Full Schedule

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Power, Piety, and Patronage: Political and Royal Actors in Buddhist Diplomacy

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

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

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

Discussant: William Long (he/him/his) – Georgia State University

Discussant: Ruizhong Choo – National University of Singapore

Discussant: David Geary (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Chien-peng Chung – Lingnan University

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

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Building a Legacy: Canadian Visions and Formations of Chinese Art Collections

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

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, N/A (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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Collecting for Knowledge: Bishop William C. White and the Making of Chinese Studies in Canada

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Kara Kaifang Ma (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: The Circulation of Chinese Art in Imperial Networks: Norman Mackenzie’s Chinese Art Collection

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Sisi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Regina

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Collecting the Collectors: Shaping a Chinese Legacy at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Heng Wu, N/A (she/her/hers) – Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Art as a Bridge: Reflecting the Essence of Chinese Culture in the Mactaggart Collection

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Isabel Pifen Chueh (she/her/hers) – University of Alberta Museums

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

A Sustainable Future of Japanese Studies: Canada’s Perspective and Direction

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Organizer: Ayeshwini Lama (she/her/hers) – Japan Foundation, Toronto

Organizer: Noriko Yamamoto (she/her/hers) – 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 (he/him/his) – Université de l’Ontario français

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Borrowing and Rejecting: China and the Soviet Models

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Beyond the Soviet Model—Min Naida and the Global Networks of Early Chinese Computing, 1949-1966

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Julia Zhou – Yale University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Defining Science: Soviet Influence on the Study of Geography in China, 1950-1953

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Sophia Charles – Peking University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Rejecting the Soviet Nationality Model: Why the Chinese Communists Opted for Ethnic Minority Autonomous Regions

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Tomer Nisimov – Princeton University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Beyond Confrontation: Everyday Aesthetic Resistance in Sinophone Communities

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Border Spectatorship and the Performance of Dissent: Watching an Unfinished Film on Kinmen

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Yu-ning Liu (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: The Politics of the “Bigger Picture”: How Sexual Violence Claims Are Framed, Challenged, or Silenced in Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Yung-Ying Chang – Rutgers University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Intimate Worlds, Invisible Wars: Feeling and Control in the BL Crackdown

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Eugene Yuchin Chen – University of Texas at Austin

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: From Halloween Streets to Academic Bars: Ritualized Ambiguity as Tactical Performance in Post-2023 China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Tianding He (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Beyond Its Usefulness: Rethinking Horses in Early Chinese Funeral Practices, Veterinary Care, and Transcultural Forms

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Animal Vitality in Early China: Healing Horses and the Conception of Life in Manuscripts and Ritual Texts

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Fang Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Horses and Chariots as Grave Goods in the Guo State Necropolis During the Zhou Dynasty

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Tsz-yan Ho (she/her/hers) – École française d'Extrême-Orient, École Pratique des Hautes Études

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Naming of the Eight Steeds in Mutianzizhuan and Its Cultural Implications

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Chin-hau Lei (he/him/his) – Education University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The “Horn” of the Celestial Horse: The Origin and Evolution of the Forelock Ornamentation During the Han-Jin Period

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Tianyu Zhou (he/him/his) – Freie Universität Berlin

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Beyond the Cold War: Early and Late Colonial Film Censorship in Hong Kong

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Organizer: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh – 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 – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: From Control to National Security: Colonial Film Censorship in Hong Kong (1908-1930)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh – Lingnan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Haunting Power: Ghost Busting and Spectral Resistance in Colonial and National Cantonese Cinema

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Kenny Ng – Hong Kong Baptist University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Interrelation of Political and Moral Censorship in Handover Era Hong Kong

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Kristof Van den Troost (he/him/his) – Chinese University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Bodies in Transition: Gender, Space, and the Crisis of Cosmopolitanism in Republican Shanghai

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Rooftop Waitresses and the Gendered Edges of Modernity in Republican Shanghai

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Bozhou Men (she/her/hers) – Fudan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: From Demonized to Politicized: Cross-Dressing Prostitutes in Republican Shanghai

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Yun Liu – Shanghai International Studies University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: “How I Wish Heaven Could Turn Me into a Woman Instantly!”: Zhou Shoujuan (1895-1968) and the Vogue of Male to Female Cross-Dressing in Early Republican China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Xiaorong Li – University of California, Santa Barbara

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Buddhist Sacred Space: Material, Visual, and Ritual Constructions

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

Sponsored By Association for Chinese Art History

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Formation of Esoteric Buddhist Practice and Sacred Space: The uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Belief in Tang China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Yuchen LIOU (she/her/hers) – Ghent University/National Chengchi university

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Pagodas in Southern Burials: Ascendance to the Heavenly Realm

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Jinchao Zhao (she/her/hers) – Tongji University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Reconfiguring Commemorative Space: Dharani Sutra Pillars in the Wuyue Kingdom (907–978)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Jiayi Zhu (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Inscribing the Vinaya: Text, Space, and Ritual in Mogao Cave 196

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Zixuan WANG (she/her/hers) – Lanzhou University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Era: Insights from Two Duke University Press Journals

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim, Suite 1

Organizer: Yuefan (Ivy) Wang (she/her/hers) – University of Macau

Organizer: Jing Chen (she/her/hers) – 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 (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Discussant: Rob Dilworth – Duke University Press

Discussant: Cheng Sudong – Peking University

Digital Technology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Linking Nations, Changing Lives: The BRI’s Daily Influence in South Asian Communities

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

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

1: BRI’s Health Bridge: How Yunnan’s Medical Education Shapes Healthcare Practice in South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: SHABBIR GHULAM (he/him/his) – Yunnan University

South Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Coal, Civilization, and Community at Harappa: Decolonizing Heritage Futures in a Climate-Vulnerable Landscape

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: KOMAL NIAZI (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University

South Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Heavy Metals and Chemical Contaminants in CPEC-Supplied Processed Foods: A Health Risk Assessment

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: AMJAD ALI (he/him/his) – Government College University Faisalabad

South Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: How Local Women Affected by Tourism Development Under the Belt and Road Initiative: A Case Study of Gwadar and Gilgit Region

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: SAJID ALI (he/him/his) – Yunnan University

South Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Consent and Sexual Violence in Transnational East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Organizer: Allison Alexy (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Chair: Allison Alexy (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Paper Presenter: Yutaka Yoshida – 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

1: Therapeutic but Toxic Spaces: Romance Fraud Victimization from a Psychosocial Perspective

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Yutaka Yoshida – Cardiff University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Culture, Immigration, and Acculturation: Shaping IPV and Help-Seeking Among Chinese Immigrant Women in Canada

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Yun-Lin Wang (she/her/hers) – Concordia University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: “My Mother Was Sold and My Father Bought Her”: Transnational Trafficking and Temporal Rupture for Chinese-Born Children of North Korean Women

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Noël Um-Lo – Columbia University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: I Just Didn’t Do It: Accusations of Violence in Transnational Custody Disputes

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Allison Alexy (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Aquatic Histories: Water in the Social, Cultural, and Environmental Memory of India

Location: VCC, Room 109

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

Discussant: Sandesh Wagh, Sr. – University of Mumbai

South Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Research Creation and Ecopoetics in the Southeast Asian Diaspora

Location: VCC, Room 110

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

1: “A Littoral of Slightly Raised Damp Sand”: A Poetic Archive of Singapore’s Development

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Joanne Leow (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: A Geography of (Un)Natural Hazards: Ecopoetic Responses to Environmental Injustice in Migrant Cultures and Liminal Spaces

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Rina Garcia-Chua (she/her/siya) – University of British Columbia

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Poet as Archivist: Mai Der Vang’s Ecopoetics of Remediation

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Heidi Amin-Hong – University of California, Santa Barbara

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Beyond the Verdict: Negotiating Justice with and against the Law in Post-Imperial East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 111

Organizer: Chelsea Szendi Schieder – Aoyama Gakuin University

Chair: Sungyun Lim – University of Colorado Boulder

Discussant: Chelsea Szendi Schieder – Aoyama Gakuin University

Discussant: Keyao Pan (he/him/his) – Florida International University

Discussant: Ivi Ivi Fung (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford

Discussant: Shoko Yamada – Princeton University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Navigating the State of Academic Freedom in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 112

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

1: Embedded Military Politics in Indonesia’s Higher Education Policies

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Herlambang Wiratraman (he/him/his) – Universitas Gadjah Mada

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Reclaiming Knowledge: Individual Agency and Academic Freedom Amidst Myanmar’s Post-Coup Crisis

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: May Thida Aung (she/her/hers) – University of York

Co-author: Nan Kham Mai (she/her/hers) – PNMD Program

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Knowing the Limits: Academic and Cultural Expression in Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Karin Zackari (she/her/hers) – University of Gothenburg

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Silenced Voices: Navigating Censorship and Academic Freedom in Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Thiem Hai Bui (he/him/his) – Malmö University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Between Leviathan and Paper Tiger: New Perspectives on State-Market Relations in North Korea

Location: VCC, Room 113

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

1: Do Market Traders Organize?: Trust, Relationships, and Collaboration on North Korea’s Markets

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein (he/him/his) – Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: State-Market Interdependence in North Korea’s Diesel Fuel Refining Sector: Coexistence of Autonomy and Control Beyond Energy Governance

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Seol Choi (she/her/hers) – University of North Korean Studies

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Bribery and Social Relations in North Korean Market Participation

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Justin Hastings – University of Sydney

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Asian Trajectories of Soviet Nationalities Policies: Ethnoterritorial Governance in the Short Twentieth Century

Location: VCC, Room 114

Organizer: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Rian Thum – University of Manchester

Discussant: Aaron N. Glasserman (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Roy Bar Sadeh – University of Manchester

Discussant: DeVonte A. Tinsley (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Masha Kirasirova – New York University Abu Dhabi

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

Sponsored By Journal of Asian Studies (JAS)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Democratic Strategies under Threats of Fascism

Location: VCC, Room 115

Organizer: Benjamin Tausig (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University

Organizer: Wen Liu – Academia Sinica

Chair: Wen Liu – Academia Sinica

Discussant: Salma Aqida (she/her/hers) – Goethe University

Discussant: Lorraine Pan (they/them/theirs) – University of Toronto

Discussant: Yuri Chang (she/her/hers) – Skyline College

Discussant: Ting Guo – University of Toronto

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

Sponsored By AAS Diversity and Equity Committee

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Political Ecologies of Mainland Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 118

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

1: Aqueous Territoriality: Fluid Frontiers and Transboundary Natures in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Jesse Rodenbiker (he/him/his) – Rutgers University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Thinking with Powersheds: State Territoriality Within and Beyond the Geo-Body

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Tyler Harlan (he/him/his) – Loyola Marymount University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Coercive Consent: Variegated Land Dispossession in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: W. Nathan Green (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Political Ecologies of Resistance: Social Differentiation, Gender, and Generation in a Time of Rising Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Vanessa Lamb (she/her/hers) – York University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Why Do We Care? Smart City, Artificial Intelligence, and Care in Urbanizing Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

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

1: Fluency Is Not Understanding: AI, Moral Agency, and the Architecture of Care

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Nina Laurel Powell – National University of Singapore

Digital Technology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Dwelling in a Functionalist City: Smart City and Care in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Marie-Hélène Parizeau – Université Laval

Digital Technology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: A “Caring” Smart City? Becak, Online Transportation, and Urban Life in Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Rita Padawangi (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences

Digital Technology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: “Care” for Sale: Algorithmic Marketing Culture and the Politics of Smart Urbanism in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Merlyna Lim – Carleton University

Digital Technology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Author Meets Critics: Diana J. Martinez's Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 120

Organizer: Desiree A. Valadares (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Chair: Sarita Echavez See (she/her/hers) – 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

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Sensing the Sacred and the Mundane: Multisensory Experiences in Buddhist Practices of Eurasia

Location: VCC, Room 121

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

1: Purity and Imperial Statecraft: 13th–14th Century Buddhist Vegetarianism and the Mongol Imperial Court

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: PAEHWAN SEOL (he/him/his) – Chonnam National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Smelling Meat in Indian Buddhist Sūtras

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Marielle Harrison, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Liturgical and Sensorial Experiences of the Ten Kings as Premortem Rites in the Goryeo Dynasty

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Sooa Im McCormick (she/her/hers) – Cleveland Museum of Art

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Approaches to Southeast Asian History under Japanese Occupation

Location: VCC, Room 122

Organizer: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University

Chair: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University

Paper Presenter: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University

Paper Presenter: Toshiki Kawashima – Waseda 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

1: The Return to the Orient, 1942-1945

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Jonathan Victor Baldoza – Princeton University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Japanese Script Reform in Wartime Southeast Asia, 1941-1945

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Toshiki Kawashima – Waseda University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Wartime Oil Capture

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Nurfadzilah Yahaya – Yale University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Approaches to the Study of LEKRA, the Indonesian Institute of People’s Culture, 1950-65

Location: VCC, Room 201

Organizer: Andrew Weintraub – University of Pittsburgh

Chair: Siddharth Chandra – Michigan State University

Paper Presenter: Lara Norgaard – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Asep Topan Mulyono – 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

1: LEKRA and the Latin American Left: Emergent and Ephemeral Solidarities

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Lara Norgaard – Harvard University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: LEKRA Art and Its Autonomous Power of Resistance

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Asep Topan Mulyono – University of Sydney

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Archiving the Music of LEKRA, 1950-1965

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Andrew Weintraub – University of Pittsburgh

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Bridging Area and International Studies: Statecraft, Soft Power, and Historical Narratives

Location: VCC, Room 202

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 – 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

1: Diplomacy Without Diplomats: The Role of Special Envoys in Japan’s Foreign Policy

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Giulia Garbagni – University of Cambridge

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: The Strength of Weak Ties? Southeast Asia-Russia Relations Post-Invasion of Ukraine

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Eugene Tan – ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The “History Problem” inside of the State: History Enterprises in Japan-Southeast Asia Relations

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Kathleen Bahian Fallon (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: No Longer Enough? Soft Power and the Shifting Tides of Popular Culture in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Gwendolyn Yap (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Speech, Sound, and Other Transcultural Signs

Location: VCC, Room 203

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

4: Utterance as Sacred Gift in the “Repayment of Kindness” Motif in Korean Shamanic Oral Narratives: Using Jeju Bon-puri as Example

Location: VCC, Room 203

Individual Paper Presenter: Aidi Cui (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

5: Golden Connections: Eurasian and Chinese Ritual Legacies in Silla’s Royal Belts

Location: VCC, Room 203

Individual Paper Presenter: Cho-rong Park (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

6: Lines of Sound, Lines of Nation: Ueda Kazutoshi, the Neogrammarians, and the Transnational Grammar of Modernity

Location: VCC, Room 203

Individual Paper Presenter: SeungHyeon Pyo (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Standardization and Change in Korean Vocabulary: A Study of Korea’s First Monolingual Dictionary

Location: VCC, Room 203

Individual Paper Presenter: Yelee An (she/her/hers) – Academy of Korean Studies

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: The Fantasy of Immunity to Speech: Sinography and Sonic Culture in Japanese-Colonial Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 203

Individual Paper Presenter: Fang-Ru Lin (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Soundscape of Northeast Asia: Sonic Dimensions of Sinographic Travel Writing Beyond the Great Wall

Location: VCC, Room 203

Individual Paper Presenter: Zuoting Wen (he/him/his) – Western Washington University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Contested Belonging and Global Power: International Student Experiences amid Shifting Geopolitics between China, Africa, and the U.S.

Location: VCC, Room 204

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

1: Between Soft Power and Suspicion: Chinese International Students as Diasporic Actors Amid U.S.-China Geopolitical Tensions

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Jing Yu (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Soft Power and Entangled Knowledge: African Student Experiences in China’s Education Diplomacy

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Jingjing Lou (she/her/hers) – Beloit College

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Status in Flux: How Chinese Elite Youth Construct a Contested Status Hierarchy

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Ruiyi Li (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Asian Disadvantage in International Student Mental Health: Social Integration and Cultural Integration in American Higher Education

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Fei Xie (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Analyses and Trends in the Elections and Politics of Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 205

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

1: A View from Two Elections: Citizen Attitudes Towards Leadership, Performance, and Democracy in Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Kay Key Teo (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Reassessing the Mechanical and Strategic Effects of Electoral Rules in Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Steven M. Oliver (he/him/his) – Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Podcasting Power: How Political Parties Persuade Voters in an Electoral Autocracy

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Elvin Ong (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

Co-author: Viktoria Zlomanova (she/her/hers) – Duke University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Indo-Pacific Strategies: The Voice of Civil Society in Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: David Matijasevich (he/him/his) – Capilano University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Bridging the Institutional Divide: Making Sense of China’s Global Financial Integration

Location: VCC, Room 206

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Financial Innovation in China’s Greater Bay Area: Financial Connectivity, Institutional Bridging, and China’s Financial Statecraft

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Chen Li – Chinese University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: From Shielding to Pushing: Evolving Risk Management Regimes in China’s Infrastructure Export Industrial Policy

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Hong Zhang – Indiana University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Charting New Waters: International Finance and Institutional Risk in Hong Kong

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Denise van der Kamp – University of Oxford

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Unveiling the Mechanism of Offshore Financing Activities Through Hong Kong: A Study of the Bond Issuance Structure of Chinese State-Owned Banks

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Xinyi Wei (she/her/hers) – City St George's, University of London (UNCTAD)

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Charting the Plurality of Chinese Feminisms: Socialist Legacies, Global Dialogues, Digital Futures

Location: VCC, Room 207

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Rethinking the Theory and Practice of “Women/Gender and Development” from the Perspective of Socialist Feminism: A Case Study of Danfeng Project in Shaanxi, China

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Shaopeng Song (she/her/hers) – Renmin University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Translation, Vernacularization, and (Re-)Politicization: When the Concept of Gender Encountered China

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Yiping Cai (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: What Is “Pink Feminism” in China?

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Danchen Liu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Co-author: Haoming Zhou (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Co-author: Cara Wallis (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: “Feminism Is Beautiful”: Making Sense of Feminist Data Visualization and Its Aesthetic Resilience from Below in China

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Xiao Han (she/her/hers) – Beijing Language and Culture University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

China and Global Capitalism: Interventions and Engagements from the 1950s to the 1980s

Location: VCC, Room 208

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Theorizing Capital in Revolution: Communist Intellectuals and the Overseas Chinese Question, 1945-1960

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Kelvin Ng – Yale University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Feminist Critiques of Global Capitalism in Late Colonial Hong Kong: The Case of the Hong Kong Women Workers Association

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Gina Anne Tam (she/her/hers) – Trinity University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Remaking the Everyday: Sino-Japanese Technical Exchange and the Birth of Chinese Technocracy, 1978-89

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Yasser A. Nasser – University of Tennessee, Knoxville

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The Glimpse at Democratic Marxism in the 1978-81 Chinese Democracy Movement

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Kevin Yang (he/him/his) – University of York

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Currents of Power: Energy Infrastructures and Imaginaries in Modern China (1900 to Present)

Location: VCC, Room 209

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Green Giants and Grinding Gears: The Hidden Circuits of China’s Clean Energy

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Yanping Ni (she/her/hers) – Princeton University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Measuring the Energy: Water Meter-Charging and the Embodied Domestication of Infrastructure of Modern Urban Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Xiaoyu Chen – University of Cambridge

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Glutinous Engineering: A Century of Maintenance at the First Chinese Hydropower Station

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Junfeng Xu – Peking University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Repurposing WW2 Supplies for Maoist Industrialization: Power Trains, Private Utilities, and the (Re)making of Mobile Generators, 1944-1955

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Tianlin Wang (he/him/his) – Duke University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Governing Nature: Technoscience, Ecology, and (Post) Imperialism in Twentieth-Century East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 210

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

1: Indian Cattle for the Japanese Empire: Environmental Crisis, Colonial Planning, and Cross-Asia Cattle Mobility in Colonial Taiwan in the 1910s

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Youjia Li (she/her/hers) – Lingnan University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Reconfiguring Sardine: Resource Making and Hybrid Technoscientific Practices in 1930s Colonial Korea

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Pei-Hsu Lin (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Crisis in the Garden: How War and Environmental Loss Transformed Chinese Pharmaceutical Research (1935-1955)

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: JJ Strange (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Calculating Carbon: Technopolitics of the Coal-Oil Debate in Cold War South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Juyoung Lee (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Policing in East Asia: Colonial Legacies and New Perspectives

Location: VCC, Room 211

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

1: The Fiction of Order: Unruly Behavior and Performing Compliance in the Making of the Meiji State

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Reo Matsuzaki (he/him/his) – Trinity College

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Between the Gun and the Gavel: Policing, Diplomacy, and Colonial Governance in Wartime Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Jiakai Sheng – University of Chicago

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Portals of Police: Yokohama, the Treaty Port System, and the Distribution of Police Power in East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Max Ward – Middlebury College

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Between High and Low Policing: The Culture of Mass-Line Policing in the People’s Republic of China

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Lingxiao Zhou – Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Democracy, Labor, and Information Technologies in a Tumultuous Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 212

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Digital Democracy in Practice: Institutional Barriers and Breakthroughs in Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Richard Haddock (he/him/his) – George Washington University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Contentious Territorial Identity and Social Solidarity: Evidence from Taiwan’s Pension Policy Reform

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Wei-Ting Yen (she/her/hers) – Academia Sinica

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Who Are the Bad Guys? Framing (Non)democratic Governance During the Lai Administration

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Lev Nachman (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Ambivalent Becoming, Contingent Worlding: Infrastructures of Global Racial Capitalism of Afro-China

Location: VCC, Room 213

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

1: (De-)colonializing the Cloud: Digital Extractivism and Its Discontents, or Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Yixuan Hu (she/they) – Cornell University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Solar Extractivism and the Chinese Turn: Rethinking the Eco-Politics of Solar Capitalism Across China and Africa

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Tianren Luo (he/him/his) – Brown University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Logistics of Inconvenience: The (Im)mobility of Goods and Labor Across China-Africa

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Wilson Wang (he/they) – Harvard University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Between Empowerment and Marginalization: An Ethnography of Chinese Businesswomen in Kenya

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Yajie Echo Xu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Building Global Networks to Address the Challenges Facing Japan Studies

Location: VCC, Room 214

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 (she/her/hers) – University of Zurich

Discussant: Patrik Ström – Stockholm School of Economics

Discussant: Kiyoteru Tsutsui – Stanford University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Asian Environmentalism Going Global: Buddhist, Hindu and Daoist Engagement with Ecological Crises

Location: VCC, Room 215

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

1: Ecodharma Retreat Centers: Cultivating Ecological Awareness and Responsibility

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Brian J. Nichols (he/him/his) – Mount Royal University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Chasing the Sarus Cranes: Buddhist and Hindu Multispecies Ontologies in Lumbini, Nepal

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Mayfair Yang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Tzu Chi Practices of Sustainable Farming and Water Purification: The Encounter of Asian and African Environmental Ethics

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Stefania Travagnin (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The Temple of Cats: Negotiating Daoist Ethics, Markets, and Science in Contemporary China

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Yuan Liang (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Premodern China and the Ancient Mediterranean: Why a Cross-Cultural Approach Matters Today

Location: VCC, Room 216

Organizer: Filippo Marsili (he/him/his) – Saint Louis University

Chair: Griet Vankeerberghen – McGill University

Discussant: Filippo Marsili (he/him/his) – Saint Louis University

Discussant: Rebecca Robinson – Université de Montréal

Discussant: Yanxiao He – Tsinghua University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Provenance Research of Chinese Art Objects in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities

Location: VCC, Room 217

Organizer: Mengge Cao (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Organizer: Helena Chen-Abair – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chair: Joanna M. Gohmann (she/her/hers) – Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art

Discussant: Mengge Cao (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

Discussant: Helena Chen-Abair – Metropolitan Museum of Art

Discussant: Fletcher Coleman (he/him/his) – University of Texas at Arlington

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

Discussant: Chen Shen – Royal Ontario Museum

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

After “Aid” Exit: Rethinking Ownership and Sustainability in Asian Development Practices

Location: VCC, Room 218

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

1: From Projects to Systems: Sustaining Health Outcomes After Donor Withdrawal in China

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Aidan Huang (she/her/hers) – Tsinghua University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Japan and Bangladesh Strategic Development Partnerships: Comparative Approaches to Achieving Sustainability and Mutual Growth

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Md Jahangir Alam (he/him/his) – University of Dhaka

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Navigating the Dragon’s Aid: China’s Development Assistance and Indonesia’s Political Development Under the Jokowi Administration

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Warjio -, Sr. (he/him/his) – Universitas Sumatera Utara

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Negotiating Technology and Knowledge Transfer in Ghana-China Relations: Examining the Bui Hydroelectric Dam and the Western Corridor Gas Infrastructure Development Projects

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Nelson Quame (he/him/his) – University of Ghana

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Digital Humanities for Interdisciplinary Scholarship in Mongolian Studies Today

Location: VCC, Room 219

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: The Manchu Archives Under the Digital Management at the National Archives of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Sainjargal Tumendemberel (she/her/hers) – National Archives of Mongolia

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: The Uyghur Cultural Heritage Project: Developing Urbanism in an Ancient Nomadic Landscape in Mongolia

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Richard Ciolek-Torello (he/him/his) – University of Arizona

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Digital Humanities and Mongolian Textual Traditions: The Critical Edition of the Altan Bichig and the Qing Archives of the Chinggis Khan Cult

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Dotno Dashdorj Pount (she/her/hers) – Harvard Divinity School

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: The Mongolian Documentary Archives for Modern and Contemporary Historians

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Naran-Oyun Ganbaatar (she/her/hers) – Mongolian University of Science and Technology

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Distance to the State: Rethinking State-Society Relations in Middle-Period China through Social Infrastructures, Political Practices, and Intellectual Orientations

Location: VCC, Room 220

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Was the Government There? Looking Through “Commoners’” Construction of Bridges and Wells in Middle Period China

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Yung-chang Tung (he/him/his) – Academia Sinica

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Rethinking the State-Society Boundary: The Integration of Local Institutions into Statecraft Thought in South China Under Mongol Rule

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Yitian Li (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Undeserved Luck or Intentional Favor: The Making of Dynastic Constituencies Through the Protection Privilege System in Northern Song

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Eric S. Lee (he/him/his) – Cornell University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Early Chinese Looks at the Past: Bronzes and the Crafting of Memory in Shang–Zhou China

Location: VCC, Room 221

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Mutable Monuments: Modification, Displacement, and Reuse of Bronze Vessels in Shang and Zhou China

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Yuwei Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Interior Partitions Observed in Animal-Shaped Bronze Vessels from Pre-Imperial China

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Xiyang Duan (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Sciences

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Memory-Making in Eastern Zhou Bronze Inscriptions

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Maria Khayutina (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Sacred from the Margin: Ritual Commemoration and Divine Embodiment of Chu Women

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Qiyu Yang (he/him/his) – University of Chicago

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Reframing the Science-Environment Nexus: The Korean Case

Location: VCC, Room 222

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

1: The Politics of Industrial Pasts in Japan and South Korea: Mnemonic Erasures of Socio-Ecological Violence

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Sang-Hyun Kim (he/him/his) – Sogang University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Knowing Through Feeling: South Korean Citizen Science and the Gendered Politics of Knowing

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Juwon Lee (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: From Nuclear Apocalypse to Ecotopian Futures: Changing Imaginations of the Environment in South Korean Science Fiction, 1960-2021

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Sunyoung Park (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Materializing the Future: The Technological Imaginary and Ecological Renewal in Contemporary Korean Architecture

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Albert L. Park (he/him/his) – Claremont McKenna College (The Claremont Colleges)

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Religion, Culture, and Media in Korea

Location: VCC, Room 301

Organizer: John G. Grisafi (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Chair: Liora Sarfati (she/her/hers) – Tel Aviv University

Paper Presenter: John G. Grisafi (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Discussant: Liora Sarfati (she/her/hers) – Tel Aviv University

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

1: Legacies of Japanese Colonialism Toward Religion in Contemporary Korean Media: Murayama Chijun, Exhuma, and Save Me

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: John G. Grisafi (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Living Religion or Past Tradition? Consuming Religion as Culture Through the Korean Webcomic Along with the Gods

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Yeonwoo Joh (she/her/hers) – Yale University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Grace and Guilt: Christianity and Gendered Pain in Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine and Poetry

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Yunshu Hu (she/her/hers) – Duke University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Faith and Fear: Religious Authority and Moral Control in Korean Drama

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Jeremiah Magoncia – Ateneo de Manila University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

New Methods for Studying Children’s Literature and Religious Education in Northeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 302

Organizer: Jolyon B. Thomas (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Sara A. Swenson – Dartmouth College

Discussant: Jolyon B. Thomas (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Heather Blair – Indiana University

Discussant: Natasha Heller – University of Virginia

Discussant: Steve Covell – Western Michigan University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

(Re)Mediating Environment: Visual, Poetic, and Material Techniques in East Asian Art and Literature

Location: VCC, Room 303

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

1: Iron Buddhas Along the Namhan River: Environmental Mediation During the Koryŏ Dynasty

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Elizabeth Lee (she/her/hers) – SUNY New Paltz

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Weathering the Unusual: Pictorial and Poetic Visions of Climate Abnormalities in Gao Fenghan’s Art

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Yeorae Yoon – Independent Scholar

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Maebashi Modernism: Poetry, Visuality, and Place in 1920s Japan

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Alexander Murphy – University of California, Santa Barbara

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: Irradiated Landscape: Techniques of Mediation and the Aesthetic Sensorium of Post-Nuclear Fukushima

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Minna Lee – Princeton University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

1: Emanating from Seoul, Korea? The Honmoon, Topography of Globalization, and Korean Identity in Kpop Demon Hunters

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Kyu Hyun Kim (he/him/his) – University of California, Davis

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: “The Scars Are Part of Me”: K-pop Artist Subjectivities and Performative Authenticity in Kpop Demon Hunters

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Mayako Shibagaki-Liu (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: K‑pop refrains, Internal Repetition, Pattern Symbolism, and Challenging Narrative Hierarchy in Kpop Demon Hunters

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Mia Yun (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

“I See Beauty in a Million Pieces of Glass”: Affective Strategies, Performing Bodies, Hybrid Identities, and Imagined Geographies in KPop Demon Hunters

Location: VCC, Room 304

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

Rethinking the Literary in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 305

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

1: Anglophone Southeast Asia, Untheorized

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Ann Ang (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

2: Reclaiming Myth, Restoring Memory—Oral Tradition and Indigenous Epistemologies in Southeast Asian Anglophone Novels

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Hannah M. Y. Ho (she/her/hers) – Universiti Brunei Darussalam

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

3: Literature and Politics in Early Anglophone Singapore Writing

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Angelia Poon (she/her/hers) – Nanyang Technological University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

4: A Hermeneutics of Literary Things: Proposing the Material (Re)turn in Southeast Asian Writing

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Alicia Izharuddin (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

At a Turning Point? Perspectives on Immigration and Citizenship in Contemporary Japan

Location: VCC, Room 306

Organizer: Yunchen Tian – Kyoto University

Chair: Yunchen Tian – Kyoto University

Discussant: Hilary Holbrow – Indiana University

Discussant: Ken Silverman (he/him/his) – City University of New York, Graduate Center

Discussant: Gabriele Vogt (she/her/hers) – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Discussant: Quang Huynh – Simon Fraser University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Poster Session #1

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

A Cartography of Wartime Record Destruction in Postwar Japan, 1945

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Dylan Plung (he/him/his) – University of Washington

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

A Nation of Covered “Ways”: Uncovering the Politics of Infrastructural Dissonance

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Emma Goh – University of California, Berkeley

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

An Exploratory Study on Social Workers’ Engagement in Policy Advocacy for Pension System in Hong Kong

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Ka Ki Leung (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Becoming Within Boundaries: Gendered Negotiations of Pakistani Female Students in China

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Yingjing Du – Waseda University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

After the National Allegory: Memory, Vision, and Epistemic Ruins in a Chinese Nuclear City

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Chloe Rong – Haverford College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Agents of Change? American Missionaries and Social Reform in Modern Japan

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Shuma Iwai – University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Decolonialization Strategy on Museum Collections in East Indonesia (2002)

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Moch. Nurfahrul Lukmanul Khakim (he/him/his) – Ohio State University

Southeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Enhancing Community Water Service Delivery through ICT: Lessons from the Cambodia Pilot Project (2018-2021)

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Hang Hybunna (he/him/his) – Passerelles Numeriques

Digital Technology

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

Liang Qichao’s Twelve Days at the Edge of Empires (1900): Digital Microhistories of the Cantonese-speaking Diaspora in Western Australia on the Eve of Federation

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Yu Tao – University of Western Australia

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

“Sound of Gun Did Not Cease All Day”—Utilization of Artillery in the Siege of Namhansanseong

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Junghyun Lee (he/him/his) – Korea University

Northeast Asia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT

“Transparent Kaleidoscope”: Prototyping a Visual Archive of Twentieth-Century Yunnan

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: YUEHAN DAI – Hong Kong Baptist University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Mentor, Teacher, Scholar, Friend: Remembering Janet Theiss (1964-2025)

Location: VCC, Room 201

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 (she/her/hers) – SUNY Old Westbury

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

Discussant: Yi-Li Wu (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Modes of Translations: Texts, Languages, Praxis

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

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

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

Sponsored By American Association of Teachers of Japanese

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Things, Creatures, and the Cosmos in Late Imperial China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Multispecies Healing: The Role of Animals in a Fourth-Century Chinese Medical Text

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Individual Paper Presenter: Yanxi Luo (she/her/hers) – University of Edinburgh

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Medicine, Cosmology, and Pharmaceutical Politics in the Late Ming: Reinterpreting the Red Pill Case of 1620

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Individual Paper Presenter: Arthur Erqi CHENG (he/him/his) – Syracuse University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Bamboo Groves in Mist and Rain: Bamboo Imagery, Gendered Authorship, and Social Function in Paintings Attributed to Guan Daosheng (1262-1319)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Individual Paper Presenter: Siyi Zeng (she/her/hers) – Freie Universität Berlin

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

5: Silverstealers: Knowledge, Technology, and the State in the Making of Fake Silver in Qing China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Individual Paper Presenter: Ziyu Qiu (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

6: Beauties on a Bottle: Reinventing Spring Dawn in the Han Palace on a Qing Dynasty Vase

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Individual Paper Presenter: Xiaoye Gu (she/her/hers) – SOAS University of London

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: Finding Order out of Chaos Through “Things” in 17th-Century China: Fang Yizhi (1611-1671)’s Study of the Principles of Things

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Individual Paper Presenter: Joo-hyeon Oh (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Japan as a Liminal Power: Evolving Grand Strategy from Meiji to Reiwa

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Organizer: Kei Koga – Nanyang Technological University

Chair: Phillip Lipscy – University of Toronto

Discussant: Kristin Vekasi (she/her/hers) – 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

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between Science and Non-science: Alternate Sites, Untold Traditions, and State Building in 20th-Century Asia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: The Intoxicated Warrior: Addiction and the Politics of Writing in Lu Xun’s Works (1925–1936)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Yuchen Yan (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Two Types of Addicts: How Twentieth-Century China’s Experiences with Drugs Changed the Meaning of Addiction Across the Globe

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Thomas Chan – Indiana University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: New State, New Medicine: Herbal Injection in the PRC, 1950s-1970s

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Yaming You (she/her/hers) – Duke University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Winter, Health, and the Great Outdoors

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Norman Smith – University of Guelph

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between Sorrow, Mercy, and Efficacy: Representations of Old Women in Japanese Religions

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

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

1: Becoming the Goddess Myōtara Tennyo: The Appropriation of Datsueba’s Traits in the Cannibal Yasaburōbasa

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Chihiro Saka – International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Reconstructing Local Temple Tradition Through Edo-Period Popular Culture: Kanzeji and the Tohoku Folk Tale Adachigahara

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Kenko Suzuki – Kyoto City University of the Arts

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: At the Boundary Between Realities: Old Women, Liminality, and the Role of Time in Medieval Japanese Tales

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Nathalie Phillips – University of Zurich

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Birth, Death, and the Mountain Crone

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Carina Roth – University of Geneva

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Beyond the Marginal: Zainichi Koreans in Literary, Economic, and Political Dynamics of Postwar Japan

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

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

1: Nationalism Betrayed: Colonialism, Cold War, and the Zainichi Experiences of the Korean War

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Seung-Mi Han (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Foretold Xenophobia: Intersectionality in the Works of Lee Yong-deok and Akira Otani

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Maya Hamada (she/her/hers) – Kobe University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: “Ethnic Enclave” Businesses Run by Koreans in Japan: Recycling and Yakiniku Restaurants as Engines of Minority Enterprise

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Jaehyang Han (she/her/hers) – Hosei University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Beyond the Salaryman: Work and Gender in Postwar and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Film

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

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

1: A Portrait of Female Workers in Bankers’ Labor Union Activities: Interpreting Hiroba and Bankers’ Poetry Anthology

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Takane Suzuki (she/her/hers) – Waseda University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: The Temporalities of White-Collar Masculinity in Crazy Family (1984)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Hannah Airriess – Indiana University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: “Anyway, I'm Going Home”: Labor, Gender, and Minor Resistance in the Writings of Tsumura Kikuko

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Edwin Michielsen – University of Hong Kong

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

CTA Roundtable: Oceans in Motion: Environmental, Commercial, and Political Currents in Asian Maritime History

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

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

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Facing the Moment: Sustaining Asian Studies by Confronting and Navigating Contemporary Challenges

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

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

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Religious Worldmaking in Southeast Asia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

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

1: “Passing” Muslims in Motion: Displaced Rohingya Muslims’ Religious Worldmaking

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Nursyazwani Jamaludin (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Sovereignty Politics and Ritual Ontologies in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Kai Ngu (they/them/theirs) – University of Michigan

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: The Making of Saintly Tombs

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Inditian Latifa – University of California, Santa Cruz

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Distance and Desire: Kerinci Pilgrimage Song as Counter-Epic

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Wayne Huang (he/him/his) – University of California, Santa Cruz

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

“Buddhist Asia“ and “Greater India”: Maps across Colonial Burma, Ceylon, and India

Location: VCC, Room 212

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

1: “Buddhist Asia” and “Hindu India” in Modern India, ca. 1900-1966: Tense Ties

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Gitanjali Surendran (she/her/hers) – O.P. Jindal Global University

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: The Hindu Mahasabha’s Buddhist President from Burmathe Hindu Mahasabha’s Buddhist President from Burma

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Sana Aiyar (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Fashioning a “Buddhist” Himalayan Cartography: Sikkim Darbar and the Cabinet Mission Plan

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Swati Chawla (she/her/hers) – O.P. Jindal Global University

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: The Revival of Chandashoka: Political Violence in Protection of Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Sasanka Perera (he/him/his) – Colombo Institute for Human Sciences

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Transnational History, Memory, and Politics in East and Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

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

1: Sinophile or Sinophobe? Memories of Cecil Clementi and Narratives of Chinese Nationalism in Malaysia, Singapore, and Hong Kong

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Shue Fung Chow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Hong Kong Colonial Elites and Their Networks in Southeast Asia (1862-1950s)

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Ryan Iu (he/him/his) – University of Bristol

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Writing, Re-Writing, and Not Writing War Memory: Post-War Japan in Hong Kong Newspapers

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Chung Kit Tong (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Anniversaries, Non-Collective Memory, and Transnational Solidarity in East and Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Wichuta Teeratanabodee (she/her/hers) – University of Cambridge

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

The (Geo)Politics of PRC Law: Institutionalized Lawfare in China’s Quest for a “Law-based Governance”

Location: VCC, Room 109

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 (he/him/his) – National Taiwan University

Discussant: Margaret K. Lewis (she/her/hers) – Seton Hall University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Still Relevant or a Relic? The Quest for Social and Economic Well-being in Early North Korean Socialism

Location: VCC, Room 110

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

1: Strange Bedfellows: Capitalist Merchants in North Korean “Socialist Commerce System”

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Jun Hee Lee (he/him/his) – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: “Hanŭihak Saengni”: Pavlovian Physiology, Traditional Korean Medicine, and Socialist Medical Epistemologies in 1950s-60s North Korea

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Hetty Ye-Jae Lee (she/her/hers) – Columbia University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Design for the People: The Politics of Ornamentality and the Creation of Socialist Design in North Korea, 1950s-60s

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Suhyun Choi – Columbia University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

The Cultural Revolution after Sixty Years: Mao’s Strategic Vision or Improvised Disorder?

Location: VCC, Room 111

Organizer: Felix Wemheuer – University of Cologne

Chair: Felix Wemheuer – University of Cologne

Discussant: Andrew G. G. Walder – Stanford University

Discussant: Patricia Thornton – Oxford University

Discussant: Yiching Wu – University of Toronto

Discussant: Daniel Leese – University of Freiburg

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Vietnamese Engagements with Buddhist Modernism, 1950s to the Present

Location: VCC, Room 112

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 – Dartmouth College

Discussant: Janet Hoskins – University of Southern California

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: Reading Thích Tâm Châu’s Humanist Politics

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox – Western Connecticut University

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Bodily Contests, Bodily Sacrifices: Self-Immolation and the Buddhist Crisis of 1963 in the Republic of Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Nu-Anh Tran (she/her/hers) – University of Connecticut

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: The Cause of Suffering: Buddhist Health and Healing in Ho Chi Minh City

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Sara A. Swenson – Dartmouth College

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Political Ecology in Upland Southeast Asia—Part 1: Territory, Resistance, and Ecological Knowledge

Location: VCC, Room 113

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

Co-Presenter: Yuting Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Co-Presenter: Phyo Su Su San (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University

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

1: Umbilical Cord Connections: Ban Huay E Kang Women’s Ecological Knowledge Transmission

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Areerat Worawongwasu (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Co-author: Yuting Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Co-author: Phyo Su San – Chiang Mai University

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Cultivating Recognition: Reclaiming, Registration, and Representation of Forest Landscape in Northern Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Antonio Salazar (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Tacloban College

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Rescripting the National Park: Sustained Network Research and Pedagogy as Method Restorying the Forest in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Micah Fisher (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Completing The New Cambridge History of Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 114

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

Chair: Muhamad Ali N. N/A – 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

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Digital Horizons of Vietnam Studies: Collections, Collaborations, Creative Applications

Location: VCC, Room 115

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 (he/him/his) – Luxembourg Center for Contemporary and Digital History

Discussant: George E. Dutton (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant: Lan Nguyen to – Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Internationalist Southeast Asias: Towards a Conjunctural Framework

Location: VCC, Room 118

Organizer: Thiti Jamkajornkeiat – University of Victoria

Organizer: Peng Ai (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair: Peng Ai (he/him/his) – 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 (he/him/his) – University of Oxford

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

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Women’s Movements: History, Politics, Activism, and Feminism in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

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

1: Vietnamese Women’s Movements: History, Politics, Activism, and Feminism

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Thuy Thi Thanh Do (she/her/hers) – Hoa Sen University

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Marriage Diplomacy and Royal Women’s Movements: A Comparative Study of Women’s Roles in Pre-Modern Vietnamese and Southeast Asian Court Politics

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Hanh Thi My Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Hanoi National University of Education

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Continuing Feminist Resistance in Pakistan

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Amna Saadat Ali – Simon Fraser University

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Revolutionary Replays: Cold War Legacies and Transnational Media Aesthetics in North Korean Contexts

Location: VCC, Room 120

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

1: Cinematic Memory and Ideological Continuity: Visualizing Contemporary North Korean Cinema Through Technological Modernization

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Gabor Sebo (he/him/his) – Palacký University Olomouc

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Socialist Kicks: Martial Arts Film and Video Politics in the Second World

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Iuliia Glushneva (she/her/hers) – McGill University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Teleporting Kim Il Sung, Miracles of Kim Jong Il: Understanding the Legends of North Korea

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Roman Husarski (he/him/his) – Jagiellonian University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Queering Mount Paektu: North Korean-East German Socialist Sisterhood Through A Love Affair in Pyongyang (2022)

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Qingyang Freya Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Sacred Animals and Environmental Change across the Asia-Pacific Region: Introducing “Water Powers”

Location: VCC, Room 121

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 (he/him/his) – University of Alberta

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

Speakers: Susan M. Darlington (she/her/hers) – Hampshire College

Speakers: Marius Palz – University of Cologne

Speakers: Sonja Åman – University of Oslo

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

China Under Xi Jinping: A New Era?

Location: VCC, Room 122

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

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea: State Securitization Policies and Religious Militancy

Location: VCC, Room 202

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

1: Between the Devil and Deep Blue Sea: State Securitization Policies and Religious Militancy in South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Amjad Hussain (he/him/his) – The New School

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: “We Live in the Crosshairs”: Everyday Peace, State Securitization, and Pashtun Resistance in Pakistan’s Tribal Belt

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Nousheen Zeb – National University of Modern Languages

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: From Distrust to Defiance: Institutional Betrayal, Conspiratorial Narratives, and the Psychology of Militant Support in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Saima Arzeen (she/her/hers) – University of Peshawar

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: The Vicious Cycle: How State Securitization and Glocal Militancy Fuel Each Other, and the Pashtun Search for an Alternative Peace

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Sajjad Khan (he/him/his) – Khyber Pukhtunkhwa

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Crossing Boundaries, Imagining Otherwise: Youth Practices of Escape, Care, and Creation in Urban South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 203

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

1: Rethinking East Asian Youth Through the Lens of Place, Boundary, and Territory: A Preliminary Exploration

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Sungmin Kim (he/him/his) – Pukyong National University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Beyond 4B: Taljo and the Feminist Logics of Urban Escape

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Hyejin Jo (she/her/hers) – Simon Fraser University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Crafting Care, Envisioning a Better Society: Young Women, Suicide, and (Self-)Care in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Jung Eun Kwon (she/her/hers) – George Washington University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Reframing and Remembering the Past: State Diplomacy, Private Donations, and UNESCO Disputes in Japan–Korea Cultural Heritage Relations

Location: VCC, Room 204

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

1: Visible Decolonization and Overlooked Restitution in 1995: Amid the Dismantling of the Government-General of Chōsen

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Yuko NAGASAWA (she/her/hers) – Waseda University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Public Concern in the Japan-South Korea Cultural Property Issue: Conditions of “Problematization” in Media Discourse

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Keitoku Ikegami (he/him/his) – International Christian University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Reconciliation with Dissonant Memory?: Conflicts over the Interpretation of Japanese World Heritage Sites

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Jihon Kim (she/her/hers) – Korean National Commission for UNESCO

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Technologies of Futurity: Mediating Nuclear Asia in the Cold War

Location: VCC, Room 205

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

1: Atomic Power and Mao Zedong Thought Through the Socialist Nuclear Optic

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Mei M. Nan (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Readings of Radiation the Early Cold War World in Koreas

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Derek Kramer (he/him/his) – University of Sheffield

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Mushroom Clouds of Japan’s Cold War

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Mina Kaneko (she/her/hers) – North Carolina State University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between the Profane and the Divine: Creative Resistance and “Islamic” Subjectivities Across Asia

Location: VCC, Room 206

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

1: Sea Speak: The Perpetual Exile of the Self in Malay Dagang Poetry Between Hamzah Fansuri and Syaikh Daud of Sunur

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Nicole Yow (they/them/theirs) – Yale University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Widows, Law, and Inheritance in Early Modern India

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Rochisha Narayan (she/her/hers) – University of Cincinnati

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: When Crescents and Stars Align: The Malaysian-Pakistani Search for an Alternative “Third Worldism”

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Muhammad Suhail bin Mohamed Yazid (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Disenchanting the Divine: Bureaucratizing Islam in Modern Turkey and Beyond

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Joel Chong (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Print, Film, and Digital Cultures

Location: VCC, Room 207

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

4: Romance under Southern Heavens: Khoo Seok Wan’s Literati Networks in The Poem of Zither Romance

Location: VCC, Room 207

Individual Paper Presenter: Teen Zhen Tan (she/her/hers) – Fudan University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

6: How Does Reproductive Disobedience Circulate as a Transnational Radical Feminist Strategy? Comparing the Digital Popularization of South Korea’s 4B/6B4T Movement in China and the U.S

Location: VCC, Room 207

Individual Paper Presenter: Jing Xu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

Digital Technology

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Comfort Women Narratives in Asia, a Cross-Cultural Study

Location: VCC, Room 207

Individual Paper Presenter: Pei-Han Tai (she/her/hers) – Pusan National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

5: Ashes of Time, Echoes of Road: Navigating Memory, Grief, and Class Mobility in East Asian Cinema

Location: VCC, Room 207

Individual Paper Presenter: Yanhong Zhu (she/her/hers) – Washington & Lee University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: Logo/type Matters: Typographic Reform, Moral Anxiety, and Affective Manipulation in 1930s China

Location: VCC, Room 207

Individual Paper Presenter: Felicity Yin – University of California, San Diego

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Digital Chinatown: Language and Rental Market Segregation in Vancouver

Location: VCC, Room 207

Individual Paper Presenter: Julia Harten (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Yijia Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Digital Technology

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Authoritarianism and Intellectual Freedom: Lessons from Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 208

Organizer: Margaret Scott – New York University

Chair: Margaret Scott – New York University

Discussant: Bencharat Sae Chua (she/her/hers) – Mahidol University

Discussant: Herlambang Wiratraman (he/him/his) – Universitas Gadjah Mada

Discussant: Sol Iglesias (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman

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

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

From Bodies to Bureaucracies: Reproduction and Gendered State Power in Contemporary China

Location: VCC, Room 209

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 – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: “Beseeching for Babies” (Qiuzi): Embodied Devotion, Ritual Grammar, and the Contours of Reproductive Subjectivity

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Jolene Yiqiao Kong (she/her/hers) – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Governing Pregnancy in China: Gendered Care and Institutional Power in Prenatal Encounters

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Mingxuan Li – University of Oxford

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: From Reproduction to Protection? Shifting Discourses of the All-China Women’s Federation on Birth Planning and Domestic Violence

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Si Wu – Boston University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Different Shades of Anti-Feminism in China: The Campaign Against “Provoking Gender Conflict” and the Shadow of the “West”

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Clyde Yicheng Wang – Washington & Lee University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Growing Tendencies: Chinese Agriculture from the Qing to the Republic

Location: VCC, Room 210

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 Institute of Area Studies

Paper Presenter: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut

Paper Presenter: Spencer Stewart – Purdue University

Discussant: Fa-Ti Fan – Binghamton University, SUNY

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: For Culture or for Agriculture?: Hydrology, Technology, and Ideology on the Baimao River, 1403-1834

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Wáng Yōu 王悠 (she/they) – Georgetown University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: From Salt Fields to Cotton Plantations: The Making of Land in Coastal Jiangsu, 1895-1920

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Mingran Cao – Leiden Institute of Area Studies

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: What Came After the Columbian Exchange?: Exchanges in Chinese Agriculture at the End of the Qing Empire

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Peter Lavelle – University of Connecticut

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Preaching Purity: American Seed Science and the Remaking of Chinese Cotton

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Spencer Stewart – Purdue University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Borders and Aid in International Relations

Location: VCC, Room 211

Chair: Jessamyn R. Abel – Pennsylvania State University

Presenting Author: Michiko Suzuki – University of Tokyo

Presenting Author: Xiuyuan Liu (he/him/his) – KU Leuven

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

1: The Manchukuo Red Cross Society and the Kwantung Army’s Nation-Building Project in Manchuria, 1938-1945

Location: VCC, Room 211

Individual Paper Presenter: Michiko Suzuki – University of Tokyo

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Infrastructural Brokers: Chinese Medical Workers and the Reassembly of the State in Transnational Health Aid

Location: VCC, Room 211

Individual Paper Presenter: Xiuyuan Liu (he/him/his) – KU Leuven

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Re-Approaching the Burmese Nationalism Movement: Chinese Observations, 1930-1931

Location: VCC, Room 211

Individual Paper Presenter: Wenxu Zhang (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

5: Territorializing the Pacific: Japan’s 1933 Maritime Lifeline Proclamation in Micronesia

Location: VCC, Room 211

Individual Paper Presenter: Jiaying Shen (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Shue Yan University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Transboundary Water Law in Asia: A Comparative Study of Regional Governance Models

Location: VCC, Room 211

Individual Paper Presenter: Washik Muhammod Istiaq Ezaz (he/him/his) – Independent University, Bangladesh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

War, Diplomacy, and Development

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Chair: Bianca Trifoi

Presenting Author: Hafiz A. Masood (he/him/his) – International Islamic University Islamabad

Presenting Author: Shivam Pandey – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Presenting Author: MD RUBEL MIA (he/him/his) – Incheon National University

Presenting Author: Bidisha Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Presenting Author: Vikas Malik (he/him/his) – University of Delhi

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

5: Political Patronage and Institutional Weakness on Urban Service Delivery in Bangladesh: A Study on Municipal Governance and Development Outcomes

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Individual Paper Presenter: MD RUBEL MIA (he/him/his) – Incheon National University

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Ulema and Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in Early Cold War Pakistan: A Critical Reading of Two Travel Narratives of a Visit to China

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Individual Paper Presenter: Hafiz A. Masood (he/him/his) – International Islamic University Islamabad

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Sepoys Not at Ease: War Veterans and the Anti-Forestry Movement in British Kumaon (ca. 1914–1921)

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Individual Paper Presenter: Shivam Pandey – Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: Medical Networks and Caring Resistance Under Militarization in Kashmir

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Individual Paper Presenter: Bidisha Mukherjee (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Beyond Mandal: Chaudhary Charan Singh and the Political Economy of Backward Class Empowerment in India

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Individual Paper Presenter: Vikas Malik (he/him/his) – University of Delhi

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between Views and Worldviews: Landscape in Early Modern East Asian Art

Location: VCC, Room 213

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

1: Topographies of Crisis: Spatial Imaginaries in Early Modern Japanese Visual Culture

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Ewa Machotka (she/her/hers) – University of Zurich

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Mountains, Roads, and Rivers: Imagining Landscape as Resource in Early Modern Japan

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Doreen Mueller (she/her/hers) – Leiden University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: The River as Cultural and Commercial Landscape: Visualizing the Han River in Eighteenth-Century Joseon Landscape Painting

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Yoonjung Seo – Myongji University, Seoul

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: The Resourceful Land: Knowledge of Animals and Plants in Miao Albums

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Fan Lin – Leiden University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Dissonances: Curating Imageries of Asia across the Transpacific

Location: VCC, Room 214

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

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

Sponsored By AAS Northeast Asia Council (NEAC)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Asian Wellness Industries: Practice, Market, and Cultural Identity

Location: VCC, Room 215

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

1: Biotechnology at the Interface of Public and Environmental Health

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Joseph S. Alter (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Wellness, Business, and the Gods of Mt. Qingcheng: Localizing the Yangsheng Industry in Contemporary China

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Hélène Bloch (she/her/hers) – National Centre for Scientific Research

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Nation-Branding Tibetan Medicine: Market, Alienation, and Cultural Identity Politics in an Asian Health Industry

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Stephan Kloos (he/him/his) – Austrian Academy of Sciences

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: From Colgate to Patanjali: Ayurveda, Well-Belonging, and the Transformation of the Indian Market

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Venera R. Khalikova (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Global Asias Tactics & Theories: Pitching Pedagogy

Location: VCC, Room 216

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 (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Omer Aijazi – University of Manchester

Discussant: Alex Murphy – Clark University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between Hand and Mind: Labor, Knowledge, and Professional Identities in Republican and Socialist China

Location: VCC, Room 218

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: The Dilemma of Professionalism: Librarianship, Information Work, and Professional Identity in Republican China, ca. 1910s–1940s

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Mindi Zhang (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: The Labor of Reading: Typesetting and Revolutionary Vision in 1930s Chinese Literature

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Tianyue Zhang – University of California, Berkeley

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Technocrats as Petty Bureaucrats: Industrial Accounting, Calculative Expertise, and Clerical Labor in Socialist China, 1950s–1960s

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Boyao Zhang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Telling the Revolution: Oral Performing Arts and the Contradictions of Amateur Storytelling in Mao-Era China, 1961–1965

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Hongyi Yu – Columbia University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Diasporic Connections

Location: VCC, Room 219

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

7: Space Fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Nathan Hesselink (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

6: The Undying Ghost: Anti-Communism as Vietnamese Refugees’ Nationalism

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Thu Nguyen (she/her/hers) – McGill University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

5: Beyond Companionship: Pets as Co-settlers Among New Chinese Migrants in Chiang Mai

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Kunyi ZOU (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Toward the Logistics of Stereotype: Mechanomorphic Chinese Labor and the Operational Sublime in Global Supply Chain

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Runjie Wang – University of Washington

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Precarious Cultural Labour and Alternative Art Spaces: Gendered Survival Strategies of Chinese Artistic Migrants in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Haiyin Chen (she/her/hers) – Tokyo University of Technology

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Idling in Metropolitan Tokyo: Diasporic Identity Narratives in Wu Yongfu, Weng Nao, and Wu Tianshang’s Literary Works

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Xiayu Liu (she/her/hers) – Hitotsubashi University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: Family or Worker? Temporary Family Migration from Vietnam to South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 219

Individual Paper Presenter: Dasom Lee (she/her/hers) – University of California, San Diego

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Living Gods, Moving Worlds: Ritual Agents and Vernacular Religion in Transregional Asia

Location: VCC, Room 220

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

1: Codified and Sung: Buddhist-Shamanic Deity Worship in Qing Court Rituals and Folk Oral Songs

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Aidi Cui (she/her/hers) – University of Heidelberg

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Choosing the Right God: Divine Efficacy, Ritual Contestation, and Missionary Encounters in Early Qing Rainmaking

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Beichen Zu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: From Silk Road Chants to Lingnan Folk Rites: The Modernization and Secularization of Guanyin Veneration in Hong Kong

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Yifan Jiang (he/him/his) – Syracuse University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Negotiating Urbanization: Village Temples and Taoist Ritual Specialists in Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Ruo Lin (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Beyond Facilitation: Intermediaries and the Making of Diplomacy in Early Modern and Modern East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 221

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

1: Interpreters and the Making of Regional Order in Early Modern East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Zikang Zhang (he/him/his) – Nagasaki University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Make an Occasion: The Protocol of Tsushima Occasional Envoys in Early Modern Japan-Korea Relations

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Xia-Kang Ziyi – Kyushu University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Honorary Consuls and the Informal Architecture of Chinese Consular Representation and Diplomacy, 1895-1949

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Thomas P. Barrett – Keio University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Monitoring National Boundaries Through Consular Protection

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Kenji Matsuo – University of Tokyo

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

China’s Export Scholarship: Are Sponsored Translations into Foreign Languages Increasing Chinese Academic Capital?

Location: VCC, Room 222

Organizer: Daniel Fried (he/him/his) – University of Alberta

Chair: Daniel Fried (he/him/his) – University of Alberta

Discussant: Daniel Fried (he/him/his) – University of Alberta

Discussant: Joanna Krenz (she/her/hers) – Adam Mickiewicz University

Discussant: Timothy Billings – Middlebury College

Discussant: Hua Bai – Springer

Discussant: Yanyu Zeng (she/her/hers) – Hunan Normal University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Chinese Responses to Climate Change during the Little Ice Age, ca. 1350-1850

Location: VCC, Room 301

Organizer: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria

Chair: Kenneth Pomeranz – University of Chicago

Discussant: Zhongping Chen – University of Victoria

Discussant: Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University

Discussant: Ruth Mostern (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh

Discussant: Qing Pei – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Discussant: Peter C. Perdue (he/him/his) – Yale University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Conceptualizing, Visualizing, and Mapping Global China Studies

Location: VCC, Room 302

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

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Aristocratic Cultures in Non-Han Regimes of Middle-Period China

Location: VCC, Room 303

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: Zhouyang Ma – Austrian Academy of Sciences

Discussant: Peter K. Bol – Harvard University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: The Identity Changes of the Elite Xianbei in Medieval China

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Soojung Han – Southwestern University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Ox Carriages: Engendering Sacred Sites of the Northern Dynasties (386-535 CE)

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Chao-Hui Jenny Liu (she/her/hers) – East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Bridging Empires: Buddhism Among the Tangut Aristocrats Under Mongol Rule

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Zhouyang Ma – Austrian Academy of Sciences

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

From Codes of Governance to Protecting People’ Rights: Reexamining the Function of Law in East Asia in the First Half of the 20th Century

Location: VCC, Room 304

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) – Fu Jen Catholic University

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

1: Wartime Chinese and Japanese Legal Scholarship: An Analysis of Legal Journals and Intellectuals’ Legal Consciousness During the 1930s and 1940s

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Mariko Kubo (she/her/hers) – Saitama University

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Approval After a Century: The Endorsement of Qing-Dynasty Land Transaction Documents in Republican-Era Southwest China

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Hanbark Kim (he/him/his) – Chung-Ang University

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: A Comparative Study of the Death Penalty in Political Cases in Korea and Taiwan, 1945–1960

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Cheng-Yu Lin (he/him/his) – Fu Jen Catholic University

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

4: Carve-out versus Bring-back: Two Processes of Compromising Family Laws and State Projects in Wartime Japan and China, 1931–1945

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Weilin Xiao (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Becoming World Literature: Gender, Emotion, and the Global Circulation of Chinese Poetry

Location: VCC, Room 305

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

1: Bamboo Horses and Blue Plums: Universalizing Love in Li Bai’s “Changgan Xing”

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Fay Feijie Zhen – Arizona State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

2: Recreation and Rebirth: Female Epic Beatnik Diane Di Prima’s Loba

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Zheng Li (she/her/hers) – Beijing Foreign Studies University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

3: Translating Feminist Poetics: Gender, Voice, and Embodied Language in the German Versions of Zhai Yongming’s Poetry

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Ninghui Yuan (she/her/hers) – University of Cologne

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Poster Session #2

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Amorphous Shotengai—Organic Aspects in the Development and Change of Traditional Shopping Areas in Japan

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Edmund W. Hoff – Kokushikan University

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Apocalyptic Laughter: Science Fiction, Comedy, and the Critique of Late-Qing Utopian Discourse

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Alexander M. Harasymiw – University of Minnesota

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Blue Apocalypse: Aging and Memory After the Great Flood in Sinosphere Speculative Fiction

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Xinming Liao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Building Identities: Chinese Canadian Architects and the Making of Vancouver’s Urban Landscape

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Yiting Pan – Simon Fraser University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Between Material and Spectral: Vitalizing Ancestral Presence Through Contemporary Grave Goods Practices in Rural Shanxi

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Yuan Zhang – University of Oxford

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Building Bridges: A Feasibility Study for an Open-Access Interdisciplinary Portal on Chinese Law and Policy

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: alex Zhang – Duke University

Digital Technology

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Cash Crops and Polycrisis: Limits of Agricultural Adaptation in Marginalized Mountain Communities

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Ananda Raj Devkota – Australian National University

South Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

From Ideal to Desk: Tracing Educational Philosophy Through Library Carrels in Japan—A Case Study of the University of Tokyo General Library

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Yue Hu (she/her/hers) – University of Tokyo

Northeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Guardians of the Volcano: The Role of Javanese Knowledge and Traditions in Shaping Indonesia’s DRR Policies

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Ekaterina Mandova – Leiden Institute of Area Studies

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

“Nation-State” in Pre-colonial Mainland Southeast Asia: Beings and Becomings

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Trung Q.T Nguyen, PhD – Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives

Southeast Asia

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT

Refashioning the White Pagoda Blocks: Mapping Memory, Urban Aesthetics, and Utopianism in Beijing

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Yitong Guo (she/her/hers) – Duke University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT

American Association of Teachers of Japanese

Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom C, Lobby Level

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM PDT

China Biographical Database Steering Committee

Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom B, Lobby Level

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Korean Racial Imaginary

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Organizer: Susanna Lim – University of Oregon

Chair: Susanna Lim – University of Oregon

Discussant: Susanna Lim – University of Oregon

Paper Presenter: Sohoon Yi – Korea University

Paper Presenter: Han Sang Kim (he/him/his) – Ajou University

Paper Presenter: Sunhye Kim – Ewha Womans University

Co-Presenter: Joowon Yuk (she/her/hers) – Kyungbuk National University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Multiscalarity of Islamophobia and Racism in South Korea

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Sohoon Yi – Korea University

Co-author: Joowon Yuk (she/her/hers) – Kyungbuk National University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: The Approachable Foreign Men: South Korean Media’s Construction of Ideal Racial Others in a Gendered Context

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Han Sang Kim (he/him/his) – Ajou University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Disclosing and Concealing: Race and Kinship Through Donor Gamete Practices in South Korea

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Sunhye Kim – Ewha Womans University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Reorienting Taiwan: Capital, Migration, and Maritime Networks in a Global Frame

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

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: Marlon Zhu – Academia Sinica

Paper Presenter: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Becoming Latinos: Taiwanese Migration to Paraguay in the Twentieth Century

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Rudolph Ng – University of Portsmouth

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: The Taiwan Customs Commissioners and Shifting Tariff Policies in Japanese Colonial Rule (1895-1909)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Pao-Wen Huang – Ruhr University Bochum

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: A Narcotic Prelude to the Fiscal-Military State: Jardine Matheson Loans to the Qing Empire in 1860s Formosa

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Marlon Zhu – Academia Sinica

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Japan’s Total Fish: Taiwan’s Overseas Fishing Enterprises and Its Imperialism in the Early Twentieth Century

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Cheng-heng Lu – National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Reporting on Mao’s Last Revolution: Audio and Text from the Robert Elegant Collection

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Preserving and Accessing the Robert Sampson Elegant Audio Collection

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Joan Wang (she/her/hers) – Washington University in Saint Louis

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: War on Nerves: Radio Sounds from the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Jie Li – Harvard University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: “The China Problem as a Data Problem”: Recording Technologies and Knowledge Production in Cold-War-Era China Studies

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Yu Wang (he/him/his) – Cornell University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Cold War Intermediaries: China Watchers and Their Chinese Assistants in Hong Kong, 1965-1972

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Zhao Ma (he/him/his) – Washington University in Saint Louis

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Reshaping Sea and Hinterland: New Perspectives of Imperial China from the Southern Expanse

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Cantonese Collaboration and Native Official Trade in the Early Modern Upper Tongking Gulf Region

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Joey Low (he/him/his) – Brandeis University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: From Littoral Landscapes to Oceanic Worlds: Reimagining Maritime Guangdong in the Ming-Qing Transition

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Jasmin Wai Tan Law (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Private History in Exile: Yang Shen’s Writings on Yunnan

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Kangni Huang (she/her/hers) – University of Southern California

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Beyond Inner and Outer Harbors: Nan’ao Island as a Secondary Port

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: J. Travis Shutz (he/him/his) – California State University, Los Angeles

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Imagining China’s Transformation in Global Asia: Nationalism, Monarchism, and Citizenship in the Late Qing Period

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: The Reinvention of the Imperial Prerogative (Qiangang Duduan) in Late Imperial China: Qing Political Thought, Japanese Experience, and Modern Constitutionalism

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: YUTAO YAO (he/him/his) – Tohoku University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Beyond Being (Semi-)Colonized: Transnational Knowledge Production About Nanyang and China’s Expansionist Nationalism in Late Qing Period (1840s-1910s)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Chengxin Peng (he/him/his) – National University of Singapore

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Shaping the New Citizen in Children’s Books: Geographic Imagery and Visual Modes in Enlightenment Pictorial, 1902-1904

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Wei Zhang (he/him/his) – University of York

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Patriotism, Statism, and Nationalism: A Critical Analysis of Liang Qichao’s Early Concept of Zhonghua Minzu

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Yue Zhou (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Concepts and Centers: Inquiries into the Legacy and Potential of Southeast Asian Political Life

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

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

Sponsored By Indonesia and Timor-Leste Studies Committee (ITLSC)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: The Resistance Is Well Dressed: Kiblat, Elegance, and Influence as Political Life

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Carla Jones – University of Colorado Boulder

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: On Cosmos and Consent: Theorizing Politics from Javanese History

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Ismail Alatas – New York University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Of Graves and Rhizomes: Reflections on Centers of Power in Islamic Java

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Verena Meyer (she/her/hers) – Leiden University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Cosmologies in the (Re)Making: Tracing Southeast Asian Concepts of Power in Politics, Islam, and Social Media

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Martin Slama – Austrian Academy of Sciences

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

“Becoming Urban”: Aspirations and Contentions from Southeast Asia’s Urban Frontiers

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

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

1: The “Other” Kampung Code: Aspirations from the Riverbank of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Preciosa Ang De Joya (she/her/hers) – Singapore University of Social Sciences

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: From Hills to River: The Role of Aileu Communities in Forest Care and Its Downstream Effects on the Comoro River, Dili, Timor-Leste

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Jose Cornelio Guterres (he/him/his) – Instituto Nacional de Ciências e Tecnologia Timor-Leste

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Becoming Urban in Southeast Asia: The Cosmopolitics of Place in Bundu Tuhan, Sabah, Malaysia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Trixie Marjorie Tangit (she/her/hers) – Universiti Malaysia Sabah

Co-author: Adrian Soidi – Warisan dan Kebudayaan Bundu Tuhan

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Whose Heritage Counts? Negotiating Power, Memory, and Identity from the Margins

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Organizer: Yiyang Xiao – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chair: Yiyang Xiao – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paper Presenter: Yiyang Xiao – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Paper Presenter: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University

Paper Presenter: Yi Wang – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

Paper Presenter: Sai Ho Chan – University of Basel

Discussant: Yujie Zhu – Australian National University

Discussant: Qiaoyun Zhang – Macao Polytechnic University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: The Politics of Commemoration: A Pan-Asian Perspective on Lushun’s Difficult Heritage

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Yiyang Xiao – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Between Local and Official: The Politics of Forgetting at the Weihsien Concentration Camp

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Xiaochun Ma (she/her/hers) – Australian National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Reviving Nüshu (Women’s Script): How Chinese Social Media Is Asserting New Vitality into Women’s Cultural Heritage and Rewriting Gender Narratives

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Yi Wang – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Not Dutch Enough? Silent Histories and the Living Heritage of Dutch-Chinese Christian Communities

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Sai Ho Chan – University of Basel

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Centering the Margins: Reflections on Contemporary Himalayan Art

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

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

1: Breaking Through Space: The Works of Contemporary Tibetan Artist Tsewang Tashi

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Presenting Author: Yi Yi Mon (Rosaline) Kyo (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Cruz

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Against Neoliberalism: Contemporaneity in Nomin Bold’s Art

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Presenting Author: Uranchimeg Tsultem (she/her/hers) – Indiana University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Stuck in the Pattern: Bhutanese Artist Pema Tshering and the In-Between State

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Presenting Author: Ariana Maki – University of Idaho

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

No Country for Weak Men: Conceptualizing Strong(wo)man Politics in South and Southeast Asia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

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 – 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

1: Conceptualizing Strongmen in South and Southeast Asia: Gender, Transgression, and Mythmaking

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Hassan Javid (he/him/his) – University of the Fraser Valley

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Puppets, Witches, and Power Couples: Gendering Strongman Politics in Southeast Asia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Sophie Lemiere (she/her/hers) – Contemporary History of the Arab World Chair, Collège de France

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Transgression as the Mark of the Strongman Leader

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Arild Engelsen Ruud (he/him/his) – University of Oslo

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Political Martyrdom and Dynastic Succession in South and Southeast Asia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Moumita Sen – MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Co-author: Duncan McCargo – Nanyang Technological University

Co-author: Saimum Parvez (he/him/his) – MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Climate Justice and Environmental Governance in South Asia: Diplomacy, Displacement, and Regional Pathways in the Anthropocene

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

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

1: India’s Climate Diplomacy and Global South Leadership: Balancing Equity, Development, and Strategic Interests

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Mohanan Bhaskaran Pillai (he/him/his) – Pondicherry University

South Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Climate Displacement and Local Governance in Bangladesh: Resilience, Rights, and the Politics of Relocation

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Johny Augustine – St. Ambrose University

South Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Reclaiming Climate Justice from Below: Grassroots Environmental Resistance in South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Vivek Chemmacheri Kokkmmadathil (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University

South Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Displacement Without Recognition: Climate Vulnerability, Justice, and Governance Gaps in South Asia’s Coastal Margins

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: CHITHRABHANU VINODAN (he/him/his) – Mahatma Gandhi University

South Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Infrastructures of Democracy: The Politics and Processes of Road Building in Nepal

Location: VCC, Room 109

Organizer: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

Chair: Sara B. Shneiderman – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Shyam Kunwar (he/him/his) – University of Toronto

Discussant: Katharine Rankin – University of Toronto

Discussant: Jeevan Baniya (he/him/his) – Social Science Baha

Discussant: Amy Johnson (she/her/hers) – Georgia College & State University

Discussant: Phurwa Dondrub Dolpopa (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

South Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Religion and Southeast Asia—Practices, Politics, and Transformations in Everyday Life

Location: VCC, Room 110

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

Sponsored By AAS Southeast Asia Council (SEAC) & Journal of Southeast Asia Studies (JSEAS)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Cut to Belong: Ritual, Body, and the Making of Everyday Islam Among Tamil Muslim Women in Malaysia

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Pavithra Nandanan Menon (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: “Fish’s Here; We Just Can’t See It Yet”: Piety, Precarious Labor, and Community Building Among Muslim Fishers in Jakarta

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Marco Del Gallo (he/him/his) – London School of Economics and Political Science

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Ritual Resilience: Islamic Mourning Rituals and Political Memory in Post-Conflict Southern Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Alokita Raichaudhuri (she/her/hers) – Jadavpur University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Sanctuaries of Sovereignty: Theravāda Buddhism and Political Belonging Among the Khmer Krom in Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Sopanha Bunthoeun (he/him/his) – Seoul National University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

The (Infra)Structure of Cold War in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 111

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

1: Queens of the Garden City: Bugis Street and Its Trans Community in Post-Colonial Singapore

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Jiajie Meng (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Urban Planning as Cold War Battleground: How Singapore Built Its Nation-State by Defeating the Barisan Sosialis

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Bo Yan (he/him/his) – Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: The Asahan Aluminum and Hydroelectric Project: Japanese Infrastructural Support for the New Order in Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Eric Dinmore (he/him/his) – Hampden-Sydney College

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Knowledge Cold War and the Spread and Localization of American Modernization Theory in Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 111

Presenting Author: Liping Sun (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Margins of Authority: Technological Governance, Legal Identity, and Statecraft in Borneo

Location: VCC, Room 112

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

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Digitalizing the Sultanate, Remaking Subjecthood: Techno-Political Imaginaries and Statecraft in Contemporary Brunei

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Mu’izz Abdul Khalid (he/him/his) – Universiti Malaya

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: A Moveable Feast: Roving Administrative Services, State Prowess in Operational Street Level Bureaucracy, and Reproducing State Recognition Models

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Jamie Chai Yun Chai Yun Liew (she/her/hers) – University of Ottawa

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Judicial Technologies and the Reach of the State: Mobile Courts and AI-Supported Sentencing in Sabah

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Oleg Vasilchenko (he/him/his) – Friedrich Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Miracles, Magic, and the Invisible in Islamic Asia

Location: VCC, Room 113

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

1: Bridging the “Human” and ”Other-than-Human”: An Exploration of the Origins of Jinn Through Two Malay Cosmogonic and Genealogical Texts

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Herman Lim Bin Adam Lim (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Pengembaraan: The Wonders of Wandering in the Malay Hikayat Hang Tuah

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Solihin Samsuri (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: The Ocean of Al-khiḍr: Access, Connectivity, and Ontology from the Maghreb to the Malay World

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Faris Joraimi (he/him/his) – New York University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Ghosts in the Political Machine: Islamic Hauntings Across Dukun and Rahsia

Location: VCC, Room 113

Presenting Author: Khairillah Irwan (he/him/his) – New York University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Moving Beyond the Given: The Politics of Categories and Subjectivity in Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 114

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

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: “Voor Alle Indiërs”: Race and Belonging in the Indies in the Early Twentieth Century

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Nila Utami (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Narrating Revolution: Women’s Subjectivities and the Gendered Limits of Anticolonial Belonging

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Ayu Ratih (she/her/hers) – Indonesian Institute of Social History

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Returning to the Returnees: 10 Years on Since “Kisah Sukses: Stories of Indonesian Migrant Worker Returnees Living in Greater Jakarta”

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Kilim Park (she/her/hers) – Independent Scholar

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Digital Surveillance and Minority Dissent Suppression in Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Irene Poetranto – The Citizen Lab

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Networks of Shadow Economies: Smuggling, Black Markets, and Informalities in Cold War Asia

Location: VCC, Room 115

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

1: From Entrepot to Shadow Nexus: Hong Kong’s Transnational Gold Networks in Cold War Asia

Location: VCC, Room 115

Presenting Author: Ka Shing So – Binghamton University, SUNY

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Lucrative Black Marketeers in Rural Japan: The Illicit Entrepreneurial Tobacco Business in the Late 1940s

Location: VCC, Room 115

Presenting Author: Kiyotaka Maeda (he/him/his) – Keio University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: “Crisis After Crisis”: Transnational Smuggling in Early Cold War South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 115

Presenting Author: Anubha Anushree – University of Delhi

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: A Long Shadow: The Underground Survival of Hui in Mao-Era Rural China

Location: VCC, Room 115

Presenting Author: Qiuyang Chen – Loughborough University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Nonhuman Modernism in Transnational Asia

Location: VCC, Room 118

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

1: The Blind Cave Fish: Perception, Adaptation, and Ye Shengtao’s Pedagogical Poetics

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Jiahe Mei (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Eco-Modernism at the Manchurian Crossroads: Yi Chi and Nikolai Baikov in Dialogue

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Mercy An (she/her/hers) – Colorado College

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Borneo Landscape in Sinophone Reimagination: An Ecocritical Reading of Chang Kuei-hsing’s Elephant Herd

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Jiyuan Ren – University of South Carolina

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Astheticized and Commodified Nature: Human–Elephant Engagements and the Semiotic Economy of Wildlife Tourism in Nepal

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Bal Sharma – University of Idaho

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Others Witnessed, Recorded, Reproduced, and Represented across Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

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 – National University of Singapore

Discussant: Benjamin Tausig (he/him/his) – Stony Brook University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: The Jewish Other in Early 20th-Century Chinese Thought

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Yuang Liu (he/him/his) – King's College London

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Selling the Drama: Musical Exoticism and Colonial Politics in La Venta De Filipinas Al Japon (1906)

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Isidora Miranda (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Thainess and Otherness Through Samniang Phasaa in Thai Classical Music: The Case of Chorakae Hang Yao

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Shiho Ogura (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Disguise Historicized: Unmasking the Emergence of Political Ethnicity in Mainland Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Matthew Reeder – National University of Singapore

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Performing Youth, Negotiating Nation: Identity, Expression, and Agency among Chinese Youth at Home and Abroad

Location: VCC, Room 120

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

1: Reinterpreting Patriotism Abroad: A Typology of Political and Emotional Orientations Among Young Chinese Migrants in Australia

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Bruce Xin Tao (he/him/his) – University of Sydney

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Political Participation as a Pathway to Integration: Chinese International Students in Australia Party Politics and Election Campaigns

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Ye Xue (he/him/his) – University of Alberta

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Navigating Propaganda and Memory: Chinese Youth Political Identity and Digital Resistance During COVID-19

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Zitong Feng – University of Tokyo

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Balancing Aesthetics and Nationalism: Strategic Identity Performances of Chinese Youth in K-pop Fandom

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Ziman Li – University of Sheffield

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Pivotal Places, Diverse Aspirations in East, Southeast, and South Asia: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Location: VCC, Room 121

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

1: “Renegades and Quislings” on the Harborfront: Constructing the Indian Independence League in Wartime Hong Kong, 1942-1945

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Sahil Bhagat – Nanyang Technological University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Agricultural Labor Migration to North Borneo, c. 1948-1960

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Doris Y. S. Chan – University of Bristol

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: To Be Modern and International: Cosmopolitan Aspirations of Artists in 1960s-1970s Hong Kong

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Michelle Wun Ting Wong – University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Agrarian Aspirations Among Aging Farmers: An Ethnographic Inquiry of Fruit Gardening in Rural Chiang Mai, Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Siu Hei Lai – Chiang Mai University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Politics of the Palate: Gastropolitical Praxis across Asia and the Asian Diasporas

Location: VCC, Room 122

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

1: Mobilities, Specters, and the Aroma of Tea: Cosmologies and Chronopolitics of Provenance in the Chinese Tea Industry

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Yiran Tao (he/him/his) – University of Oxford

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: From Settler Cuisine to Strategic Food: “Busan Eomuk” and the Transnational Gastropolitics of Colonialism, Nation-building, and Globalization

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Ji-Yeon Jo (she/her/hers) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Inventing “South Indian Food” in Japan: Power in a Transnational Fascination

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Taiki Sano (he/him/his) – University of Tokyo

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Hallyu: Korean Restaurant Businesses in Melbourne, Australia

Location: VCC, Room 122

Presenting Author: Jihye Kim (she/her/hers) – University of Melbourne

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Political Ecology In Upland Southeast Asia—Part 2: New Economies, Community Governance, and Exclusion

Location: VCC, Room 201

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 – Chiang Mai University

Paper Presenter: Alphonse Badolo (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University

Co-Presenter: Abdurrahman Abdullah (he/him/his) – Hasanuddin University

Co-Presenter: Andrew Lewis (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Paper Presenter: Novena Kapisa (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Discussant: Micah Fisher (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Elephant Economics: Conditions for Benefiting from the Elephant Tourism Market in an Upland Karen Village

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Xiaoyun Neo (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: The Karen Shirt of Mom: Weaving Together Ecological Knowledge, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Madeline Chorney (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Co-Presenter: Tanya Limkhumduang – Chiang Mai University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: From Forest to Faucet: Strategies of Community Water Governance in an Upland Community in Northern Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Alphonse Badolo (he/him/his) – Chiang Mai University

Co-author: Abdurrahman Abdullah (he/him/his) – Hasanuddin University

Co-author: Andrew Lewis (he/him/his) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: In the Shadow of a National Park: Creating Community in Spite of Boundaries

Location: VCC, Room 201

Presenting Author: Novena Kapisa (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Postbellum Disability and Veteran Settlement in China and Vietnam: Postcolonial Violence, Institutional Change, and Frontier Landscapification of the Body

Location: VCC, Room 202

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

1: Violence of the Invalid: Displaced “Wounded Soldiers” in China’s Long Second World War

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Hanzhi Dai (he/him/his) – University of Edinburgh

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Representing Disability and Maritime Threats in the War Remnants Museum in Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Ai Binh T. Ho (She/They) – Independent Scholar

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Accommodating Veterans in China: An Institutional Analysis of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs (MVA)

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Kai Yang (he/him/his) – Lingnan University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Healing Waters in Religious and Everyday Practices in Chinese Society (12th–20th Centuries)

Location: VCC, Room 203

Organizer: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen

Chair: James Robson (he/him/his) – Harvard University

Paper Presenter: Changzhong Bhiksuni – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Geo-Spiritual Assemblages in Premodern Chinese Buddhism: The Case of Miaoxi Spring at the Ningbo Ayuwang Monastery

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Changzhong Bhiksuni – Brown University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Beyond Purification: Water as the Agent of Soul-Reconstitution in the Daoist Yellow Register Retreat

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Jingyu Liu – Rollins College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Local Knowledge and Practice of Healing Hot Springs in Early Modern China

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Fei Huang – University of Tübingen

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Miracles, Healings, and the Politics of Holy Water in Chinese Christian Texts

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: Ji Li (she/her/hers) – University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Inedible Food in Premodern China: Cultural, Sensory, and Epistemic Boundaries (12th–18th Centuries)

Location: VCC, Room 204

Organizer: Wandi Wang – Lehigh University

Chair: Jeffrey Moser – Brown University

Paper Presenter: Wandi Wang – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: From the Unpalatable to the Unthinkable: Recipes Beyond Edibility in Thirteenth-Century Literati Culture

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Wandi Wang – Lehigh University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: When Food Kills: Visual Evidence of Poisoning in Southern Song Criminal Cases and Coroners’ Manuals

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Ari D. Levine (he/him/his) – University of Georgia

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Between Edible and Inedible: Transregional Exchanges of “Fragrant Tea“ and Its Cultural History in Yuan and Ming China (1270s–1640s)

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Xiaosong Gao – University of California, Santa Barbara

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Producing and Consuming Inedible Music Like Edible Food: Four Case Studies from Ming-Qing China

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Joseph Lam – University of Michigan

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Narrating the Revolution: Theoretical Practice and Cultural Production in China’s Late Cultural Revolution

Location: VCC, Room 205

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Staging the Commune as a Practice for Thinking History (1974-1976)

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Harlan D. Chambers – Göttingen University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Engaging with Current Events: Morning Glow and the Present Tense of the Late Cultural Revolution

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Xuesong Shao – University of California, Davis

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Restoring the Past or Securing the Future: Yang Rongguo and the Late Cultural Revolution

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Rebecca Karl – New York University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: The Proletarian Position: Collective Authorship and Amateur Writing During the Late Cultural Revolution

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Benjamin Kindler – Lingnan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Beyond the Visual: Gender, Queerness, and Media Margins in Japanese Popular Culture

Location: VCC, Room 206

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

1: Acting Boys, Voicing Boys: The Queer Dissonance of Summer Vacation 1999

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Haruki Sekiguchi (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Gender Deviance in the Bodies of Anime Characters

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Minori Murosaki Ishida (she/her/hers) – Niigata University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Free and Faceless: Gender, Sexuality, and Authenticity in Japanese “Ero-voice” Bulletin Boards

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Lucy Glasspool – Nagoya University of Foreign Studies

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: On Origin Stories and Canon Events: Rethinking Anime Fandom in the U.S.

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Alexis Rangell-Onwuegbuzia (they/them/theirs) – Columbia University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Traces of Science, Medicine, and the Environment: Ethnographic Explorations in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 207

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

1: Carbon as a Metric of the Nation in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Darius Sadighi (he/him/his) – Princeton University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: The War on Diabetes from the Ground: Citizen Health in Singapore and the Nusantara?

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer (he/him/his) – King's College London

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Science & Spirits in the Search for Vietnamese Martyrs

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Tiên Dung Hà (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Seoul Mates: Transformations of Gender and Intimacy in Contemporary South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 208

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

1: Neoliberal Love and the Decline of Marriage and Fertility in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Alex J. Nelson (he/him/his) – University of Indianapolis

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: “Swiping” in South Korea: Tinder and Generation MZ’s Attitudes and Strategies About Dating and Sex

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Seung-kyung Kim (she/her/hers) – Indiana University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: “Frogs Don’t Remember When They Were Tadpoles”: Searching for Love in South Korea’s “Cyber Gay Ghetto”

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: John Cho (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Pathways to Heterosexual Refusal: Evolving Gender Relations in South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Meera Choi – Yale University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Shifting Modes of Subjectivity in North Korea: From Socialist Heroes to Aspiring Individuals, 1960s-present

Location: VCC, Room 209

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

1: The Struggle Within: Aspirations for Self-Mastery in Ch’ŏllima-Era North Korea

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Sunghee Kim (he/him/his) – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Trapped Talent and the Illusion of Upward Mobility: Reading North Korea’s Caste System in Kim Chŏng-ae’s Polaris

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Gae-hwa Bae (she/her/hers) – Dankook University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Representation of Individual Aspirations in North Korean Cinema

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Young-a Park (she/her/hers) – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Visions of Decolonization in Colonial Korea, 1920s-1940s: Yun Ch’i-ho, Yŏ Un-hyŏng, and O Yŏng-jin

Location: VCC, Room 210

Organizer: Irhe Sohn (he/him/his) – Smith College

Organizer: Chung-Hee Ryu – Fukuoka University

Chair: Kyeong-Hee Choi – University of Chicago

Paper Presenter: Irhe Sohn (he/him/his) – Smith College

Paper Presenter: Chung-Hee Ryu – 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

1: Documenting Korea (Post)colonially: O yŏng-jin's Film Realism and the Question of Decolonization

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Irhe Sohn (he/him/his) – Smith College

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: A Conservative Nationalist’s Appropriation of Socialism: The Case of Yun Ch’i-ho in Colonial Korea

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Chung-Hee Ryu – Fukuoka University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Re-articulating the “Subject” of Decolonization: Yŏ Un-hyŏng’s Strategic Pragmatism in Colonial Korea

Location: VCC, Room 210

Presenting Author: Jong-wook Hong – Seoul National University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Staging the Frontier: Jeju Island as a Site of Development Experiments

Location: VCC, Room 211

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

1: Stitching Island to Mainland over Cold War Devastation: Success Narratives of the Jeju Saemaŭl Movement in the 1970s

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Sungjo Kim – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Grafting Recovery: Citrus Farming and the Political Ecologies of Postwar Jeju

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: June Hee Kwon – California State University, Sacramento

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Perpetual Opening: Neoliberal Experiments and Cycles of Dispossession in Jeju

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Youjeong Oh – University of Texas at Austin

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Island for Outer Space: Developmentalism and Space Imaginaries in Jeju Island

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Hae Seo Kim – University of California, Irvine

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

China in Global Circulation: Reconfiguring Knowledge, Institutions, and Resources in the Early Twentieth Century

Location: VCC, Room 212

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Imagining the International: China and the Making of Institutional Internationalism, 1919-1931

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Zhenyan Lu (he/him/his) – King's College London

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Negotiations Among Foreign Economic Organizations over the Shanghai Port Renovation in the Early 1920s: Public Goods and International Coordination Under the Treaty System

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Duoxiao Wu (he/him/his) – Kyoto University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Sinicizing Missionary Lexicography: Chinese-English Dictionaries and Language Pedagogy in Late Qing Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Yundi Jin (she/her/hers) – East China Normal University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Dewey’s China Visit and His Pragmatism: The Translation of the “Science” Concept in China (1919–1925)

Location: VCC, Room 212

Presenting Author: Cheuk Huen Lee (she/her/hers) – Nankai University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

China’s Zero-Covid Policy: Affective Governance, Diaspora Mobilization, Pandemic Controls, and Exit from the System

Location: VCC, Room 213

Organizer: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto

Chair: Patricia Thornton – Oxford University

Paper Presenter: Jiaqi Liu (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University

Paper Presenter: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto

Discussant: Patricia Thornton – Oxford University

Paper Presenter: Silvia Lindtner (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

Paper Presenter: Hongshen Zhu – Lingnan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Viral Interactions: Chinese Diaspora Politics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Jiaqi Liu (he/him/his) – Singapore Management University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Living the Truth in Post-Pandemic China

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Lynette Ong – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: China’s Fifth Modernization: How Zero COVID Became a Technology for Affective Governance

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Silvia Lindtner (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Patronage Networks, Bureaucratic Management, and Local Government’s Pandemic Controls

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Hongshen Zhu – Lingnan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Port City Print Cultures: Anglophone Publishing in Asia, 1860 to 1945

Location: VCC, Room 214

Organizer: Waiyee Loh (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University

Chair: Craig Smith (he/him/his) – University of Melbourne

Paper Presenter: Richard Horowitz (he/him/his) – California State University, Northridge

Paper Presenter: Anannya Bohidar (she/her/hers) – Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

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

1: The Global, the Local, and the Evangelical: Anglophone Print Culture in Fuzhou, 1860-1890

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Richard Horowitz (he/him/his) – California State University, Northridge

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Sexual Knowledge Across the Seas: Vernacular English and Intercolonial Readings in the Indian Ocean World

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Anannya Bohidar (she/her/hers) – Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Kelly and Walsh Company in Late Qing Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Zigui Li (she/her/hers) – Sun Yat-Sen University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Littoral Literature and Port Cities: Kelly and Walsh’s It Happened in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Waiyee Loh (she/her/hers) – Kanagawa University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Challenges and Perils of a Transnational Political Community: Evidence from Global Hong Kong

Location: VCC, Room 215

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Reinvigorating Homeland Politics Overseas: Cultural Preservation Projects by Diasporic Hongkongers in the United States and the United Kingdom

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Nathan Tsang – University of Southern California

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Living in Taboo: Everyday Life Resistance and Resilience Amid Hong Kong’s Authoritarian Legality

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Yan-ho Lai – Georgetown University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Unmaking Market Activism: A Cultural Explanation for the Decline of the Yellow Economic Circle

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Pamela P Tsui – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Overshadowed Voices: Transnational Repression and Internal Tensions in Hongkonger Political Engagement

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Eunice Leong-ming Chan – Lancaster University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Experiential Learning in Asian Studies Classrooms

Location: VCC, Room 216

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

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Framing Contact: Roundtable on Disciplines, Methods, and Archives for Research on Premodern Asian Connections

Location: VCC, Room 217

Organizer: Tamara T. Chin – Brown University

Chair: Emily Hanako Everest-Phillips (she/her/hers) – Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Discussant: Shahzad Bashir – Aga Khan University

Discussant: Tamara T. Chin – Brown University

Discussant: Shigehisa Kuriyama – Harvard University

Discussant: Heather M.-L Miller (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto Mississauga

Discussant: Michelle C. Wang – Georgetown University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Class and Contentious Politics in China

Location: VCC, Room 219

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: The Making of China’s Working Class: A World to Lose

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Marc Blecher (he/him/his) – Oberlin College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Exit as a Strategy: How Chinese Undocumented Workers in the U.S. Frame Their Migration

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Elaine S. Hui (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

Co-author: Kayi Yiu (she/her/hers) – Pennsylvania State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: It Takes More Than One Village: Arbitrary Responsiveness and the Demolition Campaign in Huangpu, Guangzhou

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Zhihang Ruan (he/him/his) – City University of New York, Hunter College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Class Recomposition and Hong Kong’s Turbulent Return to the PRC

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Eli Friedman (he/him/his) – Cornell University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Composite Media: Communication and Its Material Forms from Song to Qing China

Location: VCC, Room 220

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 – 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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Laying Down Ink Trails: Calligraphy and the Epistolary Gift in Song China

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Lik Hang Tsui – City University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Eavesdropping on the Ming Court: A Fabricated Drama of Official Communications

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Bruce Rusk – University of British Columbia

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Chen Shu’s Paintings: More Than Materializing the Exchange Between Qian Chenqun and the Qianlong Emperor

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Sylvia W. S. Lee – City University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Correspondence on Fans: Literary Women’s Cultural Exchanges in Late Qing China

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Danni Cai – Hangzhou Normal University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Constructing “the Hui” from Song to the PRC: Historical Research in Memory of Dru C. Gladney (1956-2022)

Location: VCC, Room 221

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Genealogies as Charters for Hui Identity: Convergence from Late Ming to the Present

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Jonathan N. Lipman (he/him/his) – Mount Holyoke College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Let’s Go to Chendai! Rereading Muslim Chinese Through Mid-20th-Century Hui Ethnographic Practice

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Wlodzimierz Cieciura (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Southeast Asian Dashi: Rethinking Early Quanzhou History and Legacies

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Haiyun Ma (he/him/his) – Frostburg State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Fixing the Hui: State Taxonomies, Political Knowledge, and the Ethnic Reordering of Huihui

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Jing Xu (she/her/hers) – Indiana University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Governing Family Through Women in Qing and Modern China

Location: VCC, Room 222

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Archiving Birth: Wise Mothers, Trained Midwives, and the Biopolitical Governance of Birth in Republican China

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Ruonan Wang – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Premarital Medical Examinations and Chinese Marriage Law Across the 1949 Divide

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Wilson Miu – Tsinghua University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Loyal Wives, Loyal Nation: Regulating Marriage and Fidelity in Wartime China, 1937-1945

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Chaoran Ma – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Governing the Womb: Abortion, Adultery, and the State Anxiety in Qing China

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Wan Zhao (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

What to do When Everything is Terrible: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Japanese Studies to Purpose in the Everyday

Location: VCC, Room 301

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

1: Intersections in the Archives: U.S. Japan Nuclear Abolition and the Civil Rights Movement

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Tanya Maus (she/her/hers) – Wilmington College

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Following the Footprints of the Poems: Immigration, Illness, and the Search for Belonging in the Poetry of Constantine Troutscheff

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Kathryn M. Tanaka (she/her/hers) – University of Hyogo

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Ayahuasca, Apocalypse, and Yo-naoshi: Japanese Spiritual Lineages and the Psychedelic Reinvention of Purpose

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Itamar Zadoff (he/him/his) – University of Haifa

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: From Anger to Activism: Frustration Inspired Change in a Tokyo Municipality

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Alexandra Hambleton (she/her/hers) – Tsuda University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Women, Genji, Poetry

Location: VCC, Room 302

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 – Waseda University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: A Study of Kaoku Gyokuei’s “Tale of Genji Chapter-Title Poems”

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Akihiko Niimi (he/him/his) – Waseda University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Hybrid Ideals and Publisher Autonomy: Kashiwaraya and the Jokunsho Market in Early Modern Osaka

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Saeko Suzuki (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: “Tale of Genji Chapter-Title Poems” and Pictures in the Treasure-Box of the Greater Learning for Women

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Joshua Mostow (he/him/his) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Shifting the Narrative: Reading, Reception, and Religious Recontextualization of Genji monogatari kanmei waka in Onna daigaku takarabako

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Sydney Olney (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Work and Meaning in the Literature, Film, and Media of Contemporary Japan

Location: VCC, Room 303

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

1: Bullshit Jobs in Murakami Haruki’s 1980s Fiction

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Brian Hurley – University of Texas at Austin

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Recession Aesthetics: Craft and Compromise in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Digital Cinema

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Mieko Anders – Columbia University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Cross-Cultural Precariat Consciousness and the Absurdities of Literary Digital Labor

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Jonathan E. Abel – Pennsylvania State University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Haunting Japanese Colonial Legacies: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnational Decolonization in Postwar South Korea and Japan

Location: VCC, Room 304

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

1: Missing Teishintai Women as Haunting Illegitimate War Memory After Japan-South Korea Normalization Treaty

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Sangmi Bae (she/her/hers) – Korea University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: Militarism and Women’s Bodies: The Continuity Between “Sexual Entertainment” for Japanese Repatriates and the Japanese Military’s “Comfort Women” System in Matsumoto Seicho’s “The Red Lottery”

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Izumi Nakaya (she/her/hers) – Nishogakusha University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: (Local) Wives of Economic Animals vs. (Local) Wives of Freedom Fighters: Media, Masculinity, and National Belonging in Cold War Korea

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Katherine Hye-Ryun Yang (she/her/hers) – George Washington University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Opposing Neocolonial Exploitation Without Asking: Japanese Feminist Representations of Commodified Sexual Labor in South Korea (1970s-1980s)

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Mairead Cecille Hynes (she/her/hers) – Columbia University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Intermedial Performances of Gender in Modern Korea and China

Location: VCC, Room 305

Organizer: Hyun Suk Park (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

Chair: Tarryn L. Chun – 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 – University of Notre Dame

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

1: Women Dancing with Swords at the Royal Court of Chosŏn Korea

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Hyun Suk Park (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: The Female Performance of Masculinity on the Public Stage in Fin-de-siècle Shanghai

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Peng Xu (she/her/hers) – ShanghaiTech University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Toward an Open Stage: Sisterhood, Self-Reform, and Socialist Aesthetics in Stage Sisters (1964)

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Hyunjeong Lee (she/her/hers) – University of Seoul

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: Shamanic Chant and Contemporary Korean Poetry: Intermedial Performances of Princess Pari by Kim Hyesun

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Ivanna Yi (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Japanese Conservatism since the 1990s and the Rise of Participatory Populism

Location: VCC, Room 306

Organizer: Nathaniel M. Smith – Ritsumeikan University

Chair: Kenneth Ruoff – Portland State University

Paper Presenter: Kohei Kurahashi – 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

1: Historical Revisionism and Participatory Media Culture on the Far Right

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Kohei Kurahashi – Soka University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

2: National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and Digital Populism in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Nathaniel M. Smith – Ritsumeikan University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

3: Exploring Central Actors in Japan’s Conservative Movements: Centrality, Coalitions, and Political Linkages

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Yoojin Koo – International Christian University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

4: A Strange Realignment: The Unification Church and Populist Politics in Post-Abe Japan

Location: VCC, Room 306

Presenting Author: Tomomi Yamaguchi – Ritsumeikan University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Poster Session #3

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Cultural Coding of Color: A Comparative Study of Eastern and Western Perspectives and Modern Applications

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Lokyan Vivian Li – University of California, Davis

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Contours of Discourse: Visualizing Seminal Works in East Asian Digital Humanities as Word Embeddings

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Eric H. C Chow – University of Hong Kong

Digital Technology

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Constructing Sanctity: Translation Rituals in Buddhist Biographies and Catalogues in Early Medieval China (266-907)

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Diyuke Wu (she/her/hers) – Columbia University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Editing Harmony: Wang Ao, Gazetteers, and the Politics of Reconciliation

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Tony Yingchong Li – Harvard University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Engagement as Well as Collection: Zines in Asian Studies Libraries

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Zoë McLaughlin – Michigan State University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Engaging Faith-based Organizations to Address Vaccine Hesitancy in LMICS: Insights from Pakistan

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Saeed Ahmad, MBBS, MSPH, MPM, PhD – Health Services Academy

South Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

Fashioning Resistance: Clothing, Definition and Vernacular Feminism in Late Qing Shanghai Pictorials (1884-1912)

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Zhiyue Gao (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Baptist University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

From Imperial Symbol to Civic Stage: Public Consciousness and Spatial Politics at Gwanghwamun Plaza

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: zichang wang – Yanbian University

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

From Peaks to Ports: An HGIS-based Reconstruction of Chosŏn’s Capital Defense

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Gangwon Lee – Korea National University of Arts

Northeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

Socioeconomic Development and Environmental Issues

Location: VCC, Room 218

Chair: Siti Kusujiarti – Warren Wilson College

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

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

1: The Role of the Dutch Trading Association, Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam (HVA), in the Socio-Economic Development of Colonial Java (Indonesia), 1879–1958

Location: VCC, Room 218

Individual Paper Presenter: Dagm Alemayehu Tegegn (he/him/his) – National Cheng Kung University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

2: Rethinking Environmental Ethics Through Kapwa and Bayanihan: Indigenous Filipino Responses to the Climate Crisis

Location: VCC, Room 218

Individual Paper Presenter: Janflor Mc.louie S. Ullero (he/him/his) – National University

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

3: Maritime Barriers: Institutional Challenges in Developing a Philippine Oceangoing Fleet

Location: VCC, Room 218

Individual Paper Presenter: Karl Friedrik K. Poblador (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

5: Governing the Forest Carbon Through Market-Based Mechanisms: Policy Design and Framework Development in the Lao PDR

Location: VCC, Room 218

Individual Paper Presenter: Yunrui Ren (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

4: Displaced Futures: Indigenous Agency, Development, and Contestation in New Clark City, Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 218

Individual Paper Presenter: Emmanuel L. Alba (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Kashmir Beyond Nation and Discipline

Location: VCC, Room 212

Organizer: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University

Chair: Junyoung Verónica Kim (she/her/hers) – New York University

Book Author: Omer Aijazi – University of Manchester

Speaker: Mona Bhan (she/her/hers) – Syracuse University

Speaker: Darren Byler – Simon Fraser University

Speaker: Eleana Kim (she/her/hers) – University of California, Irvine

Speaker: Pasang Sherpa (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Eco-Encounters: Reconsidering Flora and Fauna in Chinese Art and Material Culture

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: The Abject and the Animate: Reconsidering the Representation of Nature in Nineteenth-Century Guangdong through the Work of Ju Lian (1828-1904)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Shing-Kwan Chan (he/him/his) – Princeton University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Nature in Migration: Coastal Explorations and Marine Lives in Chines Literati Painting During the Nineteenth Century

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Anran Tu (she/her/hers) – Metropolitan Museum of Art

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Inscribing Nature on Everyday Objects: Materializing Natural History on Chinese Inksticks from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Wilson Chan (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Chu Hai College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Rediscovering China’s Inner Asian Borderlands: The Camel in Western Travelogue and Chinese Painting, 1920s–1940s

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

Presenting Author: Feng Guo – University of Edinburgh

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Data-driven Developments in China: New Dynamics of State, Labor, and Financial Capital

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

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

1: The Data Fix: Smart Farming and the Politics of Platformizing Agriculture in China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Lin Zhang – University of New Hampshire

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Culture as Finance: From News Media to Data Infrastructures

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Angela Wu – New York University

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Cultivating Data Workers for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Julie Yujie Chen – University of Toronto

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Leveraging State Capital for Datafication: The Rise of Government Guidance Investment Funds in China’s Data Industries

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

Presenting Author: Chenhao Ye – London School of Economics and Political Science

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Escaping Death and Returning to Life: Morality, Justice, and Power in the Commutation and Suspension of the Death Penalty in Modern China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Legalizing the Imperial Grace: The Pitiful and the Doubtful Cases in Ming China, 1368-1644

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Yanhong Wu (she/her/hers) – Bryn Mawr College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Reframing Mercy: The Juridical Reconfiguration of Filial Clemency Amid Qing Penal Reform

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Thomas Buoye (he/him/his) – University of Tulsa

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Between Idealism and Instrumentalism: The Death Penalty in Republican China, 1912–1937

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Guanhong Chen (he/him/his) – Macau University of Science and Technology

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: The Suspended Death Sentence Practice of the People’s Republic of China: Its Aim, Operation, and Challenges

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 3

Presenting Author: Bin Liang (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

K-pop in East Asia: Socio-Political Dynamics of Global Fandom and Local Contexts

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

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

1: How K-pop and J-pop Fans Reshape Political Activism in Taiwan: Female Fandom and Social Movements

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Ichen Chen (she/her/hers) – Nara Women's University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: K-pop Live Music and Digital Fan Activism in Transnational Contexts

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Masae Yoshimitsu – University of Nagasaki

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Global K-pop Without Idols: Netflix’s Demon Hunters and East Asian Audiences

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 4

Presenting Author: Doobo Shim – Sungshin Women's University

Co-author: Joho Yamamoto – Ritsumeikan University

Co-author: Huey-Rong Chen – Chinese Culture University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Staying and Going: Navigating the Hong Kong LGBTQ+ Lived Experience in Political Precarity

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Is Market Necessarily a Foe? Queer(ing) Geographies Through the Lens of Queer Spaces in Post-2019 Hong Kong

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Ho Lam Roland Cheng (he/him/his) – University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: The Authoritarian Capitalism Absorption of LGBTQ+ Movement in Post-2019 Hong Kong

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Javier Pang (he/him/his) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Politicizing Sexual Wellbeing: The Intersection of Sexuality and Political Identity of Hong Kong Gay Migrants in Canada

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

Presenting Author: Leo Zephyrus Chow (he/him/his) – University of Alberta

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Gaming Narratives: Towards a Ludic Epistemology in Early Modern East Asia

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Rolling Through Numbers: Dice, Narrative, and Historical Reading in the Game Han Guan Yi

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Jiayi Chen – Washington University in Saint Louis

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Playing Stories: When Storytelling and Gameplay Criss-Cross

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Laura Moretti – University of Cambridge

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Playful Rivalry and Abbreviated Storytelling: A Poetry Jam in 17th-Century Korea

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Barbara Wall (she/her/hers) – University of Copenhagen

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Simulated Narratives and Genre Transformation: Rethinking Female Hero Novels in Late Joseon Korea

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 6

Presenting Author: Kang-eun Kim – Sungkyunkwan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Governing and Gauging the People: A Story of Chinese Population in the Long 20th Century

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Constructing Population: A Bourdieusian Analysis of Demographic Knowledge in Republican China (1911-1945)

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Yimang Zhou (he/him/his) – Renmin University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: “Promoting [birth Control] Among Workers and Peasants”—Reading Population from the Peiping Morning Post in the Early 1930s

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Zhelun Zhou (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: What Counts as a Population Crisis? Technocratic Anxiety and Demographic Debate in Late-1980s China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Weihan Sun (he/him/his) – University of Oxford

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Uterine Governance: The Practice and Evolution of the Birth Planning Policy in Rural Areas (1979-1983)—The Case of Y County

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

Presenting Author: Xinyue Zheng (she/her/hers) – Peking University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

In a Sense: Early Modern Travels of China’s Sensoria across Borders, Geographies, and Cultures

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Senses and Sensibility in and Beyond the Mediterranean: Chinese Materials in Early Modern Rome and Naples

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Anna D’Ambrosio (she/her/hers) – Bibliotheca Hertziana

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Sensing Alterity: Ming and Italian Accounts of Sixteenth-Century Macau

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Yixin Alfred Wang (he/him/his) – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: “So Much a Musical Language:” Chinese Soundscapes and the Sound of the Chinese Language in Early Modern European Sources

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 8

Presenting Author: Albert Kozik (he/him/his) – University of Warsaw

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Plays of Power across Page and Stage

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Performing the Vernacular: Local Narrative Performance Traditions and Storytelling Conventions in Shanghai Dialect Novel Fanhua

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Individual Paper Presenter: Yuyang Han (she/her/hers) – Ohio State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Stage as Concession: The Reception of Agatha Christie’s Plays in Shanghai and Cultural Self-Colonization

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Individual Paper Presenter: Chun Shan, N/A (she/her/hers) – University of Exeter

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

5: Pocket Plays: Lithography, Cultural Censorship, and Peking Opera in Late-Qing Shanghai

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Individual Paper Presenter: Yizhuo Li (she/her/hers) – City University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Actresses Born and Bred: Commodification and Mythologizing in Li Yu’s “Collective Biography of Two Concubines”

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Individual Paper Presenter: Lenore Szekely (she/her/hers) – University of Winnipeg

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Staging Gods for the Emperor: Use of Religious Elements in Qing Court Theatre

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

Individual Paper Presenter: Cheuk Yee Wai (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Information Empire: Notation, Transmission, Translation, and Knowledge Production in Early China

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Reconceptualizing the Syllabic Information Encoded in Phonetic Components of Early Chinese Characters

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Zev Handel (he/him/his) – University of Washington

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Ouroboros Format and Orality: Organization of Linguistic and Textual Information in the Dunhuang Han Manuscripts

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Qiran Jin – Princeton University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Poetry in Trans-Lingual and Intra-Lingual Practices: The “Song of a Yue Person” and Its Implications

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Yixin Gu (he/him/his) – Lingnan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Information Organization and Communication at the Periphery of the Qin and Han Empires

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

Presenting Author: Tao Guo – Wuhan University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Elusive Equality: Marginality, Structure, and Reproduction of Inequality in South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

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

1: Caste Capital and Educational Inequality: Schooling and Merit in India

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Utkarsh Kamal (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Spatial Marginalities and Gendered Practices: The Case of Women Adikasu Vendors in Puducherry, India

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Raveena Esther Ravichandran (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Reinforcing Inequality? Socio-Economic Disparities Among Madheshi Dalit Women in Nepal

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Ranju Kumari Yadav (she/her/hers) – Tribhuvan University

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Disciplining Queer Bodies: A Study of Police Violence Against LGBTQ Individuals in India

Location: VCC, Room 103/104

Presenting Author: Theodora Cecilia Gomes (she/her/hers) – Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Negotiating Indigenous Self-Government Across Asia

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

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

1: Towards Indigenous Territorial Autonomy in Asia

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Shane J. Barter – Soka University of America

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: From Recognition to Representation: Collective Rights and Electoral Behavior in the Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Nina McMurry – Vanderbilt University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Uncovering the IP Struggle: Exploring the Moro Conflict and Peacebuilding in Mindanao Through Gendered Narratives

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Paper Presenter: Myla Chawla – York University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Official Responses: Future of Ethnic Autonomy in South Asia

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

Presenting Author: Hari Har Jnawali – Queen's University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Thinking Comparatively About China: Interarea and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Location: VCC, Room 109

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

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Power and the Narrative in Vietnamese Tales and Stories

Location: VCC, Room 110

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

1: Power and Magical Objects in Vietnam: From the Turtle’s Claw to Le Loi’s Sword

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Claudine Ang – National University of Singapore

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Female Power and Prestige in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam: Stories from “Biographies of Exemplary Women”

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Kathlene Baldanza – Pennsylvania State University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Flipping the Center of Power: A Lê Dynasty Envoy’s Bizarre Adventure in Qing China

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Lu Zhao – New York University Shanghai

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Altered Appearances: The Barbarity of Zhao Tuo in Shiji

Location: VCC, Room 110

Presenting Author: Jacqueline Yu – Columbia University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Tibetan Art in the Teaching Museum: Reflections on Forms of Awakening

Location: VCC, Room 111

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 (she/her/hers) – Indiana University

Discussant: Tsepak Namgyal (he/him/his) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Discussant: Andrew Quintman (he/him/his) – Wesleyan University

Discussant: Wenshing Chou – Hunter College

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Beyond Immigration Controls: The Politics of (E)migration in Transnational East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 112

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

1: Emigration Control in Late Meiji Japan: The View from the Nagasaki Prefectural Passport Bureau

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Paul Kreitman (he/him/his) – Columbia University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: A “Vexed Question”: Limiting Dual British-Chinese Nationality Through Renunciation, 1927-1940s

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Phyllis Chan (she/her/hers) – University of Bristol

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Limit Emigration, Protect the Nation: China’s Policies of Migration Control in the Early 1930s

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Tommy Yui Chim Lo – University of Manchester

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Through the Hong Kong Pipeline: International Relief Organizations and the Politics of Displacement from the People’s Republic of China

Location: VCC, Room 112

Presenting Author: Jon Howlett (he/him/his) – University of York

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

GLAM-ing it Up: Exploring Narratives of Asia through Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Location: VCC, Room 113

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

Organizer: Yiwen Liu – Harvard University

Chair: Wen-chien Cheng (she/her/hers) – Royal Ontario Museum

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

Speakers: Yiwen Liu – Harvard University

Speakers: Sarah Magnatta (she/her/hers) – University of Denver

Speakers: Yi Shan – University of Texas at Austin

Speakers: Janice Glowski (she/her/hers) – Otterbein University

Speakers: Kimberly Masteller – Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Stanislas Julien’s French Laozi as a Nexus for Interpretive Lineages Linking Chinese Commentaries and Foreign Translations: The Global Laozegetics Method in Practice

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Misha Tadd (he/him/his) – Nankai University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Contesting Interpretations of Daoist Essence: Frederic Henry Balfour’s English Translation of the Daodejing

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Dadui Yao (he/him/his) – Hainan University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Whose Truth in the Dao? Figurist Echoes and Translational Polemics in Plaenckner’s and Strauß’s German Translation of the Daodejing

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Sophie Ling-chia Wei (she/her/hers) – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Border-Crossing Studies on Daoism in Eurasia: Theological Legacies and Translational Lineages in Interpretations of the Daodejing

Location: VCC, Room 114

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

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

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: Lingfang Wang (she/her/hers) – Australian National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Oral History Across Borders: Practices and Reflections from East Asia and the United States

Location: VCC, Room 115

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 (she/her/hers) – Elon University

Discussant: Sunwoo Lee – Ewha Womans University

Discussant: Christian McCall – Tennessee Tech University

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

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

The American Century and the Korean Peninsula: Critical Perspectives on the U.S. Empire from Colonial Korea and North and South Koreas

Location: VCC, Room 118

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

1: From Japanese Empire to Pax Americana: Ch’oe Chaesŏ’s Spectral Order of Literary Theory

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Janet Poole – University of Toronto

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: From a Liberator to an Oppressor: The United States in the Post-Liberation Korean Peninsula

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Jae-Yong Kim (he/him/his) – Wonkwang University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Gender and Nationalism in the Kim Chŏnghan’s “A Letter from Okinawa”

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Sang-Kyung Lee (she/her/hers) – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Hell and Peace: North Korean Readings of American Literature, 1950-1990

Location: VCC, Room 118

Presenting Author: Moon-seok Jang (he/him/his) – Kyung Hee University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Collaborative Knowledge and Sacred Materialities: Reflecting on Ethnographic and Curatorial Innovations in Asian Studies - A Session in Honor of Laurel Kendall

Location: VCC, Room 119

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

1: “Even in Death I Shall Not Decay, for My Life Story Endures”: Gendered Experience and Moral Agency in Korean Shamanic Narratives

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Seong Nae Kim (she/her/hers) – Sogang University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Ethnographic Writing as Collaborative Practice: Re-reading Getting Married in Korea

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Eun-Shil Kim (she/her/hers) – Ewha Womans University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Embodied Spirits and the Ritual Life of Things: Laurel Kendall’s Ethnographic and Curatorial Legacy

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Hien Thi Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Vietnam National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: When Thangka Painters Meet Contemporary Artists: The Representation of Tibetan Buddhist Images in Art Galleries

Location: VCC, Room 119

Presenting Author: Ming Xue (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Political Economy of Land, Wealth and Resources in Indonesian Oligarchic Democracy

Location: VCC, Room 120

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

1: Successors of power: Timber laundering and the paradox of oligarchy in democratic Borneo

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Mariam (Mila) Jameelah – Utrecht University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Extraction to Generation: Coal Lock-In and Renewable Energy Transition Constraints in Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Egi Primayogha – Indonesia Corruption Watch

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: From the Ground Up: Examining Micro-Level Land Politics in Indonesia, 1960-1975

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: William Hurst – University of Cambridge

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Oligarchy in Motion: Dirty Politics over Clean Energy Transition in Nickel-Rich Indonesia

Location: VCC, Room 120

Presenting Author: Takahiro Kamisuna – University of Cambridge

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Gendered Economies: Women, Money, and Marriage in South Korea, 1960s-1980s

Location: VCC, Room 121

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

1: Her Purse: Covert Money, Domestic Influence, and the Gendered Economy of Survival in Postwar Korea

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Eunhee Park (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: (In)dependence and Subjectivity: Marriage and the Middle Class in Pak Wan-sŏ’s a Faltering Afternoon

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Tanner Rogers (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Ideal Husbands and Wives: Money and Courtship in Weekly Magazines in 1960s-1970s South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Jihyun Shin (she/her/hers) – MacEwan University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: From Pokpuin to Factory Girls: Gender, Class, and Patriarchy in Postwar South Korean Cinema

Location: VCC, Room 121

Presenting Author: Eunyoung Song (she/her/hers) – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Comparative Historical Analysis and Southeast Asian Politics

Location: VCC, Room 122

Organizer: Erik M. Kuhonta – McGill University

Chair: Erik M. Kuhonta – McGill University

Discussant: Rahardhika Utama – Atma Jaya University

Discussant: Nhu Truong (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant: Reo Matsuzaki (he/him/his) – Trinity College

Discussant: Sana Jaffrey – Australian National University

Discussant: Paul D. Hutchcroft – Australian National University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Social Life of Disappointment in Contemporary Asia

Location: VCC, Room 201

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

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Health Messaging in the Philippines: Histories, Strategies, and Futures

Location: VCC, Room 202

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

Sponsored By Philippine Studies Group

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: “More Calories, More Protein, More Progress”: The Nutribun and the Politics of Nostalgia of the Marcos Regime

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Nicolo Paolo Ludovice – Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Co-author: Francisco Jayme Paolo Guiang – University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: “The Island of Living Hope”: Leprosy Eradication Publicity in the Late American Colonial Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Joshua G. Acosta (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Kuwento Ni Rosario (The Story of Rosario): Narrating Social Medicine in Contemporary Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Gideon Lasco – University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Framing Crisis in Metaphors: Baguio LGU’s Communication Strategies on COVID-19

Location: VCC, Room 202

Presenting Author: Ruth M. Tindaan (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Baguio

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

The Question of Value(s) in Vietnamese Social Life

Location: VCC, Room 203

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

1: The Social Life of Plastic in Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: THU HA PHAM – University of Chicago

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: No One Has “Time” in the United States

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: SON CA LAM – University of Massachusetts, Boston

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Gilbert Chieu’s Enlightened Renewal Movement 1907-1909

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: ANTHONY MORREALE – University of California, Berkeley

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Beyond Lettered Domains: Rethinking Approaches to Vietnamese Political History

Location: VCC, Room 203

Presenting Author: KEVIN LI – The Dalton School

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Performing Counterworlds and Imaginative Futures in Contemporary Indonesia and Beyond

Location: VCC, Room 204

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

1: Fasting, Feasting, and the Pious Pleasure of Ramadan

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Anne Rasmussen (she/her/hers) – William & Mary

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Ghostmist Lingers in Community Failure: Creative Autoethnography and Reflexive Improvisation in Intersectional Balinese Epistemologies

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Putu Hiranmayena (he/him/his) – Grinnell College

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Transformational Poetics in Papuan Literature

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Sylvia Tiwon (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Reviving the Goddess of Rice in Contemporary Java: The Arts of Praxis in Transformative Social Movements

Location: VCC, Room 204

Presenting Author: Megan R. Hewitt (she/her/hers) – The American Institute for Indonesian Studies

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Recasting the Qing-Russian Frontier: Economic Policy, Commercial Migration, and Settler Communities in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria, 1850s-1900s

Location: VCC, Room 205

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Commerce and Consuls: Qing Statecraft and Chinese Merchant Networks in Vladivostok, 1880s to 1900s

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Hekang Yang – Columbia University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: The “Kiakhta System” Debates: Supporters and Critics of Continental Chinese-Russian Trade in the 1850s-1860s

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Ilya Vinkovetsky – Simon Fraser University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Familiar Foreigners: Russian Villages in the Eastern Chinese-Russian Borderlands

Location: VCC, Room 205

Presenting Author: Loretta Kim – University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Responses to War and Conquest in Middle Period China (916-1368): Emotion, Ideology, Politics, and Practice

Location: VCC, Room 206

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Revenge for the Jingkang Calamity 靖康之難 (1126-1127)? Reinterpreting the Emotional Responses and Motivations of Refugees During the Early Southern Song

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Ting Cheung Wong (he/him/his) – Binghamton University, SUNY

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Emotional Tensions and Visual Responses: Rethinking Zhao Mengfu’s Service to the Yuan

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Qian Zhan (she/her/hers) – Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Neo-Confucianism, the Military, and the Mongol Invasions of Song China: The State Councilors Border Defense System

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Wuliang Qu (he/him/his) – Tsinghua University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Sworn Brotherhood and Emperor-Subject Ties: Emotional Contexts of Liao-Song Diplomacy

Location: VCC, Room 206

Presenting Author: Ruixue Zhou (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Global Maoism? Maoist Globalism!: Exporting Wigs, Words, and Watercolors

Location: VCC, Room 207

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

1: Aesthetics of Afro-Asia and (Trans)National Forms: Socialist Realism Between Egypt and China, 1955-1965

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Jin Wang (she/her/hers) – City University of New York, Graduate Center

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Afro-Asian Solidarity Between the Cultural Revolution and the Cultural Cold War: A Study on the Call

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Liangyu Hu – Beijing Language and Culture University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: What Happened to the Hair?: Discipline, Performativity, and the Secret Trade in 1960s-70s China

Location: VCC, Room 207

Presenting Author: Yue Wu – Stanford University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Grasslands, Coalfields, and Ancestral Hills: Territorial Transformations and Indigenous Futures in High Mountain Asia

Location: VCC, Room 208

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

Sponsored By AAS South Asia Council (SAC)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Ancestors Are Not Property: Care and Labor in Rai Territory Making

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: anudeep Dewan (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Indigenous Welfarism: The Role of Social Institutions in Mizoram, India

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Thangsiandong Guite (he/him/his) – Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Mining Away Memory: Land, Loss, and Extractive Dispossession in Indigenous Nagaland, India

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Repakaba Tzudir (he/him/his) – Nagaland University

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: From Grassland to Glassland: Transformation of Tibetan Pastoral Land and Livelihoods under Renewable Energy Development

Location: VCC, Room 208

Presenting Author: Sanggay Tashi (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Narrating the Archipelago: Geonarratives and Spatial Storying in the Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 209

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

1: Mining Life Stories: Cartographic Narratives of Artisanal Miners in Northern Philippines

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Joseph Palis (he/him/his) – University of the Philippines Diliman

Co-author: Lou Angeli A. Ocampo (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: “They Took My Father’s Land”: Counter-Mapping as an Expression of Bisayan Epistemologies

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Jake Atienza (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: The Place of Emotions and Ceremonious Fraternization in a Philippine Carceral Setting: Affective Labor as Mundane Violence

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Hannah Glimpse Nario Lopez (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, SUNY

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Children’s Cartographies: Creative World-Building Through Geonarrative Mapping

Location: VCC, Room 209

Presenting Author: Dominique Sasha N. Amorsolo (she/her/hers) – University of the Philippines Diliman

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

On Women, Sexuality, and Gender Diversity

Location: VCC, Room 210

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 – 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

1: Fluid Solidarities: Alternative Community Advocacy Strategies for Transmasculine Health in Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 210

Individual Paper Presenter: Adrian Beyer (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Buddhist Masculinity and the Life of Burmese Male Sex Workers in Northern Thailand

Location: VCC, Room 210

Individual Paper Presenter: Amnuaypond Kidpromma (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Defining “Sống Thật” on Vietnamese Media Platforms: A Deeper Cut into Vietnamese Queer Lives

Location: VCC, Room 210

Individual Paper Presenter: Tan Gia Bao Huynh (he/him/his) – Waseda University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

5: Effects of Online Gender Based Violence (GBV) Against Women Leaders in Southeast Asia

Location: VCC, Room 210

Individual Paper Presenter: Netina Tan (she/her/hers) – McMaster University

Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Aye Lei Tun – McMaster University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

6: Surviving Stigma: Narratives from Indonesian Sex Workers

Location: VCC, Room 210

Individual Paper Presenter: GO IGUSA – Matsuyama University

Individual Paper Co-Presenter: Katsushi Mizuno – Meiji University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Voices Missing from 20th-Century Wars in Vietnam: Women in Vietnam

Location: VCC, Room 210

Individual Paper Presenter: Patricia D. Norland (she/her/hers)

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Catholic Connectivities: Building Bridges between Asian Catholicism and the Modern World

Location: VCC, Room 211

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

1: Chinese Connectivities: The Rebirth of Catholicism in Post-Maoist China and Beyond

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Michel Chambon (he/him/his) – Asia Research Institute

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: The Mediatory Role of a Faith-Based Organization in the Framing and Dissemination of Migration Knowledge and Norms: A Case Study of Scalabrini Migration Center in Manila

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Bubbles B. Asor (she/her/hers) – De La Salle University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Charismatic Networks: Connecting the Disparate Histories of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement in Insular Southeast Asia (1965-1985)

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Bryan B. Goh (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Expert Transnationals: French Canadian Jesuits Networks Facing the End of the Vietnam War

Location: VCC, Room 211

Presenting Author: Phi-Van Nguyen (she/her/hers) – Université de Saint-Boniface

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

“Taking Life Lightly” across Empire and Republic: Chinese Histories of Suicide

Location: VCC, Room 213

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Continuity and Change in Chinese Legal Archives of Suicide from Empire to Republic

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Yiwen Yvon Wang (he/they) – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Worthy of State Honor?: Widow Suicide in Republican China

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Linh D. Vu (she/her/hers) – Arizona State University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Adjudicating Male Suicide: Husbandly Virtue on Trial in the Qing

Location: VCC, Room 213

Presenting Author: Stephanie Painter (she/her/hers) – SUNY Old Westbury

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

An Unlikely Trajectory: Taiwan’s Leftism as Literary Practice and Historical Memory

Location: VCC, Room 214

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Utopianism and Decadence: Leftist Practice of Yang Kui and Lü Heruo

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Pei-yin Lin – University of Hong Kong

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: The Rivalry Between the Leftist and Liberal Ideologies in Guo Songfen’s “Moon Seal”

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang – University of Texas at Austin

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: The Gospel According to Chen Yingzhen: Christianity and Revolutionary Consciousness in Postwar Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Po-hsi Chen – Academia Sinica

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Remembering Taiwanese Socialism: Xie Xuehong in Cross-Strait Historical Memory

Location: VCC, Room 214

Presenting Author: Mark McConaghy – National Sun Yat-sen University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Chineseness Through Video Games: A Digital Frontier in Chinese and Sinophone Studies

Location: VCC, Room 215

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

1: Rethinking Sinofuturism with Chinese Cultivation Games

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Morgan Yu Hao – City University of Hong Kong

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Simulating Chineseness: The Wuxing System as Ludic Cultural Framework in Digital Games

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Ningxi Guo – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: The Stakes of Cultural Representation in Chinese and Sinophone Videogames

Location: VCC, Room 215

Presenting Author: Michael O'Krent (he/him/his) – Goethe University

Digital Technology

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Indigeneity in the Himalayan Context: Challenges and Questions

Location: VCC, Room 216

Organizer: Fuyubi Nakamura (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Chair: Fuyubi Nakamura (she/her/hers) – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Tsering Shakya – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Tsering Dolkar Watermeyer (she/her/hers) – Memorial University of Newfoundland

Discussant: Mark Turin – University of British Columbia

Discussant: Dawa Lokyitsang – Leiden University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

Sponsored By AAS2026 Local Arrangements Committee

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Interdisciplinary Entanglements: First Book Perspectives from East Asian Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies

Location: VCC, Room 217

Organizer: Tarryn L. Chun – University of Notre Dame

Chair: Elizabeth W. Son (she/her/hers) – 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 (she/they) – University of Pennsylvania

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Guns and Butter: The Legacies of Militarism in South Korean Society and Culture

Location: VCC, Room 218

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

1: Real Women: Female Celebrities and Socioeconomic Narratives of Female Soldiers in the South Korean Military

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Howard Kahm – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Invented Walls: Heritage as Defense in Cold War Seoul

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Sinwoo Lee – California State University, Chico

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Staging the Nation: Television Camp Shows and the Domestication of Military Culture in 1980s-1990s South Korea

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Yu Jung Lee – Yonsei University

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Narrating War: Nationalist Historiography and the Yongsan War Memorial

Location: VCC, Room 218

Presenting Author: Sang Mee Oh – George Mason University Korea

Northeast Asia-Korea Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Technological Change and Continuity in Early Asia: Archaeological Perspectives on Craft, Materials, and Innovation

Location: VCC, Room 219

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 and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Technological Exchange and Continuity: Jade Crafting and Cross-Material Innovations in Early Asia

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Yating Liao (she/her/hers) – University of Toronto

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Alcohol and Rituals: The Development of Alcoholic Beverage Brewing Technology and Consumption Traditions

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Zhen Ren (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: The Integration of Qin and the Xirong: Pottery Making, Production, and Distribution at the Shanjiabao Site, Guyuan, Ningxia, China

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Bo Yuan (he/him/his) – Xibei University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: From Northeast Asia to the World: On the Emergence, Dispersal, and Transmission of Early Mouth Harps Traditions

Location: VCC, Room 219

Presenting Author: Anne-Julie Robitaille (she/her/hers) – Université de Montréal

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Consent and Sexual Violence in Contemporary Japan

Location: VCC, Room 220

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 – Sophia University

Discussant: Asato Ikeda – Fordham University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

Sponsored By Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Sexual Violence and Gendered Institutions in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Machiko Osawa (she/her/hers) – Japan Women's University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: “Sorry for Bothering You”: Involuntary Consent and the Burden of Emotional Labor

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Akiko Takeyama (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Imaginative Intimacy and Digital Coercion: Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: Maiko Kodaka (she/her/hers) – Sophia University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Chikan: Sexual Violence in Tokyo Public Space

Location: VCC, Room 220

Presenting Author: David Slater – Sophia University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Consent and the Law in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 221

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

1: Consent on Trial: Legal Interpretations and Social Implications of Japanese Rape Law

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Rachel S. Levine (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Does Contractual Intent Apply to Financial Transactions with Religious Groups? Informed Consent as a Legal Argument in Trials Concerning “Spiritual Sales” in Japan

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Ioannis Gaitanidis (he/him/his) – Chiba University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Listening with Care: Voice and the Ethics of Consent in Japanese Child Protection

Location: VCC, Room 221

Presenting Author: Christopher R. Chapman (he/him/his) – Nanyang Technological University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Critical Approaches to Political and Cultural Mythmaking in Japanese Studies

Location: VCC, Room 222

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

1: Queering the Demon King: Reexamining the Biography of Oda Nobunaga and the Process of Unification in Sixteenth–Century Japan

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Alexander Kaplan-Reyes (he/him/his)

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Beyond the Biographical Impulse: Alternative Frameworks for Rethinking Historical Agency in Japanese Studies

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Morgan Pitelka (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Conciliators in the Aftermath of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Megan Gilbert (she/her/hers) – Pomona College

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: The Tiger and the Lotus Sutra: Katō Kiyomasa’s Apotheosis and the Nichiren School in Early Modern Japan

Location: VCC, Room 222

Presenting Author: Komei Sakai – Columbia University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

The Enduring Legacies of Empire in Diaspora: Zainichi Koreans and Taiwanese in Cold War Japan

Location: VCC, Room 301

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

1: Racial Exorcism and the Colonial Seeding of Postwar Anti-Korean Hate

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Sharon Yoon (she/her/hers) – University of Notre Dame

Co-author: Ryuta Itagaki (he/him/his) – Doshisha University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Cold Cash: Zainichi Koreans in Between Finance and Politics during the Syngman Rhee Period, 1948–1960

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Brian Park (he/him/his) – University of Washington

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Tai Kuo-hui and the Birth of Taiwan Studies in Cold War Japan

Location: VCC, Room 301

Presenting Author: Seiji Shirane (he/him/his) – City University of New York, City College

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

From Fingerprint Identification to Avatar Robots: Past and Present of Technology in Japan’s Engineering of the Future

Location: VCC, Room 302

Organizer: Suma Ikeuchi – University of California, Santa Barbara

Chair: Jennifer Robertson – University of Michigan

Paper Presenter: Midori Ogasawara – 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

1: Identifying Colonial Bodies: Japan’s Biometric Surveillance in Occupied Northeast China

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Midori Ogasawara – University of Victoria

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Emulated Empathy as a Veil for Technological Shortcomings

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Yulia Frumer – Johns Hopkins University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Life at Work: Vital Labor of Elderly Bodies Through Care Robotic Devices

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Suma Ikeuchi – University of California, Santa Barbara

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Avatar Robots, Work, and Disability: Neoliberal Responsibilization or Questioning Ableist Notions of Labor?

Location: VCC, Room 302

Presenting Author: Celia Spoden – German Institute for Japanese Studies

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Harnessing the Humanities in the Age of “Overtourism”: Lessons from the People’s Guide to Tokyo

Location: VCC, Room 303

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

1: Small Histories from the World’s Largest City: Reimagining the Travel Guide in an Age of Overtourism

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Daniel V. Botsman (he/him/his) – Yale University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Materialities of Place and the Rules of In/exclusion

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Sabine Frühstück (she/her/hers) – University of California, Santa Barbara

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Beyond “High City, Low City”: Revisiting Tokyo’s Historical Geography

Location: VCC, Room 303

Presenting Author: Michael Thornton (he/him/his) – Northeastern University

Northeast Asia-Japan Focused

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

From Transnational Dreams to Nativist “Realities”: Rethinking Media History in Northeast Asia, 1930s-1945

Location: VCC, Room 304

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

1: Cultural Internationalist Media in an Age of Nativism and National(ist) Boundary-(re)making: Japanese State-Led Tourism Promotion in the World, 1937-1943

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Jason G. Butters (he/him/his) – Columbia University

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Against the Mainland: Right-Wing Movements of Japanese Settlers and the Imperial Press System in 1930s Colonial Taiwan

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Shun Tanigawa (he/him/his) – Waseda University

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: Imagined “Nation” and “Other”: The Construction of “Enemy” and the Discursive Space in Chinese-Language Media in North China, 1931–1945

Location: VCC, Room 304

Presenting Author: Yang Qu (she/her/hers) – Ludong University

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Gendered Voices and Media Forms in East Asian Popular Culture

Location: VCC, Room 305

Organizer: Xiqing Zheng (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Chair: Xiqing Zheng (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Paper Presenter: Zhuoyi Wang (he/him/his) – Hamilton College

Paper Presenter: Xiqing Zheng (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

1: From Killjoy to Punchjoy: Feminist Affect and the Rise of Chinese Female Stand-up Comedy

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Zhuoyi Wang (he/him/his) – Hamilton College

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: Gendering Chinese Internet Literature and the Emergence of the Female-Oriented Genres

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Xiqing Zheng (she/her/hers) – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

3: From I-Novel to Mobile Phone Novel: Typing, Gender, and Genre

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Yuanxue Jing (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Sanitizing the History of Queer Fandom: Female Fan Representation in Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born

Location: VCC, Room 305

Presenting Author: Jeongwon Shin (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Film, Media, and Gender

Location: VCC, Room 306

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

3: Resisting Authoritarianism: Women’s Political Agency and the Contestation of Security Governance in Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria

Location: VCC, Room 306

Individual Paper Presenter: HASINA JALAL (she/her/hers) – University of Pittsburgh

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

5: Reclaiming the Ocular: Adivasi Cinema, Global Indigenous Media Sovereignty, and the Struggle for Visual Self-Determination in Jharkhand, India

Location: VCC, Room 306

Individual Paper Presenter: Arpit Gaind (he/him/his) – University of California, Los Angeles

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

1: Agency, Attire, and Allyship: Feminist Reframing in Women-Directed Bollywood Films

Location: VCC, Room 306

Individual Paper Presenter: Rebecca L. Peters (she/her/hers) – Florida State University

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: The ‘Ideal’ Ezhava Home and the Contours of Subaltern Domesticity in Travancore, South India, 1920s-30s

Location: VCC, Room 306

Individual Paper Presenter: Mukulika Radhakrishnan (she/her/hers) – University of Sussex

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

6: Female Radicalization in Bangladesh: An Investigation of Its Scope, Extent, and Key Motivations Behind

Location: VCC, Room 306

Individual Paper Presenter: Shahla Shahreen (she/her/hers) – University of Iowa

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

2: “Our Progress Is Like Needles in Their Eyes”: Everyday Experiences of Social Mobility Among Dalit Middle-Class Women

Location: VCC, Room 306

Individual Paper Presenter: Nivedita Narendar (she/her/hers) – University of Delhi

South Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

4: Being a Heretic or a Hero? Daoist Commentaries on the Lao-Zhuang as Signs of Resistance and Adaptation in East Asia

Location: VCC, Room 114

Presenting Author: Heejung Seo-Reich (she/her/hers) – Department of Confucian and Oriental Studies, Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)

Paper Presenter: Lingfang Wang (she/her/hers) – Australian National University

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Poster Session #4

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Border Crossing/Inter-Area

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Dichotomy of Education Provision Aftermath of the 2021 Military Coup in Myanmar

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Presenting Author: Wah Wah Khine (she/her/hers) – Chiang Mai University

Southeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Foundational Bioarchaeological Baseline for Mixed Rice-Millet Farmers at Nanshan Cave, Fujian (4500–4000 BP)

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Meixu Ye – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

From “Periphery” to Governance Unit: The Nationalist Government’s Political Penetration and Social Reconstruction of the Huarui Tibetan Region

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: GUANGYE QI (she/her/hers) – Hong Kong Polytechnic University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Gender Order and STEM Track Selection in Japanese Universities: Findings from a Questionnaire Survey

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Mayumi Saegusa – Nagoya University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

German Philology, Texts, and Politics: Central Asian Collections at Leipzig University During the Nazi Era (1933–1945)

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Dagmar Schwerk – Leipzig University

East and Inner Asia (formerly China and Inner Asia)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Incorporating Sustainability Initiatives in Japan Study Abroad

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Eric Kendrick – Georgia State University

Poster Presenter: Colleen Ijuin – Georgia State University

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Japan’s Economic Security Policy

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Takayuki Kunito – Johns Hopkins University

Northeast Asia

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

Preschool Teachers’ Awareness and Practice of Traditional Vietnamese Cultural Education for Preschool Children in the Context of International Integration

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

Poster Presenter: Luyen Thi Nguyen – Hanoi National University of Education

Southeast Asia

5:30 PM - 7:15 PM PDT

Presidential Address & Awards Ceremony

Location: VCC, Ballroom C, Level 1

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

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM PDT

AAS Member Cocktail Reception

Location: VCC, Ballroom Foyer, Level 1

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

American Association of Teachers of Japanese

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 1

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

Harvard-Yenching Institute

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 2

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 1

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

Manchu Studies Group

Location: VCC, Room 219

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

Philippine Studies Group

Location: VCC, Room 217

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

Society for the study of Chinese religions

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Pacific Rim Suite 2

7:15 PM - 9:15 PM PDT

United States-Japan Foundation

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 7

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT

Burma Studies Group

Location: VCC, Room 216

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT

Education About Asia / Lucien Ellington Tribute

Location: VCC, Room 107/108

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT

Korea Foundation

Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom C, Lobby Level

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT

The Japan Foundation

Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom A & B, Lobby Level

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT

University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies

Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite 5

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PDT

Yale University Asian Studies Councils

Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Malaspina Room, Concourse Level

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT

COTSEAL

Location: VCC, Room 218

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT

Henry Luce Foundation

Location: Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Mackenzie Ballroom, Concourse Level