Paper Presenter: Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Paper Presenter: Xinran Wang (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Michelle T. King (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    718: Artistic Practice and Community-engaged Research: Reflections from a Collaborative Project in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    Organizer: Richard Fox – University of Victoria

    Chair: Verena Meyer – Leiden University

    Discussant: Richard Fox – University of Victoria

    Discussant: Patub Porx – Independent Scholar

    Discussant: Made Caniapasis – University of Victoria

    Discussant: Aghniadi Aghniadi – University of Victoria

    Discussant: ⁠⁠Farida Novieti – KDM Cinema

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    719: Celebrating 50 Years of the Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei (MSB) Studies Group and Ensuring the Next 50 Years of MSB Studies - Sponsored by Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei (MSB) Studies Group

    Organizer: Elvin Ong – National University of Singapore

    Chair: Cheong Soon Gan – University of Wisconsin-Superior

    Discussant: Patricia Sloane-White – University of Delaware

    Discussant: Kai Ostwald – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Bridget Welsh – University of Nottingham Malaysia

    Discussant: Faizah Zakaria – National University of Singapore

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    720: Maritime Crossroads and Port Entanglements: Rethinking East and Southeast Asian Coastal Connections
    Organizer: Gary Luk (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Mung Ting Chung (she/her/hers) – University of Calgary
    Chair: Christopher Lupke (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Nicolai Volland (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Catherine Phipps (she/her/hers) – University of Memphis
    Paper Presenter: Gary Luk (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Mung Ting Chung (she/her/hers) – University of Calgary
    Discussant: Madeline Hsu (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    721: Modernity from the Bottom Up: Managing Human Waste in East Asia
    Organizer: Xincheng Hou – Stanford University
    Chair: David L. Howell – Harvard University
    Discussant: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Xincheng Hou – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Alexander Bay – Chapman University
    Paper Presenter: Jungha Hwang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    722: Near and Far: Cold War Cultural Exchanges Between East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East
    Organizer: Karlee Bergendorff (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Chair: Peiyu Yang (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Karlee Bergendorff (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
    Paper Presenter: Peiyu Yang (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Elisheva A. Perelman (she/her/hers) – College of Saint Benedict & Saint John’s University
    Paper Presenter: Nicole Cox (she/her/hers) – Whitman College
    Discussant: Janice Jeong (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Taeyoung Kim (he/him/his) – Loughborough University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    723: Trespassing Colonial Boundaries: Gender, Morality, and Knowledge Production in Twentieth Century Malaya
    Organizer: Kuan Huai Pa (she/they) – King's College London
    Chair: Alison Fong (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Timothy Tan (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Alison Fong (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Rong Mu (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Kuan Huai Pa (she/they) – King's College London
    Discussant: Nhung Tran (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    724: Nanjing’s Literary Layers: Constructing, Curating, and Recalling the Literary Legacy of the Southern Capital
    Organizer: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    Chair: Ping Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Kay Duffy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Benjamin Ridgway – Swarthmore College
    Paper Presenter: Mengling Wang (she/her/hers) – Colgate University
    Discussant: Andrew Chittick (he/him/his) – Eckerd College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    725: Negotiating Legitimacy in Tang and Song China: Tradition, Innovation, Identity - Sponsored by T'ang Studies Society
    Organizer: Xiaojing Miao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    Chair: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Anthony DeBlasi – University at Albany, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Xiaojing Miao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Dominic J. Toscano – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Qian Jia (she/her/hers) – Defense Language Institute
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    726: Corpus-based Approaches to Japanese Language Teaching: What We Do Is Not What We Think We Do
    Organizer: Michiko Kaneyasu – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Tsuyoshi Ono – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Michiko Kaneyasu – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Miyabi Ozawa – Clemson University
    Paper Presenter: Tsuyoshi Ono – University of Alberta
    Co-Presenter: Ryoko Suzuki – Keio University
    Discussant: Noriko Iwasaki – Nanzan University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    727: Imagining the “East” in Medieval and Early Modern Japanese Theater
    Organizer: Rachele Mansi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Satoko Shimazaki (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Maho Miyazaki (she/her/hers) – Hosei University
    Paper Presenter: Rachele Mansi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Mariko Okada (she/her/hers) – J. F. Oberlin University
    Paper Presenter: Misa Umetada (she/her/hers) – Ochanomizu University
    Discussant: Satoko Shimazaki (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    728: Paper Publics: Mediums and Social Transitions in Popular Prints of Early Modern Japan
    Organizer: Jingyi Li (she/her/hers) – Occidental College
    Chair: Jingyi Li (she/her/hers) – Occidental College
    Paper Presenter: Michael Toole (he/him/his) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Fumiko Kobayashi (she/her/hers) – Hosei University
    Paper Presenter: Jingyi Li (she/her/hers) – Occidental College
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Bills (he/him/his) – Peter Harrington Rare Books
    Discussant: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    729: The State’s Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea

    Organizer: Jeong-Mi Park – Chungbuk National University

    Chair: Jang Wook Huh – Seoul National University

    Book Author: Jeong-Mi Park – Chungbuk National University

    Speaker: John P. DiMoia – Seoul National University

    Speaker: Margo Okazawa-Rey – San Francisco State University

    Speaker: Sungyun Lim – University of Colorado Boulder

    Speaker: Seung-kyung Kim – Indiana University

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    730: Becoming (In)Visible: Gendered Work and Reproductive Politics from Republican to Post-Socialist China
    Organizer: Ruochen Cao (they/them/theirs) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: Margaret M. Tillman (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Discussant: Margaret M. Tillman (she/her/hers) – Purdue University
    Paper Presenter: Ruochen Cao (they/them/theirs) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Yiqun Mao (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Xinyang Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Charlotte Pu (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    731: Spiritual Fronts: Christianities and the Long Cold War in Asia
    Organizer: Paul S. Cha – George Mason University
    Chair: Sonja M. Kim (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Paul S. Cha – George Mason University
    Discussant: Sonja M. Kim (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Myung-Sahm Suh – Sogang University
    Paper Presenter: Simon Lam – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Joshua Hong Yi Tan – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Neena Mahadev – Duke University
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    732: Diaspora and Translation in Korean Literary Studies

    Organizer: Jae Won E. Chung – Rutgers University

    Chair: Jae Won E. Chung – Rutgers University

    Discussant: Eunice Lee – Harvard University

    Discussant: Youn Soo Goldstein – Weber State University

    Discussant: Olan Munson – Ohio State University

    Discussant: Brandon Joseph Park – Rutgers University

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    733: Performativity in Sinophone Translation and Adaptation
    Organizer: Elaine Wong (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Chair: Wen-chi Li (he/him/his) – University of Bern
    Paper Presenter: Elaine Wong (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Paper Presenter: Rosa Lombardi (she/her/hers) – Roma Tre University
    Paper Presenter: Silvia Schiavi (she/her/hers) – G. D'Annunzio University
    Paper Presenter: Chris Song (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Jessica Tsui-yan T. Li (she/her/hers) – York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    734: (Non) Return of the Diaspora
    Organizer: Ga Eun Cho (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Chair: Minjeong Kim (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University
    Discussant: Maria Cecilia C. Hwang – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Ga Eun Cho (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Soojung Kim (she/her/hers) – Seoul National University, GSIS
    Paper Presenter: Masahiro Jinhee Lee (he/him/his) – Doshisha University
    Paper Presenter: Min Jee Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    735: Social Futurity: Creativity, Development, and Rethinking “Modern” Vietnamese Arts and Sciences (Part 1: Scientific Imaginaries and the Promise of Progress)
    Organizer: Shani Tra (she/her/hers) – University of California, Riverside
    Chair: Sarah G. Grant – California State University, Fullerton
    Paper Presenter: Shani Tra (she/her/hers) – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Phuc Le – University of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Paper Presenter: Allen Tran – Bucknell University
    Paper Presenter: Sarah G. Grant – California State University, Fullerton
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    736: Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. and Beyond) - Sponsored by AAS Diversity and Equity Committee

    Organizer: Nirupama Chandrasekhar – University of California, Santa Barbara

    Organizer: Ting Guo – University of Toronto

    Chair: Nirupama Chandrasekhar – University of California, Santa Barbara

    Speakers: Xiaochun Ma – Australian National University

    Speakers: Lin Chen – Beijing Yinghua Online Technology Co., Ltd.

    Speakers: Vinayak Chaturvedi – University of California, Irvine

    Speakers: Tanvi Adarsh – Galgotias University

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    737: The Refiguration of Cybernetics in Cold War Asia: Computing, Energy, and the Masses
    Organizer: Yuji Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Anna Greenspan – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Anna Greenspan – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Benoit Berthelier – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Grant Jun Otsuki (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Yuji Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    738: The Weakest Link: Women and the Marriage Bond in Early Modern East Asia
    Organizer: Ihor O. Pidhainy – Georgia Gwinnett College
    Chair: Ihor O. Pidhainy – Georgia Gwinnett College
    Discussant: Ihor O. Pidhainy – Georgia Gwinnett College
    Paper Presenter: Mark McNally – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Paper Presenter: Kuan Liu – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Ye Yuan – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Sookja Cho – Arizona State University
    Discussant: Jungwon Kim – Columbia University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    739: AI in Action: Best Practices for Research, Publishing, and Teaching in Asian Studies - Sponsored by AAS Editorial Board

    Organizer: Jan B. Bardsley – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chair: David Kenley – Dakota State University

    Discussant: Elise Huerta – Association for Asian Studies

    Discussant: Maki Isaka – University of Minnesota

    Discussant: Elvin Ong – National University of Singapore

    Discussant: Christopher Rea – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Joseph S. Alter – University of Pittsburgh

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    740: Unruly Subjects or Cooperative Imperial Agents: Conflicting Christian Identities in Interwar and Wartime East Asia
    Organizer: Bo Tao (he/him/his) – Chiba University
    Chair: Emily Anderson (she/her/hers) – Japanese American National Museum
    Paper Presenter: Hannah Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
    Paper Presenter: Sun Yong Lee (she/her/hers) – Princeton Theological Seminary
    Paper Presenter: Bo Tao (he/him/his) – Chiba University
    Paper Presenter: Xin Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta & University of Northern British Columbia
    Discussant: Emily Anderson (she/her/hers) – Japanese American National Museum
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    741: “Bad” People in the People’s Republic of China: Criminals, Enemies, and Villains under Mao
    Organizer: Puck Engman (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    Organizer: Damian Mandzunowski (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University
    Chair: Haiyan Lee (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Wenqing Kang (he/him/his) – Cleveland State University
    Paper Presenter: Puck Engman (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Aminda Smith (she/her/hers) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Damian Mandzunowski (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University
    Discussant: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    742: Neural Networks and the Making of “Intelligence” in East Asia, 1980s-2020s
    Organizer: Jianqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Jonathan E. Abel – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Jianqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: David Humphrey (he/they) – Michigan State University
    Paper Presenter: Zina Wang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Jonathan E. Abel – Pennsylvania State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    743: People’s Republic of Bureaucracy: The Politics of Classification and Personnel in the Chinese State
    Organizer: Kevin Luo – University of Minnesota
    Chair: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Discussant: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Discussant: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg
    Paper Presenter: Yi Lu – Dartmouth College
    Paper Presenter: Katharin Tai – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Luo – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Mike Thompson-Brusstar – Trinity College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    744: Transformative Care: Toward Embodied, Ethnic, and Posthuman Reimaginings of Care in Asian and Asian American Contexts
    Organizer: Yanjie Wang – Loyola Marymount University
    Organizer: Xiangu Qi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Chair: Yanjie Wang – Loyola Marymount University
    Paper Presenter: Peijie Mao – ShanghaiTech University
    Paper Presenter: Yanjie Wang – Loyola Marymount University
    Paper Presenter: Yunwen Gao – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xiangu Qi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Discussant: Ping Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    745: Personnel Management and Political Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century China
    Organizer: Daniel Knorr (he/him/his) – Illinois State University
    Chair: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Daniel Knorr (he/him/his) – Illinois State University
    Paper Presenter: Yueran Hou (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Amy Gordanier (she/her/hers) – College of Charleston
    Discussant: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    746: Poetics and Politics in the “Rebirth” of China’s Northeastern Rust Belt
    Organizer: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Xingming Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Chair: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Wen Xie (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Siyu Tang – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Xingming Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Dong Liu (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Hongzhe Wang – Peking University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    747: Policing PRC Universities, Ku’er Autoethnography as Resistance
    Organizer: Heng Wang (she/they) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Shana Ye (she/they) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Heng Wang (she/they) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Zihan Lin (she/they) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Zhuhao Yang (they/any except he) – Waseda University
    Co-Presenter: Yuhan Liu (she/her) – Sorbonne University
    Co-Presenter: Zhenyi Zhang (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Zhuang Xu (he/they) – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Ian Liujia Tian (he/him/his) – Mount Saint Vincent University
    Discussant: Jingjing Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Manchester
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    748: Qing History Reimagined: Margins, Agency, and Hidden Actors
    Organizer: Yan Hon Michael Chung (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Chair: Yan Hon Michael Chung (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Chong Li (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Paper Presenter: Jun Chen (he/him/his) – Renmin University
    Paper Presenter: Ian Huen (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Cameron Campbell – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    749: Transport Tokyo: Labor, Automobility, and Commuting in the Transwar Metropolis
    Organizer: Brian Rogers (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Chair: Brian Rogers (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Trent Maxey (he/him/his) – Amherst College
    Paper Presenter: Brian Rogers (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Kate McDonald (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Discussant: Eiko Maruko Siniawer (she/her/hers) – Williams College
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    750: Visual Representations and Cold War Childhoods in East Asia: Trauma, Translation, and the Progressive Child
    Organizer: Andrea Mei-Ying Wu (she/her/hers) – National Cheng Kung University
    Chair: Emma Teng (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Michelle Chan (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Paper Presenter: Sooyeon Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Andrea Mei-Ying Wu (she/her/hers) – National Cheng Kung University
    Discussant: Dafna Zur (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    751: Tibetan Art in the Teaching Museum: Reflections on Forms of Awakening

    Organizer: Benjamin Bogin – Skidmore College

    Organizer: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho

    Chair: Benjamin Bogin – Skidmore College

    Discussant: Nawang Tsering Gurung – Himalayan Language and Culture Program

    Discussant: Uranchimeg Tsultem – Indiana University

    Discussant: Tsepak Namgyal – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Discussant: Andrew Quintman – Wesleyan University

    Discussant: Wenshing Chou – Hunter College

  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    PS5: Poster Session #5
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:50 AM - 12:20 PM PDT
    Késheng ja waray batbat. The exhumation of human bones in an Ibaloi community
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Navigating the Job Market and Employment in the US, Canada, and Europe as an Immigrant
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Publishing and the Peer Review Process in Academic Journals
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Association for Chinese Art History
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Committee on Korean Studies
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Critical Asian Studies
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Digital Humanities Japan
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Historical Society for Twentieth Century China (HSTCC)
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    International Journal of Asian Studies Editorial Board
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei Studies Group
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Memoriam for Laurence Coderre
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Modern Japan History Association
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    National Institute of Japanese Literature
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Theravada Studies Group
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Twentieth-Century China Editorial Board Meeting
  • 12:20 PM - 1:45 PM PDT
    Ingatan dari Timor (Memories of Timor)
  • 1:45 PM - 2:05 PM PDT
    Hikayatussistance
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Getting Your Academic Career Started: Preparing for Life after Graduate School
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Living and Teaching Area Studies in the American South
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Smuggling Your Research Past the Gatekeepers: From Academic Papers to Newsrooms and Film Sets
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    801: Threshold Bodies: Care, Spectacle, and Witness in Chinese Buddhism
    Organizer: Echo Weng – Princeton University
    Chair: Kelly Carlton – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Wan-Chun Chiu – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Nelson Elliott Landry – University of Hamburg
    Paper Presenter: Echo Weng – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Hsin-Yi Lin – Fo Guang University
    Discussant: James A. Benn (he/him/his) – McMaster University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    802: Transcultural Theater as Cultural Reclamation: Rewriting Identities in Sinophone Performance
    Organizer: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    Chair: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Wah Guan Lim (he/him/his) – National Chung Hsing University
    Paper Presenter: Shelby Kar-yan Chan (she/her/hers) – Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Liang Luo (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Jon von Kowallis (he/him/his) – University of New South Wales
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    803: Transnationalizing Hong Kong in Cold War Asia
    Organizer: Tracy Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Chair: Angelina Chin – Pomona College
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Leung (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: John M. Carroll – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Chi Keung Charles Fung (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University
    Discussant: Leo K. Shin – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    804: Unexpected, Unwanted, Unspoken: The Margins of Reproduction in Mid-to-Late Imperial China
    Organizer: Tianyu Shi (they/them/theirs) – University of Hamburg
    Organizer: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Chair: Fei Deng (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Discussant: Ann Waltner (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Tianyu Shi (they/them/theirs) – University of Hamburg
    Paper Presenter: Chun Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Paper Presenter: Young Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Paper Presenter: Shiau-Yun Chen (she/her/hers) – Ball State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    805: Unmaking and Making Medical Facts: Rethinking “Scientific Medicine” in 19th–20th-Century China
    Organizer: Jingwen Li – Princeton University
    Organizer: Daisy Yunshi Liang – York University
    Chair: Marta E. Hanson (she/her/hers) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: David Luesink (he/him/his) – Sacred Heart University
    Co-Presenter: Emily Graf – University of Tübingen
    Paper Presenter: Jingwen Li – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Daisy Yunshi Liang – York University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    806: Visions of a Better Tomorrow: Utopian Dreams in Late Classical and Early Imperial China
    Organizer: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    Chair: Václav Algirdas Zheng (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Keith Knapp (he/him/his) – The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
    Paper Presenter: Liang Cai – University of Notre Dame
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Balkwill (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Lisa Indraccolo (she/her/hers) – Tallinn University
    Discussant: Václav Algirdas Zheng (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    807: Visual Orders and Cultural Shifts: Reimagining Himalayan Art across Religion, Politics, and Modernity
    Organizer: Qianru He – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Anshu Hu (she/her/hers) – Wuhan University of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Jing He – Tibet Thangka Art and Culture Association
    Paper Presenter: Qian Zhang – Hubei Museum of Art
    Paper Presenter: Yuechen Wang (she/her/hers) – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Yuhan Zhang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Discussant: Wenxin Hao (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Discussant: Tianyi Chen – Heidelberg University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    808: Wang Guowei and the Conundrums of Freedom in Modern China
    Organizer: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Axel Schneider – Göttingen University
    Paper Presenter: Yiqun Zhou – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Laikwan Pang – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Kuan-yun Huang (he/him/his) – Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    Discussant: Axel Schneider – Göttingen University
    Paper Presenter: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    809: War and Its Medical Remediation: Destroying and Healing the Body in East Asia
    Organizer: Barend Noordam – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Chair: Robin Yates – McGill University
    Discussant: Robin Yates – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Barend Noordam – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Baihui Duan – Lancaster University
    Paper Presenter: Yi-Li Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Hugh Shapiro – University of Nevada, Reno
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    810: Rethinking Professionalization in Traditional East Asian Performances
    Organizer: Yu Shi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Andrea S. Goldman (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Yu Shi (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Jiacheng Liu – University of Northern Colorado
    Paper Presenter: Barbara Geilhorn – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Marco Di Francesco – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Peng Xu (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    811: Between the State and Market: Practices of Meaning-Making in Contemporary China
    Chair: Maria Repnikova (she/her/hers) – Georgia State University
    Individual Paper Presenter: Leyun He (she/her/hers) – Queen's University Belfast
    Individual Paper Presenter: Ziyi Yu (she/her/hers) – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: XINYI YIN – King's College London
    Presenting Author: Colin Y. Yang (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Presenting Author: Yuping Zhang (she/her/hers) – Lehigh University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    812: Community Revitalization Strategies across Asia: How Can We Make Communities Resilient against Challenges?
    Organizer: Hiroaki Kawamura (he/him/his) – University of Findlay
    Chair: Hiroaki Kawamura (he/him/his) – University of Findlay
    Paper Presenter: Hiroaki Kawamura (he/him/his) – University of Findlay
    Paper Presenter: Christopher Thompson (he/him/his) – Ohio University
    Paper Presenter: Hien Nguyen TM (she/her/hers) – Dalat University
    Paper Presenter: Thi Viet Phuong Dang (she/her/hers) – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
    Discussant: Thanh Tung Son – University of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    813: Comparative Historiography Across Asia: Scribal Traditions and Recordkeeping
    Organizer: Jeffrey Kotyk – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Chair: Victor Mair (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Diana Shuheng Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Sattar Salam (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Kotyk – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    814: Configuring Space, Constructing Community: Twentieth-Century Sinophone Cultural Circulation between China and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Robert J. Culp (he/him/his) – Bard College
    Chair: Nicolai Volland (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Robert J. Culp (he/him/his) – Bard College
    Discussant: Nicolai Volland (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Keng We Koh (he/him/his) – Zhengzhou University
    Paper Presenter: Sabrina Yunzhu Tao (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University
    Paper Presenter: Lanjun Xu (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    815: Critical Asian Scholarship in a Time of Global Crisis

    Organizer: Tristan Grunow – Nagoya University

    Chair: Tristan Grunow – Nagoya University

    Discussant: Mark Selden – Cornell University

    Discussant: Laura Hein – Northwestern University

    Discussant: Satoko Oka Norimatsu – Peace Philosophy Centre

    Discussant: Tomomi Yamaguchi – Ritsumeikan University

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    816: Contested Grounds: Artistic Expressions of Landscape Amid Crisis in Modern and Contemporary Asia
    Organizer: Sarah Combredet (she/her/hers) – Université Laval
    Chair: Kuiyi Shen (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Renjie Yuwen (she/her/hers) – University of Alabama, Birmingham
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Combredet (she/her/hers) – Université Laval
    Paper Presenter: Prerana Das (she/her/hers) – Queen's University
    Discussant: Christopher N. Payne (he/him/his) – University of Toronto Scarborough
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    817: Cooperation and Competition in the Indo-Pacific
    Organizer: Claudia Junghyun Kim (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Organizer: Gabrielle Cheung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Gabrielle Cheung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Claudia Junghyun Kim (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Saori N. Katada – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Yves Tiberghien – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Taku Tamaki (he/him/his) – Loughborough University
    Paper Presenter: Kei Koga – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Gabrielle Cheung (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    818: East Asian Media Theory: Emergence, Horizons, and Possibilities

    Organizer: Andrea Mariucci – Cornell University

    Organizer: Mei M. Nan – Harvard University

    Chair: Miryam Sas – University of California, Berkeley

    Discussant: Andrea Mariucci – Cornell University

    Discussant: Mei M. Nan – Harvard University

    Discussant: Michelle Cho – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Dahye Kim – Northwestern University

    Discussant: Ying Qian – Columbia University

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    819: Why Should Undergraduates Learn About Asia? Considering the Value of Himalaya-focused Asian Studies—Part I

    Organizer: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Organizer: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chair: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Discussant: Arjun Guneratne – Macalester College

    Discussant: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho

    Discussant: Parag Jyoti Saikia – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    820: Multimodal AI and Its Making of Asian Media Histories
    Organizer: Yedong Sh-Chen – Harvard University
    Chair: Praseeda Gopinath – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Yedong Sh-Chen – Harvard University
    Discussant: Praseeda Gopinath – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Junting Huang – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Manaswi Mishra – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Digital Technology
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    821: (Re)writing Malaysian Histories: Contestations, Identities, and Epistemologies
    Organizer: Bowen Liao – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Bowen Liao – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Bowen Liao – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Zeli Cheng (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Shiyu Fan – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Allan Pang (he/him/his) – University of Bristol
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    822: A Narrative of Their Own: Decolonizing Cold War Narratives of Thailand
    Organizer: Wasana Wongsurawat (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Chair: Wasana Wongsurawat (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Tamara Loos (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Wasana Wongsurawat (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Tharita Intanam (she/her/hers) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Pattajit Tangsinmunkong (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Discussant: Naoko Shimazu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    823: Against the Tide: Agency in Volatile Times for Southeast Asia - Sponsored by SEAC Rising Voices
    Organizer: Nhu Truong (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Organizer: Vilashini Somiah (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya
    Chair: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Linh Khanh Pham (she/her/hers) – Vietnam National University of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Paper Presenter: Ponpavi Sangsuradej – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Len Ang – Australian National University
    Paper Presenter: Jay Rome O. de los Santos (he/him/his) – Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
    Discussant: Taomo Zhou (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    824: Art, Ideology, and Diplomacy: Cultural Cold War in East and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Morragotwong Phumplab (she/her/hers) – Thammasat University
    Chair: Morragotwong Phumplab (she/her/hers) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Morragotwong Phumplab (she/her/hers) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Fei Su (she/her/hers) – Fudan University
    Paper Presenter: Sujane Kanparit (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University
    Discussant: Beiyu Zhang (she/her/hers) – Jinan University
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    825: Area-studies Consortia: A Way Forward for Southeast Asian Studies?

    Organizer: Meredith L. Weiss – University at Albany, SUNY

    Organizer: Lauren Meeker – SUNY New Paltz

    Chair: Meredith L. Weiss – University at Albany, SUNY

    Speakers: Stephen B. Acabado – University of California, Los Angeles

    Speakers: Thamora Fishel – Cornell University

    Speakers: Lauren Meeker – SUNY New Paltz

    Speakers: Martina Nguyen – City University of New York, Baruch College

    Speakers: Miriam Stark – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Speakers: Benjamin Tausig – Stony Brook University

    Speakers: Alicia Turner – York University

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    826: The Burden of Memory
    Organizer: Jamelah Jacob (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Chair: Jamelah Jacob (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Jamelah Jacob (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Paul Jason Perez – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Kariza Ysabelle B. Nolasco (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Gabbie Mangaser (she/her/hers) – Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
    Discussant: Rick Bonus (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    827: New Approaches to Colonial Archives in South Asian Digital Humanities
    Organizer: Christina Welsch (she/her/hers) – College of Wooster
    Organizer: Margaret Schotte (she/her/hers) – York University
    Chair: Guldana Salimjan (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough
    Paper Presenter: Christina Welsch (she/her/hers) – College of Wooster
    Paper Presenter: Margaret Schotte (she/her/hers) – York University
    Paper Presenter: Amardeep Singh (he/him/his) – Lehigh University
    Paper Presenter: Dhanashree Thorat (she/her/hers) – Mississippi State University
    South Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    828: New Routes to South Asian Queer Diasporas: Belonging, Desire, and Aesthetics
    Organizer: Rohit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Organizer: Sara Shroff – University of Waterloo
    Chair: Rohit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Rohit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Sara Shroff – University of Waterloo
    Paper Presenter: Rasel Ahmed – Ohio State University
    Discussant: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University
    Paper Presenter: Soumyaseema Mandal – Royal Holloway, University of London
    South Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    829: Cultural Networks of Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Asia and the Global South - Sponsored by AAS East and Inner Asia Council (EIAC)
    Organizer: Emily Wilcox (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
    Chair: Emily Wilcox (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
    Paper Presenter: Elisabeth Armstrong (she/her/hers) – Smith College
    Paper Presenter: Wildan Sena Utama (he/him/his) – Universitas Gadjah Mada
    Paper Presenter: Ling Zhang – SUNY Purchase
    Paper Presenter: Emily Wilcox (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
    Discussant: Thiti Jamkajornkeiat – University of Victoria
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    830: Geospatial Remapping: Transcultural Media Aesthetics and Practices Across the Sinosphere
    Organizer: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Chair: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Xiaolu Ma (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Paper Presenter: Yijiao Guo (he/him/his) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Shiqi Lin (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Erin Y. Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    831: The Body in Japanese Visual Media during the Asia-Pacific War, 1931-1945
    Organizer: Kari Shepherdson-Scott (she/her/hers) – Macalester College
    Chair: Kari Shepherdson-Scott (she/her/hers) – Macalester College
    Discussant: Maki Kaneko (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Klaus J. Friese (he/him/his) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Paper Presenter: Jorinde Wels (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Paper Presenter: Hanae Kramer (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    832: PRESIDENT'S PANEL: Novel Political Ecologies: Atmospheres, Cities, the Terraqueous, the Subterranean, and Labor

    Organizer: Nancy L. Peluso – University of California, Berkeley

    Chair: Nancy L. Peluso – University of California, Berkeley

    Discussant: Emily Yeh – University of Colorado Boulder

    Discussant: Abidin Kusno – York University

    Discussant: Peter Vandergeest – York University

    Discussant: Mary Mostafanezhad – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Jun Borras – Erasmus University Rotterdam

  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    833: Technopolitics with Chinese Characteristics: Technological Modernization through Central Governance and Distributed Practice
    Organizer: Lufei Wu – University of Sydney
    Chair: Tianle Huang – Communication University of China
    Paper Presenter: Lufei Wu – University of Sydney
    Paper Presenter: Yuxin Jia – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Ling Ding – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yiqing Chen – University of Manchester
    Discussant: Yiming Qian – Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Discussant: Ji You – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    834: The Aquatic Frontier in Late Imperial and Modern China
    Organizer: Xiaofei Gao (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Denver
    Organizer: Martin Fromm – Worcester State University
    Chair: Stevan Harrell – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Rui Liu – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Xiaofei Gao (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Denver
    Paper Presenter: Martin Fromm – Worcester State University
    Discussant: Micah Muscolino – University of California, San Diego
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    836: Social Futurity: Creativity, Development, and Rethinking “Modern” Vietnamese Arts and Sciences (Part 2: Artistic Futures and the Limits of Creativity)
    Organizer: Tara Westmor (she/her/hers) – University of California, Riverside
    Chair: Chi Yen Ha – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Tara Westmor (she/her/hers) – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Le-Na Dao – University of Social Sciences and Humanities
    Paper Presenter: Chi Yen Ha – University of California, Riverside
    Discussant: Ann Marie Leshkowich – College of the Holy Cross
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    837: Relational Methodologies: Ghosts, Memories, and Voices from Okinawa and the Japanese Diaspora
    Organizer: Ruikun Chen (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Organizer: Ayaka Yoshimizu – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Ayaka Yoshimizu – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Ruikun Chen (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Niina Takemoto – Ochanomizu University
    Paper Presenter: Chie Ikeya – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Ayaka Yoshimizu – University of British Columbia
    Co-Presenter: Ying Han – University of British Columbia
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    838: Tibet in a Transregional Frame
    Chair: Ya Zuo
    Presenting Author: James A. Moallem (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Presenting Author: FNU Wangmu – Columbia University
    Presenting Author: Yingxin Li (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Presenting Author: Hanung Kim (he/him/his) – Korea University
    Presenting Author: Yijun Li (she/her/hers) – Huazhong University of Science and Technology/University of Washington,
    East & Inner Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    839: On Identity and Citizenship
    Chair: Rama Mantena (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Chicago
    Presenting Author: Raka Shome (she/her/hers) – Villanova University
    Presenting Author: Jamphel Shonu (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
    Presenting Author: Daniel Waqar (he/him/his) – Tufts University
    Presenting Author: Zayana Nasir (she/her/hers) – Jamia Millia Islamia University
    Presenting Author: Gargi Aleaz (she/her/hers) – Prairie View A&M University
    Presenting Author: K Esther Vaiphei (she/her/hers) – Manipur University
    South Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    840: The Longue Durée of Social Movements in Japan: Legacies, Memories, Continuities
    Organizer: Ayako Kano (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Chair: Ayako Kano (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Discussant: Keyao Pan (he/him/his) – Florida International University
    Paper Presenter: Hiroe Saruya (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Junxiao Leng (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Caitlin Adkins (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Patrick Carland-Echavarria (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    841: Intersecting Forces of Coloniality: Legal, Ideological, and Institutional Transformations in Taiwan and Korea
    Organizer: Ji Hyun Park (she/her/hers) – Seoul National University
    Chair: Louise Young – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Sueun Chae (he/him/his) – Syracuse University
    Paper Presenter: Yun Lin (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Ji Hyun Park (she/her/hers) – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Kuo-Yu Chiang (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica
    Discussant: Hajin Jun – University of Washington
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    842: The Sacred Landscape in Medieval Japan
    Organizer: Steffani Bennett (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Talia Andrei – Wesleyan University
    Paper Presenter: María Salvador (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Daniel Borengasser (he/him/his) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Paper Presenter: Steffani Bennett (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    843: The Work of Jest: Humor, Genre, and Social Critique in Japanese Literature and Performance
    Organizer: Ariel Stilerman – Stanford University
    Chair: Ariel Stilerman – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Ariel Stilerman – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Selina Wang (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Saranya Choochotkaew (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Paper Presenter: Indra Levy – Stanford University
    Discussant: Haruo Shirane – Columbia University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    844: Translation as Power: Knowledge, Media, Industry, and Governance from the Japanese Empire to the Cold War
    Organizer: Jie He (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Organizer: Erin M. Newton (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    Chair: William Marotti (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Jie He (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Erin M. Newton (she/her/hers) – Knox College
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Ciulla (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Discussant: Jessa Dahl (she/her/hers) – JapanLab
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    845: Trespassing Sounds: The Circulation of Japanese Music Across Cultural Fields
    Organizer: Luca Proietti – SOAS University of London
    Chair: Herb L. Fondevilla – Rikkyo University
    Paper Presenter: Garrett Groesbeck (he/him/his) – Wesleyan University
    Paper Presenter: Luca Proietti – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Matthieu Stepec (he/him/his) – University of Bergen
    Paper Presenter: Katherine Mezur – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Herb L. Fondevilla – Rikkyo University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    846: CANCELED-Luce/ACLS Mentorship Workshop for Early Career China Scholars - Sponsored by The Henry Luce Foundation
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    847: Marginalization, Violence, and Conflicts
    Chair: Eunsook Jung – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Presenting Author: Mehnaaz Momen (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M International University
    Presenting Author: Sopanha Bunthoeun (he/him/his) – Seoul National University
    Presenting Author: Andrea Pressello – National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
    Presenting Author: Paul Chambers (he/him/his) – ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Napisa Waitoolkiat – Naresuan University
    Presenting Author: Virginia Shih – University of California, Berkeley
    Presenting Author: Julia Byl – Univeristy of Alberta
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    848: Hunting, Authority, and Animal Symbolism in Korea
    Organizer: Rebekah Clements (she/her/hers) – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
    Chair: Rebekah Clements (she/her/hers) – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
    Discussant: Lisa Yoshikawa (she/her/hers) – Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Discussant: George Kallander – Syracuse University
    Paper Presenter: Hyunju Lee – Ajou University
    Paper Presenter: Eugene Y. Park (he/him/his) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Paper Presenter: Rebekah Clements (she/her/hers) – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
    Paper Presenter: Joseph Seeley (he/him/his) – University of Virginia
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    849: Korean Diaspora of the Highly Skilled: Examining Migration Channels, Resources, and Discourses
    Organizer: Minjeong Kim (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University
    Chair: Minjeong Kim (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University
    Paper Presenter: Minjeong Kim (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University
    Paper Presenter: Hyunji Kwon – Seoul National University
    Co-Presenter: Joonkoo Lee – Hanyang University
    Paper Presenter: Ilju Kim – Sophia University
    Co-Presenter: Sung-Chul Noh – Hitotsubashi University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    850: K-pop Fandom(s) and Authenticity: When Fans Control the Narrative
    Organizer: Mathieu T. Berbiguier (he/him/his) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Chair: Mathieu T. Berbiguier (he/him/his) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Stephanie Choi – University of Colorado Boulder
    Paper Presenter: Areum Jeong (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: So Yoon Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Mathieu T. Berbiguier (he/him/his) – Carnegie Mellon University
    Discussant: Donna Kwon (she/her/hers) – University of Kentucky
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    851: Negotiating Democracy and Power on the Korean Peninsula
    Organizer: Sojin Lim (she/her/hers) – University of Lancashire
    Chair: Sojin Lim (she/her/hers) – University of Lancashire
    Paper Presenter: Sojin Lim (she/her/hers) – University of Lancashire
    Paper Presenter: Hannes Mosler (he/him/his) – University of Duisburg-Essen
    Paper Presenter: Marco Milani (he/him/his) – University of Bologna
    Paper Presenter: Kevin Gray (he/him/his) – University of Sussex
    Discussant: Hyung Gu Lynn (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    852: Values in Action: Rethinking Democracy and Conflict Resolution through Engaged Anthropology in the Philippines
    Organizer: Jessica Sandra R. Claudio (she/her/hers) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Chair: Enrique Nino P. Leviste (he/him/his) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Paper Presenter: Jessica Sandra R. Claudio (she/her/hers) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Co-Presenter: Enrique Nino P. Leviste (he/him/his) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Paper Presenter: Beatriz C. Beato (she/her/hers) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Co-Presenter: Haraya Marikit C. Mendoza (she/her/hers) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Paper Presenter: Patria Luwalhati D. Garcia (she/her/hers) – Ateneo de Manila University
    Southeast Asia
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    PS6: Poster Session #6
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 2:05 PM - 2:25 PM PDT
    Left Behind
  • 2:25 PM - 4:25 PM PDT
    All Static & Noise
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Overcoming the Mid-Career Slump: Balancing Service, Teaching, and the Second Book Project
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Publishing in Asian Studies
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Traveling a Non-Standard Career Path
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    901: Transforming Asia with Food: Women and Everyday Life

    Organizer: Chiara Formichi – Cornell University

    Chair: Suyoung Son – Cornell University

    Discussant: Christina Firpo – California Polytechnic State University

    Discussant: Tom Hoogervorst – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

    Discussant: Violetta Ravagnoli – Emmanuel College

    Discussant: Fei Hsien Wang – Indiana University

    Discussant: Joshua Chun Wah Kam – Cornell University

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    902: Textures of History in Premodern South Asian Literature in Punjab, Kashmir, and the Himalayas, 12th-19th Centuries
    Organizer: Sloane Geddes (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Sloane Geddes (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Sloane Geddes (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Julie Vig – York University
    Paper Presenter: Luther Obrock – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jvala Singh – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Naveena Naqvi – University of British Columbia
    South Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    903: Diaspora Frontiers in Chinese Opera Theater Research: A Conversation with Nancy Rao

    Organizer: Wing Chung Ng – University of Texas at San Antonio

    Organizer: Louisa Wei – City University of Hong Kong

    Chair: Wing Chung Ng – University of Texas at San Antonio

    Book Author: Nancy Rao – Rutgers University

    Speaker: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria

    Speaker: Hedy Law – University of British Columbia

    Speaker: Lingyan Liu – University of Tennessee, Chattanooga

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    904: Sino-Mexico Art and Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century

    Organizer: Diana M. Freundl – Vancouver Art Gallery

    Chair: Diana M. Freundl – Vancouver Art Gallery

    Book Author: Shengtian Zheng – Simon Fraser University

    Speaker: Shuyu Kong – Simon Fraser University

    Speaker: Yi Gu – University of Toronto

    Speaker: Keith Wallace – Yishu Journal of Chinese Contemporary Art

    Speaker: Marisol Villela Balderrama – Trinity University

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    905: Imagining Urban Futures from Colonial to Postcolonial Asia: Temporality, Materiality, and Solidarity
    Organizer: Sabrina Teng-io Chung (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Organizer: Tsuguta Yamashita (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Chair: Christina Schwenkel – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Sabrina Teng-io Chung (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Tsuguta Yamashita (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Discussant: Se-Mi Oh – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Diana J.S. Martinez – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Banu Kaygusuz Tezel – University of Toronto
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    906: Institutions, Practices, and Engagements in Interstate Relations across Eurasia, 1200-1800
    Organizer: King Kwong Wong (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: YuanChong Wang (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Paper Presenter: Sharon Z. Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: King Kwong Wong (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Lok Yin Law (he/him/his) – Education University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Wei Cui (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Discussant: Tonio Andrade (he/him/his) – Emory University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    907: Inter-imperial Sinoglossia: Contemporary Literature and Transmedia Practices
    Organizer: Hui Chien Ngoi (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Chair: Soon Yi Poon (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Junlin Ma (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Soon Yi Poon (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Wenxin Liang (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Hui Chien Ngoi (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Helen Leung (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Chris Song (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    908: The Nation Overseas: Language and Institutions among the Republic of China’s Diasporas in the U.S., Southeast Asia, and Latin America
    Organizer: Jeffrey Weng – National Taiwan University
    Chair: Madeline Hsu (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Weng – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Justin Wu – California State University, Sacramento
    Paper Presenter: Shaun Yi Xian Lee – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Madeline Hsu (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park
    Paper Presenter: Zetong Xiao (he/him/his) – Complutense University of Madrid
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    909: Conceptions of the Human in Human Rights Struggles in Southeast Asia
    Organizer: John Roosa (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Erik M. Kuhonta – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Teilhard Paradela (they/them/theirs)
    Paper Presenter: John Roosa (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Jane M. Ferguson (she/her/hers) – Australian National University
    Southeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    910: Worldmaking in Chinese Cities—Between Local Connections and Transnational Ties
    Organizer: Björn Alpermann (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Chair: Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Ruoxi Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Michael Malzer (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Paper Presenter: Angela Man Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Björn Alpermann (he/him/his) – Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
    Co-Presenter: Vivien Markert (she/her/hers) – University of Tübingen
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    911: Narrative Transformations: Wrinkles in Time and Space in Noh
    Organizer: Elizabeth Oyler – University of Pittsburgh
    Chair: Elizabeth Oyler – University of Pittsburgh
    Discussant: Elizabeth Oyler – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Susan Blakeley Klein – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Matthew Chudnow – Central Connecticut State University
    Paper Presenter: Taro Yokoyama (he/him/his) – Rikkyo University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    912: Out of Sync: Emotional Rhythms and Dissonance in Japanese Texts and Spaces
    Organizer: Oliver White (he/him/they/them) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Chair: Naomi Chi – Hokkaido University
    Paper Presenter: Ekaterina (Kate) Komova (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Oliver White (he/him/they/them) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Paper Presenter: Edward Boyle (he/him/his) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Discussant: Ashton Lazarus (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    913: Enlivening Buddhist Heritage—Part I: Conjunctures of Devotion, Care and Loss
    Organizer: David Geary (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Organizer: Rani Singh (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Rani Singh (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Paride Stortini – Ghent University
    Paper Presenter: Paulina Kolata (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Napakadol Kittisenee (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Anna Karlström – Uppsala University
    Discussant: Justin McDaniel – University of Pennsylvania
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    914: Embracing Animals to Face Modern and Postmodern Upheavals in East Asia
    Organizer: Martin Blahota (he/him/his) – Czech Academy of Sciences
    Chair: Hans Martin Krämer (he/him/his) – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Hans Martin Krämer (he/him/his) – University of Heidelberg
    Paper Presenter: Kumiko McDowell (she/her/hers) – University of Oregon
    Paper Presenter: Martin Blahota (he/him/his) – Czech Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Robin Visser (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Discussant: W. Puck Brecher – Washington State University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    915: Engineering Asia 2.0: Technology Synthesis, Socialist Adaptation, and Non-Aligned Development
    Organizer: Hongyun Lyu – University of Toronto
    Organizer: AIJIE Shi – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Chair: Victor Seow (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Sung Soo Lee – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: AIJIE Shi – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Taylor Coplen – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Hongyun Lyu – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Hiromi Mizuno (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    916: Public Empire/Private Wor(l)ds: Reading Imperial Japan through Modern Verse
    Organizer: Jeffrey Angles (he/him/his) – Western Michigan University
    Chair: Jeffrey Angles (he/him/his) – Western Michigan University
    Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Angles (he/him/his) – Western Michigan University
    Paper Presenter: Andrew Campana – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Rina Kikuchi (she/her/hers) – University of Shiga
    Paper Presenter: Marianne Tarcov – McGill University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    917: Global China, Global Influencers: Analyzing a Globalizing China Through China’s Globally Mobile Influencers
    Organizer: Carwyn Morris (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London
    Chair: Carwyn Morris (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London
    Discussant: Carwyn Morris (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Yuchen Chen – City University of New York, Baruch College
    Paper Presenter: Jade Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa
    Paper Presenter: Ziying Meng (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne, Australia
    Paper Presenter: Yishan Jiang (she/her/hers) – Univesity of St. Andrews
    Digital Technology
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    918: Sacred Sources of Japanese Identity: Premodern Formations
    Organizer: Emi Bushelle – Western Washington University
    Chair: Emi Bushelle – Western Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Gian Piero Persiani – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Jacqueline I. Stone (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Talia Andrei – Wesleyan University
    Paper Presenter: Emi Bushelle – Western Washington University
    Discussant: Brian Steininger – Princeton University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    919: Why Should Undergraduates Learn About Asia? Considering the Value of Himalaya-focused Asian Studies—Part II

    Organizer: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Organizer: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chair: Lauren Leve – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Discussant: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Stacy L. Pigg – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Tsering Shakya – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Jeevan Sharma – University of Edinburgh

    Discussant: Austin Simoes-Gomes – University of Toronto

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    920: Cambodia and Vietnam: Evolving Strategies for Authoritarian Survival in Domestic and Foreign Policies
    Organizer: Tuong Vu (he/him/his) – University of Oregon
    Chair: Tuong Vu (he/him/his) – University of Oregon
    Discussant: Astrid Norén-Nilsson (she/her/hers) – Lund University
    Paper Presenter: Chheang Vannarith (he/him/his) – Angkor Social Innovation Park
    Paper Presenter: Nhu Truong (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Sreang Chheat (he/him/his) – Cambodia Development Resource Institute
    Co-Presenter: Mark Mun Vong (he/him/his) – Royal University of Phnom Penh
    Paper Presenter: Thiem Hai Bui (he/him/his) – Malmö University
    Southeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    922: China’s Southeast Asian Studies: Emerging Trends and Promising Prospects
    Organizer: Virginia Shih – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Virginia Shih – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Jiewei Wu (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqing Li (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Huiwen Xue (she/her/hers) – Xiamen University
    Discussant: Boyi Chen (he/him/his) – Xiamen University
    Southeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    923: Class, Race, and Politics in Modern Myanmar: Hidden Histories of Hierarchy
    Organizer: Christian Gilberti – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Christian Gilberti – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Christian Gilberti – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Elliott Prasse-Freeman – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Htet Min Lwin – York University
    Paper Presenter: Qiao Dai – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Stephen Campbell – Nanyang Technological University
    Discussant: Elizabeth Rhoads – Lund University
    Southeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    924: Un/bundling Race, Ethnicity, and Otherness in Global Singapore

    Organizer: Josh Babcock – Brown University

    Organizer: Nurul H. Rashid – Leiden University

    Chair: Josh Babcock – Brown University

    Discussant: Vincent Pak – University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Xinyu Guan – Harvard University

    Discussant: Kuansong Victor Zhuang – Nanyang Technological University

    Discussant: Tinesh Indrarajah – Loyola University Chicago

    Discussant: Jane Zhang – Business Insider

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    925: Unfinished Indonesia: Reflections on Robert W. Hefner’s “Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics”

    Organizer: James Hoesterey – Emory University

    Chair: James Hoesterey – Emory University

    Discussant: Greg Barton – Deakin University

    Discussant: Nelly Van Doorn-Harder – Wake Forest University

    Discussant: Muhamad Ali – University of California, Riverside

    Discussant: James Hoesterey – Emory University

    Discussant: Robert Hefner – Boston University

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    926: Norms and Identities in Northeast Asian Politics
    Chair: Kristin Vekasi (she/her/hers) – University of Montana
    Presenting Author: Qiaoyan L. Rosenberg (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Presenting Author: Suzie Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Mary Washington
    Presenting Author: Emily S. Chen (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Presenting Author: Zheng Zhou (he/him/his) – Sciences Po
    Presenting Author: Nikolai Johnsen (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London
    Presenting Author: Setsuko -. Buckley (she/her/hers) – Whatcom Community College
    Northeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    927: Cold War and Reformulations of Southeast Asia: Contested Community and State Formations Under Pressure of Decolonization and the Global Cold War
    Organizer: Igor Iwo Chabrowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Chair: Igor Iwo Chabrowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Igor Iwo Chabrowski (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Laura Pozzi (she/her/hers) – University of Warsaw
    Paper Presenter: Mohamad Ikhram Mohamad Ridzuan (he/him/his) – Universiti Malaysia Sabah
    Paper Presenter: Sainico Ningthoujam – McGill University
    Discussant: Wasana Wongsurawat (she/her/hers) – Chulalongkorn University
    Southeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    928: Indigeneity, Music, and Politics: Case Studies from East, South, and Inner Asia
    Organizer: Sabra Harris – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Chair: dinalo Chakma – University of Florida
    Paper Presenter: Sabra Harris – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: dinalo Chakma – University of Florida
    Paper Presenter: GouTing Lin (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan University of the Arts
    Paper Presenter: Tashi Dekyid Monet (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Discussant: Wagi Payan – National Dong Hwa University
    Discussant: Jonathan Stock – University College Cork
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    929: Littoral Commons: Rethinking the South China Coast through Everyday Lives
    Organizer: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Chair: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University
    Paper Presenter: Robert James Antony (he/him/his) – Guangzhou University
    Paper Presenter: Di Mao (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Kwan – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Venus Viana (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Discussant: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    930: Lived to Tell: Everyday Experience, Epistemic Authority, and the Criteria for Medical Knowledge in Twentieth-Century East Asia
    Organizer: Tianyuan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tohoku University
    Chair: Tianyuan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tohoku University
    Paper Presenter: Jinghong Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    Paper Presenter: Tianyuan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tohoku University
    Paper Presenter: Zelin Wang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Emi Omuro (she/her/hers) – Ochanomizu University
    Discussant: Sonja M. Kim (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University, SUNY
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    931: Land, Ecology, and the Governance
    Chair: Diana Dimitrova – University de Montreal
    Presenting Author: Ahsan Shafi (he/him/his) – School of Government, Yunnan University
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Deng Song (he/him/his) – Yunnan University
    Presenting Author: Laiba akhtar (she/her/hers) – Jawaharlal Nehru University
    Presenting Author: Prosanta Sarkar (he/him/his) – University of Hyderabad
    Presenting Author: George Pioustin – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenting Author: Sreya Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Washington State University
    Presenting Author: Ritapriya Nandy (she/her/hers) – University of Hyderabad
    South Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    932: CANCELED: Starring the Region: Neoliberal Stardom, Vernacular Celebrity, and the Cultural Politics of Visibility in Contemporary India
    South Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    933: Inter-imperial and Transnational Competitions over Right in Early Twentieth-Century Manchuria and Beyond: Rethinking Empire, Colonialism, Migration, and Modernity
    Organizer: Luming Xu (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Sidney Lu (he/him/his) – Rice University
    Paper Presenter: Luming Xu (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Sidney Lu (he/him/his) – Rice University
    Discussant: Xiaowei Zheng (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Paper Presenter: Enrico Osvaldi (he/him/his) – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Anqi Gao (she/her/hers) – University of Leeds
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    934: Sacred Authority and the Politics of Belonging in Asia and Its Diasporas - Sponsored by Council of Conferences (COC)
    Organizer: Jooyoun Lee – St. Edward's University
    Chair: Jooyoun Lee – St. Edward's University
    Paper Presenter: Khoompetch Kongsawat – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Ryan Wen – Syracuse University
    Paper Presenter: Magna Mohapatra (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Thu Nguyen (she/her/hers) – McGill University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    935: Waterscapes, Fluid Space, and Symbolic Power in South China
    Organizer: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    Organizer: Xiaomian Wu – Fuzhou University
    Chair: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    Co-Presenter: Yichi Zhang – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Wei Chen – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Haohui Huang – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Muyan Zheng – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Xiaomian Wu – Fuzhou University
    Discussant: Yutong Wang (she/her/hers) – University of York
    Discussant: Richard Yu-Cheng Shih (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Co-Presenter: Bin Hu – Chongqing University
    Co-Presenter: Kai Zhou – Chongqing University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    936: Teaching Korean Buddhism: Pedagogical Strategies and Challenges in North American Universities

    Organizer: Maya K. Stiller – University of Kansas

    Chair: Susan Andrews – Mount Allison University

    Discussant: Juhn Ahn – University of Michigan

    Discussant: Sung Ha Yun – St. Olaf College

    Discussant: Mark Nathan – University at Buffalo, SUNY

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    937: What Makes an Accurate Map? Authority and Knowledge in Late Qing China
    Organizer: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    Organizer: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Chair: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Paper Presenter: Mimi Cheng (she/her/hers) – Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
    Paper Presenter: Sayantani Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – Ashoka University
    Paper Presenter: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    Paper Presenter: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    938: The East Asian War of 1592–1598 in Korean and World History: Lessons from Ryu Sŏngnyong’s “Chingbirok” (Reprimands and Admonitions)

    Organizer: Kate Chouta – University of California, Berkeley

    Chair: Kate Chouta – University of California, Berkeley

    Discussant: Byonghyon Choi

    Discussant: Stella Kim – University of California, Berkeley

    Discussant: Sookja Cho – Arizona State University

    Discussant: Nam-lin Hur – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: Kenneth Swope – United States Naval War College

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    939: Roundtable in Honor of Professor Donald L. Baker’s Retirement

    Organizer: Javier Cha – University of Hong Kong

    Chair: Si Nae Park – Harvard University

    Discussant: Javier Cha – University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Dongkyu Kim – Sogang University

    Discussant: Guy Shababo – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Discussant: Christopher Lovins – Independent Scholar

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    940: Script and Conscription : Articulating Ethnic Korean Labor in Japan
    Organizer: Nathan Shockey (he/him/his) – Bard College
    Chair: Hirokazu Toeda (he/him/his) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Younglong Kim (she/her/hers) – Otsuma Women's University
    Paper Presenter: vanessa baker (she/her/hers) – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Julia Hansell Clark (she/her/hers) – Sarah Lawrence College
    Paper Presenter: Nathan Shockey (he/him/his) – Bard College
    Discussant: Akito Sakasai (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Northeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    941: Text and Tech: Scriptal Technologies in Modern Japan
    Organizer: Mark Yu Shan Chen (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Chair: Raja Adal – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Zahid Daudjee – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Natsuki Ishida (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Mark Yu Shan Chen (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Raja Adal – University of Pittsburgh
    Discussant: Chigusa Kita (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Discussant: Chelsea Foxwell – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    942: Technologies of Transformation: Crafting Stones and Knowledge in Chinese Material Culture - Sponsored by Association for Chinese Art History
    Organizer: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Chair: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang (she/her/hers) – Boston College
    Paper Presenter: Yixu Eliza Chen (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Kuldip Kaur Singh (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Michael J. Hatch (he/him/his) – Trinity College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    943: What Can Christianity Do in a World at War? Transnational Religious Networks and Social Engagement in East Asia, 1930s–1940s
    Organizer: Jordan Zhixi Wang (he/him/his) – Trinity Western University
    Organizer: Aixin Yi (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Chair: Ryan Dunch (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Paper Presenter: Jordan Zhixi Wang (he/him/his) – Trinity Western University
    Paper Presenter: Aixin Yi (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Paper Presenter: Yosuke Matsutani – Kinjo Gakuin University
    Paper Presenter: Penelope Ching-yee Pang (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Ryan Dunch (he/him/his) – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    944: The Many Faces of the Medium in China’s Past, 400-1700
    Organizer: Jeehee Hong – McGill University
    Chair: Jeehee Hong – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Bonnie Cheng (she/her/hers) – Oberlin College
    Paper Presenter: Christian de Pee (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Yiren Zheng – Dartmouth College
    Paper Presenter: Sizhao Yi – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Paula Varsano – University of California, Berkeley
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    945: The Materiality of Backdrops in Early Modern and Modern Chinese Media
    Organizer: Yuhang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Organizer: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Chair: Weihong Bao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Weihong Bao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Paper Presenter: Yuhang Li (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Mia Yinxing Liu (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqian Yan (she/her/hers) – Zhejiang University
    Paper Presenter: Mengyang Xu (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    946: The Poiesis of Embodiment: Crafting Experience and Desire through Play in Early Modern China
    Organizer: Nellie Ting Yang (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Chair: Allison Bernard (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Nellie Ting Yang (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Paize Keulemans – Princeton University
    Discussant: Allison Bernard (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Susanna Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    947: The Politics of Arabic in China
    Organizer: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Organizer: Tatsuya Nakanishi (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Chair: Noriko Unno – Osaka University
    Paper Presenter: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Tatsuya Nakanishi (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Michael Gibbs Hill (he/him/his) – William & Mary
    Paper Presenter: Hale Eroglu – Bogazici University
    Discussant: Benno Weiner – Carnegie Mellon University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    948: Crossing Borders, Survival, and Navigating: Chinese Migrants and the Making of Racialized Labor Regime in the U.S.

    Organizer: JM Wong – Independent Scholars of Asia

    Organizer: Haoju Lu – City University of New York, Graduate Center

    Chair: Zoe Zhao – University of California, Santa Cruz

    Discussant: Zoe Zhao – University of California, Santa Cruz

    Discussant: JM Wong – Independent Scholars of Asia

    Discussant: Haoju Lu – City University of New York, Graduate Center

    Discussant: Angelina Yajie Chen – Indiana University

    Discussant: Mengyu Dong – Stanford University

  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    949: Revolutionary Women: Internationalism and Transnational Thought in East Asia
    Organizer: Yoon Heo (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Chair: Jesook Song – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Yoon Heo (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University
    Discussant: Jesook Song – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Eunhye Choi – Gyeongsang National University
    Paper Presenter: Youngeun Jang – Sungkyunkwan University
    Paper Presenter: Sijin Paek – University of Toronto
    Northeast Asia
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    950: Precarious Spaces
    Chair: Matthew D. McMullen (he/him/his) – Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture
    Presenting Author: Salai Vanni Bawi – Myanmar Institute of Theology
    Presenting Author: Jinpu Wang (he/him/his) – Metropolitan State University
    Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Yu Xiang (she/her/hers) – Susquehanna University
    Presenting Author: John A. Donaldson (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University
    Presenting Author: Aarthi Janakiraman (she/her/hers) – Tulane University
    Presenting Author: Hyemi Lim (she/her/hers) – Université Paris Cité
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    PS7: Poster Session #7
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    1130: Commodities in Motion: Transborder Industrialization and Japanese Goods in the Sinosphere
    Organizer: Mindy Su – Yale University
    Organizer: Lillian Tsay – University of Montreal
    Chair: Jun Uchida – Stanford University
    Paper Presenter: Mindy Su – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Lillian Tsay – University of Montreal
    Paper Presenter: Lawrence Zhang – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
    Discussant: Timothy Yang – University of Georgia
    Northeast Asia
  • 4:25 PM - 5:45 PM PDT
    Songs of Love from Hawaii
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1001: Emotional Encounters with the Unseen: Fear, Anger, and Remorse in Early Medieval Chinese Narratives (3rd–5th Centuries CE)
    Organizer: Yifan Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Chair: Yuqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Yuqing Chen (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Paper Presenter: Yifan Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Paper Presenter: Mengyi Li – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
    Discussant: Mitcham Carl (he/him/his) – Colorado School of Mines
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1002: Forging Authority on the Margins: Art, Place, and Cultural Power in Shandong from the Late Ming to Republican China
    Organizer: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    Organizer: Henning VON MIRBACH – University of Cambridge
    Chair: Julia K. MURRAY – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Lei XUE – Oregon State University
    Paper Presenter: Henning VON MIRBACH – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Yangang ZHAO – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Aida Yuen WONG – Brandeis University
    Discussant: Julia K. MURRAY – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1003: Enlivening Buddhist Heritage—Part II: Politics, Diplomacy and Geocultural Power
    Organizer: David Geary (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Organizer: Rani Singh (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: David Geary (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Manish Kumar – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Blayne Harcey (he/him/his) – Dickinson College
    Paper Presenter: Jack Meng-Tat Chia – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Shukria Neda – Simon Fraser University
    Discussant: Abhishek Amar – Hamilton College
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1004: Feeling a Turbulent Nation: Written Intimacies, Mobilizations, and Social Formation in 1930s and 1940s China
    Organizer: Tianyi Sheng (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Chair: Sophia Lee (she/her/hers) – California State University, East Bay
    Paper Presenter: Tianyue Li (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne
    Paper Presenter: Tianyi Sheng (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: Chuwei He (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh
    Discussant: Linh D. Vu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University
    Discussant: Linshan Jiang (she/her/hers) – Missouri State University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1005: Industry, Infrastructure, and Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Greater China
    Organizer: Niall Chithelen (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Organizer: Chad Westra – University of Washington
    Chair: Yuting Dong – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Niall Chithelen (he/him/his) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Chad Westra – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Covell Meyskens – Naval Postgraduate School
    Paper Presenter: Ying Jia Tan – Wesleyan University
    Discussant: Judd Kinzley – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1006: The Role of Print in the Shaping of Political and Cultural Discourse in Colonial North India
    Organizer: Anne Murphy – University of British Columbia
    Organizer: Manimugdha S. Sharma (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Anne Murphy – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Anne Murphy – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Manimugdha S. Sharma (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Bipasha Mahanta (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Jvala Singh – University of California, Berkeley
    South Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1007: Unfamiliar: Family, Law, and Democracy in South Asia
    Organizer: Razak Khan (he/him/his) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Chair: Jana Tschurenev (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin
    Discussant: Rukmini Barua (she/her/hers) – York University
    Paper Presenter: Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (she/her/hers) – Lahore University of Management Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Sarah Holz (she/her/hers) – Humboldt University of Berlin
    Paper Presenter: Faustina Pereira (she/her/hers) – BRAC University
    Paper Presenter: Razak Khan (he/him/his) – Freie Universität Berlin
    South Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1008: Urdu’s Alterities: Literary Histories told through Locality, Networks, and Dialogue

    Organizer: Purnima Dhavan – University of Washington

    Chair: Purnima Dhavan – University of Washington

    Discussant: Heidi Pauwels – University of Washington

    Discussant: Nathan Tabor – Western Michigan University

    Discussant: Namrata Kanchan – Brown University

    Discussant: David Boyk – Northwestern University

  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1009: Democracy, Autocracy, and Violence in Southeast Asia - Sponsored by AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)
    Organizer: Sol Iglesias (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Chair: Sol Iglesias (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Bencharat Sae Chua (she/her/hers) – Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies
    Paper Presenter: Sol Iglesias (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman
    Paper Presenter: Marielle Y. Marcaida (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Sana Jaffrey – Australian National University
    Discussant: Tyrell Haberkorn – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1010: Elemental Entanglements: Water, Wood, and Earth in Vietnam
    Organizer: Kathryn Dyt (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Chair: Edyta Roszko (she/her/hers) – Chr. Michelsen Institute
    Paper Presenter: Kathryn Dyt (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Edyta Roszko (she/her/hers) – Chr. Michelsen Institute
    Paper Presenter: David Biggs (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Discussant: Michitake Aso (he/him/his) – University at Albany, SUNY
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1011: Emigrant Citizenship in Asia: Nationalism, Identities and Forms of Governance
    Organizer: Yasmin Y. Ortiga (she/her/hers) – Singapore Management University
    Chair: Yasmin Y. Ortiga (she/her/hers) – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Charlotte Setijadi – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Rhacel Salazar Salazar Parreñas – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Robin Ming Feng Chee – Singapore Management University
    Paper Presenter: Andrew Le – Arizona State University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1012: Entangling with the Durian: Temporality, Knowledge, and Risk in China-Southeast Asia Durian Trade
    Organizer: Gengrun Li (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Gaik Cheng Khoo – Sunway University
    Paper Presenter: Gaik Cheng Khoo – Sunway University
    Paper Presenter: Min Su (she/her/hers) – University of Malaya
    Paper Presenter: Ray Lacko – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Gengrun Li (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1013: From Birds and Bees to Medicines and Love Potions: The Cultural Worlds of Southeast Asian Forest Products
    Organizer: George E. Dutton (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Maitrii Aung-Thwin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: George E. Dutton (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: C. Michele Thompson (she/her/hers) – Southern Connecticut State University
    Discussant: Maitrii Aung-Thwin (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Thao Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Faizah Zakaria (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1014: From Nostalgia to Decolonial Memory Work in Indonesia and the Netherlands: Diverse Engagement with Colonial History and Ways of Knowing
    Organizer: Katharine McGregor (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Chair: Susanna Barnes (she/her/hers) – University of Saskatchewan
    Paper Presenter: Katharine McGregor (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: Arnoud Arps (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Ana Eclair (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Discussant: Myra Abubakar (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1015: Gender and Sexuality as Illiberal Modes of Legitimation in Asia
    Organizer: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Chair: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Mark Thompson (he/him/his) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Petra Alderman (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Meredith L. Weiss – University at Albany, SUNY
    Discussant: John Whittier Treat (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1016: Gendering Sports in Southeast Asia: Archetypes, Materialities, Embodiments
    Organizer: Michael K. Miller (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Chair: Michael K. Miller (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Michael K. Miller (he/him/his) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Sukrittaya Jukping (she/her/hers) – Thammasat University
    Paper Presenter: Simon Creak (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    Discussant: Megan Sinnott – Georgia State University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1017: Conceptualizing Control: Studies of Local-Level Governance in the Context of Myanmar’s Civil War
    Organizer: Ardeth Thawnghmung – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Chair: Masao Imamura (he/him/his) – Yamagata University
    Paper Presenter: Ken MacLean (he/him/his) – Clark University
    Discussant: Ken MacLean (he/him/his) – Clark University
    Paper Presenter: Su Mon Thazin Aung (she/her/hers) – ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
    Paper Presenter: Ardeth Thawnghmung – University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Paper Presenter: Masao Imamura (he/him/his) – Yamagata University
    Southeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1018: Pan-Asianist Imaginaries: Competing Nationalisms, Literary Projects, and Transregional Visions from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age
    Organizer: Zekun Feng (he/him/his) – New York University
    Chair: Thomas Looser (he/him/his) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Zekun Feng (he/him/his) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Christopher L. Hill (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Thomas Looser (he/him/his) – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (she/her/hers) – Royal Historical Society
    Paper Presenter: Madhumita Lahiri (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1019: Racing across Land and River Routes: Infrastructural Explorations in China and Beyond during an Age of Geopolitical Transition
    Organizer: Ruochen Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Organizer: Yiying Pan – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Chair: John Alekna – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Ruochen Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Xi Ma – Hunan University
    Paper Presenter: Yiying Pan – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Andres Rodriguez – University of Sydney
    Discussant: Shellen Wu – Lehigh University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1020: Reclaiming Meaning: Anthropological Approaches to Text, Indigeneity, and Semiotic Sovereignty in Asia
    Organizer: Katherine M. Dimmery (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Chair: Lijing Peng (she/her/hers) – Trinity College Dublin
    Paper Presenter: Katherine M. Dimmery (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Paper Presenter: Lijing Peng (she/her/hers) – Trinity College Dublin
    Paper Presenter: Liwen Liu (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Elvin Meng (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Christoph Emmrich (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Discussant: John Leavitt (he/him/his) – University of Montreal
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1021: The Art of Belonging: Reconnecting to Place and Space in Postwar Japanese Media
    Organizer: Chris Corker (he/him/his) – York University
    Chair: Colleen Laird (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Ted Goossen (he/him/his) – York University
    Paper Presenter: Erica Ka-yan Poon (she/her/hers)
    Paper Presenter: Josh Trichilo (he/him/his)
    Paper Presenter: Zilin (Alice) Zhou (she/her/hers) – Carleton University
    Paper Presenter: Chris Corker (he/him/his) – York University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1022: The Politics of “Return”: Japanophone Literature and the Cold War
    Organizer: Jiaxin Yan – Pennsylvania State University
    Chair: Yukari Tanaka (she/her/hers) – Nihon University
    Paper Presenter: Christina Yi – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Aoife Cantrill – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Jiaxin Yan – Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Presenter: Nicholas Lambrecht – University of Osaka
    Discussant: Leo Ching – Duke University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1023: The Korean Christian Diaspora During the Colonial Period and Beyond: Their Identity, Nationality, and Religion
    Organizer: Jieun Han – Sogang University
    Chair: Michael Kim – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Haeseong Park – Francis Marion University
    Paper Presenter: Allen J. Kim – International Christian University
    Paper Presenter: Jieun Han – Sogang University
    Discussant: Donald L. Baker – University of British Columbia
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1024: Contingency, Repositioning, and Ambiguous Relations in Chinese Religion
    Chair: Karin Myhre (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia
    Presenting Author: Ting Zhang – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: N. Libuše Fong (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholars of Asia
    Presenting Author: Maxwell Joseph Brandstadt (he/him/his) – University of Utah
    Presenting Author: Xiaowen Zhou (she/her/hers) – McMaster University
    Presenting Author: Diyuke Wu (she/her/hers) – Columbia University
    Presenting Author: Yuen Nga Iris Li (she/her/hers) – University of Arizona
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1025: Diplomacy from the Bottom-Up: Perspectives of Soft Power Practitioners from East Asia
    Chair: Maria Repnikova (she/her/hers) – Georgia State University
    Presenting Author: Meghan Peters – University of Nottingham
    Presenting Author: Sharpay Qiong Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Canberra
    Presenting Author: Hai Wang (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1026: Courts and Constitutionalism in Asia
    Organizer: Jie Cheng (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: David Law – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Jie Cheng (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Susan Finder (she/her/hers) – Peking University School of Transnational Law
    Paper Presenter: David Law – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Shitong Qiao – Duke University Law School
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1027: Crises of Mediation: Precarious Media in East Asia
    Organizer: Yucong Hao – Vanderbilt University
    Organizer: Qingyi Zeng (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Chair: Yucong Hao – Vanderbilt University
    Paper Presenter: Qingyi Zeng (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Linda Zhang – Fulbright University Vietnam
    Paper Presenter: Hideaki Fujiki – Nagoya University
    Discussant: Jennifer Hsieh – University of Michigan
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1028: Beyond and Beneath the Japanese Empire: New Books, Sites, and Scales

    Organizer: Sakura Christmas – Bowdoin College

    Chair: Laura Hein – Northwestern University

    Discussant: Hannah Shepherd – Yale University

    Discussant: Holly Stephens – University of Edinburgh

    Discussant: Sakura Christmas – Bowdoin College

    Discussant: Kristin Roebuck – Cornell University

  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1029: Echoes of War: Literary Imaginings from the Sinophone Borderlands
    Organizer: YIDUO AN – Nanyang Technological University
    Chair: Bingbing Shi – Freiburg University
    Paper Presenter: YIDUO AN – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Shuyu Guo – University of Connecticut
    Paper Presenter: Dalu Zhong (he/him/his) – Heidelberg University
    Paper Presenter: Haitao Jia – Kanagawa University
    Discussant: Alison Groppe – University of Oregon
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1030: Prospects of Diasporic Activism Amid Repression and Regression: The Case of Hong Kong

    Organizer: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University

    Chair: Thomas E. E. Kellogg – Georgetown University

    Discussant: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University

    Discussant: Cindy Au – Association of Professional Chaplains

    Discussant: Victoria Hui – University of Notre Dame

    Discussant: Eunice Leong-ming Chan – Lancaster University

    Discussant: Shue Fung Chow – University of British Columbia

  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1031: Teaching Himalayan Art: Pedagogical Challenges and Opportunities

    Organizer: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah

    Chair: Karl Debreczeny – Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

    Discussant: Mariachiara Gasparini – University of Oregon

    Discussant: Janice Glowski – Otterbein University

    Discussant: Karil Kucera – St. Olaf College

    Discussant: Winston C. Kyan – University of Utah

    Discussant: Catherine Stuer – Denison University

  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1032: Embodying Empire: Defining Gendered Medicine and Beauty in Wartime Biomedical Technologies in East Asia
    Organizer: Vicky Hsing (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Chair: Xiaogao Zhou – Bryn Mawr College
    Discussant: Xiaogao Zhou – Bryn Mawr College
    Paper Presenter: Mengmeng Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa
    Paper Presenter: Vicky Hsing (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Tianmeng Lan (they/them/theirs) – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Mya Sato (they/them/theirs) – Columbia University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1033: Ecological Politics of More-than-Human Landscapes in East Asia and Beyond
    Organizer: Yen-ling Tsai (she/her/hers) – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Organizer: Shiho Satsuka (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Chair: Yen-ling Tsai (she/her/hers) – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: Yen-ling Tsai (she/her/hers) – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
    Paper Presenter: Aaron Su (he/him/his) – Colorado College
    Paper Presenter: Jeongsu Shin (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Shiho Satsuka (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto
    Discussant: Eleana Kim (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1034: East Asian Paper Tigers: Unpacking Governance and Governmentality through the Practices of Documents
    Organizer: Hyemin Lee (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Chair: Hyemin Lee (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Paper Presenter: Hyemin Lee (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Discussant: Lan Li (she/they) – Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Presenter: Ina Kim (she/her/hers) – Appalachian State University
    Paper Presenter: Soojin Kim (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Shuting Li (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1035: K-pop, Namtaeryeong, and Far-Right Radicalization: Cultural-political Dynamics in Post-Insurrection Korean Street Politics
    Organizer: Junghyun Nam (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Chair: Pil Ho Kim – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Junghyun Nam (she/her/hers) – George Mason University
    Discussant: Hang Kim – Yonsei University
    Paper Presenter: Jung Hwan Cheon – Sungkyunkwan University
    Paper Presenter: Sang Eun Park – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Manseok Kim
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1036: Dangerous Texts, Dangerous Emotions: Cases from Early Modern and Modern China
    Organizer: Eileen Yiran Zhao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Organizer: Mengdie Zhao – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Scott W. Gregory – University of Arizona
    Discussant: Keith McMahon – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Guojun Wang – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Eileen Yiran Zhao – Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Paper Presenter: Mengdie Zhao – New York University Shanghai
    Paper Presenter: Lennart Riedel – Heidelberg University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1037: Contesting the Idea of China

    Organizer: George Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College

    Chair: jian chen – New York University Shanghai

    Speaker: George Zhijian Qiao – Amherst College

    Book Author: Guoqi Xu – University of Hong Kong

    Speaker: James Millward – Georgetown University

    Speaker: macabe keliher – Southern Methodist University

    Speaker: Lei Ping – The New School

  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1038: Reopening the “Opening of Japan”: Transnational Approaches to Japan and the Wider World
    Organizer: Yu Sakai – University of Cambridge
    Chair: Yu Sakai – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Joel Littler – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Chinami Oka (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Sakai – University of Cambridge
    Discussant: Curtis A. Gayle – Waseda University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1039: Beyond Hype: Use Cases and Evaluations of Artificial Intelligence in East Asian Studies
    Organizer: Wan-Chun Chiu – Kyoto University
    Chair: Wan-Chun Chiu – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Lu Lu – Zhejiang University
    Co-Presenter: Yi Zheng (he/him/his) – Zhejiang University
    Co-Presenter: Yexin Qu – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Chen Tang – Tsinghua University
    Paper Presenter: Kwok-leong Tang – Harvard University
    Digital Technology
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1040: Embodied Inequalities: Cancer, Care, and Labor in Postcolonial Asian Worlds
    Organizer: Shuang Wen (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    Chair: Cecilia Van Hollen – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Shuang Wen (she/her/hers) – New York University Shanghai
    Discussant: Cecilia Van Hollen – Georgetown University
    Paper Presenter: Cynthia Chou (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa
    Paper Presenter: Kavita Sivaramakrishnan – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Linda Bennett (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Co-Presenter: I. Gusti Agung Paramitha Eka Putri (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1041: Alliances, Partnerships, and Networks in East Asia—New Developments in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
    Organizer: Shino Watanabe – Sophia University
    Chair: Chung-min Tsai – National Chengchi University
    Paper Presenter: Shino Watanabe – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Ayako Kusunoki (she/her/hers) – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Paper Presenter: Seung Hyok Lee (he/him/his) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Yuan Hsu – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Chih-shian Liou (she/her/hers) – National Chengchi University
    Northeast Asia
  • 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM PDT
    1042: Digital Foodscapes: Tasting Gender, Heritage, and Visuality across East Asian Diasporas
    Organizer: lian tan, N/A – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Organizer: Muxing Huang (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Chair: Kexin Feng (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: lian tan, N/A – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Co-Presenter: lian tan, N/A – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Kexin Feng (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Muxing Huang (she/her/hers) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Junhong Ma – University of Alberta
    Discussant: Bozuo Zhao – Shantou University
    Co-Presenter: yuan wang – Jinan University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 5:45 PM - 7:25 PM PDT
    MOLA - A Tibetan Tale of Love and Loss
  • 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM PDT
    Society for the Social Science Study of China
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Hong Kong History Centre, University of Bristol
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Indonesia and Timor Leste Studies Group & American Institute for Indonesian Studies Joint Meeting and Social Hour
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    International Research Center for Japanese Studies
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Society for the study of Chinese religions
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Thailand Laos Cambodia Studies Group
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    University of Michigan Asia Centers Reception
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT
    Women in Southeast Asian Social Sciences (WiSEASS)
  • 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
    The PRC History Group/Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China
  • 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
    Islam in China Study Group
  • 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM PDT
    Princeton University
  • 9:00 PM - 12:00 AM PDT
    UC Berkeley Reception
  • 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM PDT
    T'ang Studies Society
  • Sunday, March 15, 2026
  • 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
    Onsite Registration/Badge Pickup Hours
  • 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Exhibit Hall Hours
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1101: Publishing, Collecting, and Remembering: Japan as a Site of Korean Representation and Cultural Production
    Organizer: Sunyoung Kwak – Shizuoka University
    Chair: Hyejin Jo (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Ria Chae – Indiana University
    Paper Presenter: Susan Paige Taylor – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Sunyoung Kwak – Shizuoka University
    Discussant: Kayoung Kim – Aoyama Gakuin University
    Discussant: Hannah Shepherd (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1103: Cultural Entanglements: Multilingualism and Ethnicity Across Administrative, Commemorative, and Theatrical Texts in Mongol Yuan China
    Organizer: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University
    Chair: Shih-pe Wang – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Linda Walton – Portland State University
    Paper Presenter: Johannes Lotze – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Paper Presenter: Patricia Sieber – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Erxin Wang – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Shih-pe Wang – National Taiwan University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1104: Haunting Visions: Re-imaging Korean History and Nation in Transnational Visual Culture
    Organizer: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University
    Organizer: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Chair: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University
    Paper Presenter: Naveen Minai (she/her/hers) – Wesleyan University
    Paper Presenter: Jung Joon Lee (she/her/hers) – Rhode Island School of Design
    Paper Presenter: Hieyoon Kim (she/her/hers) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1105: CANCELED: Liberal Economists and Liberal Economic Ideas in Vietnam
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1106: Constructing Cultural, National, and Religious Identities in the Modern Era: Case Studies of the Chinese (Re-) Shaping of A Modern Buddhism
    Organizer: Joey Yiqiao Yan – Groupe de Sociologie des Religions et de la Laïcité (CNRS/EPHE-PSL)
    Organizer: Todd Klaiman – University of Victoria
    Chair: Philip Wei-li Hsu – National Cheng Kung University
    Paper Presenter: Todd Klaiman – University of Victoria
    Discussant: Justin Stein – Kwantlen Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Qinqin Peng – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    Paper Presenter: Ying-Chun Lin (she/her/hers) – Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1107: Sustaining Southeast Asian Languages in Precarious Times: Crisis, Resistance, and Reimagination - Sponsored by COTSEAL (The Council of Teachers of Southeast Asian Languages)

    Organizer: Juliana Wijaya – University of California, Los Angeles

    Chair: Juliana Wijaya – University of California, Los Angeles

    Discussant: . Agustini – University of Michigan

    Discussant: Chan Lwin – Arizona State University

    Discussant: Chhany Sak-Humphry – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Jayson Parba – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Thúy Tranviet – Cornell University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1108: Roots of the Rakyat: Counter-Ecologies and Epistemes in Southeast Asia

    Organizer: Jasmine Gui – York University

    Organizer: Zhi Ming Sim – York University

    Chair: Jasmine Gui – York University

    Discussant: Zhi Ming Sim – York University

    Discussant: Joanne Leow – Simon Fraser University

    Discussant: Vince Ha – Queen's University

    Discussant: Romila ‎ – Simon Fraser University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1109: New Sources, Methodologies, and Perspectives on North Korea-China Relations, 1940s–60s
    Organizer: Claudius Kyung Yeob Kim – University of Texas at Austin
    Chair: Andre Schmid (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Paper Presenter: Claudius Kyung Yeob Kim – University of Texas at Austin
    Discussant: Adam Cathcart – University of Leeds
    Paper Presenter: Haeyoung Kim – San Francisco State University
    Paper Presenter: Hao Chen – University of Virginia
    Paper Presenter: Gregg Brazinsky – George Washington University
    Northeast Asia-Korea Focused
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1110: Constructing Socialism: State-Building and Governance in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1954-1975 - Sponsored by Vietnam Studies Group
    Organizer: Johnny Zhen – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Christopher Goscha – Université du Québec à Montréal
    Paper Presenter: Uyen T. Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Alec Holcombe – Ohio University
    Paper Presenter: Hai-Chung Pham (she/her/hers) – British University Vietnam
    Paper Presenter: Johnny Zhen – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Pierre Asselin – San Diego State University
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1111: Childhoods at the Intersection of Literature and Education in Japan
    Organizer: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Chair: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Pieter Van Lommel (he/him/his) – Tokyo Keizai University
    Paper Presenter: Melek S. Ortabasi (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Joelle Nazzicone (she/her/hers) – Kyoritsu Women's University
    Paper Presenter: Hyoseak (Stephen) Choi – Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1112: Japan Beyond the Sinosphere, c. 250–1250
    Organizer: Ethan D. Bushelle – Western Washington University
    Chair: Jeffrey Niedermaier – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Ethan D. Bushelle – Western Washington University
    Paper Presenter: Abigail MacBain (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh
    Paper Presenter: James Morris – National Institutes for the Humanities
    Paper Presenter: Jeffrey Niedermaier – Brown University
    Discussant: Sujung Kim – Johns Hopkins University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1113: Decolonizing Cold War Histories in Mainland Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Sinae Hyun (she/her/hers) – Inha University
    Organizer: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University
    Chair: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University
    Paper Presenter: Sinae Hyun (she/her/hers) – Inha University
    Paper Presenter: Hisashi Shimojo (he/him/his) – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Tatsuki Kataoka (he/him/his) – Kyoto University
    Paper Presenter: Taylor M. Easum (he/him/his) – Indiana State University
    Southeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1114: Gender and Chinese Politics Across Three Generations: Scholarly Evolutions and New Frontiers

    Organizer: Kimberley PW Manning – Concordia University

    Chair: Manon Laurent – Collège de France

    Discussant: WANG Zheng – University of Michigan

    Discussant: Bohong Liu – China Women's University

    Discussant: Xiajuan Guo – Zhejiang University

    Discussant: Xinhui Jiang – Nanjing University

    Discussant: Xiaoxia Huang – Syracuse University

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1115: Brains, Bodies, and Economies in the Age of Computation
    Organizer: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Chair: Victor Seow (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Ulug Kuzuoglu – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Discussant: Victor Seow (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Xuenan Cao (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Yize Hu (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: Yue Zhao (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1116: Failure, Interruption and Delay: Media Infrastructures from the Perspectives of China and Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Organizer: Elmo Gonzaga (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Carlos Rojas – Duke University
    Paper Presenter: Yu Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Paper Presenter: Elmo Gonzaga (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Shaoling Ma – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Paola Iovene – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Cindy Lin – Georgia Institute of Technology
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1117: Places Without History? Ambivalence and Paradoxes in Urban Asian Development Narratives
    Organizer: Dodom Kim – Sophia University
    Chair: Dodom Kim – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Dodom Kim – Sophia University
    Discussant: Jenny Chio – University of Southern California
    Paper Presenter: Josh Babcock (he/him/his) – Brown University
    Paper Presenter: Meng-Hsuan Lee (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Zhiyan Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1118: Language and Strategic Belonging in the Shadow of the Chinese State
    Organizer: Shannon Ward (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Shamo Thar (she/her/hers) – Columbia University/ SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Shamo Thar (she/her/hers) – Columbia University/ SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: James C. Meador – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Bendi Tso – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Sabrina Wu – University of Toronto
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1119: Reconceptualizing the Secularization of Suffering Across Asia: From the 15th Century to the Present
    Organizer: Chien-Cho Chan (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Jessica Starling (she/her/hers) – Lewis & Clark College
    Paper Presenter: Chien-Cho Chan (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Jack Jiang (he/him/his) – The New School
    Paper Presenter: Sonia Yuhui Zhang (she/her/hers) – The New School
    Paper Presenter: George Bobyk (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Jessica Starling (she/her/hers) – Lewis & Clark College
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1120: Redefining Girlhood and Womanhood in East Asian Manga and Webtoons
    Organizer: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Deborah Shamoon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Jon Holt (he/him/his) – Portland State University
    Paper Presenter: Heekyoung Cho (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Jamie J. Zhao (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1121: Reimagining Chinese Diasporic Spaces: A Linguistic Landscape Perspective
    Organizer: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Xiaofang Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Carl Kubler – Carnegie Mellon University
    Discussant: Hee Sook Lee-Niinioja – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Xinyu Li (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Xu – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Zhaowei Yin (he/him/his) – University of Glasgow
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1122: Movement and Therapeutics in South Asia

    Organizer: Shagufta Bhangu – King's College London

    Organizer: katyayni seth – Brown University

    Chair: sarah pinto – Tufts University

    Discussant: Shagufta Bhangu – King's College London

    Discussant: katyayni seth – Brown University

    Discussant: Mauricio Najarro – King's College London

    Discussant: Lawrence Cohen – University of California, Berkeley

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1123: Voice, Number, and Memory: Rethinking Democratization with China
    Organizer: Shoufu Yin – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Hsin-hsin Pan (she/her/hers) – Soochow University
    Paper Presenter: Siyen Fei – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Shoufu Yin – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Leigh Jenco – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Simon Sihang Luo – Nanyang Technological University
    Discussant: Mark E. Warren (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1125: PRC Propaganda across Platforms and Beyond Borders
    Organizer: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Chair: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Paper Presenter: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Discussant: Liz Carter (she/her/hers) – Vassar College
    Paper Presenter: Magnus Fiskesjo – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Duoji Jiang – Columbia Business School
    Paper Presenter: Wanning Sun (she/her/hers) – University of Technology Sydney
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1126: Constructing the Cosmos: Religious World-Building in East Asian Art and Architecture
    Organizer: Michael Norton (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Organizer: Jesse LeFebvre (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Wei-cheng Lin (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: Wei-cheng Lin (he/him/his) – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Maya K. Stiller – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Michael Norton (he/him/his) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Jesse LeFebvre (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1127: Writing as Their Own Readers: Authorship, Multisensory Experience, and Knowledge Flow in Ming China’s Book World
    Organizer: Yiqing Liu (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Chair: Richard Pegg (he/him/his) – MacLean Collection
    Paper Presenter: Yuanzhi Liao (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Paper Presenter: Yiqing Liu (she/her/hers) – KU Leuven
    Paper Presenter: Deyi Zhang (he/him/his) – Nanjing University
    Paper Presenter: Yung-Fang Hsu (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Elke Papelitzky (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Discussant: Ji Hao (he/him/his) – College of the Holy Cross
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1128: Politics of Knowledge in Times of Transition: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on China and Its Broader Entanglements

    Organizer: Mara Y. Du – Cornell University

    Chair: Joanna Waley-Cohen – New York University Shanghai

    Discussant: Yiwen Li – City University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Dominic Sachsenmaier – University of Gottingen

    Discussant: Mara Y. Du – Cornell University

    Discussant: Taomo Zhou – National University of Singapore

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1129: Choreographing National Identities: The Embodied Politics of Post-Socialist China and Post-Authoritarian South Korea
    Organizer: Dahye Lee (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center
    Chair: Tara Rodman – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Yizhou Huang – Barnard College
    Paper Presenter: Dahye Lee (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center
    Paper Presenter: Yao Xu (she/her/hers) – Temple University
    Discussant: Tara Rodman – University of California, Irvine
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1131: Is the Future of Uyghur Studies Archival?

    Organizer: Rachel Harris – SOAS University of London

    Chair: Rachel Harris – SOAS University of London

    Discussant: Rian Thum – University of Manchester

    Discussant: Jun Sugawara – Independent Scholar

    Discussant: Joshua Freeman – Brown University

    Discussant: Mukaddas Mijit – Université Libre de Bruxelles

  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1132: Mediating the Occupation: Radio, Typography, and Landscape in Postwar Japan and Korea
    Organizer: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler
    Chair: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler
    Paper Presenter: Emily Cole (she/they) – University of Texas at Tyler
    Paper Presenter: Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine
    Paper Presenter: Akinobu Matsumoto (he/him/his) – Waseda University, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Columbia University
    Discussant: Franziska Seraphim (she/her/hers) – Boston College
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1133: Merely from “West” to “East”? Knowledge Transfer and Transfiguration in Late Cold War East Asia
    Organizer: Manyong Moon (he/him/his) – Chonbuk National University
    Organizer: Max Altenhofen (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University
    Chair: John P. DiMoia – Seoul National University
    Paper Presenter: Kuo-Hui Chang (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University
    Paper Presenter: Manyong Moon (he/him/his) – Chonbuk National University
    Paper Presenter: Dahye Jeong (she/her/hers) – Korea University
    Paper Presenter: Max Altenhofen (he/him/his) – Sungkyunkwan University
    Discussant: John P. DiMoia – Seoul National University
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1134: Material Culture and Practices in China and Taiwan
    Chair: Marc Andre Matten (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
    Presenting Author: Yiying YAO (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Presenting Author: Yin Cai – University of Chicago
    Presenting Author: Wuyutong Yao (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Presenting Author: Qingyi Zhang – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    Presenting Author: DENG Haoxian (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Baptist University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1135: Rethinking the Cultural Revolution: Art, Politics, and Radicalism in 1960s’ China, Eastern Europe, and the Global South
    Organizer: Chien-Wen Kung (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Chair: Els van Dongen – Nanyang Technological University
    Discussant: Els van Dongen – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Minerva Inwald – University of Melbourne
    Paper Presenter: James Evans – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Chien-Wen Kung (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Matthew Galway – Australian National University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1136: Reading as Remaking: Literary Agency and the Afterlives of Chinese Texts
    Organizer: Niping Yan (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Chair: Bruce Rusk (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Niping Yan (she/her/hers) – University of Macau
    Paper Presenter: Kejian Shi – Washington University in Saint Louis
    Paper Presenter: Wei SI – Chongqing University
    Paper Presenter: Mengxiao Wang – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Ren-Yuan Li – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1137: Reconstructing Gendered Identity through Spatial Divide and Artistic Expression in Late Imperial China
    Organizer: Manning Chan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Organizer: Yiqing Ran (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Chair: Yulian Wu – Michigan State University
    Discussant: Madeleine Dong (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Ya-Hui Cheng (she/her/hers) – University of South Florida
    Paper Presenter: Jing Zhang – New College of Florida
    Paper Presenter: Manning Chan (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz
    Paper Presenter: Yiqing Ran (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1138: Reinterpreting Law in the People’s Republic of China
    Organizer: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Chair: Ying Zhang – Leiden Institute of Area Studies
    Paper Presenter: Juan Wang – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Sida Liu – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Qian Liu – University of Calgary
    Paper Presenter: Jacques deLisle – University of Pennsylvania
    Discussant: Ying Zhang – Leiden Institute of Area Studies
    Discussant: Ji Li – University of California, Irvine
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1139: Remaking the Book in Medieval East Asia
    Organizer: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Chair: Xiaofei Tian – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Devin Fitzgerald – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Heng Du – Wellesley College
    Paper Presenter: Jonathan Pettit – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Discussant: Kay Duffy (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1140: Migration in East Asia from the Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries: Circulating Religion, Knowledge, and Localized Networks
    Organizer: Gregory Sattler – University of California, Los Angeles
    Chair: Mikael Adolphson – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Gregory Sattler – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Lina Nie (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University
    Paper Presenter: Graeme R. Reynolds (he/him/his) – University of Southern California
    Discussant: Thomas Conlan – Princeton University
    Northeast Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1141: Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part I
    Organizer: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Chair: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Paper Presenter: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Discussant: David Bello (he/him/his) – Washington & Lee University
    Paper Presenter: Cameron Foltz (he/him/his) – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: David Porter (he/him/his) – McGill University
    Paper Presenter: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    1142: New Research Frontiers from the History of Sino-Japanese Relations—WWII through the Era of Reform and Opening Up
    Organizer: Barak Kushner – University of Cambridge
    Organizer: Motoya Nakamura (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Chair: Barak Kushner – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Masahito Kaneko (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Sanae Yamaguchi (she/her/hers) – Keio University
    Paper Presenter: On I Lam (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Discussant: Motoya Nakamura (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Masaya Inoue (he/him/his) – Keio University
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1201: Staging, Drawing, and Narrating Empire: Japanese Imperial Discourse Across Transregional Media
    Organizer: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University
    Chair: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Jiahui Zhang (they/them/theirs) – Kobe University
    Co-Presenter: mengda jiang – Good Shepherd United Church of Christ
    Paper Presenter: Wenhsin Yu – Kobe University
    Paper Presenter: Jianing Li – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Xuefei Luo (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Satoru Hashimoto (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1202: Crisis, Cosmology, and Historical Consciousness in Late Edo and Early Meiji Japan
    Organizer: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University
    Chair: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Brian Platt (he/him/his) – George Mason University
    Paper Presenter: Nobuko Toyosawa – Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
    Paper Presenter: Yusuke Furuhata – Dokkyo University
    Paper Presenter: Morgaine Setzer-Mori (she/her/hers) – Ruhr-Universitat Bochum
    Discussant: Timon Screech – International Research Center for Japanese Studies
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1203: Repression and Representation: Indonesia’s Pluralism Challenges

    Organizer: Irene Poetranto – The Citizen Lab

    Chair: Edbert Gani Suryahudaya – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Edbert Gani Suryahudaya – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Jacques Bertrand – University of Toronto

    Discussant: Alexandre Pelletier – Université Laval

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1204: Convergence of AI and Popular Culture: Cultural Perspectives
    Organizer: Dal Yong Jin (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University
    Chair: Kyong Yoon (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Dal Yong Jin (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Pei-Sze Chow (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University
    Paper Presenter: Takao Terui (he/him/his) – Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
    Paper Presenter: Qiaoyu Cai (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1205: Reflections on Feminist Knowledge-Making in Burma Studies - Sponsored by Burma Studies Group

    Organizer: Jenny Hedström – Swedish Defence Univeristy

    Organizer: Chie Ikeya – Rutgers University

    Chair: Jenny Hedström – Swedish Defence Univeristy

    Discussant: Chie Ikeya – Rutgers University

    Discussant: Khin Khin Mra – Manchester University

    Discussant: Emily Hue – University of California, Riverside

    Discussant: Tharapi Than – Northern Illinois University

    Discussant: MK Long – Dartmouth College

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1206: Queering Aging in East Asia: Beyond Care, Crisis, and Kinship
    Organizer: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas
    Chair: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas
    Paper Presenter: Eun Ah Cho – University of Kansas
    Discussant: Nam Lee – Chapman University
    Paper Presenter: Hee-seung Irene Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Auckland
    Paper Presenter: Yeori Park – Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics, Hanyang University College of Medicine
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1207: Reversing the Gaze: Southeast Asia as the Critical Mirror in Global Japanese Studies - Sponsored by AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC)

    Organizer: Vilashini Somiah – University of Malaya

    Organizer: Kisho Tsuchiya – Kyoto University

    Chair: Kisho Tsuchiya – Kyoto University

    Discussant: Tian Jing Teh – University of Southern California

    Discussant: Dom Roongruang – Kyoto University

    Discussant: Hazman M.B. Baharom – Waseda University

    Discussant: Ma. Christina A. Cañones – Ateneo de Zamboanga University

    Discussant: Thaw Dar – Japan Foundation

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1208: Practicing Political Ecology: Fieldschool Pedagogies and Politics in Southeast Asia

    Organizer: Ming Li Yong – Singapore University of Social Sciences

    Organizer: Ian Baird – University of Wisconsin-Madison

    Chair: Tani H. Sebro – California Polytechnic State University

    Discussant: Mary Mostafanezhad – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Areerat Worawongwasu – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Micah Fisher – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

    Discussant: Nick Kontogeorgopoulos – University of Puget Sound

    Discussant: Chaya Vaddhanaphuti – Chiang Mai University

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1209: Rethinking Gender and Family: Migration Dynamics in and from East Asia
    Organizer: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield
    Chair: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield
    Paper Presenter: Sojin Yu – University of Sheffield
    Paper Presenter: Mati Choi (she/her/hers) – Chonnam National University
    Co-Presenter: Julia Jiwon Shin – Chonnam National University
    Paper Presenter: Tori Yang – University of British Columbia
    Discussant: Siyuan Yin – Simon Fraser University
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1210: Rethinking Militarism and Mobilization in World War II in Asia
    Organizer: Jeremy A. Yellen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Rana Mitter (he/him/his) – Harvard Kennedy School
    Paper Presenter: Yuting Dong – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Kirsten L. Ziomek – Adelphi University
    Paper Presenter: Kelly Hammond – University of Arkansas
    Paper Presenter: Jeremy A. Yellen – Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1211: Rethinking Settler Colonialism in the Japanese Empire and Cold War Northeast Asia
    Organizer: Michael Roellinghoff (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Chair: Wendy Matsumura (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Michael Roellinghoff (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong
    Discussant: Wendy Matsumura (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Hyesong Lim (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Asako Masubuchi (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University
    Paper Presenter: Kyrie Vermette (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia
    Northeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1212: Individuality in Ancient Japanese Women’s Poetry
    Organizer: Lise Bénézet (she/her/hers) – Université Paris Cité
    Organizer: Axel Michel (he/him/his) – École Pratique des Hautes Études
    Chair: Ivo Smits – Leiden University
    Discussant: Ivo Smits – Leiden University
    Paper Presenter: Danica Truscott (she/her/hers) – Harvard University
    Paper Presenter: Lise Bénézet (she/her/hers) – Université Paris Cité
    Paper Presenter: Axel Michel (he/him/his) – École Pratique des Hautes Études
    Paper Presenter: Eric Esteban (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1213: Intellectual Curiosity Beyond Boundaries: Alternative Channels of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan
    Organizer: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Organizer: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Chair: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University
    Paper Presenter: Maki Nakai (she/her/hers) – Waseda University
    Paper Presenter: Mijin Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Ulsan
    Paper Presenter: Margarita Winkel (she/her/hers) – Leiden University
    Discussant: Fumiko Kobayashi (she/her/hers) – Hosei University
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1214: Japan in the Russian Civil War: Rethinking the Siberian Intervention (1918-1922)—In homage to Paul Dunscomb
    Organizer: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Chair: Frederick R. Dickinson (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Danny Orbach – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Discussant: Frederick R. Dickinson (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Nadine B. Willems – University of East Anglia
    Paper Presenter: Paul D. Barclay – Lafayette College
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1215: Sacred Island, Worldly Realities: Post-War Buddhism in Sri Lanka

    Organizer: Anushka S. Kahandagama – Harvard University

    Organizer: Tyler A. Lehrer – Virginia Wesleyan University

    Chair: Prabhath Sirisena – Independent Scholar

    Discussant: Tharupathi Munasinghe – University of Melbourne

    Discussant: Catherine M. West – Deakin University

    Discussant: Jessica A. Albrecht – Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Discussant: Anushka S. Kahandagama – Harvard University

    Discussant: Tyler A. Lehrer – Virginia Wesleyan University

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1216: Complexities and Methodological Challenges in Knowledge Production: Testimonies from Indigenous Researchers from South Asia

    Organizer: Rosie Rai – Kathmandu University

    Chair: Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: anudeep Dewan – University of British Columbia

    Discussant: dinalo Chakma – University of Florida

    Discussant: Parboti Roy – University of British Columbia

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1217: Decolonization and Diplomacy in Cold War Southeast Asia
    Organizer: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Chair: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Christian C. Lentz (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Discussant: Asra Virgianita (she/her/hers) – University of Indonesia
    Discussant: Ardhitya Eduard Yeremia (he/him/his) – Universitas Indonesia
    Paper Presenter: Mike Hawkins (he/him/his) – University of Michigan
    Paper Presenter: Zardas Lee (they/them/theirs) – Saint Mary's College
    Paper Presenter: Naoko Shimazu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Southeast Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1218: Recovering Marginalized Voices in Modern Asian History
    Organizer: Vivian Kong (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Chair: Thomas M. Larkin (he/him/his) – University of Prince Edward Island
    Paper Presenter: Vivian Kong (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol
    Paper Presenter: Catherine Ladds – Hong Kong Baptist University
    Paper Presenter: Dien Min Loong (she/her/hers) – Yale University
    Discussant: Gina Anne Tam (she/her/hers) – Trinity University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1219: Beyond Rescue: Reframing Sex Work and Trafficking in Asia
    Organizer: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Chair: Rohit Dasgupta (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Sharmila Parmanand (she/her/hers) – London School of Economics and Political Science
    Paper Presenter: Chihiro Toya (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Eunbi Lee (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Paper Presenter: Pankhuri Agarwal (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    Discussant: Yasmin Y. Ortiga (she/her/hers) – Singapore Management University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1220: New Methods, New Materials: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Ethnic Imagination and National Belonging in Contemporary China

    Organizer: Jing Qiu – Jinan University

    Chair: Jing Qiu – Jinan University

    Book Author: Yanshuo Zhang – Pomona College

    Speaker: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary

    Speaker: Rui Jie Peng – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Speaker: Jannis Jizhou Chen – Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Speaker: Susan K. McCarthy – Providence College

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1221: Inter-Asia Intermediality: Creative Labor, Co-Production, and Outsourcing

    Organizer: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Organizer: Brian Bernards – University of Southern California

    Chair: Elmo Gonzaga – Chinese University of Hong Kong

    Discussant: Brian Bernards – University of Southern California

    Discussant: Junting Huang – Binghamton University, SUNY

    Discussant: Bliss Cua Lim – University of Toronto

  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1222: Resonant Thought: Early Chinese Texts and Their Soundscapes
    Organizer: Avital Rom (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Organizer: Gian Duri Rominger (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Chair: Lisa Indraccolo (she/her/hers) – Tallinn University
    Discussant: David C. Schaberg (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Paper Presenter: Avital Rom (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge
    Paper Presenter: Gian Duri Rominger (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Paper Presenter: Oscar Qiu Jun Zheng (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1224: Chinese Labor in Diaspora: Gender, Identity, and the Bamboo Ceiling in the Modern World Economy
    Organizer: Anna Zhang (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University
    Chair: Carl Kubler – Carnegie Mellon University
    Discussant: Carl Kubler – Carnegie Mellon University
    Paper Presenter: Anna Zhang (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University
    Paper Presenter: Shunan You – Northeastern University
    Paper Presenter: David Kwok Kwan Tsoi – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Maria Ryabova – University of Pittsburgh
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1225: Sporting Bodies, Shifting Borders: Reimagining Sports in Asia
    Organizer: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Chair: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Discussant: Paul Pickowicz – University of California, San Diego
    Paper Presenter: Rachael Joo (she/her/hers) – Middlebury College
    Paper Presenter: Yichun Huang (she/her/hers) – National Taiwan Sport University
    Paper Presenter: Le Tao – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Ying Guo (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1226: State Power and Administration in China’s Southern Frontier
    Organizer: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Chair: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Thùy Lan Thị Thùy Đỗ (she/her/hers) – Vietnam National University
    Paper Presenter: Joshua Herr – DePauw University
    Paper Presenter: Sean T. Keenan (he/him/his) – University of California, Riverside
    Paper Presenter: Aimee Pizarchik (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago
    Discussant: C. Patterson Giersch (he/him/his) – Wellesley College
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1227: Stowaway, Study-Abroad, and Human Trafficking: The Ordeals of Early Japanese Migrants to the U.S. and Beyond
    Organizer: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Chair: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Haruko Wakabayashi (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University
    Paper Presenter: Miya Shichinohe-Suga (she/her/hers) – Tokyo Gakugei University
    Paper Presenter: Manako Ogawa (she/her/hers) – Ritsumeikan University
    Discussant: John Van Sant (he/him/his) – University of Alabama, Birmingham
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1228: Taking History Personally: Reflections on Biography in Asian Studies
    Organizer: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Chair: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Paper Presenter: Kristin Stapleton (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Discussant: Zhiyi Yang (she/her/hers) – Goethe University
    Paper Presenter: Audrey Truschke (she/her/hers) – Rutgers University-Newark
    Paper Presenter: Chunmei Du (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University
    Paper Presenter: Yunte Huang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1229: The Building of Modern Bureaucracy in East Asia
    Organizer: Wei Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Chair: Lars P. Laamann (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Lars P. Laamann (he/him/his) – SOAS University of London
    Paper Presenter: Wei Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Oslo
    Paper Presenter: W. Puck Brecher – Washington State University
    Discussant: Jeffrey Newmark (he/him/his) – University of Winnipeg
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1230: The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Asian Solidarities in a Time of Global Struggles
    Organizer: Yawen Li (she/they/her/hers/them/theirs) – King's College London
    Organizer: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough
    Chair: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough
    Paper Presenter: Ajay Bhardwaj (he/him/his) – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Yawen Li (she/they/her/hers/them/theirs) – King's College London
    Paper Presenter: Anup Grewal (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Scarborough
    Paper Presenter: Tracy Ying Zhang (she/her/hers) – York University
    Co-Presenter: Chikako Nagayama (she/her/hers) – Nagoya University
    Discussant: Adhira Mangalagiri (she/her/hers) – New York University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1231: Intimacies of Empire and Nation-Building across Asia and Latin America
    Organizer: Shannon M. Welch (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Chair: Sidney Lu (he/him/his) – Rice University
    Paper Presenter: Shannon M. Welch (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Evan Fernández – Boston College
    Paper Presenter: Seth Jacobowitz – Independent Scholar
    Paper Presenter: Andre Kobayashi Deckrow (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
    Discussant: Sidney Lu (he/him/his) – Rice University
    Border Crossing/Inter-Area
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1232: The Undercurrent: Empowerment and Reconfiguration of Marginal Discourses in Late Imperial China
    Organizer: Zhijun Ren (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Zhijun Ren (he/him/his) – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Moxuan Luo – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Guangzhou)
    Paper Presenter: Xintong Wang – University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: Ning Xu – Tsinghua University
    Discussant: Yixuan Cai – Randolph-Macon College
    Discussant: Viren Murthy – University of Wisconsin-Madison
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1233: The Worlds of Chinese Furniture: Makers, Materials, and Expertise
    Organizer: Jennifer Altehenger (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Chair: Anne Gerritsen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Discussant: Anne Gerritsen (she/her/hers) – University of Warwick
    Discussant: Yao Wu – Peabody Essex Museum
    Paper Presenter: Kyoungjin Bae – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Paper Presenter: Di Liu – University of Oxford
    Paper Presenter: Jennifer Altehenger (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1234: Rethinking Gendered Bodies: Women’s Health and Contested Medical Authority in Chinese History (900s-1930s)
    Organizer: Yating Li (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Chair: Yi-Li Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
    Discussant: Joan Judge – York University
    Paper Presenter: Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
    Paper Presenter: Jingya Guo – Cornell University
    Paper Presenter: Yating Li (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    Paper Presenter: Ling Ma – SUNY Geneseo
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1235: Rethinking the Labor of Culture in Socialist China and Beyond
    Organizer: Feifan Li – University of Chicago
    Chair: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    Discussant: Rebecca Karl – New York University
    Paper Presenter: Alissa Elegant (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University
    Paper Presenter: Feifan Li – University of Chicago
    Paper Presenter: Yucong Hao – Vanderbilt University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1236: Rivers and Deserts: Space, Time, and Environmental Histories of Frontiers in North and Northwest China
    Organizer: Yuan Gao (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University
    Organizer: Peng Hai – University of Pittsburgh
    Chair: Tomoko Shiroyama – University of Tokyo
    Paper Presenter: Yuan Gao (she/her/hers) – Case Western Reserve University
    Paper Presenter: Peng Hai – University of Pittsburgh
    Paper Presenter: Tristan Brown – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Paper Presenter: Matthew King – University of California, Riverside
    Discussant: Sakura Christmas – Bowdoin College
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1237: Science, Material Culture, and Everyday Life in Modern East Asia
    Organizer: Leo Chu – University of New South Wales
    Chair: Eugenia Lean – Columbia University
    Paper Presenter: Leo Chu – University of New South Wales
    Paper Presenter: Yu-Hsuan Jade Wang (she/her/hers) – History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Paper Presenter: Lejie Zeng – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
    Discussant: Jia-Chen Fu – Academia Sinica
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1238: Societal Mobilization and Statecraft in Communist China: From Revolution to Pandemic
    Organizer: YuanChong Wang (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Chair: Jeremy Brown – Simon Fraser University
    Paper Presenter: Yi Ren (she/her/hers) – University of Arkansas, Little Rock
    Paper Presenter: YuanChong Wang (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
    Paper Presenter: Yan Long – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Jeremy Brown – Simon Fraser University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1239: Re-sizing the Qing Empire: The Effects of Distance on Borderland Formation, Part II
    Organizer: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    Chair: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    Discussant: Lan Wu (she/her/hers) – Mount Holyoke College
    Paper Presenter: Austin M. Hudgins (he/him/his) – Princeton University
    Paper Presenter: Jin Peng (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong
    Paper Presenter: George Remisovsky (he/him/his) – Yale University
    East & Inner Asia
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM PDT
    1240: Military Power, Imperial Authority, and Claims to Overseas Sovereignty in the Toyotomi Regime of Late Sixteenth-century Japan
    Organizer: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Chair: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Kizaki Braddick (he/him/his)
    Paper Presenter: Nam-lin Hur (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia
    Paper Presenter: Tim R. Romans (he/him/his)
    Discussant: Rebekah Clements (she/her/hers) – Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
    Northeast Asia-Japan Focused