NEAAS Conference Schedule of Concurrent Panels / Conference Papers and Presenters
Saturday, October 4, 2014 / Nathan Hale Inn and Conference Center
- 800 – 830AM Breakfast/Welcome
Opening Remarks by Margo Machida, Acting Director of the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute (University of Connecticut)
- 830 – 1000 Panel Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 1A: “Daoism 101: Daoyin Reimagined and Improv for Conditioning Emptiness”
Daniel Mroz (University of Ottowa), Scott Philips (North Star Martial Arts), and Sabina Knight (Smith College)
Session 1B: Migration, Mobility, and Movement: Diasporic Asian Studies
Shaolu Yu (University of Connecticut). “Transnationalism, Mobility, and Identity: The Making of Place in Flushing, NYC”
Cindy Lin (University of Toronto), “The First Generation of Asian Brides to Canada”
Carolyn Lin and Linda Dam (University of Connecticut), “Social Distance and Media Portrayals of Asian Americans: Yellow Peril, Model Minority, and Everything In-Between”
Session 1C: Strong State and Contentious Society in South Korea
Chair: Dong-No Kim (Yonsei University)
Gil Yeon Yoo (Yonsei University) and Jaehoon Choi (Yonsei University), “Disaggregated State Structure and the Process of Policy Formation: A Case Study on the Legislation of National Basic Living Security Act in South Korea”
Jiyeon Lee (Yonsei University), “Dilemma of Sate Feminism in Family Policies: The Healthy Family Law in South Korea”
Sora Jeong (Yonsei University), “Family Ideology Reproduction and Korean Adoption Issues”
Su-Min Park (Yonsei University) “Individuals in Collective Action”
Session 1D: Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Southeast Asian Communities
Joy R. Tungol (University of Santo Tomas Philippines) and Pricila B. Marzon (St. Paul University Manila), “Abstract Reasoning and Coping Strategies of Less Privileged Filipino Workers in Selected Areas of Metro Manila”
Megan S. Berthold (University of Connecticut) and Thomas Buckley (University of Connecticut), “Addressing Cambodian American Health Disparities Post Genocide: Engaging the Community in Their Own Care”
Shawna Lesseur (University of Connecticut), “Pinching Cambodia’s Gender Politics: Film, Gender, and Cambodian Policy Narratives”
- 1015 – 1145 Panel Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 2A: Returning to Childhood in Japanese History
Discussant: Kristin H. Williams (Wellesley)
W. Puck Brecher (Washington State University), “Bad Learners: The Ethics of Childhood Disobedience in the Edo Period”
Katsumata Motoi (Meisei University / Harvard University RIJS), “Filial Son or Filial Child: The Relationship between Filial Commendation and Age in Early Modern Japan”
Mark Lincicome (College of the Holy Cross), “In the Shadow of the Asia-Pacific War: Rewriting the History of Childhood and Education in Modern Japan”
Session 2B: The Asian Literary Imagination
Da Zheng (Suffolk University), “Flowering Exile: Female Authorship, Diaspora Experience, and Literary Representation”
Senko Maynard (Rutgers University), “Reading Text Visually: Scripts, Fonts, and Space in Japanese Light (Graphic) Novels”
Ki-In Chong (Seoul National University), “Hanshi Modernism and the Formative States of Modern Poetry”
Cheryl Crowley (Emory University), “Learning from the Pine: Sanzoshi and the Poetics of the Basho School”
Session 2C: Vietnamese Keywords: Confucianism, Ethnos/Nation, “Viet Cong”
Discussant: Vu Duong Luan (Harvard-Yenching Institute)
Chair / Panelist (see below): Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox (Western Connecticut State University), “Particularity and the Invention of Vietnamese Confucianism, 1919-present”
Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University), “Between Ethnos and Nation: Genealogies of Dân Tộc in Vietnamese Contexts”
Nu-Anh Tran (University of Connecticut), “From Yùegòng to Việt Minh cộng sản: The Origins of the Term Việt cộng”
Session 2D: Land and Development in China
Meina Cai (University of Connecticut), “State, Society, and Rural Development: The Political Economy of Land-Grab Compensation in China”
Julia Chuang (Brown University), “Urbanization Through Dispossession: Survival and Stratification in China’s New Townships”
Jia-Ching Chen (Brown University), “China’s Environmental State: Rural Land Enclosures and the Construction of Ecological Resources”
Nick R. Smith (Harvard University), “Rural China’s Unfunded Mandate: Land Collectivization, Land Financialization, and the Future of Rural Development”
- 12 – 1245 PM Lunch Break
- 1 – 230 Panel Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 3A: “Indian Philosophy in the Renaissance”
Jay Garfield (Yale/NUS) and Nalini Bhushan (Smith College)
Session 3B: The Formation of Qing Law in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century China
Discussant: Michael Chang (George Mason University)
Chair / Panelist: Macabe Keliher (Harvard), “From Ming Code to Qing Law: Administrative Regulation and the First Qing Huidian”
Nancy Park (California State University, East Bay), “The Evolution of the Huidian and the Creation of the Huidian Shili, 1724-1764”
Hu Xiangyu (Renmin University), “From Manchu Practice to Qing Law: the Evolution of the Fugitive Law in the Qing Dynasty”
John Gregory (West Point), “Qing Legal and Strategic Responses to Military Desertion, 1644-1735”
Session 3C: Collaborative Practices/Perspectives in India
Discussant: Sunanda Sanyal (Lesley University, Cambridge)
Chair / Panelist: Kathryn Myers (University of Connecticut), “Collaborative Practice Across Disciplines”
Hannah Kennedy (University of Connecticut), “On Sexual Violence: Indian Artists and Public Engagement”
Waswo X. Waswo (Independent Artist), “Acts of Occupation”
Session 3D: War, Conflict, and Region (I)
Huan Jin (Harvard University), “Authorizing the Taiping Wars”
Yu Liu (Niagara County Community College), “The Dubious Choice of an Enemy: The Unprovoked Animosity of Matteo Ricci against Buddhism”
Caleb Ziolkowski (Tufts University), “My Enemy’s Enemy: Adversary Identification in Chinese Statecraft of the 1980s”
Session 3E: “Performing Culture: Foodways, Festivity, and Theater Arts in Japan”
Walter F. Carroll (Bridgewater State University), Gary Mathews (North Carolina State University), Minae Yamamoto Savas (Bridgewater State University), and Michi Shigeta (Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University)
- 245 – 415 Panel Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 4A: War, Conflict, and Region (II)
Samuel Perry (Brown University), “Women’s Democratic News and the Korean War”
James A. Anderson (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), “The Celestial Kingdom’s Southwest Challenge: Bids for Political Autonomy between The Tang Empire and the Nazhao Kingdom”
Tim Cooper (Siena College), “The Crime of Personal Luxury in Tokugawa Japan”
Session 4B: Re-Seeing Asian Visual Cultures
Margo Machida (University of Connecticut), “Diasporic Art and Trans-Pacific Flows”
Michael Maynard (Temple University), “Branding Japanese Localism with a Black Bear Mascot: Toward an Integrated Strategy of Adult-Cute”
Sadia Pasha Kamran (University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan), “An Anthology of Narratives: Pakistani Art from Romanticism to Social Cynicism”
SooJin Kim (Seoul National University), “Gold Paintings of Choson-Korea in Times of Crisis”
Session 4C: Religious Articulations, Expressions, and Meditations on Feeling
Shahla Hussain (Tufts University), “Kashmiri Visions of Freedom: Ancient Texts Islamic Universalism, and Varied Internationalisms”
Stephen D. Miller (University of Massachusetts), “Imagining the Religio-Literary World: Jakuzen’s Journey in his Toribeyama Waka in the Homon Hyakushu”
Steven Pieragastini (Brandeis), “Familiar Problems: Famine, Religion, and Revolution in Gansu”
Edwin Van Bibber-Orr (Syracuse University), “Transmitting Feeling: Shen Jifei’s ‘Four Collections of Extra Poems from Thatched Hut’”
Session 4D: Kang Youwei as Utopian, Traveler, and Politician
Discussant: Catherine Lynch (Eastern Connecticut State University) Emeritus
Chair / Panelist (see below): Peter Zarrow (University of Connecticut)
Robert L. Worden (Library of Congress, Division Chief, retired), “Kang Youwei’s First American Sojourn: 1905”
Jane Leung Larson (Independent Scholar), “The Kang Tongbi Collection of South Windsor, Connecticut”
Peter Zarrow (University of Connecticut), “Utopianism and Modern Material Civilization in Kang Youwei”
- 430 – 600 Panel Sessions (Concurrent)
Session 5A: Global Currents and Globalized Flows
Weiwei Luo (Columbia University), “Inscribing Trust: Publishing Accounts in Eighteenth Century China”
Steven Hess (University of Bridgeport), “To Get Rich is Glorious: Global Capitalism Theory and the Rise of China’s New Transnational Elites”
Amy Zhang (Yale University), “Knowledge, Materiality, and Value in Urban China’s Scrap Trade”
Session 5B: Performance, Photography, and Philosophy
Li-Lin Tseng (Pittsburg State University), “Arrested Civilization: John Thomson and His Travel Photography”
Guojun Wang (Yale University), “Dressing Across Genders and Ethnicities in Chuanqi Drama”
Jiani Lian (University of Massachusetts), “Utopianism in Tao Qian”
Mengui Yun (University of Massachusetts), “Female Characters in Damai Novels”
Session 5C: Intellectual Movements and Disciplinary Migrations
Hanung Kim (Harvard University), “The Amdo Renaissance: Statistical Study of Intellectual Activities in Tibet”
Jaehoon Lee (TBA), “Archaeology as Anthropology in Korean Archaeology”
Joseph Yick (Texas State University), “A Special Military ‘China Expert’: Yazaki Kanju in Occupied Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Nanjing, 1940-1945″
Session 5D: Nation, State, and Citizenship
Nabila Islam (McGill University), “The Naxalites and the Indian State, 1967-1969”
David Strohl (Colby College), “Ismaili Murids, Indian Citizens”
Keya Maitra (University of North Carolina, Ashville), “Sultana’s Dream: Feminist Consciousness through a Bengali Muslim Lens”
- 600PM Closing Reception /Dinner
Closing Remarks by Alexis Dudden, Professor of History and Affiliate Faculty of Asian and Asian American Studies (University of Connecticut)